Perhaps looking at 50 persons sequence in memory palace and 2 digit actions for max 100 digits memorization will make things more clear. In this post I suggested that having 50 persons in a memory palace acting as locations would be a great way to do things so to speak. Tim mentioned that Katiek used a similar method. Katiek said that she uses people as locations and only uses the memory palace as a background and to keep the order of people. I am inclined to think that this approach works better for me aswell for two reasons:
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Many locations in my memory palace are not that distinctive.
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Generally speaking it is just easier for me to connect an object/action to a person then to a location.
So let’s get back to the method we were discussing.
You could simply associate the objects to the locations without any person, specially because the people don’t encode any information.
You appear to be suggesting that the people are used to make the connection between the 4 suits and the 4 sublocations of each location more memorable. That is not the case at all; the persons are the locations. In this method I am not connecting the 676 different objects to sublocations that are tagged with the persons with 1 of 4 objects, but they are connected to persons with the corresponding suit object. When the 4 Predator location persons are standing in front of your house (first location of memory palace) they are not really each standing in a distinctive sublocation at all, because I don’t use sublocations; they are just standing in line in front of the door.
Some final thoughts. Even though I visualize Predator with a heart shaped balloon at first to remember he (I assume it’s a he) is connected to the hearts suit, once I have done a bit of training I simply know that he is connected to hearts without having to even visualize him holding that balloon.