Talk:General Discussion/@comment-113.162.155.5-20140917071847/@comment-24254177-20140917074912

Eventually your HQ level is going to start getting higher than your shipgirl levels, at least until HQ level hits 100 (around which point it takes forever to gain HQ levels, unless you just sit at 3-2 and powergrind ships. Trying to keep your shipgirl levels at your HQ level is not a good use of your time and resources. However, it may be worth your time to level ships to 50 or 70 or for kai2s (grinding beyond 70 w/o a kai2 is probably not worth your time/res unless you have absolutely nothing else to do), rather than advance maps, in order to prepare for events.

HQ level will just go up over time. It's only real effect is giving you easier enemies at certain level cut offs for events and x-5 maps. Since the level cutoffs are not consistent and thus we don't know what they will be for the next event, I wouldn't worry about it and just continue to level your ship girls and clear maps as you are able to. And you want to clear whichever x-5 maps you can each month for the medals. Not doing those in fear of raising your HQ level is a bad idea.