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NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
January 02 2007 06:10 GMT
#41
On January 02 2007 14:50 azndsh wrote:
I can't believe I missed out T_T

any chance of winning another round? I just made an account two days ago to check out the game


Heh, for the third time, my magic 8 ball says it doesn't look good. :O

Feel free to make a thread in Sports & Games and see if anyone else is interested. If you gather enough people, I'm willing to walk you new guys through the game and teach you how to play successfully.

But take what other Travian players say with a grain of salt. When people are saying it's a huge time committment to play this browser game optimally, they aren't kidding. Expect to put over 3 hours a day into this game, and even more as the months go on.
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intrigue
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Washington, D.C9933 Posts
January 02 2007 06:10 GMT
#42
what?!?!! haploid quit and deleted?! ugh my crowning achievement was playing his account when he was on vacation and keeping everything alive for a little more than a week when he was rank 1 on the server =(

it was fun, but i can't believe that anyone here would play it again X_X the irc channel was very, very fun though. between checking villages it would be starcraft and then more starcraft =) i even met up with haji 'irl' at stanford because of travian, missed neo by a day =P

being under the "nil volentibus arduum" section of the vendetta alliance page makes me feel all warm and fuzzy =)

glad to hear you guys face trounced the genesis newbs!
you guys rock, way to represent tl
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Klogon
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
MURICA15980 Posts
January 02 2007 06:42 GMT
#43
Dang, all this time I was wondering what the hell this Travian was... I still don't have a clue but this makes it make a lot more sense ;o

Good job guys. We rule ;D
leviathan400
Profile Joined November 2006
United Kingdom393 Posts
January 02 2007 06:55 GMT
#44
There are loads of web based games out there like this. You should try another :D I used to play StarKingdoms and Dominion.
:o
to miss the mark
Profile Joined November 2005
Bosnia-Herzegovina1381 Posts
January 02 2007 06:55 GMT
#45
Seriously, someone names a poll on a random website, and StarCraft is winning it by 70% by the next day.

Give us an onlien game, and we will win it. Give us 11 months, but we WILL win it.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
January 02 2007 07:11 GMT
#46
Some of my friends played SpaceMiners in highschool....it was ridiculous where they were receiving long distance phone calls on their cell-phones from austrailia telling them that their colonys were being attacked....they really enjoy'd it though if your looking for another on to start
MuShu
Profile Joined March 2005
United States3223 Posts
January 02 2007 07:17 GMT
#47
Lol, I stopped playing a while back, didn't know there were still people playing. I still remember Kazansky though, he was #1 agressor when I left.
EnDeR_
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Spain2637 Posts
January 02 2007 08:00 GMT
#48
[image loading]


Fuck me, i'm hooked, and i am also the founder of my alliance :/. The game is taking more than 3 hours a day, believe me. I slept 5 hours yesterday because of it...
estás más desubicao q un croissant en un plato de nécoras
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
January 02 2007 08:11 GMT
#49
ender -____-

trust me, in 3-6 months you'll realize how poorly this game is designed and how shitty its admis are
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20009 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-02 08:25:22
January 02 2007 08:18 GMT
#50
did any of you guys use travian plus? i remember those 10 glorious days of free trial where i could line up buildings and raiding was easier and what not :D

How do you guys do so much raiding in the end? i used tabs in firefox, idk if you guys ever found a more efficient way?

and how much did the WoW lvl 100 cost? must've been fucking ridiculous
how reasonable is it to eat off wood instead of your tummy?
HonestTea *
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
5007 Posts
January 02 2007 08:30 GMT
#51
Internet ain't nothing
returns upon momentous occasions.
EnDeR_
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Spain2637 Posts
January 02 2007 08:43 GMT
#52
On January 02 2007 17:11 thedeadhaji wrote:
ender -____-

trust me, in 3-6 months you'll realize how poorly this game is designed and how shitty its admis are


At least i'm sharing the account with another hooked guy, so it's just half the normal load. We've been doing over 100 attacks a day (over 200 scoutings). We currently have over 11k axes, 3k clubs (left from the beginning, the fuckers never die) and 6.7k teuton knights. Usually my friend wakes up earlier than i do and sends scouts, and i make the attacks later on. Still, it's over 3 hours... and the admins really do suck, ours doesn't even speak spanish properly.

I don't know if i'll last until the wonder...
estás más desubicao q un croissant en un plato de nécoras
rsvp
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
United States2266 Posts
January 02 2007 09:49 GMT
#53
Meh, why bother with scouting? You can afford a few losses, and it'll save you a lot of time. I think haji had over 200 farms, raiding them 3 or 4 times a day, which means like over 750 attacks a day.
OverTheUnder
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2929 Posts
January 02 2007 09:58 GMT
#54
wow, thats awesome;D

I quit after the top 500 or so had their 2nd town. Took to much time and i was busy playing starkingdoms( another real-time game that consumes you) at the time:O Tl owns face^^
Honor would be taking it up the ass and curing all diseases, damn how stupid can people get. -baal http://puertoricanbw.ytmnd.com/
tenbagger
Profile Joined October 2002
United States1289 Posts
January 02 2007 10:00 GMT
#55
OMFG Neo you are amazing!

I'm sorry that I had to quit. BTW, who ended up taking over my account?

That attack by haji is so ridiculously huge. I remember thinking my 50 Equ Imps were a huge army. It must've been orgasmic when you saw that battle report. I can't even fathom how time consuming it must have been at the end.

Great job representing the TL.net community!
NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
January 02 2007 10:16 GMT
#56
On January 02 2007 17:18 decafchicken wrote:
did any of you guys use travian plus? i remember those 10 glorious days of free trial where i could line up buildings and raiding was easier and what not :D

How do you guys do so much raiding in the end? i used tabs in firefox, idk if you guys ever found a more efficient way?

and how much did the WoW lvl 100 cost? must've been fucking ridiculous


monkeynurse ended up giving free PLUS to a number of our guys. I was able to use PLUS for at least 4-5 months, thanks to her and veronicamars.

I used Excel spreadsheet for the first 3-4 months, then when I had to sit for Kaz to help manage his beastly army, I changed over to FireFox bookmarks/tabs. I think FF is the best way to go. Though if you utilize haji's/Fall's script, it's even more imba. XD

WW 100 costed 310K [wood] 295K [clay] 320K [iron] 85K [crop]
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NeoIllusions
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
United States37500 Posts
January 02 2007 10:18 GMT
#57
On January 02 2007 19:00 tenbagger wrote:
OMFG Neo you are amazing!

I'm sorry that I had to quit. BTW, who ended up taking over my account?

That attack by haji is so ridiculously huge. I remember thinking my 50 Equ Imps were a huge army. It must've been orgasmic when you saw that battle report. I can't even fathom how time consuming it must have been at the end.

Great job representing the TL.net community!


2BoNg and Legionnaire ended up splitting your villages in half and conquered them. None of us had the time to manage two accounts and we didn't find anyone we could trust to take over your account.
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oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
January 02 2007 10:20 GMT
#58
On January 02 2007 09:57 JeeJee wrote:
yeah i quit this game early on, when neo had 1k pop i think? was around the time we started to get those guys that capture villages, forget the name. i remmeber kaz was stealing resources from my farms so i had to wake up earlier (6am wtf) to raid them first

haji's scripts were godly tho :O but this game took more time than wow, and that's saying something (this was when we all had 2-4 villages, i can't imagine what you do with 57 wow.. do you just not keep any force in em and actually have positive crop income?)

i remember panicking a couple of times, watching my swingers die (many per second) because there's no food, and begging neo to gimme some crop ><; so stressful lol

ah yeah one hell of a game, but any game that's a bigger time commitment than wow is .. not for me.
Heh travian sucked the life out of me for a while, but it was really a fun time on irc with everyone. At the peak we had 20 people on the channel bullshitting about nothing in particular. Nice memories everyone!

The game itself is not hard, devote 10+ hours to it and you can be #1 on the server fairly easily. The way the game is run is not only unprofessional but not even having the appearance of being professional. I wont mention teh specifics but right now they basically allow people pay money to cheat. Nothing worth getting into imo unless you want to play with several people on one account.

For a lot of the teamliquid players though the game was played on a different level. haji had his raiding script thing and basically every player had a farming list that's 20+ villages long. Anyway travian is totally pwned by teamliquid, since every server since s4 saw teamliquid players as the best on the server for a time. Even though I wasn't that involved in s4, it wasn't that i didn't want to get involved, but honestly managing a roman account while situated next to a big raiding teuton is too much stress...obviously i would have stayed and put time into s4 if I felt i could make something out of the situation.

Anyway, nice game everyone.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-02 11:08:35
January 02 2007 10:28 GMT
#59
The teamliquid s4 cluster was originally concentrated in two places. one is near neo/haji/bong another around kaz. I was near the kaz group. So in the end our group kinda all quit and the northeastern portion was made the main focus of tl presence, so i think the guys that play on s4 had more attachment to their immediate neighbors. But really while it was up our area was a lot of fun and loads of action early on. Anyway for s4 neo did a really good job lifting the morale of the community and making it survive.

I think the s5 server at the beginning was not talked about very much here, but it was heavily teamliquid as well. We just didn't have the community to continue, since only about 10 or so teamliquid players were on there. Of the teamliquid players on s5 in the beginning, and s6, s1, also, over 50% were at the very top of the offensive and army rankings, because we were into the monsen/kazansky way of doing things then and were active as well.

Getting more villages in this game isn't really the problem, the crop management is, that and making 1000 attacks a day (on s3 i made 1000 attacks in 14 hours each day...with literally no casualties for high farming efficiency). if you are not a pussy like certain players, (monkeynurse etc) you'd want a fucking huge army to kill and stuff. Otherwise the game is nonsense. I think we have made a name for tl being a bunch of badass killers.

some pictures i saved...showing T3 for those who would like to waste time on this

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100 troop movements...highest was around 150 for one village
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Scripting ftw..
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We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
EAGER-beaver
Profile Joined March 2004
Canada2799 Posts
January 02 2007 10:34 GMT
#60
Wow, that's nuts, congrats guys!
I ended up quitting months ago just because of the time investment required. Managing 2 villages and a tiny army was enough of a headache, yet some of you guys guys handled 50 villages? WTF?!?!?

I'll help out again for next season but I'm playing 1 hour tops per day
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