Are you sure about this StevenAus? Maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by Corehero units as I have created a mod several times to prevent these heroes from dividing XP.

Are you running any mods? because it works exactly as you suggest. Note if you are running mods and they are loaded after your mod it will overwrite what you just did. Hence, you will see no change when you actually did change the stuff.

You should probably move this thread to the modding section (as I just tested out the Bacco and he was not dividing my xp).

Take for example the CoS mod. This mod doesn't change any of the units stats but it does make a copy of each of the units in order to add the background stats to them. Hence, this mod will change these core figures, and if your mod is loaded before CoS then your mod will be overwritten by the way FE:LH does unit modding (you have to copy the entire unit and it replaces the original copy).

There are a lot of mods that will do subtle changes to the units, like some of my henchmen mods do some subtle changes and most people do not realize that the mod is incompatible with other mods. When I claim my mods are compatible with CoS, I ensure that my mod is always loaded after CoS if I overwrite some things in that mod.

I can't say what mods you are running that is preventing the changes from happening, but there must be something causing the problem. Or it could come down to how do you know that these heroes are dividing XP? It is not an easy thing to test in general, I tested it by destroying the same group with the SAME combat rated army to ensure the same XP from both fights. Higher combat ratings can also cause lower XP.

From what you described you should get a unit that will not divide battle XP. I don't know all the details of your current mods and how you are changing the files, but as far as I can tell it should tell FE:LH not to divide the battle XP.

There might not be nothing wrong with your mod. But it is possible to increase the combat rating and thus reduce the XP received (Although I do not know the exact amount the XP would be reduced).

There may be nothing wrong with your mod, but I would go through each tag and do a simple spell check to start to see if there was a mild error of that type in your mod files.

There is nothing wrong with the tags in my file, they correctly say <DividesBattleExp>0</DividesBattleExp>.

This is what happened.  ManiiNames tested out one battle by playing it both with one hero and two heroes.  I did the same.  Two heroes halved the experience.

Is it possible that adding one more hero could approximately double the combat rating and thus approximately halve the XP received, even though one hero had the correct <DividesBattleExp>0</DividesBattleExp> tag?

So that's what the problem was.  Heavenfall redefines all the core heroes in the UnitStats (E Version) folder.  That's why my IWishToServe DivideXP changes didn't take.  And that's also why ManiiNames had the same problem as me, because he was using CoS (and thus the custom unitstats folder too).

It's funny how some changes work and some don't.  For example, the IWishToServe and NoXPSplit mods successfully add the custom skill icon, and the INeedToMove changes work despite having another version of Mausolos, Kasst, Bacco etc. in the UnitStats folder.  So I think it is possible for some doubled up hero redefinitions to not conflict.  You can redefine stats, you can redefine traits, but you can't redefine <DividesBattleExp> tag.