Dilithium Refinement Cap

quentonwolf

Question for the Devs: Is there a plan to, at some point, raise the dilithium refinement cap to, say, 10,000 or so? I ask because if I stopped accumulating unrefined dilithium today it would still take me 240 days to refine what I have accumulated thus far. Raising the cap from 8,000 to 10,000 would be really helpful to, and appreciated by, many regular players I'm sure.

tunebreaker

If this is not FCT yet, then it definitely should be.

Also, the answer is "no", as always.

nightken

it has been explained so many times why this is a terrible idea. just seach for one of the 9 million other threads about this to read it.

rattler2

Any change in the refine cap would have an immediate impact on the Dilithium Exchange. And it would be a negative impact, raising the price for Zen because there is more DL in the market.

seaofsorrows

The suggestion is appreciated OP, don't take it the wrong way.

It's just that this is asked a lot and it's honestly a very bad idea. Increasing the Cap increases the amount of available dilithium which devalues it even more. While this change may seem like a good idea, it would actually be really bad for the games economy and push Free to Play players further and further back.

The 8k Dilithium Cap needs to remain in place, it's honestly best for everyone.

davefenestrator

The TL;DR if you don't want to read those other threads:

If you want dil to turn into Zimbabwe dollars then this is a good idea.

If the dil supply increases 20%, the value will drop 20%, so if you're trading dil for zen you gain nothing.

leemwatson

quentonwolf wrote: »

Question for the Devs: Is there a plan to, at some point, raise the dilithium refinement cap to, say, 10,000 or so? I ask because if I stopped accumulating unrefined dilithium today it would still take me 240 days to refine what I have accumulated thus far. Raising the cap from 8,000 to 10,000 would be really helpful to, and appreciated by, many regular players I'm sure.

Echoing the rest. It's bad for the economy. The Dil market is equivalent of the Oil market and influcenced heavily on the availability.

However, you can refine 500 extra Dil at the Fleet Dil Mine a day AND 1000 at the Refining Officer at your local Academy already.

rattler2

leemwatson wrote: »

However, you can refine 500 extra Dil at the Fleet Dil Mine a day AND 1000 at the Refining Officer at your local Academy already.

Isn't that extra 1k only available to Lifers though?

garaks31

support ,and raise the dil/zen exc. to max. 750d/z plz

rattler2

azrael605 wrote: »

Formally requesting that "raise dilithium refining cap' threads be added to the FCT.

I second the motion.

bloodyriz

rattler2 wrote: »

azrael605 wrote: »

Formally requesting that "raise dilithium refining cap' threads be added to the FCT.

I second the motion.

I third it!​​

quentonwolf

Thank you to those who gave the useful explanations about the probable impact on the in-game economy. The snide commentary will be ignored.

seaofsorrows

quentonwolf wrote: »

Thank you to those who gave the useful explanations about the probable impact on the in-game economy. The snide commentary will be ignored.

Most people just make several characters so that they can refine more per day. It's kinda tough if you just want to play one character though because you'll have the exact problem you described. You'll end up with a year or more of Unrefined Dilithium stacked up on that one character. At least with multiples you can do stuff on different alts and try to spread the gains a bit.

darkbladejk

guys this is already starting to go down hill and these threads never go well. /thread