Originally Posted by kringley

And then you have Kale with her guns but she's a pierce type, and all that internal logic just goes sideways.

My personal experience on E-4 so far:
All 5 top: more chests, highest trophies in one run (about 5300). But most common result is around 4700 trophies and my worst was about 4200 (one of the squads was looping too long and timed out without hitting the 700 trophy near the end).
All 5 mid: only 2 chests, but my result is a bit more consistently around 5100 trophies.
As to how stamina intensive the event is, well I guess we'll see. I'm on the 4th page (3 resets) - first two were quick (16 and 10 pulls), third one was slow (46 pulls). Like all previous pages I'll reset this one when I get the rare item, nothing else is valuable enough to me on this page either. It's only 3 days into this event out of about 13 so I'm not panicked about how stamina intensive it is or isn't yet.
If there are additional pages to the gacha to be added in phase 2, any guesses on what the rare items would be? Or does the additional pages thing seem like it might not pan out here? (Since the additional pages were available in the Pine gacha from the start, I don't really know if that's a thing or not).

Just to make sure (since I don't think that I properly said it) I was complaining about the lack of consistence^^

About the event: I also have my most consistent runs if i put 4 to 5 squads into the middle.
I'm now at the 4th page with 7 pulls there. I needed for both gacha-1 and gacha-3 44 pulls and for gacha-2 I needed 1 pull

Every group has a 1/4 chance of making a bee-line for the goal on e-4. They all need to avoid that and also make it to the 700 node before stopping if you're going to get more than 5k. I think e-3 gives a higher average per stamina with everyone starting on the loop.

I still haven't got to 5K lol

I put all 5 on the most bottom node

With varying setups, I got varying results.
Putting 5 girls on the left side loop gives a good chance at staying near 5k it seems, but I've had 4,300 from that setup as well.
Placing 5 girls at the top also can go as low as 4,300 (or even a little below that), but has a much higher potential. Provided all girls, one way or another, enter the right side loop, and stay in that outside loop with the burgers for a couple of rounds. Personal record is 5,900 there.

Overal, I generally go for the default setup, avaraging me about 4,750. (crude guestimate). It's usually less, but the couple of peaks do raise that avarage by a lot.

I run Advanced, placing all girls on the left starting spot that leads to the big loops. Least I got was 2k1. Average I get is somewhere between 2k4 and 2k5. And once per while I get a nice runs that are above 3k, record being 4k9. Adding the fact that you have more exp/stamina thus more level ups, and also that you don't need to have awesome squads and can do it AFK (which I can't in Ultimate) in my eyes makes it best farming place.

Thou its all useless cause looking on what I have managed to farm I look at something close to 650k total for whole event, if I use 50% more for second half when phase 2 starts thats still only 800-820k. Where to clear all I need close to 1400 if they don't change anything vs first post info. First 2 resets I got on last pull (thou I did 10 pulls at once). 3rd one I gone with 2-5 pulls at once and got reset enabled at total 40 spins. Didn't reset yet and I am kinda waiting to see what people report about cost going up (a.k.a. if something is different than first post).

Overall this event looks like first one I would need to farm from day 1 hour 1 till last day last minute and still wont be able to get all. While every previous event was doable before even half of phase 2.

By the way, I suspect Phase 2 gacha rewards will be jewelry again (though with the stamina cost of this event, gold and rainbow blooms would seem more applicable), so I'm saving up the equipment seeds till after the event.

I forgot how phase 2 work for Gacha based events LOL

remember the last one had a Phala Enopsis typo and had 11 resets