Colonize a city
A new feature of Evony Age II is that you can colonize the city of another player. When you colonize someone you don’t completely own this city, you just have some control over it. To colonize a city you first have to declare war against it, click on the city you wish to colonize and click on the “Declare War” button. Then you have to wait 30 minutes for the war declaring period to end before you can launch your colonization attack.
Click on the city and click “Colonize” launch the colonization attack. You need to attack the city successfully to start the colonization, so make sure you send enough troops to win the battle. There is a certain colonization time before the city becomes your colony, this is called the suppression time and is 8 hours.
You should make sure you keep sending more troops to the city during the suppression period. The person you are trying to colonize can also send reinforcements to the city during this period to a possible massive battle at the end of the colonizing period. If you win the battle at the end of the 8 hour suppression time the city becomes your colony.
You will get gold and resources paid in tribute from the colonized city, the city become a vassal of yours. I’m not sure how much gold and resources you get from the colonized city, or if you can choose the tribute from your colony yourself. The options you can use on a colonized city is Tax Imposition, Disarmament, Food Levy, Draft, ,Pop. Redeployment and Sow Discord.
At some point your vassal, or colonized city, can rise up against you, real more about uprising against your suzerain here. There is a quest in Evony Age II that is called uprising and says you can do this if your city is colonized. You can also issue your own anti-colonization commission quest to help you rise up against your Suzerain. The colonization seems like a very interesting new feature of Evony Age II and l’m looking forward to testing it out more.
14. April there was an update to how many colonies each of your cities can have. Evony increased the number of colonies that players can own. Every city can now have a maximum number of colonies equal to the number which is the lord’s title level multiplied by 10. I assume this means that civilian can have 10 colonies for his 1 city, knights 20 for each of his 2 cities, so 40 total, baronet 30 for each of his 3 cities, so 90 total etc. Prinzessin would then following this rule able to have 100 colonies for each of his 10 cities, which is a total of 1,000 colonies. This does seem like a lot of colonies, but it is how I understand the post. The title number for Prinzessin is 10, 10 times 10 is 100, and this is for each of the players 10 cities. If you have any information about this I would be happy if you would let me know, thanks!
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Levy food seems obvious, tax part seems obvious but what is the rest of them mean?
Shadow
1 Mar 10 at 3:20 pm
the supression time is 8 hours
Barbara McCrea
6 Apr 10 at 3:38 pm
Does a player have to attain a certain rank or title in order to colonize a city? How many colonies can a player have? Does the number of colonies a player can have vary based on rank or title?
Michelle
9 Apr 10 at 5:11 pm
Do you have the option of colonizing or NPCing the city after loyalty is 0?
Bill
9 Apr 10 at 9:41 pm
so i have sucessfully colonized – everything u said seems obvious but…i can not do anything with the city i click on it and it tells me im the suzeran but i cant do anything is there a wait time till i can?
Dandri
10 Apr 10 at 6:22 am
Been colonized but the uprise button is no where to be found. it is supposed to be in the town hall under valleys but NOPE!!!
Any help?
Crimson
10 Apr 10 at 10:16 pm
I will update this guide soon, but to answer some questions. It seems that every city you own can have 6 other cities as colonizes, no matter you title/rank. And you cannot colonize NPC cities.
I dunno why you don’t get the uprise button up, or why Dandri can’t do anything with his colony, unless the 8 hour supression time isn’t over?
Iwind
11 Apr 10 at 12:25 am
to see how much tribute you get from the cities you colonize go to your town hall and go under the production tab
Camdawg54
11 Apr 10 at 2:24 am
I have colonized 2 cities and I have successfully colonized 2 others. It will not count the 2 others. I’m a Major,Knight in rank. I wonder why? Any ideas?
Razor
11 Apr 10 at 2:43 am
well it isnt actually right it is according to title im baron at the moment and can only have 4 per city
sickclown
11 Apr 10 at 3:49 am
ive sent a ragtag attack at an inactive player, succesfully colonized. now what do i do?
Felgamore
11 Apr 10 at 3:57 am
so you can’t attack people now, you can only colonize them?
Tony
11 Apr 10 at 6:47 am
I own 2 citys i have taken over a further 2 citys i took over a 3rd city war reports said suppresion worked but i never got the 3rd city and a few of my freinds have the same trouble who have same rank and title yet higher ranks have no bother ???????
MadDog39
11 Apr 10 at 9:18 am
I see, so it seemed to be based on your title then, knight 2 cities colonized, baronet 3 I guess, and baron 4? Can anyone confirm this? I can’t get rid of my titles to check it out
Iwind
11 Apr 10 at 10:17 am
My title is Knight. I have colonized 3 so far.
Timarie
11 Apr 10 at 4:04 pm
all i want to do is attack not colonize is that possible in age 2. just want to attack like age 1
Siper
11 Apr 10 at 5:08 pm
do I have to colonize or is there an option to npc a player’s city?
Justin
11 Apr 10 at 7:25 pm
Are you getting tribute from all of those 3?
Iwind
11 Apr 10 at 7:59 pm
Yes, but then you have to declare war first
Iwind
11 Apr 10 at 8:00 pm
Yes, getting tribute from all three. I’ll have a fourth shortly. Still a knight.
Timarie
12 Apr 10 at 3:25 am
so what happens exactly at the end of this 8 hours?
Felgamore
12 Apr 10 at 3:35 am
And all these colonies are owned by one of your cities? If so my theory that you can only own 2 per city as a knight must be wrong, 2 per city so that you can have a total of 4 colonize if you have 2 cities. Very interested in hearing how many you are able to colonize.
Iwind
12 Apr 10 at 9:18 am
yes colonizing a city depends on ur title and the city u have …like if ur knight and have 2 cities then u can colonize a total of 4 cities ..2 per city u owned
glimeyes
12 Apr 10 at 1:18 pm
That’s what I thought and wrote in this article, was pretty sure this was correct. Can anyone else confirm? So then baronet would be 3 per city, 9 total, baron 4 per city, 16 total, etc. I’ll test this out with a new account, but I believe this is the way it is.
Iwind
12 Apr 10 at 3:01 pm
I did the colonize thing… at the end of the 8 hours, city simply disappeared. A little flag replaced it. What does that mean? City was originally (i think) abondoned, prestige 0. Does it have to be an actively played city?
gator
12 Apr 10 at 4:50 pm
I find that you have to declare war to colonise. That option only becomes available after clicking ‘declare war’ and then waiting the 30 mins delay for ‘warfare’ to begin
Susannah
12 Apr 10 at 5:15 pm
I would think it would have to be an active one, so that’s probably why
Iwind
12 Apr 10 at 6:12 pm
And yeah, you need to declare war to colonize, this article was written during the Evony Age 2 Beta period, and there was a lot of changes when it went live. I’ve changed this now, and hopefully all the information is correct now.
Iwind
12 Apr 10 at 6:25 pm
so, can you still actually take other peoples citys, or just attack them and colonise?
i’ve not got round to playing with the attacking side of ageII yet.
anyhelp understanding it would be great!
w00dy198
12 Apr 10 at 6:43 pm
draft allows you to get 10% of one of the troop types in the colonized city to drafted into YOUR army. pop. readjustment (or whatever it is) allows you to move population from the colony to the colonizing city. demoralize allows you to reduce the moral of any heroes in the city by 30, and i don’t remember the last one causes 10% of troops to be returned to civilization. levy food and tax, as stated, are obvious.
If your alliance is already at war with the alliance of the city you wish to colonize, there is no need to declare war (as war is already declared, obviously)
UPRISING – it is located on the MAP on the INFO screen for the colonizing city
you cannot NPC their city, but they can
and no, there is no way for you to get in and control their city.
You get a portion of what they produce… but they can make it very much not worthwhile by reducing production to 0. especially if they have multiple cities… they can move all of their troops to another city, reducing how much they NEED to produce.
I did this and by reducing my production to 0, the amount of tribute of resources dropped to only 15.
Phoenix II
12 Apr 10 at 7:23 pm
Im suppressing a inactive person. Will i get to get all kinds of resources or just food?
Josh
12 Apr 10 at 10:02 pm
Is it possible to stop a colonization using items like city teleporter or truce agreement or something?
CrazedWolf
13 Apr 10 at 3:15 am
I’m not sure if it was fixed but as of the end of Beta, up til the last day this was bugged all to ****.
If you colonize someone, then another player attempts to colonize them, your entire army vanishes from your town. They do not show up in war reports. They are just gone.
I lost 3million troops this way in a single moment.
TheElfKing
13 Apr 10 at 5:37 am
If im uderstanding this right: Theres no way to take control of the city.My question is How does Your Alliance win. Whats the end game?
Droit
14 Apr 10 at 6:18 am
bottom line: can we capture a city to add to ours? Like in AgeI? The colonization has an end tiem, we can only hold them for a specific time then they are free of us.
Elxnior
14 Apr 10 at 6:25 pm
No, you can not capture player cities right now, I’m thinking they might change this in the future however. Right now you can only capture NPCs/Flats/Historic Cities
Iwind
14 Apr 10 at 10:30 pm
I’ve colonized ans suppressed, but there is a lot of talk about this draft, pop readjustment, etc. but where do you get that menu?? I can’t do it at their city… is it somewhere at my city?
Cook
15 Apr 10 at 2:03 am
Ok so i declared war successfully. I click colonize and i choose a hero and some troops. but when i press send it was invalid and wont march my troops. I have enough food and all that so any idea why i cant march?
Jake
15 Apr 10 at 3:14 am
I played age 1 for 12 months and enjoyed it, from a previous advert i have seen this colonisation is to stop bullies etc, big alliances bullying smaller ones. I may go back at some point but think i would rather evony1 than 2
peekie10
15 Apr 10 at 8:26 am
@Cook; In your city panel on the right of the main screen there should be a crown over your suzerain city. Hover over it and it will show your colonies. Click the colony and you can choose to draft troops, draw population and all that jazz.
I’m stuck at the moment, with the same problem Jake has. I have two colonies now, and wanted to colonize a third when I got an ‘invalid request’ when trying to send out my troops. Somebody told me the limit was to have two colonies, but that would make the ‘city expansion’ quest to own 5 colonies impossible. I have a town hall level 5, my title/rank is captain/baronet. Does anyone know how to colonize more towns?
Auxilius
15 Apr 10 at 3:30 pm
I have colonized 4 cities per town now, and it has 6 empties. It also says from the last update maintenance period the colonization is opened up with Baronet, those below this rank will not be able to colonize. And seeing I have 6 openings for colonization, I would assume its 18 total for Baronet since you can build 3 cities.
Keith
15 Apr 10 at 9:30 pm
You have colonized 4 per town, so that’s 12 colonies. 6 openings per city is 18 openings, so that would mean that you can colonize 30 total as baronet. According to the post by Dawnseeker it should be 30 per city…. Wish they would give out more details.
Iwind
15 Apr 10 at 11:35 pm
Can you still wave attack or just go for it?
vampyre
16 Apr 10 at 5:50 am
I have colonised 3 cities and have taken both population and what ever troops were left there. My Town hall is only a lvl 4 and I only have knight rank, so if there is a limit it hasnt hit me yet!!
Smashergood
16 Apr 10 at 7:33 am
I see the options for colony but everybody keeps talking about Tax imposittion but there is no where to do this.
What are you all talking about???
Xetchx
16 Apr 10 at 3:59 pm
how do I abandon a citie i have as a colony?
AJ Payne
16 Apr 10 at 11:29 pm
What sucks is that any newcomer who just comes off seven day protection is immediately attacked and colonized.
It’s a bad feature that avoids players learning the game properly. So unless you’re unemplyed and have a chance to play 20 hr /day you have limited chance of enjoyment at the start unless you feel like forking out the $$$$
Bunyip
bunyip
17 Apr 10 at 2:51 am
Colonized a city, check.
Suzerain of that city now, check.
Player’s inactive, so no uprising, check.
NEXT–
Another player attacks my colony I’m suzerain of. I don’t care about city, I abandon it. 24 hours must pass to “handover”! Attack happens and magically half my troops appear in colony and win against attacker. I still don’t care about colony, so I use instant handover (don’t wait 24 hr) but birdie is still flashing. I just want to know what to prepare for!
Kate
17 Apr 10 at 5:07 am
i think facebook has better games
D
17 Apr 10 at 5:04 pm
i have coloinized 4 citys and getting tributes from all 4 my rank and title is captin and knight and only 1 city an town hall is lv5 so idk if this help to figure numbers but thats what i got so far
josh
17 Apr 10 at 5:52 pm
Getting invalid request when trying to occupy a third city as a baronet
Mike
18 Apr 10 at 1:47 am
I and everyone else would just like to be able to Attack and not have to figure this “colonization” thing out. It sounds like Age2 is for some kids that were tired of being plundered all the time….so be more active and try and keep up if that is the problem. Bottom line..more basic attack feature to gain resources…
B.S.
18 Apr 10 at 11:35 am
I have spent a lot of time preparing my city during 7 day beginners protection and now am considering leaving age 2 and focusing on my age 1 accounts. I just colonized a city and have no idea what to do with it now….cant get any resources….what’s the point of playing? More easily acessible information would be nice too.
frustrated as im sure many others are…
B.S.
18 Apr 10 at 11:41 am
so what happens if my friend is colonized by an enemy, then i in turn colonize that person? what will happen to my friend’s city?
Justin
18 Apr 10 at 6:48 pm
as viscount you can only colonize 7 cities per city as far as i know
Soldier Z
19 Apr 10 at 4:26 pm
Some things you are missing…
Your colonies come under your protection… I am unsure if the colony troops fight alongside yours or if the colony’s defenses count in the battle.. but when someone tries to attack your colony… YOUR TROOPS will help to defend it [at the same rate as you set through the colony menu, accessed by mousing over your suzerain town in your town list].
—-What sucks is that any newcomer who just comes off seven day protection is immediately attacked and colonized.—–
With regards to this… you are benefiting from being under a suzerain, you get the protection of their troops as above, meaning you are free to build a strong npc farming army without worrying too much about fending off your attackers.
I have 15 colonies so far… on a level 8townhall as a baron, most of them inactive or rarely active… you get 15% of their production [20% of their food and gold]
Myzt
20 Apr 10 at 2:10 pm
so farewell to larger players “farming” smaller players by plundering them daily,you get to keep some sort of control & independence,should’ve made it more obvious as suzerain is small in top cvorner
jackalope
20 Apr 10 at 3:56 pm
This is confusing as all get out, just out from under beginners protection, and I am under supression with no way to fight it. You say that they must successfully attack, well I do not show any reports of being attacked. So it looks like I have no choice but to sit back and let it happen. THis does not seem fair
Shetan
21 Apr 10 at 6:22 am
Those that complain about getting colonized after 7 day. E1, you come out of BP and either a) someone immediately starts farming you taking all your resources several times a day b) someone takes you to zero pludering the crap out of you, you tele (rinse and repeat) c) several of your neighbors covet your recources and you are constantly hammerd by them (rinse repeat)
E2, you get colonized, you loose only 15% of resouces (not all of it), you keep building, building, building, someone covets your stuff, they attack, your Colonizer defends with his troops.
Let all the ADD punks that just want to take everying and npc everyone stay in E1
Dave
22 Apr 10 at 1:36 am
Colonizing replaces 5 hours or more a day managing your NPC farms. On the other side… your no longer at the mercy of some guy farming NPCs five hours a day so he can send hundreds of thousands of troops at you to either take or npc all your cities either while your at lunch, work, asleep, meeting with the kids teacher, general life necessities.
I saw the number 2 player on one E1 server loose connection after building a city to add to his npc farm. Within the hour, he lost his two other cities and that city intended to be an npc, well it is now his main and only city with no troops, zero loyalty, and massive grievance.. nothing but his tech left, his alliance boots him for being stupid… he resets. Several months of hard labor pay homage to the tidy bowl man.
Dave
22 Apr 10 at 1:48 am
It would appear the whole idea of colonising is to encourage the more experienced players away from the newer players. It is much more effective to farm npcs than colonising a new player
Smashergood
22 Apr 10 at 8:26 am
I understand the Colonization mechanics between individual non-NPC players, but what happens when war is declared between alliances? Do alliance wars revert to Age I style combat, or are we strictly limited to Age II’s Colonization?
If Colonizing is the only form of combat between players in Age II, (and there is NO Attacking/Plundering between non-NPC players), then Warehouses and Privateering are 100% useless, and Transporters are much less useful than they used to be.
Randolph
22 Apr 10 at 5:00 pm
This game is more capture the flag style. 0, 0 is capital of the world. Each state has capitals, regional cities and level 12s. Those seem to be the prizes.
Dave
23 Apr 10 at 3:03 am
I have 3 cities, I’m a General Marquis. Two of my cities have 2 colonies each. With one I have attacked 3 more cities, and now the suppression period is over, but the suppression bar is still there, and I haven’t colonised them. Each city has my forces there, but the colonisation cycle won’t complete.
Any thoughts?
Jack
23 Apr 10 at 8:35 am
just to add to my previous post, Warehouses, Privateering AND Stockpile now seem 100% useless in Age II. The only reason for pursuing them is for those people who feel driven to clean up all the Quests.
Unless there’s Age I style battle/plundering hidden somewhere in Age II, it wouldn’t make much sense to invest space, resources and time into them.
Am I right for thinking this way?
Randolph
23 Apr 10 at 6:39 pm
how do uprise???? this game stinks
micat
23 Apr 10 at 8:30 pm
I was attacked and colonized within hours of coming out of Beginner Protection and have been not been able to break free. I also don’t seem to be able to find out the number of troops that my Suzereign has in my City. I personally think there is a serious bug in the game IF there is no way to break free as each time I buld up my troops and try an uprising I end up losing ALL my troops.
Rohi
24 Apr 10 at 12:32 am
i am a knight who has colonized 6 cities, but when i go the the page to sow discord and the other options, only half of them are there! i have pop redployment, draft, dissarment, and sow discord, but nothing about levying food or gold or anything, and is there a way to get more tribute from a colony?
John
24 Apr 10 at 4:58 pm
As I see it colonization prevents players, especially small players form being bullied right out of the game.
Leave colonization alone. If you don’t like it, play E-1.
Willy1
24 Apr 10 at 6:34 pm
This REALLy sucks, itr was way more fun, to attack fellow player with alliancemates.. Its their choise tgo play a war game.. Then you can expect getting attacked
Lister
26 Apr 10 at 2:07 pm
my thoughts for this game is this….. they have grown WAY 2 BIG!!! they need 2 slow down and concentr8 on age1!!!
lordpillon
27 Apr 10 at 9:55 am
colonisation is simply a method of partially replacing the need to farm constantly for sources, it also promotes conflict since you need troops to colonise. the person colonising needs more troops to uprise, and then needs colonies to support their resources. the original coloniser probably building even more troops incase they get colonised. It promotes fear, paranoia and most of all warfare. vicious circle but you gotta love it
aLk
27 Apr 10 at 8:18 pm
I currently have 2 cities. With the title baronet I successfully colonized 11 cities with one of my cities and 10 cities with the other. I can’t levy food or gold from my colonies, but I have all the other options. If you want to find out how many troops are in your Suzerain’s city you’ll have to build up enough scouts to scout them. Otherwise I guess you’re out of luck. That’s where the alliances will come in–you can get a fellow alliance member to scout. You can also have them send troops to help you uprise.
Raychuchi
27 Apr 10 at 11:41 pm
i have colonized two players near me and the second city just replaced the first. i thought it would just add to the list. is there something i need to do to keep this from happening again?
euminides
28 Apr 10 at 9:50 pm
why does it say invalid request when i try to send a colonizing army? its under 10k troops and i declared war already.
euminides
28 Apr 10 at 10:41 pm
I played Evony I for over 10 months and had to force myself to quit. I wasn’t getting anything else in life done.
I happened upon Evony Age II and thought I’d give it a try.
This idea of colonization is for fifth graders. I had NO PROBLEM walking away from Age II – and had no desire to spend a single dollar (age one I spent like $500.00)
Ev Age II is a limp handshake and a yawn.
Later. See you on any other game worth playing.
rolliby
29 Apr 10 at 2:06 am
I’m colonising and currently in suppression time. Why is all my food disappearing? Do the troops need to be sent more or something? There’s loads in the warehouse still, the figures don’t make sense.
JJ
30 Apr 10 at 1:37 pm
If you try to colonize and it says “invalid request” that means that someone else from your alliance is trying to colonize at the same time .. guess they must have got in first!!
Grimbergen
30 Apr 10 at 4:43 pm
AgeII = garbage,
I perfectly agree wit ROLLIBY,I played age I loved it.
tried age II nonesense.too much hassle just to attack a player. ok i can understand the 30min wait before and attack, but seriously who wants to colonize every city they attack. Speaking of stopping bullying and blah blah blah, here is what makes it even worst an very distasteful. i just finished beginners protection, then bam! i got colonized. great, now i cant uprise because obviously i sure can’t match my opponents troops. now i get to toil with him/her for freedom for god knows how long.. no thanks i’ll just leave the city better still leave the game. well, thanks evony for making it easy for me to quit.
ebonge
1 May 10 at 2:16 pm
does anyone know what the point of loyalty trend is in this version – you can’t send multiple attacks to bring it down with this suppression thing…
Once you have colonised the city all you can do is reinforce for the final battle at the end of suppression. Why have a loyalty trend if there is nothing you can do with it?
For those who have had a problem losing troops when someone else tries to steal your colonised city – it is because you have the suppression setting of the city on 100% – this means that all the troops you currently have, in the city you attacked with, will be sent to defend your colonized city from attack by another player.
Purps
1 May 10 at 2:30 pm
Jack, I have the same problem. I declared war, waited 30 minutes, attacked, waited 8 hours to complete the colonization, and now the suppression bar is still there, no time on it, no colony complete, no quest reward for it, no resources.
Does anyone have any ideas what is bugged?
Ray
2 May 10 at 4:21 am
colonization is the stupidest thing, “We made it so the new players are not bullied” but what do you think happens, right out of Beginner and they are IMMEDIATELY bullied. I think I’d have more fun slamming my head in a car door than this bull.
wankerz
2 May 10 at 7:29 am
everyone complaining about being colonized right after beginners protection you’re missing the point…in the old one if you started gettign attacked right after you’re army was destroyed and you were open to get your resources plundered constantly so you could never build back up or your city might just be captured outright, the end. with colonization, yea it stinks but your city is still there and you can’t be farmed. you lose a percentage of your resources but once you are able to build up you can uprise and throw off the colonizer. i think this is a much better alternative then the doom of beign attacked after beginner protection in age one
also anybody have an answer for the invalid operation issue??
cubamac
2 May 10 at 10:07 pm
When I have received an ‘invalid request’ when trying to colonise a city it is because a memember in the alliance has started colonisation before me.
Hope this helps.
IceMan
4 May 10 at 10:09 am
Colonizing inactive player cities:-
Inactive player cities appear to be removed with server maintenance leaving one at war with unknown….
Petrogale
6 May 10 at 2:06 am
To all u who point out that straight out of BP ya get slammed, why the hell didnt you line up with an alliance to stop that. Simple huh
Tweed
6 May 10 at 12:17 pm
ok reinforced ally who was under suppresion,but my troops nor his troops showed up to fight.Only the troops in the city that was being colonized defended wth anyone know wat happened?
Draz
9 May 10 at 12:33 am
there needs to be a means to flag a city as being colonized besides the writing in the top right corner, this has led to a lot of attacks that wouldn’t have happened if a clearer way of distinquishing a colonized city was used.
I would prefer if there were still some plundering allowed.perhaps 1/4 of resources & you colonize!
jackalope
9 May 10 at 8:54 am
hmmm, I wonder why pretty much everybody has the same issue(s) with this game… could it be because it sucks? nah, no way, not that.
Tstrong
10 May 10 at 6:13 am
Is there a way to turn over a city to one of your alliance members?
dipweed
11 May 10 at 4:07 am
now we know what the age 2 is. The age requirement to play.
legion
12 May 10 at 10:05 am
At least in Age 1 you were allowed to keep your last city. In this game ALL of your cities can be colonized.
So how does a player get stronger and break free, like everyone keeps saying is possible, when you lose 15% of you resources hourly and the same of your troops daily?
You build troops, your “owner” takes them to help fight of your uprising. You can’t send wave attacks, or defend against them. What’s the point? You sit for 8 hours waiting to see if you might win. There’s no getting together with your alliance and FIGHTING. You build a NPC to farm and the next day it’s gone.
Soteria
13 May 10 at 4:01 am
well dam that sucks i for one love stealing other peoples citys and new age you cant? well hell with you guys if you actuly built a good army you wouldnt have lost it in the first place ;P
LokiesHexs
14 May 10 at 12:55 pm
how do you stop an uprisin. do you simply gather troops in the suzerian city. i am bein uprised against and im baffled on hw to stop it.
simmonie
15 May 10 at 10:13 am
y is the suppression bar still up with no time? any 1 else have this problem and how do you fix it??
smelly
17 May 10 at 1:13 am
I declared on 3 cities.
After 30 min Launched attacks on them. All succeeded, then suppression started.
8 hrs i let my troops there, the time passed and nothing happens after the suppression time.
The progress bar just reached to the end 8hrs passed and nothing.
It has been like this for 1 hr
wtf? If i want to play farmville i know the address.
shgj
17 May 10 at 7:14 am
Thanks! this really helped
Zechariah
20 May 10 at 12:07 am
OK. What really are the rules and limits of numbers of colonized cities? Does anyone really know?
OK so I have 8 colonies out of one city, and 15 colonies out of another. My title is Duke. How many colonies can I have?
I ask because I am attempting to colonize a particular city. The player is not a member of any alliance, and he is not a colony of another player (not that this is a real problem, except that one cannot steal a colony away from a member of a friendly alliance)
when I assign troops and click on “colonize” I get the response “invalid option”
Say what? I’ll report this as a bug, but who knows what lurks in the hearts of Evony?
PicMaster
20 May 10 at 10:10 pm
i have one of my alliance members under attack on 2 of their cities but i can reinforce their 3rd. can they use the troops i send to 3rd city for their other cities/
LonghaiR
21 May 10 at 5:46 am
i have the same problem…
The progress bar just reached to the end 8hrs passed and nothing, it’s still up with no time
Black Rabbit
21 May 10 at 10:00 am
If my two cities are colonies of somebody else, why play?
Zyth
21 May 10 at 4:13 pm
The problem with colonization is the new players have no concept of it. The game recommends that you take the time to build up your city, not your army. Therefore, you are at risk of being colonized right after protection. If you do build up troops, the new player really has no idea that you need the 10s of thousands.
To beat the colonization effort, you have to win the suppression fight. However, most of your troops were wiped out in the initial attack. Therefore, you probably won’t win.
This causes the new player to do one of two things: Create a new account and start over or Quit completely. Those who colonized the city don’t care as they are getting lots of resources with zero care. Evony loses because new players won’t be purchasing coins. New player loses because they quit and don’t find out how fun the game can be.
I would suggest one of more of the following be adopted:
1. A longer protection period with quests to build up armies stressed.
2. Limit the ability to colonize, say by one or two levels lower then the colonizer (prevents Earls from attacking citizens).
3. A time limit on the colonization – say 14 days.
TB
25 May 10 at 9:55 am
For those who have the colonization progress bar stuck, it is a known bug :-/
You have to wait until the server maintenance, then it will be fixed and the city will join your colonies, provided you win the suppression fight. For inactive cities there is usually no fight (coz no reinforcements) so it should be fine.
John
27 May 10 at 5:03 pm
i did read this
i’m on my first evony T AGE 1
i’m member of top 50 alliance and myself is ranked in top 200
if i read all this shit it will be my last evony game to
i only want to attack,defend and farm other players.
i do not like to colonize other city,to much work got allready to much work of farming 10s for food.
so i wish evony best like but think i will not see them again
regards
the attackker
arjan
30 May 10 at 1:10 am
ok i have colinized 3 city but the i cant do anything it doesnt show up as im the suzarian y not what do i do it doesnt show up on my city when i scroll over my city to bring out the option bar y
mindsick
1 Jun 10 at 11:44 am
this is lame, colinisation.
whats the point in the game? they take a small percentage of your production and provide protection.
so what is there to do. you don’t need an army as you can’t go to war. you don’t need an alliance as once you get colinised, you are the only one able to break it.
I am struggling to see any point to the game
haggis
1 Jun 10 at 5:42 pm
i now have 8 cities colonized, and going for 2 more. that is with 1 city only. i am a knight. i heard it was the lvl of your town hall + 1
Rouke
2 Jun 10 at 1:32 am
This guide contains very little information on the actual colonization and uprising process, and most of the comments are not much help. I guess I will have to join an alliance and/or learn by doing.
PorkNBeans
3 Jun 10 at 4:28 am
Ok so I’ve been attacked and killed everyone of my hard earned troops. I have 8 hrs suppression period in which I can prepare to win a battle with no troops or resources. All my fortifications are gone and somebody is saying that this is better than getting bullied like in age 1. One question, how should I win the major battle at the end of the suppression period when all my troops got killed in the initial attack. And if he had a big enough army to destroy ALL my troops and fortification with the initial attack, what are the odds that I’ll have a big enough force to win the big battle? Probably none. hmmmm something is not adding up. Oh I know, why don’t I spend real money to get resources so that I can build my army back up in 8 hours? Hmmmm not gonna happen. I’ve been playing this game for 3 weeks and I’ve yet to see how it’s better than age 1. Atleast in age 1 if I’m being attacked, I can always teleport. Age 2, that is not an option is it. No it says I first have to get rid of ally reinforcements before I can teleport. Ok, but I look in my embassy and it’s not showing any reinforcements and I know for a fact that no one has reinforced my city. So what ally troops should I send back? Oh must be the attacker’s troops. But wouldn’t that be “ENEMY” troops instead of ally? So what are the options after you get attacked and enter the suppression period? Oh yeah, join the attacker’s alliance and colonization will stop. That’s provided you meet the criterias laid out by the alliance and that they have room for you and you get accepted. Otherwise, you’re pretty much screwed. But that’s ok, we won’t call you “BULLIED”, just “SCREWED”. Oh but it’s better because now, no one else can colonize you unless they have a bigger army than your “SUZERAINE” (master). Let’s do the math shall we? Train 100 archers, he/she takes 10. Train 1000, he/she takes 100. Your master get’s to pick from your best heroes. Your master gets to take a portion of all your resources. If he/she thinks your army is getting too big, he/she can disarm 10% of your troops. Am I forgetting something?
By the way Evony, I noticed alot of questions being asked. I didn’t notice a whole lot of answers.
Spearhead
3 Jun 10 at 8:18 am
this dose suck at war you get attacked right, why wait to take the city get real, again war is war. colonization man that sucks waiting then stay on line to wait to colonize, then what? it is over,…. boooo!I want to attack and take their city. Colonization is for poor losers. TB,.. Evony 1 is better!
SirHawk
3 Jun 10 at 6:15 pm
ok… so i have a colony that is doing an uprising. But i have no way to send troops to deal with this… What?!?!?
Camel
4 Jun 10 at 2:15 am
Age 1 is the best!! it’s noo fun to JUST colonize….geeze declare war wait 30mins…colonize..wait 8hrs….what freaking fun is that!!! well…i’ll try it a few times….but i think I’m going back to age 1!! alot more fun alot more action!!!! and the NPCs i build don’t dissappear! eerrr.. fustration…i was so looking forward to Age 2… and reading the above comments is greatly dissappointing! what a turn off!! lol
XxMatteoxX
4 Jun 10 at 6:32 pm
I agree with TB above, but I disagree with his second option. Basically, the suppression period ought to last significantly longer than it currently does, and the Beginner’s Protection period needs to last a bit longer and/or not be deactivated by a level five Town Hall.
I agree that the Quests also need more troop construction emphasis.
Random God
8 Jun 10 at 11:39 am
The invalid option thing is when the city is already under supression by someone else, but the final battle hasn’t happened yet.
Ben
9 Jun 10 at 3:13 am
this is an interesting concept making the colonized city your slave & raping them slowly of food/resources & troops.what the benefits over age1 is lost to me!there should be the option of which way you want to attack.
jackalope
9 Jun 10 at 6:16 pm
You must be atleast a Knight in order to colonize a city. You cannot do it as a civilian.
JamesWolf
12 Jun 10 at 5:05 am
how come i can not colonize or attack players im at war with? one of the players im at war with has a purple flag over city, why?
and im not colonized my self
kejak
13 Jun 10 at 2:02 pm
In general, at this date (June 12, 2010) the colonization guide does need some reworking. But more than that, the Evony colonization system needs some serious bug fixing.
Sticky Colony Menu problem – I have colonies taken from four different of my cities. Very often, the list of colonies is the same for each city. Sometimes refreshing the screen changes things. Sometimes clearing the cache and refreshing the screen changes things. Sometimes closing the browser and reopening changes things. Sometimes not. Mostly the change is a different city’s colony list showing up in all four cities.
Then when paging through the colonies there is the unpredicatable issue of exercising one of the policy decrees and the buttons do not change color.
Most maddening is the clicking on the troops option to see what is there to be drafted. L10 informatics and L9 or L10 beacon tower, and yet what I see is “zounds” and “legion” and all that nonsense. You’d think the suzerein would get somewhat better information. Then there is the issue with the system claiming there are troops in the city yet when I draft I get the message “There are no troop in the city”
Etc etc etc
PicMaster
13 Jun 10 at 2:32 pm
I think colonising people is fun. I enjoy the hate/begging mail ive recieved. Its just a different way to play, if you dont like it then feel free to stick to Evony .
If you cant uprise out of being colonised yourself, the only option then seems to be to issue an anti-colonisation quest. This costs cents, which is obviously one of the main reasons they doing age 2 this way. Age 2 definately trying to get your money more. lol
Xanaq
13 Jun 10 at 5:39 pm
where do you find the tax imposition tab under the colonized city?
jens peter
29 Jun 10 at 7:34 pm
I have to agree w TB this colonization thing isn’t fair for new players. I had no idea about this colonization. Right after the protection ended I was colonized at 2AM no way I would have known and I was level 3 or 4. The person a “REAL BIG TOUGH GUY” was level 24. THAT’S REALLY FAIR there was no way that I fought against him. I guess that people that got bullied as a kid find doing these type of things fun. I believe in a fair fight or at least a good competition.
vm
9 Jul 10 at 7:13 pm
Okay, so I’ve sent a couple of attacks on cities with almost no defense. The last one had 10 workers. I sent something like 500 workers, 1,000 warriors, 25 pike, 25 sword, 500 archers. Maybe 750 archers. In any case, I lost them all and didn’t do 10% damage. Huh? I’m sure I was fighting an inactive player (maxed out resources) and unless my scouting was way, way, off, I can’t figure out how I lost the battle. This is the 2nd time this has happened. Is there a “here’s what you need to win a battle against a city” guide? I just can’t see how my force could have lost.
JaySix
10 Jul 10 at 1:32 am
I am trying to get my colonization acheivements, which will add up to +10% to my treasure drops. Does anyone know if, when i colonize a city, can i uncolonize it and then recolonize it. Will this add to my total cities that i have colonized. Thanks for the help.
shaun
15 Jul 10 at 10:34 pm
Greetings,
Is the tax imposition variable? Can i make a deal with a “friendly” Suzerain to only take, say 5%?
Guy
Guy
16 Jul 10 at 6:45 am
I have an alliance member who has a nice little colony. That person is now uprising against my alliance member. How can the alliance member of mine reinforce the city he has colonized ??
jennyjones
19 Jul 10 at 6:46 pm
can I still capture my enemies city? just like age 1?
how can i capture in AGE 2?
michael
27 Jul 10 at 12:20 pm
there is NOW a basic attack option, i have yet to try it out but you dont have to JUST attack now
jake
30 Jul 10 at 1:20 am
@jennyjones
you click the city he has colonize and press the RE-INFORCE button
jake
30 Jul 10 at 1:22 am
I’m not getting 10% of the others guys troops when I draft, as it says on the button.
Before I drafted he had 175 – I got 4
Previous day I got 9 and before that 10, 10 etc.
Highest I got was first day 12 when he had like 220 odd
Anyone know why, or have they changed the rule?
I’m being robbed when I’m stealing – It’s a crime.
Bull
6 Aug 10 at 2:38 pm
For those of you who say, if you don’t like being colonized, play E1…. thats just wrong. You have that attitude because you aren’t the one being colonized just hours out of BP. E2 sucks unless you got on the server with the first of them. I won’t even play E1 anymore because of it. Evony designers…. bad idea letting players just out of BP falling pray to members just because they’ve been on the server longer.
Steve
24 Aug 10 at 6:03 am
What a stupid game. What’s the point of beginner protection when you get creamed the minute it’s over ? I’ve got emails saying that I’m toast the minute BP runs out. What kind of chance do you have ? NONE ! …oh right unless you spend lots of $$$. Dumb game for losers who have more money than brains. Evony has gotten too greedy. They’re not getting my 2 cents !!!
Kitchypoodle
25 Aug 10 at 1:36 am
I joined Age 2 server NA16… got out of BP and was colonized a few days later. I didn’t whine and quit like everyone above… I hid my troops in a flat next to my town. Then started another city and moved the troops there. I then built up enough troops to defend that city. After my techs were level 10 and I had a nice number of troops. I uprised, got reinforcements from my alliance and ended up killing 1.8mil troops from my Suzerain. Since then, I’ve had enough cities to produce archers quick enough to defend my cities and nobody has tried to colonize me since.
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For those who don’t know what to do after colonizing a city
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Say you used your city called “Main” to send troops from and colonize someone elses city. Once you have them colonized, simply hover your mouse over your city “main” in your cities list (on the right of the screen, next to your resource production) and you will see a little box pop-out that has a list of all the cities you have colonized. Click on one of those colonized cities and up comes the box allowing you to Draft Troops, Re-deploy population etc.
KevCore
6 Sep 10 at 2:21 pm
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What to do if someone is uprising against you
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If somebody is uprising their city against you, do not panic. You DO NOT need to send your troops to the city.
Let me explain why;
Say I have 2 cities, both with 100k archers. The city I used to colonize someone is called “Kev”. When 1 of them uprises against me, send all your troops from all your cities to the city called “Kev”. So for example, “Kev” now has 200k archers in the city. All you do now is sit and wait. You DO NOT need to send your troops to the city. Why? Because 1 second before the uprise battle, all of your troops in the city “Kev” will instantly teleport themselves in to the city that is uprising. 1 second after the uprise battle, your troops are back home. Evony has set Age2 so that troops will instantly move to the uprising city just before the battle and will instantly bring them home just after. I know this because my alliance member had someone uprise against them. My alliance member didn’t do anything, however when the uprise took place… all her troops were there to stop them!
KevCore
6 Sep 10 at 2:28 pm
Age 1 is for losers that can’t build up from scratch again, whine about getting hit in the face as soon as you leave BP? Join one of the new servers that comes out every month, OR grow a pair and join an alliance and actually help eachother.
QQing about being suzied? Guess what, it probably helps you, you stupid noob (if you get attacked while suzied, the suzierain’s troops fight to defend you, small price to pay for 15% tribute on resources). Don’t want to get suzied? Don’t make it worth their while, stop stock-piling millions of golds and get some GD troops!
aaaaaaaand Age2 has attack now, so you can NPC their cities just like age1, suck less please.
YawnAge1isnoob
14 Sep 10 at 10:03 am
If the suzarian hasn’t arrived yet to colonize but is on the way, can I still teleport to avoid him?
MJay
12 Oct 10 at 10:39 pm
In age 1 a weaker player from an weaker alliance could take over and barb enemy cites just by coordinate attacks and do good intel.
Now its more difficult, because a stronger[1] player could mass all his or her troops in the city.
No room for maneuver and lighting attacks such as for age 1.
:/
[1]: In this regard a stronger player is a player who has done more farming, not stronger by good playin’
Manstein
9 Nov 10 at 10:16 pm
can i join this site to help build
MONSTA
16 Nov 10 at 1:53 am
I’ve colonized over 18 players and i don’t see Food Levy or Tax Imposition anywhere?
Dyldo
27 Nov 10 at 4:17 am
This topic caught my attention as I am almost at the end of BP.
By the way, do you guys think that if there was another game like evony, without this amount of bugs, it would be worth a try? What if it was a new game and so, without such huge amount of users?
Rafa
11 Jan 11 at 6:10 am
How comes that the same city is still under suppression after 12 hours ??? I started a war against someone on na29, attacked him firs t with succes and then wanted to Colonize. At that moment I got the message that you can not colonize a city that is under Suppression. 12 hours lates I get the same message when I try to colonize it. How is this possible when Suppresion time is 8 ! hours ??
PietjeII
4 Feb 11 at 2:42 am
I have an ageII account and you can attack
I took out most of a cities troops then colonized it.
I Think that if you colonize a big player that you can get a LOT-OF-TROOPS. Plus if a Big player colonizes you you should hide troops in a vallie of your when you get off-line then the person colonizing you would not get any.
If your colonized then that gives you a chance to build with protection.
Mr.Evony
8 Feb 11 at 3:31 pm
For PietJell, if someone else colonized while you were only attacking then the city could be under suppression time in which case.. no attack is available… looks like someone beat you to it
scott
7 May 11 at 2:45 am
If you are colonized simply move your army into a valley that you own. Sure the food you need for the army doubles but at least you have an army. They can only draft troops from you if you have troops in the colonized city. If you do get colonized just uprise and ask your alliance to reinforce you. Then you have youra army and all the troops that they send you to fight your suze. I have been suzed multiple times and I have been a suze many times. I am currently a suze. Just ask your suzerain to let you go, but ask nicely don’t just demand to be let go.
coolio
4 Jun 11 at 2:24 pm
TOTALLY DISSAPPOINTED!!!!! I just spent many many hours under BP the past 7 days preparing city for attacks and getting ready to attack others thinking age 2 was the same as age 1 only to find out about this majorly shit colonise feature and the removal of the best part of the game (attacking and plundering). After reading this forum post I feel like I have just wasted a hell of alot of time setting up an age 2 game which is not even really the same game anymore, what a totally shit game, i know why you “THINK” it is better for beginners, but that just crap, the way it was, was just fine, you learnt to get your shit together and form strong alliances when you faced the open war game. Im so pissed off now i think im just going to boycott EVONY all together, there should be clearly identified differences before people decide to play age 2, because its just a differnt game all together really. Time to go find a real game to play….
Andrew
5 Jun 11 at 1:20 pm
I found the panel for pop. redeployment, but I cannot find the food levy or tax bits, are they somewhere else?
Sage
7 Jun 11 at 5:49 pm