Does My Site Search Mage Know Something I Don't?

[Loren]

VedalkenBear said:
And, well, they sort of _do_ know something you don't. The distribution of sites in a province can be adequately modeled with the binomial distribution, with the following numbers for probabilities in the case of Middle Era default:

0 - 0.1296
1 - 0.3456
2 - 0.3456
3 - 0.1536
4 - 0.0256

The chances that a province will have greater than 2 sites is only 0.1792, and so the computer is programmed to avoid those sites in favor of those provinces that have fewer sites.

It would be nice to see this implementation enhanced to work for specific terrain types, or to simply give the player the choice of threshold.

What I would like to see is that all site-searching spells auto-target the province with the highest odds of finding a site, but that they target all provinces where a site could be found even if they have already been searched by a low-level mage. The info on the mage should say what the odds are for the current cast.