User blog comment:Hayashi H/Max efficiency expedition setups/@comment-25733368-20160414201716

Your estimations of recource usage are ridiculous.

Spring 2015 took me 32/28/28/8 and 150 buckets in 1.5 days.

Winter 2016 took me 27/23/22/1 and 134 buckets to clear in 1 day.

Those should be pretty accurate thanks to short period of time.

In Summer 2015 I spent 43/20/21/20 and 340 buckets but that was spread over 17 days with iirc 2/5/21 mixed with 2/5/38 running, 5, 21 and 38 often sparkled. If real cost was considered, bauxite wouldn't be anywhere close to half of other resources, perhaps ~30%.

Fall 2015 took me 56/49/18/10 and 330 buckets over 5 days due to E3 and E4 farming. I'm pretty sure I ran 2/5/38 most of the time.

I never ran bauxite expeditions for events (I only run ex6 for LSC) outside of overnight ex35, never had 50k of it stockpiled but at the same time was never anywhere close to running out of it. Meanwhile 100k fuel, ammo or steel can easily disappear due to farming - like it did in Spring 2015 when I was at 11/13/11/19 on last day, after having two breaks to re-stock. I started with 118/82/98/47. Bucket count fell by 674.

You also overestimate amount of fuel spent. Summer was fuel and bauxite heavy due to forcing people to use Kidou all the time.

I'm disappointed you didn't list 2/5/38 which is arguably the best combination due to giving similar amounts of main three resources and slight focus on fuel while also giving a lot of buckets. While I'm at that, combinations without ex2 are mostly worthless. Bauxite expeditions are horribly inefficient and one shouldn't run them too much. Thankfully bauxite is spent at far slower rate than other resources.

The overall best combo is 2/5/21.

Bucket estimate is awfully low. Anything below 0.005 is dangerous and you put the estimate at half of that. It's like you want people to fail the events.

Ratio of 4:3:3:1 or even 5:4:4:1 with 50+ buckets per 10k of fuel would be much more accurate.