Antedeluvian?

[MT Head]

I guess I'm a bit late, but thought I'd share my thoughts anyway (Just got this game from a friend :-)
I killed the naughty golem twice. Once with Wilhelm going into torpor just before the golem died. Christof got the same amount of xp both times and Wilhelm got just as much as Christof when he made it, but none when going into torpor.
So it looks as if sending people into torpor only means those guys/girls don't get any xp at all and the others still get the same.
It might be different with "normal" opponents. I'll give that a try when I can, but don't get your hopes up too high.
Having someone lose all humanity makes you lose the game, so you can't get rid of someone that way, and I know of no other way to get rid of people, so I see no way of making Christof more experienced... except my suggestion below.

I guess you could use an editor to give yourself tons of xp and see what how much you need to get to "the next level", but I don't use such things myself, since it's cheating.
I have found a way of getting infinite(?) ammounts of xp, though, that may do the trick anyway. Rats! Tons of them! In the silver mines is 3 rat holes and everytime you enter the mine there's a chance that a rat will be created in these holes. Rats only give 10xp per kill, but it's still 10 xp.
My method here is to go to the shortcut leading from mines level 1 (which has 2 rat holes) to mines level 2 (which has 1 rat hole nearby, just over the bridge). Then go back to mines lvl 1, then to mines lvl 2, etc. Efter entering mines lvl 2 4 times, go left, kill the (usually 3) rats spawned. Repeat 10-20 times. Then, in mines level 1, go to the two rat holes there and kill off the 20-30 rats spawned in each hole. Repeat process until too hurt, where you will have to head back to town and get healed by your loved one.
Yes, this is time consuming, but doesn't inflict with my sense of fair play, since this doesn't seem like a bug. And since I have so little knowledge of vampires disciplines, I want to learn a lot of them, so I can try them out and see how they work.
Anyway, I've calculated an rate of about 2500xp per rl-hour. Right now I have just passed 20k xp. I made Paladin at 10k xp and that gave me some more hp to speed things up. Since next level didn't come at 20k I'm hoping to get it at 25k xp.
Wish me luck :-)
Oh, and if someone knows of another way to get more xp (more spawning mobs later on in the game?), please tell me before I spend another week of rat-killing.

[MT Head]

More info:
The level limit wasn't on 25k. Checking other saves it looks like 50k would be the limit. This would mean level limits are: 0k, 5k, 10k, 50k & 200k, which leads me to believe that Antediluvian would come at 1M xp. Maybe I'm wrong, but the limit will definitely not be below 500k if this number series is consistent.

Strange thing when I checked my hp/mana/blood:
When I gain levels as human I also increase hp and mana (Fine).
When I gain levels as vampire, I gain hp (Fine). But I don't gain any bloodpool?
I have only checked my blood between Neonate and Ancillae. As Neonate I have 120 hp and 120 bloodpool. As Ancillae I have 150 hp but still 120 bloodpool. No items included in this. My comrades have 140 bloodpool as Ancillae, but I don't know if they had less bloodpool as Neonates.
Doesn't bloodpool go up with your level? The posts in the beginning of this thread made me believe so. I'll try to investigate this further.

[Greenburger]

Originally Posted by Legend

No, i guess that's pretty accurate. Also, did you know if you find a book with a new discipline, that if you have one of your coteriemembers read it, Christoph gains the same discipline once you finish the chapter ? I used to give all the books with new disciplines to Christoph first, but that's not necessary, since he gains it anyway at the end of the chapter. So instead you have two persons who can do new tricks.

I tried doing it, I just finished Ardan's Chantry, where you find a tome of Blood Magic, And I gave it to Wilhelm as a result of what you said, and after I killed Ardan and the advancement screen poped up, Christof didn't get Blood Magic. (I know you said it's the end of each chapter, but I have no idea what a chapter is, so I figured the new discipline will be available to hi, next time it shows automitacally the advancement screen since that's when every coterie member gets new disciplines).

[Legend]

Christoph should receive the new discipline when the "level up" screen appears. If it doesn't work for you i can't think of anything else than it's a bug.

[Greenburger]

Maybe it was a bug for you... coz I asked some people and they told me it's not supposed to happen...

Or maybe version- dependent... I use 1.0

[Legend]

Well, if it's a bug on my behalf, i can't say it bothers me very much.

[Mister_T]

Originally Posted by Legend

..Also, did you know if you find a book with a new discipline, that if you have one of your coteriemembers read it, Christoph gains the same discipline once you finish the chapter ? I used to give all the books with new disciplines to Christoph first, but that's not necessary, since he gains it anyway at the end of the chapter. So instead you have two persons who can do new tricks.

Interesting bug you had there .. I would like to have it too, but unfortunately I don't. I also tried this "giving the book to someone else" and it didn't work.