Zoof
Well-Known Member
Ok. I wanted to assert that it wouldn't be that much slower to reach tournament and spire with the reduced KP cost, but there was that niggling feeling that wouldn't go away, so I went back to the spreadsheet and crunched some numbers. Here's the result of the scratch work done on my trusty Notepad.exe and desktop graphing calculator:
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old 178+709+55 = 942 to reach spire. tournament already unlocked.
new 155+275+569+321 = 1320 to reach tournament
new 1320+406+238 = 1964 to reach spire from scratch
Since tournament is, to quote a statement made a while ago that I can't find, "an important source of KP", this just stifles things even further. Not entirely sure what to say.
EDIT: The numbers were arrived at by going down the list adding things up. Sure, things won't be exactly like that due to the shape of the research tree, but the difference being expressible by more than a factor of two? This doesn't look good.