Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-43871688-20190922205428

But everytime I start a fresh playthrough and start trying to min-max, I keep ending up with the same decisions. I'd like to try something else to see if I can still get optimal results in Yhilin War and 3AW. Anyone want to suggest to me some alternative scenarios?

There are a few baseline things I want:  I refuse to whore out Qum because it feels like punching a puppy and I just don't have it in me. I want Saner Altina and Reshaped Varia. Beyond that I'm wide open.

What I usually end up doing with investments is getting the Megail secret supplier, then immediately having her create cash. Then I go for Premium Steel, Bridge Repair, Mine Processing, and Stineford Magic Shop in the first round of investments.

The big next thing is that I usually go for the Dwarven-Ardford Embassy, for best options during Ardford Summit.

What it ultimatley comes down to is that I make all the Ardford profit investments EXCEPT Ivalan Bank, put 50K in the Order of Silence, and get the Ardford Bank investment at 300K with the Deeds of Vinario at 100K. This ultimately gives me a path to highly optimized Yhilin battle outcomes (Chaos < 5, CD < 5, 14 VP, strong surviving army size). And then it's pretty easy to get Yhilin Acceptance up over 40 in the aftermath for the Arclent Acceptance check in Third Arclent War.

Still, I'd like to try something different to see if there's differing paths toward reaching these optimal outcomes. Some of the compromises result in ending Chapter 3 with a bit less ProN than might be desirable, and then I'm not quite as rich at the start of Chapter 4 (my first returns start me with about 1.8 million ProN) as I could hope, which makes it really hard to unlock the Ancient Ruin, or even justify the 800K for the Stineford Succubi or 750K for Lustlord Temples.

Anyone have any really good suggestions for different directions I might go, under these pre-conditions (Saner Altina, did not whore Qum, Reshaped Varia). 