magic site searches

[UninspiredName]

I actually also find the F1 screen troublesome.

[FaceLess]

Let me boot this thread to put a request for a slight modification in the message report from successfull spell searches. A direct link to the new found site or province would be very nice (e.g. in stead of a link to the commander that casted the spell). If that is too complicated, would it be possible that the province number is included in the report. Finding the province back can take a long time with larger maps in the f1 screen. Let alone that repeated provinces names are common.

[NTJedi]

FaceLess said:
Let me boot this thread to put a request for a slight modification in the message report from successfull spell searches. A direct link to the new found site or province would be very nice (e.g. in stead of a link to the commander that casted the spell). If that is too complicated, would it be possible that the province number is included in the report. Finding the province back can take a long time with larger maps in the f1 screen. Let alone that repeated provinces names are common.

I completely agree... the current "go to commander" is no help in locating the new magic site on large maps.

[TruePurple]

Thats a good idea, a link to the land instead of the commander.

[Meglobob]

I would like to back the suggestion to link to the province where your new magic site has been found. You want to see your nice new magic site not the boring old mage who you have had for turns casting detect magic site spells.

What would be really, really cool is when casting a site searching spell, it highlights all the provinces unsearched for in that sphere of magic for you. It could pop up with a number over each province ie...1,2 etc showing you at a mere glance what level if any magic search as been carried out in that province.

Computer gaming software user friendly dreamland/paradise I know but we can wish...

[krpeters]

This reminds me of something that I don't like in Dom3 relative to the original dominions -- it is now *harder* to cast site searching spells, from a UI perspective.

When playing the original dominions, I had a sheet of graph paper with all the province numbers listed, and I'd tick off which ones I'd searched after casting the spell. I could easily punch in new province numbers when I cast new searches.

In Dom3, you can't just type in the province number, you have to find the province on the map, which means I have to click away until I find the province number I'm looking for. And there's no way to see from within the casting menu which provinces have/haven't been searched, so I still have to rely on my trusty sheet for prov. numbers...

The current system is great for manually site earching, but still needs improvement for the search spells.