*There are spoilers in this for people who haven't played this game! You have been warned!*
Hi. Im vBobLing, an Evony Forum Moderator (bbs.evony.com). I just wanted to share a few words about Evony in my opinion.
The Game and my way of playing it.
Evony is a MMORTS web browser game which isn't text based, more of a flash game. These have become rare over the internet and it was quite a relief to see this one. At first, in my honest truth, I did not like the game. I found it to get quite boring and I became very impatient. But then when I started to play the game a bit more, I realised that if you don't have any patience, then you can't go far. I also came up with a few ideas. I'd queue up a building/upgrade and some scientific research, then i'd go and...
1) Go on the Official Evony Forums.
2) Talk to people via Skype or through the alliance chat.
3) Go and watch some TV.
This would make up for the time of waiting for the upgrades.
Ups and downs.
Evony has had its ups and downs. A lot of it can be found on the forums through the history of the GD mostly. Many people were complaining about the ads which really annoyed the Evony team and I respect that. The ads which they came up with were accepted through DMCA rules. This means that it was allowed to be posted across the internet. But even then, Evony still responded to there customers and have started to slightly adjust the ads. Once again, I respect the Evony Team for responding. But Evony have had its great moments. On the 21st of August 2009, the Evony servers and worlds crashed and no one could access them for 3.5 hours. People were very angry with Evony because of raising there tax rates in-game and other sorts of complaints. Once again, the Evony team responded to there customers and they gave there sorry once the servers went down by giving all members who were registered when the incident happened with a Compensation pack of 100 cents and 10 amulets. All members gave there thanks through the forums and this was a step forward for the Evony community. If Evony keep this up they'll find themselves in the top 5 for the best web browser games!
Buildings and Upgrades.
The buildings and upgrades is a great feeling of being in a real MMORTS. It can take up to 90 hours just for one building! But for now, lets talk about the success about them. This game is all about patience. If you don't have any, then I suggest you don't play this game. The buildings and upgrades have become a success with all of the guidelines, 'instant finish' and what Evony gives you while waiting for them to be completed. Things such as visiting the Social corner on the forums, talking to your allies in the alliance chat and many more. Your city depends on your buildings because without them you can't build an army or defences. I think this as a main part of Evony is a great success but maybe there can be a few improvements. Also, scientific research has proven to be excellent aswell. With all the perks that it offers you can be well on your way to a successful empire (by empire I mean lots of cities) because things such as the research called 'compass' which allows your army to move faster. Again, there could be a few improvements but still a great success.
Heroes
Personally, I do not like the heroes. This is because of the unfair advantage with them. If you have a hero with over 450+ attack you can find yourself building 1000 warriros in 1 second, its absurd! Some parts, I do not mind with the politics and how it can improve the population limit and the resource production. The intelligence I do not mind either but it always comes back to the attack part. Have you ever heard of a hero who can do that?? I really do not have much to say about them because I do not like them.
Battlefield
The game mechanics for battling are very advanced and the way they work can sometimes be confusing. Luckily, we can calculate our losses for taking valleys or cities through our rally spot with the 'exercise' feature which lets us test out battles. This makes the game a little less confusing. With taking cities, it may take a lot of time with the breaking down the loyalty, especially if people are using speech texts (raise loyalty to 100 and public grievance to 0) or NPCs which restore there troops and loyalty. I especially like the honour system, although it could be tweaked a little bit. I don't know how, but theres something which I do not really like about it.
Overall
So overall Evony is very good and I hope to continue to Moderate the forums for a great length of time :).
9/10.
vBobLing
