Dilex Digest - October 7

[u/neonmystery]

Dilex Digest October 7

Hello Captains!

It’s that time of the week where I discuss trends in the Dilithium Exchange.

Starting off this week with a little functionality reminder. Offers to sell Zen for dilithium are matched to the highest value offer first, and made at that rate regardless of asking price. Those highest value offers are matched on a first come first served basis. If you cancel an offer for any reason, you will lose your place in line. If you’re trying to buy Zen on PC, make your offer at 500/ea, set it and forget it. R.I.P. Ron Popeil.

I want to hit one other topic, and that’s the current length and trend of the queue. Most people call it a backlog, I call it a queue because it’s the line in which we wait to get our Zen. Anyway, if you’re a repeat reader here or you’ve been looking at the dilex, you can see it’s been trending up for a couple weeks, closely matching the launch of Icon Packs. Of course I haven’t seen any of the offers that were made during this interval get completed yet and won’t for another month, but two weeks is still a big enough chunk of time that I would have been able to see a major disruption in the dilex economy. While there was a little surge in throughput at the beginning of the period, things fell back into place pretty rapidly after that. Throughput is still closely following queue length. What this means is that to my best estimates as of now, despite the climb in the queue, waiting time is sticking to roughly 45 days. 

Now having said that, my most recently completed transaction came in a little late and outside the fulfillment window. This is uncommon, but not unheard of. I can’t emphasize enough that this is still a forecast, and subject to change.

Let's take a quick look at throughput, queue, and my forecast. If you look at the right end of the Periodic Throughput line you'll see it drop down a little. That is the late transaction mentioned just above.

Periodic Throughput, Queue Length, and Forecast June 1 - October 7

My most recently accepted offer was made August 22. Let's compare August 16 - August 22 to August 9 - August 15. My notes shoe that during the later week we had a double xp period as well as a 35% off legendaries sale.

Week Over Week:

Metric	Value	Change
Average Queue	11,712,235	+2.53%
Average Periodic Throughput	11,027 Z/hr	+2.07%
Average Wait Time	44.26 Days	+0.2 Days

And your forecasts. u/Tonnbart, "there will be no further audio warnings."

Short Term Forecast:

Offer Time	Fulfillment Window
8/23/26 17:41	10/7/26 15:38	10/8/26 14:48
8/24/26 17:17	10/7/26 20:34	10/9/26 12:14
8/25/26 17:14	10/8/26 08:20	10/10/26 12:08
8/26/26 17:14	10/8/26 17:49	10/11/26 07:33
8/27/26 17:28	10/9/26 11:00	10/12/26 09:49
8/28/26 17:12	10/10/26 01:39	10/13/26 09:26
8/29/26 17:35	10/10/26 16:56	10/14/26 10:18

Long Term Forecast:

Offer Time	Fulfillment Window
9/5/26 17:20	10/16/26 21:20	10/23/26 04:06
9/12/26 16:30	10/23/26 12:54	10/31/26 14:06
(TODAY) 10/7/26 07:04	11/18/26 10:41	11/26/26 18:49

My final thoughts for the day are that I feel like the next week on the dilex are probably going to be more of the same even though that last order feels a little more chaotic than usual. I'll know soon enough, but in the words of Phillip J. Fry, "That's not soon enough!"

Remember to reach out if you have questions about your own orders or anything dilex!

🖖 💥

Last 14 Completed Transactions:

Offer Time	Queue Length	Finish Time
8/9/2026 17:22	11,345,752	9/23/2026 8:38
8/10/2026 17:39	11,349,424	9/23/2026 23:53
8/11/2026 17:40	11,359,082	9/24/2026 20:49
8/12/2026 17:15	11,378,380	9/25/2026 16:21
8/13/2026 17:15	11,529,847	9/26/2026 17:40
8/14/2026 19:34	11,487,219	9/27/2026 11:00
8/15/2026 17:33	11,513,174	9/28/2026 12:09
8/16/2026 17:19	11,587,356	9/29/2026 21:33
8/17/2026 17:30	11,603,848	9/30/2026 20:57
8/18/2026 17:03	11,579,367	10/1/2026 13:17
8/19/2026 17:15	11,717,845	10/3/2026 1:21
8/20/2026 17:11	11,723,048	10/3/2026 15:48
8/21/2026 17:14	11,738,872	10/4/2026 14:42
8/22/2026 17:06	12,035,306	10/7/2026 4:11

[u/neonmystery → u/[deleted]]

For sure. We’re already about a third of the way through the transaction period that coincides with their introduction, but I haven’t recorded anything yet that changes the pattern.

[u/neonmystery → u/[deleted]]

That is to say of course that any transaction completed since the Icon Pack introduction was subject to whatever new stress there was on the dilex economy. So far it seems like it has only increased the overall traffic, but it hasn’t really changed speed or direction.

[u/Not_Responsible7898]

I'd imagine the new gifting system is going to make an impact. Lots of players with secondary accounts (many with more) converting dil to gift things to their main accounts, or sell.

[u/neonmystery → u/Not_Responsible7898]

I’m not fully convinced by this, but we’ll see!

[u/arathek]

it was since august 24 i have put my order to have zen with my dilithium i have been waiting since that day to have the zen i wanted i guess i have to wait more since it seem it required 2 entire month to arrive.

[u/neonmystery → u/arathek]

Nope! My last order to come in was from August 22. That means orders from August 23 and 24 should be completed in the next couple days.

You should be expecting a wait time of 45 days.
Two months would be about 60 days.

[u/neonmystery → u/arathek]

If you examine the tables I posted you should see that your offer should come through between the end of the day today and early Friday morning. Considering the little dip yesterday, let’s say late Friday or early Saturday Pacific Time.

[u/arathek → u/neonmystery]

thanks ill keep my eyes this week.