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Browser Strategy Game: Travian
Someone pointed me to this game, and I immediately thought of FOFC. Here it is for you all to peruse for a moment or two -- it's really slow paced, but looks like there's tons of room for strategy in it.
Basically, you are a Roman, Gaul or Teuton village. You can build up production of your main resources (Clay, Wood, Iron Ore and Crops), then use the resources to build buildings and such that will allow production of military units, etc. Take a look for yourself -- I'm on Server 5, I believe...Chelleville is my town. Still learning as I go, though. Travian.
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09-03-2007, 11:22 PM | #2 |
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Man.
This board is giving me reasons to eat up my free time. Jeez.
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09-03-2007, 11:30 PM | #3 |
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Vince,ive been playin this for awhile.I just started over again on the 3x server
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09-04-2007, 03:43 AM | #4 |
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09-04-2007, 03:46 AM | #5 |
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i was tinkering with tribal wars with some of the people from my movoda guild for awhile. interesting while it lasted but, as i do not like to attack people (in spite of being santiago in SMAC), it was never going to be a long lasting game for me.
now, if we had a whole contingent of FOFC migrating to one of these games to make a tribe . . . i can see it being fun. and horrific. |
09-04-2007, 09:26 AM | #6 |
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I'm in, guess I'll try the server Vince is on.
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09-04-2007, 09:37 AM | #7 |
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so, can we get a collective effort for FOFC to go over to one server?
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09-04-2007, 09:45 AM | #8 |
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Sounds good to me, I'll be using WarhammerII as my nick over there.
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09-04-2007, 10:09 AM | #9 |
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Server 5 it is.
nick is NeonChaos
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09-04-2007, 10:15 AM | #10 |
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Should we choose a specific tribe or starting position?
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09-04-2007, 10:20 AM | #11 |
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Sever 5. Roman Tribe. Northwest.
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09-04-2007, 10:49 AM | #12 |
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09-04-2007, 11:25 AM | #13 |
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In on server 5 roman northwest also.
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09-04-2007, 11:36 AM | #14 |
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I'm also on server 5 Gaul northwest.
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09-04-2007, 12:29 PM | #15 |
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I'm in as lordscarlet
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09-04-2007, 02:27 PM | #16 |
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This game looks like it could be quite time consuming.
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09-04-2007, 02:54 PM | #17 |
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It looks like it quite is.
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09-04-2007, 03:16 PM | #18 |
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I hate you all for pasting and encouraging this link.
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09-04-2007, 03:28 PM | #19 |
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Should we setup an alliance?
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09-04-2007, 03:46 PM | #21 |
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When I get to embassy level 3, I am starting the FOFC alliance.
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09-04-2007, 03:49 PM | #22 |
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Sweet.
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09-04-2007, 03:57 PM | #23 | |
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You need a Level 1 Embassy to join an alliance, and a Level 3 Embassy to create one.
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09-04-2007, 04:33 PM | #24 | |
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09-04-2007, 05:11 PM | #25 |
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This game is right up my alley.
Great find!
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09-04-2007, 09:13 PM | #26 |
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in as FrogMan, Gauls in Northwest too. Will probably only leisurely work on it though...
City's exact coordinate are (-68, 134) btw... FM
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09-04-2007, 09:53 PM | #27 |
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In. (-146, 42), right next to BrianD
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09-04-2007, 09:55 PM | #28 |
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09-04-2007, 09:58 PM | #29 |
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Don't try any funny stuff. Ze catz are watching j00.
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09-04-2007, 10:04 PM | #30 |
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If you click on the "Plus" link, you see that you have a small store of Gold to buy various bonuses.
A fast start usually being pretty important, I blew half of my stash on the four production bonuses already. |
09-04-2007, 10:23 PM | #31 |
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Hmm. "Merchants from my homeland arrived" bringing 200-300 of each resource. Random event?
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I got the same. I assume all n00bs get it.
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09-04-2007, 11:04 PM | #33 |
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I believe you get it once you've upgraded one of each resource.
I'm at -101, -80. Foolishly built up to the capacity to make troops at first (Main Building Level 3, Rally Point Level 1), and added a few buildings as well (Granary, Cranny)...should have focused on production I think. I'm sitting at 17/20/14/12 with a cropland increase on the way -- I don't need so much crop at the moment, but I want to make sure I don't get painted into a corner without enough resources to increase my cropland so I can continue to build. I think once I get everything around level 2, I'll start churning out soldiers.
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Nice find. I picked up the free Plus account and the four production bonuses...now my stash is gone
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09-04-2007, 11:12 PM | #35 |
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Ok, here's my status -- I'll update as cool things happen. With the 25% increase in production, I look a lot more hoss than I did five minutes ago
Chelleville Location: -101, -80 Population: 30 Production (Lumber, Clay, Iron, Crop): 21, 25, 18, 28 Buildings: Main Building (Lv. 3) Granary (Lv. 1) Rally Point (Lv. 1) Barracks (Lv. 1) Troops: None
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09-04-2007, 11:15 PM | #36 |
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Guys just a hint....Build up your fields to level 3 before you build anything exravagant in your town.All you really need is granary,main building and warehouse.
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09-05-2007, 12:24 AM | #37 |
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Hmmm, I've been playing Travian for a few months and have not heard of a Server 5. When I login there are only servers 1, 2, 3, and 3x.
[edit]Ah. I've been playing on travian.us. Server 5 is on travian.com [2nd edit]I'm at -150, 6 on server 5.
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im in as fattydingdongs, server 5, teuton -144,-33
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09-05-2007, 02:48 AM | #39 |
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alive. it's kinda fallen apart lately. ante (anterminator) was the first one to have said anything to me when i logged on (from jag's or masked's recommendation, i can't remember exactly). and nisa, who's been trying to hold things together, has been real cool.
let me know if you guys need some resource. i'll be glad to help. when i started, i was told y'all needed rock as you were building up the compound at the time but couldn't find any of your guildies on once i mined it. |
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And your village is right next to mine.
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LOL, too many connections between me and Asterix not to go with the Gauls FM
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And mine.
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09-05-2007, 05:21 PM | #44 |
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Anyone know how to figure out how long you have until you can be attacked?
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I think I read somewhere that all newbs get three days before becoming open game to everyone... Simply figure out when you started... FM
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09-05-2007, 05:32 PM | #46 |
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I guess we all started early enough that we get three days... the section from the rules says:
"There is a beginner protection in Travian which means that one can not be attacked in a period of 3 to max. 14 days depending on the time between start of the world to the activation of one's account. You can calculate the exact time by extracting the root from the running time of the world up to the point when you registered your account." Umm. Say what? Exrtacting the root from the running time of the world? |
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I'm in the NE corner, so I'll be our advanced outpost on this side of the map.
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You should have gotten an in-game message that tells you how many days.
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There it was... And there's also the explanation for the deliveries of resources that Brillig mentionned earlier, in another message: Quote:
heh, pays to read the mail sometimes FM
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The Gauls get 3 deliveries?!?!? For a stinking Cranny?
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