EPTTravian: A Real-Time Economy and Conquest Game - Page 34
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OverTheUnder
United States2929 Posts
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Jim
Sweden1965 Posts
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tenbagger
United States1289 Posts
I'm convinced that the best strategy as a roman is to pick only the fights that you know won't lose more than 1-2 legs. Continue to build more legs only when your raiding has more to gain. For example, I have 16 legs right now, but I usually am not able to raid the maximum resources from the undefended/inactives near me. So the resources spent in legs would be better off upgrading fields and/or teching. Now, if I had more undefended/inactives near me that were full, it would be more profitable to make a bigger army. I think I invested more heavily in my fields than most other people. I noticed that I generally had a lower leg to pop ratio than my other clanmates. And I was a bit behind in tech as well. But once I reached level 6 fields, I think my econ advantage has helped my growth. | ||
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Jim
Sweden1965 Posts
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
On February 16 2006 16:35 oneofthem wrote: Raiding: Teutons: Swingerclub ftw!!!! Nevermind teching. Nevermind defense. A Lvl 20 Rax can build 700+ of them each day- any questions ? If you're not that active you might go for the less hungry Axemen/Paladins. 700?!!!!/?11111 Yes. | ||
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OverTheUnder
United States2929 Posts
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
On February 16 2006 17:20 oneofthem wrote: sigh...damn the german bias... Get to know some maths or history- your choice. | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
On February 16 2006 19:29 tenbagger wrote: well, there's a discussion about racial balance on the travian forums: http://forum.travian.com/viewtopic.php?t=3744 the overall sense that I get is that teutons are definitely much stronger in the early game. Then there seems to be some disagreement about the mid to late game. Some say that as long as you can stay reasonably close to the teutons in the early game, the superior strength of roman units and teutons weak defense will tilt the balance over to the romans. While others say that you can't overcome the early game teuton advantage, and they will maintain their lead throughout the game. Being a travian newb, I can't say which one I agree with. As a roman, I hope Monsen is wrong, but I really just don't know. But I get a feeling that it mostly balances out in the end, with the edge being small enough to overcome with activity/alliance/skill. And on a personal note, I've finally finished upgraded all my fields to lvl 5! I feel like I'm halfway there. It's not that hard to check my facts. You should have the unit statistics on the travian mainpage somewhere. Then check how much ressources you pay for each point of attack/defense/plunder capacity (feel free to multiply with speed, since that determines how often you can raid each day). You'll see for example that Teutons are by no means weak in defense. Romans are weaker in every aspect but attack/grain which only becomes interesting when the costs of the unit itself can be neglected (and they're still screwed by their horrible cavalry). Add their pityful merchants to that and you get the picture. On a sidenote- I played Gauls... | ||
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Jim
Sweden1965 Posts
On February 18 2006 12:19 OverTheUnder wrote: yea but you seem to be looking at it from a 1v1 point of view. Its more like a ffa on hunters with 1000x more players. Sure you could attack the guy but YOU wont be gaining anything from it. You are attacking him and keeping him low while you could be growing much faster. And since u can't eliminate someone's only town in travian, you aren't really accomplishing anything besides making him turtle a bit. Meanwhile everyone else will get bigger then you;/ true, but I figure I will gain atleast something from the fact that he wont be able to raid the inactives in our area. Its a tough choice though. Hopefully he wont get more military and I can stomp him when I get imperian. | ||
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
Feel free to ask should you be in doubt about the meaning of one or two calculations. Roman suckage revealed  | ||
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rsvp
United States2266 Posts
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Jim
Sweden1965 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
On February 18 2006 12:19 Monsen wrote: eh? travian is a german game so they made germans stronger...Get to know some maths or history- your choice. | ||
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omgbnetsux
United States3749 Posts
On February 18 2006 12:57 Anihc wrote: Hmm, I'm playing as Teutons and I have my fields at 6666-6666-5555-666666, since I'm not extremely active and I can't raid 12 times a day. I still have been constantly building up my army of clubswingers (I have about 90 right now), and I have teched up to scouts. What should I do now? When the hell did you start? Did you start before this thread? | ||
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NoName
United States1558 Posts
Despite their suckiness... the #4 ranked guy (arch) right now, is a Roman,. I have no idea if he did it legit... but he's up there. Maybe you can ask him for Roman building tips. | ||
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Frenchguy
France77 Posts
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oneiro
Australia453 Posts
On February 18 2006 13:25 omgbnetsux wrote: When the hell did you start? Did you start before this thread? OMFG HAX? WHATS YOUR VILLAGE?? | ||
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rsvp
United States2266 Posts
I'm actually fairly active, since I log on about 5-6 times a day, spread out evenly. I've heard people logging on like 12 times a day though o.o Teutons really do have an early advantage, with clubswingers being awesome at raiding - they are half the price of legionnaires, have just as much attack power, and are faster and can carry more. Oh, and my name on Travian is Kazansky, at -85,115. | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
TEutons just mass clubswingers, maybe focus on securing defense and founding second village. *hint hint | ||
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NoName
United States1558 Posts
On February 18 2006 14:06 Frenchguy wrote: Shit, I want to restart and take Gaul, but I don't want to wait 2 weeks before doing anything Don't do that. Romans aren't hopeless. There are Romans all around the top 100 list. And the #1 aggressor (most kills) is a Roman -- and he just got a 2nd village. (I was just browsing the top 100 to seeing how many had 2nd villages already.) I wonder what BO they use to get village so quick. | ||
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