I build it very rarely, it's barely worth it just for the xp bonus, but if there are some level 7 or 9 champions I'm planning to pick up the cost saving helps to justify it.

I've built it when I have wanted to pick a high level champion, and when I have wanted to extend a city just a little bit further in a particular direction. Never for the xpt. It's pathetic.

Costs too much for what it does.  Have never built it.

Err i use it to give my lower level trained henchmen a boost from level 3 to 6, doesn't take very long and then they are very useful.

I find very few of the "national wonders" (to borrow from Civ parlance) are worth building, and most of the "world wonders" are trivial in value as well, given their cost. Making the Adventurer's Guild a certain defined xp/turn (ie, not chance) would be a better route imo.

I agree it's overpriced.

The percentage-chance doesn't work. You always get 1XP per turn. At least it used to be the case, I haven't tested it in 1.02 yet.

In any case, 1XP just isn't worth it and the reduction of the recruiting-cost is only good, if there are still available champions on the map.

I built it a couple of times when I wanted to recruit some late-game heroes. The xp/turn seems pointless, the city you build it in is never where you want a governor for example (I put those in recently captured cities for the unrest reduction).

Adventurer's Guild is only worth building for its recruitment price reduction, and even then only on a rare occasion. Its other benefit is worthless. I hardly ever build it.

The XP bonus to champions is absurdly low.  Why would you sit with a champion in a city for many turns to have a 25% chance of getting 1 XP when it takes many hundreds of XP to gain the higher levels?  Take for instance a level 5 champion who needs 76 XP to get to level 6, so on average he would have to sit in the same city for 300 turns to gain one level, that's an absurdly weak effect.

Contrast that with the spell Destiny's Insight which gives 25 XP for 100 mana. So the net effect of the Adventurers guild is to give the equivalent of 1 mana worth of free XP for a champion who wastes his turn sitting in a city.

Many fantasy games give free XP each turn to all units and heroes, MOM being a prime example. It only took 120 XP to go from raw recruit in MOM to elite which gave a  unit 2 or 3 times stronger.  Gaining XP from combat was quite tough in MOM as each unit only gained 2 XP for each enemy killed regardless of whether it was an orc spearman or a skydrake.  In FE giving 1XP per turn for all units would only have a small effect overall but it would add another layer of strategy wherein units matured over time even without combat and that goes some way to offset the maintenance costs.  The special buildings in the fortress that give new troops levels and XP from combat would still be the dominant effect.

If XP per turn was introduced for units and champions in FE it should not be too difficult to implement as there already a mechanism to add XP to units through the various buildings. The Adventurer's Guild could then be upgraded to give a meaningful amount of XP to champions who wasted their turn sitting around idle.  I suggest that it could be a random amount dependent on the champion's level, so a level 5 might get 1-5 XP per turn and a level 11 would get 1-11 XP (averaging 6) and so on.  A level 20 sovereign would still take 80 turns to gain the 806 XP needed for the next level so gaining 10 points per turn on average is a small effect.

This XP per turn from the Adventurer's Guild isn't really "free" as you have to set it against the other useful effects champions have like the -5 unrest in another city and the ability to speed up troop movement using Tireless March, quite apart from clearing monsters, collecting loot, doing quests and fighting in battles against the AI all of which are much higher priority in my games.

JJ

I would build it for the reduced champions cost alone, except that I usually run Wanderlust or Adventurer anyway.  As for the xp bonus, yes, it's wayyyyy too weak to be helpful.  I think it could use a bump -- it's not going to unbalance things horribly allowing heroes at home to gain a few levels.

I build it in my main Fortress where I build all my troops.  I usually try to have a Governor there, and a sometimes another Champion.  Particulary one that I find late in the game and they are way behind.

I still think the Governor's office should let you assign one Champion to it that increases their exp 1 point per turn.  But they have to be on the Path of the Governor.