Researching vs Site Searching

[Meglobob]

TwoBits said:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Just to push things a little further, here's a scenario to consider:

You have 10 mages with N2 and 20 nature gems in your inventory (or 10 mages with D1 and 30 death gems, etc.).

What do you do? Set one mage to casting a monthly site searching ritual, and the other 9 to research? Or set all 10 to search 10 different sites, and keep them searching as long as you have gems to cast the spells, and un-searched provinces? Or something in between? And why?

Thanks

If at peace, with no immediate threat, I site search 10 provinces.

If at peace but some of my border provinces could be at risk in the short term, I site search all my provinces but not the border ones.

If at war I summon/forge/research depending whats best to win the war and do no site searching.