Having only a layman's understanding of inflation, largely from the indexes for goods and services used to track it in the UK, I decided to look up the definition of 'currency inflation' since it appeared to be a separate but related issue, and found this: Currency Inflation - a situation in which more money becomes…
Until you reach Tier 5 with a character on a reputation, the daily always awarded 2500 points - sponsorship and the 5000 ponts for the daily only kicks in after you reach Tier 5 for the first time. As to the dilithium reward, I believe it was always 32k not 40k.
Just got DC 3 times in a row, each in middle of a different STF (haven't had that many problems in a long time) - had enough of that for one night, hope it improves tomorrow.