XP Notes, 0.86

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Hi there, Have been spending time testing out the experience gaining system (OH GOD ITS WEIRD!)

So far I have come forth with some conclusions:
These are all based on combat.
- Also, most of my testing I only noted Base XP gained, a big mistake, will look towards this in the next patch.
Having 2 heroes in a group cuts the base XP in about "half", but not exactly, can be up to 10% off in any direction.
Having non heroes accompany a hero does not lower the Base XP reward from the monsters, not even if a "Sion" is present (An Empire only unit, that works a little like heroes).
Summoning monsters, buffing units or permanent unit enchantments does not effect base xp gained
Some spells lower the XP gained from the encounter, Shrink does NOT, Wither Does. Tested versus a Forest Drake solo, Without spells at all it gave 185 Base XP, Kiting and casting Wither until the drake died (12 withers or so) gave 151 Base XP.

Had to put this somewhere, I might have forgotten something, but I cannot quite figure out what they were thinking :)

Edit: Found out how the results screen shows the Base XP gained, so edited all the info to inform this, Am not in the mood to redo wither testing and stack testing before next beta :).
- Also need to see why my units sometimes gets >less< XP than Base XP, Probably a bug.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

It's been said by the developers that xp gained is divided by the amount of champions in your stack. So 2 heroes getting ~50% xp is exactly as the devs have said.

The wither thing is probably a bug. The spell probably affects the stats that are used in calculating what the base xp is.

Why do you think the xp system is weird? Seems to be working exactly as intended with the exception of a small bug.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Vallu751, reply 1
It's been said by the developers that xp gained is divided by the amount of champions in your stack. So 2 heroes getting ~50% xp is exactly as the devs have said.

The wither thing is probably a bug. The spell probably affects the stats that are used in calculating what the base xp is.

Why do you think the xp system is weird? Seems to be working exactly as intended with the exception of a small bug.
End of Vallu751's quote

Hm, mostly because it is showing BASE xp, and have bugs ^_^.

Wanted to have some goals as testing goes, but I have no idea how to properly test this XP system since a lot of it varies a bit, and have some bugs.
Was hoping someone else would pitch in with something he needed testing, If nothing else I have seen atleast 3 posts lately asking about the Experience system, so thought I would put this up here.

Will go through all this again in the next beta with proper notes of how int affects experience too. (Incase they changed some number or something in the patch).

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

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