Prestige Soft Cap / Class specific experience

[antoniocapo]

Replaying all the content with the patch 1.20+ and its has been very fresh, especially love the new hero units adding some juicy flavor to game play. However, after searching the forums and FAQ, im not 100% clear about the following:

1) How exactly is prestige soft cap calculated? Is it the average prestige cost for total units deployed ; or its just a ratio of units deployed average cost? Example: On a scenario with max deployable units of 10: Which will award more prestige?

a. Deploy 5 Tiger tanks of cost 703p each

b. Deploying 5 Tiger tanks and 5 Hummel (337p each)

Is there some specific formula for computing the prestige soft cap? Would be very nice to have a soft cap indicator in the Deployment phase too.

2) What are the detailed Class-specific unit experience bonuses? Have read in the forums its: AT, Fighter and AA all get +2 attack bonus per experience star. But also read some bonuses to infantry. Would the class-specific bonuses apply to all unit types then? What are those bonuses?

A large part of the fun i get from Panzer Corps game play is trying to be as efficiently as possible with prestige management and core force building, so the precise answers to the above will be very helpful.

Prestige will be awarded to anyone that tries to clear this up

[Tarrak]

Read the first post in this thread and it will answer your both question.The thread is from the beta but as far i know nothing changed between the time it was posted and the release.

[antoniocapo]

Thanks for the link Tarrak.

The nice table there answered the class specific experience bonuses.

However it doesnt answer the first question about the formula for determining the prestige soft cap. That is do i get more benefit for deploying less than the allowable maximum units in a scenario, even if the units i deploy are super costly?

Im pondering which of the following formulas is right (made them up so they can be both wrong lol):

A. Total cost of units deployed / Maximum units allowed in scenario = prestige soft cap

B. Total cost of units deployed / Actual units deployed in scenario = prestige soft cap

So for example deploying 5 Tiger tanks in a maximum of 10 units scenario is either: per A = 351.5 or per B = 703?

[antoniocapo]

I went on and experimented a bit with various forces composition: a few high cost units (5) versus a full component of cheaper units (20) in a scenario allowing a maximum 0f 20 units (Volturno line). The small force of 5 costly units awarded me full prestige for taking a city, but the 20 units cheaper force awarded less (like 80%). So if anyone was interested the correct answer was A above, the prestige soft cap is determined then by the Total cost of all the units and not by an average cost of what you deploy.

This is good to know cause it pays one for using the least amount of force to get the most prestige. Now we have to take better care on deploying only units that actually are going to contribute, and no more extra "garrison" forces on the rear. Im talking to you italians!

[Tarrak]

Yes the prestige per slot is calculated as in your formula in A. That really wasn't mentioned explicitly in the text but you found it out yourself already. I hope everything else is clear. If not feel free to ask.

[antoniocapo]

Thanks again Tarrak. That felt reassuring