Huh? You have to earn your champions each campaign?

[DedJim]

You finally fill your roster, but then you start a new campaign and you only get a level 1 guy? wtf?

[Mandro Cube]

It's the principle. Every time you farm gold and favors. The more favor you have, the more gold you get, the farest you can go in a campaign.

[Cesspit]

The permanent things you get are:

Increased gold find (or favour)
Gear for the champions (from chests)

If you get to the point you can't progress, reset. This converts whatever gold you found into a boost of favour, which means you will progress faster then next run.

[DedJim]

uninstall... i'd rather watch a screen saver

[Captain_Narol]

But that's the point, IT IS A SCREEN SAVER !!!

[Sipalman]

Originally posted by DedJim:

uninstall... i'd rather watch a screen saver

Lol...you never played an idle game

[Rat boner]

I reacted the same way DedJim, the mechanics are super different from the "usual" type of games.

[Sipalman]

Originally posted by SiR diGby ChiCken CeaSar:

I reacted the same way DedJim, the mechanics are super different from the "usual" type of games.

It's always the same...with every game lol

[muljostpho]

This style of gameplay is called "incremental" and it's found in tons of games labeled as being of the "clicker" or "idle" genres. (Usually an incremental game has a bit of both active/clicker gameplay elements and passive/idle gameplay elements. The exact mix can vary depending on the individual game's design though.)

The basic outline of an incremental game is that you:
1) make steady progress for a while
2) get stuck somewhere because the scaling difficulty outpaces your current capability
3) gain some amount of some sort of prestige token proportional to the progress made so far by sacrificing your progress made so far
4) start over with the benefit of bonuses derived from (and purchased with) your prestige tokens
5) repeat that whole process over and over while slowly becoming more capable of getting more and more progress out of every new cycle

Part of the prestige element in Idle Champions is called divine favor. Each campaign and event has its own separate divine favor, each of which grants a bonus to gold find for every adventure within that campaign or event. The game also has something called "blessings" associated with the permanent campaigns where you trade in the gold find from some of your favor to instead get other perks like damage boosts and reduced attack cooldowns and bonus favor income from future runs. (Most blessings are exclusive to a specific permanent campaign but there are a few expensive ones that apply everywhere.) And you can get gear to make your champions start out stronger than they originally did, plus also some consumable items for temporary boosts.

Favor, blessings, gear, and unused consumables are all things that persist through resets. Character levels and character specializations and the current area that you're fighting in are things that you lose when you reset. You go back to level 1 characters in the first area of the adventure, but you'll have some perks that will help you to reach even higher levels and an even higher area than you managed to get before.