"Ricter;827523" wrote:
While being ahead of the curve is obviously ideal, you're spending a *lot* of fleet shipments to get there.
I'm only spending 185-220 purple salvage worth of fleet tokens to cut down "being ahead of the curve" timeline from 6 weeks to 3 weeks, at which point I could move over to picking up gear and be ahead of the curve while still getting half of the 8-9 full pieces I'd get by going gear-only. It's a decision of which opportunity cost is more important to you as a player: 4 purple gear over 3 weeks or preparing for any events/challenges/features they introduce in the next 6 weeks (not to mention access to zeta challenge) while being able to spare some GW tokens for AP for tournaments. If it were just one of those on the second part, it *might* be up for debate, but I can't see 4 purple gear outweighing all 3 no matter how bad a gear crunch you might be experiencing.
"Ricter;827523" wrote:
I think this is the math & point that seals it, however. Even if the bet for ships mattering more in the next six weeks falls flat (which I think at this time is very possible, considering the sheer amount of directions they could go), I'd only be losing about a g10-g11 gear level, and those have diminishing returns, especially when arena is concerned. For my particular case, I expect to have 4/5 g11 characters in about 2 weeks anyways, and that was with an almost complete team re-write.
I agree, they have a multitude of directions in which they could take ships, and I haven't the foggiest clue where that will be. But it's been almost 6 weeks since they were introduced, and CG was excited about introducing "the biggest update ever". I doubt they will take another 6 weeks before introducing new content that requires decent-strength ships (though I do expect another "snark" mid-February if they haven't released something important for ships by then ;) ).
I think that once ships are up to 5* or higher, yes, fleet shipments will be a great way to augment purple gear farming. 5-10 salvage for free every day? I don't think anyone will complain about that (well, they will because people like to, but they shouldn't). I just think it should wait a few weeks until ships are stronger and we're more prepared for any star-requirement features they introduce.
