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Travian makes empire building mobile - Time-Waster
by Christina Clark Dec 19th 2008 at 12:00PM
After registering for the game and choosing a server you have one week to build up your resources before you are open for attack. This is important because it takes time to build up wheat, wood, clay and iron production. It takes around 3 minutes to upgrade a wheat field in the early levels so to get your empire up and running takes more than just a few minutes.
It's one of those great games to keep running in the background so you can start a wheat field or building upgrade, and then move on to something else on your to-do list for a few minutes. In fact, as I write this there is a building being constructed in my village.
There are lots of good tips for beginners in the forums if you look for them as well as basic information in the game manual.
You can stick with one village or eventually expand your empire across the map, building palaces and residences for the King (or Queen) as you go. Remember though, after the first seven days you are vulnerable to attack. Of course, you can also send out your own raiding parties as well.
So far, I am enjoying Travian. I love building empires and it isn't sucking up system resources and taking up all of my attention the way Empire Earth might.
[Via Great Time Wasters on the Web]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James said 12:58PM on 12-19-2008
How is this mobile? I thought you were posting this because they had somehow changed the game to support e.g. phone browsers. That would have been great news -- I used to play, but it sucked up all my time because I was constantly refreshing to see if my latest upgrade had finished. If you don't pay for a premium account (and thus a build queue), you're going to get your ass handed to you as soon as you lose your newb protection.
Some advice: make a deal with whoever starts farming you (you *will* get farmed) to maybe protect you in exchange for regular payoffs, sort of like the mob. Eventually, when you are big enough to defend yourself a little, try to find a guild (alliance?) that will let you join and protect you from farmers. It's a fun game to play around with, but it gets old when you don't have a ton of time to invest in it...
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Daniel Massicotte said 1:07PM on 12-19-2008
Now I know that I have a lot of time on my hands since I just had my first exam, but c'mon! Once I'm hooked on this I'll never get anything done!
As an aside, thanks for posting it...I'll be sure to check it out! ;-)
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Rocketboy said 1:56PM on 12-19-2008
I just wanted to let you know that I'll meet you by the train station if you take the last train.
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Ben Carlson said 4:10PM on 12-19-2008
The game is pretty fun at the early stages. Gets quite a bit tedious later on (especially if you don't buy the "gold"), and really boring at the end of a round if you're the guy who just ships supplies or has to suicide an army (which yours will be negligible unless you spend a _ton_ of time on it). I think the game needs a bit of work in order to balance fun vs. the time it takes, but it's definitely fun to mess with in the beginning.
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john whatsisnehm said 5:18PM on 12-19-2008
Lawl. The favicon is a scaled picture of Julius Caesar scanned from the "Asterix and Obelix" comics. :D
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Szymon said 7:50PM on 12-19-2008
"isn't taking up all of my attention", yeah. For now. In about two months you'll be spending about 3-4h/day on it, and towards the end - assuming you will neither give up or be destroyed - it will become another full time job. Trust me, in August I've finished a game that lasted since January. And people with more experience said we were lucky to win so quickly.
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Zetino!! said 5:19PM on 12-27-2008
Travian is an EVIL EVIL game... takes waaaaaay too much time to fully enjoy, and now that they have made the switch to GOLD instead of just having a PLUS account it takes too much money too... I would stay away unless you want to have it take over your life a month or two into the game!!
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bcosta said 1:18AM on 1-11-2009
You can play it on your mobile if u install opera
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