Ballista/Xports used to be scissors.
NPC's used to be paper.
Now rockfalls are rock.. and they totally rOCK!
Our scissors got nerfed and are now toenail clippers
Paper became Kevlar.
I keep wondering what's next...
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i agree. for severs like sever one, there should be more advances of some kind. no newbie should join old severs anyway.
but,
there's an age two coming out. so maybe they are already doing these things. really, civony and evony is just test games before they really bring out the best things at once. that's my guess. i have to say though--even though its starting to improve, there should be much better customer service.
I am on server 12. :) Name is Kassikas. Top 500 pres, top 200 pop, top 10 alliance.
I am sorry, but you just haven't bothered to learn how to play Evony very well at all. Probably why you are so upset about things. Here is the way players in the know do things.
A: While in newbie protection, set up 3 cities in the first 24 hours. It isn't just possible, it is easy.
B: There are only three techs to worry about for the first week. Construction, Archers, and compass. Maybe throw in logging for fun.
C: Build 80-90% saw mills. With this, you will have seven or eight construction by the time you pop out of newbie protection, because for the first month wood is always overpriced, while food is nearly free. Stone drops rapidly as well, and Iron bottoms out for the first couple of months Using lots of speed ups on Construction will help a lot. Don't use all your free speed ups on buildings, use them on lowering building time.
D: Early on, use a politics hero for all your medal farming. The goal is to search the inns every time you sign on. Look for a politic hero with over 65, and +40 attack. Use one of the free holy waters you get on them, and put all the points back in politics. Should be over 70 by level 6.
By the time you come out of newbie protection, your three cities should all have a politic hero with more then 100, and at the very least 7 construction. If you save your speed ups, you can end up with 9 construction in very short order.
Do that, and you will have very low construction times (level nine cotts will take under an hour) and more resources then you can spend. By selling lumber at it's early inflated price you will be able to keep researching in all of your cities. High INT heroes help here.
You do not need Barb towns to rapidly max out carebear cities. You only need to look at the academy, market, and makes reasoned choices.
Why max out 4 resource techs when you can max out 1, and rapidly produce wood which sells at a much higher value then every other resource?
Why have 4 kinds of valleys when you can just cap forests and have wood production through the roof?
Why build Iron mines and quarries, they take longer and require more resources? You need less iron and stone, and it sells for far less then wood.
Why research mil science and construction at the same time, if you are always going to be building buildings, but rarely troops?
Rapid city progress in Evony isn't about NPC cities. Learn to build/research strategically instead of just building up everything equally in every town, and you will find yourself with a maxed out capital in three weeks.
The problem as I see it is the hundreds of high prestige players ruined this game by driving off the thousands of newbies. I had 2 lvl 10 cities and lost them memorial day weekend, I was gone all weekend and didn't log in, there was no defense at the time and one of the aggressive clans teamed attacked them and took them.
Without a way to protect your time investment this game fails for anyone who doesn't stay logged in constantly. This game cannot survive without the casual user and the high prestige players pretty much make that impossible. That's why I kinda have to laugh at the bellyaching that city defense actually works now and all the players who think this game is about nothing more than killing people half your strength are leaving, the fact is those are the players that need to leave.
I like this post because like you I was just thinking of the same thing. What's the point? I'm just about maxxed out on building and research, going as far as taking certain thing down and rebuilding just to have something to do. I now can not attack anybody with a moderate defense as I will lose everything and I do not want to attack the noobs because I want them to grow and have fun. I was gonna quit but after some thought, I do like this game even with the current issues. I hope they make some changes to this game play so I will continue to grow.
save evony game builders/admin.... save save..
Why necro a thread that is a month old?
i am fairly new to this game on a certain file. but all ya have to do is make more files to play. then you can say your all champs. :)
agreed 100 percent with the op.
but evony isn't going to change anything. this game is about money to them... invest little and then when people spend it's all profit.
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His towers were killed several attacks earlier, before he opened his gates (player was online)... I'll have to dig for that report later.. it's nearly 2am...