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I am astounded at the exchange rate: 8000 dil now gets you 16 zen which even the 3rd world would agree is too low. This will spell the end of STO if not fixed - I suggest either playing the market or increasing the cap. I love this game but it is becoming pointless and the numbers are dropping steadily. If this doesn't change I will wait for the new content (btw new ships are not new content - I am taking stories), play it and then say farewell to what has been an awesome game. I really hope you try to save it than let it die though 
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Evilmark, what is good for you isn't necessarily good for someone who can't afford to pay for a 30 dollar ship. That's a 2 month sub right there. The only reason it's good for you is that the higher the price of dilthium there is, the more you'll get for zen, but the less overall someone who depends on trading that dilithium to you will get so they can spend something from the c-store.
Let me show you the math for this.
At the current exchange rate (474-5 currently) for 1 day's worth of dilithium on one toon: 16 zen.
To get 2 character slots @ 625 zen, one would need to be on the game for about 39-40 days just to get those, while one T6 ship would be a little more than 6 months to get.
Even if someone were using 3 character slots total for 48 zen per day, 1 character slot, it's still nearly 2 weeks of playing just to afford 2 character slots and 2 months to get a T6 ship from the c-store.
If you dont like the exchange rate, you can get Zen for no dil, just like some of us do, (the old fashioned way) spend cash! It's not the job of the people who buy Zen, and offer it on the exchange, to cater to your whims for "cheep stuffez" .
There are more and more players who play for free coming into the game then there are people spending money on Zen, of course the exchange rate wont be in the favor of the dilithium seller in the exchange, simple econ101.
Class dismissed.
If you want real coin for your game time at a better rate you have to have a little patience.
In the end, you can blame your fellow free 2 players, because they are the ones dumping all that dil on the exchange.
Wait, you sold dil on the exchange, so the only person you can blame is....YOURSELF!
Hahahahahahaha
"Swipes credit card, buys more keys, posts them on the exchange for 5 mil each"
The supply of Dil far outstrips the supply of Zen, It is also very far more easier to get Dil now than ever before. The solution if you do not want to spend any money and want the exchange rate to improve in your favor?
#1 - Convince F2P player to stop playing STO.
#2 - Convince F2P player to spend money on STO.
#3 - Convince players already spending money on STO to spend even more money.
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$30 isn't hard to get. I used to mow yards and did stuff around the house for $. It don't take long to build up, and this is as a kid.
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The best way to deal with the price , is to dry up the amount of dil being sold to the zen sellers, use dil for upgrades or save it , and if you really want that shiny that bad, pony up to the damn bar and buy some zen with real money.
if you cant afford that , then sit on your dil till prices drop .
Anyway, what does everyone think of the new ships STO is cranking out? Specs, style? I personally think
they look, not so great. Some of the specs are pretty good but I think they mostly look like... no star trek like.
Kinda crappy imo.
I truly prefer a more classic/retro style.
That continue to fall from up above
The markets are free so much money for me
Tell me why should I care for peace and love
Or Cryptic could bring out big Dilithium sink's, like another 5 tier Fleet holding.
It only started to go up when Cryptic stopped making Fleet holdings and threw more and more Dilithium at people.
Just thinking, with lots of upgrades some people might find themselves short on dil and actually buying it for zen. Not many, I'm sure. But might that make a difference?
Come to think of it, maybe I should stock up on dil now, while it's cheap...
One might think it does. However cryptic has the habit to „coincident” upgrade weekends with premium ship sales during the same weekend. This usually undoes all benefits that may develop in that respect.
Yea, now is a good time to do so cuz peeps sell everything they have atm to get the AoY pack.
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"More dil" will hit before "less dil" even has a chance to become a thing.
And yet the market keeps moving up. Huh. Go figure.
market that allows to trade dilithium for lobis.
That way there would be two directions the dilithium will flow (zen and lobi), which
would lower the prices for zen and also allows for interesting dynamics within the
economy.
E.g. every time a new lockbox is released Dil/Zen gets up because everyone wants
keys to open the new box but it also will lower the Dil/Lobi price because there are
more Lobi on the market due to all the opened lockboxes.
That's an interesting concept.
The decisive question though is: will it generate more or less profit for Cryptic?
This would be a feasible idea. The other would be releasing cosmetic items like uniforms, ship skins, etc. in exchange for Dilithium. Desired items that aren't uber powerful (Since you want people to spend cash on that) that you can sell for Dilithium.
The idea of a new Fleet Holding won't work. Right now, the Zen is more valuable to people then contributing to a fleet project.
Of course the big thing here is the assumption that Cryptic wants to fix this 'problem' which of course.. they don't. And I don't blame them for that at all.