Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-29984007-20191116214943/@comment-36170150-20191119143728

@OneMore

Hmm, back in the ardan succession crisis, the candidate score equaled a score of "0" to an "impossible" chance of inheriting the throne, assuming that relation carries into the suitor scores, one could argue there is no point getting their scores below 0, so assuming you got Donovan's score down to 2 in the succession crisis, one could see the overkill from dunking on him as being wasteful.

Of course dunking on him even with a score of 2 will still bring him all the way down from "bad" to "impossible" so it is probably not negligible. What I'm taking from this is that maybe I could skip the war monument during the first iteration of chapter 4, although I will still need it before the Thenoursian War to get optimal auxiliary forces.

Regarding the other 2, Ivalan acceptance is a much more rare stat compared to Arclent acceptance, but on the other hand you lose 3 extra Arclent acceptance with the duke's second best result compared to the best and you only lose 1 Ivalan acceptance with Annah's second best result compared to the best so it is a bit of a toss up. I have this weird obssession with getting all Vhala RP though so I'd probably prioritize Annah, although you need the agreement for that.

Edit: Played around with the idea of skipping the War Monument until later and leaving Donovan with a score of 3, it gives much better money early on in chapter 4 but it messed up my Synod by lowering Elleani's RP because I copy Bhakan's guard, I could get around it by reworking my Synod so I have enough leftover influence to have Sarai force the issue during the succubus vote but for that I'd need to not hurt Ignias' score. It is an idea but I will hold off on working more on it until we actually get to the second phase of the succession crisis and we can know what matters and what doesn't.