Friday, October 23, 2009

Evony holy water to get powerfull heros from inn

In evony online game, you can hire heroes from the inn. It is always the best to recruit heroes who are at lower levels but have a very high attribute. This is because more higher level a hero gets , more difficult it becomes to level him up as the the experience points needed to level up increases with level in this game. So if you have a hero with level 40 and attack 80 and another with level 1 with attack 68 then it's always better to recruit the second one , because when he reaches level 40 he will have attack 108. This is where Holy water cones in very handy.



Holy water is an item that , can free up some attribute point of an hero so that you can reassign those points to a specific attribute in evony online game. When u apply holy water it is consumed according to the level of the hero. 1 holy water is consumed each 10 level of the hero. A level 1-9 hero will consume 1 holy water, 10-19 hero will consume 2 holy water, 20-29 will consume 3 holy water etc. Now , let me explain how holy water works

Example 1
Hero name : dunn



Level
politics
Attack
Intell

Before applying holy water
2

35

69
35
Now , when we apply holy water on him , it consumes 1 holy water as he is level 2 and frees up 2 attribute point(1 holy water for each 10level). Now you can , reassign these 2 free points to his attack.
After redistribution of free points
2

34
71
34

So the hero becomes 77 attack hero at level 9

Example 2


Level
politics
Attack
Intell

Before applying holy water
9
42
69
32
After applying holy water it frees up 9 attribute points and consumes 1 holy water as he is a level 9 hero(1 holy water for each 10level)
After redistribution of free points
9
39
77
28
So the hero becomes 77 attack hero at level 9

Example 3


Level
politics
Attack
Intell

Before applying holy water
10

40
60
22
After applying holy water it frees up 10 attribute points and consumes 2 holy water as he is a level 10 hero(1 holy water for each 10level)
After redistribution of free points
10
36
68

20
So the hero becomes 68 attack hero at level 10


This way holy water can be used to make a hero more powerful in evony game.


Friday, October 9, 2009

The most effective way to find honor medals in newer evony servers

In Evony online game, finding honor medals is the most difficult task. I found it even more difficult than finding rose medals. Initially it took me about 3-4 days to get each single honor medals. Later I found that, wit proper procedure and some good hard work i can get 3/4 honor medals each day. I saw posts about different theories like Intel heroes getting more honor medals, you must attack fully regenerated npc's in to get honor medals, spam attacking high level valleys, low number of ballistas and what not. I tried all those metods and blown up more than 200k troops in spam attacking valleys, but  got just 1 honor medal from a level 10 forest out of 70+ attacks. It is not quit worth it compared to the amount of troop loss I had by spam attacking high level valleys. After trying many methods I found a simple method which really dropped honor medals for me , about 3/4 honor medals a day. The method I used is simply attacking level 1,2,3,4 npc's all day hundreds of time each day with all the heroes.

The method
1) Create at least 9 npc's of 1,2,3,4 level , very near to your city so that you can hit them within 30 mins. That means the "one way trip " time should be less or equal to 30 mins. Caution : once you get all the honor medals the 1,2,3 level npc's will no longer be required for regular farming. so, I would suggest to take a temporary city just for farming honor medals , create low level npc's around it and drop it later when you get all your honor medals. Or you may give it to other alliance member so that he can farm honor medals from it.
2) Now, send 9 waves of ballistas to hit them.
3) You can use any type of heroes as I had found the type of hero does not really mater. I had found most of the honor medals with attack heroes.
4)You should use any no of ballistas to hit them without loss. Now , as the one way travel time is 30 mins or less , all the 9 waves will come back home within an hour.
5) When all troops come back, again send another 9 waves. So , you are sending 9 waves every hour from each city. If you are doing this from 2 cities , that makes 18 attacks every hour, the more cities u use more better it is. You don't have to hit a fully regenerated npc in order to get medals. 
Here are some screen shots of honor medals I got from half filled npc's








 





Set a target of hitting the npc's hundred or more times a day , you will surely get 2-3 honor medals each day. You will also get plenty of wisdom and courage medals from level 4 npc's as the drop rate of these medals are much higher than honor medals. So , by the time you get 15 honor medals you will have enough to all types of medals to jump to duke.










Some more screenshots to show number of ballistas really does not matter.



 From level 4 with 500 ballistas


From level 3 with 400 ballistas( I can do level 3 with 100 ballis , but just too lazy to change the numbers, copy paste for all attacks)



 From level 3 with 200 ballistas





From level 10 forest attacking with 16 k warrior and 15k archers.





Thursday, October 8, 2009

The most effecttive way to find rose medals in evony

In Evony online game, finding rose medals in the newer servers is one of the most difficult and time consuming task. Rose medals are supposed to drop from the low level valleys when you attack and conquer then. In the newer servers the drop rate of rose medals are reduced very much. The drop rate of rose medals are assumed to be 1%, yes that means you have to attack and conquer a valley up to 100 times to expect one rose medal drop. Evony game developers use this as successful busyness model, so that people get frustrated and go for buying medal boxes from them. While many people do not like this policy, this is not quite unusual that as a company they need to make profit and earn money from the game. But if you do not want to spend money and earn medals by yourself then you have take the method of spam attacking valleys.
The "spam attacking" valley is simply attacking a 1,2,3 level valley multiple times , conquer it then abandon it and again conquer it withing very short time. This way it increases the chance of getting rose medals as the number of attacks increases. Most people the chance of getting medals depends on intelligence of hero and type of valley. But, according to evony game forum moderator and my own experience, I found it is not true. I got all the medals from different types of heroes , lakes , grassland and forest( never tried hills). The only thing that really matters is the number of attacks, the more number of attacks you make the more chances that you get a medal drop. i have seen many people saying "oh, I have attacked it so many times and did not get any medal?". But when I asked they said they made only 10-20 attacks. Now, if getting rose medals would be so easy then I never would have been writing this post.

The process
1. Upgrade your Feasting Hall and Rally Points to level 9 and recruit 9 heroes.
2. Find a level 1,2,3 valley closest to your city. The valley should be within 5 miles from your city to minimize the travel time. [valleys are upgraded by 1 level in each server maintainace (like level 1 goes up to level 2 and level 10 goes to level 1) , so you may have to wait for some days until your closest valley reaches the desired level.]
3. Recruit 9 heroes.
4. Remove the mayor so that you can attack with all your heroes.
5. Make 1 valley slot empty in the city from which you are going to launch the attacks, so that you can conquer the valley successfully.
6. Now , go to map mode and click the valley and select attack. assign 120 - 400 archers depending upon your tech levels. You should select the numbers large enough such that none of your archers get killed in the attack. You have to make hundreds of attack so you should not have losses while attacking. Now select a hero and send the attack. Don't close the window wait for 30 secs. and select another hero and set another attack. Go on doing this until 9 waves of attacks are completed.
5. Now, watch the valley in map mode. Whenever an attack strikes and the valley is conquered a little yellow flag will appear on the valley. Quickly click on the valley , select enter then abandon. This way with every attack you are conquering the valley and abandoning it. If you abandon the valley it will regenerate to its full health instantly.
6. When all the attack launches successfully wait until all the troops return and start the process all over again.

When you launch the last attack of the day do not abandon it. Otherwise , it make be taken by some other player or will be upgraded to next level on server maintenance.

By doing this , if the troops One way Travel time is 3 mins , then it will take 6 minutes to launch 9 attacks and then come back to your city. So in one hour you will be able to complete 90 attacks and hopefully get 1 rose medal every hour.
According to the above calculations you still have to put 15-20 hours of time to get 15 rose medals and reach baron.



How I conquered a level 10 npc in Evony

In evony online game, conquering a npc10 is considered to be one of the most difficult tasks. To conquer a level 10 npc you need to have a very good high attack hero, at least 200k archer and 50k warriors and of course a city slot open(as you are going to conquer it).
The big advantage of conquering a level 10 NPC is that all the buildings of a the npc is at level 10 so , that will save a lot of mich scripts for you.
1. It has level 10 walls for more defence,
2. Level 10 Rally spot so you can send 100000 troops at a time,
3. Level 10 Relief Station so you can send reinforcements more quickly
5. level 10 academy so you can complete all your level 10 researches(except stockpile as it does not have any warehouse).
6. level 10 townhall and 30 level 10 farms , so you can produce more than 1m food every hour with a good politics hero and 10 level 10 lakes.


Disadvantages of Level 10
1. It is hard to conquer so you have to kill about 20-50 k archers to conquer it.
2. It has only 1 level 10 barrack inside , 1 every other types of buildings and rest 20 level 10 cottage, so you have to demolish them first then replace them with barracks , which takes a considerable amount of time.



Why conquering a level 10 is so tough
1. It has a lot of defense. 400k warriors and 3666 AT's , 11k traps , 2.2k rollinglogs , 5k abatis, level 10 walls and all techs maxed to level 10.
2. It continously regenarate it's troops and and gains 3 loyalty every 6 minutes. So , you have to send many waves of attacks very quickly to get it to 0.




Recommended things that you should have to conquer a level 10 barb city with minimum loss
1. 250-300k archers and 150k warriars, 1k of all other types of units upto cataphracts for rainbow.
2. a good attack hero for the first sphearhead attack with at least 140 attack.
3. A level 10 Rally Spot (a level 9 can do the job but you will have about 10-30k more archer loss).
4. Archery level 10 , Millitary tradition , Iron Working and medicine above 7.
5. Use buffs like corselet and horns .


For the purpose of writing this article I have used no buffs and a level 9 rally point to demonstrate that it can be done without using them.
What I have used in conquering the level 10
1. 250-300k archers and 50k warriars, 1k of all other types of units upto cataphracts for rainbow.
2. Attack hero with 223 attack.( He is too powerfull and not everyone have a hero like that but 150 attack will be ok.).
3. A level 9 Rally Spot (a level 9 can do the job but you will have about 10-30k more archer loss).
4. Every other tech at level 10.
5. Not used any buffs.






The method
1. Each time you scout a level 10 the defending hero of it changes. So, continuesly scout the level 10 until the defending hero is of level 10 or less. This is very much essential to minimize troop loss.
2. To defeat the level 10 you need to make the first attack (sphearhead) with maximum number  of archers 90k -100 k archers along with 1 unit of worker, warrior, scout, swordsman and pike for rainbow . This sphearhead will take out all the defences and forticication of the barb city . Also you will have the maximum amount of troop loss in this attack(5k - 40k archers , depnding on the factors stated in the recomendation). Now, once the sphear head takes out the defences, you will have to go on sending 20k archers with rainbow of 1 of all other units(never forget the rainbow) until the loyalty decreases to 0.
Note: If your hero is less that 170 attack then send an 90k warrior waves 1 minute ahead of the archer wave. This will minimize the archer loss to a great extent.

If you are in a good alliance , then you can ask some other stronger member to do the sphearhed for you and do the loyalty waves yourself. This way  , you can save a lot of troops and conquer it even if you don't have the recomemded things.




3. Remove your mayor so that you can send 9 waves and send smaller loyalty decreasing waves continously until it goes down to 0. Resend them when they comes back. Heal the wounded troops. You should have at least 2m gold to heal all the troops.
4. It is a must, that you have the attacking city and the barb city withing 2miles of each other( 1 mile distance is the best). So, first create a level 10 barb city at the adjuscent flat of your attacking city. If you don't have a flat vacant then find a spot with 2 adjuscent blank flats, wait until one of them grows to level 10, Conquer that flat , build city and abondon it make a level 10 barb there. Then create the attacking city in the next flat. The attacking city must have a level 6 academy , level 9 feasting hall and Rally Point.




Below are the reports of how I conquered a level 10 barb town using level 9 rally point and without using any buffs(special defensive items like Horn and corslate)




In the first attack I sent my best attack hero wolverine(223 attack,level163) with 89k archers along with 10 other units util cataphracts for rainbow and I had 22k archer loss. With less attack hero 150 you should expevt more losses ranging from 40-25k. Then i went on sending waves of 25k archers with rainbow( you can do it with 20k archers wave if you don't have that many archers). I had to send about 36 wanves and the whole operation took 18 minutes of time with about 40 k archer loss.Click on the pictures to have larger views. Please write your comments if you think i have missed some point.

























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