Evony Age 2 Guide

Privateering is a technology where your attacking military forces are able to ransack and plunder resources from an enemy warehouse. This is a technology is a useful way for you to gain resources when you invade an enemy city. At higher tier levels, privateering will enable your army to plunder and steal resources at a higher amount from enemy warehouses.

To upgrade you privateering technology you go to your academy building. In order for you to upgrade this technology you will need to have built a level 10 academy, researched and leveled your informatics to level 5 and military science to level 8. You also need to pay a cost of 5,000 food, 2,000 iron and 10,000 gold. Along with a 1 hour research time, these prerequisites are require to level to level 1 privateering. As you upgrade this technology the prerequisites increase, and it is a very costly technology to research all the way to level 10.

Researching technologies is pretty important in Evony, so I thought I’d write an article about which technologies you should go for first. After a few months of play time you should have all technologies at level 10, but choosing the right order of researching them can give you an edge in the game on a new server starting up. You have 3 types of technologies in Evony, resource bonus technologies, combat technolgies and city technologies. Some technologies are way cheaper and take less time to research than others, so this is also something you should think about when deciding what to research next. Read the rest of this entry »

If I’m going to conquer a city in Evony I want it to be a city worth keeping. For me that is a city with high level buildings and several high level barracks. New players with low prestige usually don’t have villages like that, so when I try to conquer cities it is usually cities from high prestige active players. It can be very difficult to conquer a village from a high prestige active player, so I thought I’d explain how I do it. Read the rest of this entry »