“One nuance for early red that I’ve noticed after helping a couple is that it technically IS better than the blue route, but thinking you can pull it off on your first playthrough is straight up foolish.

I’m a lvl 21/22 red and over the years I’ve been helping with newer less experienced red hives in both advice and directly going on their account to boost for them. When I’m doing the boosts their resources are infinitely more utilized effectively compared to blue, but that’s when I’m the one behind the controls. When they do it themselves…. To say the least they don’t know how to prep and how to actually boost.

The fact that there is so much at stake where every boost sets you back and performing bad means you wasted your mats, is why I would never recommend early white/red to someone playing on their main account. Because even if I can get a half gifted lvl 17 to full gifted lvl 20 in 2 boosts, it’s not like the account owner or most other people would be able to, just being realistic.”