Re: city question
If you know the opponent doesn't have access to a certain type of magic (water, say) and you haven't seem them using any water Indy mages, and if you've seen that they don't have water on their pretender, it would become clear that you'd want to search water on them.
That being said, you never know if they missed a province in the busyness of attacking you. At that point, it becomes a bit of a gem-gamble, but it's low risk/low reward, so I'd probably do it. If I recall correctly, on a Dom3SA Let's play, Pythium had beaten Tien'Chi. He didn't assume that Tien'Chi had searched everything, and wasted a lot of gems...until he uncovered an Alteration bonus 20 site that Tien'Chi failed to uncover. So it can pay off, big time.
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