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cjammer02

Evony is a mmorpg (massive multiplayer online role playing game). Before my friend introduced me to it, I always played runescape. Evony, a game where you build a city, manage resources, build an army, and conquer people trying to do the same things. (I’m told it’s similar to Age of Empires, even down to the style of the graphics, I never played AoE so I don’t know for sure.) At first look it seems like a game that would have had to come in a box a few years ago. Then you realize that for all the nice graphics, workers in fields, clouds coasting by over your glimmering city, the game doesn’t have any moving parts, it’s a game of menus with a very attractive user interface. Still, how it loads almost instantly with so much going on is surprising, it’s the most capable bit of Flash I’ve seen.

You play on three map scales and a lot of menus. The largest scale is a world map, a disguised grid made of cities and terrains which you can conquer and garrison to gain modifiers to your resource production. For example, if you conquer a grassland, you might gain +11% to your food production as long and it’s yours. The cities can be conquered too, some are NPC cities there for you to quest against, the rest are other players like you. The game has multiple servers, so it’s likely each has some player limit. The world map is 800×800, or 640000 plots, and there’s no mini map or non-random terrain features to give you any idea what’s going on. But when you start playing this isn’t a concern.

The middle scale shows the land just outside your city, where you collect resources. You set up farms, mills, quarries, and mines, collecting the game’s four units, food, wood, rock, and iron. The number of these collectors you can have is limited by the level of the town hall in your city, and the workforce available in your population. Improvement of the collectors to higher levels is capped with the town hall level, and each new collector level is exponentially expensive in resource cost and rewarding in resource production, so that one level 2 mill is better than two level 1 mills. You have the choice of what to build on your limited space, and the game includes a trading system, where every player buying and selling makes for an economy with a going rate for each resource. It seems that lumber is the most demanded resource in the game, so it commands a higher price, meaning leaning toward lumber production is a strong way to go. The game economy works well enough that as more players join the game, the prices fall with more suppliers, as it should. It meant getting into the game early and trading for gold worked out nicely.

I would recommend this game not just to anybody, but to everybody. I think any child or adult would love it. It’s fast and simple to register, just go to www.evony.com and you will be playing in no time.

cjammer02
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Jackarhius

Completely wrong place you fool.

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