Quote Originally Posted by Ocean22 View Post
1. reinforce troops to an alliance mate who has vesta on to save 1/2 food upkeep.
2. apply free upkeep buffs such as milk-n-cookie to the max then go into holiday. come back after others' buffs expire and offer troop parking to alliance mates.
3. ask a friend to adv port a city next to a red then take the city to cancel 24-hour no-march effect.
4. same as #3, except that: adv port -> send attack to take the city -> current city owner goes into truce or holiday. so no one else can take city but you.
5. Relaying resource transport with players of different prestige levels to avoid plunder penalty.
6. long hour(long distance, 24hr+ blinking) attack. It's annoying but real attack can come when you sleep if you don't truce.
7. 1-person alliance. declare with funny names then disband.
8. put a victim in block list before attacking to cut off communication
9. building more cities than allowed by your title at the same time to make npcing flat faster
10. posting bids/offer twice faster than others
11. transport resources to other cities without deducting Food from Load Capacity
12. item farming
13. honor dumping
14. resource farming from valley
15. lvl10 farming hero transfer without medals
16. free adv teleporters
1. Absolutely fine IF the person agrees to it. Terrible if you do it without his permission.
2. Same rule, simply shows teamwork.
3. Its simply a clever way of attacking by working WITHIN the rules. Just knowing the rules often gives players an advantage over newer players. Same goes for having the last wave hitting a npc to capture it when others do the bulk of the hits. Its teamwork. If you got players with the skill to do it then great, most players simply are not good enough to manage it.
4. Same use of brains to achieve something not easily done otherwise. Whoever came up with these FIRST had a little stroke of genius. Since no harm is done to evony and EVERYONE can do it if they are skilled at rally point attacks and prepared to use truces to aid an ally I cannot see why anyone could call it an exploit.
5. As others said, its a terrible penalty, never properly explained by evony, and so anyway to get around it is fine. With prestige dumping and prestige farmers happening all the time, having members drastically smaller than other players is commonplace. It was a poorly thought out penalty (typical). Either way the work around is only trying to help out VALID players.
6. Its annoying but I have done it, and had it done to me. Its a valid tactic. Age2 solved it VERY easily with an ignore button. Since Devs abandoned Age1 I guess it will stay annoying.
7. Usually these are alts. No one starts a server seriously just to declare on unknown enemies. Whats the point. Its usually players that got a chip on their shoulder. Those who do start just to troll the game with war spam SHOULD be banned. 'Funny' names can be easily offensive too. While not an exploit as such, the behaviour needs censorship of some sort.
8. Perfectly fine, its one of the purposes of block, to stop players annoying you.
9. Not an exploit. Just requires quick abandon between finishes. Easy to mess up and result in the extra city fail.
10. Not sure what this means, or why it matters. Only way is fast fingers. So what is the reason it could be considered an exploit?
11. food is automatically deducted, so unless its a form of hack I cannot see how this is possible. Rally Point is extremely buggy but never saw a transport work for free. Unless people are using valleys. In that case it IS an exploit.
12. not sure exactly what this means except for suiciding troops. Not an exploit just using the rules in a unexpected way.
13. Why on earth is this in question. Players MUST dump honor to have any kind of heal rate. Honor penalty is not a wise addition to evony, as it was INTENDED to protect weak players, but there is NO way to do that using honor as it currently is designed.
You could have it impossible to lose. So the more you attack the less troops you get back, but that will defeat penicillin really (3% is worthless for 120 cents) thus cost Evony $$$, so that wouldn't happen.
14. Perfectly fine way to gather resources. It takes troops, time and skill. No diff than farming npcs.
15. This was an exploit and fixed. thankfully.
16. Other than the item farming concept of having players ATTACK you I do not know how else to get free ports. Never heard of FREE adv. Ports.