Dilithium Revamp Option

wixiban · September 2020

With the change made to the Admiralty system for getting dilithium as an increase XP for doing the 10 level mission, I was thinking with all the VIP Dilithium mining vouchers out there, could we possibly get an option to convert these into Dilithium XP instead of mining every 20 hours.

I would be even happy about losing out on 20% of the value due to the number of these I have on my toons; so many in-fact I could never use them all, not to mention the amount of unopened ones I have in my bank.

Does anyone else have a comment on this?

leemwatson · September 2020

Dilithium XP??? Doesn't even exist.

You get 40k Fleet Dil for Klingon and 30k Dilithium Boost for Ferengi. The reason for this change was clearly explained, and that was there is too much Dil in the system on PC.

wixiban · September 2020

leemwatson wrote: »

Dilithium XP??? Doesn't even exist.

Yeah I couldn't remember the actual name, it's located up there with all the other XP bits, but yeah "Boost". However what I was referring to is possibly having a system that lets us trade in our VIP vouchers for Dil Boost to save on the mining.

echatty · September 2020

Mining the dilithium nodes takes all of about a minute. I'm good with that.

davefenestrator · September 2020

I'd be happy with converting them to Dil Boost points too. That would be nice when leveling up a new character.

I'm too lazy to do the map transfers and play the minigame, plus that's one minigame that I'm terrible at. Omega? Close to max points unless the lag is bad. Mining? Poor score every time.

foppotee · September 2020

I'm just anticipating Cryptic raising the dilithium Exchange cap beyond 500 like they did the Energy Credit cap a few years back for the Exchange. There's still some flat-Earthers out there denying it raised the prices on the Exchange since there was an initial dip in prices for the most part but then the rebound hit & has been ascending ever since. The same would probably happen for the Dilithium Exchange. I've always thought if Cryptic offers us something we, as a collective &/or individually, deem worthy to spend any of our dilithium on then that's what will happen. Maybe that whole T1-4 or 5 ships thing was Cryptic's attempt at that.

garaffe · September 2020

leemwatson wrote: »

You get 40k Fleet Dil for Klingon and 30k Dilithium Boost for Ferengi. The reason for this change was clearly explained, and that was there is too much Dil in the system on PC.

So that's why they took away the only reliable way to make decent dilithium on Console. We never had a dilithium saturation problem on Console, so it was just a big middle finger to us. At least I know why Cryptic flipped us the bird now.

darkbladejk · September 2020

You're a little confused as to how the dilithium "bonus" works. It's not a true bonus, but simply a way of slowing down the dilithium reward trickling out, it simply behaves like a bonus as that's the easiest way for them to have coded it. That dilithium is still there and you will earn the "extra" dilithium through just playing the game. Instead of them just handing you a lump sum, now they trickle it out. Even then converting the dilithium vouchers into the "bonus" dilithium pool would just defeat the purpose of why they changed admiralty to start with. A key problem that's driven the dilithium exchange up right now is there aren't enough meaningful long term dilithium sinks. Having permanent phoenix boxes is a nice start and guarantees there will always be some bit of downward pull on the exchange, however you're not always going to need phoenix techs. The fleet holdings are great dilithium sinks but once a fleet has maxed out their stuff, that sink goes away.

What's needed right now is a dilithium sink that folks will want to invest into that gives a decent bang for it's buck without feeling like a rip off. Personally I would like to see better vanity options for weapons and so on that could be tied to dilithium. Small amount here or there and let folks change as needed similar to the dye packs on SWTOR. I'll leave it to the space barbies to figure out that system but you get the idea. Anyways I've kind of went on a side tangent a bit.

rattler2 · September 2020

If you have any rep projects that need DL, you can convert those mining claims to Rep Dilithium vouchers.

wixiban · September 2020

rattler2 wrote: »

If you have any rep projects that need DL, you can convert those mining claims to Rep Dilithium vouchers.

Cool - What vendor can you do this with?

vegeta50024 · September 2020

foppotee#4552 wrote: »

I'm just anticipating Cryptic raising the dilithium Exchange cap beyond 500 like they did the Energy Credit cap a few years back for the Exchange. There's still some flat-Earthers out there denying it raised the prices on the Exchange since there was an initial dip in prices for the most part but then the rebound hit & has been ascending ever since. The same would probably happen for the Dilithium Exchange. I've always thought if Cryptic offers us something we, as a collective &/or individually, deem worthy to spend any of our dilithium on then that's what will happen. Maybe that whole T1-4 or 5 ships thing was Cryptic's attempt at that.

The thing though is that Cryptic has NO INTENTION of raising the dilithium exchange cap. Raising the cap on that simply gives the zen sellers an excuse for being able to push the price for buying zen with dilithium higher. Cryptic's only influence on the dilithium market is controlling sales and trying to bring it down artificially by reducing sources. The price set is what players have chosen to set.

rattler2 · September 2020

wixiban wrote: »

Cool - What vendor can you do this with?

Think the same one you can buy EV suits from on the mine. You can also convert claims to Fleet vouchers as well.

Dilithium Revamp Option

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