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
