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Suggestion: Currency Change

artanisenartanisen Member Posts: 431 Arc User
edited December 2012 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Crazy Suggestion on changing the Currency in game

there are 3 types of currency in game right now.
and i want to suggest a small change

Combined Energy credits, fleet credits and put it into dilithium Ore,
and make Dilithium Ore the main universal currency.

no one will like this but suggesting it anyway.

but side note it will make things alot easier to only have 2 types of currency.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    You are right. It is a crazy suggestion. I wouldn't mind having more ways for converting one currency to another, but the currency system is simplified enough since the devs want to gate certain rewards behind certain currencies which is rewarded by certain content.
  • thratch1thratch1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    That might mess up the Dilithium exchange though. It would sort itself out in the long term, but in the short term you'd have people earning Dilithium way easier, and buying up all the now-super-cheap Zen, because I doubt everybody currently selling Zen for Dilithium would think far enough ahead to take it down.

    If Cryptic emptied out the current Dilithium exchange back into owners' wallets, people still wouldn't really know what to put it back up for at first.

    Honestly, I'm not qualified to say whether it would be a huge problem or a small problem, but it's a ramification at least.

    Plus, would they cap Dilithium like they've capped EC for silver players? (I'm kind of surprised they haven't already, to be honest...)
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • sirchazzsirchazz Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    not likely gonna happen. This would make cryptic wont have anymore dilithium exchange and the exchange market will skyrocket in prices

    what you asking is not a small change, its a big change
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Uh, yeah... bad plan.
  • born2bwild1born2bwild1 Member Posts: 1,329 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    yeah - umm - no!

    what about all those players who have $500 million+ ec? What would happen in the conversion?
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
    leviathan99#2867
         Member Posts: 7,747 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    born2bwild1 wrote: »
    yeah - umm - no!

    what about all those players who have $500 million+ ec? What would happen in the conversion?

    The person with 500 million EC would get 5 million dilithium.

    OR... Thinking though how NOT to crash the exchange.

    You convert half of the EC into ZEN and half into dilithium.

    So someone with 500 million EC gets 2.5 million dilithium and 20k ZEN.

    I imagine very few players even have 50 million though.
  • rezkingrezking Member Posts: 1,109 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    artanisen wrote: »
    Crazy Suggestion on changing the Currency in game

    there are 3 types of currency in game right now.
    and i want to suggest a small change

    Combined Energy credits, fleet credits and put it into dilithium Ore,
    and make Dilithium Ore the main universal currency.

    no one will like this but suggesting it anyway.

    but side note it will make things alot easier to only have 2 types of currency.

    Yup...crazy.

    Gold Pressed Latinum is not really utilized and it deserves some attention.
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  • delsabereduxdelsaberedux Member Posts: 244 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    Gamble EC for GPL at DS9 or Drozana's Dabo tables. Use that GPL (probably a lot of it, enough that it'll need to be pooled like any other fleet resource) to purchase dilithium mining rights, perhaps on a moon or asteroid in the same system as your fleet starbase. Improve its facilities with Fleet Marks. When up to speed, your mines will produce x dilithium per day.

    Hey, just thinking out loud here. But it's not just GPL that needs love, it's the Dabo minigame and the secondary hubs like DS9, too. Not to mention new sources of dilithium for starving fleets, especially the smaller ones. Nothing speeds that up quite like economics.
    Relax.
  • born2bwild1born2bwild1 Member Posts: 1,329 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    stoleviathan99 wrote: »
    The person with 500 million EC would get 5 million dilithium.

    OR... Thinking though how NOT to crash the exchange.

    You convert half of the EC into ZEN and half into dilithium.

    So someone with 500 million EC gets 2.5 million dilithium and 20k ZEN.

    I imagine very few players even have 50 million though.

    using the current top end of contraband @ $50k x 5 = $250k EC = 2000 dilthium

    1 million ec = 8000 dilthium x 500 = 4,000,000 dilthium as the low point

    what is CRAZY is that is not enough to fully upgrade a tier 4 starbase!!

    you need the 5 million you mentioned!!!
  • chikahirochikahiro Member Posts: 35 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    EC is just too trivially easy to get, so I can't see it working.
    My blog! Zen|Dilithium tracking on Thursdays
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    As a lifetime member of STO, I officially became a financial liability as of April 2012 when compared to a subscriber.
  • artanisenartanisen Member Posts: 431 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    you guys do realize i said dilithium ore right, not refined dilithium.
  • thratch1thratch1 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    artanisen wrote: »
    you guys do realize i said dilithium ore right, not refined dilithium.

    Dilithium ore becomes Refined Dilithium.

    What are you suggesting, that some things require Ore, and other things require Refined, so you have to decide whether or not to refine it based on what you want to buy? That sounds like a huge step down from what we've got right now...
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • artanisenartanisen Member Posts: 431 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    it was just a thought... lol but you guys did make me laugh with all the complaining...
  • delsabereduxdelsaberedux Member Posts: 244 Arc User
    edited December 2012
    An MMO forum is nothing if not complainy. It's like a whole community of Eric Cartmans in here sometimes.
    Relax.
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