more a rhetorical question than anything else-
Why are mindreading costs in FoV so damned high?
i just started FoV for the second time, and after all the mindreading in the Hall of Echo's Gauntlet fodder- all of which, the costs were ~2000 exp with lvl 6 Mindreading- of which, i tacked a few of those points to Mindreading. okay, back to the point- starting FoV with Mindreading lvl 7, General Augustus' mindread cost was 9000!
<insert various "It's Over 9000!!" meme's here>
in my first run at FoV, with a moderate Mindreading Rank (like... 4), a majority of Mindreading was well over 10k exp.
i was worried my near infinite Experience Debt would negate any experience i'd earn clearing dungeons and quests.
well it's a smart thing not to install the patch for FOV

then your respawning enemy's never gives 0 XP. if you install it then the loop is fixed
when I first played FOV I max the mindread skill. I was level 35 at the beginning I put 10 points in wisdom. my ending level was 46 (could be higher because I didn't exploit the respawning to the max)