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Old October 3rd, 2006, 10:05 PM
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Default Ritual/site searching questions

1) How does one set a monthly ritual? The manual, as fantastic as it is, doesn't seem to address this. It IS possible to have a ritual set to auto-cast each month right?

2) How do you use the simpler magic site searching function? I didn't see it immediately in the manual. I tried having two mages cast Dark Knowledge in the same turn and the game suggested the same site for both. Is there something I have to enable or press to have it suggest sites?
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Old October 3rd, 2006, 10:36 PM
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

1) Shift-M key. I thought I put that in. Guess not.

2) I do not believe there is. You can set a mage to site search monthly using the monthly ritual feature. That's it as far as I know.

Edit: Shift. I meant that.
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Old October 4th, 2006, 12:33 AM
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

Jayded, I would add #2 to the bug thread in case it's a bug.

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Old October 4th, 2006, 12:55 AM
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

re. #2 - IIRC it will suggest the lowest numbered unsearched province. Obviously if another mage is given the order to search the same province it is still as yet unsearched, so it won't see a problem.

I'm not sure how this plays out when it comes to subsequent turns though...
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Old October 4th, 2006, 12:59 AM
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

Hrrmm. Sounds like a bug, as they really shouldn't be stacking redundant searches. Seems it'd be best to have the game assign target provinces only when the turn is submitted, but before it starts computing the results.
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Old October 4th, 2006, 04:20 AM
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Known bug ...
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I hope it gets fixed ASAP.
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

So that means you can't have more than one mage per path auto-searching?
That needs to be fixed. It would make the auto-search almost useless.
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

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So that means you can't have more than one mage per path auto-searching?
That needs to be fixed. It would make the auto-search almost useless.
Yep, and it will be fixed in the first patch, Im pretty sure.
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Default Re: Ritual/site searching questions

It's still very nice when I'm "blitzing" vs the AI; you can just forget about site-searching for a while. The other issue with this is how it likes to search your home province
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