Power Memming

If you're serious about memorizing the entire ocean, you're eventually going to have to do what is known as "power memming." Power memming is the process of hopping on a boat and then putting everything you have into memming as quickly as possible. There are a number of things to keep in mind to make the most out of your time memming.

Chart Long Routes

Chart the longest route you can chart (that's feasible). For example, if you need to memorize the entire route from Remora to Vernal Equinox, chart the entire thing, if possible, rather than just Remora to Beta. This will help in a few ways.

For one, if you're asking someone else to hop on and chart for you (and rechart once you reach the end of the route), you don't have to bother that person as often.

For another, how well you perform the duty nav puzzle directly impacts how long it takes to memorize a given league point. It often takes a league or so to get your indicator sparkly, so that first league is going to be tough to get a good score on. However, once you're going, you might as well make as much as you can out of that glowing indicator.

Watch Out for Brigands

It may go without saying, but being engaged by brigands just slows down the memorization process. While playing the duty nav puzzle, be sure to keep an eye on your ship and watch for brigands moving in. If you have to, do a quick "Turn About" to avoid the brigands. A little lost speed is well worth it, if you can avoid an entire battle.

If you do get caught in a battle, you'll probably have to switch to sails to augment the token production of your bots. In general, when I'm out memming, I don't even carry any shot. So, when I get into a fight, I just run away for 10 turns, disengage, and then go on with my memming.

Get a Helper

One problem with memming is that, when you reach the end of the route, you need to leave the duty nav station and rechart (assuming you're using charts). Whenever you leave the duty nav station, your indicator resets. What's worse is that you're probably already at max speed so, once you rechart and get going, you're going to have even less time than usual to get your indicator sparkly. This might not only booch your score at the first league point, but the second, as well.

A potential solution to this is to bring someone else aboard to help out. That person will probably sail to help you get up to speed quickly (and thereby enable you to avoid brigands) and, when you reach the end of the route, rechart back over the same route again. Note that this only works if the other person has access to chart your ship (an officer in the same crew as you, for example). The great thing about this is that you never have to leave the duty nav station. You can just keep puzzling away and you never have to lose your sparkly indicator. The downside, though, is that you have to impose on someone else to sit on your ship with you and you also never really know when you're "done" memorizing the route because you're not looking after each pass. This technique works great when you're just starting a route and you know it's going to take a full 5-6 passes to get it memmed. When you're down to a handful of league points, this method loses its effectiveness, because you're going to want to leave the station anyway, just to check your progress.