So Evony has had another patch and we have been told that the level of the walls affects how far the archer towers can strike from. This may not sound like much, but in an MMORPG like Evony, a change like this changes the whole gameplay.
The Walls on Evony used to be just to store more defences. Defences like Traps, Abatis, Archer Towers, Rolling logs and Defensive Trebuchet. Each building level of walls can hold more. Level 10 walls can hold 55,000 “spaces” with each different type of defence using different amounts of space. eg a Trap is 1 space, but an Archer Tower is 3. This means that many people could have many different strategies, or ways of filling their walls. Most people just stick with heaps of Archer Towers.
With the latest Evony Patch, the level of towers enhances the range of these Archer Towers (and other defences). So 5,000 Archer Towers on level 8 walls will do more damage than the same 5,000 Archer Towers on level 6 walls. When you get to the high end of the walls level the Archer Towers do a LOT more damage to invading troops. A level 10 walls with 15,000 Archer Towers will rip apart most armies. Examples of 40,000 archers and 30,000 other troops getting annihilated against 15,000 Archer Towers. This was not the case before the patch. Now it is, and it has made attaking other people a lot more dangerous.
So now to attack another player, or even an NPC barbarian city on Evony you will lose troops. The number of troops will depend on what level the enemies walls are, and how many archer towers are on them.
This is the reason why people can only attack level 5 barbarian towns without losses. Level 6 barbarian towns have level 6 walls, which have enough range to hit ballistas, and even catapults.
You can mitigate these losses by having high Archery Technology. But this is still outranked and outgunned by high level walls.
Walls might be the next big thing for using up your Michelangelo’s Scripts.
Subject: Walls Are Important 
Sat Dec 05, 2009 8:48 am
