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=== Betraying the Tracklayer's City ===
 
=== Betraying the Tracklayer's City ===
There are actually three more cashouts available for {{IL|Hinterland Prosperity|Appearance=Prosperity}}: [[Betray the city to (criminal affiliates)]], [[Betray the city to the Constables]], and [[Allow Hell its hour]]. In addition to their normal payouts, each of these grants favours from the respective group, and raises your {{IL|Infiltrator of the Tracklayer City}} by 1, but destroys ''all'' the {{IL|Hinterland Efficiency}} you have built up. Two of them also produce a hefty sum of {{IL|The City Waning}}, while the third forcibly yanks your city all the way to Marigold. Given all this, at first blush, these options seem ''catastrophically'' bad.
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There are actually three more cashouts available for {{IL|Hinterland Prosperity|Appearance=Prosperity}}: [[Betray the city to (criminal affiliates)]], [[Betray the city to the Constables]], and [[Allow Hell its hour]]. Each of these grants favours from the respective group, and raises your {{IL|Infiltrator of the Tracklayer City}} by 1, but destroys ''all'' the {{IL|Hinterland Efficiency}} you have built up. Two of them also have a catastrophic effect on {{IL|The City Waning}}, while the third also forcibly yanks your city all the way to Marigold. Given all this, at first blush, these options seem ''catastrophically'' bad.
  
 
There are two factors worth considering, however. First, these payouts cash out an arbitrary amount of Prosperity at once, at-value, whereas the costs they incur are entirely fixed and can be amortized across an entire 'batch'. Second, the specific items these options cash out into ({{IL|Journal of Infamy}}, {{IL|Dubious Testimony}}, and {{IL|Infernal Contract}}) cannot be ground anywhere near 5 EPA, with the current best grinds for them being in the ballpark of 2.5-3.5 EPA.
 
There are two factors worth considering, however. First, these payouts cash out an arbitrary amount of Prosperity at once, at-value, whereas the costs they incur are entirely fixed and can be amortized across an entire 'batch'. Second, the specific items these options cash out into ({{IL|Journal of Infamy}}, {{IL|Dubious Testimony}}, and {{IL|Infernal Contract}}) cannot be ground anywhere near 5 EPA, with the current best grinds for them being in the ballpark of 2.5-3.5 EPA.

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