Originally Posted by alnakar

My question is this: Would you be willing to accept an account-wide daily dilithium-refining cap if it meant that they could loosen up the restrictions a bit?

Originally Posted by momaw

As Mr. Stahl told us himself the average player was refining less than 2000 a day. Clearly, hardcore farmers are an extreme minority.

The basic problem here is that dilithium is time-gated and nothing else really is. If you give me a choice between working on a reward that I can ONLY earn now, and one that's available any time, guess which one I'm going to max out? Making dil easy to get means I then have more time, once I've got my dilithium, to play everything else which doesn't give dilithium. Easy dil = more variety. The obvious solution to my mind is to make everything give a relevant amount of dil, but apparently they do not feel that way.

Originally Posted by alnakar

First off: wow, internet... just... wow... it's good to see that there's still a refuge for for petty name-calling and fear-mongering...

I'm amazed Cryptic gives any feedback to fans at all, given how people react to simple questions / idea.


Now aside from that, I think a lot of the people misunderstood the purpose of my post so completely that it actually makes me a little bit sad for humanity...



My point is this: In order to prevent people from raking in more dilithium than was theoretically "intended", they've just made it harder to get dilithium in general. As a result of this, people have gone totally bat-**** ****ing crazy, and started a table-flipping ultimatum-delivering ****-fest of idiocy and rage.

An alternative method for them to attempt to achieve this same result would be for them to add an account limit for daily dilithium refining. I thought that this might be more agreeable to some players.



I agree with this 100%. This would be the best and most permanent solution. I'm not entirely sure why this isn't what's being done already, although I suspect it has something to do with 'exploits', since it's hard to tell the difference between somebody who's left their session idle while they surf the web, and somebody who's taking the time to explore all the dialogue of a well-crafted foundry mission.

Since it isn't being done yet, though, I thought I'd try floating another idea.

Oh, and to the totally delusional paranoid out there: no, I have no affiliation with Cryptic or PWE, aside from having purchased a LTS a while back (I stopped showing up as a 'Cereer Officer' in the forums at one point, probably around the time of the PWE purchase, and I've never bothered to figure out how to get it back, in case you're wondering). I'm not terribly active on the forums, although I read them reasonably frequently... But the illuminati is TOTALLY trying to screw you over.

Originally Posted by xantris

I believe so, but the people who have bought a bajillion character slots and leveled them would likely rage.