Acashic records vs. separate spells

[K]

Akashic Record is a gamble.... much like all site searching. It's stupidly expensive, but when you are looking at a Mountain/Forest province that has been searched by the four paths you can scrape together you know there must be something there. Now, that may be a few supply sites or something even more lame like Arenas, but it can also be something awesome like a site making Wizards.

At the end of the day, you need to choose when the gamble is worth it and when is is not. Some sites produce signs that they are there like unrest, heat, cold, order, turmoil, etc..... and those are places you might want to search.

So use it to search key provinces..... or search when you have provinces that should have sites but don't.

[Gandalf Parker]

I agree that in MP I rarely use it. The smaller maps puts a rush on you that makes extensive searches of every province a luxury I cant afford.

But there are times I consider it. Besides those mentioned, if a lab randomly pops up in a province where Ive found no magic sites then Im eager to see if there might randomly be a good use of it. It might not be smart use of gems but its far too tempting to quickly see how lucky I might be.

Or if Im about to build a castle in an important strategic location. I particularly love having a search give me a castle there. Sometimes I do acashic on two provinces next to each other where I want to build a castle but cant decide which to build on.

But the size of the game will often decide how many acashics Im willing to do.

Gandalf Parker
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