Hints and Tips Part 2

Here are some more hints and tips. These are all different levels and will added to as I think of them so look at this blog entry regularly

• Heroes: Have you got heroes? Do you know what all the attributes mean? Hopefully here are some of the answers.
• Politics: This is the guy (or girl) who should be normally your mayor. The higher his/her politic level the higher your production.
• Attack: This is hero you use for attacking as his attack level is added to your troop attack level hence makes your troops more powerful. The attack level also effects the build time of troops so make your best attack hero mayor just before building troops and then replace him with your normal mayor once you have started the queue in the barracks. Also make sure you have a high attack hero in each city as this hero will help defend you if under attack.
• Intelligence: This guy is rather underrated by a lot of players but can save you hours of time. The intel level effects the research times at the academy so as above put him/her in as mayor before research. As we all know the research times start getting very long so this hero can save you hours. As way of example by changing to a reasonable high intel hero (85) from my normal mayor I saved 32 hrs on research time for level 10 Archery.  The high intel hero also helps with your informatics level so send him along with your scouts when scouting high level valleys.
• Do not forget to level up your heroes after attacking and keep checking your mayor as he/she is constantly gaining experience but can easily be forgotten. I presume that you all understood what I mean by levelling up? If not or you unsure leave a comment and I will try to explain further.
• Inn: Do not get rid of the inn until you get your feast hall up to level 9. e.g. Do not make the same mistake I did. You need a inn to upgrade your hall and whilst at the moment you may think you do not need lvl 9 trust me later on you will because you need a hero for every attack and later on you will have to send waves of attackers to defeat your enemy. I realised too late and had to tear down a cottage to make room. Pity that a town hall upgrade does not give more space in the town! If you have an inn check it daily as the heroes refresh every 24hrs. Remember the ones you want have a base attribute of 65 or higher. Also remember that Google is your friend here so if the last sentence was pure gooblygook to you do some research yourselves.
• Valleys: I will post some details on capturing high level valleys when I can find a good site but here's a link with some good basic info.  http://www.theevonywiki.com/index.php/Valleys

Remember if you find any good sites with the info let me know by posting the link in the comments box and I will put in the resources page.

 Ranks and Titles

Be careful upgrading your military rank, you will waste your medals. The game devs have dropped the medal drop rate so low, especially rose and lion medals, which you need to advance in the game in the early stages, e.g.us, that it is impossible to get more then the title knight (2 cities) without extreme luck on the lucky wheel or buying games coins. The quest also leads you astray as well. Do not upgrade your military rank unless it is necessary it is the title that matters eg Knight, Baronet etc because each upgrade here allows you an extra city.

 The following links explain the different titles and ranks
Titles http://theevonywiki.com/index.php/Titles
Ranks http://theevonywiki.com/index.php/Ranks

Exercise in Rally Point
Just to give everyone a reminder that the exercise battle simulator is rather "flawed". While it useful when you are just starting out, later on it can cause you major grief. This is especially true later on when one is trying to attack higher level valleys. This I found out the hard way when attacking a level 9 valley. The simulator said I will lose no troops bar a few warriors, so I sent a few more archers to make sure. The end result was that I lost the lot (8k archers gone och!!!). What one has to realise is that the simulator does not take the tech levels into consideration and a level 9 valleys has level 9 techs for all troops. So be warned!!!!
As an aside try putting one archer against 5 rams in the simulator and see what happens! Then look at the specs for both troops and explain? If anyone can come up with a suitable explanation I will be fascinated to read it.