Originally Posted by etherealspiral

Seeing all of these strong teams makes me hope I can get there someday. Ive just been spamming the second phase 15stam one(How do you name these levels? I see the ?-number but whats the ? for?) and Im at 987 tickets so far. Only lv25. I havent done much else in the game yet just to focus on getting what tickets I can. This has been the game Ive liked the most so far tho Im hoping as I progress I get more stuff. I basically dont wanna see these same girls till the end of time. ;; Atleast Ill get an event character to add in.

Why is there such a big jump in difficulty also? Is there a reason or just how it is? I can beat 2nd Phase Beginner easy now but if I try the next stage I get smacked down. All in all I just wanna get as many tickets as I can. Atleast this game seems to let you grind events to try and get higher rather then simply needing to be a beast or get screwed on anything cool.

?-number is always in reference to event maps. ?-1 is the first map for phase one, ?-4 is the last map of phase one. ?-5 is the first map for phase two, ?-8 the last.
The normal maps are numbered by stage number and then the map within the stage. So 12-5 would be the 12th stage, fifth map.

We could name the event maps E-1 through E-8 instead, or E1-1 through E1-4 and then E2-1 through E2-4, but somehow they got named ?-1 through ?-8, and that naming convention stuck.


The difficulty jump is to make the events somewhat challenging to older players as well without the developers having to create some complex auto-scaling equation.
Gladly, the latest events are a bit more farm-able for new players than the first ones, making it actually possible for new players to at least get the fully unlocked girl. The first couple of events were pure medal collections, and barely getting 2 medals on ?-2 and/or ?-6 basically meant you'd only get a girl with 1 inventory slot and lvl 1 ability (my Edelweiss is like that, for example, but she's still quite overpowered).

But, don't fret, you'll push onto the next map in the next event. With a strong helper (and a not too sucky map), you might even push through ?-4 or ?-8, though the first few times might require a bit of luck, with abilities triggering often enough and such.