There are some great videos out there for Evony.  They range from how to login and create your account.  To attacking and building your city. Some Evony Videos are crap, so I’ll try and find the ones that are worht watching and post them here.

This one is good for an introduction to the game. This is like Evony for Dummies.

Heres a free youtube tip: Don’t search for “Evony Queen” or “Evony Women” looking for the Evony Queen. Theres no videos that are for Evony, they’re all of Ebony (black) women.

How to attack cities:

One of the great things about Evony Free Forever is the people playing.  Its a shame that each Evony Alliance can only hold 100 people, as I don’t think 100 is enough.  200 might be better, but 200 might get into the realms of being able to take over a country and hold it against all the other alliances.  This sounds like fun until you realise that you won’t have anyone to attack anymore!

So you’ve got these 100 friends online at various times – it is a world-wide game remember, and everyone is different.  Some people might play a few minutes a day, and be online in Evony for a short period.  Other players might have an Evony browser open all day and watch the Evony Alliance chat constantly.  Some people might stay up late evony night, others might login to evony in the morning before going to work.  These people can help you reinforce your towns when you’re being attacked.  They can send you food or other resources to help your building or feed your troops.

One thing I’ve noticed while playing Evony is the other people playing aren’t what I expected.  There are a lot of older people playing and even a lot of women playing, which is quite refreshing.  The people that have the dedication to get their Evony games up to the top are usually NOT kids!  There are actually not many kids that play Evony.  I think this is because kids these days don’t have the concentration to play a strategy game.  Evony has often been called a MMORTSG, Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Game.  I think this is the main reason why kids don’t play it.  It requires some time dedication and what most kids lack these days – patience!

Kids these days would rather play a playstation or x-box or some other console.  They don’t know computers, or don’t want to use the keyboard.  So the hard-core gamers of generation X and generation Y can play online strategy games like Evony Online in peace, without kids getting on and getting bored so doing random stuff and ruining it for the real Evony People.

Evony Online has been around for over a month now, and many players in the 5 oldest servers (servers 1 to 5) are getting to the “end game”.  Unfortunately Evony doesn’t have much to do at the End Game.

Players that are over 300k prestige usually have 9 or 10 cities, and their cities are usually at the point of fully developed.  Also their research will all be at level 10.  What is left in this ever growing in popularity MMORPG? 

At prestige of over 300k generally the player will have ammassed a large army or two, or 9.  These armies need food to survive, and players were running their cities at a loss for food and were topping up by hitting barbarian towns which could be done without significant losses.  A couple of days ago, all these end game players were attacking NPC barbarian cities.  As of the latest patch, which brought in the lvl6 and on barbarian towns now take a toll whenever you attack them, these players aren’t attacking barbarian towns any more.  This latest patch has made these large players do whatever they could to survive.  This meant attacking other players, and in most cases on all servers this means WAR.

So WAR has broken out in all servers as a consequence of this latest patch, and the high end players are trying to hit as many other players as possible simply to get enough food to feed their troops.

 This has worked as a delaying tactic as if the high-end players weren’t forced to seek out food this much, they would have NOTHING to do!  This is the problem with End Game Evony.  There is nothing else to do once you’ve got 10 cities all maxed out with every city and town square populated with a level 9 building.  The Michelangelo’s Scripts aren’t dropping enough from attacking everything in site, so everything is stalled at level 9.  Theres no more research to do as its all level 10.

So the question is.  What is a high end player going to do after maxing out all their cities?

There is 2 answers.  First one is the most obvious – WAR.  The second one is Save The Queen.  Problem with this is theres no queen yet, and no one has told us how to save her!

Evony Online is a Free To Play Browser Based Game.  However, if you would like to accelerate your Evony city you have the option of spending Real Money on it.  The most secure way to transfer money to Evony is by PayPal.  This real money then goes into the game as “Cents”.  Cents can be used to speed up production from anything between a couple of minutes to hours, all depending on how much real money you are willing to spend.

Evony is currently running a promotion to “Claim Your Free $50 Package before June 10th!”.  Evony is holding a promotional event from June 4th to June 10th.  During this event, players who spend $30 or more will also get a FREE bonus gift worth $50! To see the contents, check the Bonus Package, accessible through the top left gift box icon.  You can click on Bonus Package to check out the medals, guidelines, Michelangelo’s Script and tons of other goodies inside the package. Don’t miss out on this amazing bonus! Be sure to grab it before time runs out!

And, as if this free package isn’t enough, we have a bonus tip for spending cents: using an Amulet for the Wheel of Fortune, which cost 5 cents, will net you an item worth an average of 24 cents.  That’s right, you get an item worth almost five times the cost of an Amulet!

Like most MMORPGs, Evony is an online game of taking over other gamer’s castles.  This is the main emphasis of this marvelous MMORPG.  Most MMORPGs are more gentle, or rely on more Player vs Environment where the gamer plays against a computer simulated person.  In Evony Free Forever one of the ways of defeating your enemy is to take their city.  There are a few caveats though in taking a city. 

First it must not be the oposing player’s last city!  In other words, if the player only has 1 city, you can’t take it.  You can however kill all his fortifications and troops and scare off all his peasants which will effectively “kill” him, but you can’t hurt the castle buildings if its the player’s only city.

Seccond you need a free city slot!  Your title must be big enough to be able to hold an additional city.

1 city – Civilian

2 cities – Knight

3 cities - Baronett

4 cities – Baron

5 cities – Viscount

6 cities – Earl

7 cities - Marquis

8 cities – Duke

9 cities -Furstin

10 cities - Prinzessin

After you are sure you have done these two things you can pick a target to attack.  Read up on War Games to make sure you are attacking the right type of person.  It is always easier to attack someone closer to your city as the travel time for each attack will be lower.  Generally within an hour attack time is acceptable, but often if the city is more desirable (level 10 and in a nice strategic position) you could go further afield to attack someone.

Your first attack needs to be able to kill all their wall defences.  Ballistas and Catapults are the best at this as their range outstrips the range of arhcer towers.  However you will also need a lot of other troops as the oposing player might have his gates open.  With his gates open you don’t face just his wall defences, but all his troops inside the city too!  So your attacking army needs to be bigger.  Remember: an army which is much bigger will suffer less casualties.

After your first attack has cleared out the castle’s wall defences, you need to send more attacks, many more attacks.  You can see from the first war report if there is abatis left behind or other wall defences.  If there is, or if the person you’re attacking has a high level of Machinery researched then you might need to keep sending large armies until all the wall defences are destroyed.

Then you start killing the city’s loyalty.  Loyalty of the city can been seen on the attack reports.  Droping the evony city’s loyalty is done by repeat attacks, these can be as quick as every 5 minutes.  These can be big, but big is not necessary.  A good option is to just attack with 100 cavalry and a hero, these are fast troops and can kill abatis if the other player is on and trying to get some defence.  From loyalty 100 down to loyalty 14 each attack you send will do about 2 to 4 points of loyalty damage. 

After the city gets below loyalty 14 the city is affected by public grievance.  Attacks should slow down to about 1 attack per 15 minutes.  And keep going until the city is at or near 5 loyalty.

If the gates were closed all this time, at 5 loyalty the gates will open by themselves.  This means that the next attack will have to face all the troops in the city.  So don’t attack it with your 100 cavalry or you’ll lose them.  You’ll need to send an army.  This can be difficult depending on attack times because if you don’t send the final attack until the city is at 5 loyalty then the city owner has the chance of increasing the loyalty and then your troops, and the time it took for your troops to get there are wasted.  The troops won’t die, but they won’t engage the army within the city.  A way to get around this is to send the army a little bit early, and then watch the next couple of 100 cavalry attacks hit and see if the loyalty is where you want it to be when your main army is going to hit.  This can be tricky to judge the timing right.

To get the loyalty from 5 to 1 you need to once again send multiple attacks, and with a break time in between of about 15 minutes.  Public grievance will be bringing the loyalty down as well, but its good to keep sending attacks in.

From 1 to 0 it takes a while as the city is in it’s death throws.  This might be up to 2 hours to wait.  Keep attacking.

When and only when the loyalty is at 0 your next attack will take the city.  You get to rename the city and then it changes the flag and the city is yours!

The multiple attacks from 14 down to 0 are not entirely necessary, as by that stage public grievance will bring the loyalty down, but if you keep attacking it keeps the public grievance up.  Waiting longer will also drain the city of food and when there is no food the troops will die, unable to be cured they are dead.

In playing the game of Evony one of the main goals is to expand your domain.  Before sending your forces against your foe, you should do a scout to see how many warriors, archers, swordsmen, spears, ballistas, catapults, cavalry, cataphracts the other player has waiting in his castle.

If you don’t have very high informatics, or when defending, a high beacon tower, then you get sketchy or unreliable numbers from your scout reports.  The names below are what the evony developers have put instead of a solid number. 

Few = 1 to 24

Pack = 25 to 49

Lots = 50 to 99

Horde = 100 to 249

Throng = 250 to 499

Swarm = 500 to 999

Zounds = 1,000 to 2,499

Legion = 2,500 to 4,999

Bulk = 5,000 to 10,000

Giga = 10,000 and over

Evony is a brand new castle building role playing game played by hundreds of thousands of people around the world.  In Evony Free Forever you can build castles, gather resources of lumber, iron, stone and food.

Evony is the fastest growing MMORPG on the net today.  With thousands of players flocking to be the biggest and best Lord or Lady of the realm.

Inside your castles you can build Cottages, Barraks, Warehouses, Inn, Feasting Hall, Stable, Embassy, Rally Spot, Academy, Workshop, Relief Station, Forge.