"Tannjam;780907" wrote:
I drop 50 to 90 spots a day (while upgrading my ships) regularly. Maybe you're on a less competitive shard, I don't know. I think you're minimizing this.
How many ship blueprints do you already have, and what rank are you getting regularly?
"Tannjam;780907" wrote:
You also have to remember, that after the initial ship upgrade grind is complete, these people can then spend on Fleet shipment Zetas AND run the 2x weekly challenges. So after that first 68 days, they'll have the advantage over you. They'll be accumulating zetas faster AND they'll have a stronger fleet than you.
This is fallacious. First of all, this makes the assumption that accumulating more zetas total is the most important goal. It's not. The entire point to this is to get zeta abilities quickly. Only a few characters have them, and fewer are relevant. Rushing zeta mats gets you a zeta upgrade on day 30 and then again on day 60. Rushing ships to 5* and then rushing zeta mats gets you a zeta upgrade on day 58. So you're a full upgrade behind for an entire month, and then have only a few days where you're even before you fall behind again.
It also implies that you can rest on your laurels at 5* and start spending FS on zetas. If they do that, you can flip your spending and catch up quickly to match their fleet and zeta acquisition rate. If you don't flip your spending, their advantage will be minor. Even with a bracket difference, they're netting an extra zeta mat every *20-40* days. When you need 20 of them to matter, you're looking at 400 days before you've gotten an extra upgrade.
