auto repeat spells

[Gandalf Parker]

I like using it with auto-generate items such as ones that summon. Its a big help not to have to tell that mage every turn to do a summons with his item

[Psientist]

the 'shift-M' keystroke doesn't respond for me at all, ever. It's not that I can set it and nothing happens, it's that I can't even set a recurring action at all on my Mac. I can continue to have said mages manually cast site-search spells, but selecting, mouse-overing, highlighting commanders followed by the capital-M key does nada.

Lucky me!

[Gandalf Parker]

Did you have a mage selected (highlighted)?

[Edratman]

I'm a PC user and the shift-M trick works for me almost all of the time. I have found that it stops working occasionally, for no apparent reason. (I have checked and found that I had plenty of gems for the search.) So you have to monitor the number of autosearches and go find the relevent mage, if you remember where the mage is.

I still predominately manual search because the game allows so many independent level 1 mages and many level boosting items aren't readily available until construction 6. But the level 9 auto search finds a good number of magic sites not found in the manual seach, and many of these are very good sites that generate higher level mages and a lot of gems.

The autosearch does make me wish the next patch includes he province number adjacent to the province name when a site is found (or even just the number). That would save me some time scrolling through the province list (often more than once) trying to find the province name.

[MaxWilson]

I do have a Python script you can run (http://students.cs.byu.edu/~mdw45/reverse_directory.py) to generate a reverse directory (e.g. http://students.cs.byu.edu/~mdw45/Glory.idx for Glory of the Gods multiplayer). Print it out and refer to it while playing. It has saved me a lot of time.

-Max

[Psientist]

Did you have a mage selected (highlighted)?

Yep. Tried every combination I could think of.