Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2804:431:B700:3599:D022:2FE7:358A:6D2-20180523202338/@comment-35006067-20180524201651

Playing with Fulminato's calculator, it also appears that, without the +2 acceptance from Qum healing the Head of House Thelon, reaching the threshold to build the 2nd house of Petitions during Govern Yhilin 1 becomes really hard, which in turn makes getting the naive boy volunteer during Govern Yhilin 3 far more complicated, and therefore may lock out the best pin in the Forging Ties quest (max 12).

Those drawbacks sure are starting to add up, don't they?

EDIT: Found a way to reach the threshold regardless by sacrifying Carina's men, not requesting more money from Megail, then not investing in the Flotilla (or the Sanitation Mages), and using the extra money to invest into the Yhilin Bank (with exactly 1 million remaining before going to Ardford).

I can feel my own personal corruption score rising just for having designed such a route.