Evony has expanded ten-fold since its official release in mid 2009.
As of May 5, 2009 the game changed its name from Civony to Evony which meant that the game was officially live.
Evony has achieved expansion that many free online games can only dream of.
So what is Evony exactly? It's an online multi-massive player strategy game.
The game takes you through different stages of technology, units, and buildings.
During the first stages of the game you have access to very little however within the first couple weeks of playing you will be able to advance through the game and gain access to many parts of the game.
Besides being free, the best part of Evony is that it's a browser based game! This means you don't have to download anything.
You can simply go to the Evony site, sign up, and start playing.
At first the game may seem simple as there are quests that guide you through the beginning stages teaching you how to play.
However, as the game progresses, so does the intensity of the game.
At first you are only worried about how many resources and buildings you can get built.
Within the first week you're worried about getting an army and defenses up.
After the first week is up you start to worry about getting into an alliance to help protect you.
After you've been accepted into an alliance the game really begins.
Now you start dealing with wars and attacking while maintaining a defense.
Your alliance will start to make coordinated attacks in hopes of destroying or capturing a rival city.
Meanwhile with all of the intensity of the game going on you' may be worried about leaving it and missing something! This isn't a problem! Evony is a real-time game.
This means that even when you exit out of your browser to go to work or anything else you need to do it will keep building, researching, and collecting resources for you.
Some new members get disappointed by the time it takes to build buildings and do researches during the middle of the game.
This can be overcome by looking up strategies such as the effects mayors have on build times.
Evony is currently growing rapidly.
So fast in fact that the company puts a new server up every few days! There are many promotion tools that you can take advantage of such as the new iEvony.
iEvony allows for you to invite all of your friends and family to the game.
When this is done successfully you will get credits that can be turned into game cents.
The game cents allow you to buy various items in the game.
These items range from speeding up the time it takes to build and research to items that allow you to spin Evony's own wheel of fortune.
The wheel of fortune allows you to spin for rare items that you can't purchase in the store such as the Holy Helm of Mars which gives you one of the best heroes in the game! If you're a gamer and you like strategy games then you will want to check out Evony! Likewise if you're new to strategy games then Evony is a perfect place for you to learn how to play because it's free and there are many experienced players willing to help you!