>>48772799Even if you avoid the underground, you're still going to be hit with the forced amie bonuses, early game the EXP scaling is really bad and late game, while the levels catch up somewhat, now your entire team has a doubled crit rate and tank moves that would kill them, if they didn't just dodge them outright.
If you emulate it though, there are mods to turn off EXP share and affection buffs.