I only regret not having gone down the Separatist route right from the start.
Don't worry about it. The amount of time needed to gain each level increases for each level. I don't remember for sure, but you're probably still at a point where leveling up happens every day or every other day. I doubt you've been playing for more than a month. Compared with people playing the game for 4 years - and considering that in that month you've never done a single heroic raid, where I do 6-8 heroic raids per week, you've put yourself behind by a few days at most. Really. Don't worry about it.
Next, remember that it's a game, it's supposed to be fun. Take seriously everyone's suggestions for the most efficient path to glory and riches, but it's still a game. If a particular path isn't fun for you, be willing to drop it. Otherwise the SWGOH grind really does become work instead of play.
bounty hunters are certainly on my mind. Should I start with Boba Fett first?
Boba, IG-88, Bossk, Cad Bane are all necessary for the Millennium Falcon.
Dengar is necessary for Chewbacca.
Jango isn't necessary til you're doing Dark Side Geonosis TB (you're a LONG way off), but comes free when you farm the ship "Hound's Tooth".
So those are the 6 Bounty Hunters you'll want first. The order you do them in doesn't matter a whole lot, but Jango, Boba and Bossk are the two that are easiest to slot into non-BH squads. Unfortunately the one you'll get all the way to 7* first is Cad Bane, b/c Bane is in the GW store and that's the easiest place to farm toons. In the GW store, you always buy ship shards first, and always start with Geonosians, but then pick up other ships as you can. Any leftover shards go to characters, and Cad Bane is one of the best in the GW store.
I'd honestly say go Jango first, but your level limits you from farming him just yet. Still, if you're just worried about efficiency and not about fun or anything else, I'd say Jango because getting Jango means you're getting Hound's Tooth and there could not be amore crucial ship in the game. Jango/HT is a long farm, so get going on that as soon as you can. Otherwise, collecting BH is a "fill around the edges" team. They're important, but they're not as important as getting your first Arena squad up and running or getting the ships together to farm the Zeta challenge.
Basically, until Jango/HT becomes an option, you farm BH every time you say, "I'm not sure what I should farm with this energy I have today." They shouldn't be important enough to be your top priority shoving other things out of the way, but anytime you don't have one thing that you're sure you should be doing with your energy, put it in BH.
