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(Repeating this at the top because it's the most important point to this post, for tl;dr: Not boasting. Not saying it is an achievement to be able to do this in the slightest. Farm some squid discs, use the attache case and some +items to speed it up. Retcon. Use squid discs. Proceed through quests as fast as possible, wasting time only for RNG. Retcon. Done. Simple. Formula. People. *ragesmashignorance*)
That sentence is saying that it is a ridiculously easy task, and that its main barrier is RNG. This strategy assumes you have all pulls. There are basically two ways to go about it, and if you use the squid discs before even adventuring, it eliminates the need to bring in skill points. If, on the other hand, you wait- well, there aren't too many skills that can help you anyways. The only ones that you need to speed up the run are the +/- combat/noncombat, but even those aren't too necessary. It gets easier if you have iotm's, but it's not necessary. Using red-eye mind tricks makes it a hell of a lot easier, and I'd consider that out of the reach of most people. But what you're not seeming to get is that if you're level 7/8 when you start the quests, you won't need skills even if you don't have iotms. It's fairly simple- listen up now- Use discs to get up to level 6, 7, 8- even 9 if you wanted to, although that seems a bit much- and then go do the quests. Even without minus time equipment, you're guaranteed 4.5 minute turns by level 5, and if you chose to keep the sidekick, you could have -turn time from that. The only stumbling block /at all/ is that you can't find the turn you're looking for, which is where combat/noncombat manipulation comes in. But /if/ RNG is good, you wouldn't need those anyways, and you'd just find the turns you're looking for, kick the enemy's ass because you're well over-powered, and be on your way. As you mentioned red-eye mind tricks, the effect is a small price to pay if you have lots of them to ward off useless time wasting, but that's an entirely different level from what I'm talking about. Most people don't have enough turn saving items to pull off anything too fancy with that.
So do you understand now? How do people /not/ get how frickin' simple this is? It's no more complex than any other run. You don't worry about dying, you find the turns you need, and hope RNG blesses you. RNG will hit you hardest at the casino quest and possibly the level 8 quests, and from there, it's pretty smooth (although level 10 can be a bitch as well). If you think it's so much more complex than that, please, explain to me how you have to worry about dying... Only concern is that it takes too long to get the quest related turn you're looking for. Even with only the 4.5 minutes/turn from heroic efficiency, you're not going to have too terrible of a run time if RNG is good :/ Sure, someone with all that -time will end up with a better time by several hours, but not a huge difference. It'll still be apparent how close it is.
I'll say it one more time for people, since they don't seem to get it if I only say it once. This game make sure you don't die, RNG until you get right turn(s)/item(s), XP grind to level up, get chips if you have to for level up (this is rarely an issue even in limited pulls runs), get next quest, repeat until retcon device acquired. Of course it helps to not make stupid mistakes, but that's true in /any/ run. The dying issue is solved in these runs because one, you're bringing in equipment from previous runs so you can start out decently equipped, iotms or not, and two, you start out with a few levels on you due to squid discs. The chips issue is also solved if you have even a small stockpile built up, since these are necessarily all pulls runs. The largest bottle neck is the XP grind to level up, which can take many, many turns, so if you remove that by using squid discs which don't consume the time necessary for the XP grind, low run times are easy to achieve. Low run times are easy to achieve. Low run times are easy to achieve. Why are low run times easy to achieve? Because most of getting through the quests is just waiting for an adventure to pop up, with a few exceptions. Even those exceptions will work out well RNG permitting. Low run times are easy to achieve. Repetition, repetition, repetition. Not boasting. Not saying it is an achievement to be able to do this in the slightest. Farm some squid discs, use the attache case and some +items to speed it up. Retcon. Use squid discs. Proceed through quests as fast as possible, wasting time only for RNG. Retcon. Done. Simple. Formula. People. *ragesmashignorance*
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