Having “battled” through a Travian sever I am well aware of just how competitive it can get as the game draws to a close (The End Game). I saw cheating on a grand scale. Players with multiple accounts. The GF Meta alliance even went as far as to hack into a forum and obtain a username and password. They then used this password to login in to our World Wonder account, sending all our troops home and hitting it with a coordinated attack……I know I know…..sub-human scum.
Luckily for us the admins intervened, and the cheating GF swine’s did not succeed. I might point out that GF (Gamma Force) did win the server. However it was not through force of strength or conviction….it’s because they are called “Gamma Force” and obviously has super gamma mega powers…..Gamma Force…I mean really?…..spotty teenage gits 
The introduction of “Gold” in Travian in my opinion has the potential to spoil the balance of the game. From what I can tell, the end game may fast become a question of who is willing to spend more money to win!!!! Basically the system of gold works as follows. You purchase Gold with money from the Travian game developers.
You can then spend your gold to do the following:
- Extend you Travian Plus account
- Gain a 25% bonus to resource production
- Gain a 25% bonus to Attack or Defense
- Trade with the NPC merchant
- Complete construction orders and Research quickly
Now from what I can see this introduces a new dynamic to the end game. This dynamic being the “spend a feckin fortune” factor that could see you getting huge bonus’ to everything. This does not sit well in my head as players are not really being rewarded for their actions…they are being rewarded for the frequency of their pay-pal transactions. It’s not a nice thing to see a good idea rush headlong into becoming something silly. I just hope the communities who have already embraced the Plus account do not turn to paying through the nose to get a tactical edge by spending “Gold” to beat the band!
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I’m getting a disturbing number of visitors to this blog looking for cheats for Travian. For those of you who don’t know who travian is read all about it here and sign up!
I’m currently playing on Server 1 and have been doing so for many….many months. The great thing about travian (in my opinion) is the fact you can log in and spend a few minutes looking after your villages, without the need to constantly check back and micromanage your villages. As you progress and grow larger you will inevitably spend more time managing your villages, planning and instigating attacks and raids…….and of course defending your own from harm! There seems to be an initial period when you join a server where you can become raiding fodder for larger players…..and many players loose interest at this stage. The solution is to get into an alliance that can protect you, and repay them when you grow stronger due to their support.
At the moment we are in what the masses refer to as “The End Game”. Basically the developers of travian wrap up the server by releasing several “Wonder Villages”. It’s the goal of each alliance to seize a wonder city and build a wonder of the world to level 100. First to 100 wins….simple! Or so you would think! On my server there was a major “incident”, which serves to highlight the horrible lengths some people will go to in order to win (well not really win….cheat).
A collection of players managed to hack the travian account of our wonder village. They then sent all our defending troops home and had arranged attacks to arrive just as the troops left. It was ruthlessly executed but ultimately lead to them being banned from the server once the admin(s) realized what they had done. I must take my hat off too them for their resourcefulness and planning, but their skills could probably be better utilized by Mosad or the CIA.
I never understood cheating in computer games, as this is completely different from cheating in school exams! If you don’t finish a game it’s not like you don’t gain entrance to college. Games are designed to be immersive exciting experiences, and when you cheat the fun just completely evaporates. The sense of challenge and danger are no more….because you are now a cheating swine……who will die alone in a giant pair of incontinence pants
Firstly I must slate the horrible 3D engine the boys a Fraxis have created. It looks lovely….and you can rotate the camera 45 degrees should you wish. One small problem, I don’t want to rotate the camera as that is confusing. I also want to finish a game without my computer crashing…and as of yet it has not happened! Why o why did they introduce the new swanky 3D engine? All it serves is to make the game completely unstable. Even with the patch my games still crash. Even more annoying is the fact that after my computer restarts and I load the save game……the game crashes again at the exact same point!!!!!!! The only way I have found around it is to change the graphics settings and restart.
Enough of the bad! The introduction of religion was a good move. I like the way Fraxis tip toe around the introduction of religion clearly stating that they do not wish to offend anyone! I have played several games where I have concentrated on religion, and religious expansion. I have found that cultural expansion seems to have taken a back seat to religious expansion. An excellent tactic I found is researching the technologies that reveal Hinduism and Confusism early on. If you are first to discover them…and you have at least 2 cities…you will get points for founding the religions and will own both holy cities for each religion. You can then build the religions wonders by using great leaders. You now gain income from every city your newly founded religion spreads to!!! You can build tons of missionaries and generate obscene amounts of cash…to spend on nukes!
So I would say…..buy the game and get the patch. Hav’nt tried the multiplayer yet…but you will hear about it when I do.
You can’t go wrong with Civilisation, unless of course you bought one of the unofficial knock-offs. We are to be treated to the latest helping of Civilisation…..Civilisation 4. If you ask me Civilisation was the best PC game ever made….and I would have to say Command and Conquer can a close second…..a the classics……
It sports a fanct new 3D engine and a whole host of new game-play features…..
Have a look here:
I have been thinking about Battlestar Galactica and it’s potential as a really cool resource management game. First of all does anyone know if there has ever been a game based on the Battlestar Galactica series and second of all was it a resource management game?
The reason i think this story would make a good resource management game is because the series is largely based around the continuing struggle of the crew to manage dwindling food and water supplies amongst others.
I became a follower of the latest mini series which i believe was a good attempt at making a remake of a classic show. There is something for everyone in there and it has plenty of potential. Not sure what is happening with it at the moment, the mini series was a big hit and as far as i know they are launching a new full series based on the formers huge following and popularity.
I would envisage this game being a multi dimensional experience where the player can choose to take a scouting ship out into the currently occupied solar system to hunt for much needed supplies. They may be lucky and turn up something nice or they may encounter a bunch of Cylon raiders hising on the dark side of a remote moon.
The player would also have the option of examining the overall state of the fleet and control the deployment of ships and resources accordingly. Sounds a bit “seen this before” but i think the option of varied involvement within differing levels of the space communities everyday life would make this an intriguing game.
