Simplification of Badge Creation
Chapter 18 badge creation can seem a bit daunting at first and a bit of a pain keeping medals balanced for doing the trials in the gate to make the badges. At least one aspect of it can be simplified. Instead of 4 hub types, only 3 are needed - Earth, Wind, and Fire. In each of those hubs only 2 of the 3 medals need to be made. Elemental babies still need to be made in them. Only 1 of the 5 types of trials in the gate is needed to be make the badges - Fire Tornado Trial.
The Fire Tornado Trial requires an equal number of Conductor, Camper and Pilot medals. 2 of each of those medals are made in the 3 hubs. To make a medal also requires Elemental babies. For these 3 medals, only babies from the 3 hubs are needed. The following table shows the relationships.
Hub Type | Medal Made | Elemental Baby |
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Earth | Conductors | Wind |
Earth | Campers | Fire |
Wind | Pilots | Fire |
Wind | Conductors | Earth |
Fire | Pilots | Wind |
Fire | Campers | Earth |
Making 4 of each of the hubs will produce a bit more medals than badges can be produced in the gate, but 2 hour time instants take care of that.
The 3 race types made in the Welcome Squares are still needed, but Portal Profits make them so the buildings aren't needed, except for the story line quest.
Note: This doesn't speed anything up. The chapter is still as slow as dirt. Actually, this might make it more boring. I wish I'd have known this before being almost done.
Considerations for the story quest line:
There is a quest for having 12 hubs.
The only need for the water hub is quests 27 and 50. 27 requires 1 to be built. After that quest is done, teleport it and bring it back for quest 50 which requires 100 water babies to be made and 400 medals made using water babies. 100 water babies are enough for 400 medals. These medals can be made in the other hubs you have, barely disrupting their normal production. The quest will take maybe 2 days and those medals can be used to do a few other trials.