Below are brief guides to help you with the basic approach to score the most points possible and hopefully win these events. These events are an easy way to get gems, resources, and honor points for the alliance shop.
Remember that participating and doing well in the monarch competition means extra rewards for you, your alliance, and your server!
City Development
Increase building or research power
Upgrade your low level research and building first. For these upgrades, you can request alliance help and if the upgrade timer is short enough, you can complete the upgrade in just a few minutes without using speedups. Remember before doing any building upgrade to check how much power increase you will get with the next upgrades.
Also, if available, be sure to set a duty general in your Keep and/or Academy to ensure you’re getting the speed buff to makes these upgrades go faster. Check in the General Guide to see which ones will provide an extra boost to upgrade speed.
As always, be sure to check your monarch gear (crown, horn, and crystal) before starting any activity to make sure you are getting the max buffs and not wasting your speed ups!
Monster Killing
Earn points by killing monsters
Due to the point structure if you can hit common monsters above level 12, it will earn you more points with same amount of stamina to hit the common monsters over the boss monsters.
In other words – focus on regular monsters to score higher. Also, make sure to stick with monsters at or below a level that you can kill with no wounded. It’s not worth it to take on too high of a level and end up with a lot of wounded to heal.
As always, be sure to check your monarch gear (war horn should be on March Capacity Increase if leading rallies or March Speed Increase if joining rallies) before starting any activity to make sure you are getting the max buffs.
Troop Training
Earn points by training new troops
The more troops trained, the more points earned. The higher level your troops are, the more points earned. For example, a trained level 1 troop earns less than a trained level 6 troop.
As always, be sure to check your monarch gear (crown should be on troop training) before starting any activity to make sure you are getting the max buffs and not wasting your speed ups!
Also, if you have generals capable of being appointed as duty officers in your barracks, you will get a training capacity increase and an extra training speed buff by putting them in there. Check in the General Guide to see which ones will provide an extra boost to troop training speed.
If you only have one duty officer, put him in one troop training building while start training those troops and then move him to another troop training building prior to starting training there. You can treat him the same way you would monarch gear, moving him around prior to starting a new batch of training in any troop training building.
One other tip – you can continue to gather while you train. This can only help you train more troops by bringing in more resources throughout the day. You can reference the Gathering Generals in the Resource Gathering Guide to get an extra collection boost to train faster.
Power Increase
Increase power through any means (leveling and developing generals, building, research, monarch, troop training).
Losing power will decrease points earned. If you earned a lot of points already and reached the point thresholds and then lost power by someone attacking you or vice versa, then you still get to keep rewards.
Also, if you have wounded troops from the day before, save them to heal for this event. The increase of power from wounded troops will help you earn points. Additionally, recalling deserters and repairing siege machines on the day of event will add points that count towards this event.
As always, be sure to check your monarch gear (crown, horn, and crystal) before starting any activity to make sure you are getting the max buffs and not wasting your speed ups!
Gather Resources
Earn points for gathering resources
Winning this event is different than any of the others. Points collected for gathering resources are only tallied when your march returns from the spot it is collecting from. This means, you can prepare for this event by sending out troops the day before (or sometimes earlier) and scheduling them to return once this event has started. The only caveat is that you don’t know what day this event will happen, so it can be difficult to time.
A trick can be to setup gatherers at gem mines and let them collect for several days and then manually return them once this event starts to give you a quick boost of points at the start. The downside is that these troops will be unavailable for any other events while you wait for this event to start.
You can reference the Gathering Generals in the Resource Gathering Guide to get an extra collection boost to collect faster.
As always, be sure to check your monarch gear (crystal) before starting any collecting to make sure you are getting the max buff to collection speed so that you can send them out again even faster!
Kill Enemies
Earn points by killing enemies
This event is the bane of some and the highlight of the week for others. This is very dependent on if you have a “war” server or a “NAP” (No Attack Policy) server. War servers are often continually attacking, so this event isn’t much different from every day. But for NAP servers, this may be the only day of the week where attacking other server members is allowed.
These rules are set per server, but this is the time to attack players on your server to earn points. It is also a good opportunity to teach your server the importance of bubbling (setting a truce agreement), how to read a scout report and to practice attacking players.
An added benefit is that you will get resources from player’s top bars and possible capture some players for your Prison (which will give you additional resources if you labor them and prestige if you release them).
General Trapp
says:This is a BS event during NAP, can’t attack other “alliance” players even if they don’t have a bubble… The “King” puts a KOS on your head and everyone attacks and kills you. Should be taken off the Monarch competition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Evony Builds
says:I agree! “Kill Players” definitely causes a lot of issues for servers!
Fortune
says:the NAP is what is agreed upon by your server. NAP is not how the game is designed to be played. Maybe overthrow the rules of your server or play a different server that has KE.
OleDad
says:The bane of every game of this type is the player who spends a thousand dollars a month to have the biggest and baddest keep and armies — and then enjoys zeroing out all the weeks of hard worth and effort of smaller keeps in a 3-second attack. They become arrogant bullies — “power corrupts.” The two reasons I’ve played Evony for nearly a year is because 1) I can apply a continuous shield and build my keep safely, and 2) I am in a good alliance that focuses on cooperation and mutual protection.
Life is filled with jerks. Games like Evony feed bullies in exchange for raking in millions of dollars. I have spent the last 3 months chipping away at the requirements to move from keep 31 to 32 — hundreds of millions, billions in 4 different type of resources for multiple elements required and then 900 million x 4 for the keep upgrade itself. For keep 32 and lvl 13 troops. And then you read “the game does not really begin until you reach keep 35.”
So I am content to play each day within my context, and use 3-day bubbles to keep my keep secure from bully rogues who break rules and agreements to wipe out others just to prove they can. To go without a shield, regardless of agreements, is to invite attack.
Evony Builds
says:I’m on a NAP server, but I always have a bubble as well. Although I like the people on my server, all it can take is an attack from an upset player to wipe my troops. Better safe, than sorry!