Originally Posted by Zandel

I was also around at that time, my counter of 850 is because I lost my internet for a month or two some time ago and just couldn't log in everyday for a while. I have managed to get every event girl at 5/4 now tho, so i'm happy where i'm at. I still remember just how hard Lavander's event stages were for us back then, these days the events seem so simple, even whale ship is currently no challenge.

I don't remember the event stages ever being hard, power-wise (I started day 1). My main issue was the "OH MY * THIS RNG IS THE WORST" of those events (which I recently reminded myself of by doing a bunch of those permanent reprints for their flower gems). Ugh. So terrible.

(And that was as a mostly F2P person who had little idea what was going on, aside from tips posted here)