Temple and maintaining two chains

If you’re doing the fubgun temple layout, you don’t want to start your second chain until you’re on your last 2 rooms or so of your first chain, as some of the techs involved in placing the last few rooms of the first snake would be blocked by the second chain. Also, the smith - golem (American sandwich) portion of the temple can be a little lock heavy at times.

Don't start the 2nd chain until you're done all the tech. I would start getting rid of the bait rooms when you make the first turn in golem smithy chain. Ideally you have no more bait rooms when you're around the 2nd turn so that you have the option to use the roman road.

You’ll need your locks once you start golem smithy. Expect to use lots of double locks and quite common triple locks. Expect to go back slightly in progress sometimes simply because not enough locks.

Start your second chain only when you're done with your main one. You need all the locks you can get for comfy russian tech.

Get rid of bait rooms whenever you need that space. Otherwise run them for extra medallions.

Maintaining two chains with full spy/barracks ring is easy. And if you hit an unlucky streak you just let your secondary chain dwindle a bit, while maintaining your main chain at any cost.

Wow, you get locks, how awsome. Made a post yesterday about not getting locks, and now I have done 200 more rooms and still not one fucking lock. It's as dumb and unnecessary as the waystone situation in early mapping. Ggg doesn't seem to want newbies or poor people to have fun, only the no-lifers and the lucky, rich ones. So little gain for so many hours played. I am angry. Need to vent, lol