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Based on the auction house in Neverwinter will be getting a exchange (Auction house) that uses dilithium?
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Their version fo the exchange uses Astral Diamonds instead of money.
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I sincerely hope not.
Almost every items is bought from AD, including AH transaction. Gold is useless.
It's an obvious money sink to have people buy less zen, as they need the currency for their day to day shopping.
So, no, I don't want that.
so you dont want that because it will force you to buy less zen ...wtf.
As was pointed out above, though, most of the good grind items in STO are account-bound, meaning you can't sell them on the Exchange. So really you're generally left selling normal drops and Lockbox drops to earn EC. So there's not a huge demand to buy things on the Exchange directly with Dilithium.
Changing would make EC completely worthless and push STO firmly into the Pay-to-Win category since all it takes to get Dil is a credit card and the Dil <-> Zen exchange.
how?
you sell something ( lets say for the sake of example that we still have tradeable items lol )for dilithium (ecs are extinct) ,you will get 4000 dilithium and you also refine 8000 per day,that means you got 12,000 dilithium in that day by first playing the game then selling your loot.If you will trade (trading is a non violent way of playing a game...star trek was not only about pew pew) you will get more dilithium with less zen.
thing is this cant happen because there is nothing left to trade other than keys and lockbox items.In neverwinter you get loot you can value and trade ,in sto everything people would want (other than keys) is locked in fleets .If they make a fleet holding for tac consoles they may aswell remove the exchange because people will use master keys as barter currency.
Using a 'time-based currency' for player transactions was an absolutely horrid idea that completely depreciated a character's individual wealth. Despite it's reputation, Energy Credits DO have value in STO and keep the economy of the game running.
Lockbox ships, Lobi ships, Lobi costumes, contraband, commodities, lockbox mk xii weapons, particle traces, strange and powered alien artefacts, Duty Officers, rare kits, lockboxes, reward boosters, master keys...
The exchange is still VERY healthy as my site shows.
Don't forget everything used from level 0 to 45 that only a fool would waste dilithium to buy for themselves.
PWE/Cryptic would be stupid to remove EC from the game, people buy things with Zen like keys or ship modules to sell for EC so they can buy things off the exchange they need or want. Free players buy those items and paid players provide them, If the free players could not buy them with EC that makes less zen sold. Yes there is the Dilithium exchange but free players use that to get zen to buy things that are account bound, If dilithium is the main currency then the dilithium exchange will crumble because free players will start hording dilithium. Remove 1 of those 2 and there will be far less zen purchased.
"I'm drunk, whats your excuse for being an idiot?" - Unknown drunk man. :eek:
lockbox ships ,lobi ships ,lobi costumes are not loot .You can price these for keys and barter.
particle traces and artefacts are for lol crafting.Remember that crafting is useless .Except tac consoles everything is in fleet bound and not tradeable.
Duty officers are in fleets same with kits.
lower level loot is not important since you can level up a toon from 1 to 50 in a weekend or a day if you really spend some time.
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its refined dilithium not normal dilithium.You are limited to 8000 per day nomatter what you do.If you buy it you will buy from someone who is limited aswell.This will have no impact on things other than making ec useless....which will happen sooner or later once they add tac consoles to fleets.
if they dont make more items tradeable ec will get useless and people will use master keys .Exchange will get useless as people will start to barter keys for whatever stuffs they want ...that happens because keys are like real life gold ,they will always keep their value about the same .
I see no one complain getting that for zen ,I dont see the problem in a normal exchange.Thats the basis of this f2p game.Some people are not you and dont have time to grind for that many toons.
I only play pvp and barely get 8000 per day so yes ,not everyone is you.
People dont complain for dili for zen exchange there is no QQ reason for dili for items exchange.
For that matter I would support the addition of all currencies to the exchange... (Fleet Marks, Dilithium, EC, GPL, Fleet Credit). All player controlled pricing (as it is today).
So you have 3 JHAS posted, maybe 1 for EC (400Million), but another posted for 1 Million Dilithium, or 3 Million Fleet Credit (number are all made up). I did the math once (based on Keys) that tracked 3 as foreign currencies with exchange rates etc...
The problem comes when people sell items on the exchange for dilithium, would cause the dil to zen market to crash... the devaluation of the dil would be almost immediate. So the F2P crowd would end up having to grind for much more longer amounts of time to convert Dil (at 8k per day) to sufficient Zen to purchase anything.
Would be interesting to watch however.
Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....
or would make people to trade.Star Trek is not all about fighting other ships ,trading is a part of it .It would make ferengies have a purpose lol
btw I like the marks idea.It would allow people to sell their grinded stuffs and put value on work.
You can sell dilithium for zen.I dont see anyone complaining about that nomatter how many people "exploit" more than one toon,
it would finally give some value for your stuffs.THing is theres no economy left.They made all stuffs bound on character and exchange exists only for lockbox stuffs.