Fun Game

[mumble_bee]

hi all, there's this fun game I'm playing nowadays... its kinda like AGE of Empires meets simcity...

 

If you wanna have a look the game is called travian and can be found here <click me>

 

It is not at all resource intensive as it is browser based, and is not particularly time consuming either.. personally I log in about 5 times a day for a maximum of 5 minutes.. (although initially it might take a little longer just to get to grips with it).. saying that I've only been playing it 3 days.

[bob1234]

Looks really good. I'll try it out let you know how I get on.

[Guest wolfie]

ok I'm up and running, population of 48 and growing, had an offer of joiming an allience but left it a bit late to click the accept button as I was busy trying to suss out the game? now I'm getting threats from some tossa demanding resources or he will... well you read it

 

Hello, I will make a deal with you:

Either you send me 1 hour of your resource production per day or i can take it all with my army (*thats bigger than my population) Do not be fooled i will travel and i do have a small army in this area and its growing.

Thank you

 

now the choice as far as I see it is pay up or get attacked! or to find an alliance that is linked to others bigger and stronger than his and hide out in their protection and tell him to F off ;)

 

any suggestions welcome mumbles ;)

[gregers]

not like you to be running scared wolfie? :D ;) ;)

[Guest wolfie]

well my drafted reply to his threat involves the questional origin of his father and did his mother give groups discounts ;) but I'm holding back on sending it as I'm seeing if I can start a trade agreement with my bigger neighbour who's in a real big alliance! and they can kick ass! ;) Edited May 14, 2007 by wolfie

[gregers]

always the optermist ;) ;)

[mumble_bee]

damn I forgot to update you guys on this...

 

I played for a couple of weeks...

it started off takin no time at all...

then slowly more and more time

until I was totally hooked...

I had 250 population with 500 armed forces.. (I was more military oriented)...

 

then I realised I had to leave the game for my sanity... so I attacked ppl with 300-500 population.. thinking they would

beat me up... and I could leave happily..

I quickly realised that most ppl have a population to army ration of greater than 1:1...

so I then go even more hooked.. because I was beating up SERIOUSLY big guys....

 

eventually I went cold turkey and deleted my account...

 

if you want to continue playing heres a tip:

 

when you see a newbie with 2 population that you arent able to attack.. make a note of when their protection runs out.. and send 80 legionnaires.. or equivalent 800 carrying resource troops to collect their goodies, the second it runs out..

because these are dormant accounts...

I used to yield thousands and thousands of resources from different dormants..daily

 

you can pay up if you want.. but he cant guarantee other bullies wont beat you up..

as a rule send your army off to fight FAAAR away when you're not around and set them to return when you expect to come back...

thats another reason I quit.. I realised this damn game was dictating my life....

 

remember unless they have catapults they cant do any damage to your village.. just your army.

 

also if you want to attack a gaul.. guess his trap number.. then send 2 attacks at him..

eg: if he has pop 100, he would have between 20-70 traps...

send say 100 troops on a raid, followed by maybe 20 on a normal attack... 10 seconds later

this gets all his resources and destroys his traps, as well as frees all your men that were trapped in the raid...

 

oh I can go on and on......