I tend to think Cryptic might be ok with the grind. Those who don't like it and need dilithium will pay real money for dilithium instead of grinding. However it does suck the fun out considerably. The cryptic endgame seems to be to make as much money on Sto as quickly as possible for fear of it fading away and dieing. This…
I haven't been popped by high yield plasmas for a long time now, even when they hit. I fly Escorts cruisers carriers and science ships. I suggest you should look at your build.
Idea for rewards system in PVP: Have the amount of marks given tied to the amount of damage received and dealt by your ship in public matches. Lets call it 50,000 damage per 1 fleet mark. This stops AFK'ers from getting any marks and rewards everyone participating.
Way to penalise everyone who actually bought the game. Instead of outfitting all my characters with fleet ships I will now only be doing 4 who have c-store ships. So instead of making 5000 zen off me you will now only make 2000. Not only is it extremely unfair to us but you are cheating yourself out of money.