Thursday, March 28, 2013

[STO] Dilithium Tracking 3/27/13

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I’ve had a great week off from work! I got to play paintball on two different days at Maui Paintball, got to see my visiting sister, and generally just relaxed! I won’t be playing again until the end of April, but it’ll be in a charity tournament to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. So, er, yeah, I’ll need to get in better shape in the next month...

A very awesome surprise is I got to chat with Tony from Priority One Podcast. So, tentatively speaking, you’ll hear me on the April 1st show next week!

Anyhow, Zen and Dilithium trading has really dropped since the Legacy of Romulus announcement. The Z:D ratio has been going up as well, and we’re over 1:100 again for the first time in a while. I suspect there’s a good number of players who aren’t participating in the market right now, opting to wait for LoR to come out. Now, are they saving up their Dilithium and Zen? Are they taking a break? I really don’t know, and I suspect your guess is as good as mine. Anyhow, now for the rest of the data...

Friday, March 22, 2013

Privateer Press’ Modeling & Painting Vol. 1: Part 1

I recently bought Privateer Press’ Formula P3 Modeling & Painting Vol. 1: Core Techniques. As a relative new comer to painting miniatures, I felt it’d be a helpful introduction for me. They had a nice little sample, which gave me some nice ideas, plus a helpful trick for painting gold metal.

I went ahead and ordered it. Since I’m watching this a bit at a time, as not to be overwhelmed, I thought I’d share my thoughts as they came.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Legacy of Romulus and Z:D hits 1:100.

For the first time since December, we've hit triple digits. Will it go higher? Maybe, we'll see. I suspect today's announcement of Legacy of Romulus, the next update/expansion, will have people trying to hold on to Dilithium, but that doesn't quite explain what's going on. If anything, hoarding should cause people to pay more for Dilithium, right?

On the other hand, it could also be that people are holding off buying it for the time being. Without as many people willing to pay a premium for Dilithium, the people who are buying want a little more for their Zen than they've been getting. Which, honestly, is reasonable. Also, I sort of wonder if this will signal a pre-update lull for the game, while folks decide to hold off playing as much until the update comes out.

The new update will be free, but will likely have a sizeable addition to the Z-Store. I've got friends already noting they'll need to buy more character slots, more ship slots, etc. I'm not a big player for alts in the game, but I could easily see myself wanting to get more ships. If anything, I've been turning into Jay Leno in-game.

Should be interesting! Supposedly the KDF and new Romulan faction will have a 1-50 content spread, which is good. Cryptic hired one of the writers from City of Heroes, so this ought be good. I wish they'd pick up Matt Miller and Melissa Bianco, as they were two of my favorite devs from Paragon Studios...

[STO] Dilithium Tracking 3/21/13

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A shadow looms. What is it? Well, I’ll find out in about 6 hours as of this writing. Okay, no I won’t, I’ll be asleep. But, the sharp drop in trade volume today is almost certainly because of it. Something’s coming, and I’m assuming people are holding onto their Zen and Dilithium until they know what it is.

This is definitely a relative high for Z:D. It hasn’t been to 1:99 since December, really. Its still an amazing rate for people buying Zen with Dilithium, but if you want to buy Dilithium? This is a better time than its been in a while. Of course, by the time you read this, everything may have changed.

Now, the charts:

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

[STO] Dilithium Tracking 3/14/13

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Past 8 weeks

1/14/2013 88 88 87 87 85 85 84
1/21/2013 84 87 90       92
1/28/2013 94 94 92 91 89 89 90
2/4/2013 90 91 91 91 92 91 91
2/11/2013 91 92 91 91 90   90
2/18/2013 90 92 94   91 90  
2/25/2013 91 91 90     88 88
3/3/2013 89 89 89 90 90   90
3/11/2013 90 90 91        

 

By the day

By the week

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Thursday, March 7, 2013

[3/7/13] Dilithium Tracking

Sorry its late; been sick the past few days. Back to bed after this!

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1/7/2013 89 90 95 90 89   88
1/14/2013 88 88 87 87 85 85 84
1/21/2013 84 87 90       92
1/28/2013 94 94 92 91 89 89 90
2/4/2013 90 91 91 91 92 91 91
2/11/2013 91 92 91 91 90   90
2/18/2013 90 92 94   91 90  
2/25/2013 91 91 90     88 88
3/3/2013 89 89 89 90      

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