lostone2 Wrote:I don't think that there is a best path that guarantee the very best results in all the cases. In many cases you have to prioritize some features against others.
A example of these is Qum's whoring in Stineford: if you choose to made her to work at the brothel, you have more ProN and you gat additional investments that increase your ProN earnings to the maximum, but you can't get the best possible result in BoY and you won't get the best possible result in the Forging Ties quest. The same things with the Embassy investment or with the New Unpeople motion. Are you playing to get most relationships ASAP or to get a the biggest possible Army? Because you can't do both. Did you rush during the free-roaming section in Chapter 2? Because then you get a better Simon, but a weaker party and a more difficult BoY and later War, etc...
About having to bounce around for sections comment, a totally linear walkthrough of the whole game would be absolutely huge or just very barebones. As neither option was palatable to me when I started it, it was never a priority for me. Seeing that there is a lot of work, I don't think that it's likely that someone else will try, but one never knows. I'm always on the lookout for something like this, and if someone makes one, I will report it to the community.
There was a try to make a completionist walkthrough, but it was abandoned a while ago and it hasn't been restarted yet.
In any case there are some tools (Betatester's, XOyOyOx) that let you track different options until the BoY and there is another that will eventually let you do the same with TAW (it will be available before the end of the year). At least for that sections, maybe they will work better for you.
Ok thank you. Ill check those out as well