Is there any point in researching the "new champions available" techs?

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Whether I research them or not, the higher level champions become available to me if someone else researches those techs right?  So what's the point?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

I belive that's changed.

You can only see high level monsters if you, yourself have researched the tech and as far as I can tell that's also the case with champions now.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I've seen higher level heros without researching a single tech for it. 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

much like my other comments on unique dungeons/resources... quite simply if heroes are not randomly generated and spawned (so there's an infinite supply), then they should spawn regularly, with the tech limiting who a faction can recruit rather than spawn on research. unlike dungeons/resources they don't need to be all spawned at game creation, because you don't need them taking out all the cities nor a whole horde of them.. even if they fight monsters or get killed by monsters randomly..

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting impinc, reply 2
I've seen higher level heros without researching a single tech for it. 
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I see NPCS whose name is "Champion". I never research the hero techs but I cannot hire the generically named champion. If I research the tech, will their name revert to who they really are and become hire-able?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting jecjackal, reply 4

Quoting impinc, reply 2I've seen higher level heros without researching a single tech for it. 

 

I see NPCS whose name is "Champion". I never research the hero techs but I cannot hire the generically named champion. If I research the tech, will their name revert to who they really are and become hire-able?
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No, that was a bug I believe they fixed in 1.09q.