Talk:Construction/@comment-61.247.22.18-20141108111534/@comment-25477086-20141108155436

The expeditions are not all unlocked in order. Without doing 30 you should still have access to the last page which offers some good ones. 36 is one of my favorites and is basically 16 without the ammo and short enough to run during sleep and work (so twice as opposed to once for 16). 35 is similar to 15 only again short enough to run twice a day during your off times. 37/38 are popular as well later on, though I don't like them that much because of steel overflow. Take a look at your last expedition page.

For the longer expeditions, consider sparkling your entire fleet. If you really want to get into the min/max of gathering resources, use mutsuki class for their lower ammo consumption and leave tenryuu and tatsuta unremodeled. If you have spare slots (and have lots of trash destroyers lying around from sparkling other ships) you can set up a sub as flag and throw in 3 trash DD to run expedition 2, then trash the DD once their fuel has been used up.

Expedition 5 is indeed one of the best there is, sparkle for it. Anything longer than an hour (and exp 6 if you are hoarding bauxite) you want to sparkle if the returns are good. Otherwise take it easy. If you are constantly unlocking new maps and leveling ships then your resources will not increase much. You don't need 100k+ resources for this event so take it easy. Soft regen cap is probably fine, but you could use more buckets. Do your dailies and try to resist the urge to use any buckets except for emergencies.