http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=85377

Just for reference, Evony ruled downloadable clients out.

But since this isn't the suggestion forum,

I think it would be great once they get it nice and stable and updates start getting further apart if this happened, But i doubt evony want to double staff numbers, and doubt more if they want to replace there staff that have knowledge of the games workings with staff that can reprogram evony into a new language, for platform deployment. The best thing about Browser Games especially ones based on generic software like flash, is any hardware capable can find software to run the game without continuous tweaks for different platforms.

Other highly compatible programing languages still rely on large quantities of 3rd party additions (like Dynamic Link Librarys). Although you could do without these additions it greatly increases the programing required (Since you have to make the parts you want from scratch) And companies like microsoft dont share sufficient information about the inner workings of there operating systems, thus making developers jobs more difficult.

Im informed that flash programming does not rely on these dependencies. Making cross platform deployment much much simpler, meaning more people can play easier. Which lets face it, for evony this matters.

It appears that the only downside to the robustness of flash is the footprint of programs running it.

All in all i doubt evony will change there mind in a hurry about platform deployment