RickThePillar

Yeah i see your point emptiness. Ive been playing rpgs since the 80s and ive always had this competionist nature in my playstyle. Search every path, see everything, and find every secret in a single playthrough. Youd think i'd be happy with the option to search 100% of the time as it suits my personality. I guess i kinda feel guilty, like its cheating. But...yeah your right, if the developers made the game giving us these options its not really "cheating" since its up to the players discression as to how they want to play. I guess its the same discression as saving and loading, and changing difficulties.

The idea with having a limit on searching per rest is that searching would take a bit of time. A limit might help to simulate this without the need to speed up time as your searching. Putting points into stealth (or simply making it perception based which definately makes the most sense) to increase uses between rests means the character is better and faster at it. I know your moving slower when searching but there really isnt a downside. Have search mode on all the time, everywhere you go. Why not?

I have very little patience and without fast mode i wouldnt be bothered to be sneaking around 100% of the time ruining the immersion of the game. Yes...i could impose house rules and not press the fast button..but its there and o-so tempting....

Well the exact number doesnt really matter just some sort of limit so at least theres a bit of strategy or thought to sneaking to find secrets. Or at least disable fast mode when sneaking to make it more tedious..

I think finding secrets would have been better if increasing your stealth increased an amount per day you could search and your search radius. If you can only search like 5 times per rest youd think when you use it. This would have added some more depth into talking to npcs. (e.g. this area behind this weird shaped rock i heard a sword is buried...) It would be nice if searching a dungeon you see a funny shaped brick, do a search, and bam! You were right!