This. Otherwise the original poster's suggestion has no merit.

There are two problems with changing over to an account-based dilithium cap.

1. Dilithium is character-bound, not account-bound. Certainly, it can be 'traded' between characters through the dilithium exchange, but the currency itself is still per-character.

2. There are severe scaling issues with additional characters("alts"). Switching over would effectively butcher the sales of additional character slots - something I'm sure the majority of people who invest in STO do. Currently, dilithium prices in the game are scaled per character, not the entire account. I shudder to think of the community's backlash if this change happened without adjusting the price of every dilithium item in the game..

this is sort of how it is already......i could careless about having an account wide dilth access because i just transfer it all to my main...where i would convert it all at once to zen points or better yet...support my fleet.....after supporting craptic (until the fix the bugs with s7 this is their name ) by buying zen points

but i wouldnt mind having a way that doesnt make me feel like im cheating the system.....even though everyone with alts knows about this

You are absolutely ridiculous.

Here's a little course in Logic 101.

When you have people manipulating and exploiting a system, it hurts the players who don't manipulate and exploit the system.

In particular, players who game the dilithium system by having a bajillion alts are the reason for things like adding dilithium costs to Doffs, reducing easy dilithium sources, reducing dilithium faucets, increasing dilithium sinks, and the devaluing of dilithium in general .

Now please go back to school and leave the heavy thinking to the folks who can figure out that 2+2=4

Depends on the cap. You could set it to a point that supports 2-3 characters , which would eliminate the folks who have 6+ characters and are gaming the system.

Condescending talk from forum workers because this outrageous PWE cash grab doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Yeah, well here's some common sense.
Don't fix what isn't broken.

PWE already got a taste of player rage over the recent dilithium tinkering.
Imagine what will happen if PWE gets all nazi about it.

I think the OP is right .Make a account limit that way 10000 zen will be 1 dilithium which will be great for small fleets which spend real money on dilithium.

look yourself for a facepalm pic because this trolling thread is not smart enough to make me waste my time looking for one.

It was broken, that's the point.