Brought to life originally as Civony by an upcoming gaming house out of China called UMGE. United Multiplayer Gaming Entertainment is a collection of the best minds in massively multiplayer gaming; working out of China where the MMO market is hugely developed and massively popular.

The successful ingredients they’ve put together for their online game Evony Free Forever centers around the fact that the browser game is obviously free, with simply an option to purchase game coins for additional experience – but also by the fact they haven’t scrimped or cut corners on the graphical arrangement of evony online.

The impact on the MMO niche has been substantial with a whole host of titles quickly following the evony release. We’re now seeing things like Napwars (Fog of War) by SOHO Union and a range of Evony follow-ups by UMGE including iEvony, Evony Age II and other beta titles.

While this release has copped plenty of flack for its suggestive advertising campaign, few could argue that it’s had a positive overall baring on free browser games. The gamer has been the winner overall with so many titles trying to follow in the footsteps of this one.

The experience will probably improve the ability of the guys over at UMGE so expect big things as they release their online sequels to Evony in the coming months. With several million gamers signed up online – Evony has a great base to work with and should work hard to keep their players loyal, allowing them to move across to new games they release in the months and years ahead.

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Evony Player’s Guide

Introduction

Welcome to the Evony Player’s Guide. This guide has been compiled with the aid and input of several of Evony’s top players. This guide will detail the most efficient means to build your kingdom, and introduce you to the game’s mechanics and concepts. We hope you’ll find the guide useful, and your time spent in Evony more rewarding and enjoyable as a result.

Getting Started in the Game of Evony:

This is a free browser based simulation/real-time strategy game similar to the venerable Civilization series. Each player begins the game with a small amount of resources and chunk of land, and from there, may expand and develop their kingdom how they see fit. The online aspect brings additional elements of interest into the game, such as being attacked by another kingdom.

At the beginning of the game you’ll be presented with a series of quests which will serve as a tutorial to the game. It’s recommended you complete these quests to learn how the game controls. Note also before starting your kingdom that you’ll have a 7-day period from the formation of your kingdom during which time you can’t be attacked by other kingdoms. As such, you should ideally begin play during a week where you’ll be able to take advantage of this and develop your kingdom up into a strong and formidable one.

Building Your Evony Kingdom

Let’s start with the actual development of your kingdom. At the top of the game screen you’ll see several buttons. Let’s first select the TOWN option, and from there build your first three COTTAGES and a MARKET. Next, click on CITY beside the TOWN option and move the hammer icon which subsequently pops up in front of your castle. Now build a SAW MILL, a FARM, a STONE QUARRIE, and an IRON MINE.

These various structures represent the building blocks of your kingdom, and all of them bestow various resources. SAW MILLS provide LUMBER, FARMS give FOOD, the STONE QUARRIE provides STONE (bet you didn’t see that one coming), and the IRON MINE provides…you guessed it, IRON.

Continue to develop these structures until they’re close to level 6. At this point you’ll have access to several new structures, such as the BARRACKS, the FORGE, and the WORKSHOP. Build each of these new structures. You can also upgrade your town’s walls for added defence at this point.

Maintaining Your Evony Kingdom

While it’s always fun to build your kingdom, the far more challenging task of actually maintaining the foundation that you’ve built is the hard part. We’ll discuss how to look after your internal affairs in this section.

Firstly, you should always pay close attention to the balance you have between troops and FARMS. The more troops you have, the more FARMS you’ll need. You’ll eventually need far more FARMS than any other structure.

If your population ever drops into the red, you’ll need to build more COTTAGES to attract more workers to your fields. Likewise, if your gold or food ever falls into the red, those particular items are also experiencing shortfalls that will need to be corrected quickly.

Now, choose the TOWNHALL option from the top of the screen. Choose PRODUCTION, and set all production levels to 100%, which ensures your kingdom will be running full steam ahead. From the TAXES menu, set taxes to 20%, which over time will lower the morale of your subjects to 80%, but will bring in the money you need for your early push.

Now take a look at the four symbols to the right, which signify your production trends. The corn cob represents your FOOD, the logs are your LUMBER production, the rocks are your amount of STONE, and the iron bars are your IRON reserves. Each of these symbols has bars to the right of them, the black bar signifying your current stock on hand, and the green bar representing your hourly production rates.

As your production ramps up you’ll want to build at least two WAREHOUSES, which will increase the amount of goods you can store. WAREHOUSES are also safe from plunder, meaning you’ll never lose the contents stored in them. The only thing WAREHOUSES can’t store is GOLD.

Now would also be a good time to build your EMBASSY. You’ll definitely want to have your embassy in place by the time your 7 day protection period expires (it hasn’t expired yet has it? If so, what have you been doing all this time?). Your EMBASSY allows you to chat with others and form alliances with them.

Now would also be a good time to begin ramping up production on your number of BARRACKS, as well as your FARMS to help feed the resulting mass influx of troops. Note that you can build as many as 5 BARRACKS per city, and as many as 10 cities. You can build a new city every time you achieve a new title.

Preparing For War in Evony

Once your seven day protection period has ended, you’re now fair game to other kingdoms, all of whom are looking to acquire resources and further develop their kingdoms just as you are.

Before you attempt to build the Great Wall of China though (or the Great Wall of Brian’s Kingdom, or whatever brilliantly original name you’ve come up with for your kingdom) to keep invaders at bay, know that you’re not without hope, or potential allies. Once you’ve built an EMBASSY, you can ally yourself with other kingdoms and make use of their knowledge and aid.

In the event you do get attacked, the affected city or cities will flash red under their menus, notifying you that trouble is afoot. Your REPORTS button will also flash red. You should begin moving resources out of the affected town(s) immediately to save them from the attackers. They can also be shipped to undeveloped zones if necessary.

After the attack has mercifully ended, check on your citizens to see their state of mind and needs. If their grievance level has risen dramatically, you can attempt to comfort them with food by going to the disaster relief menu found under town hall, then comforting.

Note that you can also be attacked when not online, in which case…there’s little you’ll be able to do. Such is the nature of the game.

Miscellaneous

GOLD – Gold is needed to perform many of the tasks necessary to expand your kingdom. Gold is largely earned through TAXES, and through attacking other kingdoms. The higher your tax rate is, the more gold you’ll collect from your citizens. More citizens will also mean more taxes collected, so you’ll want to constantly expand your COTTAGES.

Too much gold will make you a more lucrative target, so develop a balance between earning just what you need and spending it immediately. In this way you can also kep your tax rate lower, and the loyalty of your citizens higher.

HERO – After developing both an INN and a FEASTING HALL, you’ll have the opportunity to hire a HERO to fight for your kingdom. HEROES have various stats (POLITICS, INTELLIGENCE, and ATTACK), and your choice of HERO should favour the one with a stats advantage in the category you seek. HEROES will also level up, giving them more stat points.

What HEROES can do is govern your cities as mayor for additional bonuses. Mayors with high POLITICS will increase that city’s resource production, ones with high ATTACK will improve the effectiveness of any attacks launched from that city, and mayors with high INTELLIGENCE will reduce the time used by that city to research.

High stats are considered those at 70 or above, so if you can find a HERO with one or more of their stats above 70, you should jump at the chance to hire them. Not that you can switch your mayors at any time to facilitate any immediate needs you may have for that city, so don’t be afraid to move them around and get strategic.

WHEEL OF FORTUNE – This is located outside your castle’s front gates, and should be used daily. Each day you use it you’ll receive an Aries Amulet, and potentially other prizes as well. You can obtain an Aries Amulet each day, but if you don’t claim it on a specific day, it’s gone for good. As such, logging in at least once daily is a good idea. Once you have the Amulet, it can be used whenever you wish.

TRADING – You can freely exchange, trade, buy, and sell goods using the MARKETPLACE. This applies to all in-game items, but not Evony Coins, which cannot be traded or exchanged through any method.

Troops can also be sent to allies so long as their EMBASSY is set to ALLOW ALLIED TROOP GARRISON. Your EMBASSY should be set to do the same as well.

EVONY COINS – These COINS are Evony’s form of special in-game currency, and can be acquired both in and out of the game. In the game, COINS can be earned through quests, or randomly won on the WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Outside the game, players can purchase COINS via PayPal. As mentioned above, COINS, once acquired, can’t be traded or exchanged with other players.

Notes

- As is the case with most online games, there are no cheats in Evony. As is also usually the case with many online games, you’ll see websites and in-game spammers advertising exactly this, that they have cheats to instantly make you rich and powerful. Please don’t be fooled, and simply ignore them.
- In following with the above note, you’ll also encounter plenty of people trying to get you to visit phishing sites where they claim you’ll get free Evony Coins. Ignore them too.
- Evony’s provocative advertising does not unfortunately carry over into the game itself. If you were playing Evony in the hopes of encountering some sexually explicit or even suggestive themes, you’ll be sadly disappointed. Clever (and not even clever, so much as simply knowing their target audience) marketing is all the ads are.
- There is no button or menu option to log you out of the game. Simply close your browser when you’re ready to call it quits and the game will take care of the rest.

Final Thoughts and Summary – time to play Evony!

Thanks for taking the time to read this Evony Player’s Guide. We hope we’ve served as a valuable introductory resource to the game. You should now have all the tips and tricks you’ll need to get the most out of your time with the game. Good luck, have fun, and we’ll see you in the game.

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Their latest offering is called Evony, previously called Civony while in beta development stage – it’s no wonder UMGE are chasing the MMOG market big time, it makes up over $7 billion USD of market capitalization. Particularly in China, where online gaming is massive, they have the know-how and huge base from which to launch something like Evony and really send it to the top of the gaming ranks on the internet, right round the world.

Many question the opportunity, as Evony is a free game (based in a web browser) that is apparently ‘free forver’ – so how will UMGE make any money? Well, just check out the strong advertising push they have been doing online, and you’ll understand that there must be something in it for them.

Their optional ‘pay for play’ in Evony allows users to optionally tip in some money to get a faster and potentially more enjoyable game experience. Certainly for the older players and those that join the game late, they can quickly and easily buy some Evony game coins to speed up their development and catch players playing the free version, where building and acquring can take that little bit longer.

UMGE boasts some of the worlds best developers, they know what software works and what games the fans want.

Specialising in Multi-Player browser games, the shift from box selling mainstream PC games is very interesting. The free browser based games have the option to generate huge monies, there is no need for software houses to sell boxes, middle men taking a cut or ruthless software pirates ruining everything. The MMOG is the perfect market if done right.

The latest MMORPG to roll off the UMGE production line, Evony – throws the playing into medieval Europe, where they must build a city, castle and grow their empire against real enemies. The multiplayer browser format has been significantly improved, with clean crisp graphics, exciting gameplay and overall an addicitve feel.

Evony users build their own cities train large armies of troops, learn and research technologies, construct fortification systems and much more. Players climb up the nobility ladder by storming the continent. There are eight human forces: Worker, Warrior, Scout, Pikeman, Swordsman, Cavalry and Cataphract; and four machinery forces: Transporter, Ballista, Battering Ram and Catapult. Besides, the technologies family adds additional tweaks to the gameplay

There are eight human forces: Worker, Warrior, Scout, Pikeman, Swordsman, Cavalry and Cataphract; and four machinery forces: Transporter, Ballista, Battering Ram and Catapult. Besides, the technologies family adds additional tweaks to the gameplay. They are all critical to winning. More than five thousand words of well-researched history of the fortifications and the progress of technology put the gameplay into context.

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Evony has quickly become the most popular free online web strategy game for serious MMORPG fans. Based slightly on the larger World of Warcraft type design, Evony is beautifully designed and runs free to anyone with a web browser. The release and success of Evony Free Forever – has probably changed MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) gaming for good.

Now in March 2010, Evony Online Accounts are believed to be at over 20,000 million users and it’s growing at unrivaled speed. Carving a new MMORTS niche, the developers have now released iEvony with much talk about the sequel EVONY AGE 2 also. Both will offer more cutting edge features to gamers willing to test new realms in Evony.

Evony went public (after beta testing as Civony) in May 2009 runs in most modern browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Google Chrome. And you need Adobe Flash Player 9 or above version – this is an online web game that simply rocks!

Players who got in early do have a strong advantage over newer Evony players, as existing realms with strong alliances have a very solid base of resources, armies and towns to rely on.

If you are looking to join an Evony alliance or want more information on alliances, check out Evony Free Forever. In addition, we have also added Evony Alliances information here to assist with when and why to select a gaming alliance to help you grow!

The latest challenge to Evony, comes from Innogames’ Grepolis Game. (Ported to English after being a smash hit online game in Germany already)

Latest Evony Alliance Rankings (Which is the BEST Evony Alliance?) – March 2010

Top ten Evony Alliance (According to Users)

1. Pengleng – MrLinux
2. Royalty – kon
3. Royalty2 – Khalgar
4. ONE – JonhBoy
5. Twilight – Genaia
6. Cadia – Flamenco
7. Legion – cravenswood
8. HoM – Azathoth
9. Phoenix – Thanabur
10. MIST – patta23

Older Evony rankings list:

1 Shire

2 Swabia

3 Lexmark

4 Covenant

5 Demonic

6 Doomsday

7 Sparta

8 Invictus

9 Dominate

10 Leviatha

(The Queen of Evony competition has now been run and won, for more info check out “Queen of Evony Results“‘ post)

The game is approaching 12 months of age officials, Evony has a massive following already and the online web game is spreading fast through the internet gaming community. It’s initial name ‘civony’ is believed to have been changed after pressure from outsiders, claiming the name was a play on ‘Civ’ or ‘Civilization’ by Sid Meier. But it goes further than the Civilization game, think of it more as a cross between World of Warcraft, Rome: Total War AND Civilization.

The developers claimed Civony was a ‘beta’ release, quickly releasing the free online web game as ‘Evony’ with the same design and morphing the original database of players and their items, status etc. Build castles, defend your turf and join an alliance to fight battles with your friends, side by side.

There is an element for the developers or owners of Evony to make money from their new online web game, they allow users to purchase coins in the game using real money, which essentially speeds up building and growing a player or ‘base’ in the game.

Unlike other competing web (and real PC) games, Evony is essentially a ‘town’ or ‘base’ you continue to grow and you use your growth, items, skills to attack and invade other ‘real’ players. Much like the game of Civilization but on a much larger scale and in ‘medieval’ times.

The quick uptake of the online web game Evony, is because of smooth enjoyable visuals and seemingly good design have it set to continue to go nuts in the gaming community, I expect this game to be a massively followed one and it will be something that really rockets up the charts.

For some impressive gameplay (User base now at 9 million as of October 2009)
The only concerning angle, just like any game, the cheat factor is creeping in. While no mainstream Evony cheats have been spotted as yet, there are already countless Evony cheat discussions appearing online. This is something that any serious MMORPG or RTS gamer need to be aware of because they simply destroy the fabric of any online game.

(The only concern, is with the popularity of this new web game, the lag and server delay is continuing to grow. The developing company needs to keep pouring money back into the game initially otherwise it may frustrate serious gamers)

** Makers of Evony, UMGE (United Multiplayer Gaming Entertainment) have recently added more sever capacity.

As of October 2009, there are 89 evony servers online. Ensuring users get good speed and game play. (So there should be no one complaining about evony lag or evony running slow!)

(Oh and by the way, if you though World of Warcraft was addictive, just wait till you try this free browser game – it will have you stuck at the browser for hours on end. Its a quality MMORPG that will appeal to all gamers!)

Evony is THE must see online web game for MMORPG fans in 2009!

Check out some of the latest Evony Videos from various alliances on YouTube:

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