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Chazar said:
I sure cannot speak for SC, but I thought what SC meant to say was that a commander set to defend should be assigned to any one of the unit's available tasks which are guaranteed to do no harm by the server when hosting instead of allowing commander to simply stand idle...

Yes, that's what I meant. Conceptually, if you have a mage / priest / necromancer in a province with no orders, they have to do something during that month. Will they sit around and pick their noses? A sage at a lab would almost certainly start reasearching on his own volition, and a priest would probably try to convert people. And adventuresome druid would wander around the woods looking for magical forest glades. But there's no special advantage - a unit can still only do a single action.

The only time this system could ever be a problem is when you are not actually playing the game for real - e.g., hosting a supercombattant tournament where you want to keep magic research below level X. Which is why a toggle would be nice. But in a real game, I can't imagine why a person would not like it.

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I agree there should be a default action to search, research, etc. I think that would help micromanagement and at the same time keep searching as a separate action.

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Endoperez said:
Could you please ginve an example? I can't see the harm in preaching, or searching for sites, if the other option was doing nothing. Auto-defaulting research might make efficient researching a chore, but you wouldn't accidentally lose any research points either. And telling mages to research (to see their RPs added to the pool) wouldn't be any worse than it would be now.

I'm not saying that the system would harm anything, simply that I would be ordering my commander to use a specific action every turn anyway. So, I see no problem with it being in the game, other than the effort to implement it.

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It would also be nice if a spellcaster set to cast a site searching spell monthly would automatically pick a new site each month that had not been searched by that spell before.

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Reverend Zombie said:
It would also be nice if a spellcaster set to cast a site searching spell monthly would automatically pick a new site each month that had not been searched by that spell before.

Quite true; that would be extremely convenient.

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I'd like to see an option to prioritize provinces in general, rather than detailing orders to a specific mage. Particularly when casting sitesearching spells. So you could put all your Waste provinces at the top of the list and all your Farm Lands at the bottom. Site searchers of any kind would look at the top and see if it had already been searched to whatever thier ability (or spell) was, then skip to the next one etc.

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Ironhawk said:
I'd like to see an option to prioritize provinces in general, rather than detailing orders to a specific mage. Particularly when casting sitesearching spells. So you could put all your Waste provinces at the top of the list and all your Farm Lands at the bottom. Site searchers of any kind would look at the top and see if it had already been searched to whatever thier ability (or spell) was, then skip to the next one etc.

Or just let them intelligently prioritize on their own, skipping capitols, and following the known order of site probability.

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I think searching should still be a voluntary action, but it should be much simpler and effective. I would personally suggest that any commander should be able to search. Special site could be of three or four categories(holy, magic, civilian and military for example) and if searched by the right class (priest, mage, soldier or civilian), all sites of the matching category would be found. Some commanders or spells could be able to find more than one kind of sites.

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The only thing which should change with magic site searching is... computer opponents more actively searching for magic sites.