Stupid piece of dog’s turd.
“Come play my Lord” – Whoever thought of advertising the game like the needs their head crushed many times with some kind of shiny flat steel-surfaced instrument.

takes a lot of patience, strategy, and common sense.

if one of these is not in you, don’t play. chances are, you will spend real money, or get pissed coz you think people can attack you and you cant figure out why you cant fight back. you may think you are being cheated.

i have played this game for three months now. got beaten, got bullied, got booted out. but got back up. strategy plays an important role. its lengthy to discuss. you have to figure it out urself.

its a fun game.

The truest drawback to Evony is more defined by it’s lack luster non-existant customer support. The disreguard and contempt this game has for not only it’s non-paying, but also it’s paying customers makes one wonder why anyone would wish to spend a dime into the game. Like most management, the Evony team is no exception. They take no responsibility for anything that happens in game but are quick to ban anyone confronting them with an issue and threatening to take action over it. It’s highly common for payment transations to either be lost or misplaced. When confronted by this the Evony team denies that the transactions took place. When a player does take action and reverses the charges for failed delivery of goods, they promtly ban the player in question without reguard to the players account or explanation.

The team also displays a grand inepttitude in the execution of their duties. Cheaters in game are allowed to disrupt play for months at a time until Evony decides they are a problem. At which time they issue system wide bans removing both legite and illegally players from the game seemingly indescriminantly. Any complaining players then have their accounts banned. Any complaining of players on the forums is met with a lifetime ban by the Evony team. As are any attempts to organize other players in any sort of protest to the current operation of the game or requests that changes be made to either the game or it’s strangling double standardized TOS and rules.

The game terms of service either vaguely state rules, redirect you to ‘official rules’ posted like an after thought on the forums, or contradict themselves in many places. They often read like a double standard leagalease meant solely to confuse the issue you are attempting to decipher. The implication is solid enough though in that it often read as “we will do what we want, when we want, and if you disagree we’ll ban you and or remove your account.”

Double standards include things such as multi accounts being okay, but also being a banable offense. You are allowed to have multiple accounts. You are not allowed to have more that one account per IP, on the same server, in the same alliance. So despite advertising it’s self as a family friendly game, family or members part of the same household are not allowed to play together without the express permission of the Evony staff. Permission which it is not easily instructed anywhere on where to ask and often when a player does ask they are told to ask someone else if they recive any response at all. Often they recieve no response at all.

If under some strange circumstances you and a housemate ARE allowed to play together, you must be on completely different servers. If you are allowed to play on the same servers you and your housemate may be allowed to be able to be in the same alliance. Reguardless of alliances, you are not allowed to have any in game interaction at all with any person on the same IP as your account other than chat. You may not send goods, you may not lend militarily aide, you may not even attack the same targets (either NPC or pc) without risking a ban for multi accounting. This means family and friends can watch what you do, but not play with you on the game to work together in anyway as it’s considered an unfair advantage. It also means parents and children cannot teach one another or play with one another. It also ultimately means that any coworkers, knowingly or unknowingly, playing on the same IP at work run the risk of being banned completely from the game simply because they happened to both play the game from the same place.Colleges also apply as do any places where you might access and open WiFi point to play the game that another evony user might also access from.

Also sharing accounts, or logging into the same accounts from more than one logged IP address is considered a banable offense. Once again unless you have the imaginary express permission from the Evony team. This express permission is required for each and every account you would wish to access from multiple points. So no playing at work, then going home and logging in. Also making it so you either permanantly have to play from your Iphone or not at all.

All this has lead many players to claim Evony to be guilty of multiple instances of false advertising. And not just because of their scantily clad female model ridden mass ad campaigns plastered all over the net in which they prefer to use images directly ripped and edited from the covers of pornographic movies. Images which hold no relevance to the game and instead invite pornography seekers to join thinking that is the type of site it is. Though it does tend to make one question what sort of ‘family fun oriented’ game they are going for.

It also falsely implies that you can play at work discretely. If every member of your office for example must individually inform evony that you are all playing on the same game, possibly the same servers, possibly on an office alliance? There is nothing discrete about it. Nor is it discrete if you must ask your employer’s permission to play which as many can guess is not likely to happen. This is depite the fact that they are blantantly encouraging people to risk termination from their jobs opening themselves up to McDonalds supersized lawsuit.

Other claims of false advertisment involve friendly staff. Not to mention imaginary or falsified staff. Evony claims to have only 5 employees globally. But one look at the forums and all of the administrators and moderators will tell anyone differently. This is explained by the fact that Evony is supported but what is probably the largest base of experienced volunteer staff on the planet net to organizations such as the red cross. Many ‘volunteer staff’ are highly experienced game programmers/executives/designers who seem to be completely out of work except for their ‘volunteer work’ with Evony online.

Even though many of them have been revealed to have hidden in the deep dark mazes of some of the shadiest game corporations to exist. And when talked to in game and in person have revealed themselves to be overbearing, self centered, egotistical, and arrogant characters of the sort that make the worst customer service encountered to look like angels by comparison. It’s been largely said by many that if they were one of their employees, they’d be instantly fired no questions asked simply over their obvious attitude problems.

Attitudes that allow for no critisism at all. Which has been obviously displayed without doubt at the recently filed lawsuit against a british journalist who chose to speak out against evony and was threatend to be sued for deflamation of Evony’s character. My opinion is that Evony would have to first have character for them to be able to sue anyone for deflaming. I have little to no doubt that were a member of their staff to see this post they would threaten me and or the host site to remove said post and opologize or be sued. I invite them to try as it would immediately be posted online who the accusing party was so that those that have been wronged by these people would then be able to finally countersue for all the damages done so far. The only reason this has not been done by now is likely due to the fact that the ‘controlling company’ for this game isntead seems to be a myriad grouping of multiple rinkidinc corporations spread across the globe taking advantage of multiple ’small company protections’ while also hiding behind international borders to remain out of legal repercussions.

Evony has also displayed a disreguard for it’s player base in that obvious and easy advancements to the game are passed or are completely ignored in favor of pay to play features. This furthers both the false advertising of the game’s ‘free to play forever’ motto as well as providing yet more compiling evidence of a complete disreguard for the interests of their players. The most basic helpful features to the game are instead added by third party software in the form of automated bots. Such bots do the most basic of skills for players such as automatically launching attacks or building up towns. Features Evony it’s self has seem to deem unnessicary. I’m sure they would impliment them instantly if they thought they could make a buck off them. What I fail to realize is why anyone would choose to spend hundreds of dollars into a ‘free’ web based game rather than to pay a monthly, or in many cases several years worth, access fee’s for a game that not only has REAL customer support but also a real game that was not plagerized almost entirely from someone else.

The game it’s self is simplistic and fun to play. You create a player character. That player character embodies you, the player. A civilian in control of a single starting castle which you must build up and expand. Upon completeing basic quests and gaining rank you eventually expand into the ability to control more castles and resource boosting vallies around your areas. You make troops and form an army. You may also officially join other players in an existing alliance of up to 100 other players or create your own new alliance. Those alliances in turn form unofficial coalitions in which to go to war with other coalitions. The keys to these battles are to maintian high troop counts, high resources, solid defenses, and strong allies. The graphics are fairly basic. They are substandard to games like civilization, stornghold, and age of emprires, but try to make up for it in it’s multi player aspect despite the strangling multiplayer rules enforced in the game. It is after all a browser based flash game. Most of the artwork in said game has in turn been ripped off from somewhere else as can easily be found out with a few simple google searches.

In short, Evony as a game is simple yet entertaining. Even sullied by the fact of being yet another game pretending to be a ‘free game’ while charging excessive amounts of money for in game ‘perks’ allowing players to win by spending more money. This is not always the case however. Several buyers find that buying alone will not allow them to win without the use of strategy.

To sum up, Evony online has the misfortune of being a good game premise as well as a good playable game in its own right. It has it’s own shortcomings and flaws. But overall has the greatest misfortune of being run by a bad amoral company that shouldn’t even be allowed to do buisness in any market. If the game were run by a a mature focused company it would be worth playing. Being run by the fly by night money making former gold farmers from WoW based out of China only interested in ripping off as much cash from their player base before they split with the loot though? I would advise the fun seeking player to look for quality entertainment elsewhere even if that means sending them to blizzard entertainment via WoW. At least they have customer service.

Sadly too many players have now quit Evony due to the fact that it is very time consuming. Once u get past a certain prestige level with troops., etc., it takes you all your time just to farm to feed the troops, or you log into refuge and lost troops. Also becos Evony continues whether you are online or not, your cities can be attacked, valleys plundered and everything taken away from you, because you are not there to defend/attack etc. In a matter of hours, you can lose everything that has taken you hours, days, months to build. I have now been banned totally from Evony due to that fact I put a fost on the forum on why a lot of very good successful players had now quit Evony.
I was accused of Spam Bot ???
Neither word featured anywhere in my post, and I have never used a Bot in my life.
Evony is supposed to be a game, a game in which the players are supposed to have some measure of control. That doesnt happen with Evony, and you will all find out in due time. Due to the way the game runs, the moment u have any free time, you are logging into Evony to make sure all is well. The theory was good, the practice a few different matter. I resigned my positon as Host on N2 server and told the members to boot me and plunder. My troops will refuge soon enough in my absence.
I am now back to playing my original mmorph game where when I log out, everything pauses and I know when I log back in, I can resume my progress. Evony might consider a similar set up in their game.
Good luck all hope you have better luck than I have.