"Ricter;781160" wrote:
You seem to have 2 factors going on here that I don't think are typical:
You're in an exceptionally competitive shard. I'm sitting at similar Fleet Power (82k) and I get into the top 50 with 4/5 wins (5/5 gets me to around rank 40). I don't even drop out of the top 100 overnight.
You have significantly more blueprints than me, which means you spent a significant amount of crystals on ship packs (I've bought 2 of the big ones and am no where near you on blueprints, and I'm betting most players haven't bought that many). Alternatively you had a large stockpile of GW currency saved to spend on blueprints.
It seems to be that you're a bigger spender than most players or you saved up a bunch of crystals for the release of ships. No judgement - that just means you're not typical. Ditto with the shard competitiveness - I do quite well in arena and was higher level when the ship update landed, which means you must have been even higher - meaning that you're even more of an outlier.
Also, again, a drop in tier prizes isn't that big of a deal. I've shown the math. Even a pretty significant drop for me (and let's be honest, most players for whom this is relevant aren't in the top 50 regularly) shows that this strategy still makes sense.
"Tannjam;781131" wrote:
You're also assuming that the currently released Zeta abilities are going to be the only ones released ever, and you only need to chase one or two to be set. I'm betting that's just a taste.
Not true at all. I'm trading a significant short term gain (a month with 1 Zeta upgrade vs no Zeta upgrade and a month with 2 Zeta upgrades vs 1 Zeta upgrade) for a small amount less of Zeta materials overall (5ish, obviously the math is really volatile). In the end, we'll end up with almost the exact same results - 7* fleets and lots of Zeta mats. You're implying that somehow I'd stop getting Zeta mats or would never upgrade my ships and make up the difference in fleet power, both of which are false.
Also, have you seen Acrofales's post? You're not even going to be able to complete zeta ability challenges - you have the wrong ships.
I bought the $49.99 Light Side Bundle and I bought 3 mega-packs. I didn't spend very significantly in my estimation. I've just put all GW and fleet shipments on blueprints. But again, you're presenting your approach as a cookie-cutter one, and as I mentioned in my first reply - that isn't necessarily going to work under your timeline for people on more competitive shards (like mine).
I know the needs for completing the mats challenge, just because those ships aren't yet in my most powerful team, doesn't mean I'm not working on those ships as well (dark side ones). I have a 2-star Sun Fac ship, and am working on Slave One when it infrequently makes an appearance in fleet shipments. Just to clarify - you need 5x 4* dark ships to complete the challenge to upgrade Tarkin's ship to 5*. To complete the Mats challenge (that awards zetas) you can use any 5* ships with Tarkin as Fleet Commander. I'm not going to neglect the two better F2P ships in the game (Ahsoka, Biggs) just to focus only on dark side ships.
