Using "Acashic Record" to Find Gem Sites?

rsolow · #1 October 20th, 2006, 12:43 PM

When one uses Acashic Record" to search a province, does is there any way to know (short of keeping a written list) if you have previously searched that province with AR? Any sort of indication on the main map (or anywhere else)?

Manuk · #2 October 20th, 2006, 12:50 PM

there's always an indication. just right click on the province and you will see colored numbers in the middle up according on how you searched, each color represents a path of magic plus holy magic.
If you conquer an enemy province you don�t know how they searched.
you can search with others serch spells like gnome lore or dark knowledge or you can move a mage and use command "search for magic sites"

thejeff · #3 October 20th, 2006, 12:59 PM

Which paths have been searched shows up on the overview (F1) screen as well.

GamerMan12 · #4 October 20th, 2006, 01:12 PM

When you cast the global enchantment Strands of Arcane Power is cast, this does a level 9 search in all paths in all friendly dominion provinces - however it does not update the nation overview info is this a bug? As if you lose the enchanment you won't know what has been seached and what hasn't.

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Graeme Dice · #5 October 20th, 2006, 01:48 PM

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GamerMan12 said:
When you cast the global enchantment Strands of Arcane Power is cast, this does a level 9 search in all paths in all friendly dominion provinces - however it does not update the nation overview info is this a bug? As if you lose the enchanment you won't know what has been seached and what hasn't.

I believe that it's a bug that it doesn't report the searching. However, it does not perform a level 9 search in every province. It performs a random search that's based in some way on the casting mages magic skills.

Frostmourne27 · #6 October 21st, 2006, 02:30 AM

Graeme is correct - although he hinted at it, it is in some way NOT random. That is, a mage with the strands that is N7 always has the same max search using it, although it is a random amount up to that number every turn, in every province. IMHO it's a pretty crappy spell - by the time you get it, you should have site searched almost everywhere. Especially if the fix the site search algorithms.