Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-25941257-20170903163532/@comment-32539089-20171003065121

Fluid-decanter wrote: 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. No, that's the opposite of what you want to do. PDF is a proxy for Simon's own funds, an "investing" system for Chapter 3. Mercenary upkeep decreases it. This is on the wiki somewhere I am pretty sure. The calculus for figuiring out how much you'll get at the 2nd House of Petitions is mentioned in the references section on the Discretionary Funding page, and can be found here.

I suspect the math might be a bit off: as going by the instructions, I should have gotten 80% instead of 70%.