Something's wrong with the leveling

[Dev]

Something's wrong with the leveling. I started a new game on a random map with a random faction, and I'm wondering if it's normal that WITHOUT A SINGLE battle, by turn 10 I already had a level 6 hero, a level 2 city, plenty of armies, and even some recruitable units at level 2—all thanks to exploration and gathering spots. Aren't there too many of them? It doesn't make sense that after 10 turns without battle I already have a level 5 hero and level 2 recruitable troops in the city.

[Bumc]

That's random maps for ya, sometimes they have way too many resources.
In general random maps should have more than generated as you can get unlucky and get locked away from something, but imho SoC went overboard with generation.

[Wirtzak]

Publicado originalmente por Dev:

Something's wrong with the leveling. I started a new game on a random map with a random faction, and I'm wondering if it's normal that WITHOUT A SINGLE battle, by turn 10 I already had a level 6 hero, a level 2 city, plenty of armies, and even some recruitable units at level 2—all thanks to exploration and gathering spots. Aren't there too many of them? It doesn't make sense that after 10 turns without battle I already have a level 5 hero and level 2 recruitable troops in the city.

Thank you for your feedback. It sounds like you are playing on the PTR. Random map generation has been changed with the goal to make them more similar to the handcrafted Conquest maps. One of the changes was to make them more rich in xp entities.

A level 6 hero in 10 turns without any battle doesn't sound like a common scenario but random maps always have the random chance of generating uncommmoness. Do you remember what random map layout you played at?

[Dev]

Publicado originalmente por Wirtzak:

Publicado originalmente por Dev:

Something's wrong with the leveling. I started a new game on a random map with a random faction, and I'm wondering if it's normal that WITHOUT A SINGLE battle, by turn 10 I already had a level 6 hero, a level 2 city, plenty of armies, and even some recruitable units at level 2—all thanks to exploration and gathering spots. Aren't there too many of them? It doesn't make sense that after 10 turns without battle I already have a level 5 hero and level 2 recruitable troops in the city.

Thank you for your feedback. It sounds like you are playing on the PTR. Random map generation has been changed with the goal to make them more similar to the handcrafted Conquest maps. One of the changes was to make them more rich in xp entities.

A level 6 hero in 10 turns without any battle doesn't sound like a common scenario but random maps always have the random chance of generating uncommmoness. Do you remember what random map layout you played at?

That's right, I'm playing on the PTR. I chose an 8-player map with a random city layout. I'll add that there were still plenty of unprotected treasures and collection spots available, but I stopped that game because I felt it didn't make sense to keep leveling up my hero, city, and units without any battles.