Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-100.34.55.105-20170621085118

Do you guys think it's possible to set yourself up for Chaos and Collateral Damage scores of zero by the time the house of petitions opens up so as to save some discretionary funding? I've been running the numbers, and I'm not seeing it. But then, maybe I'm just missing something, so if anyone can confirm it can be done, how? Can you give specific Instructions? Just trying to set up affection breakpoints alone is absolutely brutal, and can easily hinder the army since you're short 35k ProN in the first investment period (not whoring Qum to avoid the hit to her affection and reduction in her gain rate - Qum needs to reach 100 before the Gathering so as to get Yara a +5 needed to reach 100 before the Battle of Yhilin so as to negate penalties of seducing the enemy commander - costs you 15k, a loss of 10k for converting it to Sx to get the +5 affection with Aka needed to reach 90 before transforming if you vote against war and orc extermination, and spending 10k for the stupid waste of money shrine in Ari-Yhilina because it's literally the only way to meet Carina's affection breakpoint of 75 with it's massive +20 bonus).

I don't know that every single one of them is strictly necessary, especially since Megail's is also a factor, but contrary to what the numbers on her page imply, on my prior run I got her loyalty speech shortly after the reunion so I'm not too worried about that.

But balancing army size, quality, and supplies is also a factor, thus the above statement about the money and Orc Extermination. Besides the benefits of the vote result alone, Ralke is too funny to die :(

So yeah. I'm definitely in a conundrum here, not sure how to proceed. Currently just post-Unpeople Warehouse, and Affection ratings are:

Aka - 46

Yarra - 60

Qum - 71 (Not Whored)

Megail - 35

Carina - Invisible, but it should be 30 given I've cleared out the Stineford Slavers.

Nobody else is relevant to the results as far as I know.

I currently have 55,000 ProN in reserve, having funded the mandatory 100,000 ProN Arms Deal and Megail's 25,000 ProN secret supplier (who I think might be that dwarf she talks up in Eustrin during her Path), but not pulled any extra ProN from her assets yet. 