Beginners

## Pages of Information to Help the New Player Learn

* Buying Packs
* City Building
* Cultures
* Daily Tasks
* Features/Settings
* Profile
* Troops
* Truce Agreements
* VIP & Ranks
* World Boss

If you have a friend who invited you to play , ask for their Friends code, then go to settings - Invite friends - and enter the code. you get gifts and so do they as you grow. It has to be entered before Keep Lv 5, though.

## Quick Overview of Evony

Evony: The King's Return is an MMORTS based on medieval themes. You gather resources and earn items to build up your empire, train troops, and acquire and train dragons and spiritual beasts. The game primarily involves developing your empire, battling monsters, and engaging in battles with other players in Player-vs-Player battles (PvP).

The game has many different servers, and each server has many different players from all over the world. You can either play on your own, or you can play as part of an alliance. If you are part of a new server, after a few months your server will eventually participate in a biweekly Server-vs-Server War (SvS).

Although the game is marketed as a free-to-play game, be aware that paying players have huge advantages (much faster development, significantly more resources, better stats, etc.). You can join an alliance and receive aid from other players, but the majority of servers, if not all, have a few heavy spenders who are usually the dominant players on the server.

If you downloaded the game because of the ads depicting all sorts of puzzles that you can solve, be aware that the ads' puzzles are not like the puzzles in the game. The game does have puzzles, but they are much simpler and much less impressive than what the ads depict. As of version 4.17.0, you will not eventually see the ad-type puzzles if you keep playing (unless the Evony developers implement them through an update).

## Common Lingo to Know

These terms are commonly used on the various servers throughout Evony. Even new servers will often have veteran players who created new accounts, and you will often see these terms in a chat, in-game message, or a website or forum discussing Evony gameplay.

AC
Depending on context, it either refers to the Alliance Chat, or the Alliance City.
Alt
A player's alternate account
Archer
A ranged troop
B#
Represents the level of a boss monster. B1 refers to a "Level 1" boss monster, B2 to a "Level 2" boss monster, and so forth.
BoC
Battle of Constantinople (some players also use it to refer to Battle of Chalons)
BoG
Battle of Gaugamela
Bubble
An active Truce Agreement (refers to the bubble that surrounds your main city)
Bubble or Burn
A common server rule that warns players to ensure they maintain an active Truce Agreement. If the player is seen without an active Truce Agreement, an enemy player is free to attack (causes victim's main city to appear on fire if they cannot successfully defend the attack).
Buff
An item, event, action, etc., that improves an attribute (i.e., increase a good attribute or decrease a bad attribute).
Burn
Successfully attack another player's main city, so that it appears on fire after the attack.
Cav
A mounted troop
Debuff
An item, event, action, etc., that worsens an attribute (i.e., decrease a good attribute or increase a bad attribute).
Ghost
A strategy in which a player puts their troops in an Alliance War, either against another player or a boss monster, so that those troops cannot be attacked.
Hive
The Alliance Territory (area within the boundary lines when an alliance has erected an Alliance Banner or built an Alliance City)
Horse
A mounted troop
K#
Represents the level of a player's Keep. K1 refers to a "Level 1" Keep, K2 to a "Level 2" Keep, and so forth.
KoS
Kill on Sight. A designation typically reserved for players who have egregious violations against server rules or server decorum.
Machine
A siege machine
NAP
No Attack Policy, Non-Aggression Pact (or similar term). An agreement to not attack certain players (i.e., players are considered safe, even without using a Truce Agreement). A NAP can be done at the server level for the entire server or for specific players, or a NAP can exist between alliances or players.
Port
Teleport
Purge
A period shortly before a Server War begins in which players of a server attack exposed troops (troops at a resource tile, relic, camped, etc.) and exposed Keeps (i.e., no active Truce Agreement) in order to minimize an opposing server's opportunities to earn easy points during the Server War.
PvE
Player-vs-Environment (i.e., Player versus non-Players)
PvP
Player-vs-Player
Rein
Depending on context, shorthand either requesting reinforcements or informing others of a reinforced Keep.
RSS
An abbreviation referring collectively to food, lumber, stone, and ore (short for "resources," but note Evony's use of the term "resources" can include gems as well, whereas RSS does not include gems)
Snipe
Kill a monster before another player who was targeting the same monster.
SvS
Server-vs-Server
T#
Represents the tier of a troop. T1 refers to a "Tier 1" troop, T2 to a "Tier 2" troop, and so forth.
Tile
A spot on the Evony map (the map is put together like a tiled floor, with each tile representing a coordinate on the map)
Tile Hit
An attack against a player on a resource spot (Farm, Sawmill, Quarry, Mine, Gems Mine, or an event-specific resource spot, such as a pumpkin patch) on the map, or a relic. Many servers have a rule against tile hitting, since rampant tile hitting severely limits growth.
WC
World Chat
Zero
Eliminate all of a player's troops (i.e., number of remaining troops a player has is 0, and they must heal, revive, etc,)

## Goblins

Goblins are regular monsters that just give gold and a little exp and honor and points. Gobins are the main way to get additional gold you need for research , cultivation, getting Generals from Tavern, Adding starts and upgrades to equipment generals and other things. You go through a lot of gold in the game. so hit them when you ca.

Hitting Goblins costs 20 stamina points. For a level 1 Goblin you will recieve 100k gold box (unless you get doubles) A level 4 Goblin gives you 2 - 100k gold boxes (unless you get doubles)

There is a level 7 Goblin who gives 3 - 100k Gold Boxes (unless you get doubles) but he only shows up during the events usually.

The power of the marches are an average some can use less some need more, it depends on your gear and you research mainly. But it is a good starting point to try to kill them.

   This is the Level 1 you can kill him with around a 200k power March.

   This is a level 4 Goblin that you can kill with around a 400k power March

## **Farming**

Farming , gathering, whatever you choose to call it is a way to get resources. How long it takes depends on the size of tile, your research, and the boosts you use as well as if you are in an alliance buff zone or not.

Now what to use to farm? You can use your normal troops, but it ties them up so you can't rally, and if they are tile hit you have a big hospital bill and no farmers to get more resources. So here is my take on best choices. Siege has the highest load capacity true, but if hit they require gems to repair or you have to rebuild them all to get farming again, so I suggest building level 1 ground soldiers. They are cheap to build, cheap to keep, and cheap to heal if you are tile hit, and you can get them out there gathering again. Might not have all of them depending on your hospital capacity, but at least you have some to bring home the bacon so to speak.

## Alliances:

Alliances are like clans. There are many benefits to joining an Alliance. These are just the basics. To find out more, please visit the Alliances page.

#### Benefits:

* Faster growth
* Alliance gifts
* Alliance Science buffs
* Alliance points
* Alliance Shop
* Alliance Buff Zone
* Alliance Resource Tile
* Alliance Warehouse
* Alliance Chat (a group of friendly people to talk to, get to know, ask for help , and basically have your back).

As soon as you join an Alliance for the first time you get gems. You also meet new people and can ask questions and learn new things in game. Nearly every time they kill a boss, you get a package in your inventory, You can join rallies to kill bosses you otherwise would not be able to hit on your own (if you have a War Hall). Alliance members can help each other with resources (Embassy required) and reinforce if you are attacked or one of your Subordinate Cities is attacked.