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R.I.P. Dilithium Exchange
kiloace
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245 and climbing every time I've checked. Bundle after bundle of new T6 starships, store discount events and not a single dilithium-sink in sight for the foreseeable future.
Argh...If only I had not been so blind! There was a time when it was as low as 80 Dilithium per 1 Zen! *Howls in anguish*
Argh...If only I had not been so blind! There was a time when it was as low as 80 Dilithium per 1 Zen! *Howls in anguish*
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and repost: http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1455231
And a merry freaking Christmas to you too, Ebenezer.
-jonsills, 'Cryptic Why the sales..instead of Fixing XP leveling and this game?'
Eh...once you get your upgrades done Dil just stacks up the same as it did before. The larger rep mark conversion projects also help the surplus - I had been just stacking up Omega marks for years now, well into the tens of thousands that I was too lazy to convert. Now I am sitting on a metric ****ton of dilithium. A place to spend it would be nice - never fear, I'm sure another sink is on the way.
I'm guessing that most people have simply ignored upgrading and crafting since you can't choose mods etc.
Support 90 degree arc limitation on BFaW! Save our ships from looking like flying disco balls of dumb!
Roll an alt or 10
I agree, I have skipped for this reason.
As long as it's random, alt unfriendly, locks you to a single loadout, and incredibly expensive, I'm not even considering doing it. Not like I need it, considering PESTF is pretty much dead, and the pug are more incompetent than ever. I don't need MK XIV for FE.
How is it Alt unfriendly?
but upgrading is like the anything else, you can always find something more that needs upgrading.
unless you have every single console, weapon and warp core ect. not to mention every piece of ground gear as well all upgraded to the max you can always look and say "oooh just this one more thing"
all my dilithium is as good as spent for the foreseeable future upgrading anyway, that's without even going down the quality gamble road.
I did have a plan its just that the plan keeps getting bigger.
just as well theres nothing on the C-store I`m desperate to buy at the mo.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
It used to be higher...
And no... I don't use the exchange, for either Zen or Dil..
Simply put, that's what the players in general think Zen is worth at the moment. If you don't agree with it, that's your problem.
It it because of free char slots which delta brought ,free slots with lor rised price to 150 per zen in few weeks
price will only continue to rise since everyone is just making free dill farm alts
You can only squeeze so much blood out of a human body....
Oh my sweet summer child.
I grinded my Bortasqu' when the price was at about 457...
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Sarcasm off.
I am probably going to need to figure out whether it's better to start converting dilithium to energy credits or better to continue converting zen to energy credits.
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Maybe I should argue for a dilithium refinement cap increase, to reduce the Dilithium value even further. As long as Crptic doesn't add new sinks, I'd stand to benefit! Maybe at some point I can actually become a Dilithium Multi-Millionaire?
Not all, but a lot.
I hope it was worth it for that fine ship. /lol
save your dili simples..
all exchanges fall in time even artificially controlled; remember the .com boom and bang?
another way off looking at it...
what goes up, must come down.
save you dili..
I dunno, I thought it was obvious enough.
Well, no offense, but if you don't use it, you are obviously not affected. And since you are not affected, it's kind of obvious you don't see any problem.
For example, I don't play WoW, I'm not going tot post on the wow forum at some patch drama and say I'm not seeing a problem. Because, obviously I don't see the problem.
There is a huge difference. STO dil exchange is a controlled market. More than any IRL market. You have cap down and up (25 and 500). Cryptic can "reset" it at any time if it gets out of control, what they did in the NWO equivalent when the exchange bug happened.
Also, you have a lot of currency which is added all the time (dil during events mostly). Basically, it's created out of thin air, by large amount. Something you will not have on an IRL market for obvious reasons.
Which means many rules on IRL economics doesn't apply on the dil exchange. Some do, but not all. The only way to see it "crash" would the introduction of a new dil sink which is popular.
So, yeah. I've used the exchange in the 200's, I've used it in the 100's, and I've used it at 88 (true, that was really great. But it wasn't the "correct" level any more than 300+ is.) And I've been in Neverwinter, where the exchange spent months pegged at 500, with no zen listed for sale for days at a time. Now that was a borked exchange.
Nothing to see here, exchange working normally. /shrug
Right now, with all those new shiny ships available, Zen has more perceived value than Dilithium. As soon as new Dilithium sinks appear this trend will slow and probably reverse.
When this occurs, and it will occur, someone will start a new Doom thread about how Zen is nearly worthless and Dilithium is too expensive.