[Omnirizon]

unfortunately, if you're using Shift-M to set a repeating ritual, mages will search your capital too before pooping out. you need to keep an eye on them then since this is a waste. if you're a real min maxer, you will want to manually target everything to make sure you search the most promising provinces first, and the most remote (that are likely to be captured) and least promising last, if at all.

Despite this, I typically just let them go until they exhaust themselves. I hate micromanaging.