Ok ..so i've listened to the podcast and from what i could tell not alot of changes will be made. Now..the truth is this game in it's current form will never be appealing to new players. I've presented the game to couple of r/l friendds who play tons of online games and none of them dound it even remotely attractive. They all asked me "so..whre are the buildings? And the troops? "..and when i told em those are just numbers and letters, they said pass. The game itself is unique and the math behind it its so complex that a new player has litterally no chance of grasping it. If you makr a quick comparison between utopia and any other online game you will see some big diffrences that give utopia a disadvantage. For instance in any crappy game like empires or w/e in 16-24 h u can build a fairly decent province, whereas in utopia it takes 12-16h for builds to get in while in the other games u have the 1st builds on in minutes. Also armies..it takes between 8 to 16h to have em back which is soooo much more than the new graphics games. We all love utopia..but all is 99% old players who are still around cuz of old time friends. The genesis server will also be used especially by veterans to try crazy new strats and not the newbies who have no clue wtf those are. Unless utopia receives a complete overhauling..its doomed.