A Poem for the whiners

For weeks you’ve lived free from our scorn
But now our supply line has been torn
The barbs we raided kept us all well fed
And no one mourned their fallen dead
But rumors stirred within your ranks
Our food now gone is this our thanks?
You’ve petitioned the gods to stop our raids
And for all your whining you’ll soon get paid
Our Armies need the food we’ve lost
The gold we make wont cover costs
So since the barbs now produce too few
Our attention is turning straight to you
So build more farms for corn and grain
If your gates are shut it will ease the pain
We’ll crush your towers with little trouble
We’ll turn your defenses into a pile of rubble
We’ll take your food your wood your stone
And drag it out over your armies Bones
We’ll hang your Hero from the broken gate
The game gods now decide your fate
They chose to listen to all your cries
And took away our food supplies
So now your it!, you should be proud
They heard your voices clear and loud
So drink some coffee and stay up late
We’ll soon be at your city gates
__________________
LoRd PaReThIuS

One of the more effective methods of building your empire up in Gold, Resources and Hero experience is Ballista Spamming. Technically its not spamming due to the travel time to your targets. But, I consider it spamming due to the extreme effectiveness if used correctly and with a little planning.

NOTE:
This is an ongoing post. I will update it as I learn more myself about the method and fine tune it more. Your technoliges can also change these numbers so its better to err on the upside when using the ballistas on any level for the first time.

Whats Required:
Ballistas and Transports. (transports are optional but it would be crazy to not carry back all that loot.)

The Method:
Can’t much easier. Send Ballistas and Transports with a decent attack hero at a NPC city.

Npc Ballista Spam

These Numbers are from my experience using a attack hero with over 100 attack and may be adjusted more to the downside or upside as more of my alliance members report in on smaller sizes being successful. I will fill in lvl 9 and 10 when i get enough Ballistas. Hero Level is very important, if you hero has low attack adjust these number up about 50%

• Lvl 1 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 30 Ballista
• Lvl 2 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 50 Ballista
• Lvl 3 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 150 Ballista
• Lvl 4 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 300 Ballista
• Lvl 5 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 600 Ballista
• Lvl 6 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 900 Ballista
• Lvl 7 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 2500 Ballista
• Lvl 8 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx 3500 Ballista
• Lvl 9 NPC BARB CITY  - Requires approx 9600 Ballista (My attack hero was 156 attack)
• Lvl 10 NPC BARB CITY – Requires approx

Pre planning a long term Ballista siege of multiple NPC citiesIf you plan your strategy out effectively in advance you can have multiple npc very close and easy to spam.

• Plan your capture of and abandon some lvl 7, 8, 9, or lvl 10 Player cities very close to you.

Player cities converted to NPC Barbarian cities

• until you have a large ballista army you can continuously hit lvl 1, 2, 3 NPC for small rewards. those are easy to capture from other players and can be abandoned right away as they have no value to you anyway.
• Seeing you are on a long term siege of these cities, why not use the flow of experience the hits will generate to level up your mayors faster. Once you know your ballistas can beat the NPC no problem (any easy way to tell is by how many rounds it takes to wipe them out. If its under 40 you should be o.k. sending in a low attack mayor.) attach a mayor to them for tonnes of experience and lots of levels you can then apply to intelligence and politics.
• Don’t forget to level up your attack heroes while sieging NPC cities, and when you go after a new level of NPC city, use them not your mayor until your low in rounds reuired to beat that npc with your attack warrior. Myself I like to use my attack hero to hit the higher level NPC, and the level below that I send my mayor while waiting for the higher level to regnerate new resources.

Evony has patched the servers again without warning its players. This classes act has been performed numerous times. First they changed the regeneration rate of npcs so we couldn’t get enough food to feed our armies, now they’ve made it so no matter what you hit a npc with you take loses of super expensive time consuming ballistas. Overwhelmning force means nothing.

It appears lvl 1 – 5 npc are still safe but 6-10 are not worth the effort.

LVL 3 NPC, 1400 BALLS, 30 Rounds, 118 Attack Hero, 0 loses
LVL 6 NPC, 5094 BALLS, 30 Rounds, 102 Attack Hero, 90 BALLS lost
LvL 8 NPC, 26375 BALLS, 26 Rounds, 140 Attack Hero, 1707 BALLS lost

I pity my neighbours as they are now my main source of food. Time to make dozens more quit Evony.

These classless bastards have no clue how to keep the servers up and running, keep opening new servers, changing game mechanincs without notice costing hundreds of players days and sometimes weeks of work. If you have never played Evoy, Don’t start. If you have and have paid to play, file a chargeback with your credit card or paypal as these are not the terms you signed up to and you were never given prior notice of any changes, you weren’t even given notice after the change these cat eatin bastards are so fucking clueless.
 
***OLD INFO NO LONGER ACCURATE FOR LVL 6-10 NPC***
The new patch is in effect on Evony servers. Medals are now attainable at a very regular rate.

From my alliances experiences so far with the new system we have come to these conclusions,

• Lower level medals can be found in all levels of valley, flats, npc city and PVP battles.
• Higher level medals can be obtained in high level valleys, flats, and npc cities and large PVP battles.
• The drop seems to be very random. Its hard to target one medal type specifcally.
• So far the rate seems to be 1 in 5 hits on avg produce a medal which is inline with the developers claim of a 20% drop rate.
• Loses (both defender and attacker), hero level, army size, and all those other silly variables peole are coming up with in the Evony forums doesnt matter when attacking valleys and npc cities(its a random drop per level of target), but it may matter when attacking PVP.

CONFIRMED MEDAL LOCATIONS:

NPC Barbarian Cities produce the following,

• npc lvl 1 – Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 2 - Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 3 – Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 4 – Courage, Lion, and Honor Medals.
• npc lvl 5 – Courage, Honor, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 6 – Courage, Honor, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 7 – Courage, Wisdom, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 8 – Courage, Wisdom, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 9 – Courage, Wisdom, Freedom Medals.
• npc lvl 10 -

Flats and Valleys produce the following,

• Lvl 1-3 flat and valley – Lion, Cross and Rose Medals
• Lvl 4-6 flat and valley – Lion, Cross and Rose Medals
• Lvl 7-9 flat and valley – Lion, Honor,
• Lvl 10 flat and valley – Courage, Lion, Honor

As we continue to build our medal stash I will add any knowledge we gain to this post. For now, get out there and get your medals before they screw it up again which i have faith at some point they will.

Ranks in Civony Evony and how many towns they allow.

Lieutenant - 1 town
Knight       – 2 towns
Baronet     – 3 towns
Baron        – 4 towns
Viscount    – 5 towns
Earl           – 6 towns
Marquis      – 7 towns
Duke          - 8 towns
Furstin       – 9 towns
Prinzessin   - 10 towns

Since the latest patch was applied obtaining medals has become next to impossible. Through reading and experimenting this is what has worked for me so far.

You need to capture the valley and not just beat the defenders.

Civony medal post patch

This was a level 6 valley and about the 10th valley I hit and got the medal.

I hit hundreds without conquering the valley and recieved none.

Hopefuly this method will be proved to be solid in the coming days. I will keep the post updated as i learn more and my alliance finds more medals.

Another medal ontained in less than 10 more hits

Civony medal after the big patch

This was a level 9 valley

Conquering a city/castle in Civony can be a tedious time consuming task. But there are many benefits to conquering one.

1. You can move into a semi developed city and save development time.
2. You can get some quick troops.(see my method below for explanation)
3. You can capture alot of resources
4. You can dismantle it and ship the resources back to your main city.
5. You can abandon it and convert it into a npc city.(#4 goes hand in hand with this)

Conquering of city itself can be done with many different methods. Below is a method i have been using on my latest captures which can be found in the Vampire Alliance Hall of Fame.

WHAT YOU NEED 

1. 2 or more Attack based heroes.
2. 2 or more groups of pikemen.
3. 1 Mixed army (the pikemen can be added here after)

THE BATTLE PROCESS 

To capture the city you will need to get the loyalty of they city down to 0. To do this I use this method as it provides the most reward to me.

Step 1:
Send in your main attack group to wipe out enemy fortifications and troops(if the gates are open). If the gates are closed you will have to fight the army later so make sure you know the size through use of scouting.

Notes: Now that you have all the fortifcations destroyed you need to get the loyalty down to 5 to have your opponets hero come out and battle you. To do this you will need to pikeman spam him. The pikemen can be replaced with scouts if he has no abatis left.

Step 2:
Using both your heros send in 2 waves of pikemen to attack the city over and over until loyalty hits 15. Once it hits 15 the rate slows and grievance comes into play. You can use the camp feature to add 5 mins to one of the armies to keep them well spaced. Try to land a hit every 5 mins to keep the grievance high and the loyalty dropping until it hits 6 loyallty.

NOTES: Now that you are at 6 loyallty you will want to send in armies again.

Step 3.
Create at least 1 army that you know will beat his army and hero. Send them in to attack. When the lotalty drops to 5 the opponets hero will come out to play. You will kick his butt, his armies butt and now have a city with no defenses almost ready to be capped.

NOTES: You can now return to step #2 and bring the loyalty down to zero. It will take some time so be patient. I estimate its 30 mins but can be faster or slower from experience. From my understanding your hits aren’t lowering the loyalty, the grievance is, and it does 1 tick of loyalty every 5 mins if you keep up on attacking.

And thats it, when it hits zero you will geta pop up asking you to rename the city and its yours.

YOUR NEW CITY AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

As soon as you have your new city you will want to do some things to ensure its back up at maxium loyalty and production ASAP. These are a few things i do immidatley after capturing a city. There should be lots of resources in the city to do the folowing as using my method you do not plunder anything but leave it in there for your own use later.

• The very first thing to is to CURE as many of your opponents dead army for your own use. Go into the RALLY POINT and CURE the troops, depending on city size this may be alot of troops. If you do not have enough cash, no problem, send it in from one of your other cities or sell some resources from you new citys cache.
• Go into FEASTING HALL and appoint a MAYOR. There may be a captive or two in there also.
• Visit the TOWN HALL, perfrom either a Disater Relief or Prayer COMFORTING. And lower the taxes to 5% . Also adjust production downward on your industries to accounf for population shortfalls until your loyallty gets back up.

Your new semi pre built civony city should be ready to be a great city in just hours. Mine are usually producing goods and armies and research with 80-90% loyalty in under 12 hours of capture.

Cheers and feel free to leave comments or corrections or suggestions to better this method.

Cybrspin