So I'm pretty new to the game but not to free-to-play CCGs. With all the stuff in the game being tied to one resource it's hard to tell what a new player should be doing with their latinum. So a few questions I guess:

• Is it worth buying ships? If I can't use their cards to build decks it feels like a bit of a waste of money.

• Is it worth buying packs? Or is crafting staples comparatively cheap? It seemed to cost around the same for a legend as it did for a pack when I was looking so I feel like crafting should be more efficient.

• Do we have any idea what cards are staples? I know there's not much of an established metagame yet but there should at least be cards that are obviously good and bad.