Evony
Well I have been playing a fun game recently. www.Evony.com Its kind of confusing at first, but once you learn what your doing. It is very fun. Its something you can, do while doing other things or play it dedicated. Most importantly it is free. Basically you start with a town, where you can build various buildings, and train different troops, and raise different resources. Once your ready you can attack other areas. To get the best experience of the game you'll want to get a decent guild. It is a very community friendly game. Make new friends and help others, wage war on other guilds. One of the ways the game encourages you to play is quests. You get in game rewards for building certain buildings or obtaining certain amounts of resources. There are a couple of good guides that will help you. http://theevonywiki.com/ http://theevonywiki.com/index.php/Main_Page These are the two I most often use. Very useful for helping you determine what troops you'll need in order to attack certain areas while not suffering any losses to your own troops. The only real critcism I have about the game is the option to buy in game items. It gives people who can afford to do so an unfair advantage. That aside, its a great pass time. Once you get good enough, you can build up to ten cities, and amass huge armies, though it is time consuming to do so. It is not a game that has a definite end to it. I have been playing it myself now for about a month, and my wife has started playing it as well simply from watching me. The graphics also help. It gives one a better feel for the land than some other games where you build up resources and armies, that do not offer graphics. What I have discovered alot of people will do is build one city, normally the main city, for recources, and a second or even thrid for wars. War cities normally are made of barracks, and cottages, mostly and Farms. An added spice tot he game is every day you get a token good for one spin of a wheel. You can get anyhting from resources on this wheel, to items that increase production of those resources. Other items give you troops or medals used to increase rank or title. So give it a try, you have one week to build yourself up before your protection is over, and other cities can attack you. So give it a try, and if its not your cup of tea, there is no commitment, but you might just find yourself as hooked as I am.