Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-29984007-20181106155918/@comment-38754466-20190328174430

Looking it over I see that you don't need to settle for moderate reforms if you want to get everything passed. You can let Yelarel go with her original plan and not give her advice and still get absolutely everything but it gives a heavy blow to your influence since you need to appeal to annah on the first vote instead of stay silent as well as pay 2 influence to let orcent speak and you need some extra nabith score for the fucklord vote too which costs at least 1 more influence from letting qum demonstrate. You can avoid losses in the minor issues by gaining some extra influence this route since it doesn't need the extra +1 annah from the first succubus vote by letting Jhenno influence Hester and appealing to nabith there with hester acceptance on. This forces your completed researches to be Orc Diversification and Sex and Purity, and you need every  booster investment but the succubus band. This is the only situation I've found where siding with the church during the erosian crisis is actually an interesting option as it allows you to skip the tunnels or Orc Diversification and allows orcent to speak for free as well which frees up enough influence to let you skip one of the other investment boosters or skip having sex and purity fully researched too but you miss out on the goddess of magic charm.

Without aiding the church in erosian crisis and having all the boosters, this leaves you with 1 influence to spare which isn't enough to make up for not having any of the boosters unless you're willing to sacrifice the best result on both ardford and the merchant vote instead of just 1 of those two which will let you skip stopping the unpeople or having the sanitation mages.

I'm curious what kind of effects it will have if Yelarel goes for extreme reforms here.