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Old July 12th, 2007, 06:25 PM
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> Well, the randomly refusing to search is a bug, searching capital is (probably the same) bug. Hopefully those can get sorted out.

I would consider it a bug (or unwanted feature). I just found out that two of my casters had searched a conquered capital in my current MP game. A bit annoying.
Which is why I don't bother to use it. If you're going to spend two mages' turns worth of research + 4 gems to cast the search spell, then I damn well better get my money's worth.

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Old July 12th, 2007, 07:15 PM

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I've never seen it search the capital more than once, except when you restart the search with no targets so it defaults to the caster's current province.

I was poking at this again with this mornings suggestion of 2 sites already found being the trigger for not searching. It looks like that's right.
I've got a fairly large game that I was only using auto-search as a test and it looks like it matches this pattern.
I also went back through a bunch of sp/test games and checked the capitals. The only ones to get searched had only one site.

Can anyone look at an existing game and find a counterexample? Either targetting a province with 2+ sites or skipping one with less. I'd thought I'd seen some, but can't find any now. Remember that it defaults to the caster's province if there aren't any "valid" targets so don't count that.

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Old July 12th, 2007, 07:55 PM

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Well.. maybe its been the scope of my game, but I've been fairly happy with the results I get by selecting my remote site searchers and targeting them to auto-cast at my partially searched sites. Usually, by the time I've got the site search spell, I've got a number of mages capable of casting it close to the amount of provinces I've physically searched. So that reduces my micro nicely.
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Old July 12th, 2007, 08:47 PM

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Yep. Auto searching is a tool for reducing micro. As with any similar tool, you can get better results by manually tweaking things (if you want to reduce unrest, for instance, you'll get more income by setting taxes to 0% and then 100% instead of 50% twice like the auto-taxer will do), but it's a great tool for people who just want to escape the hassle.

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