I'm not sure if this has been discussed and perhaps it's supposed to be a manual hunt only for balance? However, I thought it would be nice if we could put units on auto explore and they would automatically look for and collect pearls.

I've also noticed that once you have the map fully explored units won't move at all. Which, makes sense, but thought the pearl hunting would be useful for late/long games once you have map fully explored and don't want to spend a long time each turn sending units after pearls.

This is very good idea to allow send some unit to automaticaly collect all visible perls.

But there are some problems:

1. Should autocollector collect pearls outside of you's regions? Sometimes yes, sometimes no...

2. Should autocollector collect pearls in friendly territory with shared vision? Yes, when you are playing vs AI - this isn't important, but when you are playing vs human - sometimes you can try to steal some pearls while you's ally doesn't see it.

3. What should do autocollector, when there are no visible pearls? Try to go and seek in hidden areas or stay on one place and wait?

I think, this is very cool idea, but too hard to implement...

Well,



1. Auto Explore already takes units outside your territory as they currently only go to places that have fog of war, so I don't think that will matter



2. The only problem I would have here is if you were stealing it from an ally or someone you wanted to be an ally with. Which, honestly, If you start your units off in your area at the beginning of each winter (since there shouldn't be any left from the previous winter by then) then other players should have the time to collect the ones in their territory as well.



3. Since it would be an addition to auto explore, Yeah, they would go to whatever is closest, a pearl or a square with fog of war.



I don't think it would be too hard to implement, Units already explore ruins/temples automatically while they are exploring fog of war, I would think they would just have to add another script that matches the current script for going to fog of war, just make it target pearls.



but... Not a coder, so I don't really know how hard it would be.