Greetings!

After many hours of deliberation and review of the post Season 7 player data, I've made the call to reverse the decision to remove Dilithium as a reward for running STFs. In addition, we've also decided to keep Dilithium as a reward in Fleet Actions.

There have been numerous posts explaining the rationale that went into the reward changes and I can clearly state that our goal of getting more Dilithium into the average player has been very successful. As the data suggested, there is a huge contingent of players that simply do not play STFs but are eager to earn Dilithium in other content. These players are benefiting from the addition of Dilithium in the Fleet Actions, so that worked well.

However, our concern that there would be too much Dilithium in the economy if we left Dilithium in both STFs and Fleet Actions has been outweighed by the frustration we've seen from STF fans since the launch of Season 7.

Season 7 is an awesome content filled update that the team is very proud of that has been overshadowed by player frustrations over the Dilithium changes. Cryptic has and always will take player feedback into consideration when making decisions and this is a case where we agree with the players that Dilithium should be back in the STFs. It is more fun to run STFs when you can earn Dilithium towards end game gear and no amount of data driven logic can outweigh this.

So here are the changes we'll be making in a maintenance build by the end of this week.

• Normal STF runs will grant 480 Dilithium
• Elite STF runs will grant 960 Dilithium
• Space Fleet Action runs will grant 480 Dilithium
• Ground Fleet Action runs will grant 640 Dilithium

This is in addition to the other rewards that STFs and Fleet Actions grant.

While this is still a change from Season 6, we hope that these new amounts will help the average player earn more Dilithium per day while maintaining the Dilithium that players who like to run STFs were receiving.

The additional Dilithium may impact the player-to-player Dilithium exchange rates in the future, but we would rather you were having fun in Season 7 than worrying about the economy. We have enough of that to deal with in the real world.

Thank you for your patience and for being the best community of any MMO.


- dstahl


(p.s. the web team has updated the blog I posted last night with these changes to help cut down on confusion.)

First time for everything on the feedback front.

But good call on the STF front. I'll be playing them again when the changes are made

thank you for considering our feedback

Unsubbed yesterday. Re-subbing today.

It's about time Dan managed to get his head unstuck from that PWE rear of his so rational thinking could return!

480 Dilithium for a normal STF run? I'll gladly accept this change. And I don't see this impacting the Dilitihium exchange rates anytime soon, since there's plenty of other things to sink Dilithium into.

EXCELLENT decision (IMO)

And BTW as far as Dilithium infusion into the economy - you were the one who put in the 8000 refinement cap to keep the Dilithium economy from spiraling out of hand.

I will say again, the fact you stated in the blog that Level 50 players on average were way below that cap on a daily basis and you wanted to increase the average seems to be contradicted by the concern you had in this latest post. Either you need a better proofreader, or you were not being honest about your dilithium goals for S7 you stated in Blog #17 as part of your justification for your original Dilithium changes that you are now (thankfully) reverting to a fair degree.

Still thanks for bowing to all the Feedback in game and on these Forums.

Nice change. Indeed the new content is great, but the dilithium changes were overshadowing it. Good work on the new content by the way, and thanks for listening to our concerns.

What about the reward table for the fleet actions (double purple loots for the first dps)? Will they stay or will it be reverted? Not that it's a concern, I'm just curious about it.

Thank you so much for listening to us on this. I am glad that you've added Dilithium to other missions to vary the content available, but the removal of it form my treasured STFs had really gotten me down. I am so happy that you're returning dilithium drops (even at the slightly reduced rate) so that whilst I'm working on the STFs for my reputation level, I can also earn Dilithium towards buying the gear.

It's still a massive net loss in dilithium with almost every element of the game converted into a dil sink. No more rewards for STFs (the honor to waste untold thousands of dilithium for rewards you should have already earned?), the new "mark" systems, the horrific decisions on the doff system...

Reverting back to allow dilithium for STFs doesn't make up for the net loss of many thousands of dil per day. THOSE changes need to be reverted as well.