same here and 200k accounts on a server within a few days of opening and i even remember that ppl didnt realy know about npc lvl 5's either as i remember loads of ppl on civony s4 being surrounded by lvl 1 npc's lol
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I remember thinking 500 archers and 700 swordsmen were unstoppable...that may be a noob memory just for me though :p
Back in early days scout bombs and archer rainbows ruled the server
Instant warrior hero was a big then even after 2 years of playing
Having 100mil food in a city was a big thing
All LVL10 wood and Iron cities were a rare commodity
ballista was used only for farming
capturing cities was easy when player was offline
most of the time it was a planned group attack
attacks from long distances and still capturing cities was possible
big prestige meant top player because prestige farming was never heard of
Alliances fought wars to get other alliances as wings or make them merge to become stronger
Things that have changed since then
- Prestige farming resulted in loosing value for prestige
- Unbelievable troop counts and battles mostly begin with mechanics
- Wars are 1 vs 1 and mostly fought from 1 or 1.4miles
- Big heroes getting made in weeks which were not even imaginable
- unlimited supply of resources resulting in transporters winning wars rather than troops
- Capturing cities is thing of the past
- People being online for long hours, doing group attacks with weeks of planning are not there any more
- Advance ports never being used (probably evony shld remove cool down for 24 to 12hrs so that ppl can still use this)
- Flat fillers and random ports landing people close to their targets
- Evony performing npc clean ups more frequently
- Instant wall heroes making it nearly impossible to take walls down
To me the one big thing is about not being able to capture cities is the worst part of evony now
Evony has went from where yould make an alliance and make a ton of friends who were more like family and 3-4 people had to work together in teams to kill one player. It was fun well plans and added something to the game thats now missing.
Now you see instant pult heros in a few weeks or less on new servers. You see people walk in vs a town with millions of troops and 30 mins later because of mech war fare the towns dead. to late pretty much to rein with walls gone unless someone can get on the account. which back in the day was unheard of logging onto someone elses account. Bots were few and far inbetween now 90% of the people on every server including the 159 the newest are botters once they are farming and some even before them. Im not interested in another game I love evony or the spirit of evony. The company has basicly ruined this game in so many ways that its lost that shine the addictive reason I couldnt wait to get back online or would be online for days at a time. Bigger states so people were forced to buy more ports to do combat. Basicly giving up on killing botters. but its way past that now days.
You got filler account. players with 4-5 alt feeder accounts obvious ones too it so funny that evony claims to monitor things and cant see someone with typical samename, samename2 are examples not real names, attacking a player together. Alt flags alliances called feeders and other things. Evony only cares about the bottom line and not the fact this is still supposed to be a game and people should be able to have fun. The lack of being able to find new items on valleys and npcs randomly took the mystery out treasure finding of randomly placed items was fun. Now its grind and suk and Im done.
I hope someday someone else when evony dies will bring back the old days so maybe some of us can play and have fun without all the havok crap and drama.
There are plenty of new players on age 1, although it's definitely not like it used to be. At least a fifth of our good players in my alliance on 157 are noobs, and to be honest they are pretty badass for noobs, most wouldn't know they were until they ask a question that just hasn't been answered yet, but would raise some noob-suspicions. I would definitely appreciate some more noobs being channeled to age 1 though, as the ratio of noobs to exp is definitely top heavy when it comes to the exp.
I laugh at the posts where people have said things about 300k arch, 100k cavs being godly in a warcity. Post-100 servers? Yeah, they were. Pre-50's Servers? You were huge if you had 500k prest. 1 mil? Top 100 for sure. Number one player on S2 was 17 mil prest- a HUGE prest farmer, right? Even on S2 the game was evolved pretty well, people knew the game somewhat. But, bots? What, like a robot that sits at the computer and plays for you? I remember my reaction when I first saw someone say bot on s49. "What the hell is a bot?" I never, on S2, saw someone say they were trying to cap a city from a bot, or that someone was botting. It was just unheard of. The game has changed since s145 or 140 as some of you have said, but the true good days were back further. Before Age2, for sure. I remember having 20k arch and trying to cap a level 4 and asking for help from my alliance members, because I was running out of troops to keep hitting. Noob maneuver? Absolutely, but hey, it was fun.
I kinda want to be a noob again sometimes, lol.
I went away for a few days and when I came back, the sitter had someone else's bot working away, annoying all the locals, which I had avoided until then.
I had a strategy for the city and the bot kind of made it hard to recover where I was going, so I left it for an earlier server where the pace is much slower.
The good old days of being able to leave the city for 10 or so hours while at work as well, are gone totally.
My take on this is to have a Free Food Friday which will play havoc with the botters.
The funniest bot event I found was a player capped a B5 for a 2rd city and right on cue for days the bot's ballistas and transports arrived on schedule and died.
I too remember back on 132 farming every 8 hours almost on the dot. Lost alot of sleep then and still do. HAVE to be up at server maint to get your teams in first with all the bots and alt account around now. And the days of Mech, Arch, SBs, CavSmacks and anything else like that is all over now. It seems to be all about sheer numbers. You spend time, a lot of money and lack of sleep to get a nice account going and then you get ported in on by SickBoy of Clarity on s150 with 78M archers, 77M scouts, 6.5M balli, 10M rams and 8M pults. What are you going to do against that? Not much. We only found those numbers out cuz of a glitched hit that killed 1.2% of his troops. Yeah botting and alt accounts have ruined the game. The game is ruined on 150 for many people. He rules the whole server, you say something wrong and its over for you, better reset. A lot of people leaving Evony just because of him alone. Spent almost a year spending money, farming day and night and building troops just to lose everything in a few hours and get zero-ed with out being able to fight back. And like stated before... almost impossible to cap a city.
i miss back when my main now would be an ungodly war city that was back before super servers or maybe the start of the first super servers
I love petty squabbling! It gives me a good reason to close threads!
Seriously though, take it to PMs.