2 missing visual cues

[Taqwus]

Regarding magical site searches, the interface could in theory help out even more. For instance, since searching is deterministic and there's a hard cap on the number of sites in a province, there are times when a given commander's search or a particular divination spell -- Auspex, Haruspex, Augury et al -- cannot produce any positive results.
If a commander has no searching ability that's superior to that already used in the province, perhaps the 'search' option should be greyed out.
A similar filter (greying out provinces) would be nice for the divination spells, but that would probably be harder. I would suspect that all the remote-targeted spells use a common path through the code for selecting provinces, and that it may not have the support for filters, e.g. accepting a set of trinary flags (must have this, must not have this, don't care) or perhaps a function pointer for a more general filter that could perform the appropriate tests given pointers to appropriate data structures. It would be nice, 'tho.

[Psitticine]

Originally, all searches were marked as complete at level 9 in the home province. This was dropped during beta-testing. When I asked why, Johan or Kristoffer said it was because there is now a chance for new/hidden sites in the home province, so they have the same thing in mind there.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Psitticine:
Originally, all searches were marked as complete at level 9 in the home province. This was dropped during beta-testing. When I asked why, Johan or Kristoffer said it was because there is now a chance for new/hidden sites in the home province, so they have the same thing in mind there.

Good to know. And probably another of those things that they are waiting for us to discover.

I was going to mention that I have used .map files to make EXTENSIVE and interesting changes to the home sites. Adding to them, removing the ones you normaly start with, giving you someone elses starting sites.

However I would very much like to see something added where IF there is no need to bother searching the home province, the game might say so to help newbies.

[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Regarding magical site searches, the interface could in theory help out even more. For instance, since searching is deterministic and there's a hard cap on the number of sites in a province, there are times when a given commander's search or a particular divination spell -- Auspex, Haruspex, Augury et al -- cannot produce any positive results.
If a commander has no searching ability that's superior to that already used in the province, perhaps the 'search' option should be greyed out.
A similar filter (greying out provinces) would be nice for the divination spells, but that would probably be harder. I would suspect that all the remote-targeted spells use a common path through the code for selecting provinces, and that it may not have the support for filters, e.g. accepting a set of trinary flags (must have this, must not have this, don't care) or perhaps a function pointer for a more general filter that could perform the appropriate tests given pointers to appropriate data structures. It would be nice, 'tho.

I'd at least like to see a "This mage is not skilled enough to find any new magic sites in this province" message (similar to the message you get when preaching won't be effective). The locator spells would be trickier to do though.

Are you sure there's still a hard cap on the number of sites in a province, though? If so, full provinces (where the maximum possible number of sites are already known) should automatically be marked with 9 in everything (to reduce redundant searching).

Interesting info about the capitols though. Is that only for sites added through #feature, or can the normal random site generation add them too?

[Taqwus]

The limit of four sites might be gone. I haven't seen any provinces with more than that, but there's nothing to prove that it's still there.

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
The limit of four sites might be gone. I haven't seen any provinces with more than that, but there's nothing to prove that it's still there.

made a quick test...

if you add #features 100 in a map script, you will see that :

1- you find no sites in your capital.
2- you find 4 sites in all other provinces.

[NTJedi]

by Pocus
1- you find no sites in your capital.

Yikes... hopefully this is not true for the full game Version ! I'm sure the developers will be able to fix any errors such as this... if they exist in the full game Version.