Questions about a game in progress

[PhilD]

lillumultipass said:
ok. So, basically, it's pointless to autocast the same spell multiple times.
It is kind of annoying...

Yeah, it is. I mean, it might be bad strategy to autosearch as much as you can, but I'd like to be able to decide on my own bad strategy (esp. in SP) without the game making the micromanagement help only available if I limit my searching...
(and as a result, I end up only casting each spell once per month, because the monthly casting is so much more convenient)

[reverend]

You could still have one type of search going on monthly. But when you have enough free mages and gems, those can be used to manually search other provinces. The monthly spell still tells you its target so you can adjust your other searches.

It's kind of like an indexing service on a computer. Usually run in the background, slow but steady with little use of resources, but when needed, just activate it and put some more CPU time to it. It just depends. If you want results quickly, you have to micromanage. If just want results, let the mages do it themselves.

[PhilD]

reverend said:
It's kind of like an indexing service on a computer. Usually run in the background, slow but steady with little use of resources, but when needed, just activate it and put some more CPU time to it. It just depends. If you want results quickly, you have to micromanage. If just want results, let the mages do it themselves.

Yeah, but if the goal is to help the player reduce micromanagement, then it should really help - like, let the player choose how much searching he wants to do, and start helping from there.

Right now, the site-searching part of the monthly casting is saying, "OK, I'll help you by auto-searching for sites - but only if you want to search one province per path each month. Any more than that, you're on your own", and there's no good reason for this, other than "that's how the computer does it" (which is exactly what I tell my students not to do: the program designer decides what the computer will do, and implements it, rather than implementing something and describing the feature from the result).