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

[Loren]

VedalkenBear said:
I can see if I can come up with an algorithm. Don't ask me to code it, though.

Who needs an algorithm for this?? I wouldn't bother to write one! Making it fast is asking for bugs and one shouldn't calculate what one can look up anyway.

Search level 4 or sites found 4 = skip.

We have 0-3 sites found, a few terrain types, the previous search level (0-3) and the path. Simply store all the precalculated values. I don't think it's more than 10k of data.

The only troublesome cases are the multiple-search spells. My impression is that simply summing the probabilities for all paths they cover would produce an appropriate ranking even though the probability number itself is obviously way wrong.