Sorry dude! I'll send ya one of these and put the keyboard on my tab!

I still want to add this is entirely optional, and if you want to do it without paying, you can You can't blame it for existing

Well, someone had to say it And it has

Hadn't thought about it that way. Hmm, not sure I want to pay any more money, so I'll ask for the time off from the field and lecture circuit. I'm sure my students and my firm won't mind.

Since you are passing along feedback. Tell them to make the special limited project require GPL instead. Use the useless currency for useless cosmetics. My fleet has stopped doing the limited special projects because we are too small to maintain that cost.

Why would it take more time off?
You had the time to post here, so you had the time to play and get Dil...

You say you have 15 members in your small fleet? 15 people will take 1.7 days to finish this project if you all maxed your refinement for 2 days.
Unless you can only play a total of 1.9 hours a week... then you could still make the Dil since it only takes about an hour to get 8k dil.

Keep in mind tho that GPL costs EC via gambling in Dabo and I'm running out of EC on a few of my toons paying for commodities etc. for reputation projects. I'm sure others are finding themselves in the same boat.

This has to be taken into consideration! (We aren't all rich in EC or GPL... Same way as we aren't all rich in dilithium)

That is true but, EC is far easier to obtain than Dil.

Whoa; slow down there, Turbo! My comment was sarcasm. And, I supose you'll have to pardon me - I thought we were joking back-and-forth, here. 'Wasn't trying to rumple your feathers, nor to take this onto the Vulcan "facts-n-figures" plane.

But, since we're here, the reason it took us so long to grind out the dilithium I mentioned is because we're all more-or-less casual players, and some of us are much more...casual...than others (meaning it's only a few of us really inputting anything). So, "days" and "hours," used in this manner, are relative terms.

Also, as an aside, taking time to read and/or post on a lunch break - which only takes a few minutes or so - is not the same as taking time to play, which, a) I can't and wouldn't do from my office at work and, b) would require more time than I actually have in a day at any point until after I get home.

At any rate, I thank you for your input on the dynamics and logistics regarding how we might go about doing the 'Special Project;' your suggested time frame would work if we got everyone doing it, I'm sure. But, my take-home point was that, however cool this particular aesthetic upgrade is, 200k is WAY too expensive given the outlandish input requirements for other projects - to obtain things that are actually practical in-game.

That is also very true unfortunately... especially since some of our easy ways of obtaining dilithium has been taken away from us! B'tran to name just one!

When can I have this as an actual Melee Weapon. I wanna pull some Final Fantasy on here.