Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191209223735/@comment-36170150-20191213150521

The best I could figure out with the extra money from whoring Qum was this:

Round 1 you do only Bank + Mine + Premium Steel + Stineford Magic Shop, save the rest of the money don't spend it on anything, you should be holding onto 20k ProN.

Round 2 in Megail's route you get the Ardoheim magic trade + Eustrin Embassy + Eustrin Processor + Eustrin Manufacturer (skip the Yhilini Supplier because you can't afford him now, you'll have to get him during the reunion, you will get the Eustrin Supplier automatically since we skipped Megail's gift).

This will give you roughly an extra 70k ProN during Round 3 that you cannot get without whoring Qum or sacrificing the embassy, it is roughly 70k ProN because you will have the extra 100k from the early premium steel, but you will also be missing the extra revenue from the Yhilini Supplier and Megail's Special Supplier over the Eustrin Supplier, and you will have to pick the Yhilini Supplier at an increased price. This is as rich as one can get to Round 3 without sacrificing the embassy.

But, as I alluded to in a previous post, I'm not sure what you can really do with this extra money that would be THAT significative, it lets you get both the Sanitation Mages and all 3 banks, but, at least for the time being, I'm okay with skipping Sanitation Mages during Round 3, and Fulminato seems to be managing okay with skipping Yhilin's bank until chapter 4.

Someone mentioned doing something like getting the anti-corruption investment for the extra social point, but I don't think it would be that significative money-wise since you can justify almost all the investments you can do for social points early in chapter 4 (Denmiel Archives has a huge discount, you need to get Yhilini Mercenaries at some point, Lonely Sailor is good, Booze Shack is okay, War Monument helps against Donovan), I can't imagine the impact being any higher than 100k ProN.