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Muz

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Evony
« on: August 11, 2009, 05:01:00 am »

Yes, THAT game. TBH, I was just trying to troll it.. stayed there for about half a week now, and hey, it's not a bad game. In fact, it's a rather good game. There are a huge swarm of idiots who come in and ask where the porn is, but after a few days, they lock down the server to new entry, and all you're left with are the people who play it.

It's actually a pretty good strategy game, similar to Tribal Wars, but with more city building detail and a larger player base. You build up a city, get some homes, gather resources, build defenses, turn your peasants into soldiers, and conquer villages. Rather fun stuff.

I was thinking we could start up a bay 12 clan and conquer one of the new servers ;)
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Re: Evony
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 05:32:04 am »

I'd play it if the ad's didn't scare the hell out of me.

Well, the ad's don't scare the hell out of me, per say, but that fact that they have nothing to do with the game does.
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Re: Evony
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2009, 05:42:40 am »

I read somewhere that you have to pay to MAKE BUILDINGS. But then again, it was Civony back then.
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Re: Evony
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2009, 05:44:05 am »

I also read you have to pay to chat.  Something which I thought the internet had eliminated years ago.
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Muz

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Re: Evony
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2009, 05:52:19 am »

Actually, I sort of like the payment system. It actually gives you some neat stuff without paying. Paying just lets you build it faster. So, yeah, you could do a lot of stuff without any payment at all, heck, I don't know any big players who've paid.

Yeah, you sort of have to pay to chat in the main channel, but I don't mind that.. keeps down the whole "join my alliance" spam. And you get like 50 free messages anyway, which is more than you need for the public chan, since it's loaded with spam anyway. Chatting between alliance members and mail is free, though.
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Re: Evony
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2009, 05:54:54 am »

I might try it again later, since the thing didn't even send me a confirmation email the first time I tried.  I think I read somewhere its supposed to be kind of like Civilization but real-time.  Is that correct?
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« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2009, 06:05:33 am »

Lol, I don't know what genre it is. Tribal Wars is the closest to it, but yeah, I'd say Civ is the closest popular genre. You research, build cities, upgrade things, and very much like Civilizations, you can upgrade only one building at a time and research only one thing, lol. I'm fond of the game mechanics, though, it's about as addictive as Civ, and nice that it's real time.

Also, speeding up things that take less than 5 mins to build is probably one of the best free features the game has. I sort of like it that the game has a below average intelligence player base.. it makes it easier to attack people ;)
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Re: Evony
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2009, 07:47:41 am »

"Play Now, My Lord"

What are the mechanics like, though? In detail. I like details.
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Re: Evony
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2009, 08:18:54 pm »

Lol, just play it, it's got a simple enough tutorial that should show the whole mechanics. To sort of summarize it...

1. You create a cottage, which houses peasants.
2. You create a whole bunch of cottages and get more peasants. You can upgrade them to get even more peasants, the higher the level, the longer it takes to upgrade and the more expensive it is.
3. You create mines, quarries, woodcutters shops, and iron mines to use those peasants to get resources.
4. Create a barracks and rally point. Then turn your peasants into troops.
5. Create an academy, research stuff like archery and military, and upgrade your barracks. After a while, you get to create pikemen, swordsmen, archers, cavalry, siege weapons. Combat mechanics are rather interesting.. very simple, but gives you a lot of room to experiment. It's sort of like rock-paper-scissors, but you have to sort of get the right balance for it. Archers pretty much trash all infantry, but once you get to them, they get massacred easily.
6. Get your armies to conquer a few valleys, which gives you a resource bonus.
7. After a few battles, you get medals. With enough medals, you get a promotion to Knight.
8. With a promotion, you can build another city. Capture a flat, send a bunch of workers, then build a city.
9. After a while, you amass big armies, build big walls, and can start sending hordes out to conquer your neighbors.
10. You piss off the wrong guy, who calls upon his allies and his allies' allies and they stomp you to oblivion :P


You don't have to pay for anything, but paying for stuff lets you skip the grind. There's not much bonus to paying, other than you finishing things quicker and not have to sit in front of the computer, waiting for your lvl 7 cottages to be completed.
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Re: Evony
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 08:24:20 pm »

I dunno if it's fair, but quite a lot of that sounds like Travian.  Especially number 10.  Actually number 10 was what made it fun to play Travian.  I was on a knife edge all the time.

And Travian has the similar "Pay for making it faster/ more convenient" system.  Although I don't think anyone's ever won a round of Travian without having purchased gold.
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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2009, 08:39:41 pm »

It DOES sound remarkably like Travian...  and I stopped playing that recently due to it using exactly the wrong amount of my time and making me far too paranoid.
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« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2009, 08:41:00 pm »

It DOES sound remarkably like Travian...  and I stopped playing that recently due to it using exactly the wrong amount of my time and making me far too paranoid.
Exactly!  I stopped playing it because I was playing Teuton and that meant I always had to dodge perfectly (which meant predicting how long I would be out/ asleep for) or risk losing my entire army.
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Re: Evony
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2009, 09:02:17 pm »

http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/07/10/dont-play-evony/
A general post on their spamming policies
http://mu.ranter.net/civony/civony-update-free-game-apparently-funded-by-thousands-of-stupid-world-of-warcraft-players
Background on the company that apperently made the game and their past shady practices.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/15/games-evony-spam-internet
A mainstream media market on their controversies in general
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=7c9ef267b8b3c01f&hl=en
A thread from the google adsense forum, which was tracking Evony's constantly shifting set of domains to avoid ad blocking software, which Google bitchslapped them for eventually.

The CEO of “UGME” (developer of Evony) is Eric Lam. Yes, the same Eric Lam who was sued by Microsoft for nearly a million for ADVERTISEMENT FRAUD just a while ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/business/media/16adco.html
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Re: Evony
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2009, 09:14:48 pm »

Didn't they also advertise WoW gold farmers too?
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Re: Evony
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2009, 09:16:40 pm »

Didn't they also advertise WoW gold farmers too?

They /are/ those gold farmers, according to this: http://www.wowgoldfacts.com/?p=825

TLDR?
The company that made Evony is an imaginary corporation funded by WoW gold farming group 'WoWmine', one of the worst reviewed in that field.
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