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[thejeff]

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.

Good find, Wyatt.

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

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.

[MaxWilson]

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.

-Max

[vfb]

vfb said:

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I've seen it target provinces with 2 found sites already several times. I think it does skip provinces with 4 found sites, but I'm not sure.
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I can't reproduce this, so I think I was wrong to say I saw the auto-site search target a province with 2 or more searched sites.

Nice work, Wyatt!