Mini-Contest Idea

I already said that i stopped before trying to do better, finding 3 encounters, with the last one with a single weak monster in the veldt, would have make me avoid to travel to north would have make me save a ton of time, i haven't even planned a decent way to use drinkable items... i had the suspect that revivify could had to create a significant advantage, but i submitted and stopped much more time ago... all that was surely more than one minute.

But that's not the point: i don't care about the gap of results, and the problem i told you is that the luck is not a true factor, because after you find the perfect load save, all the encounters are already enstablished, if you load a savestate(done right after loading the save file).
What i said is that this strategy kills the luck factor at 100% and all you have to do is just to focus on that fixed route and pratice until you score a perfect(more or less) run...
You can imagine the encounter choice like a tree structure: after you can decide the best tree, and you discover the value of each node and leaf(monster formations inside a determined room of the game), you just have to follow the cheapest path, in terms of time.

If, with "picking your cards", you meant deciding exactly which formations to encounter and to fight, well... you can pick your cards for real.

The only way to avoid that is to include as extra rule to record even the moment in which you load the save file.


The way in which you set your strategy in battle and the inventory/drinks managent is good, that's what i judged positive about your task.

PS. why you mention my task, if we already discussed about its flaws? >.> anyway it's you that have decided to follow that risky path(despite you had success), based on luck for real, in battle it's impossible to manipulate the luck, since any combination changes after one istant
No matter how much i tried, i've always been netted at least 5 times each battle, just to say...