Quote Originally Posted by -Apothis- View Post
Ok so I started s151 and figured I would play "free forever" as advertised. I came out of BP a few days early to farm low level npcs for extra gold. Being stuck with marshmellow heroes from the inn sure takes forever to do stuff. Also being title of Knight left me with 2 options. 1. Make 2 cities and no npcs or 1 city and npcs till I get enough to medal farm.

So a few days after I come out of BP, I was forced to port away from coiners hungry to attack weak players. On my last port, I landed in a spot 15 miles from a large coiner. I have been allowed to build for a couple weeks now but as you all know, 1 city researching and building troops as well as trying to make farm teams is hard. I had 3 full farm teams and a little over 30k archers. I had almost completed a 2 round lvl 5 field (16-18 farms).

Well today was the day I guess, the coiner 15 miles from me scouted me and killed all of mine then proceeded to send attacks for my food I had. Another coiner looking for an easy target.

So in the end the score is most likely going to massively sway towards the coiners unless you land 1k coin on the wheel. Free forever is a joke, it's only free until a coiner cleans and zeroes you out. Then you must decide to stay under the coiners thumb for the rest of the server or spend some money to move out.

Free forever = feed the coiners

I'm not bitter or mad, just wanted to see what it is like for all of those out there who chooses not to spend. Horrible experience to play for free.
Try read this, it might help you create your own strategy.
http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=175376


I have and had surived in the middle of coiners, even with heavy coiners without ever spending a dime, but defeating them is an entirely different story.
I have tried many method to grow in strenght in the mist of heavy and skilled players and have found different methods to work, and eventually I was asked to join their alliance, which i eventually did.


I can symphatize wiith you, i know how frustrating it is and how almost pointless at times, but if you do survive, it is a great feeling and a sense of accomplishment.


[save your hero hunting for higher level Inn]

You mention you were stuck with weaker hero, try leveling your Inn to level 9 or as close as you can, then level your feasthing hall to atleast 5 to accomodate 3 temporary hero and 2 hero if you ever come across high attack and pol base Heroes, which will be your permanent.

With your higher level Inn, just keep looking for a very high pol, attack and intel hero to help speed your building, tech upgrade and troop trainning. Normally I would look for any hero with level 80 plus, if you find one much higher later, dump the current temporary with the same attribute and get the higher one.

While under the BP, get a second city just to speed tech and production, with the second city as a throw away city incase it is threaten, if not, i would contineu to further build the second city and eventually build it either a wood or iron city.