http://forums.startrekonline.com/sho...67#post3842567

Even though they arent setting an exact exchange rate I am glad they are putting a cap on it.

Also, as someone else pointed out in that thread the fact that the exchange is account wide will mean you will hypothetically have a way to transfer refined dillithium between characters on your own account. You could put it up for sale on one character, then immediately cancel the sale and withdraw it on another one.

Anyway, what do you think of the details so far?

I like the way they have it set up. I doubt Ill be using the workaround to transfer dilithium though. Id rather try my hand with the system and buy low and wait to sell high. Time to let my inner Ferangi out!

Interesting.

In order to figure out how many CP you can buy per day spending no real dollars; Dilithium Refinement Cap divided by 500 assuming worst case pricing scenario for you as a CP buyer.

Dilithium cap divided by 50 for best case.

In the 500 dil to 1 CP case; 500*500 (the lowest number of CP you can buy) = 250,000
So if you spend $6.25 for 500 CP it will get you under 'best' case conditions 250k Dilithium.
'Worst case' 500*50 = 25,000 dilithium.

Just throwing that out there.

Anyone got a current tribble price of a VA endgame purple rarity weapon?
We can determine the range of real $ Cryptic is saying its worth, and by determining how much time it takes to grind dilithium for that weapon we can compare that value to the monthly sub fee and determine if its financially cheaper to sub and grind or to be silver and use CP to get Dilithium.

Also if escrowed dilithium is returned on cancel and can be accessed by any charachter they clearly intend to let us mail dilithium between chars, otherwise people would just make an offer and cancel it instantly to create a dil pool for all their chars.

EDIT:

I think it'd be nice if the devs gave us a 'market history' tab that shows the average prices being matched the most for the last day, week, and month.

Unless it was very recently changed 16k for a ship weapon and 7k for a ground one.

Edit: $5 for 1 weapon sounds bad

Ok, so somebody step in and correct me if I miss-carry something. I am not much of a maths wizard.

Assumptions in these Calculations;

• 16,000 Di for Ship Weapon (Purple VA)
• 7,000 Di for a Ground Weapon (]Purple VA)
• Max CP-to-Di Rate; 500 Di per 1 CP
• Min CP-to-Di Rate; 50 Di per 1 CP

So for anyone who wants, say, that purple VA level Phaser;

BEST Case (500 Di per 1 CP) your Phaser will cost 16,000/500 = 32 CP. 32 is .064 of 500. .064 of $6.25 = 0.4
40 Cents.

WORST Case; 50 is 1/10th of 500. So 10*0.40 = $4

A full Cruiser's worth of these is;
BEST CASE; 8 * 0.4 = $3.20
WORST CASE: 8*4 = $32

This is just weapons, not counting consoles and shield/engine/deflector which are likely more, meaning in worst case the equipment on a T5 excelsior could be worth far more in real $ than the ship itself, or in best case that a person with a few bucks to burn could net the ship and all its gear in one go for no grind or effort.

So much for fairness.

Oops. Forgot that those are the CRAFTED gear prices. If you buy straight from the vendor it's going to cost even more.

Those are *crafted*?



Sheesh.
What a mess.

It seems like it’s a pretty good system on paper, the only trick will be establishing a balanced exchange rate.

It will be very tough for Cryptic if it seems like there trying to control the amount of Dilithium that you can ask for in exchange for your C-Store points and vice versa.

I can’t even fathom what kind of exchange rates we’ll be seeing during the testing.

My view would be that 10 Dilithium would equal 1 C-Point should be a nice place to start but I know nothing about finance.

Oops,

I just saw that you guys were already doing the math.

Weapons Cost 2300 Dilithium on Tribble right now.

So roughly 1.44 * the crafted value.

So 1.44 * $3.20 = $4.6
And 1.44 * $32 = $46

So literally two weapons in worst case market conditions cost about $92
3 or more puts you over $100 easily.