Originally Posted by Feor

2) The missions are still balanced such that they're crazy difficult in space if you're not in an appropriate tier ship. I'd have no problem sticking in my Connie through Commmander levels, if I could reasonably expect to win the space missions, as is I'm up to Commander 4 this morning and every space mission I've done I've just squeaked out by ther skin of my teeth, and even then only after 3 or 4 respawns. I imagine trying to do admiral level missions in a Galaxy will be the same, if not worse. I just don't have enough hull, DPS, or BOFF skills to do the space mission efficiently.

Originally Posted by sdangelo

We did indeed mess up the Dilithium rewards on rank up in this update and it's definitely a mess. A fixed version is coming in this week's build that should be up on Thursday morning.

The "fix" does not give out completely free ships at each rank or give out enough Dilithium that you can get the ship for free at all ranks, but the gap between what you get and what you need was totally wrong and we're working to fix it.

This seems like an important topic to the community, so I'll pull together a far more detailed post and get it into the Dev Blog later this week.

Stephen D'Angelo
Executive Producer
Star Trek Online

Originally Posted by Direphoenix

You're doing math without all the required inputs. You're leaving out any other sources of Dilithium from anywhere else than two 1440 Dilithium dailies, and you can't add the other sources because they're not in the build yet. How do you believe that can be anywhere near accurate?

Again, the economy is not 'screwed up', it's INCOMPLETE. NOT FINISHED. Which makes it pretty much impossible to test. It's like trying to test how well you can paint the Sistine Chapel, but they haven't given us any paint or even a ladder.

Originally Posted by Ikrit122

Originally Posted by Direphoenix

I still say you guys are making snap judgements from an incomplete picture.

You're NOT seeing the Dilithium we're supposedly going to be getting from missions.
You're NOT seeing the Dilithium we'll be getting from Star Cluster explores.
You're NOT seeing the Dilithium we'll be getting from PvP.
You're NOT seeing the Dilithium we'll be getting from all the other events in the events system.
You're NOT seeing the Dilithium we could get from trading in C-points from our subscriber stipend.
...and there might even be more that we're not seeing yet.


It's like you guys are saying the picture sucks when "the picture" you're looking at is only 1/8th of the pieces of an unassembled jigsaw puzzle. You don't even have all the pieces, much less have them assembled in any form that resembles what the final product is supposed to look like.

Originally Posted by Zanshi

Still... I wonder why we aren't given a ship to command (free, btw), but rather have to buy it. I can't see Kirk or Picard doing that.

Originally Posted by MChez

An elegant solution, as has already been suggested, is keeping the free ship token (or equivalent dilithum injection) at level up for subscribers and providing ftp folks the option of more game activity or c-store as a way to make up the difference. This is potentially a win-win for the business model and the player base.

It keeps present subscribers comfortable with the system in place, as was suggested would not be altered, while at the same time advocating for ftp players to upgrade to a gold subscription or make up for it with single time purchases.

Originally Posted by Alexraptor

- We are loosing our entitled free ship token at rank up, despite the fact that we SUBSCRIBE.
- We will be forced to spend dilithium to buy a new ship instead of being able to buy better equipment like we do NOW with "badges", "marks" and "emblems".

What Cryptic currently is trying to give us is nothing short of short changing us and unacceptable for us gold members.

Originally Posted by Ikrit122

Originally Posted by P-A-T-H-F-I-N-D-E-R

Ok ... so can we pass the time by sharpening bat'leths and swords and reading the torches for later lighting in case we are not happy?

hmmm ... wonder what a Klingon "Flash Mob" would entail?