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It is VERY simple, and easy to implement. Just make fleet credit rewards 2x for primary fleet donations and 2.5x for auxiliary fleet donations in the same Armada. This will also address the much needed issue of never updating the point to Armadas since inception. You can attach this to Armada level if you want, but this simple change will promote the idea that fleet dilithium donation has at least half the rewards of fleet marks, and will also encourage purchases of fleet modules. This is a simple fix that will be much more effective than removing something from the game no one wanted removed.
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^People currently consider donation of dilithium to fleets pointless at a 1 to 1 ratio as fleets are more dead than ever due to only a few people actually donating to fleet progression. Increasing dilithium ration encourages "new" people donate to fleets projects as the return on investments aren't worse than just getting reputation gear. Also, when is the last time you heard of ANY update to Armada rewards, or even Armadas period. Increasing the percent of rewards for donation to fleets in the same Armada will encourage donations to smaller almost dead fleets in large Armadas.
Since we get dilithium from most activites in the game, it's no surprise that the DilEx is so screwed up.
The "new" dirt is from another planet and is inherently worth more since it is... new... plus there is the cost of getting the new dirt since it is on another planet.
If the dilithium/fleet credits 1/1 ratio were different, people might be more inclined to donate dil to fleet projects. Just because a fleet is maxed does not mean it still doesn't slot projects. But I do agree that many do not donate dil to fleet projects because it is used to make zen.
Join Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
There's one fundamental flaw with this: long time players already have all the fleet gear they want, which means this would primarily affect new players who won't have much dilithium anyway unless they're buying it with Zen. So this change would essentially only target new players who are not F2Pers, a fraction of a fraction of the playerbase. This change wouldn't accomplish anything.
The important thing here is the perception of a poor return. It's a reasonable guess because there is a surplus of dilithium yet it's consistently the last project item to fill running neck and neck with doff contributions which are more clearly bottlenecked mechanically. It's not a matter of not having the resource but choosing not to spend it. Incentivizing the process could make it more attractive.
I think this is where the flaw occurs in this idea, because outside of a couple people on this forum, I have never heard this complaint.. ever. Most people I know that donate to their fleet don't even need the marks, they're just trying to help the fleet. This would be helpful to newer players trying to get built up, but again, newer and under geared players should not be the target of any proposed sink.
It doesn't hurt to try it, but overall I would not expect this idea to have much impact on the market if any at all.
Agreed, this change would have literally no effect on me at all. And as a veteran player, one of the guys sitting on millions of dilithium and fully maxed out.. I don't need fleet credits anymore then I need all this worthless pink rock. I give it to the fleet to help them and because.. well.. I have no other use for it.
A good Dilithium sink lets people trade Dilithium for something they want.. something of value. Adding to my millions of banked fleet credits doesn't accomplish this.. at all.
Of course, that assumes that the fleet leaders don't just jack up the number of credits it takes to reach the "buy from fleet stores" threshold in response to the increased credit returns on dil contributions.