FAQ and Myths

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Q: What are heroes used for?
A: Heroes are used for varieties. High attack heroes increase your troops' attack in battles and if the hero is mayor it decreases troop construction time.
High Politics heroes increases resources per hour, so resources gaining, if the hero is mayor.
High Intelligence heroes decrease research time. That is, if they are mayor.

Myth: High Intelligence heroes increase the chances of a medal in valley/npc attacks.
Truth: No!!! I don't know why this came out but it isn't true.

Fact: Loyalty=% of population in your city out of the population limit. For example, 80% loyalty=80% of the population limit is filled.
So if your population limit is 10000, your population will be 8000.
That is, if your loyalty is 80.

Q: What are the best buildings to have in your cities?
A: Barracks. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT have 1 billion cottages. Barracks are needed, unless you have a war city. That is different.

Q: What is the best tax to gain the most gold per hour?
A: 50%. Let's look... (this is if your population limit is 100.)
20% tax = 80 people = 16 gold per hour.
30% tax = 70 people = 21 gold per hour.
40% tax = 60 people = 24 gold per hour.
50% tax = 50 people = 25 gold per hour!
60% tax = 40 people = 24 gold per hour.
70% tax = 30 people = 21 gold per hour.

Q: What is the best npc to plunder without getting losses?
A: Level 5. Of course, this depends on your hero's attack and your technology.

Q: What is the best resource city to have?
A: Lumber. Lumber sells for about 5 gold / 1 lumber, so you can have lots of gold. Let's check it out...
Food = 3rd. Once your army eats up all the food, you can't do anything, since all your fields are taken up and your only resources are being yummied away.
Lumber = 1st. If you sell all the lumber you get, you can buy food, therefore supporting around 5 times more food then a food city.
Stone = 4th. Stone sells for nothing, and it is almost completely worthless.
Iron = 2nd. Iron is around the same as lumber, but it takes too long to make ironmines.
Therefore, lumber is the best.

Q: What should I use my Michelangelo's script on?
A: On my list:
1. Walls
2. Rally Spot
3. Town Hall
4. Feasting Hall
5. Everything else
Why not level 10 barracks so you can make catapults?
Catapults need level 10 metal casting, which needs a level 10 workshop. So if you want to waste 2 mich's script on that... It's up to you.

Q: What are valleys?
A: Any place on the map without a building. Flats, forests, hills, anything that is not a castle.

Q: What is a good alliance to join?
A: One with a lot of members and one with an experienced host that doesn't fool around.
P.S. If you're on server 100, mail me, (Centy105) and join Chosen. :)

Q: How do I get prestige fast?
A: Do not upgrade your promotions for the quickest prestige, and also don't upgrade your town hall level. I don't know why, but the higher your rank/title and the higher your town hall level, the lower your prestige gain. If you want to waste the time, build cottages and make armies, but you will regret having so many cottages. Archer's Towers give you 1 prestige for each, so that is probably the quickest way.

If I remember any more questions/facts/myths, I will post them here.
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very good ummmm guide

EDIt: i forgot to say, plus rep for you :-)

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Originally Posted by Centy105

Fact: Loyalty=% of population in your city out of the population limit. For example, 80% loyalty=80% of the population limit is filled.
So if your population limit is 1000, your population will be 8000.
That is, if your loyalty is 80.

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Think you may have messed that up a bit, but still good guide lol.

Just to add on a bit.

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Originally Posted by Centy105

Q: What are heroes used for?
High Politics heroes increases resources per hour, so resources gaining, if the hero is mayor. Politics heros also decrease building time on buildings/wall fortifications.

Fact: Loyalty=% of population in your city out of the population limit. For example, 80% loyalty=80% of the population limit is filled.
So if your population limit is 1000, your population will be 800.
That is, if your loyalty is 80.

Q: How do I get prestige fast?
Have less total cities with a low total town hall level between them.

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Hope that helps.

Yeah...
Sorry about that.
Thanks for adding that part though.
... I meant if your population limit is 1000, then your population is 800, to answer Ducarmont. I'll edit this into my guide.
Thanks.

Rank & title have nothing to do with how much prestige you gain. Only things that affect prestige gain are:

1. The level of your Town Hall
2. How many Town Halls you have

I guess you could say title indirectly affects your prestige, because obviously the more city slots you have the more TH's you can build.

Ummm, there is already a FAQ. But could have just called this the myth and truth guide I guess.

I don't agree with tax rate, any good player has taxes set at 0.

I agree with King, why have taxes when you can get gold so easily and your cities will be harder to take.

The tax rate says "Best tax rate to gain most gold"
If it was more general, it should be:
10%- Early Development
20%- After building up city cottages & being in Early Mid Development
50%- Most of Remaining Development Stage until you feel comfortable in the fighting world
0%- When you are adding the final touches, Building Troops, or are an experienced player

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Originally Posted by Baltezar

The tax rate says "Best tax rate to gain most gold"
If it was more general, it should be:
10%- Early Development
20%- After building up city cottages & being in Early Mid Development
50%- Most of Remaining Development Stage until you feel comfortable in the fighting world
0%- When you are adding the final touches, Building Troops, or are an experienced player

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On new servers gold is essential. All resources sell for peanuts and you need gold to research. The best way to get strong quickly on an new server is cottages, cottages, cottages and taxes at 50%.

Perhaps you have forgotten but I remember being happy to sell lumber for 0.2 to get gold for research. Now lumber is 10 and I store gold so that if I get plunder I wont losing anything valuable.

true that.

I had 20 cottages at one time.
And that's what got me the gold I needed to thrive.
And buy the food that made up for all the battalions I accidentally opened.

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Originally Posted by Deathprone

Rank & title have nothing to do with how much prestige you gain. Only things that affect prestige gain are:

1. The level of your Town Hall
2. How many Town Halls you have

I guess you could say title indirectly affects your prestige, because obviously the more city slots you have the more TH's you can build.

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It was my impression that rank and title do affect it...I must be a n00b. My bad.

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Originally Posted by Deathprone

Rank & title have nothing to do with how much prestige you gain. Only things that affect prestige gain are:

1. The level of your Town Hall
2. How many Town Halls you have

I guess you could say title indirectly affects your prestige, because obviously the more city slots you have the more TH's you can build.

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that is completely wrong.
When you build a cottage to level 5 you gain 18 prestige if you are a civilian/civilian. If you are a lieutenant/knight you only gain 9.
I know more then you do, I am very experienced.
My mentor is WittKing9 on server 90, very great mentor!
+Rep me if I helped :)

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Originally Posted by RAJ8430

I agree with King, why have taxes when you can get gold so easily and your cities will be harder to take.

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If your loyalty is 100, it drops by about 6 every time you're attacked, but it it's 10 it only drops by 1.
They won't be that much harder.
+Rep me if I helped :)
By the way... Baltezar, I +repped you. :)

Nice point Baltezar.... The guide is interesting... Think I would lvl up my Feasting Hall before my Town Hall. Once you can farm NPC's your tax rate should be 0%. Aren't specific enough with the Barracks response. I feel that 8 Cottages is the right number, and 15-17 Barracks. Obviously, that is after you have completed all your research and can tear out unneeded buildings. How about least needed building? Warehouse. Lvl 10 NPC's don't even have one. 1 big thing you missed on the heros...the Int, formerly Strategum, reduces the casualties that you take during a battle....tested and verified to be accurate in a controlled environment. The best resource varies between Lumber and Iron and the cost/ratio also varies. On my server it is usually from 11 to 13 for either.

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Originally Posted by Centy105

that is completely wrong.
When you build a cottage to level 5 you gain 18 prestige if you are a civilian/civilian. If you are a lieutenant/knight you only gain 9.
I know more then you do, I am very experienced.
My mentor is WittKing9 on server 90, very great mentor!
+Rep me if I helped :)

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Yeah, but what level was your town hall at the time?

I think rank/title does have a part to play in it, but town hall level is much more important.

It seems rank and title do since the higher rank/ title you go, the higher your TH needs to be.

IE: Lieutenant lvl 2 TH
Captain lvl 4 TH
Major lvl 6 TH
Colonel lvl 8 TH
General lvl 10 TH

Now, if you were to start a brand new city w/ lvl 1 TH and give all your others to alliance buddys, you SHOULD (Don't quote me on this) find that you get the same amount of pres for building a cottage that a civi/civi gets.

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Originally Posted by Malafae

Yeah, but what level was your town hall at the time?

I think rank/title does have a part to play in it, but town hall level is much more important.

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If you are that serious, you should dynamite your town hall.
Anyone that agrees with me, +Rep me. :)

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Originally Posted by Centy105

If you are that serious, you should dynamite your town hall.
Anyone that agrees with me, +Rep me. :)

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How much rep do you actually get??? Seeing that in your post makes me even less inclined to rep you even if I did agree with you (which I don't). And what kind of noob actually says, dynamite your TH?? We all know that the proper way is to build a new city and then give the rest to your alliance mates... And then atk lvl 10 NPCs for 300k pres....

Come on...
He keeps talking about a low town hall level.
I didn't tell everyone to dynamite their town hall. Just him.
You don't have to give your other cities. You can just abandon them also.
You can't even give them away if YOU'RE NOT IN AN ALLIANCE BUDDY.
+Rep me if I helped :)

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Originally Posted by Centy105

Q: What are the best buildings to have in your cities?
A: Barracks. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT have 1 billion cottages. Barracks are needed, unless you have a war city. That is different.

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Tell me how many troops you can build with 20 barracks and 5 cottages. You want a blend of the two.

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Originally Posted by Centy105

Q: What is the best resource city to have?
A: Lumber. Lumber sells for about 5 gold / 1 lumber, so you can have lots of gold. Let's check it out...
Food = 3rd. Once your army eats up all the food, you can't do anything, since all your fields are taken up and your only resources are being yummied away.
Lumber = 1st. If you sell all the lumber you get, you can buy food, therefore supporting around 5 times more food then a food city.
Stone = 4th. Stone sells for nothing, and it is almost completely worthless.
Iron = 2nd. Iron is around the same as lumber, but it takes too long to make ironmines.
Therefore, lumber is the best.

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... on your server. I would recommend one city dedicated to iron and one to lumber, and keep that parity as you grow. You can send lumber to the iron cities and vice versa and not have to worry about reaching capacity. If you watch the market prices, you can sell when either of their prices surge and not just be dependent on the price of one.

Myth: Wombats are docile creatures who are loveable and can become wonderful Pets.

FACT: Wombats are responsible for nearly 2,000 unsolved murders a year. They get away with it because they have better PR then Dingos and Crocodiles.

Myth: Putting Manatees in the Moat around your castle in Evony is a sign of weakenss

FACT: If you put Manatees in your Moat they will start to develop a taste of human flesh; and since they can breathe air they will soon crawl over your walls and eat you!


Myth: Prestige is a great way to gauge the best players on the Server

FACT: The only people who think prestige is a great way to gauge a player are those who cheezed their way into a lot of Prestige.


Myth: Evony Customer Reps and Admins will give you Candy if you are kind and Considerate

FACT: Evony Customer Reps and Admins will give you Candy if you are snarky or Rude; and the Candy is called the BanHammer.

Myth: 4 cottages and 25 Barracks are needed in every city

FACT: You have to balance your population in order to maximize troop production. As your main hero levels up you will find you cannot keep up with building troops because the population is growing very slowly.

Myth: You should make sure all your cities have a combination of Farms/Mills/Mines in order to get the most resources

FACT: have your cities specialize in one or the other, and do not worry about Farms until you capture level10 NPC's- the food produced in no way will ever keep your troops fed.


Myth: Evony cares about you and is appreciative of everyone who comes online and plays the game; and wants you to know personally that you are important to them, and that they are listening to our complaints and taking them to heart.

FACT: I love Bacon.

mmmmmmmm bacon

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Originally Posted by Quilla

Tell me how many troops you can build with 20 barracks and 5 cottages. You want a blend of the two.

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I have 20 barracks, but no stabe, forge or workshop, or even a warehouse because I don't need them any longer.

I am an advanced player, and you need seven cottages at the start of your game, and the basic buildings.

I typically have that many cottages still in my war cities (six) and I train fine.

But 15 barracks is what an effective newer player should have in his city.

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Originally Posted by Jurnis

I have 20 barracks, but no stabe, forge or workshop, or even a warehouse because I don't need them any longer.

I am an advanced player, and you need seven cottages at the start of your game, and the basic buildings.

I typically have that many cottages still in my war cities (six) and I train fine.

But 15 barracks is what an effective newer player should have in his city.

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I do about 12 barracks in each town, I guess it depends on how often and for how long you play. I'd be sunk with only a few cottages.

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I have 5 cottages and 5,500 idles, along with 100k food income, 60k lumber income and 30k stone and iron income.
By the way Quilla, the reason I said lumber is because ironmills or whatever it's called take too long to build. But +Rep for you anyways.
You should have both anyways though...
Ironmills or whatever they're called give you more resources for the level but take a long time to build.