Dilex Digest - August 5

Hello Captains!

For those of you who are not familiar, the Dilithium Exchange or "dilex" is a mechanism that lets players trade dilithium for zen with other players. This is handled on a first come first served to the highest bidder basis. On PC the exchange rate is essentially locked at 500d/z, and you'll have to be patient. I'm here to share some understanding of what's going on, and to provide a light at the end of tunnel for those of you that are waiting.

The offer date for my most recently completed dilex transaction is June 22, so let's look at the seven-day period of June 16-22: \-The average queue for that week was down about 1.4% from the week before. \-The average periodic throughput for that week was down about 4.5%, ending the slowest trading period starting in June! More on this below. \-The average wait time for that week was 43.27 days, up 3.2% over the previous week I'll include the 14 transactions referenced here at the bottom.

The forecast: \-Offers made on June 29 should be accepted around August 11. \-Offers made on July 6 should be accepted around August 17. \-Offers made today could be accepted around September 15. *These estimates should be expected to be the most accurate for the oldest orders*.

On throughput and the speed of the trading period:

Periodic throughput is a measure of how much Zen is traded on average per hour over the course of the sale. It is easily calculated by Initial Queue ÷ (Final Trade Time - Initial Trade Time). The slowest value I have for this since I have been recording is 9993. I've established a kind of doomsday clock that tells me how far at any given time we are from hitting that low. For lack of a clever phrase, I'm just calling it the red line. RL = Initial Trade Time + (Initial Queue ÷ 9993). At present we are 6.1 days away from the red line.

I'm still looking to correlate sales and events with fluctuations in demand. It's going to take a lot of time to be able to see anything. Taking a breather from trying to optimize my math. It's landing close enough right now. Until next time, thanks for reading, and enjoy the table!

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|Offer Time|**Queue Length**|**Finish Time**| |:-|:-|:-| |6/9/2026 16:31:29|12,344,313|7/22/2026 6:47:17| |6/10/2026 17:00:11|12,301,704|7/22/2026 18:56:25| |6/11/2026 18:00:31|12,095,878|7/23/2026 13:18:45| |6/12/2026 17:52:28|11,943,067|7/24/2026 15:31:23| |6/13/2026 17:01:49|11,778,490|7/25/2026 8:31:30| |6/14/2026 17:24:41|11,661,045|7/26/2026 1:42:20| |6/15/2026 16:51:56|11,762,749|7/27/2026 18:47:12| |6/16/2026 17:41:53|11,880,790|7/29/2026 21:00:04| |6/17/2026 16:45:06|11,879,055|7/31/2026 2:27:13| |6/18/2026 16:40:19|11,790,432|7/31/2026 14:12:00| |6/19/2026 16:31:56|11,801,401|8/1/2026 15:21:50| |6/20/2026 16:32:30|11,753,690|8/2/2026 17:04:28| |6/21/2026 18:02:31|11,761,226|8/4/2026 9:22:48| |6/22/2026 16:57:45|11,782,954|8/5/2026 13:35:07|