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: 

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Sure?

I thought you need another town to have the Exodus research too. e.g. You have towns "1" and "2", and have researched Exodus in both. If you want to move town 2, you need to be in Town 1, then select Relocate > Exodus, and then choose town 2 as the town to move.

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?)

This was the one thing that confused me the most about exodus when I was learning how.  Also I have found time and time again that I am not alone in this.  The confusion has resulted in a few people I know of researching exodus in the wrong town, one of which nearly rage quitting after learning the error.

I think the portion of the dev post explaining this is hilariously ambiguous.  Kinda like "objects in mirror are closer than they appear."

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. :)

Just thought I'd mention that this strategy could be useful for a new player. Since they spawn with 5 food, they could then use exodus to a 7 food that way. As a result, the 0 pop town you settled becomes your Capital, hence you can Teleport it to wherever along with the 7 food you've settled on.

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

Please see the link at the bottom of the guide. The research part comes from the dev post.

Edit: I will be using Exodus very shortly on my Capital. I'll be queueing the research tomorrow. After the 5 days I will be back after my test with my results.

I am about 98% certain that research isn't hampered. I just moved my town of Esquire and dEw using exodus. as Esquire is my smallest town i can't imagine not noticing this restriction as i am doing many time consuming researches at the moment. this brings up one other point. i am pretty sure that i had both towns simultaneously in motion for a short period of time. this of course could be a glitch or one of my towns could have settled moments before i sent my second town on its way. i do recall that sovereignty 5 was scheduled to balance fairly close to when dew was scheduled to arrive. 

Updated: Okay, Dew confirmed it, active research is no problem.

"All the spells you have cast from this town and those cast on your town 

will be cancelled."

While technically this is the way Exodus is supposed to work per the spell  description, In my many Exodus moves it was almost random if I lost a spell cast by the city itself.  I had geomancy, rune and blights remain at the rate of at least one school surviving a move per town. 

true i noticed my geomancy spells ended in both town, even though the one in esquire was cast by an outside town. in my smaller town Esquire the mage tower wasn't over lvl 12 and its defensive rune remained intact. in my larger town dEw my lvl 20 mage tower's rune got canceled and needed to be recast. this leads me to guess that defensive spells are based on your mage tower changing level. note that there was not a cool down timer on the rune spell from dEw. again this could be a glitch or occur at random. 

- Thank you section updated.

- Added section regarding troops.

Further editing may be needed. Again my thanks goes to all of you here.

Wow, maybe something else was wrong when i tried building extra vans after an exodus. I am now trying to build 70 vans in a captured town with a level 12 market to check it. Yes, it works. Maybe the building level limitation only holds for barracks and consulate. For the barracks i am very sure, because i checked everything when i got a popup telling me that i couldn't build any knights. Only later I realized that it was the level of the barracks that was causing the popup. 

On the other hand, you can't make a t2 cav in a level 12 barracks, nor an assassin in a level 12 consulate.  (You also can't make a t2 cav in a level 15 consulate, but that's a whole other thing. )

- troop section is updated and also includes a bit about spells, based on the previous posts.

Spell restriction has not been changed yet, as I'm unsure how that works currently.

Clay, iron, stone, and wood at level 12 yield 393 p/h, food only 312 p/h.  

With five farms before exodus, and five or more farms after exodus, the output starts at 1560 p/h without bonus.  With a flour mill level 12 for a 24% bonus it starts at 1934.4 p/h.    

Based on the dev instructions, I've been mistakenly concentrating on the city issuing the command, instead of the city to be moved.  i.e. Deliberately not upgrading the warehouse to level 20 because it's going to be knocked back down to 12 when I move it.  It would've taken me a long time to discover this the hard way.

 

Cheers!
NR

 

I can confirm that it does affect advanced resources but as usual, not the resources that already have no hard limit (gold, research, mana). Any basic or advanced resources you have will drop to the new storage level if you had more than 94087 of them (except the ones with no limit). 

Yes I didn't add many numbers to this guide. I have yet to finish my exodus as I planned to do, to confirm some more information ie. regarding spells.

I also see Rohk answered you. Indeed all resources are limited by storage; except gold, mana, and research points.

- Storage limit after exodus has been added to the cost section.

A remotely related situation is razing a blighted city, the raze does not automatically terminate the blight, i.e., the blight continues to burn mana at "abandoned town" (an ordinary square on the map) until it is explicitly cancelled.  

Very interesting.  Tomorrow I should be setting my exodus, and I will see what happens there. Perhaps it's only the spells regarding a mage tower above level 12, or distance that will be affected. I'll be sure to update.

EDIT: Yes it's still there. I will now edit my guide to share this information.

I used the same city as the square was adjacent to the town I wanted to move. Sovereignty costs more the further out it is. I believe any city will do.

Update: But at least the walls were up to level 18, and survived the exodus as expected.  It also has a tavern, and eager to explore Tallimar I accepted the geography quest.  Beer lost, diplos are not supposed to leave the town for five days.

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