We love Illwinter!

Foodstamp · #1 May 22nd, 2007, 10:15 PM

Highlight the mage, then hit shift+m, choose the ritual. Then your mage will perform his monthly rituals, just be sure to stock up on the appropriate feminine products

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vfb · #2 May 22nd, 2007, 10:20 PM

Okay, that's it, Foodstamp.

I refuse to read any more of your posts when I'm supposed to be working.

This is the second time in about an hour that I burst out laughing at my desk for no apparent reason. You're gonna get me fired, man!

Foodstamp · #3 May 22nd, 2007, 10:23 PM

My apologies. My humor is pretty weaksauce, I promise that was the last one lol.

jutetrea · #4 May 22nd, 2007, 11:10 PM

Hmm, periodically still get the multi-searchers (same type) losing the rhythm and picking the capital or stopping. Once they lose the rhythm they don't seem to pick it up again. Wonder if it has something to do with searching like 4,5,6 and then conquering 3 so they try to search that next and fall off track.

thejeff · #5 May 23rd, 2007, 08:41 AM

Have you tried, once they lose the rhythm, conquering a few new provinces and trying to set them searching again? Preferably provinces lower in number than your capital.

Also, if you set one to search the capital, does the next one also target the capital, or move to the next unsearched province?

My results have been consistent. A searcher picks the lowest numbered unsearched non-capital province. Except that sometimes capitals are targeted and some other provinces are skipped. But it's consistent about that, too. A skipped province is always skipped and a targeted capital is always targeted.
I'll generally just let them search the capital if they want to. It's a waste of gems and time, but it lets me keep using the auto-search.

jutetrea · #6 May 23rd, 2007, 09:58 AM

Yes

Yes

Variable for me

And me too

Usually they just seem to stop altogether, and I haven't found the exact trigger for it yet. Maybe the whole "skipped" province is the wierd bit?

MaxWilson · #7 July 11th, 2007, 12:55 PM

Another thing I love: the flavor text when somebody casts a global enchantment. Even something as innocuous as Eyes of God seems sinister when KO is describing it.

-Max

Wyatt Hebert · #8 July 12th, 2007, 09:33 AM

I'm actually surprised that people have not discovered the search algorithm trigger point.

AFAICT, the 'auto-search' function WILL skip a province if that province has 2 or more sites already in it. EDIT: It will search other provinces that don't meet this condition. It will then default to the province the person is in.

This is ANY 2 sites in it. If you find a province with a Copper Mine and an Arena, the auto-search function will never look at it, in my experience.

I also _think_ the game bypasses any site that has been searched to any level in a single path search spell (if you have had an E1 mage search a province, Gnome Lore will skip it).

This is the primary reason I tend to use Acashic Record. It cuts the number of missed sites to an absolute minimum (as they all pop up at the same time).

Can anyone verify/deny?

Wyatt Hebert

thejeff · #9 July 12th, 2007, 09:49 AM

I'll take a look at this tonight. I was thinking along the same lines, but it didn't seem that simple to me.
I've got a game to test it with.

It's certainly true that auto-search will skip any province that has been searched at all in that path.

Lazy_Perfectionist · #10 July 12th, 2007, 11:09 AM

I don't love Illwinter.
I just don't fall in love on the first date.

That said, I'll keep their number in my little black book.

I'm fairly certain that the game will bypass any site that has a matching path 1 site search. That's been my experience, since I almost always send three Earth Readers out ASAP (golem spam!). It will skip ANY two sites? Then why is it so often searching the capital? Though some civs have only the one site, and I haven't paid perfect attention...