Evony Tip – Evony Trebbing: the Art of Trebuchet Hero Leveling and Item Farming

Sunday, September 6, 2015Monday, September 7, 2015 Friction

Evony Trebbing. Trebuchet Leveling. Item Farming. These things all have one thing in common – the Defensive Trebuchet, an Evony defense fortification!

The Basics of Evony-Trebbing/Trebuchet-Leveling/Item-Farming

The basics of the process, in a nutshell, equate to repeatedly spamming one accounts insta-treb city from another account’s city that has lots of scouts. The trebs are worth alot of experience to build, so the Insta-Treb hero building them gets lots of experience. The spamming attack hero gets lots of experience for killing the pricey trebs. The defending city’s defending hero gets experience for killing all the scout spams. Plus, the defending account/city loses honor AND gets awarded lots of items for defending and winning the battles against the spam attacks.

What you need to start Evony-Trebbing/Trebuchet-Leveling/Item-Farming:

One Instant-Trebuchet Account:

Must have Hero with 1066+ Politics
Must have Billions of Stone
Must have Food equaling at least 15% the amount of Stone you plan to use. (150m food per 1b stone)
Must have FULL Feasting Hall with no space in order to NOT capture spamming Heroes!
(If being spammed to gain defensive hero experience, MUST have Gates OPEN and NO Troops. Highest Attack Hero in city always defends by default.

One Scout Account:

Must have roughly 666k Scouts to spam with per 1b Stone on Trebuchet Account being used.
(If Spamming for purpose of gaining Hero Experience, must have Hero-To-Train ready in city to spam.)
(If spamming to aid Trebuchet City in Item Farming, must have multiple heroes ready in city to spam.)

The Trebuchet Building and Scout Attacking cities with heroes should be directly next to each other, 1 mile apart, for maximum effectiveness.

If worried about spamming city heal-rate or honor-gain cities should have a single valley within 1.3 miles of BOTH cities.

That’s it, three to four crucial elements with some minor sub-details. No big deal! 😛

Here’s the process for Evony-Trebbing/Trebuchet-Leveling:

Trebuchet City:

Fills Feasting Hall
Build 11000 Trebs – Clear Wall of any Traps, Abatis, Archer Towers, and/or Rolling Logs!
IF worried about spammer heal-rate/honor-gain – Reinforce nearby Valley with 100k Scouts.
IF defending with gates open for hero experience – Move ALL Remaining Troops Out of the City!

Spamming City:

IF worried about spammer heal-rate – Use a Penicillin.
IF Trebuchet City Reinforced Valley – Attack Valley with junk hero and 1 scout.
Land another Attack on Trebuchet City with Hero-To-Train and 23333 Scouts AFTER Valley attack has landed.

REPEAT! (Minus using Penecillin – Only needed once every 24 hours.)

Most skill players, and bots, can get the above sequence achieved about once every 15 seconds. At roughly 700k hero experience per hit for the Spammer, 160k for the defender hero if gates are open, and 913k hero experience for treb Hero every 11k trebs built, that equals about:
_{168m Experience per Hour for Spammer Hero ((4×700000)60)

3.864b Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Spammer Hero ((4×700000)60)23)

and:

38.4m Experience per Hour for Trebuchet City Defending Hero ((4×160000)60)

883.2m Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Trebuchet City Defending Hero (((4×160000)60)23)

and:

219.12m Experience per Hour for Trebuchet Building Hero ((4×913000)60)

5.04b Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Trebuchet Building Hero (((4×913000)60)23)}
Not bad! If not worried about heal-rate or honor-gain, remove the valley steps to shave some time off each hit and get the process down to about 12 seconds per hit. 🙂

Here’s the process for Item-Farming: (Doesn’t account for Honor-Gain or Heal-Rate, just goes for more items!)

Trebuchet City:

Fills Feasting Hall
Build 11000 Trebs – Clear Wall of any Traps, Abatis, Archer Towers, and/or Rolling Logs!
IF defending with gates open for hero experience – Move ALL Remaining Troops Out of the City!

Spamming City:

Attack Trebuchet City with as many Junk Heroes and 23333 Scouts per wave as possible.

Trebuchet City:

Try to keep Defensive Trebuchets at 11000 as spam attacks roll in!

REPEAT!

Most skill players, and bots, can achieve 10 Spam waves outgoing in about 30 seconds. At roughly 700k hero experience per hit for the Spammer, 160k for the defender hero if gates are open, and 913k hero experience for treb Hero every 11k trebs built, that equals about:
_{840m Experience per Hour distributed amongst Spamming Heroes (((10×700000)2)60)

19.32b Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) distributed amongst Spamming Heroes ((((10×700000)2)60)23)

and:

192m Experience per Hour for Trebuchet City Defending Hero (((10×160000)2)60)

4.416b Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Trebuchet City Defending Hero ((((10×160000)2)60)23)

and:

1.096b Experience per Hour for Trebuchet Building Hero (((10×913000)2)60)

25.199b Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Trebuchet Building Hero ((((10×913000)2)60)23)}
Whoa! That’s a ton of experience – but it also costs a TON of dying troops and most Evony players won’t be able to keep up the above method of trebbing for very long. It’s mainly just a good way to win a lot of items in a short time from winning battles, mainly teleports and amulets – hence the name, Evony Item Farming!

Here’s the Single-Player Method for Evony Trebbing: (Wasteful, but good for leveling Treb Hero alone!)

Trebuchet City:

Build 11000 Instant-Trebs – Clear Wall of any Traps, Abatis, Archer Towers, and/or Rolling Logs!
Demolish 11000 Trebs

REPEAT!

You can do the above sequence once about every 6 seconds. At 913k hero experience for treb Hero every 11k trebs built, that equals about:
_{547.8m Experience per Hour for Trebuchet Building Hero ((10×913000)60)

12.599b Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Trebuchet Building Hero ((((10×913000)3)60)23)}
Not as much experience as when Item-Farming, but over twice as much Treb Hero experience as normal/conventional Evony-Trebbing/Trebuchet-Leveling!

Just in case you are curious how this stands against conventional Speed Leveling: (Attacking Level 10 NPCs with just Archers/Meats, NO Trans.)

Even if you have a city that can attack 18 different Level 10 NPCs with Archers/Scouts in 1 hour, that only equals about:
_{34.02m Experience per Hour for Attacking Hero (18×1890000)

782.46m Experience per Day (maintenance accounted for) for Attacking Hero ((18×1890000)23)}

Evony Speed-Leveling experience is pretty sad looking once compared Evony Trebbing experience, huh?

Beating the Evony IP Connection Limit with TheDirector and a Proxy List

Saturday, September 5, 2015 Friction

If you’ve read EHU’s other post about beating the Evony IP connection limit then you probably ended up here wanting to know the some-what newer and faster way of launching NEAT bots through a proxy without using the “Proxifier” program.

Here’s the newer, more efficient way of using NEATbot through proxies:

First, you need a .txt document containing a list of proxies in ip:port format, like this:

123.234.123.234:80
234.123.234.123:8080
123.234.234.123:82
234.234.123.123:3128

123.234.123.234:80

234.123.234.123:8080

123.234.234.123:82

234.234.123.123:3128

Any of the proxies that are socks 5 type should have “ss5://” in front of them, like this:

123.234.123.234:80
234.123.234.123:8080
123.234.234.123:82
ss5://234.234.123.123:3128

123.234.123.234:80

234.123.234.123:8080

123.234.234.123:82

ss5://234.234.123.123:3128

Then, go to your running TheDirector.exe and in the top menu select “Tools > Use Proxies from the Proxy List” so that it now has a check-mark next to it.

After that, in TheDirector top menu select “Tools > Choose ProxyList File” and navigate to your .txt Proxy List document and select it.

Special note: If using public/shared/open proxies you found for free on the web, you should add the following parameters to your TheDirector.exe paramater box or CmdParms.txt file:

-logintimeout=90 -connectioncheckdelay=300

1	-logintimeout=90 -connectioncheckdelay=300

That’s it! You’re done setting TheDirector to use proxies from a list

If you need some proxies – get them here!

Bonus: Here’s a video by LKD70 showing how to setup TheDirector to use a proxy list!

Beating the New Evony IP Connection Limits with Proxies and NEATBot

Saturday, March 15, 2014Sunday, September 6, 2015 Evony Hookups

Okay, so.. I was recently affected by what seems to be the start of a larger problem on Evony – IP connection limits!! After the new year I was starting to be plagued with the now dreaded (on some servers) “Security Error”. It turns out Evony is now limiting how many accounts/players can connect to Evony servers via one single IP address. The Evony server I play on has been limited to 100 accounts per IP, but I’m seeing in forums that some servers have been limited to as little as 3 accounts/players connected per IP!!

As a 6+ year Evony veteran, and 5.9+ year Evony botter, I’m used to IP bans and how to get around them by setting up my machine (computer/server) with one of the various VPN protocols (PPTP, L2TP, VPN) and “routing” my machine/network’s internet activity to another machine’s internet connection some where else, effectively changing my IP. However, the problems with most VPNs is they route my machines entire internet activity, this means all the applications and software on my machine will run through the VPN and alternate IP – thus making it difficult to utilize multiple IPs at once without using multiple computers/machines.

So.. What do I do if I have 17 Evony accounts and the server I play on gets limited to 5 accounts per IP? Use 4 computers/machines and 3 VPNs?? That’s a pain in the ass.. What if I have some beastly 4Ghz 16-Core Server with 64gb of RAM that could possibly run 400+ accounts, but the extremely competitive and bot-heavy server I play on gets limited to 50 accounts per IP? That would really suck to have all that horsepower and not be able to use it.. So, how do I route some of my bots through an alternate IP, and the rest through another alternate IP? How do I route 1/3 of my bots through my real IP address, and then the other 2/3 of my bots through 2 alternate IPs??

The solution to Evony IP Connection Limit problems is a Proxy – more specific to this situation, multiple Proxies!

What is a proxy you ask?? Similar to a VPN, a proxy “routes” your internet activity to another remote machine some where else in the world, changing your IP address. However, properly configuring a decent “proxifier” will allow you to route only SOME of your applications/software, via the .exe executable file, through different proxies while allowing you to still use your real IP address for other applications/software. You can even put your entire machine behind a VPN connection and then also use multiple proxy connections. You can even “tunnel” through two or more proxies at a time for extra security if you really want to hide your real IP, however I’m not sure why you would need that much security to bot on Evony..

Things you will need to Beat the New Evony IP Connection Limits with Proxies and NEATBot:

Proxies – Socks4 or Socks5 only! HTTP/HTTPS proxies won’t work.
(Get some proxies for Evony here)
“Proxifier” program – Self-titled proxifier app, there are others that would work. (Proxy Switcher Pro, perhaps?)
NEAT####.exe – An up-to-date version of the latest NEAT.exe executable file.
“The Director” – I’d assume you are already using this if you have multiple accounts..

Proxifier and NEATbot Overview:

NEAT.exe Preparation
Proxifier Install/Setup
“The Director” Configuration

NEAT.exe Preparation:

Okay, first.. I assume you have your NEAT.exe in a designated folder/directory with TheDirector.exe on your “desktop” or “My Documents” some where, if not, I recommend doing so for organizational purposes.. don’t just run TheDirector and NEAT from the desktop, it can get messy.. especially if you use Global Goals and/or parameter start-up scripts.. and you also run the risk of accidentally deleting scripts, goals, or even essential TheDirector files. My NEAT.exe and TheDirector.exe are located in a folder named “NEAT” on my desktop – see image below.

Next, you will need to place your NEAT.exe executable in the NEAT folder/directory that you have your TheDirector.exe executable in, if it’s not already there. Then, make a duplicate copy of the NEAT.exe for each different proxy/IP you plan on using. I am setting up 3 alternate proxy IPs, so I have 3 copies of my NEAT2995.exe named “NEATProxy1.exe”, “NEATProxy2.exe”, and “NEATProxy3.exe” – see image below.

Proxifier Install/Setup:

Now, open Proxifier and click “Profile” on the top menu, then “Proxy Servers..” – see image below.

Then click the “Add…” button on the Proxy Servers window once it appears – see image below.

Now enter your proxy’s IP/URL, Port number, select the proxy type, and click the “OK” button to save your proxy server – see image below. (If you want to use Proxifier to make sure your proxy server is functioning, go to the next step before clicking “OK” to save.)

You may click the “Check” button too make sure your chosen proxy server is up and running. If everything checks out fine, just click ‘OK” on the Proxy Checker window and then “OK” again on the Proxy Server window to save your new proxy server and continue – see image below.

Now, repeat the two previous steps until all of your proxies are entered into Proxifier. Once complete, click “OK” on the “Proxy Servers” window – see image below.

Now, to setup which NEAT.exe files Proxifier uses with each proxy, click “Profile” on the top menu, and then “Proxification Rules…” – see image below.

Click the “Add” button on the “Proxification Rules” window that appears – see image below.

Then, give your new rule a name, such as “NEATProxy1″.

Next, assign Applications to the first proxy by using the “Browse” button to navigate to your NEAT folder (mine’s on my desktop, remember?) and then select the first NEAT.exe that you renamed (“NEATProxy1.exe” if you are following this guide without deviation) – you can also just type the executable’s name followed by a semicolon, and skip the “Browse” button.

Leave the Target Hosts and Target Ports options set to “any”, the default.In the “Action’ drop-down box, select the first Proxy you entered into Proxifier and then click the “OK” button to save your first Proxification Rule – see image below.

Next, repeat the last two steps setting up new “Proxification Rules” for each of the separate NEAT.exe files you renamed and the Proxy Servers you saved to Proxifier – see image below. (I also like to use the Up/Down arrows on the left of the “Proxification Rules” window to order my rules in order of use, starting with the top being first used proxy, and bottom being the last used proxy. This is just for organizational purposes so proxies are easier to distinguish/find when I need to switch them out.)

Now that you are done with your Proxy Servers, and Proxification Rules, it’s time to set Proxifier to auto, as well as save everything. First, in the top menu click “File” then in the drop-down click “Autostart” to make Proxifier start automatically when Windows loads. Next, click “File” in the top menu and then “Save Profile As…” to save all of your freshly setup Proxifier settings, rules, and proxies to a new profile, I named mine “NEAT” – see images below.

“The Director” Configuration:

Now all that is left to beat the Evony IP connection limit with NEATbot and proxies is to set your “The Director” to use the newly created, and proxified, NEAT.exe files you created/renamed previously. Assuming you have already been using The Director to run your NEATbots, this should be an easy/quick task. If your “The Director” is not already setup to manage your accounts, set it up first before continuing.

The only task in The Director is to change which NEATbot NEAT.exe executable file that your accounts use when starting, and there are two ways to do this. But first, set your The Director’s “Auto-Restart” option to “Regular” instead of “Enable” so no bots are restarted/maintained while we edit profile info – see image below.

So, the first way to assign which NEATbot executable your accounts launch with is the manual way, and to do it you highlight the account name in The Director, then click the “Account Details”. In the “Profile Settings” window that appears, click the “set” button next to the “Profile Bot” blank at the bottom of the window – see image below.

In the “Select File” window that appears, browse to the first NEAT.exe executable we renamed, “NEATProxy1.exe” if following this guide without deviation, then click the “Open” button – see image below.

You will now see the new path to the NEAT.exe to use in the “Profile Bot” blank , the first proxified one we created. Click the “Save” button at the bottom of the “Profile Settings” window and then repeat the two previous steps for ALL the accounts and different proxified NEAT.exe files you created – see image below.

The second method for changing which NEAT.exe files The Director uses for each account is much faster, but might be scary to the less “tech savvy” Evony botters… Click the “View” button in the top menu and then “Edit All Profile Info”, this will bring up a new window where ALL account settings can be edited from one page/view. Find the “Specific Exe” column and fill in the blanks with the paths to the desired NEAT.exe file for each account. Once all accounts in the list have their “Specific Exe” value changed to the desired path, click the “Editing Complete” button at the bottom of the window – see image below.

Proxifier and NEATbot Completion:

Now that you have finished setting up your NEAT.exe files, your proxies and proxifier, and have changed The Director to use your proxied NEAT.exe files.. the only thing left to do is start your accounts! (Or, set Director back to “Enable” if you changed it to “Regular” earlier, and then restart your accounts!)

Keep the proxifier window/log open and you will be able to see it working, routing all of the different NEAT.exe traffic through the different proxies, giving them new IP addresses.

In my tutorial I’ve setup just 4 accounts using 3 proxies and also my real IP address. Of course, you can see how this could be done on a larger scale, for example: 5 proxies with 50 feeder accounts on each, plus 50 main accounts running “direct” through the real IP address, for a total of 300 accounts running on one Evony server limited to 50 accounts per IP address. Alternatively, if you are in one of the more strict servers you might need to restrict The Director to only running 5 accounts per proxy, so just 25 accounts would need at least 4 proxies – which is still better than using VPNs and needing 5 different machines!!Enjoy!

Note:

Not all proxies are the same, and some of the shared/public proxies can be unsecured – even monitored. Using shared/public proxies can be a free, however, be SURE to only use them for accounts you don’t mind a slight chance of possibly losing, and NEVER use a shared/public proxy for routing personal information. (In other words.. Don’t setup your web-browser to run through a shared/public proxy and then login to your online banking account! That info could be logged…) Private proxies can be bought/rented – this is the most safe route. Besides.. scraping shared/public proxies can be a pain in the ass..

Note 2:

Don’t use the proxies shown in this tutorial – they are shared/public proxies I grabbed JUST for making this tutorial – they are slow, probably unsafe, and horribly unreliable.

Get some Premium Evony Proxies here

Update:

This article was also shared on the NEAT Bot website’s forum, and was eventually closed for further discussion after these replies from admin Inanna.

“by Inanna » Fri Feb 14, 2014 7:18 pm
You don’t need proxifier anymore now… the bot can support it built-in. Check out the change log on the last 3 test builds “

and

“by Inanna » Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:40 pm
Closing this for now since there’s no longer an IP limit on Evony. No need for us to continue freaking out about potential new systems they’re planning and haven’t yet added.”

Update 2:

A few months after writing this guide, my server was limited to just 3 accounts per IP and I switched to the newer/faster method of using TheDirector and a Proxy List. I also updated this guide a bit for this still using this method.

So, you may continue using this method, or try out the NEAT Bot’s new proxy features. ~~Personally, I like managing my proxies in a proxifier as opposed to managing them individually in applications.~~ Good Luck!