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Area: Global
Official Site: Travian
Publisher: Travian Games GmbH
Developer: Travian Games GmbH
Platform: PC, Microsoft Windows

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Overview

"Travian" is a resource management MMO similar to “Risk”, where macro-management is the key to success.

Features

Huge population
Unique civilizations
Multiple servers
Can be played casually
Simple gameplay

Area: Global
Official Site: Travian
Publisher: Travian Games GmbH
Developer: Travian Games GmbH
Platform: PC, Microsoft Windows

Review

Reviewed by Mister White

Travian feels like an incredibly large and long game of Risk that's focused almost entirely on resource and village management. New players start off byselecting one of the three available civilizations; The Romans, Gauls and Teutons. Each civilization has a variety of unique units and specialcivilization bonuses. For example, the Romans have the upper hand in Infantryunits and gain higher defense bonuses near walls but suffer higher developmentexpenses than the Gauls and the Teutons. The game's building mechanicsfunction in almost the same way as the Space browser based MMO Astro Empires,where buildings are upgraded and units are trained when the construction timerreaches zero.

New players will have to focus on quickly building up their village to deterneighbors from raiding their newly created towns. I highly recommend beginnersto read the 'Roman guide' below, even if they're not playing Romans, as the guide provides insight on what you should focus all your development effortson. The goal is to spend all your resources on upgrading buildings that willreduce your construction timer, so you can expand at a faster rate.The first time you play Travian, you'll have to play for a good 2 hours or soin one sitting in order to get your village up and running with the basicupgrades. After that, you can easily check up on your village for a fewminutes a couple of times a day, as upgrades will begin to take hours before they're completed. You'll also have to make sure you keep up with yourdiplomacy, as alliances are a huge part of Travian. If you attack a player that's in a strong alliance, odds are his allies will team up and destroy you, unless of course you talk your way out of it by lieing and claiming that you're simply counter attacking, as that particular played attacked youbefore.

Travians biggest drawback however, is that players who dedicate more time tothe game will have a huge edge over casual players. This isn't at all uncommon in MMOs, but in Travian, if you're fighting someone who can simply play longerthan you can, odds are that they will beat you, as they can form morealliances than you and even attack you when you're not online. In other MMOs,you don't have to fight other players, but in Travian, anyone can attack you. Although players that dedicate their lives to the game will have an advantage,playing casually is still quite fun.