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Dilithium zen shortage
wolfsniperuk
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im currently sitting about 250,000 dilithuinm refined, when will i be able to convert this to Zen?
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The zen you get comes from other players spending real world cash monies to buy it. They have to have a good reason to trade it for dil.
You can convert it now, put it up at 500:1 and within a few hours it should sell. If you want a better rate than that you would need to wait and hope that Cryptic adds more DESIRABLE dil sinks.
You likely won't.. not anytime soon anyway.
Cryptic has talked about Dilithium Sinks to fix the issue but outside of a short but successful Vanity Shield promo has done f'k all to actually fix the problem.. in fact, they continue to make it worse.
I see no reason at all to think that the Dilithium Exchange will ever return.
Indeed. I saw at least two years ago what was inevitably going to happen if they kept up the constant sales. Every time they ran one, the exchange spiked, and never quite went back down again. It didn't surprise me at all when it hit 500:1 and stayed there, and it shouldn't have surprised anyone else--Cryptic included--either.
Though gloom, this is the most realistic outcome.
That makes sense. All that 23rd century mark 1 white gear needs a bunch of Phoenix upgrades as you level up, plus anything you craft like ship consoles, shields and armor.
The monthly sales definitely accelerated it, it also didn't help that they stopped introducing new items to the phoenix box so they could make more money by gouging the players with Mudd's market.
Have you tried actually winning an epic token? It's significantly cheaper to buy them off of Mudd's (during a sale at least, not sure about the regular price) AND it's an account unlock that way. Most people will never take the Phoenix Store seriously unless they increase the drop rate.
which is the complete opposite for a new player. i find myself never having enough dilithium.
ironically i especially need a lot of it to buy zen to get basic commodities.
an account bank and the energy credits cap increase really shouldnt have to be bought with mtx currency. im fine with the extra slots costing zen, but some of that stuff is just basic functions that a game like this should have period.
Right, but they don't want you buying Zen for Dil. They want you to give them your RL money for the Zen. This is a cash cow now, and they're milking us all furiously.
Trading dil for zen is not a dil sink, it is adding to the problem. F2P players all wanting to trade dil for zen is why there is no zen left.
What is needed to fix that is dil sinks, which are things that get people to spend dil in the game. For example phoenix tokens and re-engineering gear.
They don't care if you buy your zen with dil because that zen is still paid for by other players.
like i said. new players absolutely need to trade dil for zen, because you need an account bank and you need to get rid of the 15 million ec cap.
these are basic functions that shouldnt even cost zen.
the slot expansions are ok for zen, but they should just give every player a basic account bank and get rid of the beginner ec cap.
there is also inflation to be considered. a 15 million cap might have not been a big deal a few years ago, but as prices increase its more and more of a roadblock for new players to advance.