Mindrunner> Actually it's really easy to bloom girls on DMM. There is a ton of free blooming stuff. Blooming hearts cost only 150 Life Crystals and you know how it's super easy to get Life Crystals on DMM (but it's harder to get Bloom affection gifts...).
I'm totally F2P and I got 5 bloomed girls and 4 with bloomed affection in... two months? Something like that.
I don't really see any link between blooming and F2P or not (aside the amount of 5*/6* owned).

Whaleship ; I can say this is one of ultimate goal for long-time player.
You no need to rush or bother with it right now.
And also not neccesery to collect girls until you can change ship color,
because there are stage that you can use your greyship to tackle.

Bond crystal ; Normally you make bond crystal from extract left over accescery.
Selling 3* or high rarity girls is just optional.
Is this shop important? For me it's not important, since here is Nutaku that keep selling girls every week.

Bloom ; You can call it 2nd evol. It will come soon, maybe 2 months from now.
Bloom 5* quite strong, if you lack of 6* girls you can use them.

Originally Posted by twilightdream

Bloom ; You can call it 2nd evol. It will come soon, maybe 2 months from now.
Bloom 5* quite strong, if you lack of 6* girls you can use them.

From what I figured out so far from comparing girls:
5 star bloomed girls are stronger than 6 star not-bloomed girls, but 6 star bloomed girls are obviously stronger than 5 star bloomed girls again.