Agree totally. It is marked in the ancient Roman drawings of memory palaces. I find the fives markings invaluable.
Love the checksum analogy. That’s clever!
Lynne
Hey don’t insult the Sims ! 
I’m not sure to understand where exactly is the problem for you.
Do you struggle finding ideas for your palaces ?
Do you struggle finding good loci ?
Do you struggle remember your palaces ?
3 different questions with 3 different answers actually.
When I am in a building loci period, here’s what I do :
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My palaces are all written in the app Notion (it can be a notebook, an excel sheet, whatever). So I commit myself to build 30 loci every day so 1 memory palace of 30 loci everyday (but it can be 10 or 20 or 5). So everyday, I take 10 minutes to sit down, open a notion tab and think first just about the place in general (a house, a shop, a parc, etc…).
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I walk through it mentally and I start to divide into loci. I might change my loci 5 or 10 times because it requires a bit of effort to find the good loci and divide the palace into the good amount of loci. I do all of this in my head.
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Once I’m satisfied, I directly write down the name of the palace in Notion in a sheet and I write down the name of every single loci.
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I keep all the palaces ordered and classified. I classify them by knowledge or by category of discipline.
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I go there everyday to check out what I know, which ones I need to work on etc… The advantage of writing them down including every loci is that when you have a lot and you want to recall them, you have at least written for you to check in case of inconsistencies or mistakes.
That’s a process I do only when I’m actively building but I’m not building palaces all the time.
And of course sometimes, I don’t have any idea of which palace to build but if you take like a few minutes, there are so many places you visit in your life. Also, there are so many places from movies (ex : the Titanic), series, cartoons, video games etc… Just look at them once and make a memory palace. After building, you might realise that maybe you memorized it wrong but who cares ? As long as you built a memory palace that works for you and that you remember, thats all that matters.
Hope I could help you and answer your questions 
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I am dyslexic. Not severely but if I recall numbers numbers verbally, the digits can get transposed to a pattern that sounds better to my brain. Encoding the number by the Major System prevents this.
A room can contain items that serve as additional loci or even miniature MPs. A chest of drawers, a book shelf, a coat rack or any object with distinct parts like a guitar or a rhinoceros. A rhino in your bedroom is not something you quickly forget.
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