I have a question to the experienced players and maybe the moderators too.

I've been playing a few weeks now, and really like Evony. I've expaned my kingdom to three cities through a combination of the beginner package (30 bucks) and through searching for medals each and every day.

At my current rate of play, which consists of several hours each day, I estimate that it will take me a good 6 to 8 weeks before I will have the medals sufficent to allow me to expand to 4 cities. I don't want to spend more money on medals, I think real money is better spent on the cool stuff, like Michaelango's Scripts and so on.

But I seem to have run into a dead end. My three cities are reaching the maximum for allowed builds. My army is big enough to start farming NPC cities, which greatly increases my wealth.

But until I get the medals, I really don't have anything else to do now, except send lots of small attacks out to valleys. I can't build a new city, I can't conquor another city either due to the city limits.

My alliance is pretty safe too, since our enemies all face the same limits, nobody is in danger of loosing a city.

Now, I'm past noob status, but I'm still not very experienced. All I can find to do now is attack valleys and hope I get a medal. I'd really like to be in some epic war, and the medal searching is getting quite tedious.

Am I missing something? Can anybody help me?

Thanks