Explain ships to a new player

pro tip: GP is nearly meaningless

1. Ships is the easiest and best source of crystals and zetas in the game. Learn them quick.
2. Put 5 dot mods on all pilots. Best gear you can afford on starters. G12 hopefully. I still use g8-10 pilots off the bench and can take #1 so those are not as important.
3. GP means nothing. I can beat 410k fleets with a 360k fleet.
4. Get Hounds Tooth Asap. Falcon eventually. Max Thrawn for sure and probably Akbar, depending on where meta goes soon.
5. Falcon fleets are beatable without Falcon. Learn the ways and get the fleet ready. You can climb to top 5 without Falcon still.

Imperial Fleet Discord, for all your fleet needs - https://discord.gg/69HfRH

"BobcatSkywalker;c-1871270" wrote:
Mods are to characters what pilot gp is to ships

Exactly, other than the fact that they're not.

To give a slightly more “positive” viewpoint
It’s far easier to gear up a couple of decent fleets than it is to stay current in Arena!
—> To the negative comment above, the Geos are an awesome 2nd Fleet, PLUS remember that for LSTB and DSTB you need at least 1 Lightside and Darkside Fleet. Also for TWar and GA you are killing yourself if you don’t have 1 for defence and 1 for attack.


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• G2000, HTooth, Xanadu Blood — will also net you Droideka, Poggle and Jango as bonuses!
  
• Geos = an easy 2nd Fleet. Plus SunFac and Spy are useful for unlocking Padme at 7 stars (at G12)
  
• Rogue 1 = R1 Pilots May be a pain but Cassians UWing can eliminate an enemy MFalc. Plus R1 is needed in LSTB.
  

"DarthJelly;c-1871594" wrote:


I chased a fleet meta once (Bugs) and by the time I got there the meta was over and Houndstooth came in and ruined it for me, given this chase had also set me back in my character farms for pretty much no return I gave up on fleet entirely. If you can't get top 50 it's pointless and I can no longer get into the top 50 because it's all Houndstooth.

That's ships. A bitter view maybe but hey, we all have our wounds with this game.

You've had months and months and months to farm Hound's Tooth. If you still don't have it, that's on you at this point.

If your opponent has Hounds Tooth or Han's Falcon, and you don't, then you're dead. Don't bother.


Oh, and it's really dull.

"TVF;c-1873264" wrote:

"CoastalJames;c-1873248" wrote:
If your opponent has Hounds Tooth or Han's Falcon, and you don't, then you're dead. Don't bother.

This is wrong and there's lots of posts on the forums explaining why.

Han's Falcon and Hound's Tooth are super prevalent higher in ranks, but it isn't completely impossible to climb without them. You just have to play a bit more strategically than the ones that do have them. It is a bit of a challenge though... I know first hand. I'm in an older shard so most people have them, but I still manage to get crystal payouts with fleet without either.

Well if you are not participating in ships, not sure where you think your response to OP has any merit...

I don't consider bad advice "on point."

Unless OP is one of the rare ultra-competitive shards, fleet is way easier to earn a consistent crystal income in, and telling someone to ignore it is terrible advice.