Evony at first glance seems to be just another real time multi-player game, where players form alliances and compete to see who can build the best and strongest empires in an online world.
With Evony, players have to create and upgrade Farms, Lumber Mills, Mines etc, in order to acquire resources to build their cities. Within each city there are a variety of buildings, each of which serves a purpose, and these need to be built and upgraded also.
The city needs defenses, which are comprised of walls and fortifications, as well as armies, which also serve in an offensive role.
Evony is great fun to play, however with each level of upgrade, things take longer to complete, and because the game operates in real time, in other words it does not end when you go to sleep, go to work/school, a serious player can spend their time working to gain enough resources for their next upgrade, as well as building armies for attack and defense.
It’s the fact that the game never stops which makes it so addictive, especially as it can take several weeks at least to fully build a new city, all of which could be torn down and conquered by an enemy while you sleep.
Having spent many hours building an empire, most people are reluctant to just see this destroyed overnight, and therefore are likely to spend more time on the computer, less time sleeping, and when they do sleep they are likely to be dreaming that they are playing Evony.
This game has taken over people’s lives, lost them their jobs, and also caused relationships to break up, the addiction is that serious.
Both Debbie and I were playing seriously for over six months, but fortunately I was able to call it quits in December 2009, albeit at a point where I was in the Top 100 in a world of thousands of people. Debbie quit a few months later, fortunately, but the game was really beginning to take over our lives by then.
I did write an article about the Dangers Of Evony Addiction, which I hope you find interesting. If you do know of anyone who is addicted, you could do worse than send it to them.
11 thoughts on “E Is For Evony”
Good post, I was seriously addicted to Simms for awhile, guess it was because I never had a doll house and always wanted one…
Ha ha ha 🙂 You have to use energy to make energy, would have mailed this to you but can’t seem to find your email address. Then again, I am blind.
I have never heard of this game, but I don’t have the time or inclination to play it anyway. Not fond of addictions 😉
I’m the opposite, games like Evony that never stop turn me off.
Was thinking I’m not taking enough time to play but this would probably not be a good choice to address that need. Good post.
never played this not being a games type of person but I do play farmville – joining as a favour to a neighbours child – i didn’t approve at first but then discovered a way to farm organically !!! No petrol, machines or out and out consumerisim allowed and I found it strangly addictive it;s in the background now hardly played at all as my writing load gets more – I do go and milk the cows every day though! – interesting post thanks – happy gardening – don’t envy you the clay though!
I love games so I need to stay away from this one!
I’ve never heard of Evony and while it sounds fun, I know I could be dragged in too easily.
That’s the problem with this type of game, once you are hooked, you spend so much time on it, that you don’t want to throw it all away, and so you tell yourself that you need to spend even more time playing.