Re: Targeted Rainbow - nifty!
 

Here's what I do:

Water 2/3, Astral 3

Convert all gems to water, make that little clam of pearls like mad, research to conjuration 5, cast Acashic Record like it’s going out of style. I also play the Arco's which is nice to have astral casters...

This can get really expensive so researching Enchantment to cast Mother Oak (requires N lvl. 5 caster) and Eternal Pyre (Lvl. 6) to at least be able to convert gems into.

I start with a Lvl. 2 in E, A, W, F and 2 in D (skull mentor), and 4 in S/N (I will either empower to N5 or make items that can give me the boost)... Once I reach conjuration 5 and enchantment 5 I am never without gems and have some good spells to continue my exploits.

Re: Targeted Rainbow - nifty!
 

PhilD,
You make a good point. It seems to me that not all sites are of equal rarity. Which...when you are talking about find X% of sites, you would need to know. I care more about finding a certain percentage of extant sites than I do about finding a certain percentage of TYPES of sites.

Re: Targeted Rainbow - nifty!
 

I was using Death as an example, but in my own game it's Nature I need. I certainly understand wanting Sites:Any, but I've been mucking about with Pangaea's Carrion Woods theme and it needs Nature gems so bad it hurts. I've also been toying with an Alchemist that can find all the Fire and Earth sites - Whadda Cash Cow!

As far as making the requirements random... I dunno. Seems to me that we're allowed to get very specific in designing for spells and bless effects, why not for searching too?

~Aldin

Re: Targeted Rainbow - nifty!
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That is an excellent suggestion. Make it optional at map creation obviously I think. Lets not take away any of the toys the min-maxers want to use http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif