Yeah I guess the only thing I can think of is the other people at the Academy on 00 didn't count for some reason because I'd never actively put them in my party, but then I don't know why it defaulted to me having someone in my party there that I'd left on floor 25 or something on a previous recovery run?
Also I'd been back to the academy *frequently* since I was going back and wrapping up items/tiles/wanderers on all of the previous floors once I hit level 30, so it is 100% not the "last time" you were at the academy because it set me back to essentially the beginning of my ~8 hour play session in which I probably was back at the academy ~10 times. I'm pretty sure I died on 36 but when it started from last expedition it showed all of that party being dead on floor 26, so maybe it just sets you back an even 10 floors or something? It's 100% not the last time you were at the academy though, unless there's some sort of other qualifier.
But yeah, I was really loving this game, but I either force a hard reset to keep my levels and just start over or I lose ~8 hours of progress AND with no Gastrophetes which was the biggest thing carrying me since I was still unwillingly ~840k in debt and unable to purchase any items so equipment was a real struggle. One or the other I could deal with, but the combination of the two is really shit.
My guess is because they weren't left there at all, since it rolled to the last "Academy Save". I'm guessing three saves exist at all times:
-The auto-save that occurs constantly
-A save that occurs following a party wipe.
-A save that only occurs when you visit and/or change your party around.
So if it panned out that you went to the academy, grabbed that specific party member for that recovery run to floor 25, and that was the last time you went to the Academy that
wasn't following your prior death, you'd end up back there. Like, basically you can't infinite-loop by losing a party, failing to recover and going back to the same point you were
after losing that party, so you go to the
prior save. Essentially, you were on save 1, wiped, went to save 2, wiped, and went to save 3 as save 3 was the last academy point prior to the wipe.
However you've shown that's not the case per-se, and missing a qualifier makes the logic dubious enough for me to conclude it's not that. It's more likely as you said, going back 10 floors sound pretty possible. Though something else must go on with gear being lost. Not sure there.
Yeah I had to deliberately set time aside to grind because I realized my gear had fallen off, so I went through the mons and looked at items that looked great and farmed the mons. Punching zombies and mummies was a nice thing one of those times.
Nonetheless, yeah this game can absolutely be super brutal in like, every way. I'm still mentally preparing for my no fiends-scout run. That will be delayed by FH5 & Animal Crossing update, but I really look forward to the potential hundred hour run of doom.
