Okay, so we have another Shards event off-schedule, instead of Elite Guard 9 for some reason... And this time they bring in even more girls - 4 or them, to be percise. 1 SR for 1000 Shards, 2 Rs for 500 shards each, and 1 N for 100 shards: so one will need 2100 shards in total, to get all the new girls. Luckyly, i've saver ~350 shards from the previous Shards 3 Event, so i need to collect only ~1750 Shards, pretty much as usual. And i also have Beta SR SEC from Gambit 7's 1000 Ranking, so the things won't be too complicated this time for me. Though, i don't have any E-gacha tickets this time around (and will get only one in the middle of event as a Login Bonus reward) and it will have obnly 30% chance for getting an SR vard when i'll use it...
But for those who haven't saved leftover shards from Shards 3 Event, cant's spend cash and play alot, and didn't finished Gambit 7 among top 1000 things might get complicated, i guess... And, since Gambit's 51k girls are pretty much nothging special lately, i suppose for f2p players like me now it will be the best strategy to save all E-gacha tickets they get for Shards events, to get as much extra shards as possible, to always have some "leftovers", "just in case", to make sure they'll get all the Shards girls... Also, i guess it's better to trade for the cheapest Shard Girls first, to get more cards overall and, thus, more SED, if you can't get all the Shards girls for some reason, besides, as we just saw, they continue to push the old shard girls through, saving the ones from the previous Shards event in the next Shards Event's Trading Post, and even placing them into Revival gacha Voting Menu, so it will, probably, be always possible to get the most "pricy" SR Shards girls later, one way or another, while they will hardly put N's in Revival Gacha, in any case, and they will hardly beat SRs and Rs in the Revival Voting anyway...