I’m sure over the last week or so you have seen the Evony ads everywhere, I know I have, there’s probably one showing right now. Well after seeing them a million times or so I decided what the hell, I’m not playing any MMO right now, so I’ll go check it out.
Evony is a free 2 play browser based MMORTS game where you slowly build up your city and try to expand your territory. The game starts you off with a empty town with only a Town Hall and it’s your job to build it up into a striving city, build an army and conquer additional lands. Everytime you do anything in the game, build a structure, research a new technology, march your army, a timer shows up showing how long it will take. So for instance creating a Barracks might take 5 mins, but every additional level will take longer and longer. Currently my barracks is at lev5 so the next upgrade for me will take 1 hr 29 mins. Evony Account.
City Building
Evony restricts construction to 1 building per city, so even if you have the resources you cannot construct or upgrade more than 1 building at a time. I’m actually a big fan of this system as it no longer depends on how long you play the game, instead it’s how often you play. Checking up on the progress a few times a day gets you much more than someone sitting there for 2 hrs straight. There is no building queue, so you need to manually select and build or upgrade each structure yourself.
Each territory you own is split into two parts, the town and the city. The town is made up of all residential, business and military building, such as the Town Hall, Market, Barracks, Academy, etc, and is protected by the castle walls. The city is outside the protective walls and contains your resource buildings, farms, lumber mills, quarrys and iron mines.
It basically works like any other RTS game you’ve ever played. You gather resources to construct or upgrade buildings, research technology, and to build an army.
City & Hero Management
Apart from just gathering resources and building/upgrading things, there is also city management. It doesn’t get too complicated and you can learn everything you need to know in about 5-10 mins. City Management deals with your tax rate, making sure your population remains loyal and assigning a mayor to your city.
Once you have created an Inn, you can hire a Hero unit who can either lead your army or become a Mayor. Each Hero unit has 3 stats, politcs, attack and intelligence. A hero with higher politcs means your cities resource production will be higher where as a higher attack means your army will have a higher attack rating. Intelligence shortens the time it takes to research a new technology. So you can see that some hero’s are better suited as a Mayor than as a General.
Once you have a Hero and army, they will start to eat up resources as well. A hero must be paid a monthly fee and an army will need to eat so you’ll start losing food resources. If you’re army is outside attacking you will lose food twice as fast, so you always want to make sure to return your troops as fast as possible once they have completed their mission.
As your city grows you will also gain Prestige points which is basically a rating of how well your cities are compared to other players. You also have a Rank and Title, the higher the rank and title the more cities you can control.
Combat
Once you have created an army you’re ready to attack, however it’s important to scout the area first to find out the strenght of your opponent. Once you have scouted the area, you’ll find out exactly how many and what type of troops are located there. If you feel confident, you can then attack.
In the below image, I am attacking a open field to receive a bonus of 7% to my stone production for as long as I hold that field.
As fun as attacking people and NPCs is, the combat system is completely f*cked up and makes zero scense to the point that it almost ruins the entire game. Allow me to explain.
Yesterday I attacked the same location twice because I was farming for reward medals. Medals are used to reward your hero or for promotion quests, which I’ll get into more later. Here is the defending armys strenght on both attacks.
Enemy Army
142 Warriors (very weak unit)
32 Archers
48 Pikemen
On my first attack I had:
Attack 1
115 archers
I won the fight, but lost 65 archers.
Attack 2
25 Swordmen
20 Pikemen
115 Archers
The results? I lost not only 65 archers, but all my swordmen and pikemen. WTF?! That makes no sense, how could a smaller army of only archers do better? After a few more attacks I realized that melee units are 100% useless, they will only increase your casualties and waste your resources so I have been building archer only armies since.
I’ve also read on the Evony forums that there are major balance issues when attacking castle walls. As far as I’m concerned the combat system is sh*t and needs to be completly redone.
Special Items & Medals
Evony use the microtransaction business model to make money, so there are many items you can buy, for real money, that will help you along in the game. Items can range from things that subtract from build times, ranging from 15 min to 8 hrs to 30% reduction in build times. Other items will boost production or combat effectiveness for a certain amount of time. There are also medals that you gain from conquering land, these medals can be used to either boost your hero stats or to promote yourself via Promotion Quests.
Quests
There are quests in Evony, however they are progress only quests. For example, your Town Hall reaches lev 5 or you obtained 10,000 prestige points. I like to think of them as achievments instead of quests.
Conclusion
After a few days of playing I can say I’m enjoying this game a lot more than I thought I was going to. Working infront of a computer all day, it gives me something enjoyable to do and doesn’t really take much time to play. I have a dual monitor setup so I have Evony on one screen and can see when the timers run out so I can pick what I’m going to do next. This is not a time-sink type of game, it’s sort of like checking your e-mail or Facebook a few times a day, 2-3 mins and you’re good to go. But they do have to fix the combat system, it’s retarded and can destroy the game if it’s not fixed in a resonable amount of time.
i wish the game actually had all those sexy ladies like in the ads… love their cleavage so much…
The game had plenty of potential, but its still really a beta or was a couple of weeks ago, with constant nerfs which can completely invalidate strategies that have taken a lot of investment. Very frustrating when it moves the goalposts.
The game also becomes somewhat stale at high ranks with maxed cities.
+ There are several “issues” to be aware of, which can lead to losses outside your control.
Customer service is also “intermittent” at best.
Great marketing, ambitious product with potential but doesn’t live up to they hype – yet.
I’d recommend waiting until things stabilise.
As to Jumpfer’s comments… 100k armies are easily achieved if you know what you’re doing…
you don’t produce the food for them, you steal it!
as to LordPolo – try workers and transports for carrying the loot back… they’re much better at it than warriors… which are often termed “meat shields” used to absorb damage and protect more effective units.
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As per several comments above, the RL cost of purchasing items is ridiculously high.
I experienced a lot of instability, lags and browser crashes.
(and yep in many ways, its a tribal wars / travain clone [I guess Civ provided some inspiration as well given the original name “Civony”)
I have a feeling that some of the comments are being left by the promoters of this game. Evony is a scam and they make a big deal by telling you that it is “free forever”. Well guess what? It is not free. They suck you in and after four days or so you realize that you need to spend money (real money) to get anywhere in the game. Avoid this game.
The game is fun but it does require patience and the ability to read and follow simple instructions. (regardless of improper grammar)
Most give up immediately because they don’t read and follow the quests.
It is more of a Sims building game with war thrown in for fun. The paying players do have a distinct advantage over the non-paying, but if your playing for free and you find an alliance you connect with it can be extremely entertainling.
Johann
July 10th, 2009 at 3:00 am
sorry jon, but the fact is that i dont like the indians or the chinese and i will never play any games made by them. they suck our money into their country and make us poorer and them richer.”
Very complex topic, of course, but:
Those who think Johann is a racist – well, you obviously never dealt with Chinese business people – *they* are racist, ignorant and simply arrogant. Chinese and Indians behave as if they ruled the world, all I ever see from them is open or partly hidden *contempt* for the West – sorry, but I agree with Johann, plus there is nothing wrong with supporting your own countries industry.
Its like…Monopoly…with swords and bows. Tough to build up gold though. The game is free…but if you are impatient, I can see where it could cost.
I’ve not spent a cent yet. But I’m thinking about it, LOLOL.
Raf
On the new servers they brought the medal drop rate down close to 0%. It prevent promotion and basically locks you into a position where you can’t expand unless you pay $$. It is not really a question of patience when the drop rate means you can do hundreds of valley battles with zero reward.
I disagree Wicket. I’ve been playing it for 9 days now and have rapidly moved up to the rank of Knight / Captain. And have yet to pay a cent.
Its harder, no doubt…but certainly doable.
Raf
haha, detailed review. nice job, i enjoyed reading it.
Evony is a good game, but stay away from server 5, very bad lag and the tech support doesn’t seem to care…this is because they’re running other games from this server.
If you have an issue, don’t expect and answer other than a canned responce… they promise it will be addressed in two days…well not even two weeks. Good game, extremely bad service/tech support. Game is hosted in Dallas Texas, by Softlayer.com
“Archers were the most expensive combatants a King had at his disposal because of this ability. They trained constantly, while infantry were pretty much just conscripts who were gathered up when needed.”
That would be why the average english noble used to have a retinue of longbowmen with a few sword/spearmen in the middle ages right dude? English armies were predominately bowmen for one simple reason, they were cheap, every english country serf had a bow and knew how to use it to hunt/ feed his family…french armies had heavily armoured knights who were expensive and thusforth their armies were smaller and far more expensive to maintain. You need to learn more about medievil history…
Anyway im off topic, good review it sounds intriguing elabeit a little imbalanced on the comabt side of things and definitely even more so when it comes to a free game having purchasable items that give people massive advanages. If people who play free games are paying for things they need to go and play WoW or AoC etc etc…
People should just play Ultima Online
I’ve been playing this game for over 2 weeks now, and have come to learn that the game is a scam. They claim that it is free forever but the major flaw in the game is that you can’t advance past the rank of Knight, Captain on the new servers. The lowered the drop rate of (medals) which are items you need to gain promotion and be allowed to conquer more lands to almost 0. You get a medal about 1 in every 100 attacks on a valley and a attack takes anywhere from 4 -8 mins so just imagine you need 15 medals to advance you would have to spend around 150 hrs of constant game play to achieve this. Even if you are sending out 10 attacks at a time it still takes more time then i’m willing to invest for mediocre Gameplay. Try playing perfect world if your looking for a fun strategy mmo type game which does not require you to buy in game coins at all.
My 2cents
This evony game sounds okay, i mean it comes from a browser and doesn’t look nearly as crappy as runescape. however, the combat system does sound fucked up so im not sure about it. Another thing is the ads have hot chicks on them. you see like massive boobs and think you get to do something with them but later figure out that theres nothing to do with em….i mean what the hell.
First off, excellent review.
Now I have been an Evony player for close to a month on Server 9 and recently started up on World 9 as well and I think I may be able to clear a few things up.
yes server crashes happen, but for me they have been extrememly rare (I have had it happen all of 2 times) I recommend starting on the later servers as they crash significatly less according to the forums (World 9 has never crashed on me) also on that topic, the servers do shutdown for 15-30 minutes a night for “maintenence” this is not a crash.
talking costs money? not when you join an alliance, world chat costs, alliance chat and mail is free.
medals are EASY to get, so long as you know HOW, for instance, the drop rate for “rose medals’ can be roughly 33% if you simply attack like this: level 1 valley – 50 archers, level 2 valley – 100 archers, level 3 valley – 200 archers.
I am a General/Baronet and I only started medal hunting about 3 days ago, only built a military AT ALL 2 days ago.
combat system again makes sense if you look up the wiki or ask around an experienced alliance, things may look unbalnced but when you understand the hows and whys…well its much less flawed.
Oh I should also mention I have not spent a dime on this game and I always play games at a snails pace (takes me around 48 hours to beat a 3-player game of sins of a solar empire) a friend of mine started same day as me, she has more then 10x what I do, and she hasnt spent a thing on the game either.
all in all I give it 8/10
Tips: JOIN AN ALLIANCE!!! and read up on things that you feel are taking to long, generally there is a (free) way to speed them up.
anyone that wants to try this game and feels they would like some help, just mail me if your on server 9 or world 9, I will try to find you answers
-Wolfwood
Thanks for the games review Mike, it is a fair assessment for a person who may not know too much about its history, but it is always good to obtain detailed facts too, especially if there is a suggestion of illegal activity within the product concerned.
It has been alleged that this game company does deal in some very shady business as can be evidenced in the following news article from a reputable UK newspaper http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/games-evony-spam-internet.
I tend to think that as Evony is now facing a $750,000 lawsuit from Mircosoft over internet click fraud it suggests that all users should be wary about this company and its products. The post from one established consultant listed within the article cited shows how Evony is misusing the details of those who register their phone details with iEvony. When the Microsoft lawsuit bites, the innocent users may face more than what they bargained for.
As this company originates from selling gold to World of Warcraft users, this lawsuit could embarrass a number of multinational companies like Microsoft, Google and Blizzard. Those that comment favourably on this game could be mistaken as being party to supporting the internet click fraud that is allegedly taking place. This explains as to why there are so many adverts about the game in existence.
It is not really a question about Evony being a Chinese concern, it is more about this company potentially participating in illegal activity. Naturally such accusations do not place the legitimate and growing Chinese MMOG industry in a good light.
As with all things, any user of Evony needs to be aware of these issues. I hope this may help the MMOG gamers here to come to their own conclusions as to whether or not Evony is safe to play.
Safe gaming,
Andrew
I think Evony is a pretty good game,needing only a few “checkups” a day,but after the ads started with the “CONQUER THE LAND SAVE YOUR LOVER” type of stuff, it makes it look like a game for dating or something.
I mean srsly… >.< T_T
anyone know what i mean?
Why all the boobs and cleavage in the ads when it has nothing to do with the game?
ive spent a total of 1 hr a day on evony for the past 2 weeks, and i am in the top 1500 players on server 25
i have spent $0 in getting to that position
the awesome looking adds are indeed bull$hit… -_-
the battle system is fine if u take the time to learn it
server stability is a crap shoot, that much is true. some days its rock solid, some days it isnt
the drop rate for the medals one needs to get better ranks is lousy. i believe thats because EVONY wants the players with less commitment to cave in and buy the medals, but they arent 100% necessary. i didnt buy any and im doing fine on the game.
yes the general chat sucks, but when u join an alliance (and you will) alliance chat is where u will spend all your time
I’ve been playing this game for a few days, and I’m bored already! This game is “Settlers” with a new look, that’s all! It takes too long to build stuff, and to build stuff faster they ask for $, kinda takes the “free forever” jingle out of the title! I played Settlers, and found it more enjoyable, than the Evony inspired one! Taking hrs to build a building, or upgrading it, is not my cup of tea and not worth my time! I was hooked in by the bosomy babe, but she is nowhere to be found! Damn shame too!
So…what about the boobs in the ad? Do ya get some cleavage?
How come Evony has such weird pictures as ads? My mom and i think it is so sick!!!
OMG!!!! what a waste… their ads are all over. I tried for 20 min and gee I wanted to go see grasss grow I was so bored…
Turn it off… its spam
ive been playing on server 3 for about a month and i havn’t spent a penny.
You don’t need to pay money to get a better title at all im already a marquis and i find medals easy to get.
http://hods.com/evony/getting-medals/
Just don’t fucking do it.
Simple as…
Google it if you wwant to see what people REALLY think…
I think the game is interesting. But I stopped after a couple weeks because there is no level cap to who you can attack, or who can attack you. It’s simply a chest beater game. If you have the patience to be forced to rebuild gold and resources again and again, every time some person with insane game playing time feels like raping you for your own, then go for it. But I found it eventually time wasted. I moved twice, and it happened, I even PAID for the item to move again (they only give you a couple free) and another little chest pounder, too scared of people his own level, or even half his level, to attack and plunder them. Some may say I started it, or instigated it, but I never spoke to these people, never attacked them or their alliance mates, never even heard of them til I was scouted, attacked, and wiped clean. With a bit more control, it could be an enjoyable game. Make it so people with 500,000 perstige can only attack people with 400,000 prestige or more. But I don’t have the patience to come home after work, and log on to see everything I worked hard for gone in one hit from some guy with a huge army. And I can’t even retaliate or consider retaliation because it would take forever to recover, much less catch up to his level, when he’s raping me for everything I have ever day. I’m sure you can luck out and find yourself in a good area where this doesn’t happen. But it happens ALOT, and I know tons of people who have left for the same reason.
what is the name of the brunette girl who’s wearing the white dress and the necklace? BEAUTIFUL.
If anyone is thinking about trying the game Evony out, don’t bother. From the time I got there, till the time I left, it was non-stop vulgarities and racial slurs from other so called players. I am talking a steady stream, not just one here or there.
Even several dozen or so player names had every dirty word in the book.
I rate that game 100% sad.
What should I say about Evony: Age I?
Evony (www.evony.com) is a flash style game that offered a unique experience to join in on an eternal real world Risk Game taking place in a very expanded countryside.
Honestly, like any game this has its drawbacks and positive notes. Luckily, the positive outweighs the negative to a strong extreme. We will begin with the pluses.
Evony gives you 7 days from jump to learn the system and get into the game. From that time you recieve a few packages to help you settle into the situation of Real Time Strategy Warfare and during that time you cannot be touched and are free to build as you wish.
The alliance system allows members to communicate and group up to wage war against the other alliances in real time combat. This means that if you have to march 20 miles to your opponent, its going to take your army an hour or so to do it. Much like real life. Also the growth aspect you can manage within your alliance makes it a valuable commodity to those who like to feel like they are involved in their second life.
My favorite part of the game has to be the most tedious but well put. Understandably to keep people from jumping into the battle all ready and topped off the real time factor of building and researching gears players towards in depth strategy and thinking that rivals the best chess matches I’ve seen.
Also, and I’ve said this before and will always back it, the Micropayment system is an awesome way to run a game without forcing members into monthly payments. People who dont want to pay for any games can play while others who do not mind donating to keep a game going can enjoy little extras making it well worth the benefit.
There is, unfortunately a few downsides as well to Evony, none that should stop you from playing the game but ones that will frustrate you a little as all games do.
One thing is the Medal system. There are a multitude of ways to collect medals from battling NPC’s to Resource Valleys and lucky rolls of the Amulet (Free Daily Item). While there is only a slim (1%-2%) chance of actually gaining amulets this can become frustrating when you are trying to collect 10 medals to get your next rank or title. They have done well trying not to let people go from newb to power gamer overnight however a small increase in medal appearances would be helpful to the players.
The Map has only 3 levels of zoom; city, town, map. This can be a little furstrating when you consider that you will be traversing anywhere from 1-200 miles trying to locate people and collect resources. A second expanded view of the map would make it easier, but its nothing serious to begin with.
Mailing is a big thing in Evony because wars, diplomacy and general shit talking all occur within emails 90% of the time. They only have a 500 word limit on mails which causes some un-needed continuations during those important emails.
If your still reading this that means you are interested in what you’ve read. I hope so because this game offers you annonymity to play anywhere and anytime (no music) and because its real time based it gives you time to do everything else you need to do and still not miss out on much.
If you, like I, have a love for Strategy Games and want something fun to do with your time why not come try to take over the world on Evony? If you join up, try Server 35 and find Julian Terenzio, i’ll be happy to help you out and get you started on the 2009 best RTS game of the year (imo).
Hail Evony!
Graphics: 3 – Decent, could use some sort of customized city look but otherwise well done for Flash.
Gameplay: 5 – Awesome, even though it takes time to make your kingdom come alive it makes it more worthwhile when its finished.
Fairness: 3 – Medals could drop more, in fairness to those who cannot afford to spend the $30+ to get it easy.
Challenge: 5 – Your playing against real people, you might be fighting a highschooler, a military tactician or a doctor so with varying levels of difficulty it’s a surefire way to test your talents.
Replay: 4 – It does take a long time to get started, so unless your extra good at multitasking I’d suggest focusing all your efforts into one account. However, that one account will keep you interseted throughout the term.
This game is the best i think everyone should tell there friends and family to play this game
The game has recently started offering a reward package for anyone who writes a favorable review. Everything is officially compromised. It’s not a bad game, but the people in charge of it don’t seem to be very effective at balancing and ensuring the gameplay continues to improve. Server updates happen without notice as to what all was changed. I’d say you are better finding another title to give your time and support to.
Evony is one of the best stratgic games i have ever played. It combinds kingdom building with battling with other players.It is a very good multi player games. I have had many of my friends join this game because of me. I know you would like this game. Troops, populations,taxes,farms,mining,logging and many many more skills are practiced in this game.
I have been playing Evony for avery short while now but everytime i play its a new adventure. From upgrading my town hall to sending my heros to war. When you start off i recommend u take the packages on the top of the screen. They help u alot. New players should work on their army befor starting wars. If you like to play games that test your stratigic abliltys i recommend playin this game.
Anyone else notice that some of the building in this game, like the castle is similar to the building in Age of Empires 2 that was developed by Microsoft?
Evony is one of the best free online games around. It combines the popular city building and conquering concept found in many great games, such as Civilization Revolution, with the wildly popular team based concept of online games. This game is wildly addictive and there are an endless amount of quests and achievements that will keep you logging back on for months.
Today I level a countless number of barbarian cities, plundering all of their gold, lumber, stone, and iron that I then used to add on to my already massive city. I attacked the cities of my enemies, leaving them destitute and speechless as my armies assaulted their walls. I scouted across the massive world to find vulnerable enemies. The members of my alliance and I quietly strategize against the thousands of other players that we are at war with, as we laid waste to anyone foolish enough to confront us. I simultaneously command the armies of two different cities which number in the tens of thousands. I control the all of the mountains, deserts, forests, and even the lakes that surround my cities. The intellectuals of my cities researched tons of different technologies that gave my the fighting edge against my opponents. The people of my cities work day and night to provide my city with food and resources. I use my many treasures and medals I gained for my battles in order to gain rank and prestige above my foes. These are just a few of the many exciting situations that Evony has to offer players…FOR FREE. Yes that’s right, players can play this game for as much and as long as they want, without restrictions, for free. No strings attached. No cyber genius, thousands of miles away, hacking you credit card number off of the website sever and stealing your identity. Nothing to loose. It is free.
Fight and climb the way to the top as you confront other players, NPCs, and alliances bent on your destruction. Build your cities, grow your recourses, develop your armies, and build relationships and alliances in order to become one of the top players in the game. I am Uncleapyjak on server 30, and I invite you to come and join the thousands of players already enjoying the hours upon hours of endless fun. Warning, once you start playing this game, the fun and excitement of it will keep you from stopping.
Evony’s fun to play so far, but their customer service is horrible. Plus, false advertisement: recently they’ve added bonus package Aug C. Prerequisite: These packages are delivered as gifts to players who spend $30 USD or more during the event from Aug 22nd – Aug 27th. Purchased $30, then there was no Aug C package. Contacted them, all I got was auto-reply mail. Waited for 2 days, still nothing. Other than that, Evony is a good strategic game, just don’t plan on paying for it.
Evony Free Forever Online Game.
Evony is an online game that has taken the world by storm. The game is one where the player is a controller of a town or towns and will try to gain the control of the land as they play there way into war zone.
Evony involve a player starting off with a town that is a blank canvas and the players must make there own city. When you start to play Evony you are advised on how to play the game and these guidelines are very helpful. Along with guideline you may complete quests and obtain rewards for doing successful tasks from the game. These quests can be simple and quickly completed or can be tricky but you will gain the rewards.
Evony is a deeply addicting game and when you get into the spirit of things its very enjoyable along with playing by yourself you can join an alliance where there can be up to 100 players playing alongside you. In these alliances you can play with friends and communicate with your fellow alliance players in the alliance chat. The alliances can sometimes become hostile toward one another and you and your alliance may face a war where you can attack other players and try and defeat them and obtain their resources. I’m a player in OGB and we are at war with a few alliances but this is all in the fun of the game. Some alliances are small while others are very big and you wouldn’t want to pick a fight with them.
Now to your town where there are many building to be built and all for good reason. In the towns the are warehouses, cottages, relief stations, stables, inns, market places, feasting halls, rally spot, beacon tower, forges, work shops, embassy’s but in your town you will need a town hall and barracks these building are vital in the up bringing of your city. In your town hall you can see an overview of how your city is and how is it coping. In your barracks you can train troops to defend your city and also see how they can gain rewards for your city from valleys that are outside your town that produce resources which fuel your town.
On the outside of your town you have a city where your resources are harvested you can have different structures in your city from Iron Mines, Quarry’s, Saw Mills and Farms which will feed your population all these buildings along with the ones inside of your town have levels and the higher the level the more your town will gain from them but the construction time of each building that has a higher level goes up.
So that’s the game of Evony in my words and I hope you log onto the game and find out how great it is.
Lord $RF$
Evony Review by Crystalmagick
Evony is a good paced stratagy game. You begin with only the minimum of a city and you must build and build to make the city strong, and viable.
At the beginning, the developers are gracious enough to give you a 7 day period in which you have to build up your forces to be able to defend your town. Use them wisely. Building walls, forces, and traps etc is critical to hold off other players from attacking your town.
During the protection week. You should build walls as high as you can and as many troops as you can to protect your town. After your 7 days of protection you will need that strength because others are doing the same thing.
After your 7 days of protection are up, and you have followed the quests, at some point you will reach the rank of knight, which will allow you to control 2 cities instead of one. You are in control of managing everything in the cities, from how many people reside in them to how much of 4 key essentials they have available. Those are; iron, food, lumber, stone. You will need to build up area’s outside your city with alot of these to keep your city running smoothly and to keep the people happy.
Yes, the people can get angry, if they are not taken care of properly. They can revolt on you.
The sole purpose is to keep your cities strong and to as you grow conquer others. It does help when the developers allow for gifts to be given at milestones you reach in the game. They will give you packages that has items (that can also be bought in a cash store) for free for use in/on your cities.
The game is free to play, and quite honestly you most definitely can play this game without putting a dime into it. But it does help to do so, but only in a small sort of way. I believe this game is worth giving a chance to especially if you like strategy games and mmo’s as well. As this is a good combination of both.
Personally i think that the best thing about Evony is the community which the gamers share….and what better community in the game then an alliance? Because of this I’ve decided to share some top tips to anyone who is an alliance host on Evony:
-First off, RECRUITMENT. I strongly recommend that you try to get as many members to join your alliance as possible in the first few weeks of the game when new members are flooding into the new server. This is because as the game progresses more servers are made and the new members start going to the new servers. When this happens you should be very careful about recruiting new members as some…not many……but some are spies from other alliances who have made a new account on the same server despite this being illegal. Any new members after the first rush of players should be properly questioned before being let into your alliance. However, when the server is new, in order to get lots of members into your alliance i recommend you speak in world channel and say something like: ‘if you would like to join a great alliance ranked (what ever number ranked it is) then type 123’. then simply click on the names who type 123 and select invite. This technique has been very successful for me.
-Next, PROMOTION. In order to make your officers, presbyters and vice hosts to feel like their position is actually worth something try to keep the number of them to a minimum. I would recommend that you have about 7-10 officers, 4-5 presbyters and like 2 vice hosts. Before promoting anyone though make sure you check that they are good material for the position which they will be promoted to……for instance they must be able to help out weaker players by giving them resources or troops if they need them whilst still having enough for them selves.
-Now, DUTIES. Being a host you’ll have a lot of work to do with diplomacy and new members…….be sure to dump some of these duties onto your officers and presbyters. For instance you could give an officer the job of interrogating new members to check they’re safe and will be a valuable in the future.
-and MEMBER PROGRESSION. In order to get your members to get better, a good way of getting them to want to achieve is incentives: set them a target – say 7k prestige a day – and if they stick to it give them resources or gold. Also set 2 or more members against each other in a race to 30k prestige for example.
-And finally, MORALE. You want to try to keep morale up by making sure you have a friendly attitude towards each other in the alliance and try to utilise alliance chat not just to share tips and ideas, but also just to joke about and talk about life .Also ban any blocking of people inside the alliance and as host try to sort out disputes. This is an extremely valuable aspect of an alliance as often should your alliance chatting go quiet for a while many members might leave for a more sociable alliance…….make sure you keep the talk up!
In my opinion Evony is a really fantastic game and and alliance is a vital part of making it as much fun as it is. I hope my alliance host guide helps you to make your alliance achieve success in your server!
Lord kashew, server w12
I am currently on 163k prestige in server 18 as Lord Lollipop now in the game and have been playing a while now and it has given me a good insite and historical knowledge of the historical side of the game. It is fun exciting and really worth joining. You meet new people from all around the world and i have learnt lots of things from them. When i joined an alliance they were so helpful i managed to get up lots of prestige because the alliance was friendly and helpful. I would recommend anyone join this game
I found it interesting at first and was interested to see what the game was like once you build up a significant army/city. It was a nice free distraction, but all in all, it was quite boring. I joined an alliance, killed a few people, got attacked and built myself back up. Many people leave the game once they’ve been beaten down, but I actually chose to leave when I was doing very well. After playing it a month, I decided it was just too pointless in the end. Quite a disappointment considering all the advertising.
This game sucks! PERIOD!
It is not a fun game to play, as it freezes up a lot, and you either have to re-boot, refresh or close the window to get back into the game!
Also you notice that some of the people around you have been spending, to upgrade or build their city! Unless you spend cash too, you will get left in the dust!
It takes soooooooo long to play, and you can only build or upgrade one at a time! It takes too long to play, and you get bored of it very quickly!
It is a game that has potential, if the owners of the game just tweak it a lot to make it more enjpyable to play!
So basically we’re all perverts because the only way they could draw us all in was with the boobs! It’s nice to know where you stand in life, I guess :).
I’ve been playing evony for a little while and i was doing quite well… but lately it seems that the people behind evony are all about getting money of players. Take for instance medals. You require medals to be promoted so you can get more cities, yet its extremely difficult to find medals and i’ve even read on their own forums that they make it harder to get medals on newer servers to prevent fast progression. However it feels like they forget to change it back… its nearly imposisble to find the right medals. The cost of buying items is extremely overpriced… and i would caution anyone thinking about playing it that if you put money into it like i foolishly did, you cannot transfer credits between servers and its like 24 dollars for a medium medal box (there are 10 evony cents to 1 dollar). If you do play and want to put money in… please do their cents reward scheme.
Lately it seems that many people are exploiting the game by building lots of npc cities and then farming like 30 cities a day. These players spoil the game for everyone else as they are exploiting the game and killing anyone’s chances of playing.
Please do avoid this game at all cost its unfair, too expensive and ‘free to play’ maybe… but you can’t get anywhere unless you pay money!
good game worth playing build a city attack and gain another city
i need an answer to this as i am burning with curiosity? in the ads why show pictures of women all the time?
After surfing the web for hours and hours and seeing the Evony-Free forever ads all over the the internet I finally gave in and wanted to at least see what kind of game it was. I signed up and as I started playing I realized it was an MMORTS type of game. I had played a game like this previously but it wasn’t very memorable since I can’t even remember what the name was but Evony-Free forever has got me hooked. For people who don’t know what an MMORTS let me give a crash course. This is the type of game where you gather resources such as food, lumber, stone, and Iron and build your town using those resources. Eventually you are able to fight other people if you choose but at first they give you 7 days protection to get yourself prepared. The game plays in real time meaning that if you are going to build something it could take 30 seconds to hours. This may scare a few people but its a lot less demanding that a regular MMO. Say you need to build something that takes an hour the user is able to walk away from the game and do chores, take a shower, clean the house or do whatever it is that people do in an hour. There are also alliances in the game which can have up to 100 players. There are always alliances recruiting and to prevent players from dropping an alliance they will lose what is called prestige which determines your ranking. This makes sure that people don’t just jump around and disturb the way the game is played. When I first joined my alliance we were in the top 100 of 600 and now we have moved into the top 30. The people in my Alliance have been a great help and have help me figure out a few things that I was confused about but now it’s me helping the new recruits. Even though I had questions this is a very easy game to pick up and start playing. Everyone in the game starts in a random location but one thing you are able to do is move your city with the use of an item. This is a huge benefit because it allows you to occupy a territory with your alliance so you are never left stranded by yourself. Overall I am happy I gave this game a chance and plan on playing for a long time. This is Division from the alliance Krynn on server 61 signing off.
They show busty women in the ads all of the time because their main target group is men and what man doesn’t like tits? Your question seemed rather self explanatory.
You want to be really careful with this game when it comes to using money to buy items. For example, if your in an alliance and it doesn’t work then naturally you may want to change. If you are in a top alliance then an ID name and a teleport makes sense. The ID name change costs $20 US Dollars and I had to recently do this to protect my identity. Only catch, the ID name change updates throughout the system and all mails sent by you previously take on the new ID name. So in a nutshell, it’s worthless. I’ve emailed Customer Support 7 times regarding this matter and they have completely ignored me. This too is something that you need to consider; evony.com customer support really doesn’t give two hoots.