I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

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Vertumnalia skill checks?
I'm on my second full playthrough (having gone back to partial save files on my first run to replay a few options/endings).

First time I focused a lot on yellow social skills with red as a sort of secondary (and had almost no blue haha) and befriended/maxx'ed Marz and Nem. At Vertumnalia, I typically did the talent show during Vertumnalia and won with high creativity.

This time, I maxx'ed Dys, I've done a lot more exploration and focused more on that and have high biology, high perception, and high bravery. At Vertumnalia this time around, I've often been locked out of participating. All the options are greyed out. Is that because I have high rebelliousness? Or do I lack sufficient skills to participate?

It's kind of a moot point now since I'm at year 18 but I was just curious for future runs.

I looked around but can't find a list anywhere of all the options for Vertumnalia with the necessary minimum skills to participate (such as: minimum creativity whatever for the talent show, minimum skill for robotics challenge, etc.). Anyone have this info?
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Crow 9 Sep @ 8:51am 
Each event for Vertumnalia will show you what you need. This is also true for any other dialogue option that is locked behind a skill level. Mouseover the icon at the end of the option and hold still, it will show you the requirement.

It'll start with something like
5 Toughness
5 Reasoning
5 Creativity
Then go up by 5 or so each time.
wren 9 Sep @ 12:00pm 
Thanks, Crow! I am aware of that in-game and know the levels increase per year, but I was wondering more if there was a Guide that explicitly lists what skill level is needed for each talent in each year and hadn't found anything. So I could not get locked out in my next life/run.

Something like:
Year one - minimum 10 toughness for bot battles
min 10 creativity for talent show
etc.
which tells when new talent options (like cooking is one I think?) appear.
Crow 9 Sep @ 1:22pm 
Closest I've got seems to be this guide:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2865382620&searchtext=Vertumnalia

For example it mentions:
Win Talent Show during Vertumnalia (10-14) [Creativity 5+,10+,15+,20+,25+ respectively]
Win Talent Show during Vertumnalia (15-17) [Persuasion 30+,35+,40+ respectively]
Last edited by Crow; 9 Sep @ 1:22pm
wren 9 Sep @ 10:51pm 
Aha! Thanks!!

I find it funny I somehow managed accidentally not to reach the minimum thresholds on any of the later talent skills by completely ignoring them.
wren 9 Sep @ 10:56pm 
in case anyone else has the same questions, it looks like it's as follows:

Year One
Bot wrestling - 5 toughness
talent show - 5 creativity
science fair - 5 reasoning

Year Two
bott wrestling - 10 toughness
talent show - 10 creativity
science fair - 10 reasoning

Year Three
Bot wrestling - 15 toughness
talent show - 15 creativity
science fair - 15 reasoning

Year Four
Bot quadrathlon - 20 toughness
talent show - 20 creativity
science fair - 20 reasoning

Year Five
Bot pentathlon - 25 toughness
talent show - 25 creativity
science fair - 25 reasoning

Year Six
xeno wrangling - 30 combat
talent show - 30 persuasion
trivia - 30 reasoning
bake off - 30 organizing

Year Seven
xeno wrangling - 35 combat
talent show - 35 persuasion
trivia - 35 reasoning
bake off - 35 organizing

Year Eight
xeno wrangling - 40 combat
talent show - 40 persuasion
trivia - 40 reasoning
bake off - 40 organizing
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