Well, i guess all players have gotten the mail from the dev saying they will remove all npc made by abandoning cities.
So im guessing a lot of players including me are waiting to see how it will be done.
Scenario as below:
1. They wipeout all NPC and just add in a few NPC only. No one can create NPC anymore by abandoning cities. Regen rate still at 8 hours and defence mechanic stays the same
2. They wipeout all NPC and add in NPC of their own. No one can create NPC. Regen rate will be change again. Maybe full regen after 1 hour.
3. They wipeout all NPC daily. Means you can still build your own NPC by abadoning cities and farm off them after 8 hours. After daily reset, just make them again.
4. They only do the wipeout once. Meaning after this wipeout, players can still make NPCs again and keep on farming.
Base on the assumption above, i know most players want no.4 but do we think that will happen? Base on the IQ devs are having through pass observation on their behaviour, this could happen.
But most likely, im hoping for no.3 to happen. Atleast this way, i can still create npcs and farm them atleast once or twice before it gets reset. Its boring to make NPC daily, but it is the only way of supporting troops.
With either 1 or 2 happening, most players will be screwed. No one can support their army with the production from farms.
And for those who keep saying this is a war game and NPCs are ways the game are being exploited, i would just say **MOD EDIT**. people like you are the reasons the game went from fun to friggin boring. Why? Lets see the below reasons.
1. Noobs ( and i mean damn noobs) complain bcuz they cant farm on NPC yet and people around them are getting stronger. (jealousy is the main thing here) So they complain to devs saying NPC are too easy for players. Devs made changes that npc only regen 24hr.
2. because of this, players with more troops have no choice but pick on weaker players. Why? Because we need food to support our troops and in a way, we also want to kill off troops since you cant disband them. Well attacking easy targets are always a basic human nature. Who would actually march onwards to a loosing battle? Im sane so i wont do it. I rather pick on noobs who store too much resources with them.
3. Weak players complain again. They say they are being targeted and cant grow strong. Devs decided to make it that NPC regen 8hrs so weaker players dont keep being targetted. But they add in a twist here, they change it so walls add bonus range to them. Higher level walls give higher range bonus to Archer towers. Still lot of players still found a loop hole through this. Why? Since stronger players have already started farming even before all these changes came in, they already have enough ballista to farm NPC safely. Oh i forgot to mention that ballista range got nerfed so its sorta getting harder to farm by using ballista only.
4. Well because of this, weaker players dont even get a chance to farm on NPC. Why? because they dont have ballista or even enough ballista to even start farming. So how? they get jealous of the stronger players again. Just because other players can do it and they cant, they complain to devs again. Devs start to make changes again in order to help those weaklings/noobs. They make rockfall more deadly to mechanics now. Why? so that people who want to farm needs to get losses on their ballista/catapults. So what? stronger players found a way through it. And weaker players still got weaker because they still can farm decently. With low level archery and little ballista count, they cant even farm on lvl 4 NPC.
5. So it comes down to this. Devs are gonna remove NPCs.
Base on what i've written above, basically Devs are responding to new players so they can actually survive longer to play Evony. Problem is, with mroe and more changes, new players will never be able to survive long enough to get strong enough to defend themselves. Before they even get lvl 9 walls and 10k archer tower, they will keep getting attacked. So how can you even grow like this? Join alliances? More and more alliances are going to war with each other. With the update on the walls, who is gonna attack a high level city? We are just gonna attack weaker players to get the resources.
So you see, what the devs done so far is actually screwed up play for new and weak players. They can actually go too far anymore. Stronger players actually become mroe resourceful by looking for ways to support they already huge army.
So with the new update, lets see how weaker players get screwed again, and stronger players find ways to exploit it.
**MOD EDIT**






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