Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20180804055750/@comment-26464279-20180805153719

@AnimeFreak40K: I'm ranking this month (only top 500 though), so it's interesting for me as well if the EOs reset and where the new RP farming spots are. Still, the usual frontliners are also aware that an event starts short afterward as well and I can't see them throw an excessive amount of resources at the normal maps this short before it, except for maybe some guys at hard-cap or close to it.

What I'm expecting to happen is for it to take multiple weeks or even longer until we figure out all the new branching rules, but with the event close by people take it "slow" at first and will be satisfied with knowing that ship-classes A & B will lead you to the boss, while having more than X ships of class Y/Z will off-route you. That's pretty much the same for events as well from what I've seen. Those who go in 2nd line after the frontliners figured out the basic routing requirements will then expand on them and find more optimal compositions than the initial brute-force approach. Those who aren't satisfied with that much will probably be told to help figure out stuff by themselves if they are that insistent on using non-standard formations for the time being.

Also with the first maps of every world still unlocked multiple people will start in different locations and can share the work of figuring out the branching rules involved, which will also be more resource efficient overall than figuring out a medium or larger scale event with routing, unlocking of hidden starting points/shortcuts/bosses/debuffs, etc. There won't be any brute-forcing with LBAS and support expeditions either, which saves up a lot of resources as well compared to events.