Dilithium 101
By PWE_BranFlakes @ August 2, 2012 at 12:01pm
This article features useful information about Dilithium, including what it is, how to earn it, and how to use it in-game. We’ll be featuring this article monthly, and adding to it as more questions about Dilithium arise. If you have any questions about Dilithium, ask them by commenting below and we’ll answer them in the next issue.
What is Dilithium?
Beginning with the launch of Season 5: Call to Arms, Dilithium has become the major form of currency in Star Trek Online – it is primarily used to purchase in-game items, including ground and ship gear, starships, select Duty Officers and crafting materials, and is used to begin some Duty Officer Assignments. With the recent launch of Season 6: Under Siege, Dilithium is also used in select Fleet Projects.
How is Dilithium earned?
Dilithium is primarily earned by completing in-game missions (PvP and PvE dailies, events, STFs, Duty Officer Assignments etc.), and is awarded as Dilithium Ore. Players can also go mining for Dilithium Ore once per day on the Vlugta Asteroid Field, near Deep Space Nine, in the Beta Ursae Sector Block.
Before this Ore can be spent, it must be refined. Players are able to refine up to 8,000 Dilithium Ore per day – 800 Day Veteran subscribers also have access to a special Duty Officer Assignment on Starfleet Academy (Fed) and Klingon Academy (KDF) that allows for extra Dilithium refining (1,000 extra for a 48 hour assignment). Gold members also have a special perk that allows them to refine Dilithium automatically upon logging in, up to one previous week’s worth.
STOWiki.org has done a fantastic job creating a Dilithium information page that provides a full list of missions that award Dilithium, including amounts. You can check it out here.
Refined Dilithium is also available via the in-game Dilithium Exchange, which can be accessed via the downward arrow on the mini-map. Here, you can exchange ZEN you’ve transferred into STO for Refined Dilithium, and vice-versa. It’s important to note that the Dilithium Exchange is a live marketplace – exchange rates are driven by the playerbase, depending on how much of one currency they are willing to trade for another, and such rates may fluctuate from moment to moment.
How do I use Dilithium in-game?
As mentioned, once Dilithium Ore is refined, it becomes a spendable currency.
Many ships in-game require Dilithium to be purchased. Federation players can find Starship Requisitions at Earth Spacedock, Deep Space 9, Deep Space K-7 and Starbase 39-Sierra. Klingon players can find Starship Requisitions in the orbiting shipyard of Qo’noS.
Players can also buy many different types of ground and space gear from various vendors across the galaxy. Federation players will find that Earth Spacedock is home to vendors who take Dilithium, and Klingon players will want to visit Qo’noS to spend their Dilithium. Gear can also be purchased directly from the Dilithium Store on the minimap.
If you are looking at crafting higher tier items at Memory Alpha, most recipes call for Common and Uncommon Unreplicateable Materials. These are purchased with Dilithium and can be obtained from a vendor on Memory Alpha (Fed) or Qo’noS (KDF), or through the Dilithium Store on the minimap.
Select Duty Officers can be purchased with Dilithium from Lt. Ferra at Starfleet Academy (Fed) and Lt. S’stas at Klingon Academy (KDF) – these Duty Officers are of Uncommon/ green and higher quality. As you participate in various Duty Officer Assignments, you will notice that some of them will require Dilithium. Similarly, Season 6: Under Siege introduced the new Fleet Advancement System. While some of the Fleet Projects your Fleet Officers decide to undertake may require large amounts of Dilithium, you can choose how much you would like to donate at a given time – this allows for multiple fleetmates to donate smaller amounts at a time if they wish.
For those players that would like to “thank” the author of a Foundry mission you’ve recently enjoyed, at the end of the mission, along with your review, you can choose to leave a “tip” of refined Dilithium. Among other things, this helps authors fund the purchase of additional Foundry project slots, which means more Foundry missions for you to play!
How do I use the Dilithium Exchange in-game?
To access the Dilithium Exchange, click on the downward arrow on the mini-map and select “Dilithium Exchange” – this can also be accessed while browsing the Dilithium Store for items and clicking on “Buy Dilithium”, and through the button on the “Assets” tab of your inventory.
Again, it’s important to note that the Dilithium Exchange is a live marketplace – exchange rates are driven by the playerbase, depending on how much of one currency they are willing to trade for another, and such rates may fluctuate from moment to moment.
The following images provide more information on how to use the Exchange:
A: This is the “Buy ZEN” tab.
B: This section displays the top offers to sell ZEN.
- Example: row 1 tells is that there is 2,899 ZEN available for 205 Refined Dilithium per ZEN.
C: This section displays any outstanding offers you have on the exchange. If you wish to cancel an offer, click on the offer to highlight it and then click the “Cancel Offer” button. Canceling an offer will put the Refined Dilithium you put onto the exchange into your “Exchange Balance” (F).
D: This section is where you can decide how much Refined Dilithium you would like to offer to buy ZEN. All 3 fields may have values entered in them, and the “Total Dilithium to sell” field is automatically updated as you adjust the values above it*.
- Example: if you would like to submit an offer to buy 100 ZEN, you would put “100” in the “ZEN to buy” field, and then the amount of Refined Dilithium you would be willing to pay per ZEN acquired – the “Total Dilithium to sell” field would then update with the total Refined Dilithium you need in order to purchase 100 ZEN at that “Dilithium per ZEN” price.
E: Once you have entered the information in the fields above (D), click the “Submit Offer To Buy” button to confirm and submit your offer to buy ZEN. NOTE: ZEN purchased via the Exchange are bound to Star Trek Online.
F: This section shows your current Exchange Balance. Canceling an offer will put the Refined Dilithium you put onto the exchange into this balance. Future offers will first pull from these balances and you can withdraw available Refined Dilithium or ZEN from your Exchange Balance at any time.
G: This section shows your current character’s Refined Dilithium balance, and your account’s ZEN balance.
A: This is the “Sell ZEN” tab.
B: This section displays the top offers to buy ZEN.
- Example: row 1 tells is that there is 12,856 ZEN available for 204 Refined Dilithium per ZEN.
C: This section displays any outstanding offers you have on the exchange. If you wish to cancel an offer, click on the offer to highlight it and then click the “Cancel Offer” button. Canceling an offer will put the ZEN you put onto the exchange into your “Exchange Balance” (F).
D: This section is where you can decide how much ZEN you would like to offer to buy Refined Dilithium. All 3 fields may have values entered in them, and the “Total Dilithium to buy” field is automatically updated as you adjust the values above it*.
- Example: if you would like to submit an offer to sell 100 ZEN, you would put “100” in the “ZEN to sell” field, and then the amount of Refined Dilithium you are wanting to get per ZEN sold – the “Total Dilithium to buy” field would then update with the total Refined Dilithium you would get if your offer matched or beat an outstanding offer on the exchange.
E: Once you have entered the information in the fields above (D), click the “Submit Offer To Sell” button to confirm and submit your offer to sell ZEN. NOTE: ZEN placed in the Exchange will permanently bind them to Star Trek Online.
F: This section shows your current Exchange Balance. Canceling an offer will put the ZEN you put onto the exchange into this balance. Future offers will first pull from these balances and you can withdraw available Refined Dilithium or ZEN from your Exchange Balance at any time.
G: This section shows your current character’s Refined Dilithium balance, and your account’s ZEN balance.
*If buying ZEN, the price must be between 25 and 500 Refined Dilithium. If selling ZEN, offers must be at least 1 ZEN and no more than 5,000 ZEN.
sichanka @ Nov 12th, 2012 4:52AM
So many complain because it takes time to build up your dilithium reserves...yet by spending time playing the game, you get access to items that normally would need real money to buy. If you don't like it, best get your wallet out then and stop complaining!! As for the "no currency in 24th century", regardless of what Picard says, their is a monetary system (currency) but its so rarely used its considered inexistent. If you want to complain about the continuity then include Vulcan being in existence...yet Nemo took it out...
swimmingfrog @ Aug 5th, 2012 4:34AM
So far I've gotten Dilithium everday that I've played Star Trek. Some days more than others. I'm still new to the game, but it doesn't look that hard to me. I'll probable use it to get Zen, just so that I can get stuff without using real money. I haven't advanced enough to worry about getting the most awesome space ship yet, so I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
blackack1 @ Aug 4th, 2012 5:39PM
The outside link to buy ZEN is here: https://billing.perfectworld.com/charge
blackack1 @ Aug 4th, 2012 5:34PM
"Dilithium is primarily earned by completing in-game missions (PvP and PvE dailies, events, STFs, Duty Officer Assignments etc.), and is awarded as Dilithium Ore" So far, I'm at the Captain rank, and I have YET to see ANY Dil rewards. NO DIL. I've done all those "missions" mentioned and am still grinding them out and there STILL ain't no Dil rewards. That's just effing wrong man.
starsider32485
Have you been just doing the PvPs, etc. or have you gotten the missions to DO these things first before doiing them? FOr example, I know that Captain Cahoun at K-7's PvP missions offer around 1000 or so Dilithium depending on rank, but you have to talk to him before doing your PvP matches, and the rewards are seperate from what you get from the actual matches.
motormouth1
they are daily missions you unlock ay higher ranks. one requires you to do 3 Pvp missions, others are simpler, but you wont get any Dil without those missions being active.
blackack1 @ Aug 4th, 2012 5:28PM
Is there a ZEN exchange? Is it possible (or maybe it should be) to buy ZEN with dollars IN GAME, instead of having to go through channels outside? Why can't we buy ZEN with Gold-pressed Latinum? Or with Energy Credits? If ZEN is the "currency" in this game, what up? It should NOT be that to buy ZEN we need to have Dilithium, and to buy Dilithium we need to have ZEN. That just doesn't make any sense at all. You can mine Dilithium, BUT you first need to SPEND 100 Dilithium to buy a "used" spacesuit. So, where the hell do I get Dilithium? "Oh, you can get it on the Exchange. It costs ZEN" So, how do you get ZEN? By spending Dilithium. DON'T YOU SEE THE LUNACY OF THIS WHOLE THING?????
motormouth1
no lunacy whatsoever. once you are up to level 50 you will have unlocked around 5 daily missions that award 1440 dilithium each.
stewebabe
Lol this made me laugh, true enough I was runing around like a dog chasing my tail to get zen, but no I thought it will not get the better of me, my zen force is strong, true the zen thing is a bit weird how you spend your dollar to get zen all this business just so that you can buy stuff.....
jumpingjs @ Aug 4th, 2012 11:46AM
I quote from Star Trek First Contact. "We have no currencys in the 24th century" Well I think some 40 years on or so there still wouldn't be. Hang on I just bought a DOFF (which are overpriced on the exchange) for 119,00 ENERGY CREDITS, and donated 30,000 DILITHIUM. Could you repeat what you said Picard. Well in fairness it is a game but I I think there are rather a lot of currencies for a time with noun.
jstewart55 @ Aug 4th, 2012 4:10AM
I'd be the first in line to defend this game. I haven't been playing for long enough to become fully jaded, but the Dilithium store is one of the things that irks me slightly. I can fully understand why you can only grind out a few thousand rocks per day (to keep you coming back, of course), but what I can't understand is why a starship would cost 120,000 Dilithium, but to kit out that ship with the "best" equipment (well, the best equipment available from the store), costs triple what the ship does. And then, there's the matter of the Spiral Waves: twice the price of a normal weapon, unavailable except to the special few, and no "options" (beam banks, cannons, etc).
xastirx
i find that I myself are in agreement with you. After all, what should cost more? the pair of 1,750 feet long warp nacelles with their warp coils and all those other components, not to mention the warp core itself, or some small energy capacitor in the saucer whose sole purpose is the storing of energy for the forward phaser arrays?
fogerty1 @ Aug 3rd, 2012 10:19AM
I am simply going to say that if your in game long enough and still too stupid to understand what Dilitium is and how to get it, you should leave the game. There is NOTHING complex about ANY of it. The game takes some intelliegence to play. If you feel things are too stupid and boring or hard to understand, you should go play Evony or Farmville.
ychild @ Aug 3rd, 2012 9:41AM
End Game currency? I don't know when there's Fleet Marks, Fleet Credits, Energy Credits, Refined Dilithium, and Dilithium Ore. I added dilithium ore because of cap of 8,000 a day. Energy Credits was the first and dilthium was part the Star Trek theme, but I don't understand the Fleet Marks and Fleet Credits. Put it back to just the Energy Credits and Dilithium.
wumidk @ Aug 3rd, 2012 7:16AM
Hardly worth the efford to buy equipment when stats suck that much. Ontop of that if the dilithium exchange needs to be explained that torough maybe its time to make it more simple?
stewebabe
HERE here sir,
badgerpants999 @ Aug 3rd, 2012 5:28AM
wow, dilithium is so valuable now! (/sarcasm) so just what am i supposed to do with the massive amount of useless Gold Pressed Latinum i got from the Stupid Christmas items? or Am I just saddled with a use ess pile of junk?
elvenaar
Yeah lol they should've just made the new stuff from the Lobi market cost latinum instead of Lobi crystals, but that would've been too cheap in their eyes I guess.
fogerty1
If you put some effort into reading, use the Latinum for your Duty officer missions.
moardread1
Get a Ferengi D'Kora and exchange 500 GPL for random goodness every 20 hours.
anikaiful
Heh, after getting all the GPL-purchasable trophies... not much to do with it. 500 GPL / 20h? I'd not get my GPL used up in my whole lifetime, even with Doff missions included.
anikaiful
addendum: ...except to the completely useless holo-imagers.
stewebabe
play dabo at quarks bar. get some hot babes and chill, quark goes mad for latinum, you may get lucky and win ?.
diogene0 @ Aug 3rd, 2012 5:17AM
It's also important to notice that most of the items sold on the dilithium store are just average or ok items. Better ones can be found on the exchange for energy credits.
zuigje010 @ Aug 3rd, 2012 2:17AM
Bridge officers, I get them on a daily basis with duty officer assignments. The value of a bridge officer is 600 or 800 dilithium it says. Do I get the dilithium when I discard a bridge officer? Or can I somewhere deliver my bridge officers for dilithium?
stewebabe
Yes if you discard a officer you get some dilithium back and xp points too.
nrfbtoystore @ Aug 3rd, 2012 2:07AM
Holy crap, batman...there is so whiny people in forums! Lemme see if I can respond to everyone's dumbness is a way to help you realize just how stupid you are. Except for @firavel , that dude seems to understand logic. LLAP! "WHY U MAKE ARTICLE NOW" - How about for people who have not played (ever/for awhile) that are unfamiliar with Dilithium? Yup, that's right folks, not every word written by someone else is going to be catered to exactly your life. You are not a special and unique snowflake. "Y U HAVE 2 MANY TYPE RESOURCES" - PLAY MORE GAMES! Like every game, there is different resources needed for different items. We could go through all the types of enchantments and mushrooms and ores in WARCRAFT...but let's break it down REAL simple, how about ANY RTS out there? To build a wood house...I need wood...to build a stone house...I NEED STONE...to buy stuff, I NEED GOLD! It simply adds a challenge that instead of players sitting on a pile of money/power, they need to scavenge for themselves or purchase the items, which creates a player run economy. "Y U FORCE ME PLAY STUPID GAME" - No one does, you choose to be miserable, and it's doubtful you will EVER be happy as you expect the world to give you a reach around as you eat Doritos. Not happening...
optyk1
You slam others with a sarcastic 'end all' reply, insult them, use WoW as a example and pretty much tell them they are homosexuals who are looking for free sexual favors while they eat nacho corn chips? LOL kay. Logic - 0, Douchery - 1. Go back to 4chan /b/tard troll.
zebular
Posts like these are why we need to see the report post feature return again. Glad that they are working on bringing it back.
fogerty1
I completely understand his post and agree. All these whiners want everything dumbed down to nacho eating, tv watching, never pick up a book and get an education people. All they do is whine and complain rather than spending a few minutes to read things. I fly around seeing in Zone Chat, IM BORED, TOO HARD, Where is this? Where do i go to get that? Rather than spend a few minutes to read the details. so Nrfbtoystore, I feel your pain and agree.
zalzany
I would have worded it better bet yes, this is the attitude of prety much every MMO, or heck game out there. And its always that minority who screams the loudest about how unfair it is they can't play for 2 hours a week and be caught up with the guy who spends 3 a day, and runs his own fansite full of usefull tips and guides. Its why WoW doesn't resemble what it use to at the start, back when these people were happy not doing end game stuff. Back when elite content was for nerds. Now every one whats a shot at a loot pinata, and feels if they are entitled to it, at little to know cost. And don't get me started about the ones who want things easy, then complain their isn't enough content, or its too easy; only to flip when something is released that's moderately hard, or full of story.
anikaiful
Heh. But truth is though, there isn't enough content to keep interest up, really.
stewebabe
I see you are taking on the roll of diplomat. Very good, Very good.
elbourt @ Aug 3rd, 2012 12:59AM
What I would like to know is why cant we search on lower priced zen or lower prices dilithium. You might put up to buy zen at 25 dil per to get it from one toon to your in game dil balance to withdraw on another toon or put zen on store for 500 dil per to do the same but you can search for deals on the zen or dil as all you show is the current middle of the road listings. I would like the ability to buy a specific players zen or dil so if a friend needs zen or dil you could get it to them since you cant trade it in game as it is bound. Since you can't buy the Zen cards anymore there is no way to gift someone Zen to help them get a ship or get more dil and this seems to be an oversight on the companies part. There are certain players in game that I have on ignore for various reasons...I hate the fact that I could be helping them buy buying there zen or dil if they might have wronged me somehow in the game. The offers should list the players handle at a minimum so you could choose the correct offerings or not choose as the case maybe.
theonezed
You are not familiar with how an O-T-C [FOReign] currency EXchange (FOREX) works. First, an OTC FOREX is a FIFO (First In, First Out) system. Second, all trades, on an OTC FOREX, are known as Market Orders - a request to buy at the current asking price. As such, Direct Trades are not available in such a system. You bid (buy) or ask (sell) for a currency (Zen) at a given price (Dil) for a given quantity (Lot). Every Lot is date/time stamped for sequencing and then goes into a queue. As trades are made, the queue is reduced from the oldest Lot, then the next oldest and so on until all Zen at that Dil price are exhausted. Each time someone is asks Zen at the same price another Lot is added to that queue, at the end. As long as Zen are made available at the asking price (top line) the queue will not change. Example: 10 people have asks at 205d; totaling 3,000z. (For simplicity we'll say 300z each; so 10 lots.) PersonA bids 400z@205d. Person1's 300z are sold. Person1's lot is dropped and Person2's Lot is advanced in the queue; now, there are 9 lots. Next, 100z are removed from Person2's lot. There are now 2,600z in 9 lots (1@200; 8@300). Person11 asks 200z@205d. There are now 2800z in 10 lots. PersonB bids 1000z@204d. It is date/time stamped and queued. Nothing happens with PersonB's because the going rate is 205d. Until every lot at the asking price (205d) is exhausted this bid stays queued. PersonC bids 1000z@206d. Person2's lot is exhausted and dropped; as are Person3 and Person4. Person5's lot is reduced to 100z. AND, the 1000d spread (the difference between the ask and bid amount, here (206d-205d)x1000z) are returned to PersonC's exchange account. If a bid placed is higher than the going rate, all trades are made at the going rate and the overage is returned to your _Exchange Balance_; even if it was taken from your Personal Balance (thus binding them to STO).
allocater @ Aug 3rd, 2012 12:58AM
B: This section displays the top offers to buy ZEN. Example: row 1 tells is that there is 12,856 ZEN available for 204 Refined Dilithium per ZEN. This should be: B: This section displays the top offers to buy ZEN. Example: row 1 tells is that there is 12,856 ZEN *demanded* for 204 Refined Dilithium per ZEN.
theonezed
Actually, it's not *demanded*; because it doesn't have to be paid. If no one bids at 204 they won't sell. Demand is the domain of the buyer; not the seller.
cptwarped @ Aug 2nd, 2012 10:26PM
I think they should Re-Label or redefine the auto-refine feature for gold members, the way they describe it is mis-leading bordering on untrue. The way auto-refine actually works is if you login OR change zones WHILE you have unrefined Dilithium in your assets AND you did not refine your full 8k already from previous days it MIGHT auto-refine it for you... although this often fails so pretty much this feature is broken and/or useless.
rjewkes @ Aug 2nd, 2012 9:01PM
as a gold/lifetime member ii have yet to see autorefne. is it anotion somewhere?
blackjackwidow
It just happens when you logn. If you have unrefined dilithium in your bank, it basically just refines it for you. You can see it in the system messages: "joined chat Zone, blah blah blah... refined 1298 dilithium". It took a while before I noticed it, not sure if it was because I thought I had to click 'refine dilithium' all the time, or I just didn't notice the message fly by.
sverdat @ Aug 2nd, 2012 8:31PM
love the fact that it is a live market, but could we please get a market ticker like the stock tickers. mayby and app for mobile devices or even a live tracker on the sto.pefectworld website.
reven000 @ Aug 2nd, 2012 8:12PM
I am sorry it is stupid that they even changed the system in the first place now really whats the point of EC if every thing is based a round a resource, second dilithium is more abundant in the star trek universe then they are making it thats why every ship in the game runs on it every power source pretty much has something to do with it and there are billions of ships
wisphq83 @ Aug 2nd, 2012 7:27PM
One thing I don't get about this. Why, after all this time do they decide to put up a post like this now? Let me give you a break down of Dilithium. It, like GPL, was a complete waste of time and was poorly introduced into the game. But it's been done. So, it can be earned from STF's and daililies primarily. You can also receive some from making foundry missions and doff missions. In my opinion, it was a horrible thing to introduce in the way that it did. The crafting system went down the drain with its creation and getting new ships became so much harder to do. Now, if they switch the currency of the game to GPL, I would have had little problem with that. Atleast it would make more sense and give GPL more use then a trophy or holo emitter.
cynder2012 @ Aug 2nd, 2012 6:49PM
@bracky...what he means is that Dilithium is used alot for the people who have hit max lvl...not so much for those who are still leveling. @russell...yeah agree with you there.
clearbeard @ Aug 2nd, 2012 5:31PM
If dilithium is considered to be "the major form of currency" in STO, why do we need all the other dozen or more resources that are, for all intents and purposes, currencies? Energy credits are fine, they're a purely in-game resource, while dilithium is partly monetized through the exchange. And Zen is fine, as it is a purely monetized currency, and the company has to make money somehow. Realistically these could easily be combined into only two currencies, but that's a discussion for a different day. But then we have Lobi crystals, which are available only through lockboxes and similar sources, and thus are another monetized currency (why do we need 2?). Then there's Gold Pressed Latinum, a purely fluff currency which is in the game apparently because and only because it's actually mentioned as currency in the shows. Add in Encrypted Data Chips, which fit the definition of a currency quite well, but can only be used in one store for one kind of gear. Oh, and the various stages of rare and prototype borg salvage, borg tech, and the various "requisitions" used in the STF store. Reman datalogs are borderlline, as they're a discrete collectable with only one use (currently). And now the gorilla in the room, with the starbase system, we have an explosion of currencies: Fleet Marks, which are again very specialized, and Fleet Credits which are more widely usable (and also fairly worthless considering all the OTHER currency you have to spend to be able to use them). And not one but NINE individual types of starbase provisions, that act as currency accumulated fleet wide at exorbitant exchange rates from other in-game currencies (most notably dilithium and vast EC reserves to buy the duty officers, who have themselves become mediums of exchange and expenditures, and thus currencies in their own right). When will it stop? The Season 5 dilithium "simplification" was lovely, but it's been blown totally out of viability with the coming of Season 6. So my question is simple: WHY?
reven000
ya that's what i am talking bout it's so stupid for them to do that and i believe that it would make a lot of new players quit in frustration
zalzany
First off tokens or items that you exchange for gear high level, well that's been around for years, almost a decade. Bit late to complain about it now. Two starbase currnancies were added in so johnny go faster who has more currency then he knows what to do with, can't just say I'm done, give me more a month latter. It was added to make a fleet work together, and so you have a long term project, not just I am done, where is my next new thing. If you could buy every thing with in a month of release you would get bored fast, and the developers would run out of ideas fast. Not to mention need to put in over time, and release buggy gear/content to keep you from ranting about how your bored and will leave if you don't get things, instead of this rant.
zalzany
A huge example of this is WoW they have so many players siting on mountains of gold that it twists the economy. They jack up prices, then sell there excess or let the Chinese sell it. They have to constantly create currency dumps that make people like you rage about the price and people like my cousin laugh as they buy it simply because they can. I for one like a game I can play for hours, even if I have to grind for some of it. If your bored get a group, if they suck get a new group, find a project. Because when you end up with only 2 currencies you will be complaining that its too hard to farm them because of inflation, or boring. Or if your really elite that the cap is not high enough, so its just asking for you to sell it online.
azriel2281 @ Aug 2nd, 2012 5:09PM
I have to say that while Dilithium does have it's ups and downs; I would personally like to see a change in one or both of the following areas: 1) Price- There is nothing more annoying on my Fed VA and my Klink BG than seeing a Fighter I want to equip in my hangar costing 30,000 Dil and looking at my assests and only seeing maybe 10k. (yes some has been spent on weapons/consoles, etc. but 1 Item for 30 grand!? Full Ships I can understand carrying a heafty price tag (ok so maybe 120k for a VA class ship is a bit steep but *shrug*) 2) Higher Dilithium rewards- I understand the low value in DOF mish's, and yes there are dailies that will award at least 1440 Dil but you can only do those once a Day. That breaks down into 1 Daily needing to be completed 22 times just to Average the price of a Single Hangar of Fighters. That's not even Close to the price of an actual Ship! Basically all I think needs to be done isn't removal, it's Normalize. Perhaps at 50 players could Choose to earn EC or Dilithium. Perhaps a Mission Reward choice. They're already in game so they wouldn't need to much recoding to impliment.
cheroj @ Aug 2nd, 2012 4:50PM
The comment section of articles is really bringing out the idiots and trolls of STO in droves.
zebular
You mean like what you just did here? I see quite a bit of constructive criticism, what does your's add? Mhm. *shakes head*
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