Evony has a concept called city gates. You can read about it in a little more detail at our Evonypedia site. OR I can save you some time and tell you right now that in the rally spot dialogue box there is a check box asking you if you want your gates open. If you open them then your troops get to fight when an army invades them. Otherwise, well, take a guess. Nope, if you said they are protected, you’re wrong. They are just sitting ducks for attacking archers. I haven’t seen proof of it myself, nor read anything authoritative about it, yet I have it from a good source, sort of our guild leader in BOOM on server 14. So, there seems to be almost no point in keeping your gates closed. Ever. Well unless you know you are attacked by an army of sword carrying dwarfs (they need the elves to shoot arrows).
Another concept in evony is alliances. If you’re not a member then join one, there’s no membership fee, and you will get some reward from the quests button. I know, I know, what about the quitting fee… None either! Free. You can talk to your allies for free which makes the game more interesting and they can help you with resources or questions you have, after, of course, you’ve checked our evonypedia. Oh, a little tip, if you don’t find the article you want on evonypedia, but do find it on another wiki, like theevonywiki, or were told about it, do me a favour and copy it, and paste it into an email, and fire it off to contribute@evonypedia.com. It will appear on the site in like 5 minutes, because as I keep telling you our editor never sleeps. If it’s not there in 5 minutes, post a comment here and I’ll reply with his phone number. Don’t worry, you won’t wake him up.
The main benefit of an alliance, as in the real world, is your military power. You would therefore think that you can coordinate an attack in your alliance against a target and completely annihilate it with 100x the troops it has. Well, you can coordinate all you like, but you can’t attack all together. So an attack has to come in waves. The first attacker will be the strongest force to weaken the defences as much as possible for the next guy, and similarly for subsequent attackers.
The problem is that if you’ve got a much larger force than your enemy the evony battle simulation gives you a decided edge. You overwhelm the other side and almost take no losses at all. If you are in an alliance and know your city is about to be attacked you can ask them to reinforce your city with their army. Open your gates and make sure you can host many armies (your diplomacy centre has to have a high level). As the defensive side, you have an overwhelming edge over the attacking alliance. If you assemble a truly large enough army in your city that it takes no losses even against the best army of your enemy (which will be fought first) then no matter how large the attack force or alliance is, you’re safe, and you will take almost no losses.
If that really is the case, then the only way you can get attacked successfully is if your own alliance turns on you. So you better be very nice to them.
Hey, I ended up a blog post without any self-serving statements, yay! (I believe I’ve already made those statements at the beginning of the post)
I was trying to find out why there is a vertical bar (|) in the title for our evonypress home.
In order to customize your pages in WordPress you have to work with templates. The pages themselves are in a database. It’s a smart design, but hard to maintain the pages themselves.
The WordPress header and title are in a file called header.php in the current theme directory on your WordPress installation folder. Its HTML Title tag is defined as something like:
The wp_title() function tells you the blog title, and the bloginfo('name') function tells you the blog name. Except, changing it didn’t work! If you remove the title tag completely the window doesn’t have a title, and if you have a title tag then no matter what you put in it will say "| EvonyPress" – EvonyPress being the blog name. Even if you put "ABCD" for the title, it will not show it. The EvonyPress title is stored in the database, and configurable from the admin->settings panel under the blog name edit box. Something just HAD to be rewriting the title in script, but I couldn’t find it.
It turns out that people actually believe the titles play a crucial role for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). See for example this site (an SEO title plugin for WordPress), or just google 'WordPress title'. The EvonyPress has a plugin called All in One SEO. When you click on it in the admin panel under settings you will configure it. Fix the page title format to not include a blog post title. Just include %blog_title%. I know it's a minor and almost obvious issue, but if someone else out there in the websphere is unaware of plugins others installed and are facing this strange behaviour, then I hope I can save them some time.
Speaking of SEO - if you want a higher page rank on google, put a lot of links in your blog post, it makes for a better article anyhow, and takes only a little less laziness. Let me help you get started. Copy the following URL: http://info.evonypress.com. Paste it into your own blog, anywhere really, and tell them how much I've helped you with, well, life. Go on, it's good for you.
The devs. in our team (I just sit around chat all day and give them orders) decreed that the prerelease beta of our Evonynet social network will go online today at midnight. Who’s midnight it is is anyones guess. Either way, watch for it!
Devs. if you make me a liar here I will command you twice as much next week. Be warn.
I promised to notify you guys about new videos from the guys at Evony Tutorials, and here it is. They told me it will be released today, so look for that one titled "The Economy". I don’t want to ruin the movie by telling you how it ends, but suffice it to say that it spells doom for certain very high level players. You see, players were foolishly following our quick-start guide and didn’t build enough farms. They used this strategy to get to astronomical prestige levels which makes their population crave food, and there simply wouldn’t be enough.
The worst part is as more people read our start-up guide, the worse it’s going to get. So stop reading it people! Stop advancing in ranks already. Do it for the economy, if not for me being able to conquer something still.
We have exciting news! The Evonynet social network will go into preview beta tomorrow!
Here’s what you could do right away:
Set up your profile with pictures and Evony servers you play on.
Add friends.
See all your Evony character stats on all the servers you like all at once!
The very next feature to be added will be Aliiance support, so that members of an alliance can have a private messaging system, and can see each other easily. It will also be integrated with Evonynet maps.
The kicker is that you will actually sign in with your Evony user name and password. Don’t worry, we will not modify any game data. Besides, you trust me don’t you? You’ve been reading my blog for a few days already so you must feel like you know me well enough. It’s not like I’m going to take your gold for helping you advance in the game. Or hold it hostage until you click some random ad links on our site, because my editor drives me crazy with his fear of dropping revenue (which is under $1 in any case).
Hmm, that gives me an idea. What about making it so that if you click on my city instead of attack you will have an ad pop-up? It’s a win-win situation, for me at least.
You can embed flash movies in your blog, here, by using a similar syntax to the one for embedding you-tube videos:
[kml_flashembed movie=”/files/$yyyy/$mm/$swf” height=”$x” width=”$y” /]
Substitute the right values for the $ed values. Good luck and enjoy blogging.
I do play Evony, not just blog about it. I don’t have much time to play it however, a good thing at my level, since it takes a day to build most things now.
I therefore have a strategy that I use in other similar games as well:
Build up your city in a balanced way at the beginning. Follow our quick-start guide.
Build your second city as soon as you can. That city needs only an academy to help you with research, and resources (and workers) to ship them to your first city (or their cash equivalent). Don’t worry about defending it, but if you have the extra time, put in a tower so you can ship the resources to your main city whenever you’re attacked.
Do whatever it takes to build ballistas (and archers first). They will let you conquer a lot more with fewer troops. See our theory crafting page.
Build as many cities as you can – probably only one more at this stage.
Now you have lots of cash, resources and friends in your alliance. Send me some, please. Hey, without me you’d still be stuck trying to upgrade your walls as if anyone is going to attack you, and loosing thousands of warriors a day in a futile battle against one forest level 11.
My method will take you longer to build a weak army, but it will make it much quicker to build a strong one. It might be harder to raid resources at first, if you’re in to that sort of things, but hang in there, soon you’ll be as good as the guys who play twice as much.
As of the new patch today, don’t bother abandoning your second city to create a low level barbarian city with more resources – it will revert to a flat. Evony, apparently, are running out of real-estate space, so warrantless extra-judicial demolitions are common. See how smart my strategy is by not relying on abandoned cities?! (<– Rhetorical question.)
You saw that You-tube Evony tutorial video I linked below, right? Well, we were so happy to be there that we contacted the team. I can tell you they are really talented, but I can’t force you to believe me. Still, that shouldn’t stop you from looking at their new video about archers or subscribing to them. They told me they would tell me ahead of time on their next video scheduled release, so tune to this channel (blog) to be the first to see it. You can subscribe to my blog as well. Did you notice the little RSS icon on the right pane? Click on it and copy the URL if it doesn’t display nicely in your browser. Paste the link in your favourite RSS reader and subscribe. Thank you very much.
The initial map has been released. You can find it at Evonynet.com/maps. Keep in mind it has no cities for now, but we’re working on getting them in there and showing you your friends in your alliance and maybe enemies too, if you promise not to attack me. In fact, I’m going to hide my city. It’s going to be a forest level 11 in the map. A forest that attacks people!
Here are some very compelling reasons that you should use the Evony quick-start to start a new city in Evony:
Our guide looks better. You will be looking at it, won’t you?
Our editor knows his stuff! He’s very analytical. He will tell you to build an academy early on so that you can parallelize your construction and training soldiers with researching and save time! Other guides don’t seem to care about saving you time… sad sad sad.
We were here first! Thousands of users already read it, and liked it, maybe, I don’t know really, I just know many come back. Either way, I liked it, except for the parts about how much resources cost at the market and not having more insight into the game. Yes, I am trying to promote that guide. He promised he’ll fix it.
Did I mention out editor doesn’t sleep nights? That means if you get stuck somewhere and the guide doesn’t help you then you can just post a message here and complain, and he’ll fix it right away.
Actually, if you offer him good advice, corrections, etc.. and click on some of his awfully ugly and irrelevant google ads (or just tell him you did – although he probably counts them between Evony constructions) he’ll pay you with money!
Actually, he won’t give you real money, but he’ll give you real game money, even though I didn’t talk to him about it at all! Because I know him, and he loves it when others try to help him out, and he goes out of his way to help others. We are just friends.
Did I say leave a comment here for improvements? Certainly do that, but for other stuff, like bugging our editor, why don’t you do it yourself. His character name is nynaeve on all Evony servers, and he’d usually be one of the first few players on a new server thanks to our notifier. He actually was the 3rd new player on world server 10 and now has the largest alliance by far (Aiel). He also has a blog, so feel free to file all complaints directly to him there.
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