Talk:Rafael's playthrough - Aka's route/@comment-46.59.218.77-20160724202502/@comment-28783361-20160724221508

It's a "reward now vs. bigger reward later" situation except the "reward now" part isn't that big.

Leaving House Jade in control pays better than House Thelon, but makes the enemy armies a little stronger during the invasion (not really noticably though). And while it pays you don't actually get the money until after the Reunion, so you're getting ten to twenty thousand right after the game dumps over a million into your lap and starts looking for much bigger investments. It can help a little, but it's not essential the way some of the earlier money is.

As of v 0.19 if you flooded it with demons you have the option to spend discretionary funds and take over the mine for the Doom King's regime (which also improves things for the poor since Simon prioritizes letting miners who need the work the most), and there may or may not be other ways to solve that problem in later parts. This doesn't appear if you left it in the hands of one of the other houses.

Right now I prefer to flood the mine since the XP and opportunities are more valuable than the small some of money.