I would argue that units and champions that are stationed in cities should be getting 1xp per turn.

One of the main reasons why I STILL rarely build units is because stationing them in the city doesn't merit them ANYTHING. Thus, why pay the upkeep on them until you actually have a need for them. When that need comes, some quick buys and you're city is stongly defended.

Also, ANY troop stationed in a city should provide that city a -2% reduction to unrest. It's only fair that the people feel safer if additional troops are there to defend them. Naturally, small adjustments would need to be made to the rest of the unrest scheme so that having troops stationed in your cities doesn't overly abuse the unrest mechanic.

Also, militia that comes with the city defense is too powerful. Any Spearman that you build should be stronger than the given city militia....but that's never the case. Given militia should only be able to stop the SIMPILEST of opponents. They shouldn't even pop if attacked by the AI.

Also, if you have multiple attacks against a city, the militia respawn with full health every battle. It forces you to build a champion-army in order to defeat a given city because you can't send waves of light troops to soften up city defences.

Those are my current gripes...

laaazy...how bout a button on the screen that plays the game for you??? No free exp please..thats the point of xp..its expereince you've gathers..getting better for doing nothing is like its opposite.  @Xia are your militia in a fortress city or a regular one? Fortress Militia are a lot stronger..esp if you take the +1 to level sov trait

Well, I'm sure that a late game fortress probably would have some fairly tough militia, if they follow the same guidelines at trained troops.  But by then, I rarely have to worry about being attacked at all.

NO!!

but I DO think that the adventurer's guild should give like +2 exp per season (to champions)

--> if they garrisoned in that particular city

I know that. On the same way, I might tell that having 400 turns (100 years) a unit stopped in a town, and still level 1 with 0 XP is the same reasonable... And more, if that town is a fortress that makes level 4 units...

The idea is to see a certain progression on every unit and character, independently of the player, assuming that the units are training in a city, or in the wildlands, instead on drinking wine and playing cards...

And I'm talking of +1 XP for all units, not only the player, also the AI and the monsters...so don't find a reason to call me "lazy"

@Lord Xia  I have had the town militia saved my cities from attacks many times (more than I wished)

@GFireflyE I totally agree with the unrest that a unit should reduce when in a city. 1%, 2% or whatever. Maybe depending on the strengh, the bonus might change... On the other way, cities opressed this way could have a penalty in the money or in the research...The unrest mechanics is bettter now, but still could be argued about it.

@KingHobbit The problem is that Path of Governor is a bit broken. Have a Hero to grow 1xp for staying in a city? For building roads? This path is only usefull, if any case, for injured champs...Maybe it should be a trait (Governor I, II, III) instead of a real path, and for that it is already Administrator trait...

Path of the governor is not as useless as people make it out to be.  Sure I will only make someone a governor if they're injured or I have a ton of heroes.  But I have found that governors have two lines that make them OK generals (Trainer/Swordsman) and they are great at leading an army to an enemy city (while laying a road) taking the city, keeping it building and fending off attacks, and repeating the process when the city has all the unrest buildings finished.

Not very efficient on your main frontline, but perfect on a secondary front.

That is exactly what I mean. You have troops defending your cities. That is their job. If they got nothing to defend from, its normal that they get no XP? Well, it is now...it is because they are getting fat, all day only think in eating and drinking...maybe someone praying for no BB arriving...

It might come from the concept of XP points...So you win a lot by cleaning and making quests. But only a few by killing other factions, that has been said too...Why so little from other factions? So apart from that, the rest of the units are condemned to not even get a little of XP over time? I find that idea gives a bit more of charm to each unit also. Being the sov the most experienced unit too...

I agree with GFireflyE. Having a Governor within a city should yield exp for them doing what they're supposed to be doing. It seems counter-productive to have someone who benefits a city not in the city to gain the exp they need to better benefit the city.

Also, having troops stationed (trained ones) within a city that are just sitting there.. Well, it is reasonable to assume that they'd be doing their rounds, practicing, keeping their skills sharp. So that is experience, and in my opinion should be represented within the game mechanics itself.

Practicing your swing in the training yard will only get you so far.  How about a fortress building improvement called a 'List" where your troops can gain experience because they're fighting in tourneys? Make it an annual tourney so they only get XP once every 4 turns. Maybe it costs some gold for the winners purse. 

No, you're not. There are several actually. The War College (Kingdom) and Warrior Temple (Empire), for example.

I suspected as much. I'll edit to more reflect my sentiment.

Gaunathor is correct. There are buildings that provide exp. Though for your champions (a Governor as an example) only have buildings that give a small chance to gain I believe it was 1xp per season? I figure managing a city would be a tad more difficult to do than slaughtering a bear cub. Yet if you pull that champion out of the city and have him go kill something, he suddenly gains insight into how to better manage the daily goings of his people a whole lot faster than the 100+ turns (for early levels, many hundreds for later) to gain anything. Perhaps Governors should get a bonus that allows more exp gained while stationed in a town? Also somehow have it so that they more commonly gain traits associated with governing a town.

I would agree with having stationed champions gain some amount of experience per turn, because theoretically they are doing some form of politicking or management while in the city. (Where else does the unrest reduction come from? Threats of being killed? They still are doing something, like military parades and drills, or management of construction, whatever.) Champions with Path of the Governor should get more experience per turn than non-governor champions, and stationed troops should gain small amounts of experience from 'military parades and drills'. I'd also personally like it if there were more experience granted when certain actions were being performed in the city (i.e., governors and administrators get bonuses from building things; trainers, tacticians, warlords, and generals get bonuses from training troops; other things of that nature).

Otherwise I see little reason to leave my champions in cities unless I have lots of champions, I've essentially cleared the map of useful experience sources, or the champions are badly wounded (like, for instance, Typhoid Fever carriers, champions who were built as front-line troops who ended up with several of the health-reducing injuries, or sometimes amnesiacs because if they accompany other champions they reduce the experience of the army while gaining little for themselves).