Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-130.225.247.34-20191209223735/@comment-29984007-20191214112206

130.225.247.34 wrote: I think you are overestimating the value of getting social +40 during the Ardford crisis, instead of focusing on maximizing profit, but i suppose it will come down to how many ways we will have to sabotage Bhakan during the next episode of "The Ardan Bacholerette". Only time will tell.

you can damage farnan too. [if you do things good enough] he withdraw for the throne's run, but he is a suitor candidate nevertheless. and his aram family branch can help or damage tyna, we will see.

I don't need the double campaign. I come out of Yhilin Battle+ aftermath with 20 Victory Points. A single campaign places me at 23, at which point i pick the northern site during the Ghenalon/Orgasmic Empire trade negotiations, which gives me the final 2 victory points to reach 25. This costs me 1 yhilin acceptance (because i copy the old man) and forces me to wait with some of funding opportunities, but saves me 10%.

i don't reapair early the bridge, so i miss the +1 VP from yarra ambush. but this is tangential. having a good enough evaluation from the ambassador you gain a chaos -1 [you need only VP >= CD + Chaos and double campaign], if you don't have a realy bad BoY it's enough to drop your chaos to 0. this will spare you of the need of funding chaos reduction, sum up all you don't lose anything, but gain 3 VP in the process. you don't need to size north site, this will unlock the statue early (yarra square's volunteer easier to achive) and you don't need to copy the old man. [but this it's not realy saving a copy slot, all of them are cleanup during the wedding, but an acceptance loss avoided]

The Scoutman wrote:

I think hiring a double campaign was part of the things needed to get the ambassador's boost tho, wasn't it? Either way, skipping the monastery conversion is also not a big deal at all, if you invested in the Ivalan Bank it should be no problem to get the Religion score needed to deal with the holy legion during the 3AW, and then getting the monastery conversion during chapter 4 costs a meager 25k ProN, and you get some bonus Yhilin Acceptance to boot, so that's also an option if you need to use some DF to clear up chaos or whatever.

aid station grant Sarai RP, you cannot fund the shrine or her rp will be below 70 for best in 3AW. and for real, DF are free, you don't need to use any your resource, ProNs are your resource, and you want using ProN for doing a thing you can do with DF only because you want take a sub-par choice?

If it comes down to just the social score though and the Donovan score is overkill, there are cheaper ways of boosting the variable to 40, things like the Succubus Band or the Yhilini Mercenaries, you'd be able to save like 700k ProN that could be invested into some really good investments early in chapter 4, although keep in mind you will need to get it before the Thenoursian War for their boosts on the auxiliary forces anyway.

50K more return for each iteration throught orc merchant isn't bad at all, expecialy if you sum all the bonus war monument grant. and succubus band it's the last +1 for reaching 40. if i have a bit more to spare can switch to booze shack, but for now there isn't any need for that. the only real problem, for now, is missing theltiar rental before chapter 5.