Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-27119145-20161013173328/@comment-25733368-20161016171327

More than anything, clearing hard is satisfying. It's worth the effort. Let me say more. One should do hard precisely because of the effeort put in. Otherwise all the preparations are effectively wasted. Of course, if one is a new player, hard isn't always realistically possible but he should still aim for what he is capable of obtaining.

Rewards aren't a goal. They're rewards, just that. They reward you for doing something exceptional but they aren't main reason. I do hard difficulty because it is there and waits to be done.

You shouldn't be asking "why bother doing hard" - it's a fundamentally wrong way to look at things. Doing hardest available difficulty is a default action. Only lower difficulties require reason like "I had to do medium because I didn't have enough time", "I did easy because shiplocking was too much for my still new fleet" and so on.