I began playing Evony for one reason, free. I kept playing Evony for two reasons, it was fun and addictive. IT WAS.
Here is what finally brought me to the decision to quit. The first, since this is a simulated world, there are no real consequences to declaring war with other alliances. The alliance I was in was getting into a war with some other alliance two or three times a day. It is ridiculous. What does this do? Well, for the new Lords in the game, you are fresh meat for the established Lords who will take out their aggression on enemy alliances by beating down the weakest cities. Sound strategy, but extremely annoying for the individual trying to learn the game.
This ties into a second item of the game that has lead me to part ways. Everything in game takes so long update and the higher the update (walls from 4 to 5 or something similar) requires more and more resources. So, when you log in and ensure your tasks are set, then you log off and go to work, eight to ten hours later your stuff will be complete and you will have a lot of gold and resources waiting for you when you get a change to log back in. Until, your alliance is at war with yet another alliance and a big meany from the enemy lives 2.6 miles from you. Then you read your plunder report and out of the 300k gold you saved up for the next big Academy lesson, you have 365 left because he/she just ganked you. That is when you notice tons of NPC cities around that provide the same, if not more, gold and resources every 8 hours. Why me? Because it isn't real and there are no consequences for being a jerk in a game.
Now you are back to square 1, and 8 hours are wasted.
The game has potential if you get on a server as soon as it opens. You come in late and you are hosed. It was fun, but not worth the hassle.
That is all. I created this account on this forum just to complain. I hope everyone quits or the staff finds a solution. Maybe there isn't one.

