auto repeat spells

ajoin007 · #1 May 27th, 2007, 10:53 AM

i have read in a wikipedia -->http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Dominio...ic/Magic_Sites that it is possible to let your mage auto cast search magic sites till all of your provinces are scanned how do i do that?

thx

Jazzepi · #2 May 27th, 2007, 11:01 AM

Hold down shift, and hit M, when you have the commander you want to do the site searching selected (or have your mouse hovering over their icon).

You can also do this with large groups by selecting them first, and hitting the hotkey.

It casts the spell every month, so if you want to summons lots of troops, you can use it for that as well.

Jazzepi

Psientist · #3 May 27th, 2007, 07:12 PM

I'm a Mac user, and I've never gotten this to work. Is it just me?

Lazy_Perfectionist · #4 May 27th, 2007, 07:29 PM

I'm a PC user, and it seemed iffy.

I'm looking into the situation where it won't autocast a site searching spell. Psientist, have you searched most of your sites before casting the site spell? I'm not sure what's going on, but I have a few ideas to hunt down.

Oh, and for me, I have to be in full window mode to do this.

Ygorl · #5 May 28th, 2007, 01:33 AM

On a Mac, and never had any trouble. One note, which might be relevant: If you don't have the appropriate gems at the very beginning of the new turn (before gem income is added to your stockpile), the monthly ritual order gets wiped out.

Gandalf Parker · #6 May 28th, 2007, 10:38 AM

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 · #7 May 28th, 2007, 05:15 PM

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 · #8 May 28th, 2007, 05:21 PM

Did you have a mage selected (highlighted)?

Edratman · #9 May 29th, 2007, 10:06 AM

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 · #10 May 29th, 2007, 01:49 PM

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