how to sitesearch effective ?

[Boron]

Originally posted by En Forcer:
I focus on getting one or two mages to the 3 astral required to start using akashic record. I find that spell the most time efficient although there is a thread talking about it using too many gems.

Gems- if you are number crunching than I guess Akashic record costs too much to be worth it. But I end up with gems coming out of my ears and if not astral than something else which I can convert to astral so really it's a matter of budgeting your resources and deciding what is important to you. Once I actually have someone who can cast it, the whole game changes because it opens up all these new resources.

I no longer use the search command for my commanders. I don't like how long it takes and that combat can interrupt the search.

my $0.10

i love the accashic too
but at the moment i want to try ermor ae and after this either ulm or man or vanheim .

all are very bad for accashic

so at the moment my main concern is to find most quickly many sites with ermor .

another question : how do you best defend against banishment as ermor ?
i want to try them in my first mp game but at my tests at sp so far with impossible ai the ai is sometimes not so stupid at all and i ran into a province now with 3 priests 1 of them prophet + only 10-20 units against my 150 but they won through banishment grr.

so i want to find magic sites most efficient and plan to cope this a bit first with e.g. spring hawks and later better need not eat summons

so feel free to post advice