Searching for Blood Sites is superfluous !!

[Arralen]

Searching for Blood Sites is superfluous - really !!
Never do that !!



.. and this was the first province I searched ...

[Dectilon]

What are the stats of Conjurers and Circle Masters?

[Sombre]

They're excellent blood/death mages. Very nice indeed.

Man you like to play zoomed in though, don't you OP?

[JimMorrison]

Circle Masters are 2B/2D. I can't remember the cost, but it seems when I got them, I considered them pretty cheap (but it was late game with an income of 7000+). They are an excellent source of efficient Blood Hunters, better and cheaper than many recruitables.

I gotta say though, I hate when I search 30-40 provinces and find nothing but so many Brigand Lairs I want to cry (especially when you find them in your hunting provinces!), which happens 3x for every time I find a really nice site in Blood. But, the best Blood sites are SO good, that you are insane not search for them as early as possible, before you start spending major amounts of slaves, if you can.

[Gandalf Parker]

I also consider it VERY important to at least check a location for blood and death sites before I decide to place an important castle on it. It can totally mess up a location for some of those to show up later. In fact, I generally consider it to be one of the cost effective uses of Acashic Record.

[Sombre]

You can't afford to be that picky about fort placement in MP.

I don't really see how it would be a disaster for a fort to be in the same place as a blood site. Inkpot end,.. maybe, even then it isn't so bad it's worth delaying forts and going out of your way to check.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by Sombre

You can't afford to be that picky about fort placement in MP.

I guess MP would make a difference. Particularly in the smaller faster games? Or would it be the other way around, big games make it less of a concern?

I don't really see how it would be a disaster for a fort to be in the same place as a blood site. Inkpot end,.. maybe, even then it isn't so bad it's worth delaying forts and going out of your way to check.

Just any old fort maybe not. But I was talking about an important fort. If its at a major chokepoint up against a major opponent and you have plans to build up large armies there for awhile before sending them forth, then its a concern. Often the province next door is almost as good a location.

But then another reason I like to Acashic it is in case Im going to get a free fort which I hate seeing after Ive built one.

[chrispedersen]

Correct me if I"m wrong -
but if you're seeing unrest, aren't the odds that you *don't* want to search there? Perhaps unless you can quantify the size of the unrest.

My remembrance - faulty perhaps, is that the odds vastly favor a *bad* result.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally Posted by chrispedersen

Correct me if I"m wrong -
but if you're seeing unrest, aren't the odds that you *don't* want to search there? Perhaps unless you can quantify the size of the unrest.

My remembrance - faulty perhaps, is that the odds vastly favor a *bad* result.

Why not search? for fear of wasting gems?
There are many things that can cause unrest. Events, spies, etc.

[chrispedersen]

Gandalf, in MP, you have an opportunity cost. Like I said, my memory may be faulty but my remembrance is that on a probability basis you are more likely to get a villain recruitment or one of the purely bad sites.

There are some indicators that tell you to search a province..
order thats higher than your order, luck higher than your luck - sloth higher than yours.

I'm just saying unrest higher than it should be probably is a waste of a search action - yes it can pay off big. But probabalistically, you'd be better searching elsewhere. I think.

MP is all about squeezing the maximum probability out of every action.