Xp sharing

[DarkOne]

I already have in mind with which companions I will play as my main party.
If i turn xp sharing, I will get less xp on my main party but my other companions will be the same level ? If so, i'm guessing i will level up slower, but will it be a huge difference ?
In my first playthough, I want to make everyone's individual quests. Is it possible even if they are not constantly in my main party ? I will play with them only for their quests.

[Pepe]

You can change the XP sharing on/off mid conversation through ESC -> Diffi
What I am saying is that you can basically farm most of the first act with just the 4 party members who you get initially. Just when you recruit a new one, or a new one joins you, jump out of the conversation and turn the XP sharing Off, so that they inherit the exact same what you accumulated.
Very easy to level to 5 wayyyy before even assaulting the GGarrison

If you pop the bridge, Nenio will meet you eventually, so do everything before with 4. You hit lvl 2 at mongrels, if you keep the sharing on, except at the last moment where you get "End Conversation" you switch it off, so the new guys are at your level.

BTW these tips are from InEffect, I do not claim any credit for sharing this :)

[DarkOne]

This is some advanced stuff, I have to reread it. Where din InEffect post this ?

[ChopSuey™]

And if you want particular ppl to get more xp, you can always turn off group xp for skill checks so just the person doing the skill check gets all the xp.

[DarkOne]

My questions was: I my main party members and all are level 10. I have other companions who are all 10 level. If i play with my mains ones with xp sharing, all my companions will gain the xp even if they are not in the party, but doing so will make my main party gain less xp, so level up slower ?

[Pepe]

He/She/Them are a very busy individual. I do not remember. But the idea is that when you are alone at start you can just keep all the XP to yourself, since nobody has joined you. Through the joining conversation, like with Seelah right at the start she nets XP for that, and you keep it to yourself. But before actually ending the conversation you can ESC to go to menu to change the sharing for whole party, as if you had it "Off" all along. The new member(s) will get XP exactly what you have when they join when you have the setting "Off". Hard to explain, but try it, so you figure out what I mean. So before you get 6 party members you can keep the setting active party members xp only "On". Yes? :)
After you have 5+ party members just keep it off, I have no idea if you can permanently just kill and evict people, and I would not advice that you try. Might just break the game :D

[Immortal Reaver]

If you solo game with MC you gain 100% exp with "only active members get exp" on.
If you have it on and have 6 active members in party (they are traveling with you) you gain 1/6 of exp no matter the settings, and party members that are sitting in HQ are not getting any exp.

[DarkOne]

We are getting closer to the answer. Here is the last piece: If I have 6 active members and only active members get exp on and I get from level 10 to level 14 with them, how much exp would I lose if I have only active members get exp off ?

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by DarkOne:

We are getting closer to the answer. Here is the last piece: If I have 6 active members and only active members get exp on and I get from level 10 to level 14 with them, how much exp would I lose if I have only active members get exp off ?

Depends how many companions are doing nothing in HQ. Those will be lvl 10.

[DarkOne]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

Originally posted by DarkOne:

We are getting closer to the answer. Here is the last piece: If I have 6 active members and only active members get exp on and I get from level 10 to level 14 with them, how much exp would I lose if I have only active members get exp off ?

Depends how many companions are doing nothing in HQ. Those will be lvl 10.

If i leave only active members get exp OFF, then all my comapions who are doing nothing in HQ will get xp right ? My question is: if my main party of 6 kills something and gets 6000 xp total so 1000 for each active member with the option on, how much will they get with it off ? Let's say if i have 6 companion who are doing nothing in hq, that means that all my 12 characters will receive 500 xp ?

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by DarkOne:

If i leave only active members get exp OFF, then all my comapions who are doing nothing in HQ will get xp right ? My question is: if my main party of 6 kills something and gets 6000 xp total so 1000 for each active member with the option on, how much will they get with it off ? Let's say if i have 6 companion who are doing nothing in hq, that means that all my 12 characters will receive 500 xp ?

If you have the option on OFF, then everybody gets 1000EXP no matter what.

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by DarkOne:

My questions was: I my main party members and all are level 10. I have other companions who are all 10 level. If i play with my mains ones with xp sharing, all my companions will gain the xp even if they are not in the party, but doing so will make my main party gain less xp, so level up slower ?

No. XP works like this:

If you leave the default XP sharing on then all total XP awards are divided by 6 and that amount is given to each companion you have so far recruited no matter how many, not matter if they are currently in your party or not.

If you, turn on XP for party members only then only the members of your current party will receive any XP awards and those awards will be the total amount of XP divided by the number of characters currently in your party.

This means that:

a) if you decide to run a party of less than 6 characters, solo for instance, those characters will earn more XP faster if you turn the party XP only option on.

b) but if you plan to run a complete 6 character party then the characters will earn no more XP if you turn this option on than if you left it as default. Furthermore all characters not currently in the party will earn zero XP and fall behind.

Therefore, unless you plan to run a party of less than six, the is absolutely no advantage in turning this option on and in fact there is a significant disadvantage

Bottom line is that in the default mode all the companions you have recruited will level up at exactly the same time, they will stay in lock step with each other. The option to turn on party only XP is there purely for those who wish to play solo or with a reduced sized party so they level up faster. There is no other reason to use it. That is all it is there for. If you plan to run a full 6 companion party you should ignore this setting. You cannot use this setting to level up a full 6 companion party faster. By design.

As to gaming the system at the start when you have less than six companions anyway, there is actually no point really. The amount of XP you are talking about gaining is so small in the grand scheme of things it makes no material difference in the long run, even if it works. It's not worth it in case you forget to change it back (which would hurt you badly)

[DarkOne]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

Originally posted by DarkOne:

My questions was: I my main party members and all are level 10. I have other companions who are all 10 level. If i play with my mains ones with xp sharing, all my companions will gain the xp even if they are not in the party, but doing so will make my main party gain less xp, so level up slower ?

No. XP works like this:

If you leave the default XP sharing on then all total XP awards are divided by 6 and that amount is given to each companion you have so far recruited no matter how many, not matter if they are currently in your party or not.

If you, turn on XP for party members only then only the members of your current party will receive any XP awards and those awards will be the total amount of XP divided by the number of characters currently in your party.

This means that:

a) if you decide to run a party of less than 6 characters, solo for instance, those characters will earn more XP faster if you turn the party XP only option on.

b) but if you plan to run a complete 6 character party then the characters will earn no more XP if you turn this option on than if you left it as default. Furthermore all characters not currently in the party will earn zero XP and fall behind.

Therefore, unless you plan to run a party of less than six, the is absolutely no advantage in turning this option on and in fact there is a significant disadvantage

Bottom line is that in the default mode all the companions you have recruited will level up at exactly the same time, they will stay in lock step with each other. The option to turn on party only XP is there purely for those who wish to play solo or with a reduced sized party so they level up faster. There is no other reason to use it. That is all it is there for. If you plan to run a full 6 companion party you should ignore this setting. You cannot use this setting to level up a full 6 companion party faster. By design.

As to gaming the system at the start when you have less than six companions anyway, there is actually no point really. The amount of XP you are talking about gaining is so small in the grand scheme of things it makes no material difference in the long run, even if it works. It's not worth it in case you forget to change it back (which would hurt you badly)

Perfect, that answered my question.
Yes, I want to play with a full party all the time so the option will always be OFF.
Thanks PEPE for the tip, I understand it now.