Searching for Blood Sites is superfluous !!

Sombre · #1 January 13th, 2009, 10:42 AM

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 · #2 January 13th, 2009, 12:03 PM

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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?

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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 · #3 January 13th, 2009, 12:40 PM

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 · #4 January 13th, 2009, 12:50 PM

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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 · #5 January 13th, 2009, 01:09 PM

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.