Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170903163532/@comment-2601:602:780:61A1:9826:EF6C:8618:8E34-20171001234641

I wonder what combination of prior decisions would lead to the optimal outcome for the Third Arclent War would be...?

I know it takes into account SEVERAL decisions made, even during chapter 2, but it's a lot more convoluted than BoY was.

The only reservations I had about BoY was the fact that I had to make an uneconomically sound decisions along with allowing Varia to face her fate, just to appease another persons narrow-sighted emotional outburst....Like, there is absolutely no way for me to get the +2 off of Aka, nor the additional +1 of Acceptance off of Janine, because it would require me to invest in Anti-corruption...which is a waste, because Janine has 99 RP by then, and is only missing 1 point prior to BoY's start. Aka is even worse, because you need to convert +7 RP worth of Sx, and deal with Varia in a really petty fashion to get her RP to 100, before BoY's airship scene, and Ginasta's jail talk scene...

But I digress, I'm more interested in knowing what an optimal route through Third Arclent War would look like. For instance, I was unable to get 200 army size, which cuts me off from an additional army extension (I was stuck with 5), which put me in a bind...since I had to overextend on the last decision. Even though I passed the Yhilin Coup threshold to get +1 extension...I'm going to assume it was eaten by my overextension on the very last deployment choice. I would have liked to select at least 1-2 military options post-war, but I'm not sure what that would look like for prior decisions...

I'm also concerned about the personal discretionary funding for the 2nd house of petitions: I only got setup with 70%, while I wanted 85%, at least. Does that mean having to recruit a mercenary pre-reunion...? If so, that would mean fore-going some earlier investments, although it would open up to saving Carina's men.

I'm also curious as to if there's a way to shut down the unpeople motion, while attaining the war vaults and shutting down the orc exterm motions, without having to pay out the 120k to that scummy foreign ambassador.

I'm also having a hard time accepting how the inquisition dialogue panned out during the camp scene (Where you had to go meet a new orc in some cave south of the encampment). I could have sworn I had about 11-12 in Religion, even without investing in Carina's Shrine or pushing the 16 day prep on the initial war prep for BoY, but apparently not, since the inquisition did not withdraw.

If anything, it would be nice to talk about this with a few others, to at least pool together the possibilities and hash out a personalized route...at least for what we all specifically want; whether the focus be on maximizing investment gain, or doing exceptionally well in the war...