I just lost long post edited it again, ugh.
This forum deletes comments when you try to edit them **way** too often. Just add another comment instead & you'll be happier. you can also send me personal messages if you like. All this public information can be helpful to other new players, so it's not bad to have it here, but you also don't have to have it here if you don't want.
Does Vader’s Advanced Tie appear in store randomly?
Yep. And it's rare. That's why you keep a buffer of credits just waiting for Vader or Vader's ship to come around. otherwise you would spend your credits on the highest thing on your list that's actually in stock, and that would always be something that's common ... and then you wouldn't have any currency available when what you need actually shows up. If you don't keep your buffer and keep to the plan, you never get any of the shards or blueprints you need most.
Is it ok to bring Jedi Consular up to 5 stars, he’s about 5 away, or do I need hyper focus right now?
Hyper focus. You'll get JC shards without even trying from Bronziums and events and things.
Should I actively farm Geo and Sun Fac ships in both GW and Fleet arena stores? I feel like I should be getting them wherever I can, except for sun facs 2000 reserve for his star ship?
You can farm them in the Fleet store only when your bank goes over 2k (that last 2k is reserved for Vader & Vader's ship). Since Vader & his ship are rare, you'll soon build up that amount of reserve. Remember that your initial priority list looks like this:
1. Collect 2k Tokens, and only spend below that for your highest priority
2. TAX-1 & Vader simultaneously, and equal priority. Since you have effectively 2 highest priorities until one of these is done, you might think about keeping 3k in the bank temporarily. For instance, Sun Fac is important, but he does have other sources. If you're on this step and you collect more than 3k because they aren't showing up enough, then you can spend on Sun Fac's Starfighter or other things farther down the list.
3. Sun Fac's Geonosian Starfighter
4. Sun Fac => 6* (if he's at 6*, let him finish using other sources)
So, yeah. You'll be collecting Sun Fac's ship in the fleet store. If the banking gets out of control because Sun Fac's ship isn't rare, but isn't all that common, you can pick up Sun Fac himself with any fleet store currency over 4k or 5k (you pick the threshold).
Trust the plan, though. You don't need to be picking up the other Geos here. Their ships are easy to get in the GW store and Spy & Soldier are easy to get from the Cantina Battles.
Trust the plan.
