Genesis Age 154 Changes

Genesis Round 154 is here!

This round is based on World of Legends Age 89 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: 01/16/2020 @ 12:00 GMT
Age End: 01/25/2020 @ 01:00 GMT

Tick Length will be 15 minutes.

Important things to know about Genesis for this age:

We have moved to low military values. Base values are: Specialists are 5, War Horses are 1, Prisoners/Mercenaries are 2.
You can utilize UtopiaBot for free in your Discord server on Genesis (Monarch just needs to set it up!)
Invites (6) will be available
Reservations are allowed and used at the end of this age
Mentor DOES work on Genesis
Mentoring of other provinces on Genesis will be 6 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

Important variances from WoL to note

Paradise will only take 50% of acres that it generates from your explore pool
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 6 gc
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%)
Max Gains cap is 25% (up from 20% on WoL)

Massacre damage to wizards has been significantly increased
Base science book production is 300 / tick
Starting scientists is 15

Scientist generation rate is 5% per tick
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)
War may be declared by either side when hostility points reach at least 14 on both meters (previously 20)
Meter points required for Unfriendly will be 7
Meter points required for Hostile will be 12
Dragons will generate 8 hostility points
Dragons have 50% higher cost
Max hostile meter will be 25 points instead of 225
War minimum duration is 14 ticks (OOR wars: 8 ticks)
War auto-surrender will occur at 10 ticks
End of War CeaseFire may be exited after 6 ticks
End of War CeaseFire maximum duration is 48 ticks

Elites cost increased by 100% during EoWCF

War auto-surrender will occur if the opponent reaches 65% your own networth
At the conclusion of war (Surrender or Mutual Peace), all bad spells will be automatically removed
Kingdom Size is 6
Explore costs for Kingdoms with less than 5 Provinces are significantly increased
Defecting removes 10% of your resources
Defect will not be available during war
Overpopulation which prevents attacks occurs at 115%
Thieves no longer function at 140% over max pop
Beginner Protection is 12 ticks (in and out of war)
Vacation Mode delay is 3 hours (in and out)
Only 3 provinces can be in Vacation Mode
Steal War Horses removed from all Races
Code has been implemented which should allow War Horses to be stolen as soon as an army returns home, without the need for getting a fresh SoM with the enemy army home (this has been a bug for a while, please test this and provide feedback to DavidC)

Assassinate Wizards has been renamed to Subdue Wizards
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
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%
Expose Thieves can not reduce stealth below 25%

Ritual Info

Base casts required: 15
100% Efficiency casts: 25
Abolish Ritual only requires 20 casts
Rituals can be destroyed after 10 ticks
Ritual will activate automatically in 24 ticks
Duration is 36 ticks

There is a new ritual, Studious, which increases science book production and wizard training by 20%

Overcasting will grant much larger effects than in WoL
Reduced Self Spell Mana Cost will NOT reduce mana cost for ritual

For clarity on some of the new Freak mods:

1 in 10 chance any attack BY a Freak will fail (even if it may have been successful)
1 in 10 chance any attack BY a Freak will have a 5-25% increase in gains. These gains could push you OVER the potential max gain of 25%
The +/- 5% mod replaces the 3.5% random factor that other provinces have with 5% instead

Initial Province Stats

Acres: 1200
Soldiers: 8000
Spec Credits: 8000
Thieves: 1500
Wizards: 1500
Peasants: 9000
GC: 900,000
Honor: 2500

War Score Tiers

Tier 1: 1.0 points
Tier 2: 2.0 points
Tier 3: 3.0 points
Tier 4: 4.0 points
Tier 5: 5.0 points

Each tier provides additional bonuses to the winning Kingdom of a war

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 now(or shortly)!
Have fun