"Tannjam;780863" wrote:
This is fallacious in that you won't be able to maintain your rank dumping currency into Zeta mats instead of upgrading your ships. So your 1300/day is likely to go down.
I don't think you really thought this through, but let's run with it and see what happens. My math above assumes a rank of about 51-100 (I'm actually getting top 50, but I wanted to run my math conservative). Let's assume that my rank immediately plummets - I go from getting rank 51 every day to getting rank 500. This is only relevant about half the time because the rest of the time my ships will still be on par (you gain nothing until you actually get the * upgrade). This example is absurd, obviously, but let's see what happens.
This drop my FS from 1300/day to 1050/day. I lose 250 FS/day * 34 days = 8500 points, or 4.5 zeta mats.
So I'm still trading 17.6 zeta mats for 19 attempts. Unless the drop rate for zeta mats is at least 93% (lol), I'm still better off even in this absurd case.
More realistically, I'm probably going to drop down a single bracket about half the time: where everyone else gets 4* ships and I'm still stuck on 3*, and again when everyone else has 5* ships and I'm still stuck on 4*. Remember, the rest of the time my ships are still on par. This loses me 50 FS/day, for a total of a measly 850 FS.
