Automatic Site Search Mechanics?

[freek_o_nature]

Has anyone looked into this yet? I don't see much about it in the manual and I'm just curious about how it works and how to use it most effectively. I currently have a number of minor mages set to automatically site search, but the auto-search command keeps disabling between turns; there are provinces that haven't been searched by their path levels yet, but they're far away from where the mages currently are, so I thought there might be a distance-based limitation or something to that effect. I'll be interested to see if anyone turns anything up!

[Draken]

My impression is that they just randomly walk to a neighboring friendly province that hasn't been searched in their paths yes.

Another player said that they tend to split up.

But the also seem to get stuck if they have no unsearched provinces left.

And they will miss provinces and not come back.

So it's not that reliable. Though I suppose they would follow your expansion parties if you conquer a straight path.

[junkmail4mjd]

Originally posted by Draken:

My impression is that they just randomly walk to a neighboring friendly province that hasn't been searched in their paths yes.

Another player said that they tend to split up.

But the also seem to get stuck if they have no unsearched provinces left.

And they will miss provinces and not come back.

So it's not that reliable. Though I suppose they would follow your expansion parties if you conquer a straight path.

it randomly picks a province it can walk too i had the vampire queen auto search and it went to a province that was two away.

[tiavals]

I think it checks 2 tiles away.

Which is very annoying since the searchers often get stuck in "defend" after a while if you don't micro manage them, which makes it pointless. I rarely use the auto search for important searchers, only for death 1 or such dudes.

[freek_o_nature]

Originally posted by tiavals:

I think it checks 2 tiles away.

Which is very annoying since the searchers often get stuck in "defend" after a while if you don't micro manage them, which makes it pointless.

I'm experiencing the same effect, which is what led me to try looking into the mechanics. Two tiles is a good baseline, though, and I think that roughly tracks with the locations in which my autosearchers get stuck. One more thing for the patch list! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Draken]

So auto-serchers might go further if you give them some Boots of Flying or something similar?

[Chilli-Göttinger]

just micro them when they run out of search area then? its not that people need so many searchers anyway every turn