Build a farming sheet, I spent up to maybe level 60-65 just random farming characters I liked just to unlock them and had a lot of low starred/geared toons with no value or synergy. I then got an Excel sheet of this forum with which shop/node each and every character/ship is available on and prioritised each one so I wasn't wasting resources and it made a massive difference just to have a focus. I suddenly was getting teams instead of individuals and opening up a lot more game content and rewards as a result.
Also switching guilds as mine was only half full and the additional raid rewards have sped up my progress a lot.
