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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!