Prestige is generally a form of meta-progression. It can be required, but that's different from the game pushing you to do it at a specific time or hard locking you out of further progress until you do.
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Prestige is artificially forced? Seems I can't unlock new tech, as it's all gated behind a single prestige currency research. More than a little annoying, as I already have enough to unlock most of those upgrades without prestiging, if not for that arbitrary limitation. Don't require prestige elements in the main progression tree, please.
My preferred path, once demon time is available, is to head for mandrakes, save, and collect until I proc screaming. If I don't get any, refresh and try again. Even if you do it properly through alchemy, you're still rolling luck to get enough refined salts (on top of wasting a bunch of time and resources getting there); I instead opt not to bother.
Btw, I calculated, and it's technically possible now to complete the enlightment node granted you savescum to double enough raw ingredients. In fact, you end up pretty close even if you don't. It's just that sleep detracts like a fifth of your time.
I, however, am not going to waste hours on hitting a 10% chance 50-100 times.
Even if they calculated every single frame this really shouldn't impact performance unless the optimization is terrible. Maybe it's just a language thing, but I could perform the square root of 7727 a million times in just 4635428 nanoseconds (~1/216 of a second) with a Java loop. That's far more than needed and they should indeed only be updating it when there's an actual change.
Although speaking of optimization I wonder why there's a stutter when saving. Not that I mind considering it makes identifying when the game saves easier.



