Evony

I have gotten myself hooked on a web game named Evony.  It is somewhat like Microsoft's Age Of Empires, but played entirely online.  In it you are the Lord (or Lady) of your own town.  You will grow your town by adding buildings, researching in the academy, plotting resource plots and then building walls and defenses.  You join an alliance to help you stay safe from other players who wish to plunder your town for resources, or to even take over your town.  So, you need to train troops and work with your fellow alliance members to protect each other.  It is very addicting as you wish to protect what has taken time and for some money to build your town(s).  Plus if you are in an active alliance  there is the alliance chat to help you communicate to fellow alliance members.  Diplomacy skills are put to the test in this game as is strategy skills.  This is definitely a game in which teamwork is a plus.  Trying to play this as an individual not in an alliance will not get you far as you will be attacked for your resources and you will have no way to gain resources from other alliance members to help you rebuild your town.  You will start the game with just a Town Hall and 1 town.  From there you can also gain more towns and prestige.  As you gain rank and titles you can then add towns to your empire.  Having more towns helps you protect yourself, and makes you less attractive to attack.  That is until most players have larger an more towns themselves.  This is when having a strong alliance is a must as the higher ranked alliances seem to just by their actions and strength keep their members safe from attack.  I would suggest anyone who is interested in playing this game to go to evony.com and sign up.  If you would like to play on the same server that I play on contact me and I will give you all the info to get where you need to be.

Luv Ya,

Nikki