I disagree . Ships and Zetas have one of the lowest barriers of entries in this game . The difference between fleet rank 1 rewards and the worst rank rewards is minimal . Zetas are available in fleet shipments for 2 , 000 fleet tokens a piece . You earn at least 800 fleet tokens a day so you will be able to buy a zeta ability mat every 2 . 5 days . That ' s incredibly easy to achieve for any player , F 2 P ' s included . But what if you would rather spend your fleet tokens on upgrading your ships ? You can buy 48 blueprints a day from the Galactic War store 3 sets of 4 , 4 times a day . Then you can buy an additional 12 blueprints from the fleet shipments each day by placing in the top 200 of your ship ladder or 8 blueprints if you ' re not able to place top 200 . Then you can farm ~ 210 blueprints a day from the LSDSCantina missions . So at max efficiency , you will be earning ~ 65 blueprints per day . A 5 star ship will cost 145 blueprints . Eight 5 star ships how many is required to do the tier 3 challenge will take 1 , 160 blueprints or ~ 17 . 85 days to unlock with a perfectly balanced distribution of blueprints . Since that ' s max efficiency and you won ' t get an equal distribution of blueprints , You ' re probably looking at 24 times that amount on average to unlock the tier 3 challenges . Even if you don ' t have a GW token stash and you only can afford 12 GW blueprints a day and 12 fleet blueprints a day , we ' re talking ~ 4860 days to unlock the tier 3 challenge . So while it ' s a big time investment to get your ship fleet to a competitive level , ships is basically like starting over in the game and this investment should be expected . The difference is that when you first started playing the game , the challenges were locked due to your level . Now the ship challenges are only locked due to your minimal timemoney investment .