How to Get More Experience Points in Age of Empires

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Experience Points, or XP, are one of the new features you’ll find only in Age of Empires 3. Just about any action you take in the game earns you XP—building or destroying a building, creating a unit, building or exhausting a farm, etc.—although some actions earn more XP than others. In Age of Empires 3, you need XP to request help shipments from your Home City.

Steps

Collecting Treasures

Explore the game world to discover treasures. Treasures include resources like Food, Coin, or Wood, and unique units like pet bears and dogs that appear on the landscape and that are often guarded by Treasure Guardians. Some of them are worth lots of XP, like the “Journal of El Pollo Guopo” on the Texas map worth 320 XP. Move your explorer around in the unexplored areas of the map by left-clicking him and then right-clicking the area where you want him to go. Keep doing this until you find a treasure. Just looking at the treasure should be enough to tell you what it is as. For instance, if the treasure is Wood, you will see blocks of wood lying on the spot where the treasure is.

Determine if claiming the treasure would give you XP. Do this by hovering your mouse on the treasure. A tooltip will appear that will inform if and what amount of XP the treasure is worth. Keep looking till you find a treasure with XP. Treasures with XP are the ones that don’t have Food, Wood, or Gold.

Kill Treasure Guardians, if any. If a treasure is has guardians, they will be out in the open, hovering about the treasure. Evaluate the level of military power it would take to kill the Treasure Guardians guarding that particular treasure. Their type, number ,and power depends on the value of the treasures they guard. Usually, your explorer is able to easily kill one guardian. If the treasure is guarded by just one, just kill the guardian by left-clicking your explorer and right-clicking it. If the treasure is guarded by many guardians, however, they may overpower and kill your explorer. Direct some of your military units to the area to assist your explorer.

Collect the treasure and earn your XP. As soon as all the Treasure Guardians have been eliminated, your explorer’s ability to collect will activate. Select your explorer and then right-click the treasure to collect it. The respective amount of XP will be added to your total XP. You cannot claim a treasure unless all of its guardians are dead. Besides your explorer, the only other unit that can collect treasures is a settler (villager).

Check your XP. You can check the progress of your XP by checking the green XP bar next to the Home City button (a button that features the flag of the player’s Home City) near the bottom-left corner of the screen. Each time the XP bar fills up, an additional help shipment is ready for you to request from the Home City. Hovering your mouse over the XP bar will display a tooltip that will inform you exactly how much more XP you need towards your next shipment. For instance, if you needed 400 XP, and you claimed the “Journal of El Pollo Guopo” for 320 XP, you would then require only 80 XP.

Using Trade Posts

Explore the game world to discover trade routes. Trade routes are predetermined paths in the AoE3 game world with designated sites where the player can build Trading Posts to gather XP. Move your explorer around in the unexplored areas of the map by left-clicking him and then right-clicking the area where you want him to go. Keep doing this until you find a trade route. Trade routes have the unmistakable appearance of windy gravel paths on the landscape.

Find a trading post site on the trade route. Once you find a trade route, have your explorer follow it till you see what looks like an unfinished building foundation next to the path. That is the site on which any player may construct a trading post.

Build a trading post on the site. First, make sure you have the required resources for constructing a trade post, which is 250 Wood. You can gather wood by commanding your villagers to chop down trees in the game world. Select your explorer by left-clicking him. The explorer’s command panel will appear on the bottom left corner of the screen. The second button of the build row of the panel is the Trade Post button. Click it. Move the mouse over the trading post site and left-click to place the foundation. Your explorer will immediately start constructing the trading post. Different trading posts earn different amounts of XP, depending on factors like which map the user is playing in and the length of the trade route. Each time the trade cart passes next to the trading post, the amount of XP earned will flash above the trading post.

Winning End-Game Accolades

Gather more economic resources than your opponents in any Age of Empires 3 game. This will earn you 500 XP at the end of the game. Economic resources are Food, Wood, and Gold. You can gather more resources than your rivals by ensuring you have a greater team of villagers, meticulously allocating them to the gathering tasks and making sure they never stay idle for long.

Gather the least economic resources compared to your opponents in any Age of Empires 3 game. This will earn you 500 XP at the end of the game. You can gather less economic resources (Food, Wood, and Gold) than your rivals by ensuring you have a less villagers and using your resources more frugally to eliminate the need to gather a lot.

Have the most military units by the end of any Age of Empires 3 game. This will earn you 500 XP. Military units are any units that you use to attack other colonies or defend yours. You can ensure you have the most military units by adopting a defensive strategy instead of an aggressive one. Create as many military units as you can, but use them to defend your colony rather than attacking other colonies. This will keep loss of units at a minimum.