[Discussion] Results for Summer 2017 Resource Consumption

What divided the two groups was not pure luck, but how the number of damecon and repair goddess each player had access to. Without these items, resource consumption could easily double or triple as every node of E-7 had the ability to turn your fleet back. Sparking is another major fuel hog that players without enough damecon and goddess were more likely to depend on, making the fuel situation doubly worse.

E7H was luck with or without p2w items. I saw plenty of players clear LD without using damecons, as well as plenty of players fail LD using damecons. I myself cleared LD without goddess, but that's a personal anecdote. E7H success rate was largely dependent on getting all your ships through pre-boss unscathed and getting lucky CV crits and LBAA/support wipes. That's luck. The only p2w item that may have helped was the hayasui drums, which can be obtained from quests.

In any case don't tempt fate, this is coming from someone who once spent 120K fuel to farm Graf Zeppelin alone.

Farming is pure luck or chance, whatever you believe in. This discussion is not about farming. This discussion is about amount of rsc needed to clear an event.

I suggested 200K as a more conservative number above. But to think about it now, 300K is not as unreasonable as I had assumed if the goal is to spend as little real money in this game as possible. 150K would actually give one exactly zero wiggle room, and that is assuming average luck in a sample biased by people paying for shortcuts.

If you tell a player to stockpile to 300k, you might as well tell them to marry all ships and buy screws to upgrade all their equipment to max. Your initial suggestion of 200k was fine; 300k is unreasonable. The 150k is not meant to be "stockpile to 150k." The 150k means "on average, you can expect to use 150k fuel, more or less depending on RNG." This is why I have emphasized stockpiling to whatever is comfortable.

"You definitely do not need to stockpile to 150k" because there are plenty of people who cleared below 150k with or without p2w. Stockpiling to 150k will "give you wiggle room" because you can still fight your way to a clear if you run out of rsc mid-event given enough time. Is it guaranteed? Absolutely not, but you have a chance.

With the official android version out there there should not be an issue to send expeditions every 3-4 hours during the day. This leisurely pace should easily net you 3-4K fuel/ammo per day or 100K+ per month, with some spare to clear your monthly quests.

Not everyone has an android or the luxury of checking their phone every 3-4 hours. It is one thing to err on the side of caution and another to overburden new players attempting to complete a hard event for the first time with worst case scenarios.

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