Automated site searching request

[Wick]

I think a little thing that would have a big impact on automatic searching would be targeting the median ID instead of the low.

[ComTrav]

Another question from a newb learning about this wonderful feature:

How smart is this? If I've manually searched a site with a high-path astral mage (and found nothing), will it target it with Arcane Probing?

[vfb]

No.

I left that bit out of my explanation, but please see thejeff's comment above.

[Hully]

Hi

Thanks shift+M, great.

The manual that came with my game has 292 pages and list NO keyboard commands, last couple of pages index and before that glossary.

Thanks for the info on the ? key appreciated.


Hully

[capnq]

Hully said: The manual that came with my game has 292 pages and list NO keyboard commands, last couple of pages index and before that glossary.

You got a defective manual, then; the hotkey list is on p. 294.

Another hotkey that isn't listed is alt-enter to toggle windowed mode.

alt-tab cycles through the programs on the taskbar, but that's part of Windows rather than Dom3.

[Endoperez]

capnq said:
You got a defective manual, then; the hotkey list is on p. 294.

I don't have it either, but I got an early copy of the game. Perhaps the hotkey list has been included since.

[vfb]

Yep, there are no defective manuals, just two editions. The first does not have the national global enchantments like Illwinter, and it sounds like it's missing the hotkeys too.

[Omnirizon]

I've got a possibly ignorant array of question

so why are provinces with 2 sites skipped? can a province not have more than 2 sites? is there a limit on how many sites it can have? when are magic sites determined: at generation of game, or when the province is searched?

[thejeff]

I'm not sure why provinces with 2 sites are skipped. Design choice. Efficiency compromise, I'd guess. The more sites found, the less likely there will be more, so it's more efficient to search provinces with less sites. Just like not searching provinces that have been searched at all in a path.

My standard practice is to let the automated searches finish, then go through and mop up anything they skipped.

Provinces can have up to 4 sites. Determined at the beginning of the game. Some can have effects even before they are discovered, scale changes, unrest, etc.

[Endoperez]

EDIT: Too late. Thejeff explained it better, any way.