Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32767457-20190609052830/@comment-36170150-20190610125845

MontyPython85 wrote: Thanks for the advice, everyone! To Scoutman... You mentioned investing in the Mine... would it still be worthwhile if I was planning to just Help the Common People during Aka's route and seize it (The Mine) later on? Forgive me for skimming over it, but what Dukeleto said above is correct, its 2 different investments, the first one is just to process otherwise wasted ores that other people mined, the second is to control the entire extraction of a special shaft.

The full math for first round of investments is the following, if you didn't whore Qum you start with 80k, you can pick up an extra 5k by the start of chapter 2 and should definitely save 10k for the Stineford Magic Shop investment, so in reality you only have 75k to freely spend. The investment to help with the staffing problem in the bank of yhilin and the investment to process the mining ores are both incredibly profitable, so you should get both of them and the best deal you can get is 25k for each, so that's another 50k spent, leaving you with just 25k to decide on what to spend on.

Be sure to check the Investments page and the Discretionary funding page, they should have all the data on the currently available investments.