No MAT, Evony is not for stelling money as far as I can see, from all those poor gamers ?
But we found out that Evony is on a ABC-agency server ... a backbone of an agency starting with a C.
it might also be to watch/study how people react and play warfare. How you build and use strategy tells much about someones character, besides it is a means to promote and keep poeple in a fighting state and low frequency, and distract them from anything REAL that happens in the outside world. Plus that ABC-agency knows that people use it for secret messagings ... with key-words they can trace to almost anything ...