Can't understand the habit

[ericweng90]

There's plenty of way to rise the habit efficiency. But what is exact influence of habit and habit efficiency? I didn't see any parameter relevant to dark ritual or sacred ritual. Or does it effect the inspiration I gain? Thanks for answering.

[Kite Sumane]

Think of habit as your number of researchers and habit efficiency as research speed. Lets say that a particular routine requires 100 units of work and you have 5 habit and 10 habit efficiency. That would mean you generate 50 work per second and the routine will complete in 2 seconds. Routines have all manner of effects from improving sacred ritual bonus to increasing monster research drop amounts.

[Wraith_Magus]

If you want a more technical answer, think of those bars as being something like 0/10,000 habit points. Every frame of the game (the game runs at 30 FPS,) you add add your number of habits allocated to a particular routine times your habit efficiency, and when you hit 10,000 that routine goes up a level. Having a habit efficiency of 2 therefore means all those bars fill up twice as fast as when you have habit efficiency of 1, and a habit efficiency of 10 means everything fills up 10 times as fast, even if you allocate the same number of habits.

Note that, unlike many incremental/idling games, this game DOES NOT carry over fractions of a bar, so if you get to a point where you have, say, 100 habit efficiency, and you're leveling up a routine that levels up at every 2,000 habit points, then if you apply 7 habits to that routine, you fill the bar up every 3 frames (or 0.1 seconds, or 10 levels per second) because you're getting 700 habit points per frame, whereas if you apply 9 habits, you have 900 habit points per frame, but you still need 2,000 habit points to go up a level (so you can't fill up the bar in two frames), but the leftover 700 habit points are wasted, so you gain no benefit over just having 7 habits in that case. If you get to 10 habits in that routine, however, you level the routine every 2 frames, for 15 levels per second, but anything between 11 and 19 habits just wastes habits because you gain no benefit over 10 habits, while 20 gives you the max of 30 levels per second. This may not matter as much for leveling anything with scaling costs, like familiars or energy max, but it applies heavily to routines like worship or regular routine, which you can easily get to capped with one habit later in the game.

Habit efficiency is probably the most useful ability for advancing through the game besides (maybe) raw stats themselves. Getting to high habit efficiency means that you can allocate just one or two habits to basic things while having plenty leftover for your class abilities, summoning familiars, boosting will, etc. This, in turn, lets you cycle through dark rituals without dropping in talent faster. Use extra party slots to stuff in monsters that raise habit efficiency, buy habit efficiency upgrades in the astral, and you'll make your life easier.