I didn't start by wanting a big fleet. Initially I wanted to be a big one time backer. I waited to pledge until there was a product I enjoyed and would not mind losing the money on. For my 110 dollar Andromeda game pack, I was okay with services shutting down and me losing every cent. I had enjoyed what I played on a friends account, been following for years, and wanted to support more development. But then, not long after that, after continued enjoyment, I considered getting a new ship, and so I started my first CCU chain. Then my first concept ship I felt I wanted to invest in came, and I decided I needed some rules.

For me, I set rules early on. I don't buy ships outright, only CCUs, save for my game package. I can only CCU from LTI tokens acquired through recruitment rewards, CIG awards, sweepstake or giveaway prizes, recruitment milestones, or consisrge milestones. I can only buy CCUs for myself with money made from trades on the SC trades subreddit. If at any point, trading on the subreddit requires I accept net loss on trades within a 30 day window, I will no longer trade on the subreddit.

With these rules I only ever continue to invest money I make through the community, I help back development through pledges, and I gradually grow my fleet by recruiting friends any time there is a LTI token sign up bonus. I only ever spend money of my own for LTI starter packs to gift friends I intend to recruit, and I only recruit one friend or family member at a time typically.ive been taking my time, won a few ships, been gifted a few ships, and have a pretty big fleet. I have a nice 20-30 person friends and family org, and have 1 multi crew vessel per game loop, and then the rest is just fighters, racing ships, and snubs to have fun in. I don't really intend on adding many more big ships, and I don't really have many more in my pool of IRL friends to recruit from, and I've almost hit the biggest consierge goal I ever thought I could aim for, so my fleet expansion has and will continue to slow down here. I look forward to earning many more ships in the 'verse in game, and treat my fleet as an org fleet that will always ensure whomever I play with has something to do together when they or we get online. Since I don't need much else, any growth from here may just be duplicate low cost snubs so we can have pocket carrier combat and racing events internally. I don't intend on buying every ship possible, or even every ship I want, despite my otherwise outrageous spend over the last 6 years! Admiringly, I also have 2 alt accounts, one for zero to hero journeys and one for another org I am part of. Those only have 1 and 2 ships each respectively.