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EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 19 2011 09:00 GMT
#1
Anyone on TL still play that game? I noticed that all the Travian threads are pretty old (in the sense that no one has posted in them for a while now).

Ghin
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States2391 Posts
September 19 2011 09:04 GMT
#2
DONT EVER PLAY THIS GAME

let me say that again to get it through

DONT EVER PLAY THIS GAME

Dear god... you don't know what you're getting yourself into. For your own safety and sanity, stop playing Travian right now.
Legalize drugs and murder.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 19 2011 09:04 GMT
#3
I didn't start playing yet but it sounds like cigarettes.

KK staying away lol. Is it worse than hardcore WoW?
NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
September 19 2011 09:08 GMT
#4
hurr hurr, I do. >_>

Obviously no longer at the level I used to but I play it as a log in twice a day kind of deal. I'm backed by friends (and an alliance) who do take things more seriously, so in that sense, I can slack off.

It's no more or less addicting than WoW tbh. If you have a team objective (aka: win the server), the game can be rather in depth. There's only a handful of TL users that I know of who have played Travian at that "hardcore" level.
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Ghin
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States2391 Posts
September 19 2011 09:09 GMT
#5
It is far worse than WoW could ever hope to be. You have to constantly watch Travian if you ever want to be "good" at it. The skill of the game comes from one factor: spending the most time playing. The game happens constantly in real time, so if you want to be good, you have to check Travian every hour or so to make sure no one is murdering your villages. You'll get to a point where it isn't even fun, but you'll keep playing because you've dedicated too much time to quit.

Heed my warning: stay far away from this terrible game. Your eternal soul depends on it.
Legalize drugs and murder.
NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
September 19 2011 09:15 GMT
#6
On September 19 2011 18:09 Ghin wrote:
It is far worse than WoW could ever hope to be. You have to constantly watch Travian if you ever want to be "good" at it. The skill of the game comes from one factor: spending the most time playing. The game happens constantly in real time, so if you want to be good, you have to check Travian every hour or so to make sure no one is murdering your villages. You'll get to a point where it isn't even fun, but you'll keep playing because you've dedicated too much time to quit.

Heed my warning: stay far away from this terrible game. Your eternal soul depends on it.


Travian is ridiculously time dependent of a game. However, the one main issue is that when TL play Travian back in 2007 was that everyone individual had their own account. So at best, you could only cover 16-18 hours a day (that's to say that you had a fairly normal sleeping schedule and you had an occupation/study that allowed you to be online for the majority of the day).

Nowadays, players stack on accounts. So one good account tends to be 3-4 players, from various time zones, covering the account. When you only have to spend 2-6 hours a day at the game, without worrying of suffering a major setback, the game becomes more enjoyable.
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ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
September 19 2011 09:16 GMT
#7
Its WAYYY worse than wow. For wow, at least when you sleep you can sleep...for travian, you don't sleep without waking up in the middle to play it

most fucked up game in the world...
Jaedong :3
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 19 2011 09:17 GMT
#8
On September 19 2011 18:16 ReketSomething wrote:
Its WAYYY worse than wow. For wow, at least when you sleep you can sleep...for travian, you don't sleep without waking up in the middle to play it

most fucked up game in the world...


Oh god..... I'm a zombie when I wake up in the middle of sleep.
Lucumo
Profile Joined January 2010
6850 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-19 11:53:35
September 19 2011 11:52 GMT
#9
On September 19 2011 18:15 NeoIllusions wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 19 2011 18:09 Ghin wrote:
It is far worse than WoW could ever hope to be. You have to constantly watch Travian if you ever want to be "good" at it. The skill of the game comes from one factor: spending the most time playing. The game happens constantly in real time, so if you want to be good, you have to check Travian every hour or so to make sure no one is murdering your villages. You'll get to a point where it isn't even fun, but you'll keep playing because you've dedicated too much time to quit.

Heed my warning: stay far away from this terrible game. Your eternal soul depends on it.


Travian is ridiculously time dependent of a game. However, the one main issue is that when TL play Travian back in 2007 was that everyone individual had their own account. So at best, you could only cover 16-18 hours a day (that's to say that you had a fairly normal sleeping schedule and you had an occupation/study that allowed you to be online for the majority of the day).

Nowadays, players stack on accounts. So one good account tends to be 3-4 players, from various time zones, covering the account. When you only have to spend 2-6 hours a day at the game, without worrying of suffering a major setback, the game becomes more enjoyable.

Hm? 2007 was a year where dual-accounts were already fairly common. I played "hardcore" from 2005-2006 and at the end of the round, most good players had more than one person playing an account.

@OP: Don't play it. Ever since they introduced "gold", it's not worth it anymore.
Sickkiee
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Japan607 Posts
September 22 2011 00:21 GMT
#10
I've been playing at the 'hardcore' for a long time now. Been top 5 on .usx as POP and OFF multiple times. It's not as fun with the new server updates however.
Lifes too short to be small.
pathy
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Taiwan619 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-22 02:14:38
September 22 2011 02:14 GMT
#11
lol i played this years ago with a pretty hardcore team. top 300 international 3x. don't play anywhere else, it's boring and uncompetitive.
Graphicscolosi suck
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