Musings on getting the most out of the early game

[Boron]

Forgot one thing regarding sitesearching:

Unless you play a <40% site frequency game Pythium should sitesearch via accashic. This way they save valuable magetime.
Arco can also consider using Accashic.

[WraithLord]

Boron said:
Forgot one thing regarding sitesearching:

Unless you play a <40% site frequency game Pythium should sitesearch via accashic. This way they save valuable magetime.
Arco can also consider using Accashic.

I'm not so sure about that. Astral gems can be put to so many good uses, especially by Pythium and Arco. They can be used for teleportation, spying, mind hunting, wishing and so forth. IMO With so many good uses for astral it's better to waste the other gem for remote site searching.

[thejeff]

The main advantage of Akashic is in mage time. So that's a trade off. Time/gems. I usually don't use it.

The other advantage is that it can find sites of paths you don't have mages or enough gems to remote search for. Some of those sites might provide mages capable of searching that path, or at least the gems to fund searching.

[shovah]

best to use it when you cant afford to send out your mages/need a type you cant find