[Edratman]

I'm a PC user and the shift-M trick works for me almost all of the time. I have found that it stops working occasionally, for no apparent reason. (I have checked and found that I had plenty of gems for the search.) So you have to monitor the number of autosearches and go find the relevent mage, if you remember where the mage is.

I still predominately manual search because the game allows so many independent level 1 mages and many level boosting items aren't readily available until construction 6. But the level 9 auto search finds a good number of magic sites not found in the manual seach, and many of these are very good sites that generate higher level mages and a lot of gems.

The autosearch does make me wish the next patch includes he province number adjacent to the province name when a site is found (or even just the number). That would save me some time scrolling through the province list (often more than once) trying to find the province name.