Land Region Investigation

Reproduced from http://nforum.ogplanet.com/uwo/forum_posts.asp?TID=661782&PID=8324812

Benefits to investigating land regions
Why investigate a land region?

-Automatic movement to any landmark in that region (character will path to it, still requires walking time but you can alt-tab out while your character runs)

-Bonus proficiency to adventuring skills. You gain an additional 10% to proficiency gains for Geography/Archaeology/Theology/Biology/Art/Appraisal/Astronomy while in land regions you have previously investigated. This stacks with bonuses from oxford skills that increase proficiency gains. Please note that GAMA has +50% skill proficiency gain, so the 10% bonus gives you a total of +60% (i.e. 160% normal proficiency gains).

-Bonus ranks to adventuring skills. Survey, search, and collection all gain +1 while in a land region you have already investigated.

-Unique discovery maps for reporting completed investigations.

-Item rewards including headache medication and quest mediation permits.*


 * Information sourced from another thread, linked below.

Prerequisites to land region investigation
OGPlanet has some general requirements listed at http://uwo.ogplanet.com/en/guide/Episode1_1.og

You need:

To have completed at least one intermediate school course.

Survey (or an appropriate item with its effect)

Collection (or an appropriate item with its effect)

Recognition (R6)

Archaeology (R8)

Theology (R4)

10,000 adventure fame

Completing "Legend of the Labyrinthos" - http://uwodbmirror.ivyro.net/eg/main.php?id=99994420

To accept charting the northeast passage*


 * I'm unsure on this one. The official page lists it as a requirement, but the character I used to open land region investigations has never accepted such a thing. I believe this is a mistranslation, and you need to have spoken to Mercator and accepted charting the north sea which is the first step in sea charting.

When you have fulfilled all these requirements you will receive a message upon docking that the Oxford professor would like to speak to you. Travel to Oxford and select "Land Region Investigations".

http://i.imgur.com/2vYSuy0.png

Getting started, your first investigation
A land region investigation is very similar to sea charting - if you've done any of those, you should have no problem with these.

Touffu64 has written a guide about how to perform one, so I'll link his thread as it covers the concept quite well.

http://nforum.ogplanet.com/uwo/forum_posts.asp?TID=652775

Just in case that thread disappears, I'll briefly summarize below.

Open your charts window and select the region you would like to investigate.

http://i.imgur.com/MGnUa7x.png

http://i.imgur.com/l22WjGR.png

This will present you with a list of tasks to complete. Each task you complete will raise your progress and progress cap towards 100%. When you have 100% progress you have completed the investigation.

http://i.imgur.com/PYoU7Iy.png

Tasks in red are mandatory - You cannot complete the investigation of this region without accomplishing them.

Tasks in white are optional tasks - Completing them will increase your progress.

Tasks in blue are completed tasks - You've already done these.

Not all tasks will be present at first. As you can see, I have only two tasks which add up to only 20% progress. However, after I complete one, new ones may appear.

http://i.imgur.com/mCytV8E.png

Continue completing these tasks until progress reaches 100%.

Unique discoveries from land region investigation
Work in progress.

Additional notes
-Certain inland areas (i.e. Ruins Interior: Vergina) cannot be investigated even though discoveries can be found in them. I'm unsure if the proficiency and rank bonuses will apply while in these areas.

-A landmark ribbon can be used during the investigation without losing your recognition points. This can be helpful if your last task is to measure an area. You can place two points, use your landmark ribbon, and then place a third point back at the entrance and be immediately in position to leave.

-After investigating a region, you can see what items can be found by collection/procurement/search in that region.