Originally Posted by captainbrady

Ok but I have one criticism for this post. One of the main reasons I grind on the academy missions is I'm hoping for a nonbound purple engineer with resolve. None of the colonizing chains offers an engineer with resolve. I am fond of the "children's toys" doff chain which requires 5 engineers with resolve" to get something even halfway decent. I am willing to take the risk with blue doffs to get my purple engineer, but I will not pay through the nose. I also have a problem with bound on pickup doffs because I can't get rid of them (stuckin in my inventory for good) or trade them for a better doff in say "cardassian officer exchange missions". I'm afraid the colonization missions are not a subsitute for the academy missions. I think people like yourself are being overly dismissive of people's concerns about doff missions costing money because you're missing the point The point is not "is it possible to get purple doffs for free?". The point is, PWE is deliberately making more and more things cost dilithium, while drastically reducing the supply of dilithium to artificially inflate the cost of buying dilithium with real world money. The doffs are just another symptom of a greater problem.

Originally Posted by dalolorn

I agree that there is a greater problem. My point is that all the whining is focused on the doffs, which are the most immaterial concern so far due to the various methods of acquisition of purples.

Originally Posted by zeus16nbs

Stop the dil taxes! Stop the dil sinkholes! Stop the abuse of your player base!

Zeus

Originally Posted by chaosgod777

Here here! my fleet is small but we were one of the front runner fleets in terms of progression for this damned fleet starbase, that is until season 7 brought us to a grinding halt! Personally I don't see a reason to continue. It's not fun, I'm not getting anything in return for the time i put in. my dil disappears before i can actually think of using it for anything, not that i actually get to earn more then 3k a day due to my time constraints. I cant remember the last time i crafted something or would want to with the hopped up ripoff cost. the lack of actual playable content has bored me to death (and before i get some smartass in here that says New Romulus, I refuse to count a place where what you get depends entirely on what reputation tier you are new content!). I miss the episode series...anyone remember the last one...was it a year or more we were promised those were making a comeback? here we are, same four series...only one of which comes with dailies that help earn ya dil.



Bull, immaterial...when it comes to fleet progression their one of the damned most important resources there are. 180 doff's of a certain type to do a mission, that is not immaterial. especially when some of the other methods to get them will not work if you want to add them to a fleet project. the price tag is just a slap in the face to the players.

to sum up my little WoT there Im tired of jumping through hoops for cryptic when what we the players get in return is less then nothing. Our fleet more or less died because of season 7 and the changes it brought with it. Cryptic, driving away your playerbase is not the best idea you ever had, but then neither was the dilithium system in the first place. i would have been happy with Honor, Valor, and Emblems.

Originally Posted by lucho80

I do agree with the letter about the ridiculous exchange officer dil price which is why i haven't even bothered with the personnel officer since Season 7 started. There is no way I'm using 5000 Dil and 5 blue doffs (About 1 mil ECs worth) for a 1 in 20 chance of a purple doff that isn't dead weight.