Board Thread:Special Events/@comment-25730832-20150401144801/@comment-24161900-20150402122605

So as someone who has participated in every event in the game sans one, I'm going to leave a few tips here.

Tip 1. resource stockpiles. I personally use softcap as a measure of how much a person needs to stockpile. generally, lower HQ levels means lower ship levels, which means an easier event, which means you need less resources. I find that most people with decent fleets are able to clear events with just their softcap. barring bad RNG and post event farming, as long as you're at your softcap before going in, you should be fairly ok. the exception is buckets. you can never have enough of those.

Tip 2. Fleet diversity. I've learned this one the hard way many a time. It does you no good to have level 99 battleships and carriers if your CL's and DD's are lacking, especially with the combined fleet mechanic. If you have to sacrifice regular map clearing and sortieing your favorite battleship or carrier waifu to get an extra 10-15 levels across a few DD/CL/CA, then do so.

Tip 3. Daily equipment crafts. I would not personally reccomend going on a large equipment crafting spree and murdering your resources before the event even starts. If you must equipment craft before the event, try to only do 4 a day for dailies, and resist the temptation to do more, especially for expensive recipes like 46cm's or reppu. Naturally, unless you have psychotic levels of resources, don't LSC before events either.

Tip 4. Patience. Even though there are some older players on the wikia who have stockpiled 100k+ resources and buckets, we still need time to post up branching rules. We also use wiki wiki to help with this, but JP TTK can also only clear so fast, and not everybody posts. If you're a little hesitant about the event when it starts, then wait a few days for people to solidify branching rules before diving into the event. A lot of events now have specific ship branching rules (Akitsumaru, Naka branching) that take you through a much easier route, but take time to discover and test comps.

Tip 5. USE THE DAMN WIKI. We have a chat for a reason, and most admins and chat mods are spearheading the operations, which means that we try to post new branching and node comps as we find them. We will try out best to answer any sort of PM's or questions we have in the chat, and if you have a question that you need desperately answered, you can post it to our wall. However, i would ask that you refrain from asking "Is my fleet/resources good enough" types of questions. Not only is this completely subjective, it's fairly pointless. If you need to ask this question, the answer is probably no, and if you read the tips i have above, you should be able to answer this question yourself. Now, that's not saying we're heartless bastards; we'll try our best to answer all questions. it's just that those types of questions get fairly low priority.

Sorry for the wall of text here, but from experience this is the best way to handle events.