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How do you build troops?

In your Town screen you need to build a barracks, which requires a Rally Point to be built first.  Do this by clicking an empty square and clicking Build under the Rally Point.  Once the timer has finished, you can build a Barracks too by clicking on another empty square and clicking Build for a barracks.  Once the barracks has been built, click on the barracks and there is a list of troops you can build.  If you put your mouse over the recruit button it will tell you what you need to build that troop unit.

How do you get an Amulet?

Amulets are given out daily.  One per day.  Check your quest log and there is a daily quests tab in there.  Get Award for your daily amulet.

What are Amulets for?

Amulets are used for gambling.  This is done by clicking on the roulette wheel on the bottom left of the main screen.  There is a little icon that looks like a spinning top, or a roulette wheel.  This will give your town some random resources or items.  You can check how many amulets you have in your My Items button under your avatar top right of the screen.

Is Evony Free?

Evony is only free if you don’t spend money.  You don’t need to spend money to play the game and to enjoy the game, you only need to spend money if you are very impatient or like to gamble.  You can spend real money via paypal to buy game cents which can be used to speed up production or by items, or buy an amulet for a chance at gambling.

How Do I Login to Evony?  Why Can’t I login to evony?

These are answered in Login to Evony.

Are there cheats in evony?

This is answered in Evony Cheats.

How do I play Evony?

Evony has a great quest system to help new players find out how to play evony.  This is started and watched in the Quest menu which is found on the bottom left of the screen.  The little scroll.  Go through your quests regularly to see if you can finish any now or to see what is the next quest to do.

How do I get more food/lumber/iron/stone?

You get more resources by building farms, quarries and lumber mills in the City window of Evony.  Each extra resource farm will give you more of that resource.  The green writing on the bottom right of the screen next to each resource shows how many of that resource you gain per hour.  So after another hour you will get that much extra food/wood etc.

How do I get more land?

More land for building more resource gathering farms is expanded by building up your Town Hall.  In the Town tab click on your town hall in the middle and Upgrade it.  Each upgrade gives you some more building squares for more resources.

How do I fight?

Attacking is a big part of Evony.  Once you have built some troops you can attack flats, lakes, swamps, forrests etc. on your Map screen.  This is done by clicking the square you want to attack and then clicking the Attack button.  Then you can chose how many troops to send.  Read through Scouting in Evony and Evony Games before you attack something.

Why are my troops not defending my city?

Your troops will only defend your city if your gates are open.  This is a very strategic point to the game.  If your gates are open by clicking on your Rally Point and ticking the box for Open Gates.

How do I build a new city?

New City

Building a new city is a massive step in your Evony Game.  To do this, you’ll need an empty city slot, read through Evony Castle Capturing to see if you have an open City slot.  Then you need to attack a flat (read the How do I fight answer)  and own the flat.  Then if you have the required resources (10,000 of each resource and 10,000 gold) there will be an extra button when you click on the flat in the Map window.  Click the button and name your new town.

Can you earn Coins?

No.  Coins are bought with real money.  There are incentives to spend money on the Evony Game which will get you coins to use in the game.  The only way to get coins without spending real money is by your daily amulet roulette gamble.

How do I join an alliance?

Evony Alliances are a necessary part of the game.  To join one you need to first build an Embassy in your Town tab, and then click on the embassy and apply to the Evony Alliance you wish to join.  Then the Alliance leader needs to accept your application.

How do I rename my city?

Click on your Town Hall in the Town window.  The far right button is City Rename.  Click it and change it.

How do I change my flag?

Click on your Avatar (your face) on the top right of the screen.  Then click the button for change flag.

How do I logout of Evony?

Close the browser window.

How do I scout?

Read through Scouting in Evony.

How do you get gold/money?

Gold can be obtained through raising your taxes.  The problem with this is you need to keep your population happy by doing Comforting in the Town Hall.  The other way of getting money is by attacking barbarian cities or other players.  The third way is by completing quests in your quests window.

How do I get more heroes?

Upgrade your Feasting Hall.  Each upgrade lets you get 1 more hero.  You need 1 hero for being Town Mayor, and more heroes for attacking.  If you’ve got a vacancy in your Feasting Hall, go to your Inn and recruit a new hero.

How do I save my Evony game?

Evony is a client-server based game that is constantly saving your game.  If your computer or browser dies, you just need to re login and your game will be there.  There is no need to save your game.  You can close the browser window any time and reopen it, login to evony and play your same game.

How do I get more population?

The population will rise if there is empty spaces for people.  This is done by building and upgrading cottages.  People will only come in to the same percentage that your towns happyness is.  If the town’s happyness is 90 then you can only fill 90% of your cottage space.  To make your town happier, try reducing your tax or temporarily making them happy by comforting in your Town Hall.

How do I make my population trend go up?

Your population trend will always try and ballance between the number of available spots in your cottages, and what the towns happyness is.  The trend going up and down doesn’t really matter as it will keep equalising itself back to a stable level.  If your tax rate is too high, then you might not have enough population to gather resources and the idle peasants will be red.  Try lowering your tax rate or building more cottages.

How many troops should I send to take over a valley?

Scout the valley you want to take over first, then put the details into the Exercise button on your Rally Point to see if you have enough troops and how many losses you might take.

How do I get Rose medals?

Attacking!  Attacking flats, lakes, swamps, forrests, NPC cities, other players.  There are also quests that give you medals, so check your quest log.

Being a part of an alliance while playing Evony Free Forever is a must for people over 50k prestige.  When your prestige is near the 50k mark you will be gathering a lot of resources and possibly have 2 cities.  At 50k prestige, the problem you have is your army won’t be that big, so it won’t be easy to defend your towns.  This will make you look like a TARGET.

You will look even more like a target if you are by yourself.  That is, you don’t have an Evony Alliance to back you up.  So when people are scouring the map for someone to attack, and they see your juicy city with no Alliance label on it, then you will look alone, and vulnerable.

To join an Evony Alliance, you need an embassy.  It only needs to be level 1 to join someone elses alliance.  It will need to be level 2 if you want to create your own.  Joining another alliance is a great way to start out.  You have a couple of options on picking an alliance.  One way is to watch World Chat and wait for people advertising for new members.  This is a sure-fire way of getting into an alliance if you fit their requirements (over 20k prestige, over 30k, etc.). 

Another other way is to do some research!  Go through the alliance information, the button for which is on the bottom left of the screen.  Find an alliance that is not full, 100 members is full, and then do some research into what size the members are.  Have a look at all the members and the range of prestige for their members.  You won’t get into an alliance that has members from 100k prestige and upwards if your prestige is only 20k.  Once you find an alliance which fits your prestige level you can mail the leader of the alliance, or just apply to join that alliance.  I would do both to let the leader know you are interested.

The third way to join an alliance is to find someone nearby who is in an alliance and chat to them.  If you chat to them for a while, you might be able to slip in that you would like to join their alliance and could they ask their leader if it would be ok.  This is a great way to Switch Alliances.

Once your in an alliance, you should join their Evony Alliance Forum where you can chat to other members, share kill stories and strategies for attacking barbarian towns.

You can chat on the Alliance Chat window which replaces the World Chat window.  Talking to other members is the best way to ask for help, ask for resources or troops.  Let them know if you’re being attacked by someone else and where your city is that is being attacked.  Alliance members can help other members, but communication is the key!

Once you’re in an Evony Alliance you can join your other members in WAR with other alliances.