Here is what I wrote my Fellowship regarding Adventures:
"I have done some preliminary analysis of the Fellowship Adventures, and here are my Findings.
There are 6 Production Badges: 50 x 5 minutes, 35 x 15 minutes, 20 x 1 hour, 10 x 3 hours, 5 x 9 hours, and 5 x 1 day.
There are 4 Manufacturing Badges, each requiring 1 run each of Marble, Steel, and Planks: 3 hours, 9 hours, 1 day, and 2 days.
Of these badges, it seems to me that 3 hour and 9 hour badges are the most convenient, but I do not know who are on 1 day cycles. More active players could do the hour or less Badges, less active players could do more 1 day badges, I assume.
There are three Paths, each with 3 Stages: Orange, Blue, and Green.
Orange requires PAYing over 4 million Goods, AND requires more Manufacturing Badges. I think we can pretty much eliminate this path.
Blue and Green do NOT require any PAY Quests, and no Manufacturing until the last Stage. They seem pretty similar, except Green wants more Hour and Day Badges. Therefore, unless the Green Prize is a LOT better, we would aim at the Blue Path.
So do we do JUST Production Badges, and so only the first two Stages of Blue or Green, or can we come up with 75 Manufacturing Badges to finish the last Stage?
Unless, of course, we decide:
"Badges? Badges! We don't need no stinking Badges!"
It may be that the Blue Path is not very disruptive to our normal production, and that we have enough players to do the Manufacturing and Hour or Less Badges to complete it. But the Orange Path is clearly out of the question."