What, and what not to build throughout your cities.

[kurand]

Good guideline, but I disagree on some points.
One, the warehouse is not totally useless, though not a priority. You may have one in any city for tech upgrades. It's primary function will be for you to have immediate reserves at hand after an attack. So either you have none or you max it and you use it primarily to store food.
I really don't recommend not having a marketplace. Marketplace enables you to sell your excess production to keep it going. Also, while building, you may have access to the goods you need so that building never halts. And in case of an imminent attack, you can sell all your unused goods to buy them back. Goods in transit are safe from plundering. One building to build soon, but upgrades are not priority.
Life is hard outside of any alliance, so the embassy is needed in at least one city to join an alliance. After that, consult your alliance. Depending on your surroundings, at least a lv2 in every city while building should do it.
I don't recommend demolishing your inn. Not a priority to upgrade, but when you need more heroes, I recommend it. But they'll only be useful if you visit them regularly to trade your weakest heroes for stronger ones. The higher the lv, the stronger heroes you'll find. But you need to shop a lot.

The original post is not a very good one,and you are wrong on one point.the higher level inn does not give you any more stronger heroes than the level 1 inn.

My suggestion,as I'm doing it now.

1 warehouse to 9 and yes max out your tech for it.You will not always be in an alliance and even if you are you can still be attacked,having 100k archers and 5k of each pike/sword/cataphract does not guarantee you are safe.having a level 9 warehouse will guarantee that you survive so long that your enemy will consider you a waste of time.

8 cottages.If you look at training time,you will be able to put a full load of idle workers into the barracks before your first training is done,even if you do have 18 barracks or more.I had 4 stacks of troops training before the first one was complete and by that time I go the 4th going again.(with 18 barracks and 3400 idle pop,134 attack hero)

12 barracks in one city,the 13th slot is for your level 1 inn,spam recruit and dismiss to get a 67-70 hero in the stat you want.

In secondary and over cities do 13 baracks removing the inn.

when you have maxed all your techs and no longer need them,then you can destroy your stables/forges/workshops.

i have one city with 18 barracks,I have to remove one building to build a stables to get relief station to 9,and i have to remove the stables to get a workshop to get walls to 10,this is a city I took over from someone but like the concept of 18 barracks,an i have no problem having idle workers to recruit into military units long before the training is up.

[Crizzixx]

Hi rich, found this one, hope it helps

http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?...ght=build+city

haha

But ya, thanks Kurand for the recent post, It's a pretty nice summary of what I was trying to get at. Maybe I will modify it a bit and add it to the end of the post.