Site Searching: What do you use?

[Evil Dave]

After doing my own site analysis, I came to the same conclusion as Edi. Now I do most of my searching with mages with several level-1 paths.

Given how rare the level three and four sites are, and how little good stuff they contain, I wonder why the developers threw them in... Comments, Devs?

[The_Tauren13]

And why, for gods sake, does the searching display go all the way up to 9??? That really threw me for a loop as a newbie

[Edi]

Huzurdadi, Mount Chaining is both rare and unique, though it is lv 1. So it's chance of appearing is not all that great. Summoning Circle is non-unique, so there is more of a risk of it appearing. One of the most frightening things I've ever seen is Mictlan starting a game with Mount Chaining in the province right next to their capital. It was a co-op game I played with a friend and where everyone but Arco and Pythium (us)were AI, but if it had been a regular MP game, it'd have been game over for everyone by turn 30.

Edi

[Saber Cherry]

The_Tauren13 said:
And why, for gods sake, does the searching display go all the way up to 9??? That really threw me for a loop as a newbie

Hey, that's what the "Newby Guide" is for But it would be really sweet if some sites above level 4 got snuck in before (or in) Dominions 3... and multipath sites, where searching at either (say) Water-2 or Fire-2 discovers the "Luxurious Hotspring of the Opulent Steam Dragons," (enter to cure arthritis) and searching with either Nature-5 or Blood-5 discovers the "Deep Forest Museum of Mass Murder Memorabilia" (enter to summon psychotic curator).

[Chazar]

Evil Dave said:Given how rare the level three and four sites are, and how little good stuff they contain, I wonder why the developers threw them in... Comments, Devs?

First of all, these sites might be of use for scenario maps.
More importantly, I am convinced that all those pretty rich details present within Dom2, like these rare high-level sites, ensure that there will be always something left to discover, which is an important part of the real-world-'magic' of Dom2!

While I do make use of all these databases, and while it is good that they are made (since they help to even out chances in MP games, thanks), it is also bad that those databases exist, since they destroy that real-world-'magic' of dom2. Have you ever experimented with wish? It's certainly a pain for MP-games, but I imagine that it would have been fun to disover all its abilities on my own - if I only hadnt read all about that spell on the web already...

Yet, desipite all that, there are still neat things in the game waiting to be discovered (altough I seem to read only about it here, like last weeks post about....).

[PvK]

Depends a lot on the site frequency, and what mages and gem income are available.