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Dilithium Price Reduction

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
in Galactic News Network [PC]
With the release of Season 11: New Dawn, players may notice that the prices of many starships available for Dilithium have been reduced.

Check out the new prices for Dilithium ships here.

~LaughingTrendy
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  • hyperionx09hyperionx09 Member Posts: 1,709 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    I feel that the 50% cost should be the final permanent cost. All of those non-Fleet ships are all worthless in the current meta beyond those leveling up and grabbing the dil from mission completion.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,004 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    At first I was like "Who'd buy T1-T5 stock ships, even with a discount?" But then I read "admirality system". Well played pig-26.gif​​
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  • trillbuffettrillbuffet Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    I feel bad for people who will be needing these discounted ships. I mean I have fleet ships with only purpose to them is extra banking space due to the overload of items every time some new rep or lockbox comes out. SO I wouldn't buy them just for the fact that they would reduce my banking system.
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    Eh. Should have just made them cost EC again.
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  • primar13primar13 Member Posts: 1,896 Bug Hunter
    How is 50% of 5,000 = 4,000?


    Why are the 1 Week 50% Numbers Based off of the Current Prices and not the S11 Discounted Prices.


  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,004 Arc User
    lan451 wrote: »
    Eh. Should have just made them cost EC again.

    I bought my advanced heavy cruiser for 300k EC. Good times pig-2.gif​​
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  • thetaninethetanine Member Posts: 1,367 Arc User
    trillbuffet wrote: »
    I feel bad for people who will be needing these discounted ships. I mean I have fleet ships with only purpose to them is extra banking space due to the overload of items every time some new rep or lockbox comes out. SO I wouldn't buy them just for the fact that they would reduce my banking system.

    what?​​
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  • martakurillmartakurill Member Posts: 456 Arc User
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »
    With the release of Season 11: New Dawn, players may notice that the prices of many starships available for Dilithium have been reduced.

    Check out the new prices for Dilithium ships here.

    ~LaughingTrendy

    Gotta love the image with the article. Reminds me that the Sovereign is the poster child for ships that are stuck at T5. :(
  • thetaninethetanine Member Posts: 1,367 Arc User
    OH yeah. I've used "the brand new Admiralty System" on Tribble. What no one is telling you is...ah nevermind. I'll let you find out yourselves! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯​​
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  • ussackermanussackerman Member Posts: 275 Bug Hunter
    Two things...

    First, as primar13 said, the math is wrong.

    "For one week following the release of Season 11, all of the above prices will be further reduced by 50%!"

    The 50% discount shown is from the original prices not the reduced new prices.

    Second, is there going to be a maintenance on Nov. 3rd? It is a Tuesday.
  • vonhellstingvonhellsting Member Posts: 543 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Can't really see myself purchasing obsolete ships with Dil just so I can use them for Admiralty missions.
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  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    ussackerman wrote: »
    Two things...

    First, as primar13 said, the math is wrong.

    "For one week following the release of Season 11, all of the above prices will be further reduced by 50%!"

    The 50% discount shown is from the original prices not the reduced new prices.

    Second, is there going to be a maintenance on Nov. 3rd? It is a Tuesday.

    They can shut things like this down without needing a maintenance window. They do it all the time when they extend events because of outages.
  • kthangkthang Member Posts: 172 Arc User
    thetanine wrote: »
    OH yeah. I've used "the brand new Admiralty System" on Tribble. What no one is telling you is...ah nevermind. I'll let you find out yourselves! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯​​

    My guess is you need to have the ships you use in a ship-slot, so you have go buy a heckuva lot of them to play the Admiralty system. If that's the case then I won't be playing that at all, I have more than enough with the queues and the odd DOFFing.
  • craigthemastercraigthemaster Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    What is the point in this, Opening a blue quality reward ship is better then any of those ships. All the ships on the list are T5 below and useless, make them free ships then thats a start.
  • craigthemastercraigthemaster Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    thetanine wrote: »
    OH yeah. I've used "the brand new Admiralty System" on Tribble. What no one is telling you is...ah nevermind. I'll let you find out yourselves! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯​​

    I know right, Been using it too... HAHAHAHA.....HA

  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    thetanine wrote: »
    OH yeah. I've used "the brand new Admiralty System" on Tribble. What I apparenly missed even though everyone has been saying it since day one is that it's another DOFF system that adds another thing you can log in and do, or not at your discretion. There's nothing wrong with it and a lot of people really love systems like this, so it will probably be great for a lot of players. Some people like me always complain when there's a new system put in the game that I personally don't enjoy, so we post dumb things that don't say anything in overly large fonts to make our personal opinions seem like they are something that the entire game community should be outraged at. You can safely ignore me and try the system yourself and see if you like it without it affecting anyone.​​

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  • craigthemastercraigthemaster Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    primar13 wrote: »
    How is 50% of 5,000 = 4,000?


    Why are the 1 Week 50% Numbers Based off of the Current Prices and not the S11 Discounted Prices.


    LMFAO, Its a Cryptic 50 lol
  • zulisvelzulisvel Member Posts: 518 Arc User
    For one week following the release of Season 11, all of the above prices will be further reduced by 50%!
    This implies the promotional prices will be an additional 50% off the new prices going forward, not 50% off the previous prices.

    Further, from a player viewpoint this feels more like an attempt to get players to burn off stockpiles of dilithium rather than a gesture of good will. Ideally you should be cutting the old dilithium ship prices by 50% across the board and then the promo price would be an additional 40 - 50% off the new price.
  • hyperionx09hyperionx09 Member Posts: 1,709 Arc User
    kthang wrote: »
    thetanine wrote: »
    OH yeah. I've used "the brand new Admiralty System" on Tribble. What no one is telling you is...ah nevermind. I'll let you find out yourselves! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯​​

    My guess is you need to have the ships you use in a ship-slot, so you have go buy a heckuva lot of them to play the Admiralty system. If that's the case then I won't be playing that at all, I have more than enough with the queues and the odd DOFFing.

    Actually, you need to have only own the ship once the Admiralty system is in effect, then you can retire said ship.

    However, if you don't already own the ship when the Admiralty system hits, you will not be credited for that ancient bubble sci vessel you may have used while grinding up the ladders so long ago.

    However, what they're not telling you is along the lines of what you said; you need to have the port slots available to claim them, check and see that they're registered with the Admiralty system, then dismiss them.

    I for one, will not be wasting my Dil on this. Now that I look over the information again, I feel they're still overpriced.

    Here's what I would pay:
    Lieutenant: 1,000
    Lt. Commander: 2,000
    Commander: 3,000
    Captain: 4,000
    Rear Admiral - Lower Half: 5,000

    Nothing more. Sure they're cheaper than a Fleet Module and efforts put into a Fleet for Fleet Cred (and the T5U for T5 Fleet ships), but they're still useless in the current meta. If you have multiple alts, you're better off just paying Zen straight for all the T1-T4 C-Store ships and just claiming and dismissing them. At least they come with consoles or weapons.

    Now that I think about it, this is mainly to melt the Dil reserves of KDF and Romulan players as they have far fewer ships to utilize in the Admiralty system than the Feds.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    kthang wrote: »
    thetanine wrote: »
    OH yeah. I've used "the brand new Admiralty System" on Tribble. What no one is telling you is...ah nevermind. I'll let you find out yourselves! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯​​

    My guess is you need to have the ships you use in a ship-slot, so you have go buy a heckuva lot of them to play the Admiralty system. If that's the case then I won't be playing that at all, I have more than enough with the queues and the odd DOFFing.

    Nope, ya just need to put them in your Ships Roster once, then you can dismiss them.
    Once they are attached to your Admiralty Doffing List, they stay there.
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    Lol, a blatant attempt to destroy dilithium.
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    Yeah, while I think reducing the price is a good move, the fact that all those ships can´t be reclaimed, means I probably have to throw them all away to make room for all the other ships I can claim...and you know the ships I`m actually using.

    We are basically buying trading cards here, not ships. At least I feel a little better because I can claim tons of ships, but then again, not everyone is a veteran.
  • borticuscrypticborticuscryptic Member Posts: 2,478 Cryptic Developer
    Hey guys! It's been brought to our attention that the Discount prices listed in the Dev Blog are inaccurate. This is entirely my fault for writing the blog in such a rush... I cut the original prices in half, instead of the new reduced ones.

    Here are the accurate discount values:

    Lieutenant: 2,500
    Lt Commander: 5,000
    Commander: 10,000
    Captain: 20,000
    Rear Admiral - Lower Half: 40,000
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,478 Arc User
    Appreciate the offer, but it will not be something i make use of.​​
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    Hey guys! It's been brought to our attention that the Discount prices listed in the Dev Blog are inaccurate. This is entirely my fault for writing the blog in such a rush... I cut the original prices in half, instead of the new reduced ones.

    Here are the accurate discount values:

    Lieutenant: 2,500
    Lt Commander: 5,000
    Commander: 10,000
    Captain: 20,000
    Rear Admiral - Lower Half: 40,000

    Thanks for the heads-up Sir.
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  • potasssiumpotasssium Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    hyperionx09 wrote: »
    Now that I think about it, this is mainly to melt the Dil reserves of KDF and Romulan players as they have far fewer ships to utilize in the Admiralty system than the Feds.

    If II hadn't already melted my dil upgrading gear for my Kara Dreadnought.
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,478 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    borticuscryptic wrote: »
    Hey guys! It's been brought to our attention that the Discount prices listed in the Dev Blog are inaccurate. This is entirely my fault for writing the blog in such a rush... I cut the original prices in half, instead of the new reduced ones.

    Here are the accurate discount values:

    Lieutenant: 2,500
    Lt Commander: 5,000
    Commander: 10,000
    Captain: 20,000
    Rear Admiral - Lower Half: 40,000

    So roughly from 10-150 Zen at current exchange rate​​
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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    Meh... waste of dil.
  • royalsovereignroyalsovereign Member Posts: 1,344 Arc User
    I seem to recall reading that the Admiralty system has a 'maintenance' period for ships after they finish a mission, and that the maintenance period is much shorter for T1 ships compared to T6. So while that T6 Samsar Cruiser brings a lot of Engineering savvy to your Admiralty missions, it might only be able to do a mission every other day or so, while that T1 Miranda can complete 3-4 smaller missions in the same time for a larger payout.

    Theoretically.

    Anyway, I'm glad they are giving us options. Will I do it? Probably not, but then I'll likely only dabble in the new system myself. No one is forcing me to spend dil on ships.
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    Definitely a good moment to get the Vo'quvs, Ha'noms and Hegh'tas and whatever has at least some sci on KDF and ROM sides.
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