Sunday, July 29, 2012

Adding Allies to Your FB Bar in Evony

To link your evony account to a facebook account:

WARNING: This is currently a once in a lifetime event in Evony. If you later want to change your linked FB account, Evony will simply refuse ...so decide wisely.


If you already have facebook and do not mind evony members seeing your REAL personal information, click on the "F" (facebook) tab on the right side of the playing screen, it will open a new browser, click "connect with facebook", on the new browser pop-up enter your facebook information you?d use to sign into facebook, it will then ask for permission to access basic information, choose ?allow?.Return to the browser where you clicked "connect with facebook" and choose "confirm" then choose "click here to play game" and you will begin playing evony with a linked facebook account.

If you're not comfortable with your real identity or real information being exposed to evony players you can create a new facebook account using a new email address. Once you?ve created a 'fake' facebook you can link it to evony using the same process as above. Note that FB "Terms of Service" currently allow only one account per user. Not that that has stopped Evony users from creating them, just be aware that it is technically a TOS violation.

Once you are linked you can ask members in the alliance for their facebook, if they give you an email address, simply type it into facebook search bar and add them as a friend. To add them as a evony ally click the "F" tab on evony playing screen, then click on the gift box, it will open a facebook app page, choose "my allies" then choose the names you want to send an ally request to, click "send ally request" once someone has accepted your ally request you can then send them free gifts such as speed-ups and resources, you can also visit their empire and boost their resources and vice versa.

Medal Farming Notes:



An NPC takes 8 min to regenerate full defences. Leave an interval of this time before attacking it again for the best chances of getting another medal.

Valleys do not need time to replenish after they have been abandoned, and can be attacked repeatedly (they have no regeneration time). I generally find leaving 10 secs between waves gives me plenty of time to enter and abandon before the next wave hits. If the server has severe lag, you should extend the intervals.

Attacking with an Intel Hero increases the medal drop rate. If you are not taking losses with your current attacks, changing the hero armor from attack to wisdom may improve your drop rate.

Ballista counts needed change with the hero level and HBR/Archery research.
Read http://www.theevonywiki.com/index.php/NPC#Farming_NPC.27s_for_Resources for definitive information.

Drop rates: After recording more than a thousand hits, the drop rate appears to be precisely what your achievements buff says it is. This rate includes not only medals but scripts (mich/LAS), Hero Hunting, Speakers, Materials, etc. Drop rate is a total number ie while my total drop rate on npc5s was 4%, the drop rate for Honor Medals was ~1%.

Persistence counts. It may take you 100 hits to get one of the medals you need but the other medals/scripts/gems add up as well. Then you may hit two in 25 tries, but no promises. If you don't have the patience for this, evony will gladly take your money.

All medals may be found at higher lvl npcs than listed if the npc loyalty is low.

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Cross Medals
Level 1 valley.
Use hero min lvl 25 and >100 attack.
Use 50 archers or more to get minimum losses.

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Rose Medals
Level 2 valley.
Use hero min level 25 and >100 attack.
Use 100 archers or more to get minimum losses.
Level 1 NPC
Use 50 bals or more for zero losses.

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Lion Medals

Level 4 valley.
Use a hero min level 25-35 and >100 attack.
Use 400 archers or more to get minimum losses.

Level 2 NPC
Use 100 bals or more for zero losses.

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Honor Medals

Level 5 valley.
Use a hero min level 25-35 and >100 attack.
Use 800 archers or more to get minimum losses.

Level 3/4 NPC.
Use 250/350 bals or more for zero losses.

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Courage, Wisdom and Freedom Medals

Level 5 NPC.
Use a hero min level 35 and >100 attack.
Use 450 bals or more for zero losses.

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Justice and Nation Medals

Level 10 NPC
These medals cannot be easily attacked. Please see my post about medal farming a level 10 NPC for further information.

Troop Building: Maximize Amounts and Speed


This procedure maximizes the population available in the selected city for building troops as fast as possible in Age II. It does this by temporarily reducing your production to zero and thus freeing all of the city's population for troop building.


Step 1: Make Your Empire's Highest Attack Hero The City's Mayor

Notes: Your City's mayor at the time you set the build of troops determines how fast you can
build them. The difference of a few seconds per troop adds up to a large amount of time saved
over thousands of troops. To take maximum advantage of this, always move your highest
attack level hero into the city using a scout and Reinforce, then make them Mayor.
 

Step 2: Maximize The Population Available To Build Troops With 

Click on the Town Hall, the Overview screen pops up.
Click on the production tab and set production to 0
Click on the tax rate tab, then click on OK.
Your idle population should now equal your max population.

Notes: There should be almost NO idle population in any city. Idle population means you are NOT making the most of your city's assets. So if your resource fields need 20K population then ideally you only need a total of 20K population in the city. Justhave enough cottages to take care of the resource fields, the rest should be required buildings and barracks. Depending on your resource field's labor needs, you should be able to have 14 to 18 barracks per city once you've removed no longer required buildings.


Step 3: Build Your Troops


Step 4: Make Your City's Highest Politics Hero The City's Mayor


Notes: Your city's Mayor during the time you are NOT building troops determines how fast you can build other items such as walls, buildings, resource fields, etc. To take maximum advantage of this, always make your city's highest Political rated Hero the Mayor. Failing to reset your Mayor will leave your city building using the Pol ratings of the Hero you used to build your troops. This can be a very costly mistake.

Step 5: Restore Your City's Production And Population

Click on the Town Hall, the Overview screen pops up.
Click on the production tab and set production to 100
Click on the tax rate tab, then click on OK.
Your idle population should now reflect any population shortage in red and your population
trend should be UPWARD indicating you are building new laborers.
Click on comforting tab, use population raising to get population up quick

Note: You can use comforting/population raising every 15 minutes to restore your population (and production) more quickly. Failing to restore your city's production and population is an all too common error when doing fast troop building.