Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-2604:6000:1513:4204:7D15:F795:CA42:2DA2-20190827011936/@comment-79.121.43.0-20190827131045

us knowing the exact numbers, variables and switches is actually unintended, and a player should rely on the hints/info from the game itself to make their decisions, then later on deal with their consequences. this obviously wont result in a "perfect" run, but such runs are acutally supposed to be the minority, hence all the events/dialogs/variants for almost everything: to make you feel like your choices mattered.

To stay at the examples: you know that Esmera is a blunt, "agressive" person who lays her plans and your role in it for you out clearly. Keranii on the other hand is the (seemeingly) innocent, naive, good harted alternative who also has plans for you, but you dont know what it is. So do you side withe the blunt career woman, knowing what you are paying for it, or the lamb that might be the better choice or a wolf in disguise. That is what the deal is about not +2 motion score on the 2nd votes 3rd switch or whathaveyou

or on tradesmasher: "I have grand plans for new trade routes and mercantile guilds, but it may be too early for them to truly be profitable"[...]"profitable now, but immensely profitable once Tak'Kan is more developed."

Now do you take a safe bet like cee kan shipping, or go risky on the tradesmasher? Similary, almost all investments have a ballpark introduction: banks estabilished to be best investments, good ones like lonely sailor have megail gushing, charity/bad ones tell you flat out like tak kan housing, mage guild... Not exact numbers, but again you are not supposed to know those (ahead of time)

This coming from an utter minmaxer junkie, but i too "decompiled" the game to look for alternative outcomes/dialogs that a minmaxed run misses out and hoo boy there are some gems in there that i never saw on my "perfect" runs. (like the ogre in tar kan slums who has a too small tent. then if you upgrade the slums he has too small door. if tar kan reaches 40 score he gets a big enough door)