Introduction to Evony
Evony is a Free-to-Play online strategy game that
allows you to compete in castle like warfare with thousands of other players.
Each player builds up his/her city by focusing on the latest defenses,
production of food and materials, investing in new technologies, and massive
armies meant for conquering your neighbors! Strategies are enacted in real-time
and usually with the help of an alliance to take down the most powerful of
enemies. The game is browser-based and offers a VERY UNIQUE GAMEPLAY
STYLE. One of the greatest features about Evony is the ability for a
player to wake up in the morning, set their build queue, defensives and
offensives orders, and go to work and check on the progress of their city later
in the day. The game also has capabilities built in for gamers who want to sit
down and play solidly without leaving; you can constantly be scouting and
attacking neighbors to bring home loot and plunder, and the ability to
micromanage your cities and people in the cities. We've been playing the game
here since launch and it's been a blast - The ability to set a build queue and
orders for your standing army before work, and then check up on them later is
incredibly appealing, and having the ability to play for a few hours straight
after work makes the game incredibly addicting!
We've taken the liberty of breaking down some of the key highlights and
features of the game and included screenshots for some of the important things
you might see in game.
Your City
Each player starts with one pretty bare city with little to no troops and no
defenses of any kind. As the ruler of a new city, your first task is to build a
few homes for citizens, farms for food, lumber mills for wood, and so on. Once
you have some decent resources coming in you can focus on expanding your city,
increasing your technology, and building your army and defenses.
Here's an example of a fairly well built city, when you start none of the
buildings will be there:
The bulk of the buildings are homes for citizens, and the large building
towards the back is a town hall and serves as a base of operations for
micromanaging your city and the people living in it. Cities are surrounded by
walls which are upgradeable and armable with the latest technological defenses
at your disposal. A well fortified city is much harder to loot/conquer than a
city that doesn't adequately upgrade its walls. A list of defenses you can build
on walls is shown below:
Players can build Traps for killing invading infantry,
Abatis defenses for
stopping invading Cavalry,
Archer's Towers for extreme protection, and Rolling
Logs and Rockfalls to crush would be sieges. These defenses will play a key role
in taking out attackers that would raid your city. Resource buildings are shown
below and are built outside the city gates, but cannot be destroyed or looted
(yet):
Each of these plots allows you to create a
farm,
sawmill,
iron mine, or
quarry for the
purpose of harvesting resources. As a newly founded small city the amount of
plots you can control is very small. As you level up and increase the level of
your town hall you can control more cities and more land plots within each
city. Your Town hall also allows you to set productivity rates for the plots and
assign workers to the different resource buildings based on your current needs.
Here's a screenshot of some of the options available to you to manage your city
by using the town hall:
You're able to quickly monitor your controlled valleys production queues,
cities, tax rates and other options using the
town hall options available to
you. There are also options for raising loyalty amongst your citizens and
imposing a levy tax on them for certain resources if you find yourself in a
pinch! Another very important building in your city is the Barracks. The
barracks allows you to build and queue up troops to defend your city, attack
other cities, and capture land and valleys for your building requirements.
Here's a look at the Barracks building options:
Once you build an army you'll head to the map screen and find neighbors and
land plots to attack and call your own. You can also use the map to find
potential nearby allies who can offer vital assistance should you be attacked.
Allies can garrison troops in your city if you're able to get into an alliance
with cities near you. The map screen is also where you choose land plots to
conquer. Land plots have percentage modifiers that can give your resource
buildings an excellent boost. Here's a screenshot of the map screen:
This particular segment of map has a few strongholds and a lot of open space.
The busier servers are a little tighter which allows for more interaction and
PvP. We've set up TheEvonyWiki.com to
help you get started with any questions you may have. We also have an alliance
page to help you find some of the best
Evony alliances on
the server you decide to play, and a
Evony Q&A
section for any questions that might arise while playing the game! To register and start
playing the game now visit Evony.com!
