Strider Hiryu

Interesting, the open world concept sounds fun so I really hope it's implemented well. This new update might actually get me playing a lot more than I currently do (will also mean I'm going to have to step my research game way up to get those anti-siren ships built (curse you Izumo for not being done yet). Really want to get my hands on Azuma). Also look at that Unicorn Oath skin, so fucking adorable. Going to have to start using Uni a lot more so I can oath her (good thing she's my secondary carrier for my RN fleet).

I was using PVP to level but as I said I just got to bored doing it and I don't need to do it for SR Bulins (I've got those coming out of my ears, don't know what to do with them all). Should really do it more so I can get Eldridge but just can't bring myself to do it unless an event mission requires it.

Yeah, for some reason the game just likes handing me SE ships left and right (except Nagato, so pissed I didn't get her during her event) but won't give me shit for RN or IB. As I said not complaining as I love the SE ships but I really want to build up a killer IB fleet. I think I'm only missing like 30 or so SE ships (I know I'm missing 10 SR's and have most of the Rares and Normals (missing like 5 normals I think). Not to sure how many epics I'm missing). Most of what I am missing is event only though so it'll be awhile before I get those (most of the Epics I'm missing are chapter related (like Hiryuu and Souryuu, some reason the game decided I didn't deserve them when I was doing the story)).

Also can I just point out how fucking cute Little Illustrious is. God what a fucking great addition to the game. I also didn't know there was a Little Bel either and after seeing her I must spend all my cubes to get her. Man, Yostar out here playing a dangerous game with these adorable mini version ships (I really want Akagi-chan but gold is becoming a slight issue lately with me increasing level caps and this event (thankfully I got the last event ship I needed today so goodbye cubes, Strider wants his Akagi-chan)).

Shit most of my ships are Sakura Empire, must be getting lucky on those pulls or something (EU and SE make up the bulk of my ships). Not complaining as I love the look of the SE ships and almost all of my favorite ships come from them (except Laffy). I believe my faction levels for both Eagle Union and Sakura Empire are 3 (almost 4, would have to double check). Fuck I don't even know how to get my hands on Iron Blood ships, they're so rare it's not even funny (it doesn't help that most of the good ones are event locked (like Deutschland, Graf Spree, and Bismarck)).

My main fleet make up is Amagi, Kaga, and Akagi for backline (really punishing with Akagi and Kaga synergizing with each other) and the current frontline is Laffy, Takao, and Kawakaze (working on getting Ayanami up so she can replace Laffy (so she can go spearhead my EU fleet) and then I can take full advantage of Amagi's buff). This set-up is extremely good for PVP (haven't lost a match yet attacking, think my win rate in total is 99%) as well though I haven't gotten any higher then Commander rank as I get extremely bored doing PVP in this game.

Shit I don't even have one 120 ship yet. my highest is Laffy at 114 (like I said only really do events and I don't push myself by trying to do hard mode stuff). That's kind of the reason I stalled at 9-1 as my fleets were taking some serious damage trying to get through 8. Need to retool them somewhat and try again.

I'd give you my Essex but sadly I don't want to give her up (she's my secondary carrier in my EU fleet with Enty). I never did get Formidable either (but I really don't care, I want Bismarck with a passion and really want a rerun of her event like now (I need her so badly for my IB fleet, Tripitz can't cut it as the lone Battleship)).

No I didn't see that then again I don't really pay much attention to AL Twitter unless it's about new skins and I haven't really been in the discord channel as of late either. I'm totally down for an open world part, might get me back into playing the game more often.

And people say I have a mobile game addiction

I've been pondering buying Enterprise's new skin but since I rarely use her anymore I don't want to drop the gems on it (even if I dropped $30 on the pack they just released (was really hoping for her skin but got Mass's instead)). Since I only have access to three secretaries right now (I'm still on chapter 9-1, I don't honestly throw much time into this anymore outside of events so I stalled on story progression) I don't really throw much money at skins but all I really need is Laffy and her adorable Oath skin to make me happy (well and Akagi in her oath skin though I'm seriously thinking about dropping gems to get her New Year's skin (and Atago's as well since Laffy, Akagi, and Atago are currently my secretaries)).

What they need to freaking do is get me a skin for Amagi (preferably an oath skin) because she's a staple of my first fleet (flagship in fact) and she's the only one without a skin in the entire fleet. Makes me sad they do my girl wrong like that as she's tied with Akagi for my second favorite ship (nothing will ever beat Laffy out of first, nothing I say).

@SledgstoneYea I'm currently looking into the unemployment but since my state is so god damn slow they haven't put into place the COVID measures yet. I'll be filing a claim next week as I'm still technically getting paid for next week but I'll try my luck and hope the COVID measures are in place (and there are weekly cut off dates, I have until 11:59 pm Saturday of the week I'm trying to get benefits for). Fuck we're one of the 10 or so states that hasn't even implemented shelter at home policies (because our Governor is a fucking idiot) so I'm honestly not that surprised. COBRA is something I'll only if necessary, I have some job leads but I have until the end of the month until I have to worry about that (plus I won't get the COBRA packet till then anyways).

@DeathscytheXYea you said it. I saw the writing on the wall yesterday pretty early based on how people were acting and my Production Lead (the guy under my supervisor) said he thought they were doing layoffs again so I had somewhat of a heads up (even if I did think I was safe). Fucking Supervisor vanished like a fart in the wind about an hour before the layoffs happened so I'm pretty fucking sure he's the reason why I was chosen (he's new and I don't think he honestly liked me all that much, damn my issues with authority (j/k but I'm still pretty sure he didn't like me)). I find it funny though, they fucked my department over massively as I'm the only one who was trained to do my job so I wish them luck in getting shit done the right way (plus they let go of another person in my department that I know of so that leaves them down to two people right now). Really hope it bites them in the fucking ass (yea, I'm a vengeful guy).

Luckily I have some job leads already and put in one application today to Menards (the Midwest's wests version of Lowes/Home Depot even though we also have them. My mother works there and she's going to try and see if she can get me hired). With my 11 years of retail experience I'm pretty sure I can get in as long as they're still hiring (as far as I know they are). I might see if I can't get into a local internet provider as a field tech as I have some training in that field as well (plus one is hiring, I just need to get a hold of the company).

Sadly none of the distributors in my area are hiring (was one of the first things I checked yesterday). I'll chat with one of my distributor friends and see if his company is hiring (they're pretty much a distributor of multiple things (beer, soda, etc)) and also see if he can put in a good word for me (I've known him for years so I'm sure he will). Honestly most of the jobs in my area are linked to the oil field so with them down it's hard as fuck to find anything but scraps for work (and I mean scraps, $12 an hour or less depending on what it is. I can't afford to live on that wage).

If worse comes to worse I'll just do construction until something else comes up. One of the local construction companies is hiring general laborers right now and I don't mind that kind of work (I just need to be trained).

@slippersThanks, taking it one day at a time.

Overall though I'm not that worried right now. I have plenty of money saved up and while losing my health and dental insurance at the end of the month is going to suck I'll get by. I can always defer my student loan payments and save quite a bit of money for a few months (not ideal as I've done it before but you gotta do what you gotta do). It's times like these that I'm glad I'm extremely cheap and frugal with my money (I never eat out (rarely order pizza), I buy maybe 2-3 games a year (though this will mean I probably won't be getting Ghost of Tsushima right when it comes out and I might have to cancel my Cyberpunk pre-order if this unemployment carries on too long), and I've cut way back on the amount of anime I buy now (only doing one order a year)).

, welcome to my world of torture

Lexington must be pretty sparse then or we're just a laid back bunch of people who play at a leisurely pace (wouldn't really know though, not like I talk in chat or anything).

I follow the Azur Lane twitter just so I know whats coming up so I can make my plans for getting shit done (also in their discord as well, I might have a problem). Hey now just because I introduced you into the game doesn't mean.......well okay maybe it is my fault but dammit Yostar shouldn't make such a damn fun game Meh, I get the noob thing I was like that when I first started playing. Blowing countless cubes in the hopes of better ships, blowing my entire coin fund on shit I don't need, fumbling through shit without understanding a damn thing, and enjoying every minute of it as I mindlessly wasted hours. Ah, what I wouldn't give to have those feeling again. Oh who am I kidding, AL is probably the only game I really enjoy anymore (outside of Arknights occasionally and Girls Frontline). Just don't tell the other mobile games I play, they might get jealous

Oh yeah Saria definitely got maxed out level wise (nowhere near able to get the resources to promote her) and thrown directly into my party once I got her (I've been trying to get Nearl but since Saria is better overall I'm happy with this). She even helped me get through a stage I was having trouble getting through. Honestly I'm surprised I got the Top Operator tag considering my luck in these types of games. I damn near had a heart attack when I got it the first time and was surprised as all hell this morning when it dropped (granted I had to refresh both times to get it). Then again I have shit luck in headhunts and pulls so maybe that's Yostar's way of saying sorry (though the last pull I did I did get Silence and three Sieges so theirs that).

Ah, that would be the server they took down the other day (couldn't remember the name).

Heh, I never had issue around Valentine's Day then again I only log in during the morning (around 5 am) and evening in non-event periods. Plus why rush, your shipfu's message will be there when you log in (I mean Laffy made sure I got mine, such a considerate and adorable little ship (yes I have an obsession, don't mind me)). Then again I'm not surprised, some people take their shipfu's very seriously

I still haven't even finished Izumi yet, good god you and your playing habits (I've still got 83% to go as of today).

Meh, I kinda dropped off the Arknights bandwagon (if you haven't been able to tell, just log in to get daily completion stuff done). I still find it fun but it just seems like to much work compared to Azur Lane and Girl's Frontline (then again I don't really put much working into those as well). Though I did get a Top Operator pull in recruit this morning and picked up Ifrit (got one like 3 weeks ago as well and got Saria) so my interest is somewhat renewed again.

I always have trouble with my internet so I'm used to it (fuck I haven't been able to really watch my favorite Twitch streamers as of late due to connectivity issues). I'll be pissed if it fuck with my FFXIV time though.

You sure it's not Azur Lane? I know they took the servers down for extended maintenance last week due to connectivity issues and they took a server down the other day for the same reasons. I play on Lexington and have had no issues at all today playing even with my unreliable internet.

Not going to lie the Walmart here was pretty barren in a lot of areas on the grocery side (Produce was pretty much wiped out, milk and juices were pretty much out of stock, frozen was pretty barren (I've never seen a frozen pizza section that wiped out in my life and I worked frozen goods for 11 years when I was still in retail)), water isle was sparse but you could still get it if you needed to, etc). It's extremely sad people are flipping the shit on ebay/amazon but it's no real different then when a new console comes out, fucking greedy ass bastards.

It's sad really as North Dakotans don't really get that worked up over this kind of shit. Granted they can be pretty idiotic but I think our issue is all the out of state people that moved up here to work in the Bakken and the foreigners we have living in the state who get worked up over shit like this. Down right bat shit crazy.

I wouldn't doubt there are more cases then whats been reported (especially with our governments lack luster response to this) but I doubt it's anywhere that high (I could be wrong but it's highly unlikely especially in rural areas and states like ND where we're pretty isolated. Than again we do have one confirmed case in the state so who knows)). I get the feeling we'll get statewide quarantines before we get a nationwide one, especially in states where the number of infected is in the 100's because there's no way Trump and his administration would allow the US to come to a complete standstill for weeks (it'd look bad to his otherwise perfect image (heavy sarcasm implied here)) as it'd show weakness and ineptitude.

Meh, we'll have to play the waiting game. It's just interesting how shit hits the fan when people get this paranoid. Someone should really do a case study on the stupidity of people in situations like this, it'd be an extremely interesting read (and should be used as teaching material for future generations on what not to do).

Considering all stores in my area are 24 hour stores that's impossible. I could always have one of my friends that work at Walmart grab some for me when it comes in but I'm honestly not that worried. It's just stupid how people are acting and fucking over everyone else (plus it's not locals doing this, we have people driving an hour and a half to buy shit in bulk (which is sad considering the city they're coming from is 3 times larger than us with more stores to go to)).

Oh well, I've got two hands if it comes to it

Went shopping today and fucking Walmart was completely out of Toilet Paper (which, like Yong, I'm currently in need of. Not as badly as him but it's going to be interesting come the end of the week) as is pretty much every other store in the area (fuck they were even out of paper towels and wet wipes). Fucking hell people are fucking stupid.

Should also mention Walmart was pretty much out of everything else which is going to make shopping next week interesting (in a fucking state that has one fucking confirmed case of COVID-19, ONE FUCKING CASE). People just need to settle the fuck down.

I can't stand sparkling water so more power to you for being able to stomach it (water should not be carbonated, it's just wrong). Funny thing I stopped drinking pop (or soda as you call it) for like 8 years (also quit drinking alcohol as well since I mostly drank mixed drinks) and now all of a sudden I'm back to drinking it again and I'm really disappointed in myself (though in retrospect I really can't be, even though I gave up pop I was throwing back 2 cans of NOS or Monster a day, can't do that anymore since I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. Drinking an energy drink now makes me sick as fuck and causes some serious chest pain due to the hbp meds I'm on). It's not like I'm drinking half a twelve pack like I did when I was a teen, I drink one Sprite a day (I don't consider it pop considering there's no caffeine in it) and I drink 2 cans of Code Red on Saturdays and Sundays (I'm so wiped out from the week at work I need that caffeine just to get through the weekend) it's still a disappointment that I gave it up for that long only to cave in again.

I tend to stick more towards plain water (due to what I do at work I drink like 4-5 bottles of water a day, more if it's during the summer (working in a shop in 90+ degree weather fucking sucks)), low calorie Gatorade (for the lack of sodium, hbp and all), and tea (not your sweet tea (can't stand it), I stick to my Nestea).

I still don't know how people drink coffee, That shit is disgusting

I'll warn you it's a slog and a half when you do get around to reading it and pretty much every story is unfinished but it's probably one of the best reads out there for Middle-Earth knowledge. It covers the first two ages and goes into great detail about the Undying Lands (where the elves, Gandalf, and the other wizards are from), why the elves came to Middle Earth, Sauron and his master, the creation of the rings of power, the origins of Aragorn's family line and why he so long lived, and many many more things. Just talking about it is making me want to read it again.

Bah, I read the entire appendices and enjoyed every minute of it 😛 Honestly I don't blame you any, it's a freaking slog through all of that but there is a lot of good information in there that actually clears up a lot of questions you might of had while reading the book (though sadly not an entire answer). Plus most of that stuff is actually covered in more detail in The Silmarillion (a book that will try your patience but probably my favorite book Tolkien wrote (well wrote notes and his son compiled them as best he could)).

Yea they kinda skipped the book ending and jumped straight to the Grey Havens. While I do like that ending I really don't think it'd of made for a good movie ending (though seeing an army of Hobbits in action would of been amazing).

Yea, I picked up Pramanix. She's pretty good and is nice since she's also an arts caster. Her ability is pretty nice as well and she's been clutch in a lot of the levels I've cleared. Kinda wish AoE arts casters weren't so god damn high on cost, makes it really hard to clear maps with multiple enemies. I got lucky and headhunted Matterhorn with my first 10 draw (along with Siege, a six star vanguard). My most clutch character is Meteorite, a 5 star sniper and is AoE Physical Damage. She's pretty damn nice for taking out heavily armored enemies and big groups, just wish her deployment cost wasn't 24.

I'm a little over halfway done with getting Amiya's skin, just been to sick to really be playing much in the way of games lately (god the Flu sucks as will my paycheck for missing a day and a half of work, normally I don't get this sick so my immune system is slacking). Been putting a lot of focus on grinding out those experience items and boosting my unit levels. Only two starred the last two missions of chapter 1 and it's bugging me so I'm going to brute force the bitch with higher levels (haven't even started chapter 2 yet except for the first tutorial due to knowing how rough it's going to be without enough slowing units). I'll post a screenshot of my current squad later, still in the middle of tweaking it.

I have all of Laffy's skins except the Bunny Clerk? one (missed out on it when it was up last time, will be buying it this time) so yea I have it but ever since her Oath skin came out she's been wearing it (and I'll never take it off unless Yostar makes an even cuter one, do it Yostar I'll give you all the monies in the world for a new skin for my girl). Fuck you play more then I do if you have St. Louis, I still don't even have Izumi done yet (this 2 million xp with Sakura ships is fucking killing me, took like 4 months to grind the 1 million xp requirement). Then again I do only put major time into AL during events so it's not surprising.

Yea, most mobile games aren't Pay to Win so their micro-transactions are usually pretty damn good. Plus mobile developers, while still greedy, are much more generous and willing to give out free stuff when necessary to keep their player base happy. Hell almost everyone of the mobile games I currently play are extremely casual friendly. I just wish these damn gacha games weren't so addicting x.x, I'd like to cut back on the amount of mobile games I play but since I play mostly gacha games it's hard (damn you gacha game, why are you so much fun).

Added ya, I'll be Unhallowed in your request section. God damn you are way further ahead than me. Going to have to play some catch up (been kinda playing today but I'm home sick and spent most of the morning sleeping).

Yeah I'm going to have to start rethinking my strategy as my team is mostly 4 stars and up and heavily melee focused. Been getting repeat recruit pulls so my lower star units aren't really varied enough to make a proper team.

Haven't checked my builds yet so I don't know if I got any of the increased pull ships or not. Was to focused on completing event missions while I was still coherent this morning

Already ahead of you  I literally pre-registered for it like 30 minutes before it launched.

My addiction to mobile games is strong. Not to far in it but I'm enjoying it but with the new Azur Lane event it'll be put on the back burner for awhile.

When I logged in this morning my first thought when I got Belfast was "DX is going to lose his shit". Seems I was right

Yea, Trials are hard as fuck to get people for (especially the older ones like Ramuh). Unless you have a bunch of new people trying to clear the story content you're pretty much fucked unless you get a lucky draw (fuck I haven't seen a striking tree in over 2 years, I just got Garuda Hard Mode in Trials Roulette on Sunday and it surprised the fuck out of me, been a long time since I've done it (I'm used to soloing all the Extreme modes on a weekly basis (well the ones that are up for Khloe's book for the week))). Really the only advice I can give in those situations is to ask a friend to help out by queueing as a healer/tank or form a Party Finder group and hope people are feeling generous (I mean the XIV community is great at helping new people, downright amazing even but for some reason PF groups for old stuff just never seem to go through (at least on Crystal)). Plus it's very rare for healers and tanks to queue up for already in progress dungeons and it's fucking retarded but I guess the instant queue pops make them think they don't have to (I always have the option checked even when I'm queueing as a tank, I know the pain of a group falling apart due to the loss of a tank or healer all to well as a dps main).

Heh, I bought gems for a dock expansion and now I'm seriously considering getting Ayanami or Cleveland's New Years skin but then again I want to save the gems because of the amount of new ships I'm getting (and no I'm having shit luck with the event. I've only gotten Noshiro (today) and Suruga (two days ago). I have such terrible luck with event ships).

Yea that's a pretty good way of destroying cube funds when you're building 10 a day. As of three days ago I've pretty much gotten every Elite ship in the build rotation so now I'm only building for events (or when I need SR Bulins from 10 weekly missions completed quest). Totally understand blowing them though to get a certain ship though (did exactly that to get a couple of them.)

Man you're further on the event then me. I just finished B-2 today but I only do two clears a night on days I work (just enough to complete the 15 enemies defeated daily). Man I rarely try to do the event hard modes because they require the normals to be cleared and 9 times out of 10 I usually don't clear the normals before it's done (I get roughly 2 1/2 hours after work to get shit done before I go to bed and it's really hard to justify giving more than 5 minutes to Azur Lane or any of the mobile games I play (shit and hour of that is usually eaten up by XIV)). I really should try harder since you have a better chance of acquiring certain ships during them but it's just so hard to find the time to do so.

Yea certain ships have missions if you place them as your Secretary. Atago and Taihou are two others (and the only two I've tried it with, currently stuck on the raising affection to 100 step for both of them). Also working on Akashi as well since I only just found out that's the only way to get her as a ship. Not to sure how many others have little missions like that though (it's listed on the wiki that's how I found out about Taihou and Atago).

Heh, welcome to the hell of Mobile Games my friend

Yea, I'm not going to lie juggling more than one mobile game is pretty challenging and I've actually ditched quite a few to bring the number more in line with what I can handle (and will most likely be dropping another one here soon) but it's so much apart of my daily routine that I hardly notice the amount of time I stick in (most of the time I log in about 2 hours a day between all 10 of them just to get daily log-in bonuses and what not). Really my main focuses though are Azur Lane, Girls Frontline (gun waifus, got way more time invested in it then I do AL and way more money sunk in), Sword Art Online Memory Defrag (mostly just a log-in, collect daily shit, and log-out game for me now), and AFK Arena (a nice game that requires very little time, just log-in and do your daily shit plus collect built up exp/treasure/money and log out. Game literally takes care of the rest). The other six are mostly just time wasters.

Make sure you do what you can for the event, there are some nice little prizes if you do (like an SR ship if you collect 8000 of the green currency). Whether that's just building 3 ships, killing 20 enemies, doing the 1 hard clear, or going all out and clearing the event stages you can. This is a really good way of filling in wholes in your team if you're lacking ships (and an extremely good way to level your ships). I'm in complete play mode right now (spent and hour this morning clearing out all the daily event tasks) as I want me more ships (though I'm going to have to drop more money on gems so I can expand my docks again).

Subs came out like 4 months ago or so. I generally don't do much with them unless it's an event as they can come into event missions with your fleets. I have quite a few of them (most of the SR ones) but honestly don't really understand their purpose currently (yes like I said I don't do much reading up on this).

Oh my god do I adore Laffy's Oath skin, so fucking adorable! It's about fucking time best girl got her oath skin. Kawakaze's Oath skin is also freaking adorable, so much so I had to go and oath her this morning (spending the last of my gems on it and now I can't afford Cleveland's New Years skin x.x ). I'd kill to get my hands on Ayanami's New Years skin, so fucking awesome looking (I have a thing for those kimono skins which is why I love the fact that most of the Sakura Empire oath skins are traditional wedding kimonos). Quite frankly I have only spent like $15 on gems since I started playing a year and a half ago (all for Laffy, I have every skin but one for her currently) because Yostar just hands them out like candy. Emergency maintenance? Here have 200 gems on us. Technical difficulties? Here's another 200 gems on us. We're feeling generous? Here's another 200 gems. Out of all the mobile games I've sunk time into Azur Lane's developers are real good about compensating us for anything unexpected and it's really a nice change of pace. Gotta say I love their micro-transaction model but it also makes it really hard to say no to buying shit when something I want pops up (I've done a really good job so far considering I also have two other games that fight for my money constantly (one of which wins more times then not)).

DPS queues are bad everywhere and it's not so much affected by lack of tanks and healers anymore, it's mostly because there's just to many fucking people playing DPS (I mean I get it, way easier to just do damage to an enemy but come on. Tanks are so much easier to play now that I'm thinking of actually switching to being a Tank main). I'm currently in the middle of leveling my Warrior and let me tell you it's not all great on the tank side. I've had, depending on the day, up to hour long queues due to the lack of fucking healers. Fucking ridiculous but I can't complain because when the tank queues pop quickly it's so fucking nice (I finished all my leveling queues in an hour and a half today, was very nice). It could also be your Data Center as well. I hear Primal queues are pretty fucking bad sometimes (not that Crystals are any better) due to the imbalance between healers/tanks and DPS. Considering your still in Heavensward content I'm not all that surprised either (I'm assuming this is where you're at based on the last bit of stuff you talked about). I rarely, if ever, see anything Heavensward related pop when I'm in queue for anything. Most of what I've been getting on my Warrior lately has been ARR and Stormblood content with the occasional Shadowbringers Trial/Dungeon (could be even worse on you Data Center depending on the population distribution between old and new players). I mean I'd love to help you out with my awesome tank queue times but they haven't mastered cross-data center queuing yet (I fucking love running old content with the exception of a few dungeons that I absolutely hate).

You can still fight without ammo but you do so at reduced damage output and increased damage taken. It's not ideal but it's the only way to 3 star some of the missions (I usually do it with my 2nd fleet since my cruisers are armed with AP weapons and the reduced damage output means little to AP weaponry, I save my 1st fleet to take out the flagship). This is even more true for event based missions as quite a few of them have 11+ enemies to destroy without an ammo depot.

A lot of ships synergize. The only reason I wanted Akagi so badly is because her and Kaga have abilities that are affected by having the other in the same fleet. Hell Mikasa boosts all Sakura Empire ships in the fleet if shes the flagship and Amagi literally weakens the enemy as long as she still floats and gets decreased loading time for her first barrage as long as there are 4 other Sakura ships. Never knew Belfast got that powerful though with Elizabeth, will definitely have to put both of them together (I don't read any guides, I've been winging it since day 1 so a lot of my knowledge is just from trial and error (I've recently started looking up shit since I want to be able to take on Ex missions)).

As I said before I only put time into this during events otherwise my general play time is just restocking the dorm (changing out girls as needed), making sure I get my free meowfficer box and training it every day, engaging the cheapest research, and occasionally blowing gold on Tech boxes. Very rarely do I do anything else of note unless I get really bored at work on lunch. I play quite a few other mobile games and a few just like Azur Lane so I try to keep things efficient and not stay in one to long unless I have to.