Travian: A Real-Time Economy and Conquest Game - Page 58

On February 28 2006 03:57 Jim wrote:
you are right but they cost 3 times as much; so true they are 2x as effective but I am not sure its worth the tech cost.

On February 28 2006 11:52 Anihc wrote:


What is the state of his economy? If he only has 3-4 legionnaires I can't imagine that he even has all lvl 3 fields yet. The tech cost to roman horses is TREMENDOUS. For legionnaires all you need is ... a rax. Nothing else. Now for horses, you'll need lvl 5 acad, lvl 3 blacksmith, then lvl 5 stables, and then the research cost for the horses at the academy is daunting in itself. It'll probably take at least half a week to even get horses. By that time, if you simply get more legionnaires, you'll be able to upgrade fields as well, and have more troops to raid with.

On February 28 2006 15:14 zdd wrote:
ok i have all level 3 fields, and ghin killed about 10 of my legs with like 30 tt's... I built up a level 3 rax and a level 2 acad, but seeing as someone suggested upgrading fields to level 5 is recommended before cavalry I am left with 2 options: finishing the tech to horses with no army and risking being raided but with cavalry payoff, or building up another army of infantry and upgrading fields. which is the better choice?

On February 28 2006 17:19 Anihc wrote:
Good, so we're all in agreement =D I probably should of made myself clearer when I said don't tech to horses too fast.

Now here's a question - I'm beginning to raid active people who have small forces (ex. about 10-20 legions/phalanxs). Should I continue massing clubswingers to attack them, or use axefighters instead? Would axefighters give me less casualties? The slightly less travel speed and carrying capacity of axefighters don't matter.

On February 28 2006 20:11 zdd wrote:
I just had a great idea for those who want to do a specific BO in this game, basically the whole game is based on the browser visiting a set of php links after being authenciated with the server, which means like (link http://s4.travian.com/build.php?id=1 ) leads the client to their top left hexagon on their fields page, and the build commands take 3 parameters, building type, location, and "c" which is "74d" for me, though I haven't seen it change or signify anything, perhaps this c distinguishes the builds from each other by specifying building number or specific player number or something, or is just a random hex-value. My point is, is that a relatively simple script in almost any programming language (perl comes to mind) could be written to visit these links successively after defined periods of time, making the initial build order (i.e. all fields level 3, rax, troops) timed flawlessly and without player intervention. The program could perhaps be then expanded to deal with resource shortages and dynamically build the base with a set of predefined tasks (i.e. over the next x days make x legs and upgrade to cavalry, while making all fields level 5).. but I'm jumping ahead a bit there.