Basically, when I go to the kobold area and farm, they only go up to like, level 39 or 40. If there is another person in the game with me, and I go to the area, they correctly spawn in relation to my SB. If I join a free game solo again, they drop back down to 39/40.
Are you saying that different areas of the map will cap at certain NPC levels if I'm joining a FREE game solo? That really sucks. Oh well, might make for easier farming for now.
I just started doing campaign again. I was doing FREE for like, 20 levels or so. I would join, kill the octopus and the kobold chief, rinse and repeat. Nice to have 8 million gold.
Edit to add:
When I do campaign games, they spawn according to my SB when I'm solo no problem. It's only the FREE games I have a problem with.