Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20171218040836/@comment-29984007-20171229151653

2606:A000:1019:80A9:C08C:97D3:A8F5:6F3E wrote: I'm wondering whether I be able to afford excavation and I'm running an optimized enough playthrough to afford all of the slums investments during govern Yhillin.

There are some big investments that seem like must gets for an optimized playthrough: Orcish Pools for .5m; Militarized Airships at 1.5m; Orcish Democracy at 1m; And Excavation at $5m ProN. For me, 8m ProN would mean sitting and doing nothing for three rounds of funding. Three rounds is a long time considering we've already had one at the end of the war and the one in the last update.

If we only have five rounds of funding like the last chapter, that's cutting it really close. It's even closer when you add in the Castle .2m (which would cap me out), and the various smith upgrades .3m (which is out of my reach). And then there are the unavailable investments, like the Dwarf Embassy.

The excavation means this may be the hardest chapter to optimize yet. for what we know of the chapter 4 and 5 is reasonable thinking this investment opportunity is the bulk of both chapter arclent-speaking investment (some will for sure added but don't think they are a huge number). the excavation (with a high probablity) is the optional endgame dungeon SL said to create to put a serius challenge even for a full minmaxed end game party, so the 5M ProN for the exavation isn't mean to be spent now, because even if you can waste so much money the enemy inside will easy blast your party away.