Sounds like an ambitious project. Good luck with it.
You say your feel overwhelmed - well don’t! Your problem has been looked at and solved by many before you.
You asked for thoughts:
There have been many posts on the forum like this - we all have gone through the same problem. At one point or another,
This post from the archive details with images the whole idea:
Reusing Memory Palaces
But here’s a short recap - to
One way to tackle this - as you put it "‘to drastically increase the amount of loci’ was suggested by Tony Buzan (I presume we all know who he is) who suggested colour coding loci or imagining them in blocks of ice - I found that a little confusing so I future proofed it by using a Penrose Stair idea.
The idea is if you have ten or twelve loci on a route (in a room, around a city - it makes little difference all memory systems are the same) you number them 1,2,3,4,5, and when you get to the last one you go back to the beginning again - BUT it’s not the same place, it’s a level higher. or perhaps a different level.
You can reuse all of your current loci if they are routes by colour coding them or in somke way making them specific. But you need to number them Level 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc…
I use various methods but an easy one is to use colours - in the order that the colours of the rainbow are in. (which I take as Red(1), Orange (2), Yellow (3) Green (4), Blue (5), Purple (6) Pink (7) to which I added White (8), Bronze (9) Silver (10) Gold (11) and Black (12) etc…
Here’s some visuals to get your head around the idea:
This is a route in my home city. 12 streets in a ‘lap’. Images courtesy of Google Earth…
Same route with multiple levels.
Once you get your head around teh idea (AND NUMBER THE LOCATIONS!) it just seems like laps of the same circuits
This is a Penrose Stair:
You can even make the locations colour coded:
Do have a look at the original post, but I hope this gives you something to consider…
K