Uncharted Waters Origin Experience Guide

Uncharted Waters Origin Experience Guide

How much experience you need to level.

Experience Table

Let’s start with the table of how much experience it takes to level. The “next” column is how much experience it takes to reach the next level from the current one. The “total” column is how much cumulative experience it takes to reach the current level. There are separate columns for mate levels and company levels.

I also give a formula for the experience to gain for mate levels, which as you can see from the table, is very, very close to the correct numbers. It is never off by more than 100 experience, and usually hits the number exactly. I’ll explain the formula in the next section.

level	mate	mate	mate	company	company
total	next	formula	total	next	total
1	300	300	0	400	0
2	1100	1100	300	1600	400
3	2000	2000	1400	3000	2000
4	3100	3100	3400	4600	5000
5	4200	4200	6500	6200	9600
6	5500	5500	10700	8200	15800
7	6800	6800	16200	10200	24000
8	8300	8300	23000	12400	34200
9	9900	9900	31300	14800	46600
10	11800	11800	41200	17600	61400
11	13600	13700	53000	20400	79000
12	15800	15700	66600	23600	99400
13	17800	17800	82400	26600	123000
14	20000	20000	100200	30000	149600
15	22200	22200	120200	33200	179600
16	24600	24600	142400	36800	212800
17	27000	26900	167000	40400	249600
18	29400	29400	194000	44000	290000
19	31900	31900	223400	47800	334000
20	34600	34600	255300	51800	381800
21	37200	37200	289900	55800	433600
22	40000	40000	327100	60000	489400
23	42800	42800	367100	64200	549400
24	45800	45800	409900	68600	613600
25	49600	49600	455700	74400	682200
26	54600	54600	505300	81800	756600
27	60200	60100	559900	90200	838400
28	66300	66400	620100	99400	928600
29	73200	73200	686400	109800	1028000
30	80700	80800	759600	121000	1137800
31	89000	88900	840300	133400	1258800
32	97800	97800	929300	146600	1392200
33	107200	107200	1027100	160800	1538800
34	117400	117400	1134300	176000	1699600
35	128200	128100	1251700	192200	1875600
36	139500	139600	1379900	209200	2067800
37	151600	151600	1519400	227400	2277000
38	164400	164400	1671000	246600	2504400
39	177800	177700	1835400	266600	2751000
40	195400	195400	2013200	293000	3017600
41	218400	218400	2208600	327600	3310600
42	242700	242700	2427000	364000	3638200
43	268300	268300	2669700	402400	4002200
44	295200	295200	2938000	442800	4404600
45	323400	323500	3233200	485000	4847400
46	353000	353000	3556600	529400	5332400
47	383800	383800	3909600	575600	5861800
48	415900	415900	4293400	623800	6437400
49	449400	449300	4709300	674000	7061200
50	484000	484100	5158700	726000	7735200
51	520000	520100	5642700	780000	8461200
52	557400	557400	6162700	836000	9241200
53	596000	596000	6720100	894000	10077200
54	636000	635900	7316100	954000	10971200
55	681000	681000	7952100	1021400	11925200
56	734000	734000	8633100	1101000	12946600
57	788800	788800	9367100	1183200	14047600
58	845200	845200	10155900	1267800	15230800
59	903200	903300	11001100	1354800	16498600
60	963100	963100	11904300	1444600	17853400

Formulas

The formula for the experience that a mate must acquire to gain a level is approximately a piecewise quadratic function of the level. That is, there are constants a, b, and c such that the experience required to go from level x to level x+1 is very close to ax^2+bx+c, except that the constants change from one level range to the next. Let’s start by giving the table of constants, then come back to explain what they mean:

The precise formula is 100floor(ax^2+bx+c), where floor(x) is the greatest integer that is less than or equal to x. For example, floor(3.7) = 3. An example will probably help. Suppose that you want to know how much experience it takes a mate to go from level 20 to 21. Level 20 is in the [9, 24] interval, so that’s the row that you use. You compute 0.3720^2+11.7*20-35.9 = 346.1. The floor of this is 346. Multiply by 100 to get 34600, which is the number in the formula column for level 20 above.

You may notice that level 9 is contained in two intervals of the above table. Both lines give exactly the same value and match the correct value, so there is no way to determine which line is the correct one. To get the amount of experience required to proceed to the next company level, you compute 200 * floor(0.0075 * (mate experience required)). This generally means that it takes about 1.5 times the company experience that it takes mate experience, though there is a bit of rounding.

This formula is exact, as I have directly verified it for 28 separate levels and it hits the correct value exactly for every single one of them.As of this writing, I’m company level 60, so I can’t see the amount of experience required for higher levels. Based on discussions with a few higher level players, it sounds like the last row only goes up to about level 64 or 65. Above that, there is another, much harsher formula. I can probably determine the formula if someone gives me data.

If you have a mate who is level x in one of the three fields, while your company is some level higher than n, the game will tell you the exact number to gain a level. Go to the mate’s page in the game, then click the “growth” button near the top right corner. That opens a window with separate tabs for each of the three types of experience. Each one will tell you the total experience to gain as the number on the far right, just above the experience bar. If any high level players could report such numbers for any levels above 60, I can fill them in above.

Acquiring Experience

Nearly everything that you do in the game gives you some sort of experience. However, when you see the game say that you’ve earned some amount of experience, it may not be immediately obvious where that newly acquired experience goes. Mates have three separate levels for the three types of experience, but a company does not. And there’s still the question of which mates get how much experience.

There are three basic cases. The first of them is quests. When you complete a quest, the experience that was stated before completing the quest gets scaled up for the nation rank bonus if applicable before the game displays the amount of experience earned on the screen, and then that experience gets awarded in the relevant category to all mates currently in fleet 1, that is, your primary, active fleet. Furthermore, half that amount is awarded as company experience.

The second case is dispatch. When you complete a dispatch, the game displays the experience earned before the country rank bonus, but then scales it up by that bonus before applying it. All mates in the fleet that completed the dispatch get the scaled up experience (likely more than the number displayed on the screen), but no company experience is awarded.

The third case is everything else. Here, when the game awards experience, the company gets half of the nominal experience. All mates in fleet 1 get some experience of the relevant type, but how much depends on which cabin the mate is in. If that cabin has a 100% stat modifier for the corresponding type of experience, then the mate is awarded full experience. If it has any other stat modifier besides 100%, then the mate is awarded half experience.

In particular, any mate in a captain’s cabin always gets full experience. Most other mates only get full experience to one type and half to the others. An aide’s cabin or some of the junk, default cabins mean that a mate only gets half experience of all types. This is an additional reason why it is so critical to change your cabins on new ships, as if you don’t, then a lot of mates get only half experience even in their specialty. It is also a reason why getting ships above your level is less useful than it might otherwise seem, as it will mean that your mates level more slowly than if you could change the cabins to something more appropriate.