Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32198889-20170619113047/@comment-27615540-20170619114437

Assuming that you will be repeatedly sending out expeditions once they returns, expd 9 is a bad choice due to its poor hourly yield. Other than that you will want to send out long expeditions with good total yield on occasions such as before your sleep etc...

Check Expedition/Reference_tables for expeditions with good hourly/ total yield to send out.

It is inevitable for a new admiral to have low resource due to extensive grinding. Being below softcap is not a disadvantage  due to the small amount of resources regenerated over time. You could probably do fine to only start stockpiling resources and buckets 1 month prior to the next upcoming event.

There are other ways such as map 2-3 oreling with subs to gain fuel/ammo but it is almost impossible to pull off for a new player.