Evony Secrets - Strategies for Success

I have for your knowledge and enjoyment, over 90 pages of tips, tricks and strategies that will help you succeed in the game Evony. After months of playing, recording, testing, and conquering I have put together some of the most in-depth secrets to Evony. Learn the game fast, build your cities faster, become one of the strongest players on your server. I'm James Ruben, and I love playing Evony.
This is what James has to say. I am here to tell you that I picked up the guide and I am so impressed. I have added a just a few of the great tips that you'll find in the Evony Secrets Game guide. The following tips are for your benefit in the growth of your game while playing. Taken right from the Evony Secrets guide.

18. Some players prefer to build evenly and when there are an odd number of tiles available they build either lumber mills or farms. I find I have no problem getting food from barbarian towns or other players and food is the cheapest resource to buy, so I find farms to be a waste and am currently destroying farms in towns where I don’t need them.
19. If you are inactive a lot and only get to play part-time then you may want more farms than someone who is very active. If you don’t have a lot of farms then you constantly need to loot food or buy food from the market. If you go inactive for a day or two at a time you might want to build more farms so your army doesn’t starve while you are away.
13. Your mayor affects research or building only at the time you initiate it. So when you click the button to research “archery level 9” you want to have your high intelligence hero as mayor. As soon as you start the research change back to your high politics mayor so that you collect resources faster and shorten build times for structures.
21. You only need a warehouse when building your forge. After you have built your forge you can destroy your warehouse. When plundering an army takes your resources first and gold second. If you hide your resources in your warehouse they will take your gold instead of your resources. Since 1 gold is usually equivalent to 5 to 10 of any particular resource. On my server I can buy about 5 lumber for 1 gold. I can buy about 11 food for 1 gold. So gold is infinitely more valuable than other resources. Building a bunch of warehouses is just plain dumb. I can still take your town and get your resources that way if I want to!
22. On a brand new server resources like lumber and stone will be very expensive as they are used in building structures. These resources may cost more than 1 gold per item. Within a few days of the beginning of the server prices will begin to drop as more players increase their own production of resources, capture valleys for bonuses, etc.

17. When building resources concentrate on lumber first. Lumber is the most valuable resource. Build 2 lumber mills for every 1 farm, mine, or quarry. Quarries are useless later on. Once you have built your walls and such up high enough. 
23. On a server that is well established (say 2 months old) the cost of iron and lumber will increase dramatically. This is because iron and lumber are needed to create armies. Iron and lumber prices may get to be 1.5 or 2 gold (or more) per item. Even so lumber will always be the most expensive because it is used for building structures as well as for training troops. Even food will eventually go up in price but will still remain at about half the cost of lumber. You can sell your lumber to buy 2x as much food