Requirements scaling....

[LadyAth]

I have ad to restart a few times just because my base becomes unmanageable. Usually because essential rituals end up needing ingredients that I have not researched to grow or have too little of. I've clearly not been optimising my research.

So I am curious, what causes the rapid scaling of requirements? Is it how many staff I have? Or how many T2 wands? Or amount of scrolls collected? Anyone have info how I can prevent the requirements getting insane too quickly? Or should I just focus on growing my own things 1st (but then scrolls are a major problem).

[Dirichlet]

It's Staff/Students. Hire Staff requirements are based on number of Staff you already have, and Summon Student requirements are based on number of Students you already have. I don't think there's anything else that scales other than the fog (if it's already far out then it's harder to push further).

Broadly you need to retire your Staff as you replace them with stronger Students.

[LadyAth]

Even having only 5 staff members and 3 students had me out of my depth. Something else must be adding to the requirements? E.g. repel fog was getting insanely expensive soon after I started harvesting runewood and the reagents around it. I had not researched planting it, but suddenly my repel needed those reagents - and the fog overtaking those resources had me screwed.

[Morocka]

cut back on your class training time by half then use the other half to collect and take care of things. They don't need to be in class all day it will hurt you. You won't have enough to grow your own things you still need to collect most items.

[LadyAth]

That is a good idea, tnx

[PaloG]

Originally posted by LadyAth:

Even having only 5 staff members and 3 students had me out of my depth. Something else must be adding to the requirements? E.g. repel fog was getting insanely expensive soon after I started harvesting runewood and the reagents around it. I had not researched planting it, but suddenly my repel needed those reagents - and the fog overtaking those resources had me screwed.

The Repel Fog ritual depends on the distance the fog is CURRENTLY at. Once it gets closer it'll change what it needs(if you're at the runewood stage for example when it gets closer(13 days remaining on Relaxed at least) it'll downgrade to needing Sporecap, Honeydrop and Mandrake again) and the closer it gets the more basic mats it'll need.

[LadyAth]

Ahhhh ok that is a relief!

[n3mes1s]

Originally posted by LadyAth:

Anyone have info how I can prevent the requirements getting insane too quickly? Or should I just focus on growing my own things 1st (but then scrolls are a major problem).

I dunno exactly what you doing wrong, but i guess you play on relentless? because in relaxed, even if sometimes you cant meet the requirements of whatever, you always have time to just chill and leave it for later.

Also what do you call insane? because we dont even really know what you talking about.