Genesis Sync

"Is that even possible?" John asked, surprised.

"If you asked me that a couple of hours ago, I would have said no; however, here we are now, and Tia confirmed it herself,” Rebecca smiled. “What we're unsure about now is how far the improvement in sync rate will go, and for that we need to run regular tests on the MK Zero."

John nodded before saying, “So you're going to need me to return to the palace regularly?”

“Afraid so, kiddo,” Rebecca answered. “The equipment I need to test the Mark Zero’s durability is here.”

“I will inform Aunt of this and get permission for you to come and go from the palace as you please,” Sarah stated.

“That’s fine, but how am I supposed to get through that wall when I can’t use my magic?” John asked.

“I can accompany you when you're not in Genesis; after all, I want to play with you once we both leave the starter village and I don’t want to outlevel you too quickly,” Sarah offered.

“Thanks,” John replied, causing Sarah to smile at him again.

“In times when Sarah can’t accompany you, just drop me a call or message and I will come collect you,” Rebecca stated.

“Understood,” John replied before asking. "So why is a level one rabbit so much stronger than me? I know I'm level zero, but still, the difference in stats surprised me."

Sarah smirked before saying, “To answer that question, I’m going to have to explain stats, their breakdown and why monsters naturally start with more than players and NPCs.”

“Oh boy, that’s a conversation right there,” Rebecca remarked before suddenly becoming busy with something on her desk while John also noticed out of the corner of his eye that Kaela decided at that moment to sneak out of the picture she had been inhabiting.

"Let's start with player stats and why each race starts with a different total number of points spread across the five stats: Spirit, Wisdom, Strength, Intellect and Vitality. This is done to mimic each race's capability in real life as closely as possible. For example, we humans start with a total of twenty stat points, as you should have seen when you first logged in.”

John nodded as he remembered seeing that the stat points were rather evenly spread except for wisdom, which was lower than the others.

“Elves, on the other hand, start with twenty-three stat points because they are naturally more attuned to magic than any of the other races,” Sarah continued, leading John to mutter under his breath. “Favouritism,”

Sarah smiled at his comment before she continued, “Dwarfs also start with twenty-three stat points, but where the Elves' stats are more focused on magic, the Dwarves' points are focused on melee and survivability.

Orcs are similar to humans in that they only start with twenty points, which you might find strange since the orcs are a much harderier race than us humans. This is done because the Orc stats tend to be very one-sided. A standard Orc is all about swinging their club and bashing their opponents' heads in; to represent this, the majority of their stat points are put into spirit, strength and vitality, with intellect and wisdom being seriously reduced. But then you might ask, how can that be fair to an Orc who wants to play a magic user?”

“Wait, there are Orc magic users?” John asked in surprise.

“There are,” Sarah answered. “Though rare, Orc magic users do exist, both in Genesis and in the real world. They tend to be the leaders or advisors in the race because they have focused on growing their intellect and knowledge over their muscles. Because of this, when an Orc decides to play a caster class, their strength and spirit swap with their intellect and wisdom.”

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“That’s cool. It’s nice that Tia considered that factor,” John remarked.

Sarah nodded before continuing, “Now let's move on to monsters. While we don’t know exactly what stats monsters start with or how they're distributed, players have been able to work out certain things from facing them. First off, monsters appear to have higher basic stats than players; we can tell this because they can hit as hard or sometimes even harder than a similarly levelled player even when the monsters don’t have weapons or armour.

It has been theorised that this is because Tia has taken into account monsters' natural weapons and armour, such as teeth and claws, or fur and scales; this is most likely why the bunny was able to damage you, but you couldn’t harm it.

The next thing we know is that all monsters are split into three categories: offensive, defensive and balanced. The rabbit you faced was of the balanced category. Balanced monsters tend to have their stats more evenly distributed than offensive and defensive.”

“So does that mean that offensive monsters have stats more focused on attack and defensive ones on defence?” John asked.

“Exactly,” Sarah nodded. “Though the offensive category is further split into melee damage monsters focusing on the strength stat and magic attack monsters focusing on the intellect stat.

When any player, npc or monster levels up in Genesis, they automatically gain a set number of points into each stat depending on their rank and class. Since you're a new player who just started, you will only get one point in each stat on level up, the same as Normal ranked npc's and monsters, though we can’t say which of your stats will get extra points as you're yet to get a class. However, if we use the sorcerer as an example, they get two extra points into intelligence and one into wisdom.”

“The necromancer gets the same; it tends to be like that for all the caster classes,” Rebecca stated without looking around.

Sarah nodded in agreement before saying, “The guardian, on the other hand, which is a defensive class, gets one point in strength and two into spirit. I wont bother explaining each class and their bonus stats, but needless to say, on level up your character gets additional points into two different stats.

Upon completing their first-class mission, players start gaining two stat points per level up instead of just the one; this coincides with Veteran-rank monsters and npc's, while completing the second-class mission grants three stat points per level up, the same as Elite monsters and npc's. I could carry on, but I wont bother listing them all, as I’m sure you get the idea.

Now, because monsters can't improve their equipment like players and NPC’s, Tia has confirmed that they gain extra points into their primary stat on level up, either attack power or endurance. We believe this is another way to offset the difference of not being able to upgrade weapons and armour.

An example of this would be how a normal rank bear gains one extra point into endurance on level up, whereas a Veteran rank bear gains two."

"Fuck that's complex,” John cursed before asking. “But what about balanced monsters since they don’t focus on purely attack or defence?”

"Balanced monsters are a bit more complex here, because their attack power and endurance are always around the same level. To compensate for this, Tia confirmed that the bonus stat point will always go into whichever stat is the lower, with endurance being the primary stat if both are equal.”

“This is another reason why Sarah's rebirth is such a big deal,” Rebecca suddenly said as she swivled round on her chair and continued. Because she starts back at level zero but is gaining two stat points each level, it's essentially as if she has already completed her first-class mission or is at Veteran rank when in fact she hasn’t.

As long as she completes her class missions when they become available, she will always have more total stat points than any other player, unless someone else achieves the same feat. Add to that her ability to increase the stat point gain by finding more Phoenix blood, she’s going to be incredibly broken at higher levels.”

Sarah frowned before asking, “Why does it sound like an insult when you say it like that?”

“You know I don’t mean it like that; I wish I could go through rebirth,” Rebecca stated before suggesting. “Since the kiddo has finished eating, it might be a good idea to show him where he’s living.”

“Aww, but I wanted to log back in,” John groaned.

“Then do it at your apartment,” Rebecca retorted. “You're not the only one who has things to do in Genesis, you know.”

“Yeah, I guess,” John admitted. “Thanks for the help.”

“Anytime, kiddo, you're helping me with my research after all,” Rebecca said with a smile.

John nodded before turning to Sarah with a curious look, who smiled before saying, “Follow me; Maria already sent me the access code for your apartment.”

“You two go have fun, but make sure to come back tomorrow so I can check up on you and the Mark Zero,” Rebecca instructed before turning back to her desk.

“Sure,” John replied before following Sarah out of the medical room and back along the path they had taken to originally get there.