Explain ships to a new player

"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.

"Jarvind;c-1873229" wrote:

"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.

Thanks for pointing that out, and I think you've missed the entire point where I stated Fleet is a dead game mode to me. I'm not actively farming nor participating in ships. The OP wanted a strategy, I give my somewhat bitter opinion to point out that Hounds Tooth is where it's at in Fleet, not sure where you think your response to me has any merit really.

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

For a new player, you will want to star up 5 light side ships and 5 dark side ships and gear their pilots for challenges.
After that, you can turn your focus to what wins in arena. The most important ships in arena (with one exception) are tanks, because they can taunt and absorb damage. And there are really only 3 good tanks in fleet: Hounds Tooth (#1 by far since it constantly regenerates protection when hit), Biggs’ X-Wing (which regenerates protection and taunts whenever an enemy gets target locked), and Sun Fac (which taunts whenever a buffed ship takes a turn).
Due to the current fleet meta, which is likely to stay a while because fleet metas change much more slowly than arena metas, the best dark side ships to prepare are Hounds Tooth, Xanadu Blood, Slave 1, IG-2000 (those 4 are needed to unlock Han’s Millenium Falcon), and TIE Advanced. The best light side ships to prepare are Biggs’ X-Wing, Ghost, Phantom, Cassian’s U-Wing, & Bistan’s U-Wing (these ships can also be used to unlock Chimera).

"TVF;c-1873545" wrote:
Well if you are not participating in ships, not sure where you think your response to OP has any merit...

Maybe because the advice I gave was still on point. Sorry, didn't realise sharing experiences wasn't allowed.

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.

So my 'bad advice' the point of which is, he should focus on Hounds Tooth is wrong? That was the whole point of my rambling that if he doesn't he will, like me, have a VERY difficult time of it otherwise.

Well ok I admit to missing that part. It does read mostly like "don't bother."

"Tintguy;c-1871257" wrote:
If it can't be interpreted as a way to measure success/failure, what's the point of it being there?

GP primarily measures resource investment, and is a tool for the system to measure your roster more than to measure the effectiveness of a toon or team.

Synergy and key meta ships go much farther toward impacting performance.

Ships is the worst game mode ever. I hate it. Fleet nodes for shard farming are horrid, arena is boring, arena is pointless if you don't have the one singular key meta ship which is currently HMF. Hound's Tooth doesn't matter if you don't have HMF. Get the Falcon or get beaten.