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Wyatt Hebert said:
I'm actually surprised that people have not discovered the search algorithm trigger point.
AFAICT, the 'auto-search' function WILL skip a province if that province has 2 or more sites already in it. EDIT: It will search other provinces that don't meet this condition. It will then default to the province the person is in.
This is ANY 2 sites in it. If you find a province with a Copper Mine and an Arena, the auto-search function will never look at it, in my experience.
I also _think_ the game bypasses any site that has been searched to any level in a single path search spell (if you have had an E1 mage search a province, Gnome Lore will skip it).
This is the primary reason I tend to use Acashic Record. It cuts the number of missed sites to an absolute minimum (as they all pop up at the same time).
Can anyone verify/deny?
Wyatt Hebert
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Oh no, it's more buggy than that. It'll decide that some provinces are not worth searching, and just leave them off the list forever. (I think it may be that another nation has searched those provinces, so they are in the 'list'.) A captured capital will be skipped, and then for some reason it will start targeting it. I've only seen it target a pre-searched province when the pre-searched province is that current location of the caster, and the auto-search thinks it has no other targets (including provinces it has decided to skip, for whatever reason: a level-1 manual search, a full level-9 search, or it really just doesn't feel like searching that province).
I've seen it target provinces with 2 found sites already several times. I think it does skip provinces with 4 found sites, but I'm not sure.
Another features that would be very nice is to have the auto-search target provinces in order of distance from your capital. There's not much use in auto-searching sites if you're raiding the south, since currently that's what will be auto-targeted first.