Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191209223735/@comment-36170150-20191210002021

The little girl calls you out on it and I have seen enough horror movies to know better than to mess with creepy little girls.

With that said, I think at this point we have developed enough optimized strats for the "don't whore Qum" route that it feels really unnecessary to do so.

Right now, the only significant boost I can see for the whored Qum route is that you can get all 3 banks, the 50k order of silence donation, and the sanitation mages without much trouble. Without whoring Qum the main question comes down to either getting 3 banks and skipping the sanitation mages, or getting 2 banks and the sanitation mages.

Currently the only implications for the first is missing the best result for Tak'Kan during the Synod, but honestly I don't see that as a big deal.

For the second, it used to imply pretty terrible money for Chapter 4, but it can be vastly improved if you choose to skip the Yhilin bank instead of the other 2, because then you can immediatelly get the Yhilin bank during the first iteration of chapter 4, instead of having to wait until after the Synod to get your final bank, you do lose 5 Yhilin Score for that though.

So really, the only benefit of whoring Qum for the optimized routes is not having to choose between early sanitation mages or a bit more money and 5 Yhilin score. I suppose whoring Qum helps with things like hiring mercenaries early on to save Carina's men without super messing up your economy, but the variables really don't encourage going for that anyway so I can't speak much on that matter.