Experience is calculated from combat rating as far as I know. And I definitely saw something about that in note.s

I'm finding the rewritten battle ranking system to be much more in tune with what experience you should be getting. Easy fights = not much XP. Makes sense to me.

Sure, there may be some fights that are too easy....but those fights have always been too easy.....shouldn't be getting free or near-free experience from it.

Well I soldiered on and there hasn't been any improvement. For example, a Cave Bear den on turn 115 gives 9 XP to a hero with potential and tutelage. A level 12 Forest Drake with three Pack Drakes yields 33. Capturing a city with an Epic defense = 21.  Leveling up has been reduced to a crawl, my sovereign is getting far less experience on his own than with a champion in LH 1.6. Playing with two heroes in the same stack is simply no longer a viable option. As a result of the XP trickle, the majority are now only fit to sit in towns to reduce unrest. The champion system and its RPG elements probably make 90% of the game for me and as it stands in the beta, it's missing one of its support pillars.

Turn 329 with Ineluctable Vision active, 12 opponents left. The AI champions are also suffering from the lack of XP. Looking at the [Fame 3/Level 1 champions], their respective levels are  6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10. Three have 10+ injuries, one has a whoppin' 12 (!), something I've never seen and no, I didn't inflict any of those. Oy.

I completely disagree because it's not being compensated later on, experience doesn't scale. The less you get at the beginning is not being balanced by getting more later on, comparatively speaking with LH 1.6. Clearing monster lairs for such diminishing returns, especially after playing this game since the FE days, is frustrating beyond words. And maybe I'm the lone voice in the night since I'm the only one complaining.

And yes, there is always modding to soothe our woes.

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I have yet to see the wildlands expand. Although I think i seen the bihimiri fissure expand to six tiles before it got overrun.

I agree with the experience problems/balance in the game.  Because we have the potential to have so many Champions in the game, something should be done to ensure they can level properly in the late game.  It seems counter-intuitive to just have relatively useless paperweights sitting unused in cities in the late game.

Besides adjusting XP or late game spawns, one thing I have tried is giving the Adventurer's Guild a boost to 5xp/turn.  Otherwise, quite frankly, the Adventurer's Guild is pretty useless as is.  You could also make it so that the Adventurer's Guild gives an XP boost to Champions stationed in ALL cities, which seems a bit more useful to me.

Don't mean to confuse. The game does neither item. That's why I posted what I posted.

Good pickup.