Loading ...Greetings Lords and Ladies of Evony!
It is Halloween here at Evony and we’re doing trick or treat with a very new special type of promotion! When you purchase at least $30 during Oct 30th to Nov 6th, you’ll get a Trick or Treat Pumpkin package, FREE. This package will be randomly drawn from three available pumpkin packages! You may get a teleporter, amulets, medals or many other fantastic items to assist your empire.
For every time you spend $30, you’ll be getting one pumpkin package, Free. But every $90 you spend in a single transaction, you’ll be boosted up another extra pumpkin package!
To get the pumpkin packages, you just need to claim it by clicking the package icon on the top of the screen on the left corner. Then click the pumpkin package in your items to get one of the three random pumpkin packages delivered straight to you immediately. Easy!
Check out these treats! Each package will be chosen at random:
Pumpkin Package 1
Plowshares x1,Arch Saw x1，Quarrying Tools x1，Blower x1,Merchant Fleet x1,Freedom Medal x1, Justice Medal x1, Nation Medal x1，Honor Medal x1,Courage Medal x1, Wisdom Medal x1，Amulet x10
Pumpkin Package 2
Intermediate Guidelines x1，Primary Guidelines x1，Beginner Guidelines x1，Senior Guidelines x1，Cross Medal x1,Rose Medal x1,Lion Medal x1，Honor Medal x1,Courage Medal x1,Wisdom Medal x1，Justice Medal x1，Amulet x5
Pumpkin Package 3
Hero Hunting x1，City Teleporter x1，War Horn x1，Corselet x1，Truce Agreement x1, Michelangelo’s Sciript x1，Cross Medal x1,Rose Medal x1,Lion Medal x1，Honor Medal x1,Courage Medal x1
This isn’t going to last long, so you better hurry before these treats are gone! And what’s even better is that you can repeat as many times as you want to get all the treats you need!
TERMS AND CONDITIONS: This offer is valid only to new purchases and AutoCents. For Autocents valid only for new subscribers or renewals during this period. Player may purchase multiple times, however only single transactions of $30 or more will count towards free packages. Offer expires November 6th.
Best Regards,
Evony Team
I am a student studying computer games design at uni and decided to investigate Evony.com.
Just to see what some of these games are like etc. etc.
The game is actually kind of cool (found myself addicted and even spent a little money on it).
But I started to notice HUGE bandwidth use by the site as I played.
I am not the only one either, there are comments on the evony forums about this.
This is odd because all of the client info, the animations etc. are all downloaded in one big download at the start.
There is no streaming media so I began to wonder what was going on.
To cut a long story short I decided to break the law and reverse engineer Evony’s client.
Not to cheat. Not to rip them off or even to use even a scrap of the code.
But just to poke about a bit and find out what was going on, maybe even offer them some ways to improve things.
Aside from the fact that the whole thing is very poorly constructed (it is really very beginner coder level stuff. Reminds me of a lot of
what the first year students produce for assignments) it contained some very interesting information.
Included with the client are 2 peices of tracking software that monitor your web use and which applications you have open while the client is running.
These do not install independently on the machine though due to the limitations of flash and do not actually damage anything.
But they harvest massive volumes of information. My firewall was blocking a lot of outgoing transmissions and it turns out that these
were the data trying to be sent out. So they know nothing about me. lol.
However there is a LOT of data coming IN over the ports the client uses. In otherwords it is downloading something into my cache for use later.
I have bandiwdth restriction which slows these types of tricks down and I completely clear my cache every couple of hours if I am heavily using the net.
I also noticed that all the varanbles etc. are named Civony still and that there are multiple references to UMGE.
Even a couple of folders are simply called UMGE, one of these folders contains one of the spyware programs.
So I can only guess at where the data would end up if I didnt have a good firewall.
There are also commented out sections in the code which contain references to UMGE and Lam himself, though low on details.
Thank you for reading this.
Lee