Evony - Multiplayer game

I've been playing Evony for about a month now. To the extent that I have been neglecting all my Facebook games. Anyway, lets talk about the game. What is it? Its simply a build and war game. A very simple browser based game with no extragavant graphics.

But I tell you it is bloody exciting if you have patience for it? The world is based on tiles and those tiles can consist of your cities, the computer's tiles and valleys which are basically areas like forests and deserts and lakes. Anyway, there are too much details to talk about it in a single post. But let me just give some tips for really new players. Well, newer than me.

First of all, lets talk about my cities and the builds I have currently.

Vendetta City Building Level Quantity Town Hall 5 1 Wall 9 1 Academy 8 1 Inn 1 1 Feasting Hall 7 1 Marketplace 3 1 Embassy 3 1 Rally Spot 6 1 Beacon Tower 8 1 Stable 1 1 Relief Station 6 1 Forge 9 1 Workshop 9 1 Barracks 4 10 Cottage 6 11 Resources Building Level Quantity Farm 5 4 Lumber Mill 9 1 Iron Mine 9 7 Iron Mine 6 3 Iron Mine 5 3 Iron Mine 4 4 Iron Mine 3 2 Quarry 2 1		Vicious City Building Level Quantity Town Hall 6 1 Wall 9 1 Academy 9 1 Inn 1 1 Feasting Hall 6 1 Marketplace 4 1 Embassy 2 1 Rally Spot 6 1 Beacon Tower 8 1 Stable 5 1 Relief Station 6 1 Forge 5 1 Workshop 4 1 Barracks 9 4 Barracks 4 6 Cottage 7 6 Cottage 6 4 Resources Building Level Quantity Farm 9 4 Farm 6 2 Lumber Mill 9 14 Lumber Mill 7 2 Lumber Mill 5 4 Iron Mine 4 1 Quarry 6 1
Vengeance City Building Level Quantity Town Hall 5 1 Wall 8 1 Academy 9 1 Inn 1 1 Feasting Hall 7 1 Marketplace 2 1 Rally Spot 8 1 Beacon Tower 8 1 Stable 9 1 Relief Station 8 1 Forge 2 1 Workshop 2 1 Barracks 4 9 Cottage 6 9 Resources Building Level Quantity Farm 9 16 Farm 9 7 Iron Mine 3 1 Quarry 2 1		Villainy City Building Level Quantity Town Hall 3 1 Wall 5 1 Academy 9 1 Inn 1 1 Feasting Hall 7 1 Marketplace 2 1 Embassy 1 1 Rally Spot 3 1 Beacon Tower 2 1 Stable 1 1 Relief Station 5 1 Workshop 1 1 Barracks 4 12 Cottage 4 10 Resources Building Level Quantity Farm 5 3 Lumber Mill 8 1 Lumber Mill 6 3 Lumber Mill 4 5 Iron Mine 8 1 Iron Mine 4 5 Quarry 2 1

Well thats it.. But I have a few tips for people who are just starting.

1. Use the Marketplace. There are differences between the many many servers. Some particularly the old servers have cheaper food so it makes sense not to build farms and instead build iron and lumber. To get food, you NPC farm or buy from the market. If I am not mistaken, stone is really cheap in all the servers. Personally for me, I only build 1 quarry and that's it.
   
2. Resource strategy. There are 2 strategies regarding the resources. Both are valid. personally, I use the specialisation route for the main 3 cities and diversification for outposts.
   
   1. Specialisation. You build only 1 resource per city. Therefore, the other resources, you only build 1 of each to satisfy the building requirements only. Why is this a good thing? Its because of the Valley bonus!
      The Valley bonus unlike the hero bonus is specific to each resource. So if you have all 4 types of resources, and have 4 valleys giving 10 bonus; 1 forest, 1 desert, 1 hills, 1 swamp. Then you only get 10% bonus of all your resource plots. But consider if you have only lumber mills and have 4 forests giving 10% each. then you got 40% bonus for all your resource plots well minus 1 or 2. An additional point to this strategy is to cluster your cities together. So you have Iron mines, and lumber mills and you exchange resources using transports. Personally, I have a city of farms and this city acts as my main troops base. (I am totally terrified that I am not able to get online and all my troops starve). oh another point is that you can have more lumber cities than iron cities, since we all rely on Archers the most and they eat up lumber like nobody's business.
      
   1. Diversification. There isnt a specific strategy for diversification but rather you build all your resources. (I dont build quarries). But a point to consider is that you dont need farms so much since you can never produce enough food to maintain a regular army anyhow. you get enough food through NPC farming. Anyway, you dont need iron as much as you need lumber too so have twice as much lumber mills as you have iron mines and you should have enough resources for a fast fast build.
      
3. Town Hall. The city icon in the map is determined by the Town Hall as far as I can tell. I read in the forums that only a level 10 Town Hall would have that large castle icon. However, at level 4 Town hall, your city icon would change from a village to a walled city/town icon. I suggest for any new city to never upgrade your Town Hall to level 4 UNTIL you can fend off attacks. Its because most players who likes to attack other players dont bother with the villages. Honest. The only problem is that your resource plots would be restricted to only 19 plots. Dont worry, you should concentrate on upgrading those 19 plots to level 9 first. You can make as much resources or maybe even more :D .. After that, you can upgrade the town hall.. But try to do things slowly and in stages :D..
   
4. Walls. You need high level walls. But high level walls are only useful because they give more space for Archer Towers. Build mostly Archer Towers. You dont have to rush building Walls up to level 10. You should however rush building Archer Towers as soon as you can. The only reason you should concentrate on Archer Towers is because its the only one that can regenerate. :D
   
5. Forums. Read the forums! haha especially on NPC farming :D

anyway, do try out Evony.. just type click or write http://hussinyusof.evony.com

anyway I am lord Husz of server 5 and I am in the Alliance Boondock Saints 2 :D

HAVE FUN!!!!