Genesis Age 153 Mechanics

Genesis Round 153 is here!
NOTE: Genesis rounds began on Round 101 due to a conflict within the codebase that prevented us from using 1. Since then, we have rectified the issue and will use the actual Round # associated with the rounds, as can be seen in the Rankings section already. As we move forward, rounds will be referred to by their actual round #, as such, this is round 153!

This round is based on World of Legends Age 106 base code with some additional Genesis specific changes to make Genesis unique from WoL, as well as for testing some new concepts or ideas that may or may not eventually transfer over to the World of Legends!

Please take a read through the mechanics changes so you're aware of some of the unique features.

This color indicates a new change for the current Round

Also be sure to look at the Race & Personality changes as they can be significantly different than World of Legends

Planned Schedule for the Round
Age Start: Saturday 07/13/24 @ 00:00 GMT
Age End: Saturday 07/20/24 @ 00:00 GMT

Tick Length will be 15 minutes.

Important things to know about Genesis for this age:

Universities are NOT available this age
You can utilize UtopiaBot for free in your Discord server on Genesis (Monarch just needs to set it up!)
Invites (6) will be available
Mentor DOES work on Genesis
Mentoring of other provinces on Genesis will be 8 hours every 12 hours (instead of 4 hours every 24 hours like on WoL)
You are able to use Sitting credits on Genesis
To prevent abuse, there is a 3 hour waiting period to creating new provinces
Vacation mode will begin 24 ticks after activation
Vacation mode minimum duration will be 24 ticks
Other misc. hostile times / cool down timers are set according to round speed

Important variances from WoL to note

Birth Rates are double
Wizard generation is double (.04 per guild instead of .02)
Draft Rates increased by 50%
Provinces will abandon after 1 day of inactivity
Income per job is 5 gc
Elite wages are 2.0 gc each
Income per prisoner is 1.5
Intra-Kingdom attacks will deal significantly more damage (double) and remove a minimum 50 acres
Ambush will target only the land that was lost, not what the attacker received (due to acre generation)
MAP (Multi-Attack Protection) awarded for attacks is reduced by 50% from that seen on WoL
Stealth and Mana recovery is doubled (any race or personality mods will be doubled; for example base is 3% per tick which is now 6%, if a race mod says +2% per tick this will also be doubled meaning 4%, therefore a race which states +2% per tick will receive 3% base plus 2% = 5% => doubled to 10%)
Base gains for a Traditional March increased from 12% to 15%
Max Gains cap is 25% (up from 20% on WoL)
Massacre damage to wizards has been significantly increased
Base science book production is 400 / tick
Starting scientists is 12
Scientist generation rate is 5% per tick
Nightmare will put troops into training for 4 ticks, reduced from 8
Propose War is available
War attack speed reduction ramp time has been reduced to 7 ticks
Crystal Ball & Crystal Eye mana cost will always be 1% (instead of 2%)
Explore/Build Time/Train Time/Army Attack times are all 50% of normal (WoL)
Acres are generated on Traditional Marches (20%)
Acre generation is reduced in war (from 20% OOW to 5% In War)
War range and declare mechanics are identical to World of Legends (85% * you < you < you / .85), except that Land is not considered for range, only Networth is used to determine war range
War may be declared by either side when hostility points reach at least 14 on both meters
Meter points required for Unfriendly will be 7
Meter points required for Hostile will be 12
Dragons will increase hostility meter by 8 points
Max hostile meter will be 25
War minimum duration is 14 ticks (OOR wars: 8 ticks)
War auto-surrender will occur at 10 ticks
Auto-Win starts at 66% but goes up to 75% the longer the war lasts.

This threshold increases to 70% upon reaching 24 ticks after min time
This threshold then increases linearly per tick over the next 24 ticks to 75%
End of War CeaseFire may be exited after 6 ticks
End of War CeaseFire maximum duration is 36 ticks
Kingdom Size is 6
Auto-Win starts at 66% but goes up to 75% the longer the war lasts
Explore costs for Kingdoms with less than 4 Provinces are significantly increased
Only 3 provinces can be in Vacation Mode
Defect will not be available during war
Beginner Protection is 12 ticks (in and out of war)
Assassinate Wizards has been renamed to Subdue Wizards. Subdue wizards IS active this age.
Subdue Wizards will reduce the strength of wizards, similar to the way Amnesia works with science. Wizard Strength will be restored to 100% upon entering EoWCF
Wizard strength is regained by 1.5% per tick over time while out of war
Subdue Wizards displays how much strength has been removed from the enemy on each operation
Infiltrate will show enemy wizard strength if it is below 100%
Force CeaseFire Duration is 36 ticks
KD Wall does not affects wages
Rune decay per tick has been doubled
FCF only depends on Networth range.
FCF allowed in war range
Forcing a Ceasefire while in war range now transfers 25% of your resources and 10% Science books to the target kingdom
The mechanic "Elites counts as thieves" will work in the following manner: EPA >1 to 5 will increase Defensive TPA by 5%; EPA >5 to 10 will increase Defensive TPA by 10% & Offensive TPA by 5%; EPA >10 will increase Defensive TPA by 15% & Offensive TPA by 10% & Damage on Offensive Thievery ops by 5% (This is not available on any race/personality this age)
Overpopulation will not provide prisoners from deserting troops

There is a new spell: Soul Blight - This kills peasants at roughly 75% the amount of a Fireball, additionally roughly 25% of the peasants killed will be revived as soldiers for the caster of the spell. This spell is much more difficult than Fireball and costs more runes.

Bravery is IS ENABLED THIS AGE
This mechanic is designed to reward provinces that attack in range and stronger provinces while penalizing bottom feeding. The effects of Bravery are as follows:

Increase your Birthrate by 75% of your Bravery
Increase your Dragon Slaying strength of all troops by 75% of your Bravery
Increase your honor gains on attacks by 50% of your Bravery
Increase your scientist generation per tick by 35% of your Bravery
Example: Bravery = 20; Birthrate adjustment is 75% therefore Birthrate increase is: 20 * 75% = 15%; thus your increased birthrate is "(Current Birthrate) * (1.15)
Bravery will increase differently based on the attack type
Bravery over 10 will decay per tick while not in war
Bravery will not decay for 10 ticks following your most recent bravery gain
Bravery gain is affected by the composition of your army and the attacks you make (Trad March/Plunder/etc)
Abolish Ritual has been using WoL code exclusively and messed up the amount of casts needed to successfully abolish a ritual. This has been fixed and will now adjust casts per province based on the amount of provinces in a Kingdom, the least amount of casts being needed will be 5

Ritual Info

Abolish Ritual requires 20 casts
Abolish Ritual, amount of times you can cast on a single province scales with the amount of provinces in that kingdom
Rituals can be destroyed after 10 ticks
Ritual will activate automatically in 36 ticks
Reduced Self Spell Mana Cost will NOT reduce mana cost for ritual
Minimum casts required for 100% efficiency: 16
Duration is 36 ticks
Overcasting formula has been modified from WoL

Ritual Types and stats can be found in game

Support Spell List

Builder's Boon
Divine Shield
Fanaticism
Fertile Lands
Ghost Workers
Greater Protection
Heroes Inspiration
Illuminate Shadows
Inspire Army
Love and Peace
Magic Shield
Minor Protection
Nature's Blessing
Patriotism
Scientific Insight
Wrathful Smite

Initial Province Stats

Acres: 800
Soldiers: 3200
Spec Credits: 3200
Thieves: 200
Wizards: 200
Peasants: 8000
GC: 600,000
Honor: 2500

Races
Should be able to check in-game
https://utopia-game.com/gen/chooser/age_details/

Personalities
Should be able to check in-game
https://utopia-game.com/gen/chooser/age_details/

The Round should be open to join!
Have fun

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