ARGH! Automating Magic Site Searching

Warhammer · #1 June 12th, 2007, 11:47 AM

What is the short cut for casting a magic site search spell every turn, or casting X spell every turn? I can't remember it.

Cor · #2 June 12th, 2007, 12:09 PM

it is "shift m" and then choose the spell. Very handy.
To help you remember the "m" stands for Monthly

Gandalf Parker · #3 June 12th, 2007, 12:58 PM

Yes m for monthly, and shift because it was added later so m was already taken.

Be sure to select the mage first, or a group of mages. Then hit the shift-m

Psientist · #4 June 12th, 2007, 04:46 PM

I've yet to get a confirmation that this works for Apple users, since it doesn't work for me!

atul · #5 June 12th, 2007, 04:55 PM

It works for me (iMac).

However, I noticed when I tried R'lyeh that it didn't work properly when trying to target underwater provinces (with Voice of Tiamat). Can anyone replicate this?

Saxon · #6 June 13th, 2007, 01:43 AM

Also, I find that the search often wants to search my capital, even when I have other, unsearched provinces. I have got the latest patch and I thought this was sorted out. Running on PC

General_Jah · #7 June 16th, 2007, 05:07 PM

So if a sight has been searched already it won't waste time searching it again?

thejeff · #8 June 18th, 2007, 09:08 AM

Yes. If a province has been searched to even 1 level in a particular path, the autosearch won't target it.

Which may be what was happening with Voice of Tiamat above? If any of the 4 elemental paths had been searched, I'd expect Voice to skip it. Haven't tested this, though.

Sombre · #9 June 18th, 2007, 09:42 AM

Doh. I just reported this in the bug thread. Is that WAD then? Seems pretty mad that if you've searched to lvl 1 they are unwilling to set a lvl4+ auto search on it.

thejeff · #10 June 18th, 2007, 10:33 AM

Seems to be WAD.
It would be nice if it would prioritize based on the level already searched.