Originally Posted by commodoreshrvk

No one said it is not hard, however removing avenues for obtaining it and funneling everyone into only a handful of missions that reward it is what makes it a grind and tedious. Quite honestly, who cares how much and how fast you earn it, you can only refine 8-9K a day so the system is buffered. There is a massive Dilithium sink in game right now. But, if you do enjoy running and doing the same things over and over and over...so be it. Me, I prefer variety in a game.

There are better and more well thought out solutions to the issue than what was actually implemented.