Experience, Gold, Runes, leadership, etc. variation

[ivra]

I did some research on enemies with a single type of unit. For instance, all peasants. It allowed me to rule out a lot of things that do not affect the XP you gain after a battle. Notice: I have just begun and I have no idea if what I have found so far is true for boss fights and enemy hero fights. But for a no hero enemy fight I have found the following relationships:

First: What does NOT affect the XP you gain:
- Your Level
- Whether or not you use your Pet Dragon
- Whether or not you use Spells
- The number of troops you use (single stack of 5 full stacks, or any other combo)
- Whether or not you pick the chests that are preset on the battlefield.
- The game level (easy, normal, hard or impossible)

My conclusion is that the XP is based only on the unit you fight, and that it follows the following formula:

XP = 1 + FLOOR(NoOfEnemyUnits / XPFactorForThatUnit)
(FLOOR(X) means rounding X down to the nearest integer)

What remains is to figure out the XP Factor for all the units in the game. To get this far I did some simple battles in the start of the game as shown in the list below:

Unit............ Quantity ... XP .... Unit/XP ... XP Facor
Peasants........... 185 .... 16 ...... 11,56 ......... 12
Devilfish.............. 14 ..... 3 ........ 4,67 .......... 5
Devilfish.............. 15 ..... 4 ........ 3,75 .......... 5
Devilfish.............. 19 ..... 4 ........ 4,75 .......... 5
Devilfish.............. 28 ..... 6 ........ 4,67 .......... 5
Thorn-Hunter....... 97 .... 14 ........ 6,93 .......... 7

The formula works so far, and the XP Factors seems to be:
12 for Peasants
5 for Devilfishs
7 for Thorn-Hunters
(High-level units like dragons will probably have a XP Factor less than 1, which means that one dragon will give more than 1 XP)

It is possible to find all the XP-factors by playing the game as I have done here, but it would be much more efficient if someone with inside knowledge could post a list, and also verify or invalidate what I have written here.

[KongMysen]

I just engaged fights against the Castle on Settera Today. The Samman Bounty.

I fought him twice since my demonololgist' cerberi finished the fight before I could ressurect my casualties. First go gave me around 9000 xp but the 2nd gave me 12000 xp.

I'm not sure why there's such a big difference between these two fights.

A few suggestions:
Summoned troops give xp? (Samman used Demon Portal)
Mana used by the enemy give xp?
Not loosing troops gives a bonus?

I'm guessing the Demon Portals, but I really can't see how those few portals can boost xp like this.
I think finding the correct mechanism require a lot of testing.

[DGDobrev]

1. Summoned troops - reading through the comprehensive russian guide, there is no mention that summoned creatures do not give XP: "The experience granted to the hero for a battle is directly related to the total Leadership of all killed creatures."

So they should give, because the XP in combat is equal to 1.7% of the total Leadership of all killed enemy troops (0.017 XP per point of leadership, as stated in the game files), before any XP modifiers kick in (learning, +XP items, medals, etc.).

However, that would mean that if you get a decent item (or do that in Zilgadis' boss fight) and leave a friendly gremlin tower alive, then you simply kill anything it spawns each turn, the XP may prove to be unlimited, provided you do a couple thousand turns. Very strange, as that can be exploited.
2. Mana used - no.
3. Not losing troops - no.

[KongMysen]

I guess it was the Demon Portals then..

I just think It was a lot of xp from those. He started with 60-70 Arch Demons, 1000 scoffer imps, Around 200 Demonesses and a hundred(ish) Demons..
I dont remember the excact numbers but each portal produced 3 Arch demons or 50 scoffer imps or smthing like that.
Fight ended at round 12, and he used armageddon twice and a mass-bless once, so he can only have used portals 9 times.

It simply cannot have been units worth 3000 xp. It just doesnt make any sence, even though I'm so inaccurate in my calculations