Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-29984007-20200520171144/@comment-28893060-20200531181724

The Fulminato wrote:

Seriathus wrote:

The mercenary flotilla is totally skippable, I agree.

Do donate 100k to the Order of Silence, though. Otherwise you won't have enough OoS score by the time the Erosian War rolls around to get that final +2 to your Auxiliary Diversity to get the best score on it - and that will make it harder, if not potentially impossible, to get the best result on all fronts. this is an overkill in my playthrough.
 * Arclent Acceptance [50+]: +2 Auxiliary Diversity (no effort)
 * New Givini [50+]: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (no effort)
 * [Yhilin Final On]: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (no effort)
 * Yhilin Mercenary Office Funded: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (somewhat cheap, and needed for some hunting quest)
 * Stineford's Succubus Tower Expansion Funded: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (required for return to stineford, and stineford is blocked after the war so you need to fund before the war)
 * War Monument Funded: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (required for donovan works in succession crisis section)
 * Zirantia {Support No One} [Score 12+]: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (no effort)
 * Order of Silence [Score 99-75]: +1 Auxiliary Diversity (50 starting investment (50K) + 18 clean lot score + 10 send kalant to the order = 78)

Total Auxiliary Diversity: 9 the only not free granted or required for other section element is yhilin mercenary office. and it's a cheap one (for chapter 4/5 investment), only 150 ProN. 100K OoS is simple unnecessary. I didn't get the monument because I didn't particularly care about maximizing the sabotage against Donovan tbh. You can get his chances down to 0 during the Return to Stineford section anyway, and I wanted to get as many positive RoI investments in the pre-succession crisis round as I could. I planned to get the monument during Chapter 5, but it seems it might be useless after all... or maybe not. Point is, from what we know now the monument is not worth it. That might change in the future.

What did you use the money you saved on the OoS donation and restaurant for btw? I have 20k ProN left by the end of the Ardford Summit, meaning that I'd have 95k left if I saved on those. Not enough to get the Premium Steel investment (not that it'd do much good anyway), and the only two investments I couldn't get in the post-war investment round were the Theltiar rentals and Eustrin Guild (the latter I snatched up immediately afterwards, and the former I admittedly didn't invest in at all.