Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-37265457-20181022040113/@comment-37265457-20181023024934

Arakhne wrote: The Calculator is your friend indeed.

I've tried to rationalize early combinations of investments and their consequences, up to just before going to Ardford, here: [//thelastsovereign.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:12432#WallMessage_12505 https://thelastsovereign.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:12432#WallMessage_12505]

If I recall correctly, with your current route, it's slightly better long term to not invest in Premium Steel and Bridge Repair early, and therefore cut the need to ask Megail for money in Chapter 1. However, you need to do a perfect Aka's route and a perfect battle of Yhilin to compensate for both losses in Score and Army. May not be worth the headache.

And of course, the next update may or may not add more weight to the survival of Carina's men, and thus change everything about optimal routes... Thank you for your input! If I do as you suggest and not invest in Premium Steel and the Bridge early, is there a particular round you reccomend I do those instead? Also when you say perfect Aka route, I assume you mean winning the ambassader's respect right? And I guess as for BoY, it is a matter of playing around with the choices/commands during it?

Hmm I never cared for Carina's men before myself, but that is an interesting problem (though also frustrating to throw in such a long retroactive change from where people are in chapter 4 I am sure!) Has SL implied such a change in a recent update post, or are you saying that out of speculation due to something that happens/might happen in chapter 4 that I haven't experienced yet?