1. Nation Missions are way easier than you may think right now. The Whaleship and Ultimate Missions are more the Endgame Challenge.
2. Since the Peach Gacha, The Golds from the Gacha are pretty much all superior than the Event Golds. Those can only compete since they have max Skill and all slots, which the Gacha Ones Lack in the beginning.

I wasn't saying that nationality battles were going to be particularly hard (so far nothing in FKG is hard, just frustrating RNG and some things that newer accounts can't expect to do right away), just that the vast majority of people will have empty spaces in their rosters for them if they don't have any normal gacha girls, and therefore there's always going to be *some* use for the normal gacha.

Personally, I've had to cut loose almost all of my 2* girls on my alt accounts because character space is at a premium (and I had to avoid spending gems on space to have enough gems to make ticket gacha rolls). When I start needing them it won't take very much effort to replace them and level them up to where they were before.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Normal gacha will always have a place. Eventually we're going to be doing nationality battles and nobody has a full roster of 5*s and 6*s from a single nation.

What's that? Some sort of tournament between nations in FKG?

Someone with DMM experience will know more specifics, but you can only take girls who hail from one particular nation into the battle. It's why you can auto-select squads from Blossom Hill, Banana Island, etc..

To stubbornly refuse upgrading your character space, with the ingame currency..... I cant comprehend that. Its not like 10 flower gems will hurt you in the long run, and it saves so much frustration. Plus makes things easier if you wanna stock up on some items for a certain girl. (Dragons, Ampys, Manuys).
Not upgrading Items slots I could understand, but character slots.... just see no real benefit to that. To each his own I guess, but I personally would not want to be bothered with some much unnecessary and non stop inventory management.

Originally Posted by Myrdin

To stubbornly refuse upgrading your character space, with the ingame currency..... I cant comprehend that. Its not like 10 flower gems will hurt you in the long run, and it saves so much frustration. Plus makes things easier if you wanna stock up on some items for a certain girl. (Dragons, Ampys, Manuys).
Not upgrading Items slots I could understand, but character slots.... just see no real benefit to that. To each his own I guess, but I personally would not want to be bothered with some much unnecessary and non stop inventory management.

To some, item management is an interesting part of the game (some people even liked inventory management in Diablo, remember?). But personally, I agree.
Though, keep in mind that if you want to equip all your girls, you'll need at least as many jewelry slots as you have girls. And that is assuming you never merge dupes and only ever get single equipment slot girls from events.. With all equipment slots unlocked, you're going to need a jewelry storage the size of 4 times the amount of girls you have, and then 10 extra for upgrading..

Originally Posted by Drip

Though, keep in mind that if you want to equip all your girls, you'll need at least as many jewelry slots as you have girls.

Why would you need equipment for all girls? You can only ever field 20 of them, so having 20 of each of the four item types is enough. When you swap a girl, you swap her equipment together with her. That leaves you with 20 slots for building your upgrades with. Maybe a handful less for the slots taken by the unique items existing.

100 spots of equipment, leaving 20 spots for upgrading is definitely not enough to get by. Trust me, you will need to upgrade it a bit, maybe to 150. Especially if you are planning on upgrading efficiently in terms of equipment and gold usage.

Originally Posted by Nitewolf

Why would you need equipment for all girls? You can only ever field 20 of them, so having 20 of each of the four item types is enough. When you swap a girl, you swap her equipment together with her. That leaves you with 20 slots for building your upgrades with. Maybe a handful less for the slots taken by the unique items existing.

That's what I mean with the inventory management being a game to some, and cumbersome to others. I'm too lazy to bother swapping around all the jewelry, so every girl gets a set. That's 25 flowergems way better spent than on half a ten+1 gachapull that would probably only yield a couple of 4*. Though, for some girls being more equal than others, only my favourites get leveled jewelry.

Originally Posted by Myrdin

To stubbornly refuse upgrading your character space, with the ingame currency..... I cant comprehend that. Its not like 10 flower gems will hurt you in the long run, and it saves so much frustration.

It was not stubborn, nor was it a refusal. There is no 'only one way' to play smart in this game because different circumstances require different decisions. I had a set amount of time to amass 50 flower gems to take advantage of the ticket gacha and get that 5* girl before it was replaced with the Kerria gacha, which as a F2P player I cannot (and would not) use. I made the conscious decision to do everything possible to make that 50-gem ticket gacha roll, and the first step was to not spend gems on anything that wasn't a 50-gem ticket gacha roll until I had enough gems to roll.

I wound up getting to 51 gems (event map, 2 gems) just a couple of hours before the deadline and was able to make the roll. If I'd spent ten, or even two, flower gems on slots just because ZOMG SLOTS!!!! I would've missed the chance to use the ticket gacha, and I would have missed getting my first 6* girl in that roll. Like I said, the 2* girls can be replaced with trivial effort...certainly less effort than the lvl 100 dragons I kept in their place from trying to 3-medal those maps and earn their gems. They weren't worth keeping given my circumstances at the time, and as a bonus, now I have enough dragons to evolve the 6* when she gets ready.

And yes, I used the 51st gem on character inventory space.