Arrh steven atleast please put something in your topics with the long unreadable names ...

I do agree though, I would also wish the XP dividing would show up on the results screen after beating some monsters or enemies and being granted experience, it should show some red pointers or red lines to suggest to the player that something is different in the XP, and have a tooltip that states xp is reduced with several heroes in the army.

This is one of my grievances in the game, important key-rules around experience gain is terribly vaguely hidden from the player, and the UI does little to reflect a loss of XP gain.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Not the documentation of this issue to the player si the problem.

There shouldn't be a division at all, rather reduce the amount of heroes (please see my proposals in my own threate "insane difficulty = a blablabla?".

There used to be no division.  It was one of the driving factors that lead to heroes being absolutely godlike.  Hell, not godlike.  They were gods.  Stack up a few heroes and go to town.  Nothing stood in your way.  

The division of XP is a nice mechanic to spur player thought about party composition.  The problem, as StevenAus pointed out is that the mechanic is largely hidden and therefore never enters most players' minds.

XP division is standard RPG fair. I don't agree with reducing the amount of heroes, there is no need. (Yes I've seen your other thread). I agree about the better documentation on how the XP is divided, because that is not standard in most other RPG's.

I still fail to see why we need to have fewer heroes?

Agreed, there is no need for fewer heroes, players can make their own decisions regarding how many heroes they want, there are already built in bonuses and penalties for each route. If you get too few heroes you may slow your early game expansion/exploration, be unable to defend your borders early on, or risk a war declaration because you look weak to the AI, but you will have more powerful heroes later on, and you will get access to the more powerful traits and spells much faster. If you get too many heroes then you may be splitting your exp too much and end up weak mid/late game, plus you have to keep paying for their maintenance costs, but you can explore the map much faster with more heroes, find all of the good settlement places faster, and its a good deterrent of early AI agressiveness. This shouldn't be the developers decision, each path has different strategies associated with it and more options is always a good thing - stop trying to change the game mechanics across the board because you found one very specific way in which to abuse them.

DeadlyJulia, just because you got 40 heroes by abusing a very specific set of faction/sov traits does NOT mean that we need developer intervention that affects all builds and all play styles. Sure, some people may end up learning the hard way that too many heroes has its own set of challenges to deal with, but thats part of the game. I really wish you would play a few more games before you start making balance suggestions. The average player never gets anywhere near that many heroes, many people probably have never had more than 10, and without either Adventurer or Betrayer traits I'd say you aren't likely to get more than 5-6 heroes until fairly late in the game. Beelining for the 'recruit level 5/7/9 heroes' technologies is a poor strategy if you don't have either of those traits, there just aren't enough heroes available to recruit to make it worth it, and level 7 heroes cost several hundred gold to recruit, while level 9 heroes cost 1000+ gold to recruit - nobody has that kind of money to throw around early in the game. The game has already done a pretty good job of balancing the reward/penalty aspects of obtaining and maintaining heroes, you just don't know it because you have only played one game and you did it with a set of traits that made you completely blind to all of these aspects.

I think it is better to have shorter titles, it's just that somewhere about I thought maybe people wouldn't read it if it wasn't in the title.  I guess that is an unfounded fear LOL.

The henchmen tool tip hints at the underlying mechanic but that's it.  I could see new players having a lot of problems if they go with the normal "killer stack" philosophy.

I can almost testify to this

Don't feel bad because someone talks trash, but I will suggest trying to learn to mod, or see if some modder have the same ideas as you have.

I have said for some time on this forum that the current balance in sovereign and faction creation is whack, there are some traits you will never ever touch if you have any sense to what you are doing, and some traits that I don't touch because I can see they are way better than the others.

Call it what you want, you can't ask the game to be balanced on every setting, ofcourse heroes will seem plentyfull if you put the heroes setting on "Plenty".. (I hope so anyways, thats kind of the point).

I hope they don't change the rate of which heroes are spawned upon the map, but start out cleaning out the tons of bugs still present in the game and patch up the UI.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej