Hmm,
I actually wrote an article for News from Bree on this, but it seems that Clint changed his decision on using it - no info received on that. It turns out that you can calculate the probability of for example narrowing yourself down to two hexes and the like relatively easy from a certain scheme. If it is not to be used in Bree, I can forward it to anyone interested. But it does not contain any statistics on the actual hex being more likely, and I don't think that it is so.
Anders Stockmarr
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From: Pontus Gustavsson [SMTP:pontus@gustavsson.net]
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:58 PM
To: mepbmlist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [mepbmlist] Re: Question
Yes, a locate artifact will give you the true location or one of the
hexes surrounding the true location. I usually try to get LAT as soon
as possible, but if you only have LA, cast two times to see if you
can determine the location. As Jeremy says, if they are 2 hexes
apart, you know the location for certain, if not, you can often
narrow it down to a few possible hexes. So send a char as soon as you
have the result of the two LA's, in the right direction if it's far
away, or to one of the possible locations you've found if it's close,
and then cast another LA next turn to increase your chances of
finding the arty (not necessary if you only had two possible
locations though, just move on to the next hex). The hex you get from
a LA seems to be slightly more likely to contain the arty than the
ones surrounding it, but you can't really trust this. Has anyone done
any statistics on this?
/Pontus Gustavsson
On 1 Apr 2001, at 4:56, JeremyRichman@compuserve.com wrote:
It certainly doesn't always give you the same hex.
As far as I can tell, it is random. I have used
this technique to narrow down the location of
an artifact. If you are lucky, you get two locations
2 hexes apart and the true location is narrowed to
either one or two places.Jeremy Richman
--- In mepbmlist@y..., wra@i... wrote:
> If you cast locate artifact (not locate artifact true) on the same
> artifact two turns in a row, will you get the same hex location each
> time?
> Eg: The artifact is at hex 3634. You get a message stating it's
> somewhere around hex 3734. When you cast the spell again, will it
say
> hex 3734 again or is it possible that it will tell you it's around
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