Comments on: Evony Review

By: Dallas

Dallas — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:00:50 +0000

Scam??? Here’s one for you all. I was playing for about 3 months. Had about 500 US. invested in the game which was a dumb move as I sit here now talking about it. Had 2 cities with 1 almost completed. Had close to 400k prestige. Was well equipped to handle almost anything… well until about a week ago. The game froze up on me as many times before. A glitch? Who knows. Tried many times unsuccessfully to get back in with no prevail so gave up until the next day. Well the next day rolled along and here I am trying to login. Well that wasn’t working either. Wrong password. Went to my mail to check my evony update pages and behold my password was changed. Changed by who? Nobody knew my login info whatsoever. NOBODY. Well I logged on to my account with that changed password and behold… everything was gone. Had one basic city, no upgrades, no items in my arsenal, no nothing. Zip. Zero. Nadda. After numerous attempts to contact evony in every which way possible, I never got one response. I don’t even get my autocents. Go figure. Scam? Think what you may. But I’m out 500 bucks, I don’t have anything to show for it, and evony is giving me any kind of response or explanation. Proof? Got all my receipts and an alliance full of people on my side for this one. Wanna talk about being ticked off? You’re looking at the words of one of those immensely ticked off individuals.

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:49:10 +0000

I got the new version Evony 3.08. My older version was 2.16.
The new version has all references to Eric Lam and UMGE removed.
Neither the comments in the hex code nor the decompiled Actionscript have anything that refers to them.
Also the scripts that enumerated the active programs and sent and retrieved data with the remote servers is gone,
except for the actual game network link to the Evony.com game servers.

Even the code is a bit neater and more efficient.
At least the heavy scrutiny on them is having some pluses. lol.

By: Sieken

Sieken — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:44:29 +0000

Evony is the hottest game out there. alot of people claim that you have to spend money to play but its a crike. There are some players that do play with cash but they dont have much of a advantage over the non payment players the only diffrence is they can buy speedups and build a little faster but as long as you understand the concept of the game you dontt have to worry about that prestige is just a number . so i would totaly suggest that you PLAY EVONY!!!!! at http://WWW.EVONY.COM come to server 129 and play you never know you might just have to face me or join my alliance lol have a good day and try evony

By: Sieken

Sieken — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:40:24 +0000

Evony is the hottest browser game out there and its FREE!!! you meet lots of good players on this game.
it has had over 15 mill players and COMMING SOON is Evony Age II is soon to hit your browser. Come and Try this game your wont be sorry.

By: rob

rob — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:54:47 +0000

This is NOT a free game. if you plan on going into this as though it is a free game, you’re just another sucker taking a hook. They tout the game as free, but many players pay real world cash to basically over power the free players right off the bat. If your looking for a good “Free Game”, don’t spend your time here.

And if you have a gambling problem, don’t spend your time here. It’s got some similar hooks to gambling in ways to get you to buy “Coin’s” so that you can get cooler get powerful faster. Let me put it this way, to be competative, after a month of playing, expect to spend roughly $200.00. That is if you start on a brand new server.

By: nick

nick — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:31 +0000

Evony is good. I have found a game that is highly suitable for smart guys too.http://www.napwar.com/index.so?act=invite&id=293762

By: roylNatE

roylNatE — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:46:00 +0000

Evony is a great game for all players. You can conquer the land around you or over take all your enemies. Need some help? Join an alliance and start a horde of terror in the land around you. Take more cities as you rise above the ranks. Evony has many options too. Tired of waiting? Use your speed ups to finish the job. Upgrade your attacks and build a massive army. This game is great I’m on almost everyday. Something you need that you cant quiet get? Purchase coins and get whatever you need. don’t want to pay? Hope you get lucky on your FREE daily amulet. People is this game are always ready to help. But be warned. Some people are looking for easy targets and you may be next! Continue upgrading your city and conquering valleys and you will become very successful. Evony is awesome. don’t know if its right for you? Try it out or do training. In this game you are free to do whatever you want. One of the best parts is that there are NO CHEATS AT ALL!!!! The only way to play is fair. ALSO, THERE IS NO PORN EITHER FOR YOU CREEPS OUT THERE! The evony staff is constantly making the game better for everyone! Earn you medals and rank up above your friends. Complete over 200 quests for added bonuses. Build a barracks and begin to build the ultimate army. There are tons of players that also will agree with me. Evony is GREAT! There are players from all over the world. And now with ievony you can earn credits just for inviting your friends to play. Evony is growing to be one of the greatest games out there. Put enough time into it and you will be with the best. Earn prestige for attacking enemies and allow you cities to grow to full capacity! And don’t forget its free to play. Just looking for some body to talk to? Log on to millions of players more than willing to talk or even help you out. Take over more cities for added fun and more to do. Meet new people and add friends. In a conclusion this is a great game. With tons of strategic options. I would give this game a overall five star rating. Please try it out. I have been playing for several weeks now and love it. I believe you will enjoy it. Have fun playing.

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By: hail

hail — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:25:21 +0000

awesome game. spent 4 months on it. extremely addictive. some chumps say it’s a malware or money eating site are all lairs & lame…. No spent a cent yet. Enjoying the benefits. All it takes is thinking & strategy to keep ur self alive.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:19 +0000

I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.

To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.

Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.

Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.

I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.

There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.

Thank you for reading this.

Lee

By: sango

sango — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:58:01 +0000

This game is a big waste of time. Really. As someone stated before it took 1 bully to wipe you out. 2 weeks into the game, I get hit by a 127k bully with 42k archers. And I’ve kept at a fast pace in building defenses. 2weeks – 5k warries, 1k archer, 2k archer towers. Please don’t waste any more effort in this game. Free until you get attacked and u’ll end up paying all those white flag. Not to mention it doesn’t even allow you to start over. DON’T EVEN BOTHER PLAYING THIS GAME.

By: stinkythedog

stinkythedog — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:29:16 +0000

This is a horrible game, the graphics and game mechanics look like something straight from an old (circa 1980`s) nintendo NES game. The most exciting part of this game is watching people complain about all the racist and vulgar in game names and alliance names, not to mention the people who try to extort nude pictures of other players in exchange for not attacking them.This game is an epic fail.

By: Travis White

Travis White — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:52:54 +0000

The reason Evony Admin. do not address any of the issues discussed it that they simply don’t care. These they WILL NOT be addressed. What will be accepted though is your credit card number. “Free Forever” is a thinly veilded marketing ploy. It’s all about the money. If you want to excel, break out the credit card. If you want social issues addressed then go elsewhere. They WILL NOT be addressed by EVONY.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:19:23 +0000

What can I say about a game that claimed it was going to be different than other about racism,sexism,language and so forth. On server 40 there are 2 alliances (Nigger and Niggers) which have been reported by many and nothing has been done by Evony. Also another alliance that states in it recuiting page that its an alliance for when who want to have sex with minors. Once again reported and still there. This game is worst than World of Warcraft for bad behavior. Player by the name of jackmeoff,cuntface and any racist, foul mouthed name you can think of players are using. Some players are insane spending a lot of money just to have a strong alliance come and wipe them out and lose everything. If you going to pay money go play other games. This game becomes very boring after awhile, takes forever to built building and so forth. If you like looking at 4 walls while waiting for upgrades play this game.

By: Travis White

Travis White — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:31:31 +0000

I’ve played Evony since it was Civony. The game has changed since it’s “free forever” beginnings. Slight changes to game play and “medals” required to advance have made it all but impossible to be competative unless you spend money to aquire such advances. Scam? Yes. It’s just a slowly tightening noose that kills your wallet instead of a quick snap of the neck.
As an initial beta testor, medals (for advancement) were relatively easy to come by, making a nice progression to the game as you grew and became more powerful. Still, for true strength, you had to buy ever rarer items. Now, advancing your rank is a complete chore, simply a method of squeezing more dollars from you. Disagree with my opinion? Irrelevant, I played longer than most and have witnessed the slight changes to increase the revenue. If you want to throw away cash, play this and do well. If you want a simple game, a distraction? This isn’t the way…….it’s a chore playing without the cash. Better just write a check and send to China…….

By: Kempion

Kempion — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:25:03 +0000

Bruce just keeps digging his hole deeper! LOL

By: BabyFace

BabyFace — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:49:24 +0000

Calm Down! You are in the vitural game world, not in real world of law and order.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:26:24 +0000

In the last two days evony arbitrarily and without notice merged a number of servers into one effectively changing the world and conditions and resoruces and alliances and valleys a of gameplayers worlds from one day to the next and now have at leat 5 worlds of users throwwn in the space of one. when i asked about why i could not log onto my server

I was advised and i quote:
”
hi,
thanks for your letter. w6-11 have been merged into wn2. we have sent system mail to everyone on these servers. you should have checked it carefully.
”

I received no mail. i have been stripped of my alliance(i hosted roundtbl) and thown in a totally overcrowded world- i see they gave me a free transport advanced transport for each city but that is useless in this world .I have lost 50 (all i had ) level 10 valleys i spent weeks in conquering and building up and their resorces and no place to reconquer them either.. i AM IN A WORLD WHERE THERE ARE NOt near as many RESOURCES JUST city after city next to each other. On server 8 i had space to grow was building and enjoyng it ….this will turn into a bloodbath as soon as the truce is off which i do not even know how long. this is incredibly unfair and arbitrary with or without notice ..I will be posting this messsage in every forum i can find. evony does not protect the honest gamer …they f..* them
:mad::mad::mad::mad:

By: jacques

jacques — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:36:41 +0000

hi there – evony is a wicked game so come along and join evony dont miss out the fun . build a army , build a city . choose a alliance find your friends and find your enemys . shanerocks
server 15

By: bloodcoco

bloodcoco — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:04:34 +0000

Evony is not a just a ordinary game at all. I went from play World of War craft to playing Evony and yes world of war craft is better but Evony has its peeks and a downfall just like world of warcraft does. Evony is for the person that likes being the strong and powerful and also making friends. Who needs dungeons and flying rides when you have archers and catapults that can destroy a city in a heartbeat. Although there are a lot of kids that are in there teens that play this game, most of them are nice and are willing to help out with the cause at mind.
The publishers do a good job at giving you all the tools that you need to succeed in this game and then when they know the server is going to be down they are good about compensating you for the time that was lost which makes it nice. The only drawback about the resources that are provided is that most of the areas are getting over crowded and the resources are getting a little scarce in some areas with the NPC’s and other players. Then if you need even more help there is Evony wiki as well. There you can find answers to most of all your questions and if you don’t find it there then you can ask and you will get an answer within 48 hours which is really good timing.
Something that is very important that I have found out about the game is that in order to succeed you have to make friends no matter how independent you are your no match for a 200k prestige player when you first start. So if you make friends with everyone that you can then when someone wants to be that bully then you can call up your friends and eliminate your problem. To get started I would recommend following the quests and do everything you can to get as many resources as possible cause the resources will save you or break you in the end. When you start to build your armies up you will want to focus on your archers and your warriors. Get as many of them as you can and then go to swordsmen because they will defeat your archers and then from there go to pike man cause they will defeat the horseman which a lot of players have. Then go to your siege weapons like the catapult, battering ram, because they will take out the archer towers when you attack a city.
Over all this game is really fun and just like any other game you will get what you put into it. This game is for all ages and I believe it will be around for a long time to come. That is if people keep on having fun and enjoying what these fantastic developers have done for us. If it weren’t for them then we wouldn’t be lords of evony.

written by Bloodcoco
server 33
carinthia
guild – assylum

By: BabyFace

BabyFace — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:00:48 +0000

We have to admit Evony got an impressive success in a very short period!