OK, so I have been checking out the Dilithium system and so far I am not impressed. I always reveled in the fact that if I was so inclined I could go to shipyard and buy a new ship. I guess it wouldn't bother me so much if I could farm for it and not have to wait 24h to farm it again. My point is that you have taken away one of the things that I LOVED about this game.

Have you been doing the event down at SFA? You could get alot of dilithium from that, I opted for the 60 particle goal then went and lvled to LC1 and easily had enough to get my next tier ship. Also with this set up it makes the player actually have to do everything the game has to offer instead of just grinding mission to get to the next tier faster. lol its making player do ALL the content instead of just repeating all the FEs to get to the next rank.

I see your point, however what if i don't want to do everything in the game? Yes its Mmorpg and yes you should socialize but the thing about this game that made it for me is that I did not have to, It gave me the option. If I want to grind for 20hrs I could, and if I wanted to get one of every ship I could with ec provided I had enough. Now to get one ship i have to wait. It sucks! If cryptic wants to change the money system good for them but dont mess up my freedom to buy ships expediently and with the resource I have an abundance of lol.