What's the expected level cap in this game?

[KingsGambit]

Is experience split among party members, or does everyone receive a fixed amount for a given encounter/quest? In other words, would a player attempting to solo/duo the game (is it doable?) hit the level cap much faster than a full team? Further, after reading a post that suggested that a great deal of the game's content was actually optional/side questing, will the average player hit lvl 12 before the endgame? How much side-content is necessary to play (on the basis that the amount of XP in the game is finite) to hit the cap?

I know Obsidian have *at least* one expansion planned so it's entirely possible that it will increase the cap and offer more adventures for a PC/party that has finished the main game.

[Longknife]

 

Curious since you reach Dyrford in the Backer Beta at lv. 4, and dev's have said that is mid game, which is a bit worrisome to me. 

Why?

 

I've always been curious as to why people think low levels means a short game? 

 

 

I will admit that one downside to low level caps is that you quickly hit a point where personal improvement comes to a halt.

 

I really liked how New Vegas did it because it was a setup where you would feasibly continue to level up until the game was completed. Granted, they could've tweaked some things for better balance (obviously no long-term planning went into how many skill points you'd get from level 50), but I simply enjoy feeling progress whenever I play, and at a reasonably fast pace.

 

Too slow or too quick to cap and I get a little bored and anxious to just reroll a new character. I like seeing constant improvement gradually over time, even if just a little bit. Infact of course it's worth mentioning that too much improvement too quick is also a no-no as it leads to bland, same-y characters.

 

 

But yeah there's nothing inheritly wrong with low caps or high caps or anything. It's all about execution.

Edited March 25, 2015 by Longknife