The roaming thing won't happen. There is just no need of it. I am feeding about 90k ballista just fine barb farming twice a day, and hitting random players or turning them into NPCs. Hitting one level 10 NPC can feed my army for two hours, and I can hit two at once. Level nines are almost as good, and I can hit four of those at once. I am pulling in a sizable surplus without tapping any of my other towns, freeing them to convert to lumber havens and build troops for me.
If I can do it, anyone can. I am pretty much just a newbie caretaker with little expertise outside of how to crush any attacking army. Pretty sure most experienced players are doing a better job of it then I am.
The pulling together thing wont happen either. It really isn't too hard to feed yourself.
There will however be a mass exodus of players both newbie and vet if a big patch making things interesting doesn't come quick. I expect that alliances will do a lot of merging, and peace between the majors power in most providences.
Killing the medal drop rate for a month made a serious lag in new player expansion. I am seeing 250k pres people with 3 or 4 cities even now. Coming out a month later and putting a bull's eye on the backs of everyone without 500k troops with this NPC nerf is a really bad combination for the older servers. Stalling people's progress for weeks at a time and then making them a target for people out of their league is a terrible combination.
If a neat distraction doesn't come along in the next week or two, I expect that a lot of people will get tired of farming the helpless, or being helpless. The older servers will die, but the newer ones will do well, and lots will come back when they do the second age thing.
The problem is that this darn game is just so unfinished. It is a lot of fun, but nothing is balanced or well planed out. That means there will have to be massive end game balancing. Experienced players should be attacking other experienced players for massive amounts of honor, not pushing carebears into the mud.
If they do not make a true alliance war possible soon, I think Evony will end up with a very short shelf life.
No it doesn't, you have no idea what you are talking about. Since the NPC nerf I have had a food profit of about 200 million, and I haven't even been hitting the newbies hard or making too many NPC cities.
At this rate, I could triple the size of my army without having to stress too much, and I have just under 90k ballista, with the other 10k rolling out soon.
I haven't had to buy food, much less sell lumber stone and iron to buy food. I haven't even used the gold from the NPC cities to buy food.
The only thing this patch did was make me move my capital city from the hub to a NPC level 10 on the boarder. Thats it, and I am not even among the ranks of the die hard. I am only ranked 120ish. The real big fish are laughing this off.
This is a minor inconvenience that gets taken out on low pres players. This is not a limit on army size.



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