[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Regarding magical site searches, the interface could in theory help out even more. For instance, since searching is deterministic and there's a hard cap on the number of sites in a province, there are times when a given commander's search or a particular divination spell -- Auspex, Haruspex, Augury et al -- cannot produce any positive results.
If a commander has no searching ability that's superior to that already used in the province, perhaps the 'search' option should be greyed out.
A similar filter (greying out provinces) would be nice for the divination spells, but that would probably be harder. I would suspect that all the remote-targeted spells use a common path through the code for selecting provinces, and that it may not have the support for filters, e.g. accepting a set of trinary flags (must have this, must not have this, don't care) or perhaps a function pointer for a more general filter that could perform the appropriate tests given pointers to appropriate data structures. It would be nice, 'tho.

I'd at least like to see a "This mage is not skilled enough to find any new magic sites in this province" message (similar to the message you get when preaching won't be effective). The locator spells would be trickier to do though.

Are you sure there's still a hard cap on the number of sites in a province, though? If so, full provinces (where the maximum possible number of sites are already known) should automatically be marked with 9 in everything (to reduce redundant searching).

Interesting info about the capitols though. Is that only for sites added through #feature, or can the normal random site generation add them too?