"Tannjam;781250" wrote:
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).
Man, I've tried to be polite with you, but at this point you're just arguing for the sake of arguing. I said in the op that this discussion is for F2P players and dolphins that have gotten less blueprints than me. You're neither of those, so of course it's not the same numbers for you, but I said that in the op!
In fact, F2P players and dolphins are more likely to be in a *less* competitive shard, meaning that dropping rank has a less significant effect for them, making the case for rushing zeta materials even better for them. And the number of F2P players and dolphins in shards less competitive than yours is vast.
"Tannjam;781250" wrote:
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.
So what you're saying, really, is that you need even more shards. In that case, you're going to be even farther behind in the Zeta upgrade game and this argument gets stronger, not weaker. Until rushing ships results in more Zeta upgrades for a significant period of time than rushing Zeta mats, it is an inferior strategy.
Rushing zeta mats provides multiple months of having Zeta Upgrade advantages over your opponents, and those advantages are likely to be more valuable than having an extra Zeta Upgrade far down the road.
This also has the significant disadvantage of requiring F2P players to invest in 5 DS characters enough that they can actually complete the challenges AND not lose fleet arena rank by investing in their ships (since they'll have very weak pilots otherwise). Considering only 5 of these were F2P until very recently (and only 1 was good enough for F2P to invest in reliably, GS), rushing ship upgrades makes even less sense.
