[PhilD]

Originally posted by Saber Cherry:

Problem: Determine the best path for a mage to search friendly provinces. Yes, this is harder than it sounds to make optimal. But it is not very difficult to make a working solution, even though the description below may seem difficult.

What, exactly, do you want us to solve? What should be the output?

I mean, there are a lot of things one can optimize for. Number of searched provinces within X turns? Number of likely sites within X turns? First turn where one searches a province?