VIP & Ranks

*All information on this page is as of v4.25.2.*

Evony has two attributes that can provide you with a host of buffs and abilities: VIP and Rank.

## VIP (updated with v4.25.2)

Your VIP level is arguably the most difficult attribute to increase without spending money. Your VIP level is shown just under your avatar in the top-left corner of the screen. You increase your VIP level by acquiring VIP points, and you make your VIP level active by using VIP time. The possible ways of acquiring points, however, are fairly limited and, for higher VIP levels, provide you with such a relatively small amount of points that it makes it impractical to increase without spending money. If you are able to, though, increasing your VIP level can provide you with buffs and abilities that cannot be obtained in any other way.

### VIP Benefits (updated with v4.25.2)

As mentioned above, certain VIP levels will unlock buffs and abilities that you can't obtain otherwise, and some of these abilities can drastically change your gameplay. In total, there are ~~24~~ 25 different benefits (Rebuy Chances introduced with v4.25.2) that can be unlocked via the VIP level\*, and there are 25 VIP levels. Items in **bold/underline** are benefits that differ from the previous VIP level. If a cell is blank, that particular VIP level doesn't get that buff or ability.

*\*There are actually two additional benefits that can be unlocked via the VIP level: Free Levy All option when levying gold through the Keep; and Talent Settings II for your Monarch talents. Both of these benefits, however, can be permanently unlocked once your Keep reaches levels 11 and 25, respectively, so they are not treated as normal VIP benefits.*

### VIP Points

VIP points are needed to increase your VIP level. There are 5 ways to obtain VIP points:

1. Logging in daily (automatically given when logging in)
2. Get the 1700 Server Gift from the Wall
3. Buy from the Alliance Shop with Alliance Points
4. Win an auction for the VIP package
5. Purchases with real money

#### *Logging in Daily*

This is the easiest way to earn VIP points, since all you have to do is login. The amount of VIP points you'll earn is based on two things: number of consecutive days you've logged in and your current VIP level. You'll receive 10 VIP points per consecutive day you log in\*, up until the 50th day. You'll also earn 10 points per VIP level, excluding VIP Level 1. Thus, your total VIP points from a given login uses the formula *VIP Points = 10 x Consecutive Logins (Max of 50) + 10 x (VIP Level - 1)*. Examples:

1. For a login streak of 35 days for a VIP Level 11: *VIP Points = 10 x 35 + 10 x (11 - 1) = 350 + 100 = 450*
2. For a login streak of 70 days (which will be capped out at 50) for a VIP Level 8: *VIP Points = 10 x 50 + 10 x (8 - 1) = 500 + 70 = 570*

*\*A "day" begins when your server resets, which likely differs from your calendar day.*

#### *VIP Server Gift*

This is generally the second easiest way to earn VIP points, so long as the time isn't inconvenient for you (you're asleep, working, in class, etc.). At 1700 server time, the Server Gift on the Wall will be 100 VIP points. All you have to do is claim it before the Server Gift refresh at 1800 server time.

#### *Alliance Shop*

Unlike logging in daily and the Server Gift, which both only give you one opportunity a day to earn VIP points, the Alliance Shop sells 100 VIP points for 15,000 Alliance Points. It can be a grind to earn 15,000 Alliance Points for a paltry 100 VIP points, but purchasing the points through the Alliance Shop can allow you to achieve the next VIP level days quicker, if not weeks or months.

But what about tributes? Many players will typically purchase tributes in the Alliance Shop. When your VIP level is still fairly low, you will likely benefit more from the VIP points. This is because there are other ways of obtaining tributes which are not as restrictive as the alternatives for VIP Points. If your main purpose for the tributes is to increase your rank, there are also other ways of doing so. If rank is your main purpose, keep in mind rank is temporary in nature, while increases in VIP level are permanent. There is also no way to increase your VIP level other than obtaining VIP points, and there are very few opportunities elsewhere if you're trying to grind out additional points.

Thus, the VIP points may provide you with better value early on in the game. This is especially true if you haven't earned your VIP level 5 yet. At VIP level 5, you'll get an additional march slot when you activate your VIP status, and having an additional march slot can be a huge benefit. Once you've achieved VIP level 13, though, the amount of Alliance Points you'll need for the next VIP level will likely make the Alliance Shop an impractical way of increasing your VIP level, and you'd be better off purchasing tributes.

#### *VIP Package from Auction*

Evony periodically opens the Auction House, which will have auctions for VIP packages worth 25,000 VIP points. These are equivalent to the points from purchasing a $99.99 (USD) package. For players who don't spend money or spend very little money, this is the only reasonable way to earn your VIP level 14, 15, or even 16 within your first year.

Depending on the competing bidders, you could obtain these packages for a steep discount. The bids for these particular packages start at 55,000 gems, and some lucky players have even won them for the starting bid. For players that don't spend money or only spend a little money, this is the fastest way to earn VIP points, enabling a player to obtain a few hundred thousand VIP points within just two weeks. Depending on your luck, you could buy nearly a year's worth of VIP points (assuming you logged in every day and got the 1700 Server Gift) for 1 million gems. This method, however, can quickly drain your gems if you do not manage your bids.

#### *Purchases*

Like nearly everything in Evony, making purchases with real money is the fastest way to get VIP points, but it's also obviously the costliest. This is also the only feasible way of acquiring VIP levels 17 or above within your first year (possibly even VIP level 16 for many players). VIP level 17 requires a total of 3,858,100 VIP points. If you've achieved your VIP level 16, you'll need 1,929,000 more VIP points to get to level 17, which is equivalent to logging in and getting the Server Gift every day for over 7 years, or killing over 826,700 Griffins and using the Alliance Shop, or winning 78 auctions as the sole bidder. VIP level 16 would be about half of these amounts, and level 18 would be double.

Typically when you make a purchase, such as buying a package, you'll receive VIP points. At VIP level 16, you're receiving just under 1.3% of the VIP needed for level 17 with each $99.99 package you buy, so you'd need a little over $7,700 to buy enough points using just purchases. Although some packages and unlocks may not advertise the VIP points, you generally should still notice an increase in your VIP points after purchase. For example, for the Dawn of Civilization event, unlocking the Privileges Rewards with the $4.99 purchase will get you 1,000 VIP Points, and the $19.99 purchase will get you 5,000 VIP Points, even though these amounts are not stated anywhere. There are, however, a few purchases, such as the discounted Bounty Cave ($1.99), that do not provide VIP Points. Also note, Double Down Package Coupons do NOT double the VIP points you get.

The table below shows how many VIP points you'll receive from various purchases. All of the Purchase amounts shown are in U.S. dollars. This table is not all-inclusive, but covers the most common price points used by Evony. The Bounty Cave offers significantly fewer VIP Points (50% or less) than packages for the same dollar amount, so these VIP Point amounts are listed separately.

 $9.99
 $19.99
 $49.99
 $99.99

### VIP Time

VIP time is needed to activate your VIP level. Your VIP benefits are only active if your VIP status is active. There are only a handful of one-time packages that contain VIP time (e.g., Growth Package (Level 8) has 60 minutes, and Special Beginner Gift has 1 day). You are also automatically given 1 day of VIP time whenever you increase your VIP level. Aside from these one-time scenarios, you can obtain VIP time as an item, which can be 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 1 day, 7 days, or 30 days. The primary ways of getting these VIP items are

* Purchase in the Black Market (best method, with best value being 30 days)
	+ VIP 30 Minutes = 3,000 Lumber
	+ VIP 60 Minutes = 6,000 Lumber
	+ VIP 1 Day = 190 Gems
	+ VIP 1 Day [x4] = 650 Gems
	+ VIP 7 Days = 990 Gems
	+ VIP 30 Days = 3,000 Gems
* Purchase in the Store (quickest method, best value being 30 days)
	+ VIP 1 Day = 250 Gems
	+ VIP 7 Days = 1,500 Gems
	+ VIP 30 Days = 4,000 Gems
* Win through the Wheel of Fortune
* Get the 1900 Server Gift from the Wall (VIP 60 minutes)
* Purchase a pack with money
	+ Super Value Activity Package ($4.99) contains VIP 1 Day
	+ Packages for 200 Gems with Extra x Bonus (includes packages with Speedup, Gems, Gold, or Crafting Material bonuses) ($0.99) contain VIP 1 Day

VIP time stacks, so if you use two 60-minute items, you'll have a total of 2 hours of VIP status. If you don't have a lot of VIP time, you don't want to simply use all of the VIP time items as soon as you get them. Save them for when you'll be active. For instance, if you only have five 60-minute items and you're getting ready to log off for a while (e.g., going to sleep, going to work), don't use all of the 60-minute items unless your main goal is to take advantage of the buffed resource production or stamina recovery. These are the only buffs that are continuously effective. Wait until you log back on so that you can take advantage of your VIP benefits. Many players eventually get to a point where they'll acquire VIP time often enough to essentially never run out of time.

## Rank

Your Rank is another attribute that will provide you with a small number of buffs. Don't confuse Rank with "ranking", as ranking applies to multiple things. Your ranking is how you compare to others for a given topic (general, monarch power, fame, etc.). Although Rank uses your ranking as a factor, Rank is simply a title. Your Rank (and anyone's Rank) can be found on your Profile Card in the field that says "Rank:" (see Profile). The Offer portion of your Shrine also displays your rank at the top (your rank will be highlighted in red, and the rest will be highlighted gray). You can also see the list of Rank rankings for your server by selecting the ellipsis icon, selecting the Ranking option, then selecting the Rank Ranking option.

### Rank Factors

Your Rank depends on two factors: 1) your amount of prestige; and 2) your Rank ranking. Each rank has a prestige threshold that you must meet, shown in the table below. Meeting that threshold, however, only satisfies the first factor. Your Rank ranking has to be above a threshold as well. Your Rank ranking is based on how much prestige you have compared to everyone else in your server. For example, if you have 3.5 million prestige, you'd have more than enough prestige for any Rank. However, if 38 players have more prestige than you, your Rank ranking would be 39 and your ranking would only be good enough to make you a Duke. The exception is if you've reached a particular VIP level. At certain VIP levels, you'll be granted an honorary Rank, regardless of whether you meet the prestige or Rank ranking requirements.

Because of the Honorary titles, it's possible to have more players with a Rank than what the Rank ranking would indicate. For instance, the Rank ranking shows the top 3 rankings would be Regents. However, if you have a player with VIP level 19 but only 2 million prestige, that player will still be a Regent as an Honorary title because of their VIP level. Their Rank as a Regent, though, does not mean only two more people can be Regent. The top three players will still be Regent, provided they also have the required prestige. The VIP level 19 player, however, will still be part of the Rank ranking (i.e., their 2 million prestige will still be ranked, which could be taking a Rank spot from someone else).

### Rank Benefits

In total, there are 7 different benefits that can be unlocked via your Rank, and one of those benefits is only available through Rank (Subordinate Cities Capacity Increase). There are also technically 8 Ranks, although we're really only concerned with 7 of them. The first Rank (Civilian) typically isn't counted, since it's more used to denote someone who doesn't yet have a Rank. It also isn't listed in Evony's chart of Ranks, because it doesn't convey any benefits. For similar reasons, it is also omitted from the benefits table below.

### Rank Ranking

Your Rank ranking is based on how much prestige you've earned compared to everyone else on your server. Your prestige is a running balance, keeping track of how much you've earned since you started playing. Once a week, Evony refreshes the Rank ranking. After the refresh, you'll see if your ranking moved up, down, or stayed the same. You can see how much prestige you and everyone else have, so that you have an idea of how far behind (or ahead) you are compared to other players.

Because of the Rank ranking factor, your Rank ultimately becomes temporary in nature (unless you've earned an honorary title through your VIP level). You not only have to put in quite a bit of effort to earn the higher Ranks, but you also have to keep putting in effort to maintain those Ranks. The level of effort needed depends on the other players in your server, and how active they are with increasing their prestige. Fortunately, unlike high VIP levels, high Ranks are often possible, even if you don't spend much money. It may take you a lot of effort, but at least you can potentially become an Archduke or Regent without breaking open your wallet.

Conversely, the major disadvantage of the Rank ranking factor becomes painfully obvious if you ever undergo a server merge and you are part of the younger server. In these situations, you can easily see all of your efforts to obtain an Archduke or Regent Rank suddenly only be enough to get you a Duke or Earl Rank, simply because the merged server's players have been around longer and have millions more in prestige on average. If you are part of the older server, you probably wouldn't see a change in your Rank; you'll simply have many more players ranked below you.

### Prestige

As mentioned above, your Rank is based on how much prestige you've earned and your Rank ranking. Since your Rank ranking is also based on your amount of prestige, everything ultimately comes down to earning prestige. So how do you increase your prestige?

1. Offerings in the Shrine (quickest, but highest cost)
2. Killing monsters (most cost effective, but most effort)
3. Releasing Prisoners (least effective)

#### *Shrine Offerings*

Making offerings in the Shrine is typically the quickest way of obtaining prestige, particularly while the server is still fairly young. Each offering you make in the Shrine will gain you a certain amount of prestige. As you can see in the table below, the cost of an offering starts at 25 gems, and then increases until your 16th offering for the day, where it's capped at 1,500 gems.

You'll notice the 4th column mentions the Base Prestige Received. You can buff this amount in two ways:

1. Monarch Talent Offering (maxed out gives a 20% buff); and
2. having Arabia as your main culture (5% buff).

To see what your buffed prestige amounts would be, you can multiply the Base Prestige Received and the Cumulative Prestige columns by (1 + buff %) . Another benefit of offerings not noted above is that you earn Monarch EXP with each offering, which is generally another reason to make offerings. Although gems are the standard cost for making an offering, you can also use tributes. One tribute is always worth one offering, regardless if it's your first or your sixteenth offering for the day. As such, tributes provide you the most value when you've already made 15 offerings for the day, because they'll then be worth 1,500 in gems per offering.

##### Getting Tributes

The primary ways of getting tributes include

* Purchasing them in the Alliance Shop (Tribute = 10,000 Alliance Points)
* Purchasing them in the Black Market
	+ Tribute = 30,000 Stone
	+ Tribute [x2] = 60,000 Stone
	+ Tribute [x5] = 300 Gems
	+ Tribute [x10] = 500 Gems
* Winning them through the Wheel of Fortune
* Receiving them as a reward through the Relic Chamber (Tribute [x10])

The Wheel of Fortune is probably the worst source, since it is very infrequent. The Black Market provides the best value if you see them, but you won't see them as often as many of the other items (still much more frequently than through the Wheel of Fortune). The Relic Chamber and the Alliance Shop are the most common sources, since you can control how many you obtain these ways without having to spend a lot of coins or gems.

Although earning them as a reward through the Relic Chamber is based on chance, you can increase your odds by exploring more relics to get more slates and brick hammers. The tradeoff is that you'll have marches tied up with exploring relics, meaning fewer marches for other activities, such as killing monsters and gathering resources. It also means you cannot teleport, which can be crucial for participating in events like Arctic Barbarians Invasion. It is not uncommon for players with their relic research completed who do extensive relic exploring to earn upwards of 100 tributes in a week solely from the Relic Chamber. That said, tributes shouldn't be your primary reason for exploring relics heavily, since this can be a very inefficient use of time, and you sacrifice the potential benefits of killing monsters if all of your marches are buried in relics.

The Alliance Shop tends to be what many players regularly use for obtaining their tributes. Generally, the tributes provide the best value from the Alliance Shop, as many of the other worthwhile items can easily be obtained in other ways. The exception to this would be if you are in a position where you can purchase enough VIP points to upgrade your VIP level (VIP level increases are permanent, unlike Rank increases, and VIP points don't have easy alternative sources like tributes do).

##### Using Tributes

So you've managed to rack up a good amount of tributes. How should you use them? First, keep in mind each tribute is worth one offering, and each offering increases in gem costs until the sixteenth offering. For the best value, you typically shouldn't be using tributes as one of your first fifteen offerings for a given day. An exception to this would be if you simply don't have any gems left, and you need just a few offerings to complete an event's quest, such as God's Blessing from the King's Path event. In these situations, using the tributes may be worthwhile, even if they're for offerings worth 50 or 100 gems, simply because of the benefits you'd receive for completing the quest.

The second thing to consider is what your main reason is for making the offering. Is it for increasing your prestige to improve your Rank ranking, or some other reason? For instance, a VIP level 19 is already an honorary Regent, so there's no sense in worrying about rank Ranking. In this case, you'd use the tributes to achieve whatever your goal is, whether that's to increase your Monarch EXP, complete a quest, or to gain some of the buffs from offering. If, however, you're primarily using your tributes to increase your Rank ranking, you should consider how much prestige you need to get to the next Rank.

For example, let's say you have 150 tributes just before the Rank ranking reset, and the current rankings show that you need 100,000 points to move to the next Rank. Should you simply use all 150 tributes? No. You could use a few to gain some of the other offering buffs, but you're better off waiting until the next week. Why? In this case, assuming you have a 25% offering buff, 150 tributes is worth 93,750 points. Even including 4,788 points from the first fifteen gem offerings, you're only at 98,538, meaning you'd fall just shy of the 100,000 needed (and this doesn't include the next player's anticipated prestige increase). If you've made your offerings, the Rank rankings reset will refresh, and the board will now show you just slightly behind the next player (assuming they didn't have substantial prestige increases). That player can now see you're close to surpassing them, so it increases the likelihood that they will work even harder to increase their prestige amount more than they would have had you not offered all of your tributes. A player trailing by 1,500 is a larger threat to stealing their ranking spot than one trailing by 100,000.

If your offerings won't put you near a ranking threshold, you could use them all. Similarly, if you're near the bottom of a ranking threshold (i.e., at risk of losing your Rank), then you should also use them all to reduce your risk. However, if your offerings will place you just below a ranking threshold, you're better off waiting until you have enough tributes to put you over the threshold. Also, whether you make the bulk offering at the beginning or end of the refresh period doesn't matter, at least with respect to your Rank, since no one else can see your increased prestige amount until after the Rank ranking refresh. You do, however, want to consider any quests related to offerings (e.g., King's Path), and time your bulk offerings for when those quest are active. This would also include quests indirectly affected by your offerings, such as an in-city production quest. If you need the production buff from the offerings to complete these quests, you'll want to time your offerings to give you the buff when it helps with the in-city production quest.

#### *Killing Monsters for Prestige*

Killing monsters is the most cost effective method of gaining prestige if you (or someone in your alliance) are capable of killing at least mid-tier boss monsters (B9 and up), or you have a large alliance that can rally a lot of Vikings. It also requires the most effort, because it involves killing hundreds and hundreds of monsters. Monster killing will often be the biggest cause for changes in Rank ranking (aside from heavy spenders who offer hundreds of thousands of gems), especially past the early life of a server. You may notice that many of the top Rank ranking players are those who routinely kill lots of boss monsters (such as boss monster rally leaders), particularly the higher level ones.

All monsters will give you prestige when you kill them. Normal monsters (i.e., those you can't rally) give you low amounts of prestige, ranging from 5 for a Greedy Goblin to 65 for a Lv40 Scythian Knight. Since most normal monsters only cost 6 stamina, the most efficient kill is the Lv40 Scythian Knight, which comes out to 10.8 prestige per stamina. Assuming all Lv40 Scythian Knight kills, you'd have to kill 1,539 of them to earn just over 100,000 prestige, at a cost of 9,234 stamina.

Conversely, normal boss monsters (i.e., those around everyday, and not only during certain events) offer much more efficient returns on prestige, with a B1 (Zombie) giving 50 prestige, through a B17 (Typhon) giving 600 prestige. Event boss monsters differ from normal boss monsters, generally giving only 50 prestige, regardless of level. This is because event boss monsters are typically designed with a focus on a certain set of benefits, such as RSS, speedups, or gold. Although they may be excellent sources for these items, their benefits are primarily tailored to just these benefits. Nians and Pumpkin Monsters are an exception to this, but they each only appear during one event each year (Nians in spring, and Pumpkin Monsters in fall).

Unlike normal monsters, stamina costs increase for higher level boss monsters. The B7 (Yasha) is the first level that becomes more efficient than a Lv40 Scythian Knight, with 220 prestige costing you 20 stamina (11 prestige per stamina). All normal boss monsters B7 and up are more efficient than a Lv40 Scythian Knight, but the B8 (Peryton), B9 (Minotaur), and B10 (Griffin) are the most efficient, giving 260, 300, and 350 prestige for 20 stamina (or 13, 15, and 17.5 prestige per stamina), respectively. The B15 (Phoenix), ranked 4th in prestige/stamina efficiency, gives 500 prestige for 40 stamina (12.5 prestige per stamina), but it is significantly more difficult to kill than a B8, B9, or B10, and they appear much less frequently.

As mentioned above, you'd have to kill 1,539 Lv40 Scythian Knights for just over 100,000 prestige. If you focus on B9 and B10 boss monsters, though, you'd only have to kill 334 and 286, respectively, for over 100,000 prestige. Plus, the other rewards (items, EXP, etc.) are better for the B9 and B10. Although killing monsters is fairly easy if you're strong enough, finding the monsters is time consuming, because you normally can't easily find dozens of B9s and B10s grouped together on the map. This is part of why killing monsters for prestige requires the most effort.

Vikings can also be a good source of prestige, but not because of efficient returns. Vikings will only be as efficient as killing a B4 (Skeleton Dragon) to B6 (Manticore) or a Lv29 to Lv34 normal monster, depending on the level and difficulty of the Viking. The Vikings' benefit comes from volume and proximity. You can kill 50 Vikings fairly easily (provided you're strong enough), and they'll all summon fairly close to you (unless another alliance decides to play a prank or troll you/your alliance and summon hundreds of Fenrirs or Garudas near you). Plus, you can participate in all of the Viking rallies being run by your alliance for even more prestige. With an active alliance, you could easily earn a few thousand, if not tens of thousands, in prestige from just Vikings. The main benefits of Vikings are gold and materials, but the prestige is a decent additional benefit.

#### *Releasing Prisoners*

If you participate in PvP, you may eventually capture prisoners. If you have prisoners, you can release 1,000 of them for 50 prestige. There's a cooldown period between releases, so you can't simply release 10,000 prisoners all at once for 500 prestige. You can reset the cooldown timer with gems, but the benefit's really not worth the cost. Over the course of a week, you could gain a few hundred or few thousand extra prestige, but these increases would typically only be a small fraction of your increases from Shrine offerings and killing monsters.