How to get prestige?

I have seen many players with slow running prestige. You should consider that Evony is not a single dimensional game. If you just attack other you can get just a few prestige. Or if you just keep building and upgrading you will have same problem.
You can get prestige from:

• Upgrade buildings
• Research in academy 
• Training troops
• War

You will finish building and research in academy one day but you can train troops and go for war for ever.

The fastest way to get prestige is training troops, but you need resources for training. So, upgrade your city resource fields first and then keep upgrading, research and training troops in parallel.

After training a lot of troops then your food production will be negative so you need some ballista to farm NPC5 and fight with enemy.

If you lose some troops then you can train again and this loop give you prestige very fast. If you have 100k archers then you can go NPC10 farming which is the best way to get 19 min food + 1000 prestige + 1.8 mil experience for your hero. You will lose 5-35k archers for each farming and you need to train more archers which give you more prestige.

As a brief, you can follow these steps:

1- Upgrade you city's resource field (sawmill+ iron-mine+farm+quarry) to get more resources.

2- Train 550 ballista + 550 transporter in each city.

3- Farm NPC5 by 550 ballista + 550 transporter.

4- Train 100k archer.

5- Farm NPC10

Medal Farming

Medal farming is the most interesting part of EVONY online game.
The medal drop rate is different from servers to servers. In older server is was much easier to get medal but in latest server it is really critical. This article is based on latest servers. We play on server 127 and here is some advice for medal farming in this server.
The EVONY said that Rose-Lion are in low level valley, but it is completely wrong in this server. In this server you can find more medals in valley 8-10. The medal drop rate is very very low in valley level 1-7.
Valley level 10 has the highest drop rate then level 9 and then level 8.
If you do not have any valley level 10 then you can wait for next maintenance. Valleys' level will be upgraded every day. If valley is level 8 you should wait 2 days. then conquer it and keep it at level 10.
Suppose you have a level 10 valley close to your city. To conquer a level 10 valley I use a simple rainbow with 25k archers supported by a single ballista. This ballista can save your archers.
Here are some proofs: (click on pictures to enlarge)

Now there are some common interesting questions:

• Where to get Rose medal?
• What is the medal drop rate?
• Do we need to conquer the valley?
• Should we wait 1 hour to valley reproduce its resources and then attack?

Answers:

• Rose medal can be found in all type of valleys, but my experience says that flat and food related valley have high chance to get Rose medal. So, flat, lake, swamp and grassland are good target for Rose medal. There is not any clear rule to show you medal and chances in valleys so if you did not find any rose in those valleys then try other types of valleys.
• So far, Medal drop rate is 8/1. Means in every 8 hits I can get 1 medal.
• The good news is that we do not need to conquer the valley. So if you valley slot in full in your town hall then don't worry.
• The best way is selecting 3 or 4 valleys and hit then one by one then when you reach to same valley you almost past 1 hour and valley has full resources.

Do we need warehouse?

Most of the EVONY players asking that, " Do we need warehouse?" or " How many warehouses is good?"
The answer is no, we do not need warehouse. Even when we research we have a full privating in our academy. Because its capacity is much lower than out needs.
We can build one more barrack instead of warehouse. But now the question is that how can we protect our resources from enemy's plundering?
There is a trick, stone is very cheap in market and we do not need it after finishing our buildings, so we can collect a lot of stone in our city.
When enemy attack us it can plunder our resources based on existing resources. If you use lumber and iron every day to train more troops then stone will get high ratio in your city and enemy has to plunder a lot of stone instead of lumber and iron. It means having a lot of stone in your city can protect your other resources.
Another option is that you just build one warehouse in your city and do research on stockpile to get more prestige. I recommend you that use warehouse capacity just for food, because if you offline and some one attack you and plunder all of your resources then your troops may die. Having some food in warehouse may be useful.

Attack by team work

Hi friends,
We can attack to enemy by team work to make revenge,  the best revenge is conquering their city when they are offline. To this end, we should use fast troops like cavalry or cataphract.
We need to upgrade our rally spot till level 9 as well as  feasting hall  to level 9. Then we can send 9 waves and 90k troops in each wave.
The most important thing in team work is time.
The nearest active online player should keep scouting the target city until team work finish. We call this player as scout-man. Scout-man should check troops(reinforcement), gate and the loyalty of target city if any changes then scout-man should inform others.
We follow these steps:

1. Scouting : We check the gate first by send just 1 scout. If our scout died it means the gate is open. Then all players send 90% of their scouts to kill scouts in target city. And finally scout-man keep scouting by 1 scout until team work finish.
2. Destroying the wall : If target has good wall together with high Engineering and Machinery then we should use scout Bomb the clear the arch towers. ( in scout bomb we attack by at least 30k scouts and  a crap hero). If wall is not so strong then we go for first hit.
3. First hit : First hit should be strong and kill all troops in target city. If enemy has more than 100k archers then we may need more one hit to clear its troops. We use rainbow by fast troops and archers in first hit (do not send worker, transporter and ballista in first hit). Sending 90k archers + 1 warr + 1 pike+ 1 cava+ 1 cata is ideal. If our rally spot at level 10 we may send 100k troops.
4. Counter attack : We use cavalry in counter attack to reduce target city's loyalty fast. Sending 500-1000 cavalry in each wave is needed. If we send less than 500 cavalry the city loyalty may remain unchanged. We continue our counter attack till city's loyalty collapse to 13-14.
5. Wait for public grievance :  After city's loyalty downs to 13 then we wait. The loyalty will decline 1 every 6 min(or more). If city's gate is closed  it will be open when loyalty reaches to 5. During this time we may hit city. The best thing we can do in during this time is plundering its food.
6. Opening the gate and kill all troops: After city's loyalty goes to 5 then its gate will be open and we should kill all troops in target city. So we need a high impact attack like first hit.
7. Conquering the city : we can conquer the city when its loyalty goes zero. Player who has enough title can conquer the city (If you are knight and have 2 cities you cannot conquer the 3rd city but you should keep hitting the city till one of our members conquer the city). 
8. Recover the city or abandon it : check the city if it seems good you can keep it otherwise you can abandon it (make it NPC) . But remember that if you conquered you should inform our members to recall their troops. If you make that city NPC our member will hit NPC and loss their troops. If you want to keep that city you should do disaster relief and praying to recover its loyalty.

Note - You need following requirement to enjoy team working:

• Rally spot at level 9 (or 10)
• Feasting hall at level 9 
• Good sized troops: at least 30k scout + 100k archers + 10k cavalry

So, Work on them please.

Reinforcement

We need reinforcement to protect our members. If we do not help our member we will be the next target.
Reinforcement can be effective if we have a lot of troops in city.
In worst case, enemy attack us by 100k archers (or 125k archers if use war ensign)  if we have same troops in our city and a good wall then we can win the battle.
I have seen that 15k arch towers with archery/engineering/machinery at level 10 can kill 100k archers if attacker archery is low.
There are some point that should be considered in reinforcement.

• Before sending any troops to other city make sure that our member's embassy is open to accept reinforcement troops.
• The city's gate should be open otherwise reinforced troops cannot fight.
• City should have high level embassy to accept more troops from other players. If embassy at level 5 then it can accept troops from 5 players or 5 groups of troops. There is no limitation in troops' size. but number of groups is limited to the embassy level. So, upgrade your embassy at least to level 5.
• Troops need food, make sure there is enough food in city, if not you should send food to the target city. If troops have no food to eat they will return automatically.
• Each group of troops need a hero. They fight separately, so you better to send a high attack hero.
• By a high level beacon tower, target city can foresee the enemy's troops and hit time which are great help when player need reinforcement.
• When you see red bird then go to Reports -- Enemy and inform our members in alliance chat box about the incoming attack. Then members can send their troops to help you.
• After finishing the fight recall your troops, or the target city can dismiss them to return.

NPC Farming

Farming NPCs brings us many benefits such as:

1- geting resources.

2- getting medals depened on NPC level (NPC5 give us Freedom, Wisdom and Courage and NPC4 giave us Honor and Lion)

3- Our heros can get experience.

3- and finnally we can get prestige if we use Archer+Rainbow method.

There are to general way to farm NPCs:

1- Using Ballistas + Transportes (read http://theevonywiki.com/index.php/NPC or this http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=42643)

2- using Archer+Rainbow

The first method is safe and you can plunder NPCs without any loss but it never give you prstige.

The second methode that I recommend you is not safe and you always loss some archers but you can get lots of prestiges and your heros can get more experince in compare with the first method.

- you need to send a high attack hero with your troops.

-Rainbow means attack by all type of troops, we usaully send just one of them to make rainbow but in some cases we can send more.

Following table show the number of archers, warrirors and worker that we need to farm an NPC in second method.

here rainbow means 1Pikeman+ 1 Swordsman+ 1 scout+ 1 cavalry

NPC level	Archers	Warriors	Workers	Transporters
1	1K	100	10	40
2	2K	200	20	100
3	4K	300	30	200
4	8K	400	40	350
5	16K	500	100	500
8	85995	1K	1K	2k
10	95995	1K	1K	2k

- you may farm NPC1 & 2 by sending 1.5k and 3k warriors.

- you may farm NPC6-9 but I do not recommend you coz you will loss lots of troops.

- the number of transporter depends on your logistic level (read http://theevonywiki.com/index.php/NPC)

- the higher archery level the better

- the hight Military Trandition(MT) the better

- the higher medicine the better

- the higher Iron working (IW) the better.

- NPC 8 is the best source for lumber and Iron. You can farm 600K lumber and 600k Iron in every 8 hours. I personally like NPC8 coz it also give lots of experience to hero as well and can be conquered by 90-100K troops. Your hero's attack should be 100+ to farm NPC8.

if you want to attack an NPC 10 your Archery/MT/IW/Medicine should be at level 10. we will give you more detail about farming and conquering NPC10 later. Your hero's attack should be 150+ to farm NPC10.

After farming the NPC you better to upgrade your hero.

Valley Farming

We can increase resource production by conquering valleys. Our hero can get experience and we may get medal.

The number of valleys depend on the town hall level. If you have a town hall level 5 then you can conquer 5 valleys.

There are many ways to conquer valleys, and I believe that sending a rainbow is the most effective and general method.

Steps:

1- first scout the valley, if you find a high level hero there you should send more troops. If its hero's level is 40+ you should send a real good hero to decrease your losses.

2- select a high attack hero to send.

3- use the rainbow method to attack the valley.

Rainbow = 1 worker+ 1 warrior+ 1 pikeman+ 1 scout+ 1 swordsman + 1 cavalry+ 1 Ballista + many Archers

Following table can help us to find the number archer needed for different level of valleys.

Valley level	Archers
1	50
2	100
3	200
4	500
5	1k
6	2K
7	4K
8	7K
9	15k
10	30k

Tips:

- Never send lots of Ballistas to conquer a valley you will loss all. (you better send 1 Ball as a part of rainbow)

- If there are cavalry in valley you better to send 1 Ballista, it can help you to reduce the losses. If not you can use rainbow without ballista to conquer it faster.

- Cavalry and archers can kill each others effectively. If you find a valley full of archers the best way you can conquer it is using Cavalries+ Rainbow and if you find a valley full of cavalries you better to use Archers+ Rainbow.

- Warriors are cheap and can be trained very fast. you may use them to conquer valley level 1-3.

Valley level	Warriors
1	100
2	250
3	500