how do you "load" templates?

[MTB-Fritz]

I m currently in R6 and have achieved that mainly by using the stock factions provided. One of my last playthroughs I did as a Mercenary to get a feel for their mechanics and liked them very much, great potential to pick and finetune your own faction however you want.

BUT I run into a problem. The first time I unlocked all Mercenary abilities i saved the template for future use. On my next run I was unable to load the template. I just unlocked the mercenary faction and have picked it too so I do have 2 extra buttons at the top "load template" and "save template" but of course I neither have the gold nor the faction coins to buy out all the saved abilities. I was under the impression that loading the template would "fix" my abilities tho so that I can just keep buying out everything without thinking about or looking up my past choices.

How does this work?

I also tried to load a different template I found on a website but it also doesnt do anything.

GB1,TT3,DD1,DN3,TT6,DD4,DD5,FC4,EL7,TT9,DD9,DN7,SP:Grand Balance,SP:Fairy Chanting

This is how I try to load the template

[Nico]

So, you are saying that your problem is that you don't have enough gold and fc to buy all the merc upgrades wich is why loading templates doesn't work completly. And what exactly is your question?
And I don't think that these spells in your template work good together since GB likes to target Deep Mines wich is useless for Fairy Chanting. Better use something like Diamond Pickaxe or Lightning Strike instead of GB and pick Fairy 1.3 and Fairy 2.1 since they strongly boost the blacksmiths wich is perfect for Fairy Chanting.

[MTB-Fritz]

So, you are saying that your problem is that you don't have enough gold and fc to buy all the merc upgrades wich is why loading templates doesn't work completly. And what exactly is your question?

That exactly was my question so in order to load the template I do need the 100.000 factions coins or whatever first which makes mercenary runs at my R extremely boring and long-winded because it take a stupid amount of time to get enough faction coins together in order to load a template.

Or I pick the abilities the moment I do have enough faction coins for them (like 1500 for the first ability pick) but that would render the whole "load template" thing void.

[MTB-Fritz]

Ah I got it.

the first pick is enabled at 1500 coins so thats when I use "load template" which will then do the first pick for me which means I have to use "load template" 14x. Its a lil akward but now that I know how to use it I ll get used to it. Thanks for trying to help.

[Nico]

Yes, when trying to load the template it buys as many upgrades as possible from the template.

[Ancarius]

Just for future reference, this is also how the Research Templates work.