1) This game is laggy as hell
2) This game is free
3) There are no beautiful models in the game
4) Strangely addicting
5) You must have great patience to enjoy Civony
I was reading something on the web when I ran across a picture of a beautiful girl with a picture of a castle or something behind her.
I thought to myself "hmm some kind of strategy game with hot chicks involved...count me in!"
I clicked on the link and it took me to the start up page for Civony. With expectations of medieval armies and busty wenches I gladly gave them my email address. This is all that is required to start your account and begin play.
I was taken to a city building screen and thought "Wow, that looks a lot like Age of Empires." I only have my memory of AoE to go by as I no longer have that game, but several people were mirroring what I was thinking over general chat. The animations look as if they were ripped straight from AoE.
I dove into the game almost without thinking. I began upgrading and making new structures like any standard RTS. The deviate from the rule being that you can only build or upgrade one thing at a time. Also, the higher the level building you are upgrading, the longer it takes to build each time. This involves a BUNCH of waiting around for stuff to be built. For example: when I first started the buildings were taking anywhere from 45 seconds to 3 minutes to build. Now, if I want to upgrade my castle walls it's going to take 3 hours and 36 minutes.
Resources in the game are Gold, Food, Lumber, Stone and Iron. You begin with a supply of each, with more rolling in all the time. The amount that comes in depends on how many resource gathering nodes you have built and the level you have upgraded them to. When I say "all the time" I mean precisely that. The game is like an MMO in that there is a persistent world where things happen regardless of whether or not you're logged on.
It is a multiplayer game and it throws you randomly onto a large map filled with other kingdoms. You are given a "beginner buff" which makes it so you have seven days where people cannot attack you. You can voluntarily give up this buff and go to war whenever you wish. I have not checked out much of the multiplayer aspect as I am making full use of the time you are given to build yourself up. I will update this post after I have some idea of the multiplayer.
Strangely, I have found this game extremely addicting. I cannot resist the urge to check on my little kingdom. I need to see if my construction is complete and check the levels of my resources. Honestly I've checked on my kingdom no less than 3 times since I began writing this. It's the kind of game you must have patience for. You will not have much instant gratification with this game, but I believe if you take the time, you'll find it to have that odd flavor that truly addicting games have. That "Why do I keep looking at this screen when I should be sleeping?!" voice going off in your head will annoy you almost as much the constant lame question spam coming over the general chat. Seriously people, read the "Quest" tab and it will tell you what you need to do to get started and how to play.
The makers of this game sell "coins" in exchange for real money. These "coins" enhance the game in various ways. You can make your army have more attack power or defensive power for 24 hours, or complete a structure instantly with the coins. I have not found that I wish to throw down my hard earned cash for these little advances yet. The screen they have set up for purchasing the coins is silly. There is a drop down menu for how many USD in exchange for cents Civony game coins. People read "30 USD in exchange for 300 cents Civony game coins". I don't know how successful they are going to be using this terminology.
If you hadn't noticed after the second paragraph I didn't mention hot girls or busty wenches again. It's because after two days of playing I have yet to see ANY picture of ANY female. I have not gotten a queen or anything like that. Some people may be disappointed by the distinct lack of cleavage in the actual game versus what was advertised. I am one of those people, however I will continue to give this game a chance and will write more if people are interested.
Please feel free to use the comments to tell me your impressions of this game. Also feel free to shoot me a mail in game. I am Lord Woozy and play on Server 1
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