Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20181105014432/@comment-32647310-20181109150228

Crafting is easy, as long as you have the materials to do so.

Leveling is a bit more challenging due to the lack of good, cheap, easy leveling places. Who to focus on depends entirely on your fleet (there is no point in me telling you to focus on Zuikaku if you don't even have her). It also depends on whether or not you have blueprints lying around or can easily get a blueprin.

This being said, I would take a look at what you have, what you need and level accordingly. Because I don't know what your fleet looks like, the only advice I can give here is to start with those that do not need blueprints to get to K2.

As far as guides go, there are plenty that exist (some of them are even on this wiki), but they tend to be filled with personal opinions and your mileage may vary based on what you, as a player like (for example, the guides tell me to focus on surface combat and Torpedo Cut-Ins. I can't stand TCI and will favor a carrier heavy force over battleships every day of the week). There is also the fact that a guide is only as useful as what you are looking for. Event preparation is completely different than aircraft improvements, for example.

This all being said, here are some guides that a quick Google Search gave me (note - some of these I knew about in advance):

A compiliation of guides on the wiki - https://kancolle.wikia.com/wiki/Guides

A very thorough walkthrough of getting started, development goals, improvement goals, etc. This is *very* useful - https://www.reddit.com/r/kancolle/wiki/beginner

General information on prepparing for an event (note - this is 3 years old) - https://www.reddit.com/r/kancolle/comments/3bjz8p/event_preparations_guide/

An infographic/guide on event prep. If you are willing to put in the time/effort/energy to follow these steps, you WILL be ready for an event at Easy or Casual mode in 4-6 weeks - https://infograph.venngage.com/publish/b3055fbb-b256-4ea1-bf15-cee244b251ad