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:

If you have a question, put it in the comments and we will endeavor to answer it.

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.

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

Unlike a lot of other MMORPGs that gamers come together to attack NPCs, Evony is very PVP centric.  There are still NPC cities dotted around the Evony game map, but the main emphasis on the game is wiping out rival alliances.  Making your alliance the biggest and the best.

 In Evony your alliance of up to 100 online gamers can have 4 different statuses with other alliances.

No status is they haven’t had any communication, they display a white flag on their castles on the map screen and are generally OK to attack with your army of troops.  Castles that have no status against you are fair game, but usually frowned upon attacking them if your Evony Alliance is at war with another alliance.

Nuetral is a status just above no status.  For most alliances this means don’t attack them unless they attack you.  They have been in contact with your alliance leader and have gone into an easy truce.  They can still be attacked, but its not very nice at all to do.  This status is sometimes used after a WAR with an alliance has ended, this is to let other people of the alliance know that its not OK to keep attacking with their armies.

Friendly status is used as a form of multi alliance alliance.  This will change the castle flags on the map to blue to show that you can’t  attack them and show where your friends are.  It is appropriate for you to ask for help of friendly alliances, they can help attack a single common foe, but can’t do a lot of the things that your alliance members can do, such as speak in your alliance window, reinforce your castle with archers/warriors, or transport resources or gold to your castle.  You also can not attack resource squares like swamps, forrests or flats of people that your alliance is friendly with.

HOSTILE status means your at WAR with that alliance.  WAR can be declared from either alliance, it doesn’t need both alliances to agree like the other statuses.  Once war is declared the flags on the map change to red to let you know that castle is your enemy.  They will also be at war with you; so will see your flag as red too.  When you are at war with another alliance, these castles are the ones you should be attacking.  Talk in your alliance chat and collude with other members of your alliance to attack these people.  If you are hostile with another alliance it is generally frowned upon  for gamers to attack people that you are not hostile with.  This is because you should be working together as a team to hurt or even take over the castles of your enemy.

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.