Balancing Very Early Research and Site Searching

[Squirrelloid]

Originally Posted by Immaculate

This is gonna be another very newb question:

when is it good/bad to site search with your pretender in the very early game (assume they aren't a supercombatant)?

What is early in the game? Why are they awake then?

Unless you took them specifically for site-searching (and generally, you're probably going for a dormant pretender for that), early in the game your pretender has set tasks he needs to be accomplishing, which is why you took that pretender. Otherwise he might as well be imprisoned and giving you great scales, a good bless, or both.