I might add in some books for level 2 and three elements. 

What overall difficulty level and monster density are you using, if you don't mind me asking?  If it's slowed down between the last mod version and this one, and the endgame has Pariden's sovereign at only level 7, I would hope your difficulty is set at Normal, so that a couple of levels higher bring in more experience and commensurately higher levels by endgame.

I suspect I'm missing something.  Salikgyula is saying his Pariden sovereign is level 7 in the endgame, using your previous mod version.  You want a higher level for sovereigns, but you're going to lower experience gain.  Or did I read the quote above incorrectly?  It seems as though given the semi-random allocation of level-up traits you can get, if a sovereign can only rise to level 7 by the time the game ends, the chances of seeing tier 4 or 5 spells in any book are almost non-existent.  Mind, there's nothing necessarily wrong with being a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but with respect, that really seems like it should be a user choice, rather than built into the game.

EDIT: If the longbow does significantly better damage than the short bow for only an initiative cost of one between them, and each is priced at one to the sovereign in the character generator, it seems there's little reason to choose the short bow.  Just my two cents.

Son of Edit: Adding random traits to improve AI sovereigns was one of the things I disliked the most in the Age of Wonders series.  The AI was braindead, so I can understand why they did it, but Brad's a very good AI coder.  I hope, like you, this is moddable, and that Stardock will come through with the info.

Daughter of Edit: If you raise water shrills' spell resistance, consider making their fire resistance nil.  It seems reasonable that each elemental type of shrill would have a weakness for the opposing element.

I am playing on expert, on default monster density settings (dunno which). There are turns, where i am attacked 5-6 times, with medium strong monster armies. i got only 5-7 XP. Now i tried +15 % XP trait, +25% another trait, +25% XP spell. With all of them now 10-12 XP/battle. I know why you want slower hero leveling, but it will be too slow for me with the 003 settings. Now it is OK.

I was unclear. There are three factors for XP and leveling. The amount of XP from killing is unchanged since .001. The other two functions are how much XP is needed to level. I can increase it by multiplying: 10XP to get to level two from level one with a 1.5 multiplier means it would take 15XP more to get to level 3. That is a total of 25XP. The Exponential function allows me to add in a quadratic variable so that that later levels take extreme amounts of XP. I talk about M as the multiplier and E as the exponent. Reducing M means easier levels early on. Increasing E means harder leveling past a certain point. Like I said, I am shooting for level 10 to have a big jerk in XP needed to level. I want Wildlands to be the main way to level past that point.

Longbows are superior. Currently there should only be a crude shortbow and a hunter's bow for Sov customization. Anything else is a bug.

As to spellbooks, I opted to guarantee them. You WILL get the next level of spellbook as soon as you meet the new level requirements. The theme is that you get level 2 books at level 2, level 3 books at level 4 or 5, level 4 books at level 7 or 8, and level 5 books at level 9 or 10. Some books are by nature superior to others and have a higher level requirement. I am largely using the current overviews of spells on these here forums to make those decisions. Just expect to not see any fireballs or blizzards until the end of the midgame, when sieges are actually feasible. 

Better city defense coming soon. 

I will look into it, thanks. Freeze nerf incoming. Dragon balance will come when I start balancing trainable monsters. I don't like how dragons are currently portrayed.

What is wrong with Banished Ogre? It is supposed to be weak and sad.

The majorly cool thing about Verga or the Warlord trait in general is that he can choose to double up on those traits. Each one has a long cooldown, so getting two of the same trait can be very powerful.

You improved ogre dramatically and made three ogres instead of one. I thought Banished Ogre should correlate with usual ogre.

I'm not seeing it yet, but I also don't start up and abandon many games.  Can you give the AI leaders 50+ HPs for 5 turns, then do a check for HPs and take it away if above a certain amount?

By the way, I also noticed the inappropriate spawning of ruffians, and that was without your mod.  It happened repeatedly in the game with this latest beta.

Wow!

Kiting is a serious issue now. Was the AI moving only once per turn again? I hate to do this, but I may just add +6 moves to Umberdroths, Dragons, Golems and other units that only move one turn at a time. That might fix the issue until we get an AI update. The Arena is a small map. I am surprised you were able to kite there. 

Tear of Cyndrum will be getting a nerf and be less common in the loot.

Longstrider Boots will switch to +1 Move.

Shadow Broadsword will go to ignoring 33% of defense.

App Marksmen typo. Sorry about that.

.004 leveling is too easy. I will work on the numbers and come back with something better.

The link at the top of the page is supposedly for .005, but it actually links to a file labeled .004.

Thanks.

While I understand the reasons for mite proliferation, I think matters are a bit too extreme, now.  I'm literally doing almost nothing for a long period of time except mite eradication.  And then, of course, once the source has been destroyed, another pops up a few doors down the block, churning out more mite armies with ease.  I've given up battling them, and resorted to auto-resolution, but it still seems like a roadblock in the way of playing the game.

You really are evil, aren't you?    For those who wonder: I don't mind too much.  It's a nuisance, but an interesting one that's different from the usual neutrals because the real threat is their reproductive systems, not their skill at killing.  Give them a try.  You may want to take a good, stiff drink after facing a horde of the little buggers, but there are some fine single malt liquors that are worth investigating, anyway.