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In a week, Dil to Zen prices have climbed by 10
miirik
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There has been no specials I can think of
no sales
so just what on earth is going on?
no sales
so just what on earth is going on?
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that's not a "price" that's an exchange rate. Dil and zen prices have not "risen", zen value relative to dil has risen.... ie the "price" of dil has fallen, since you can get more dil per zen in exchange now.
This is a very poor number. For 2 Week or so, i remember me on a amount of 500k and up
Option A:
just a little Group of Users offer Zen
Option B:
Just a little Group of Users play STO
just my opinion.
Yep, less holdings to absorb dil, larger fleet giving access making smaller fleets not need to sink as much themselves, dil discout given by dil mine fleet holding. 1 zen was worth $0.01 a year ago, it was worth $0.01 6 months ago, and it's still worth $0.01 today. Nothing has happened to Zen, it's dil which has less value because it's easier to accumulate more of it.
Though, I like it, because if I do need more dil than what I have, I can get more refined fil from selling off accumulated zen stipend. So this is all rainbows and sunshine to me.
Oh dear gods no. We just finished T3 Mine. The first time we've completed anything. I'm so very tired... (Tiny fleet, and I knew what I was getting into. Just having a little fun.)
But yes, a new sink needs to occur if prices are to lower. However as others have mentioned. Come back when we are 350+. Some of us remember those days.
The same can be said of EC too.
Oh well... Now I need to grind even more dil so that I can purchase an additional 100 Doff slots for my Rom toon.
My guess is the above mentioned potential new exploit combined with the already stated lack of anything to invest the purple rock into.
No new fleet holding is pretty big as those are expensive, no new *must have* gear released with the new rep, no real anything.
But I'd bet the exploit is most likely to blame. Remember the massive drop it had a long time ago, which just so happened to coincide with the removal of foundry clickie missions? I do.
And I've found the video a user made with the SFA version of that exploit that I sent to cryptic. Basically he shows how you could generate millions per day alone.
They told me it was passed to the team so we will see.
My guess (based on nothing but speculation) is that the shuttle event has people thinking new C-store ships are on the horizon, so people are stocking up on zen.
Even if it has climbed by 10 (again haven't looked recently) it has only been in the last few hours. most of the week it has been at around 151-153 dil per 1 zen.
Not really worth breaking out the tin foil hats yet.
and then in a single day it goes up by more than 10
something is horribly, horribly wrong.
Just guessing.
It may indeed be near time to totally revamp the way foundry rewards work completely, perhaps through a rep-like interface.
-We're still probably under the aftereffects of the Dilithium Weekend(It takes a while to refine it all).
-There hasn't been a new major Dilithium sink in quite a while(which means it's losing value).
-I imagine the recent foundry exploit is, yet again, rippling out in horrible ways. Seriously, just turn off rewards until a secure reward system can be implemented - or make it reward something that can't be used on anything other than the foundry/character that earns it.
Not really. The rate can shift rapidly to new equilibriums if it's been propped up by inertia for too long.
Generally speaking, I can accept that, based on general economics. But I'm curious. What do you consider to be "rapidly"? I can understand a significant change over the course of a day, or even a few hours, but I sat and watched changes while I ate dinner. Over the course of minutes, significant (dozens of thousands) of zen flipped back and forth between prices more than once.
While I cannot say for certain if this was done by one person, It was odd to watch that quantity of zen move from one price point to another in 1-2 minutes, then less than five minutes later, change to a completely different price point, in relatively small (5k-10k) increments. At one point, 65,000(ish) zen moved price points in the span of a minute.
Keep in mind that we're talking about, at least 4-5 million dilithium in zen change in under two minutes, and for the 65k zen instance, over 10 million. Not impossible to happen, I suppose.
It would easy to say that I thought that price fixing is going on, and just as easy to believe it. I reserve my judgement however, because, as you said, rates can shift rapidly, and real world economics is enough proof of that at times. I'll just say that I'm finding a bit hard to believe such rapid fluctuations are entirely legit.
Just putting the info out there. These are only my observations from a bit earlier.
wow dililithium is what my fleet needs ... so anyone who has to much dilithium i would gladly welcome to spend in our fleet projects oO
(( oh and the main reason is refined dilithium.. we dont have that.. ore yes.. refined.. no...))