Cobbling together a bare minimum of tickets with low-powered team was not in any capacity hard. I'd even venture out and say it would be possible to perfect the Lena (2 000 tickets for max skill and slots) without clearing most of event maps. Remember, the first maps offered ticket-to-stamina rates comparable to latter) Just, it would have been extremely time consuming.
Thankfully, autorun feature means you can just start the map and leave it alone in background)

indeed it was time consuming in the fct it took all my stamina for about 12 days (I run most advanced gardens too) to get 4k had 2k in about 6 days

That's 2 main log ins morning and evening 3 on weekends

Actual time spent probably 1h a day slackly as I do other bits so it's not constant bback to back runs - sure I've been here since 1st event, 350k total power....but that's not needed to auto mission 3, or anywhere near....

To clarify, nothing in FKG is 'hard.' There are, however, degrees of ease which does make some things 'harder' than others in comparison. It is perfectly fine to compare the relative difficulties of two easy events and declare one harder than the other. It bothered me to some extent to have to run the event maps over and over to get 4000 tickets, when the non-ticket rewards were so lackluster compared to normal gameplay. Compared to devoting just part of one day per phase on a normal event, or at most a couple of days per phase for a skill/dressbloom farming event, this event required much more of our stamina to maximize the reward. And, had Nutaku not screwed the pooch on the voting portion, the event would have required ALL of our stamina for the full extent of the event to get the most out of it.

Personally I much more prefer those non-grindy events. Rather use that AP on Dragon, Manyus and Garden then on boring event grind that takes shit ton of time to complete.

It was possible to get to 4k tickets without recharging stamina on a team around 100k power. It took pretty much all of the stamina for the two weeks, but putting together 2k for maxed lechenaultia should be doable without issue even if you can't clear the last missions (and relied on a good Helper squad for ?-3 and ?-7).

Maintenaince just now introduced the gacha for the 3 winning girls. Regular FG prices etc. So its basically a slice type gacha with 2 6* and 1 5*, instead of 1 6* and 2 5*.

So if you need a slice girl, this is you chance :P

And so I decided to give it a shot. Nothing but regret

Originally Posted by Drynix

Maintenaince just now introduced the gacha for the 3 winning girls. Regular FG prices etc. So its basically a slice type gacha with 2 6* and 1 5*, instead of 1 6* and 2 5*.

So if you need a slice girl, this is you chance :P

And so I decided to give it a shot. Nothing but regret

At least you got a new waifu from it.

Originally Posted by Drynix

Maintenaince just now introduced the gacha for the 3 winning girls. Regular FG prices etc. So its basically a slice type gacha with 2 6* and 1 5*, instead of 1 6* and 2 5*.

So if you need a slice girl, this is you chance :P

And so I decided to give it a shot. Nothing but regret

Same here, just without the NEW banner on any of the girls.
Just finished one of the new character quests though. I'll spoil the ending for Violetta Tulips':

"..and I said...
MISSION COMPLETE (sound horns)"

Uhmmm, yeah, seems like the bigger part of the conversation is missing again, and no H scene or anything. But the reward is a pair of earrings as usual as well.

I typically assume that the character missions lead into the H-scenes you get from affection

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Actually, H-scenes are from 100% affection, you just have to go to the .net site to see them

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They're saying that the character missions are the events which preceded the H-scene, not what has to happen to unlock the H-scene itself.

I did the Player's choice gancha and i'm really happy, a bunch of 3* a few 4*(that i already have) and her.