Guide to Exodus

Exodus Technology - At the castle under Relocation.

After much building and research you can use this to relocate your 

town. It has restrictions and can be a painful move, but it can be 

worth the effort.

Under the City tab of the research tree, you will need to research 

Exodus. The chain for unlocking it is: Timekeeping > Bureaucracy > 

Pioneering > Inventory Management > Exodus.

Exodus will take 5 days to research. You only need to research Exodus 

in the town you want to move.

First, you will need a second town to be able to use Exodus. This is 

because if you move your capital, the other city is changed to your 

capital.

One of the painful aspects of Exodus, is that all buildings excluding 

walls, will be leveled down to level 12. This is a reason to keep most 

buildings up to level 12 in any town you plan to use Exodus.

You will need to level Storehouse to 15 to get a warehouse unlocked. 

Then you will need to get the Warehouse to level 20 to unlock the 

exodus research. So if you plan ahead, only these two buildings should 

drop to level 12.

What is different about this compared to Tenaril, is that you can 

change what amount of resource plots you have in your town. The main 

benefit, is you can take your 5 food town and relocate onto a 7 food 

square. Tenaril doesn't allow you to do this, as you keep what you 

started with while using it.

Another benefit can be to relocate after you no longer have use of 

tenaril. For example, if you settled somewhere by mistake, or wish to 

move to a better location for other reasons.

One cost as explained previously, are buildings dropping to level 12.

Another cost, is it takes a long time to have the town move.

It will move at a speed of 5 squares per hour.

Once you arrive at your destination square, you will not be able to 

send out diplomatic units or armies for a period of 5 days. You will 

still be able to defend.

All sovereignty owned by the city will be immediately removed.

All your advanced resource production will be paused during the move 

and continue at the point it left off once your city reaches its 

destination.

All your unit production will be paused during the move and continue at 

the point it left of once your city reaches its destination.

All the spells you have cast from this town will be cancelled. 

Spells cast on your town may not dissipate.

You will not receive any income for the moving city - either in gold, 

or in resources - during the move.

You will lose any resources and advanced resources your new level of 

storehouse and warehouse cannot hold.

All your current quests will be cancelled.

Moving to a new location in this way has the same restrictions as the 

Tenaril's Spell of Ultimate Teleportation (such as must have all your 

units at home, cannot move to a location that is within 10 squares of 

another alliance - unless you have sovereignty 5 claimed on the square etc).

This means, if the square you want to move to is within 10 squares, you

can claim a level 5 sovereignty and still move to it.

Further additional restrictions:

You need enough gold to pay your units during the time of the move.

You may not move a city while it is an Alliance capital. You will need 

to change the capital to a new city before moving.

You may only have one city relocating at a time.  This includes (non-

relocating) settlers.  If you have a city relocating, or settlers in 

motion, and then try to relocate another city, you will be refused.

You cannot send settlers or exodus a town while you are currently actively

capturing another town after a successful siege.

Research needs to be complete to move a city.

You cannot have any building constructions or demolitions in progress 

and will need to wait until they complete to move your city.

Sitters may not relocate other players' cities, this is very much an 

"account-holder-only" function.

You cannot exodus to a square someone else has already sent settlers to.

All your units must be at home.  Trade, Military and Diplomatic units 

cannot be moving or stationed abroad.

You cannot have trade offers on the marketplace. These must be 

cancelled prior to move.

You cannot have reinforcements from another player in your city.  These 

must have left your town.

You cannot be currently under an active blockade or siege. You must 

break blockades and sieges before you can move. A blockade or siege 

that has landed (and/or set up) will hold the city.

Incoming units will not prevent a city move (unless they are a 

returning Sally Forth or a capturing/razing army).

Reinforcements already in the town will prevent a city move.

You cannot sally forth for 5 days after moving your city, or move your 

city for 5 days after moving your city. 

Incoming sieges and blockades will be changed to attacks on the square 

that they we going to set-up on, and return immediately after. The 

sieging/blockading army will be informed immediately via in-game mail 

that the city has moved.

Incoming reinforcements to the city will be changed to occupations of 

the square. The sieging/blockading army will be informed immediately 

via in-game mail that the city has moved.

If you have built beyond level 12, for example your barracks, and have

trained more diplomats or troops than a level 12 could train, you will

still retain all of your troops. You will not be able to train more however, until

you have built the barracks and consulate back to the needed levels.

Caravans and spells are not affected the same way. You will still retain all

trained caravans. To be able to train caravans, as long as you have the

research you only need a level 1 marketplace. This also applies to spells,

where with the right research, you'd only need a level 1 mage tower.

However, you will have very low spell power with a low level mage tower.

Thanks goes towards the Illyriad community for helping me with some details

in this guide.

Many thanks for the dev posts here where a lot of this information comes from: 

http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/06nov12-siege-exodus_topic4446.html

You have the option to Exodus any town that has the Exodus technology research FROM any other city, whether the town from which you are operating the Exodus function has researched Exodus or not.  You can build a town with a level 20 warehouse, study Exodus and settle a new town with 0 population, then employ exodus from that 0 population town.  (Can't think of why one would want to do this, but it is possible to do so.  Maybe if the town you were Exodusing is your last remaining town and you're trying to escape an incoming siege?)

You only need the research in the town you want to move. You select the move command from another town, whether it has exodus or not.

Thanks to Rill for also answering this. :)

Also a tip for more advanced players/alliance leaders resolving disputes, you can fake an exodus to see if someone else is moving to a spot.    Because it will tell you if a city is already exodusing to a location.  It similar to using a fake Tenaril's to tell if a player is active.

-Jane