User blog:Mystia Lore./How to gather a decent amount of resources in a short period of time

Whatever I will say here is from my personal experience with the game. I may say things that are not the most optimal way to do the things, this is rather beginner-friendly !

I have noticed on several pages on this Wiki, especially the Events pages, that a lot of people are worried about the fact that they will not have enough resources to do/farm the next Event. Rather than explaining each time how they could play the game to increase their resources, I'll explain everything here.

What do you need to know
It's important so please consider all of the followed things :

- I have a lot of free time so I can send my expeditions almost whenever I want

- I don't use Akashi's Arsenal at all. I don't do any kind of upgrade, even if it's cost almost nothing

- I have 4 repair docks and 3 construction docks

- I live in France so my Daily reset time is currently at 10:00 p.m. It revert to 9:00 p.m. during Fall and Winter.

- The purpose of this article doesn't take into account the leveling of the ships, so no 3-2, 5-4 or whatever spam you can do when you want to level a ship. This is resource-gathering focus mostly

What do you need
- Mutsuki, Kisaragi & Satsuki K2

- 6 Daihatsu & 2 T89 Daihatsu (If you don't have any, it will only be a little slower to gather resources, nothing to really worry about)

- 5 Destroyers dedicated to the Expeditions. If you want to be extreme, Mutsuki-classes and/or Kamikaze-classes are the best choice because low resources consumption, but anything who is not something like Shimakaze or Akizuki-classes will do the job (For example, currently I'm using Akatsuki, Isonami, Miyuki, Samidare and Suzukaze for the job)

- 16 Drum canister

- 3 Destroyers and 1 Light Cruiser sparkled (Morale equals or higher than 50). Almost anyone will do the job correctly except for Agano-classes and Ooyodo for CL if you REALLY want to save the maximum of resources.

Equipment Setups
- Mutsuki @ 2 Daihatsu & 1 Daihatsu T89

- Kisaragi @ 1 Daihatsu, 1 Daihatsu T89 & 1 Drum Canister

- Satsuki @ 3 Daihatsu

- Other DDs @ 3 Drum Canister

- Sparkled ships : Nothing, but if you really want more ressources, you can use more Daihatsu-carrying ships like Asashio-classes, Kawakaze K2, Verniy, Abukuma & Kinu K2 etc...

Dailies Quests
The main objective is to allow Expeditions fleets to return right when the Daily reset comes in. Let's says, for example :

Fleet 2 doing Expedition 2. Send it around 9:30 p.m. (Satsuki is here)

Fleet 3 doing Expedition 6. Send it around 9:20 p.m. (Mutsuki and Kisaragi are here)

Fleet 4 doing Expedition 5. Send it around 8:30 p.m.

Around 9:55 p.m., stop going to the main screen of the game and stay either on the Organize, Supply, Refit, Docking or Factory menu. You can navigate between them but the main objective is to not return to the main screen at all in order to avoid to trigger the return of any/all the expedition fleets.

When the clock shows 10:00 p.m., go directly into the Quest menu and select the dailies quests D2 (3 Dailies Expeditions) / E3 (Repair 5 ships) / F5 (Craft an equipment) and G2 (Do modernisation 2 times), then you can return on the main screen and allow the expedition fleets to return to the base. By doing so, you have already completed quest D2 (+100 fuel/ammo/steel/baux) and you can select the 10 Dailies expeditions quest. Send all of the 3 fleets on the same expeditions again immediately after you supply them (Don't forget to use another sparkled ship if any of the 4 for the Expedition 5 is not sparkled anymore)

To spare even more resources, when you repair ships, use Lv1 DD dupes you didn't resupply before. The repair time will be short and the resource cost to repair them almost equals to 0. Don't scrap thoses dupes yet, save them for the last Daily Arsenal Quest F9 (Scrap 2 ships). When you are at 3000 buckets, it's OK to use buckets on bigger ships to not waste the gain of more buckets.

Speaking of the Dailies Arsenal Quests, for the first one F5 (Craft an equipment), go 10/10/10/10 (+30 fuel/ammo/steel/baux) and head to the next one F6 (Craft a ship). For this one, go 30/30/30/30 and use a torche if you have (+20 fuel/ammo/steel/bauxite) and move to the next one F7 (Craft 3 equipments). Once more, do 10/10/10/10 3 times to gain 70 of each resources when you complete the quest. For F8 (Craft 3 ships), go 30/30/30/30 3 times and don't use torche now (+110 fuel/110 ammo/210 steel/10 baux). And finally, do the last F9 (Scrap 2 ships) by scraping the dupes you used for the repair quest (+50 baux)

Dailies Sorties
To optimize your management :

Do Bd1 on 1-1 with a DD you want to sparkle and a Lv1 DD dupe without any equipment on it as escort (Low levels I-168 are fine too)

Do Bd2 also on 1-1 with a DD you want to sparkle and another Lv1 DD dupe without any equipment on it as escort (Thoses dupes can also used for Repair and Scrap quests)

Note : If you use Low levels I-168, keep them until they reach around Lv5. Do not use them as decoy after they reach Lv10 because they can steal MVP away from your flagship

[Work in progress]

Schedule Time for Expeditions
You can resupply expeditions fleets immediately and send them again on expedition without worrying about morale (Except for Expedition 5 who need sparkled ships)

Fleet 2 (Expedition 2) : 10:30 p.m. / 11:00 p.m. / 11:30 p.m. / 0:00 a.m. / 0:30 a.m. / 1:00 a.m. / 1:30 a.m. / Either do Expedition 2 until 4:00 a.m. or switch to an Expedition 21 run with the addition of a CL equipped with 3 Drums

Fleet 3 (Expedition 6) : 10:40 p.m. / 11:20 p.m. / 0:00 a.m. / 0:40 a.m. / 1:20 a.m. / 2:00 a.m. / 2:40 a.m. / 3:20 a.m. / 4 a.m.

Fleet 4 (Expedition 5) : 11:30 p.m. / 1:00 a.m. / 2:30 a.m. / 4 a.m.

At 0:40 a.m., you will complete the 10 Dailies expeditions quest (+150 fuel/+300 ammo/+300 steel /+150 baux). Depending on which hour you're going to sleep, you can switch from Expeditions 2 and 6 to 21 / 37 / 38 depending on your needs.

Night Expeditions
At 4:00 a.m. or earlier if you can't stay awake too much at night, prepare fleets for bigger expeditions. I consider that you will restart playing the game around earlier than 1:00 p.m. Sparkled fleets will of course have a bigger chance to find more ressources (Even more with Daihatsus)

No specific resources focus : Send 3 Expeditions among the following : 9 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 21 - 24 - 35 - 36 (Before 4:00 a.m.) - 37 - 38 - 40

Fuel Focus : 9 - 24 - 38

Ammo Focus : 13 - 21 - 37

Steel Focus : 12 - 37 - 38

Bauxite Focus : 11 - 24 - 35

Bucket Focus : 9 (Full Sparkle) - 13 - 14