Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31632839-20170920202133/@comment-31632839-20170927225843

186.74.47.241 wrote: The only error I found was that the bank only gives 5k instead of 10k in Megail's Path if you have 6 Yhilin score. I'm not sure what you exactly you find faulty. Maybe yon can clarify your point for me.

Anyways from what I understand, the bank investment cost 25k (assuming you copy the clerk). It returns 5k at the start of chapter 2 (assuming you invested at end of chapter 1) and 5k or 10k depending on your yhilin stat (5k for 0-5 points, 10k for 6+ points) at megail's Path.

That's how it's implemented in the tool. Although I made some assumptions for the implementation of it. For one I assume you got all the relevant yhilin points that are unrelated to the invesment. These are: +1 for copying Andrew, +1 for copying the kingsman clerk and +1 for returning between 3 and 6 mine papers on Aka's route. Futhermore I assume that you invested in the relevant investments at chapter 1 and not in chapter 2, if you invested in them in that round. As the bank investment itself gives +1 point, I assume you have 4 points. To get 10k return instead of 5k you must get atleast 2 point of the other relevant investments. Those investments are +2 for investing in Bridge Repair by the start of chapter 2, +2 for investing in Mine Processing by the start of chapter 2, +1 for investing in Anti-corruption campaign, +1 for investing in Yhilini Public Works by the start of chapter 2.

As a side note related to this: the 5k return at the start of chapter 2, is calculated accuratly for the funds but is not taken into account for the total return and ROI and is also not show as round return (as there is no column showing returns for current round). But you can see the change if you watch available and remainging funds of the first round before and after you checked the investment. Available funds gets raised by 5k and remaining funds get decreased by only 20k (25k cost - 5k return).

This behavior is a recent change (which i forgot to mention). Before the change, the cost was 20k with a tooltip explaining that the cost is 25k but you get a return of 5k in the same round.

The reason for all this is that the tool design doesn't has a proper way to handle return in the same round (extra option returns are no problem).

176.99.167.216 wrote: [...]For example, you are not allowed to become a member of the guild if you have less than 1 million at hand. And in some cases you are not able to save from 100 to 200k for Vinario [...]. Yes that is a limitation of the tool. I must make some assumption on the state of your game, like I have explained at the bank investment above. I think those assumptions are reasonable. Since you are using a tool to plan your investments, I think it's fair to assume you also read the walkthrough and know how to get for example the best price for a investment.

But ofcourse I also make mistakes and some assumptions might be a overreach or plain wrong.

About the merchant guild, I guess I could easily build in a check to test if you got more than 1kk available at the post reunion round, but I can not distinguish between available funds after the reunion in yhilin and in ardford. So I cannot determine how much you actually have available in ardford (you can easly spend 600k for the bank core lender and premium steel owner investments). So does such a check actually help?

Your second point is more interesting. As you said for the last price reduction you must have between 100k and 200k left over, that might be - depending on your investments - not always desirable or even possible.

I'm not sure how to fix that problem though. The only idea right now is to have it as a extra option drop down menu. But I prefer to have as little extra options instead of an investment listing as possible. Also what to do with the deeds in round 4 then? Keep it there as investment listing or move it there also to the extra options.

How much a concern is it anyways? Is buying deeds for more than 100k in round 3 a edgecase or is it more common?

Also thanks for those comments. That is whats needed to correct and improve the tool ;)