Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-43871688-20190922205428/@comment-29984007-20190924192911

Arakhne wrote: I wouldn't obsess that much over Carina's men if your save is strong otherwise. Chapter 3 is pretty much identical regardless of their status, and, for a lot of Chapter 4 events, Sierra deliberately made the investments needed to reach the very best results extremely expensive, and the second best results only marginally worse (no loss of unique thingies, little difference in stats), so that even extra rich players won't have that much of a head start compared to slightly less rich players by the end of the chapter.

However, if you're struggling with money, yes, buying only the big three in Chapter 1 (Bank, Mine, Special Supplier), letting them to die and snowball until you can buy not one but two banks in Ardford should help tremendously.

But it's the easy path. And you know what they say about the quicker, easier, more seductive path. yes, you can have a good save saving them, but it isn't a question what you need to sacrifice for saving them, but what you lose if you don't save them. and it's nearly nothing, an armor you can buy, a bonus in the 3AW nullified by border reinforced (an upgrade half-mandatory). no unique reward, no rp, no hidden stats (outside 3aw bonus).

for a cynical point of view there isn't any discussion to make, it's only a pure loss, for whoring qum you at least had more money.