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Evony is a massively multiplayer online strategy game or MMO, that is played entirely through your browser. Evony has a medieval theme and the goal is to conquer the other players cities on the game map. This guide will help the beginning player learn the basic first moves of the game.Start ScreenStarting Your Evony Game
Introduction
Evony lets you take control of medieval units, manage an economy, and battle for control of the game map. Evony is similar in style to other online games such as Travian. After you create your Evony account and choose an area of the map to play on, the game will load and you will be able to begin building your city. When you first login you start a seven-day protection period so you should begin to build as soon as possible. Once this period is up or your town hall reaches level five, you can be attacked by other players. You start with a basic town hall, a small amount of gold, and resources to begin construction of your first buildings. Buildings and units are built using food, wood, stone and iron. Gold is only used to research technologies in the game but is needed in large amounts because technologies can be expensive.
Interface
The Evony interface is quite simple and easy to understand. At the top of your browser is your town, city, and map icons. The town icon is where you build your city buildings, the city icon is for your resource plots, and the map icon is where you move your military units for battles.
On the right side of the screen is your statistics panel that shows you such things as population, gold, resource, and troop levels.
At the bottom you will find several icons including a link to the game forum, battle reports, quests, mail statistics, alliance, contact us, and shop.
First Moves (Population)
The first thing you should build are cottages. These buildings are needed to grow the population of your city. Your citizens are needed for your armies, and to provide production for your resource areas. More population will also increase your gold amount through taxes. Click the ownicon if you are not already there and we will build our first building. Put your mouse pointer over an empty plot in your city center and a hammer will appear. Use the menu that appears to select cottage and build two to three cottages. Your population will slowly increase as you add more cottages. Each building can be upgraded to a higher level but you should leave your cottages at their beginning level for now. Build two or three cottages then stop, as you need the rest of your limited starting resources to build resource plots.
First Moves (Resource Building)
Resources are vital to the building and function of your city. To begin building resource plots click the ityicon at the top of the screen and you will see several empty plots outside of your city. Building resource plots works the same way as city structures, so build one farm, lumber mill, quarry and iron mine. Your idle population will now begin working in these resource plots and your stockpiles will begin to increase. Once you upgrade your resource plots to a higher level, you will be able to extract more goods, that will require more idle population.
Other MMO games similar to Evony, that use resource gathering to build up a city, include the popular Ikariam game.123next