I've been playing for quite some time and I've bought the vip at one point ,but earning gems to buy new ships is more worse then ea battlefront 2 with grinding..if your new to the game understand you'll have only 2 ships until you either watch 50 ads for a new ship or grind enough to barely buy a third ship ...to time consuming and tbh it's not worth any grind for gems .I don't understand why you can't buy a ship with coins if you have all the extras to level it up!