Give us level 1 companions.

[aochoa]

The way attributes and focus points are allocated to companions needs a bit of improvement. A supposed blacksmith with general level 14, level 61 and only 1 focus point in his specialty will need a thousand playing hour to reach level 100 and I am not sure of living so long. And, by the way, the rate of learning in a skill would never be 0.00 no matters how low the attribute and the focus points are.

 

[Olympeus]

That was standard before 1.4.3. I save scum the start of every campaign, running around the map, hiring all the available wanderers to check out their stats before I start the game, so I've seen hundreds of companions and am very familiar with their stats.

1.4.3. has improved some things with companions. The companions lost their traits that were associated with each surname. I haven't checked enough data to be 100 percent sure, but 1.4.3. has way less wasted focus points and a lot more attributes that fit the profession. It was really difficult to find a wanderer with good attributes and few wasted skill points before 1.4.3.

Save scumming has taught me a few things I'll pass on:

1. 1.4.3 is a massive improvement with companion stats.

2. Leopardess' make great scouts most of the time. My current scout is a Leopardess that had an 8 in cunning when I hired her. Leopardess also come with a high rogue score to start as well. Mine didn't have a focus point in scout to start, but as soon as I dropped a couple focus points in scout, she started tearing through levels. In fact, she levels faster than anyone else in my party, including my main character.

If you're not patient enough to wait for level 1 companions to grow, that's fine. I support level 1 companions because they have the fastest growth rate and the highest potential.

Hello Mr. Companion expert,

Have you find a way to level scouting on ANY of your NPCs that are not the SCOUT in your party? I have my brother, my sister, several well-stated party leaders and/or caravan leaders and not a single one of them has gained single skill point in SCOUT despite the fact they have all led parties for years and are fulfilling all the party roles as the sole name-NPC leading the party.

Any insights would be appreciated.

 

[Old-Bull]

Hello Mr. Companion expert,

Have you find a way to level scouting on ANY of your NPCs that are not the SCOUT in your party? I have my brother, my sister, several well-stated party leaders and/or caravan leaders and not a single one of them has gained single skill point in SCOUT despite the fact they have all led parties for years and are fulfilling all the party roles as the sole name-NPC leading the party.

Any insights would be appreciated.

I'm guessing, but that sounds like a bug. The only way to pick up xp for scouting is to be assigned the scout roll in the mc's party? They should pick up scouting xp for running their own parties.

 

[paladinx333]

In my 1.4.3 game I accidentally added a bunch of level one companions. I used an old companion mod of mine and all the companions spawned from it are now level one with no skills. Leveling them all up has been interesting to say the least.