1) How does one set a monthly ritual? The manual, as fantastic as it is, doesn't seem to address this. It IS possible to have a ritual set to auto-cast each month right?
2) How do you use the simpler magic site searching function? I didn't see it immediately in the manual. I tried having two mages cast Dark Knowledge in the same turn and the game suggested the same site for both. Is there something I have to enable or press to have it suggest sites?
re. #2 - IIRC it will suggest the lowest numbered unsearched province. Obviously if another mage is given the order to search the same province it is still as yet unsearched, so it won't see a problem.
I'm not sure how this plays out when it comes to subsequent turns though...
Hrrmm. Sounds like a bug, as they really shouldn't be stacking redundant searches. Seems it'd be best to have the game assign target provinces only when the turn is submitted, but before it starts computing the results.
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