"Acrofales;780949" wrote:
Doesn't work like that. For the ability mats you need to clear 5* Executrix challenge, so you need 5 DS ships. And the only Dark Side blueprints you can get from GW are:
Geo Spy Ship
Geo Soldier Ship
Sun Fac Ship
Imp Tie Fighter
FO Tie Fighter
While that is your 5 ships there, you'd have to get incredibly lucky to get these to 5* in the minimum time you give. Moreover, there's both Geo Spy and Sun Fac there, which F2P players won't have. So you will, at a bare minimum need to buy Sun Fac with credits (then again, you have to do that as well on both routes), and farm Geo Spy (which, granted, might still be faster than praying for Slave 1 shards from the Fleet Shipments).
Either way, both timelines are significantly slower than you put there, while other people who farm faster are overtaking you, and causing you to get less FS credit.
Moreover, the challenges are reported to be quite hard, so on both routes you're going to have to spend resources gearing and levelling all those characters, and that might set you back too (on either route).
Oh wow, this simply cements the decision for me. Great information!
Yes, I'll get less FS credit, but it's not going to be a significant amount (certainly not compared to the effects those zeta upgrades are going to have elsewhere). The delay on the challenges only serves to significantly amplify the time zeta upgrades have to weigh in.
Edit: Also, this significantly hampers the "stronger fleet" argument. Unless you have FOTP, TP, SF, GS, and GSpy at 80/G8+ (which you don't, unless you're a whale, in which case this post wasn't considering you), you'll lose a significant amount of that advantage as you're upgrading ships with weak crew.
