Suggestion to autocasting search spells

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thejeff said:

I'd much rather search a Waste site (+20%) that already had 3 sites than a farm (-10%) that had none.

Am I missing something?

Hmmm. Suppose you're searching with Acashic Record and the base chance is 50%.

For the Waste province, the chance to find a site is 70%.

For the Farm, the chance to find 0 sites is 0.6^4 = 13%, so the chance to find 1 or more sites is 87%.

Its more complicated when searching with the individual spells (because the Waste site must have already been searched with some).


I wouldn't have spent any more than 10 seconds working that out, because I seriously doubt we will ever see a complicated auto-search algorithm. The devs prefer to spend time adding cool new content - and that's fine by me.