Talk:Matters of State/@comment-24389606-20170903234128/@comment-32875425-20170924175737

And if you're trying to maximize profit, you want not just multiple Governorship terms, but many, to offset the cost of sailing there and back. I've simulated a near-optimal strategy, and the fraction of terms for which it yielded State Dinner as the optimal choice might have been zero (I can't recall for sure) and was definitely <1%. (I really need to write that strategy up; other than the need to use a lookup table (either manually or using a script (on your own machine; not a bot) once per term, it's reasonably straightforward.)