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.
Evony has ALOT of potential. However, they seem to be lacking. There is something wrong… They have the right idea and seem to be walking on the right path. But they just dont get it. They just dont understand MMORTS, gaming, western culture…
Evony is crap, a waste of time, a game solely made to sell virtual property for money. You have to be retarded to pay money for stupid game items.
I’ve been playing this game for a year or two now and I must say I am very impressed. I play on server 005. Evony is a very strategical game, where every decision that you make greatly effects your society. This has to be one of the greatest strategy games I have played. I might even admit that i find it a little bit more enjoyable then Command and Conquer. The alliances are a very important aspect of the game. Without an alliance that is near your area, you have a good chance of having your town destroyed against the more powerful players. Another great aspect of the game is the “real-time” that is needed for building, marching and even training, etc. If you are into a very strategic, test your wits game, then i would suggest you try Evony. I personally guarantee you will not be dissappointed.
I’m just wondering, why are all the ads now just pictures of real women? It seems like they’re ads for sex sites not a game. I got so mad at the game’s annoying ads that I made a character named Master Bation, said a few random things, then closed the game. Couldn’t find any women anywhere btw…
Well today Sept. 20th, 2009 I gave up on Evony after about 3 months of play. I am now trying to give away my cities to others in my alliance. The combat system is still screwy as in the original article. Also with the current combat system, you can make a city totally unconquerable with a few decent level farms and decent level warehouse (NO troops needed!).
In order to ‘conquer’ (I use the word loosely) a city you must get the loyalty of the city’s citizens down to 0 and then attack it one final time to own it
From what I have seen of the game this is supposed to be a build your cities and conquer other player’s cities. A nice supposed to be fun strategy type game.
One slight problem…
If the person follows the directions below, the only way you can conquer his/her city is when they are offline. Where is the fun in taking a city if the owner doesn’t even know you did?
If you want to make your city unconquerable, build several farms and a warehouse (not sure of level minimum, it really depends upon your city’s population level). Don’t you need troops to make a city unconquerable?? NOPE!! The less troops the better!! They eat up the food you need to keep your city.
Now whenever you get attacked, don’t worry. Wait until your city loyalty goes down to 15 (starts at 100), after that the loyalty goes down by 1 point every 5 or 6 minutes no matter how many times you get attacked! So every 15 minutes the loyalty will drop a maximum of 3 points. Not a problem either! This actually helps you keep the city. Also every 15 minutes you can do “Comforting” to raise the loyalty. The “Comforting” that you want to use is called “Disaster Relief”. Disaster relief only requires food and it raises the loyalty by 5. Since the attackers will be stripping your resources of your city when they attack this is where your farms come in to supply the food and your warehouse hides it from the attackers. Well since loyalty will go down up to 3 and then you raise it 5, your city’s loyalty goes up 2 points every 15 minutes! You can’t conquer a city if the loyalty never reaches 0 so just keep using disaster relief over and over and your city can never be conquered!
What’s the point of a city conquering game where you can’t conquer cities?
Evony Age I
Evony! The mere mention of this game brings mixed emotions to those who have played, those who play and the significant others of players. I must admit that when I first started playing I was very skeptical of the game and going online to play. Whenever someone says “free”, I start to wonder how good the product could actually be. In the case of Evony, I was surprised and impressed at the quality of the product.
As The Sofa King and a new player on Server 25, I followed the quests that the Evony crew had created. This was very straightforward and allowed a novice player time to learn the ropes. As my empire started to grow, I searched around the net and found many great sites that offered tips and tricks to building. Then I was invited to join an alliance. This was one of the best options the game offered me.
As an alliance member there were others who I could ask questions to and receive help. On several occasions, I was low on resources and other members would send supplies to help me get up to speed. After some time I became a noticeable player and was attacked by other alliances. In those situations, my alliance members offered support and sent troops to help defend my villas. This started to build a bond of sorts between myself and other players.
I also started to notice that the players ranged in age from early teens to late 60’s and included husband, wives, brothers, sisters, roommates, fathers, cousins, coworkers and the like. In one alliance, I played with a whole family, the dad (in his 60’s), the son (in his 20’s), the girlfriend (in her 20’s), and nephew (in his 20’s). It was fun to watch their online banter back and forth, as they talked about what had happened that day. Sometimes they were in the same room and at other time, they were in different houses.
At first, I thought the alliance thing and the online chat was worthless, however, this was a short-lived oversight on my part. Online chat started to become fun, as the members would banter back and forth on things they were doing. Then during attacks, the chat became a lifeline to those being attacked and a supply line for those attacking. In short, the chat increased the fun and strategy of the game.
As I continued to progress in the game and my needs increased, those needs were met by the offers from the Evony team. Improvements were made in how one can win rewards, supplies and receive bonuses. Each month there is a special package that offers players an opportunity to purchase items to help them advance in the game. On a continual basis, the Evony programmers are looking for ways to make the game more fun, more responsive and more challenging. I look forward to the changes and maybe I will see you online. – Sofa King
Evony is a MMORPG that utilizes the top-down interface of kingdom management. The player builds structure to harvest resources, advance in warfare skill, and build armies for conquest. The interface is easy to navigate and the structures and units are easy to understand and manipulate. In the world of Evony, I am Nasamomdele of server 65.
Evony offers an intense beginner’s crash course in the game. You get to know units, structures, controls, and procedures with a lucrative incentive system that keeps things moving quickly. It is hard to step away from the game for the first few hours, especially if you play your cards right.
As your kingdom grows, so does the world and the opportunities presented to you. For lack of a better description, the game is exciting. It is ruled by economics and diplomacy. Good management gets you farther than armies. You manipulate taxes, production, loyalty, and development.
The development feature alone is multi-faceted and engaging. You develop the city and the specific structures of a city, as well as developing the countryside for resource harvesting, and further, the world is your battlefield for conquest and further expansion.
One compelling feature of this MMORPG is that the game takes place away from your attention as well. You can return after a number of days or hours and find that your kingdom has changed dramatically, for better or worse. Your kingdom does not require constant supervision. Certain items can even ensure that you will not be attacked or return to see your kingdom in ruins for a given amount of time. Evony accommodates your time. As you spend time elsewhere, your resources accrue and your kingdom progresses in the direction in which you left it.
Challenges of the game include the lulls in action when you find yourself short of resources and forced to wait until they accrue. Upgrades and constructions can be very resource-dependent and you can often find yourself taking advantage of the progression the game goes through while you’re away.
I found myself in the fog of war playing Evony. I did not know what to expect in combat and I paid the price. I would send too few units to too high of a level area on the map, not knowing what either thing meant. Afterwards, I felt that the same tutorial-style quest system might have encouraged me to prepare larger forces for attacking the territories around me.
But in all, Evony is an entertaining and compelling game, with a comfortable progression through the world and exciting incentives to keep you coming back.
Evony is the biggest waste of time ever, you spend a lot of time building things up and all it takes is one hostile bully with high prestige and lots of armies to wipe you out in a few hours and thus you loose it all in a flash.
So if you want to waste hours and days only to find yourself with nothing, then go ahead and play it.
Evony’s advertising is designed to entice people who are impulsive (porn clicker personality disorder?) as this is the same type of person who will send $BIG$ to evony via paypal without thinking to upgrade their virtual barracks to impress the big breasted queen. Evony must be making a lot of cash from impulsive porn addicts to fund so many ads, pretty diabolical game. Evony players are competing with each other to get close to the Queen’s big fake hooters, alas it is just a dream
I love this game!!! It’s very fun! I recommend everyone who plans to play go in SERVER 51!!! Join alliance Orion!!!
I have barracks, town hall and wall all lv 10!!!!!
Oh my gosh! From what I read, this is almost an exact clone of a different game called Travian. It came out first and uses the same system as Evony. Even the town/city layout. Leveling up with one building per city is there too. Timing as to when things will happen is from Travian. You can even conquer enemy villages in Travian [which is very similar but probably doesn’t come as quickly as this game.] Now, I suppose this is a more medieval scene, whereas Travian is anchient times. Pretty much early A.D. In a way, it makes sense. Not everyone will like an anchient setting. Many warfare likes tend to go towards Evony’s time period. Either way, it’s veeeeerrry similar to Travian…
I’ve been playing Evony for the last 6 months and have enjoyed it more than any other MMORTS.
You can make alliances, go to war, talk, build an economy and build towns. It’s a combination of everything Online war games stand for!
I have invited many of my friends to play Evony and most of them agree with me, it’s incredible.
The Evony team have done well.
Congratulations to the Evony team for such a great game
Lord Xannibul
I started playing Evony a month ago. The ads were everywhere, including on the WetPaint site I’d created for our church youth group. I had the whole weekend off, and decided to check it out. I wound up on Server 67 just a few days after the server went on-lin.
Playing Evony has turned out to be a lot of fun.
In the beginning it’s all building your city, and getting rewarded for it through the quests. Beginner’s chat is free. After you join an Alliance you get access to Alliance Channel. — a chatroom for all the players in your Alliance.
Posting on World Channel chat is not free. It costs an in game item called a “Speaker” every time you post there.
For me the real fun of the game is in building my Alliance. I enjoy creating and improving my cities, and sending my troops out to raid or take over valleys, but I love being a contributing member to an Alliance that is full of people I care about and have fun hanging out with. We all met online when we joined our Alliance, and we’re from all over the world. Michigan, Indiana, Chicago, Massachuetts, Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and more.
I’m in Kiwis and we work together and help each other out. Lots of us hang out in Alliance Chat all the time we are on line.
The middle of last week we successfully worked together to help out a member who was under attack by another player. Three of us reinforced her with troops and she opened her city gates so we could all go out together and fight the enemy. She had been a sitting duck. The enemy was enroute to her city with close to 20,000 troops and she only had about 5,000. Thanks to Alliance channel and the way we all hang out there — she was able to call out for help and we sent her three garrisons that bumped her up to well over 30,000 troops lots of who were high level archers so we obliterated the enemy and took few losses. — Very satisfying!
Our Alliance is getting big enough now that we are talking about creating a sister Alliance, and trying to figure out how we can continue to build the Kiwis community spirit and sense of family as we grow in player numbers from one in-game alliance to two alliances, and down the road maybe more.
We’re are playing together as a community, and having lots of fun. — The only drawback is there is no way to share in game Items. I can have extra Rose Medals in my item inventory, but I can’t give them to the new alliance member that needs them in order to become a Knight. He has to buy them, find them, or win them from Wheel of Fortune.
Evony is indeed free and without in-game advertising other than for the Evony Shop. It can be free and without ads because Evony rakes in the money when players buy in-game cents. $5.00 will get you 50 in-game cents that you can spend for items in the game. Most items cost $5, a few are less, and some are a lot more. Want to get your 8th level walls built instantly ? Need medals to advance in rank? Are you short a small amount of some resource for a critical build, or research? — spending cents lets you resolve all that instantly — it’s very tempting. Folks with the ability to spend on cents — are spending.
Evony runs special promotions all the time about special bonus packages for players who buy $15 $30 or $50 worth of cents by a particualr date. They even have a Autocents program so you can sign up for a monthy budget of cents.
They are making lots of money, and don’t need to charge for access to the game.
A knowledgable and ded icated player can play the game well and not spend any money. All players are eligible for some bonus packages of items, and every day each player is awarded an amulet that entitles them to one spin of the wheel of forturne. The wheel displays a random selection of in-game items each day, and randomly awards one of them to you when you spin.
The Host of our alliance isn’t spending and he has more Prestige and Honor than any of us. You can be a winning player and have a lot a lot of fun on Evony without spending any money.
This has the makings of a great game that I would have loved to play more but the designers are just to greedy.
Every way you turn there is a need to buy coins to advance and in a PvP game the battlefield is not even close to even when so much depends on purchasing coin.
For example to expand one needs medals which in theory are supposed to drop from attacking valleys. In practice thr drop rate is so low that tou have to spend increasing amounts of real life cash to expand.
Another example is that there is no building queue in the game and expansion to keep up with your neighbours requires speed-ups…… You guessed it more real cash.
This game is a big waste of time. Really. As someone stated before it took 1 bully to wipe you out. 2 weeks into the game, I get hit by a 127k bully with 42k archers. And I’ve kept at a fast pace in building defenses. 2weeks – 5k warries, 1k archer, 2k archer towers. Please don’t waste any more effort in this game. Free until you get attacked and u’ll end up paying all those white flag. DON’T PLAY THIS GAME
ok, so its a mmo. why the h!@# do they put topless hgotties in the adds????? its good marketing but p)((ES me off
I have been playing this game for some months now and i have finally broken the habit, If you are prepared to give up 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to play this game then this is for you, If you are prepared to wake up one morning only to go online to find that while you were asleep everything you had spent weeks or months building had been trashed by the enemy then this is the game for you. No I’m not a sore loser because I left the game with 6 cities and three quarters a million troops but believe me this is not a game it is mental torture and if you dont believe me just try it or ask someone who has been trashed. When even your dreams are interupted by this game you just know somethings wrong.
Its an ok review of the game but has a few mistakes.
1st, infantry are not useless. Each unit has attack bonuses against other types of troops (ex: Swordsman are good against archers, pikemen are good against cavalry and cataphracts, etc). It is better to have a lot of archers that are backed by a well balanced horde of swords, pikes, cavalry, cataphracts, and warriors (warriors are highly usefull as meat shields as many wall defences are 1 time use only. A wave of 100k warriors may all die, but they will take out ALL defences except the archer towers, and once your archers, ballistas, and catapults are done with those, you can cavalry spam the hell out of the city until it is yours)
2nd, When troops are marching, your food production increases, it is only when they are defending a vally that the food production doubles. When you tell them to return from defending, the food production remains doubled UNLESS you do anything that requires resources, such as heal your injured troops from the battle to conquer the vally. Once you do this, the food production goes back up to what it was when they were marching to the vally.
3rd, A mayor with high attack does not increase your armies attack, but rather, decreases the ammount of time it takes to build troops.
4th, There are 2 measures of how you compair to other players, prestige (which was described well), and honor. Honor is gained and lost in battle. If you attack some one, and the cost of your casualties is a lot lower than the damage you did, you gain honor. If it is the other way around you lose honor. Its as simple as that.
As for the comment about this game being mental torture, they are 100% correct. You can lose EVERYTHING over night, and if, like me, you become host of a strong alliance that is part of a brotherhood or sisterhood that is know for bullying other alliances, diplomacy can be a b!tch. In one day, a server wide war started and a total of 21 different alliances declared war on us. So like Steve said, if you are prepaired to devote all of your free time to the game, are willing to rebuild after every city has been conquered and your last has been decemated by a 2mil prestige player that did it just because he could, and don’t mind lag so bad that you find yourself getting booted from any given server 2 or 3 times a day for up to 24hrs (o yah, its happened) then go right ahead and join the world of Evon. And once you’ve join, if you are on server 5, look up and apply to alliance SOP, the training to KingsIV, a brotheralliance of Kings, the strongest alliance on the server.
The long reviews on this are so blatantly written by Evony jerks. Ths game is a complete scam, with gameplay only slightly better than playing patience. Medal drops are virtually non-existent forcing you to spend $$$ DON’T PLAY THIS GAME!
I’m not using my more commonly-known online nickname mainly because I don’t want other players to know of my current Evony situation.
That situation is being unable to connect for over 2 days now, after being guilty of spending $40 in order to get the much needed Rose Medals required for rank neccessary to start a third city. Had I known I’d be unable to build defenses in that city so soon after paying, I would have spent that money on another, more accessible game.
Iian’s assessment is a little strongly to the point, but I do not entirely dissagree. The technical issues soon have many who pay, regretting doing so. I suspect the Evony business model is more along the lines of Free Always (unless you want to succeed or have the required ranks to have more than just the first two cities). It’s not always a matter of patience, moreso, it’s that it would appear they have made the so-called random chances of aquiring the much needed medals impossible without having to pay. It’s also not cheap. You cannot buy the needed medals directly, instead, you must by items called Junior Chest to get those medals and those chests give them randomly, so you could (like me) end up having to invest over $40 in buying several of such chests with a relatively low chance of getting anything more than 1 of the specificly needed medals with each $8 chest. ($40 value based on my also gettign a few medals from holliday bonusses you recieve with some other payment options. Could be significantly more without those bonusses). To give a more clear example, To start building a third city, the title of Baronet is required. That title requires saving up 5 Lion medals and 10 Rose medals. You may (as was my case) have close to half of the required rose medals and possibly all of the Lion medals needed, left over from the beginners package or similar bonusses, but still needed about 6 or 7 more Rose medals. If the first Junior Chest purchase only gives one Rose medal, which is often the case, you’d need another, costing another $8. If you only need five Rose medals, this could end up costing you close to $40 off the bat. In my case, I needed 7 Rose Medals, but was lucky enough to get two of them in a single chest twice.
If that would not be discouraging on it’s own, then also consider how every few weeks, the game is inaccessible due to server connection errors for a random stretch of time averaging anywhere from 12 to 48 hours, enough time for the few who are able to connect to completely kill off one or more of your cities.
Evony makers like to bribe people for biassed reviews, offering 500 game coins (worth $50) for notable good reviews, which is likely why you don’t see as many negative reviews, but from an unpaid, unbiassed perspective, I can see why such payments would be needed to keep up the advertising, when there are so frequently technical issues preventing overall enjoyment of the game and more and more players are starting to realize the catch or gimick which allows Evony to advertise as a “Free Game”. Another sales tactic employed by Evony is to offer significant bonus incentive to spend over $30 (usd) within the first 7 days, to rush people into paying something before they have time to discover the shortcomings. It really isn’t much different that doing business with a high-pressure used car salesman.
Somebody had asked what use the other units are and I can assure they do have their uses. Archers may get first-strike capability, but if they do not completely kill the defenders, they can soon be overtaken by the faster units such as cavalry and scouts. Cavalry is also good for very rapid resource transportation to allies. The game has units called transporters, which can carry much more than any other unit, but they move so slow that an equal number of cavalry can carry just as much in the same amount of time or less by being able to make several trips. Since cavalry can also be used to quickly raid and capture low level NPCs and valleys, they become much more valuable in their multiple roles as transporters are worthless in combat and only serve a single purpose. Swordsmen, as well as workers and warriors are cheap and quick to train, which makes them worthwhile in sacrificing to traps and fortification defenses, so your archers and in many cases cavalry, do not need to worry of such things.
I will continue playing, mainly to support my alliance, but I doubt I’ll make the mistake of paying any real-world money into Evony.
(In the event any of my alliance members might read this and if they are able to connect to the server, you’ll know who I am by my purple beard and pirate flag)
Evony is just an online version of the Civilization series, except more complicated.
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.
To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.
Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.
Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.
I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.
There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.
Thank you for reading this.
Lee
Never played because misleading ads… it’s either this or they put punch and pie in the ad.
Rated F for Fail, WOW
I cant play this game. It wont let me
Wow, what Johann said about the chinese and indians is the wrong way, it is totally the other way around. We suck their money, or that is what i know of so far. I may be wrong, if so; then stfuyr (shut the f*ck up you are right)
The ads are always of some hot-damn near naked woman…and I KNOW it’s nothing to do with that stuff, so I decided to read the review on it, and just as suspected….NOTHING HERE ABOUT HOT WOMEN! The ad makers are either conniving evil geniuses or just flat out false advertisers-lol
Me and my friend have always avoided the Evony Ads, as most of them are highly suggestive, manipulative and don’t seem to relate to the game much at all. But, recently as I’ve taken up an interest in Browser games and am currently in the process of designing one myself, so I decided it would be stubborn of me not to take a look. So on first entering the site I see the claim ‘Worlds Best Web game,’ but if the game was so good, why do they need to use manipulative techniques to get people to play it. I also hate claims like this, as there are many web games available and they range wildly on styles of game-play, so in the end it’s down to the user. So anyway, waiting to be impressed and blown away by Evony I decided to take a quick look. From first thoughts I decided it looked nice and had potential, I built my first cottage, only to realise how long it would take. To speed it up I thought maybe I could build two at once, only to be told it’s impossible. It also doesn’t help that it’s lagging and sometimes my button clicks don’t seem to register.
From those Ads and homepage I also thought it was suppose to be a free game, but yet I began to receive mail through it telling me to part with my money for extra stuff. I dislike browser games that provide you with the options to speed things up by parting with real money, as once you get hooked it gets mightily tempting. You also get the problem of people who have cash over-powering pretty quickly and taking over the game, even though they haven’t dedicated as much time to it as you have.
I can’t help feeling I might as well be playing one of my other games such as Civilization or Age of Empires. I’ve heard that it can get very enjoyable after a few days of play, so if I have the patience I’ll keep trying, but I’m afraid they already alienated me the moment they released those false ads…
I LOVE Evony! It is tons of fun! It’s a strategy war game where you can really be the best in the world! I love getting teleporters and changing states and locations, building up my population, keeping my tax rates low, and building up my walls! I would HIGHLY reccomend ANYONE to play Evony, and i’ve already gotten my 19 year old brother to sign up and he’s addicted! I’m working on getting my friend Liz to sign up and both these people have money to spend on buying game cents! It’s 100% free FOREVER! And just because you dont pay money doesnt mean ANYTHING! Start an alliance, make friends, make enemies, DO ANYTHING!! I totally adore Evony and get on every day for as long as I can. Really, check this website out- it’s garunteed to be a bucket (or twenty!) of fun!
Evony is fun to play but has some serious issues. Many positive reviews
emphasize “free for forever”, but this is very misleading. Advancement is
capped by a combination of things to force purchase of items. No leveling beyond level 9 is possible (given one free level 10). Additional cities beyond
one additional city depends on rose medals which simply do not appear.
I play with Firefox on a Mac and the display of text is so broken that you
can’t get a lot of the information you need. Especially irritating are the
scroll bars that keep covering the text you are trying to read. Also the text is laid out in such a way that it appears the program has set line size to one letter, creating long columns of text a few characters wide. I’ve tried to find info on this problem with Evony forums with no success. Player impatience has made this a very profitable game for its owners. The owners have some legal and ethical problems being reported in the media.
Evony would be an interesting game, I think, if I could ever log in or play it. Unfortunately, the lag in my world has become so bad that even instant transactions are drawn out 5-10 minutes. I used to enjoy the strategic aspects of game play, but there is simply no ability to achieve anything when the quality of the game is so poor.
I would not recommend this game, as my experiences appear typical for evony users. They get you to start an account, spend money, and then they let the server blow up, apparently. Evony is a SCAM.
I myself am an extremely active player of server 5 on evony. This is a great review of the game except for the fact that you over dog the combat system. Only the noobs and nonexperienced players bit*h about it because they dont understand it. Unfortunately I dont have the time to explain it but ultimately a great review.
Oh, I know how to play the game! There is no way to build up a 100,000 man strong defense by one week. And thats what you need to defend your city it seems. And theres no fucking way to do that while all of the gay established players are attacking your city with 10,000+ archers and 20,000+ cavalry and stealing ALL of your resources and gc.
If youre looking to find out whether or not to begin playing this game, my recommendation is DONT WASTE YOUR TIME! Sure things will go well for a week then the suck fest begins.
its pretty good game i like it and its enjoyable
@robert c, and others –
I too had an issue with the buttons in the web browser going slow on evony, my brothers was really quick though, so I did some tinkering, and after updating my video graphics drivers, it worked a lot quicker, that might help some of your guys issues with this, well at least it did for me. Cheers!
i totally agree with many ppl who posted these comments bout evony being a scam. Seriously, whoever is the evony team is simply wasting our time and money. I had started playing this game over a year ago and i am still a knight!
I have started to play this game and to be frank, I was not expecting it to be as good as it is. The first thing that stands out is the feeling of community with the other gamers which seems to have been initiated from the developers them selves and is sorely lacking in the majority of other games out there at the moment.
The game itself is totally free and you have the choice to keep it that way or to increase your rate of success by purchasing Cent’s. The game also encourages you to go on multiple times rather than sit there for hours on end. The rate at which you can build up your city is up to you.
The only flaw I have found is that there seems to be a lack of instructions to assist you in your quest, but I am a new boy to the game so might not have found it as yet.
I have also noticed that the game attracts gamers from all ages from teens to oldies like me who just enjoy the distraction for an hour a day.
The graphics are excelent but I would like to see them go even further like in the Lord of the rings games which I thoureghly enjoyed. I am sure that with the advent of more and more players, the game will expand and with it the quality of graphics.
I am genuinely looking forward to playing this game and would reccomend it to anyone. Unlike some of the more complicated games out there, you can jump right in from the start and start to build your little empire.
Download it and enjoy..
Theknife (KNIGHT)
What can you say about evony. It is the most addicting game I have ever played.The time based game makes you just want to keep trying and trying to come up
with the best way to make it to the top of the rankings.It will have you jumping server to server trying to see if you can become the strongest on that
particular server. It will constantly have you trying to finish as many things as you possibly can at once to get you going faster in the game. Wars will
break about between your alliances and you will crush people and get crushed at the same time. Just to rebuild and do it all over again. I have never been so
entertained by a time based game as I am with this one. One of the best features of this game is the 7 day protection. For the first 7 days you can not be
attacked or attack anyone. Unless you feel you are strong enough and then you can just upgrade your town hall to lvl 5 and your out. That makes it good for
new players on the server to get a headstart before they get attacked. Another great aspect of this game is that there are no cheats or hacks available. All
the cheaters out there are stuck with playing by the rules in this game. That really makes it better for the players who don’t cheat in games and like to
play by the rules. There is an extra feature like in most games now to be able to buy coins with USD and have a chance to make yourself stronger. Also there
is almost like a lotto feature where you use amulets to spin a wheel and win random prizes. Whichevery day you revieve one amulet to try to win something
good. The makers of Evony also try to make the game pretty realistic with the tax rate feature and food usage. Each person in your city uses food and
depending what their job is they may use more or less. The stronger they are of course the more they eat. Also with the tax rate depending how much you
charge your loyalty can go up or down. Loyalty will affect how many people come to your city and your population affects your production rates and how many
soldiers you can make. All in all this is hands down the best free time based game I have ever played. Definately have recommended this to my friends and
they all loved it too.
I am Lord Jester on server 106 in alliance ANGELS. Come join if you would like!
I played this games for months and was really into it and logged on one day to find all my city was erased. I would not recommend playing this game at all you will log on one day and months worth of gaming will be gone. Don’t waste your time.
I am not a big fan of those browser “Strategy” games. But when a game using breast and etc as an add that have no use from the game. So do i it just make it on the “not to play list”. But thanks for the review. Now i know what it is about. Because those lose girls in the ads don’t tell shit what it is about.
like ok im 15 ya know. the ‘porno’ age . well thats what everyone at my school says. anyway. i saw ads of this but it showed on the ads like a naked chick lying down say ‘ come play my lord’ and then it says it will appear unnoticed on your browser. now i thought this was a game where u would do some stuff and nail a chick in the end. I find out its some shit old nerdy piece a crap. what gives?!?!?!?!?
It’s a pretty cool game, wonder when age 2 will start though. They’ve been talking about that for half a year, but still no concrete information around about it.
I have recently started playing Evony two weeks ago and loving it. I noticed reading the other reviews they stress about building times and such which in all the case I see no issue if you learn from experienced players and take their advice. I got a hero with 100+ politics and construction 9 research and build times are not that slow. Almost completed all my buildings to lvl 9 already. In all the struggle learning I think this is the best MMORPG game I have run across lately and has kept me occupied for the past two weeks that I have made alot of friends. But lately been concentrating on farming NPC’s to build my resources faster. But I started on a new server which is 126 to learn from my mistakes from server 118 and now building faster then normal. I rate this game 9 out of 10 and for the reason being a 9 is because the medals are not dropping like they said they were on the earlier servers. If the drop rates where higher this game will recieve a 10 out of 10 for being a flash based game. If I had the chance I would help them with testing but I highly doubt that will happen. But in general, game play is great, the pvp is great, the stats are great, the guides to the games are almost perfect and of all the great free gift each day. If you want to learn more about this game go try it out for yourself. Good luck and have fun. Sincerely LordShadow Server 126.
I’ve been playing Evony since Server 95 was first started. This has got to be one of the best game I have ever played to date. Getting accepted into an established alliance is a must for new players. Having a good alliance enables you to get help and tips from players who are familiar with the game and who will supply you with the knowledge on how to best get you game moving along. New players should not get discouraged or believe that Evony is slow or not stimulating enough. New members should follow the game quests when first getting started to get the ball rolling faster. It may take some time to get your buildings leveled up or to create a massive army, but those are goals that each new player should have. Researching greatly improves building times, troop production, defenses, etc. Upgrading all your research will cut down on those long building times. Once you get your cities and troops built up, your game will take off. Your alliance will start getting friendly with other alliances and may declare war on some. Once you start attacking other players or defending your cities, you are in for a lot of fun. This is when your strategy techniques will come into play. Your fellow alliance members have the capability to reinforce you in the event of an attack or transport resources to your cities should you find yourself low on supplies. Attacking valleys and NPCs will allow you to collect resources and medals and also allow your attacking hero to gain experience. Collecting medals enables you to get promotions in the game so that you can create or conquer even more cities. The game continues to play even when you are not logged on, so be prepared to log in to surprises once in a while. Evony is free for all users, but there is an option of buying game cents that you can use to purchase items in the shop. The shop included everything that you may need to advance in the game a little bit quicker. Ah, and lets not forget the daily amulet, which you will receive free every night at midnight server time. You can use the amulet for a spin on the wheel of fortune. The wheel items vary, and give you a chance to win anything from medals to resources to speed-ups and more. If you find that you need additional help with your game, Evony offers great guides to help you along. Evony is also a wonderful place to meet lots of great people. The members span the globe and the ages, so everyone can feel as if they belong here. I highly recommend Evony to anyone who is looking for a great MMORPG. Try it for yourself and you’ll see. Thanks, LadyGemynii Server 95
I was playing Evony for about 3 months now. Suddenly, today everyone has to start over. People r screaming mad. They lost their cities, alliance, everything!!! Therefore, their money as well. They want their money back! Players can’t find other players. You try to whisper to someone, the server will say that player doesn’t exist. It’s chaos out there, and people are rioting on-line. It’s a decent game. We have some good people out there from all around the world. Some do complain that they wish they can see the battles. Until today, I have never seen so many players burning mad!!!
Evony is a great game, but I cannot get into any evony site to log in right now. If anyone else has this kind of problem then please email me at j_loppnow@live.com
Thanks
i heard that evony is just a scam to get ur info i have been hacked on my mail game i play sence i started evony i like evony can someon tell me if ths is just a fluck i got hacked or is there something in common here
Scam??? Here’s one for you all. I was playing for about 3 months. Had about 500 US. invested in the game which was a dumb move as I sit here now talking about it. Had 2 cities with 1 almost completed. Had close to 400k prestige. Was well equipped to handle almost anything… well until about a week ago. The game froze up on me as many times before. A glitch? Who knows. Tried many times unsuccessfully to get back in with no prevail so gave up until the next day. Well the next day rolled along and here I am trying to login. Well that wasn’t working either. Wrong password. Went to my mail to check my evony update pages and behold my password was changed. Changed by who? Nobody knew my login info whatsoever. NOBODY. Well I logged on to my account with that changed password and behold… everything was gone. Had one basic city, no upgrades, no items in my arsenal, no nothing. Zip. Zero. Nadda. After numerous attempts to contact evony in every which way possible, I never got one response. I don’t even get my autocents. Go figure. Scam? Think what you may. But I’m out 500 bucks, I don’t have anything to show for it, and evony is giving me any kind of response or explanation. Proof? Got all my receipts and an alliance full of people on my side for this one. Wanna talk about being ticked off? You’re looking at the words of one of those immensely ticked off individuals.
I have been playing Evony for over 6 months now, have 2.5mill prestige troops to match and the host of a respected Alliance all on N2 server.
Sadly too many players have now quit Evony due to the fact that it is very time consuming. Once u get past a certain prestige level with troops., etc., it takes you all your time just to farm to feed the troops, or you log into refuge and lost troops. Also becos Evony continues whether you are online or not, your cities can be attacked, valleys plundered and everything taken away from you, because you are not there to defend/attack etc. In a matter of hours, you can lose everything that has taken you hours, days, months to build. I have now been banned totally from Evony due to that fact I put a fost on the forum on why a lot of very good successful players had now quit Evony.
I was accused of Spam Bot ???
Neither word featured anywhere in my post, and I have never used a Bot in my life.
Evony is supposed to be a game, a game in which the players are supposed to have some measure of control. That doesnt happen with Evony, and you will all find out in due time. Due to the way the game runs, the moment u have any free time, you are logging into Evony to make sure all is well. The theory was good, the practice a few different matter. I resigned my positon as Host on N2 server and told the members to boot me and plunder. My troops will refuge soon enough in my absence.
I am now back to playing my original mmorph game where when I log out, everything pauses and I know when I log back in, I can resume my progress. Evony might consider a similar set up in their game.
Good luck all hope you have better luck than I have.
to guys that were hacked: did you think maybe the PLAYERS hacked you and not the evony team? happens in all mmorpgs