Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-29984007-20200520171144/@comment-28893060-20200531181426

The Scoutman wrote: Seriathus wrote:

Do donate 100k to the Order of Silence, though. Otherwise you won't have enough OoS score by the time the Erosian War rolls around to get that final +2 to your Auxiliary Diversity to get the best score on it - and that will make it harder, if not potentially impossible, to get the best result on all fronts. You don't need the +2 from the OoS to get 9 auxiliary diversity, it is expensive but you can pick up the Succubus Tower Expansion instead for +1, you will need that investment to get the best results on the Stineford section at the start of chapter 5 and Stineford is blocked after the war so you'd need to get that investment before the war anyway. Oh, I did pick up the Succubus Tower expansion. You still need the +2 from the Order of Silence if you don't want to spend a million on either the war monument or the Givini Mage Guild, which I didn't.

Seriathus wrote: I personally have an optimized playthrough that depends on not getting Collateral Damage AND Chaos to 0 during the Battle of Yhilin, and not getting 19 victory points, that will allow you to however get 90% personal funding (so you can get all the relevant investments at the slum house of petitions, granting you the very important sex fighting ring you'd otherwise have to skip if you didn't either whore Qum, which is a no no, or renounce the Eustrin Supplier for the Eustrin Processor). I'm not exactly sure what you mean here, I think it is fine to not get a perfect BoY since postponing the monastery renovation until Chapter 4 is not a terrible idea, but most optimized playthroughs always get 90% personal funding, and why wouldn't you want to renounce the Eustrin Supplier for the Eustrin Processor? Oh, definitely. But you can get the monastery renovation in chapter 3 in my playthrough, you just build a shrine instead of an aid station. You lose a few RP with Sarai, but it doesn't matter since you'll have 75 by the time the Council of Gawnfall rolls around anyway. I guess I wasn't saying anything you guys don't already know when I said to renounce the Eustrin Supplier for the Eustrin Processor, but it was kind of a surprise to me because at first I didn't want to end the Battle of Yhilin with ANY chaos or collateral damage at all. If you don't take it, you can't do that - but it's okay, and I didn't know.

Seriathus wrote:

If you do all the best profitable investments during your first round and Megail's route (that means mine, bank, special supplier and Stineford magic shop, then in Eustrin processor and manufacturer, and of course embassy), and then at the Reunion forgo the Yhilin bank and the 300k ProN Ardan Bank, instead getting 400k ProN Ardan Bank AND Ivalan Bank, you can actually get ALL investments in Ardford save for the mercenary flotilla (which only gives you a small bonus during the 3rd Arclentian war, which you really don't need). That means you can get all the investments at the Slum House of Petitions, and in Chapter 4 you'll be able to snag up all the relevant profitable investments, open the ancient ruins before the Erosian war and get the best result in ALL chapter 4 story events.

If you guys want, I can upload the json file for the whole game calculator of my optimized playthrough. I chose Orilise but you can choose Lynine as well. That is more or less the same route Fulminato is suggesting, he follows a similar investment build to yours (although I think he skips the ardford restaurant to have more ProN saved for the post 3AW/early Chapter 4 investments or something like that).

Would be interesting to compare the different details between both of your investment routes. It definitely would be. I didn't skip the restaurant because honestly, I couldn't find any investment in the immediate post-3AW round or the pre-succession crisis round that needed just those 25.000 ProN, so I figured I might as well get it.