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Crafting with 4 badges (Y19 badges above)
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Crafting with 3 badges - last removed from crafting tree
Here is the difference in E3 when I did this:
(Before)
(After)
Immediately reduced the stamina costs by half.
Hence I said it could be done in steps, from one rank at a time - something like war perks being reduced in costs after some time @TheGrillFather
All that is needed is to remove one badge from the crafting trees of 7 specific badges to reduce the costs of “one wave” of badges to just 50%. Since the crafting trees make it so the cost doubles every 5 months, the reduction can be done once every 4-5 months and the overall max stamina cost will be practically the same.
Scratched.
It still reduces the cost by whatever the early badge went down.
EDIT: However, I did manage to reduce the cost from those 2M (or 90k-100k badge bits) to just over 1M by deleting a specific 4th badge in Y20,Y21,Y22 and Y23 badges, while keeping the Y24+ same as before.
Meaning you don’t have to make a large amount of crafting trees changes to keep the economy cool.