This allows them thier whole population to be idle. This is very important when making large amounts of troops. Every troop needs a certain amount of idle population. See chart below Say you have idle population. You have all the resources to build 15 thousand workers, but you can only build at once because each worker takes 1 population, and you only have idle. This is not affected by the amount of barracks to which you split the production to.
After building those 10k workers, you can redo the whole process, and have another 10k workers total in queue. By bringing production down to 0 for a few seconds, you have full idle population, which allows you to build many more troops at once than with full production.
Workers: 1 per 1 idle population Warrior: 1 per 1 idle population Scout: 1 per 1 idle population Pikeman: 1 per 1 idle population Archer: 1 per 2 idle population Cavalry: 1 per 3 idle population Cataphract: 1 per 6 idle population Transporter: 1 per 4 idle population Balista: 1 per 5 idle population Battering Ram: 1 per 10 idle population Catapult: 1 per 8 idle population Taxing: Many people have questions on tax rate.
First of all, when you get start to heavily barb farm, the gold from tax income becomes irrelevent. Instead of the usual 20 percent tax rate and 80 loyalty, you can get 0 percent tax rate and loyalty.
That might just be the difference in you getting on and saving your city by constantly doing praying or disaster relief. However, in the earlier stages of the game, this is different. Also, if you arent planning on building an army any time soon, you can find out just how much of a fraction your idle population is of your total population, and then make the tax rate according to that, to eliminate people sitting around doing nothing see below Max population , idle population So that means that i only need 60 loyalty to get the labor force for my resource fields.
Thus, you maximize your gold production. Of course, you need to be careful when you upgrade resource fields. If you go into negative idle population, you can decrease your tax rate by 1, sometimes more, depending on the level of the upgrade, and the level of your cottages. The post below offers a different view on taxing:.
Originally Posted by Showsni. For example: Assume A Max. Accusations of shady business practices, legal bullying, and physical intimidation surround the game; some of these claims are easy enough to parse, while others are practically impossible to figure out because the real story has become so convoluted that it's a Gordian Knot of facts. Even if you've never played Evony , odds are that you've been startled by at least one ad for the game while you surfed the Web.
The ads are particularly notorious because they've grown increasingly scandalous over time. Originally, the advertisements featured buxom women in fantasy-like garb and the text encouraged viewers to save either "the princess" or "your lover.
As time passed, the imagery has become more suggestive. Instead of revealing dresses, the women began appearing in lingerie for no apparent reason. One of the tamer ads shows a woman in jeans and a tank top, with a lot of attention being heaped on her cleavage accompanied by the confusing tagline, "Play the new game everyone's talking about.
It's obvious why they are: It makes you feel like King! The ads have yet to become truly pornographic, though there are some that feature nothing more than a pair of breasts over the text claiming Evony is the, "best free web game. If some of the girls in the ads look familiar, it's probably because many of the more recent and more scandalous women are taken from stock photography sites like iStockPhoto.
In at least one instance, the image in an Evony ad was also featured as the cover of a low-grade porn DVD. Gamers clearly aren't the only people who have gotten sick of these softcore ads. Zombies that satirized Evony 's. Not only did PopCap's ads feature sort-of busty female zombies showing off their sagging assets and remaining teeth, but the ads also included similarly nonsensical slogans sported in Evony 's. The satirical campaign was the result of a discussion between PopCap employees.
While PopCap will no longer talk about the ads with the general public, the company's VP of Public Relations Garth Chouteau did explain the idea behind the ads with The Escapist shortly after the campaign began.
Zombies top of mind," he explained, "and following the PvZ 'music video' and zombatar and the zombies' and plants' takeover of PopCap. Not only did gamers appreciate the ads, but the press did, too. As soon as the parody banners hit the Web, PopCap received a ton of positive press for the campaign. On one hand, Evony 's ads are effective because they manage to immediately snag a viewer's attention and make them want to learn more. However, the advertising is also completely deceptive, since there's not a single princess or lover involved in the game's story.
Moreover, while the game is technically free to play, the ads don't mention the numerous virtual transactions associated with gameplay. Evony' s marketing has also become hated due to numerous spam comments left on blogs and news sites.
A number of sites have complained about receiving comments like the following:. I just started playing this new game called evony. Just a simple little flash game, but damn its addicting. I just found this cool new game called evony. The fact that a game was being pimped with this technique makes it seem more than a little sleazy. Of course, the game's publisher quickly denied responsibility for this spamming, instead claiming that it was the result of "some players [who] have abusively and unethically engaged in spamming practices," via a program known as iEvony.
The hatred for Evony runs pretty deep throughout the Web, but its ad campaign is only part of the reason. Another major factor for this distaste is that there's little that's actually original about Evony. About a year ago, the name was changed from Civony to Evony , though no official explanation was given on what led to the switch. Also, many websites have documented how the game featured buildings blatantly ripped off from Age of Empires II before the company started creating its own artwork.
As pointed out by The Guardian , the actual gameplay mechanics are also highly reminiscent of Civilization. Players gradually build up their cities by gathering resources, upgrading units, and eventually waging war against other players in the world.
Even though the game is technically free to play, upgrading units and issuing commands takes a bit of time to actually accomplish. This means that if a player wants to get a leg up in the game, they need to buy items from the game's Item Mall. Some of these items include construction speedups and increases to a player's resource production rate. While Evony seems like many other strategy games, this illusion starts to fall apart after a player gets through the "beginner" levels.
During the introductory play sessions, fees don't really make an appearnce. However, things don't stay free for long. Once players advance past level five, fees are necessary to fully play the game; even basic actions like sending in-game messages will cost players a nominal amount of cash.
You must login or create an account to comment. Join Date Apr Posts Who doesn't?! Anyways, I hope this will be a comprehensive guide on Population, taxes, idleness, productivity, and general happiness. Originally Posted by iggy. Taxes, the higher your taxes the lower the loyalty, the lower the loyalty, the lower your population. Remember things are not immediate in this game.
Originally Posted by haiku. I often levy for stone, etc. Join Date Apr Posts 2. Already helped me. Thanks bud.
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