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		<title>Travian Dope Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tools/travian-dope-alternatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travian Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Travian Dope is a great Travian map site. However, if Dope hasn&#8217;t updated his crop finder for your server yet and your desprete for a Travian crop finder, here is a short list of Travian Dope alternatives: Travian Analyzer Cropper Finder Shishnet Map These tools will help you find great crop villages which can be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Travian Dope" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tools/travian-dope/">Travian Dope</a> is a great <a title="Travian map" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tools/travian-maps/">Travian map</a> site. However, if Dope hasn&#8217;t updated his crop finder for your server yet and your desprete for a <a title="Travian crop finder" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-crop-finder/travian-crop-finder-that-works/">Travian crop finder</a>, here is a short list of Travian Dope alternatives:</p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Travian Analyzer" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tools/travian-analyzer/">Travian Analyzer</a></li>
<li><a title="Cropper Finder" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-crop-finder/crop-finder/">Cropper Finder</a><a href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-crop-finder/crop-finder/"></a></li>
<li><a href="http://travmap.shishnet.org/">Shishnet Map</a></li>
</ul>
<p><span id="more-229"></span>These tools will help you find great crop villages which can be used for offense. They will also help identify farm targets, marketing activity and plotting enemy towns. It&#8217;s important to use these tools to survey your surrounding carefully before founding new villages. While the squares around your village may appear safe, you could be right next to a top 10 raider! If you do load near a raider, or have trouble securing a 15 crop village, then you should consider relocating.</p>
<p>Travian Tools are powerful additions that make the game more fun. However, they can&#8217;t make up for activity. Being active is one of the most important aspects of Travian. If you aren&#8217;t raiding at least 20 targets per day, Travian Dope or it&#8217;s alternatives won&#8217;t help you. If you don&#8217;t have the half an hour per day it takes to raid well, consider sharing a single account with a friend. Between the two of you, you should manage to stay active. Pay special attention to time you &#8220;waste&#8221; in Travian. If your clicking on villages, trading, building, chatting, playing with alliances, you are NOT raiding. So, get out there and have fun!</p>
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		<title>Using Travian Dope</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tools/travian-dope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travian Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Travian Dope is a Travian Map tool. Map tools are essential for alliance leaders to plan wars, offenses, and to understand their political position. In Travian other players will listen to you if they look at your position in Travian Dope and feel threatened by you. If you have a strong cluster of players near [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Travian Dope is a <a href="http://traviandope.com/">Travian Map tool</a>. Map tools are essential for alliance leaders to plan wars, offenses, and to understand their political position. In Travian other players will listen to you if they look at your position in Travian Dope and feel threatened by you. If you have a strong cluster of players near them, players are very likely to be friendly. However, if Travian Dope reveals your alliance and friends to be spread out across the map, it&#8217;s a clear sign of weakness.</p>
<p>Travian Dope has 4 main mapping features:</p>
<ol>
<li>View Travian Large Map (15&#215;15)</li>
<li>View World Map (800&#215;800)</li>
<li>Find close players (Farm Finder)</li>
<li><a title="Crop Finder" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-crop-finder/crop-finder/">Crop Finder</a></li>
<p><span id="more-202"></span></ol>
<h3>Travian World Map</h3>
<p>The World map is useful for plotting alliance locations, considering attacks, and checking on farms who plant distant villages. This is mostly a tool for alliance leaders, but it can also be useful when trying to decide which alliance to join. Pulling up the large map and looking at the alliances near you is a great way to find a good alliance. You want to join an alliance which has leaders near you, or at least, a strong cluster of offensive players within attack range of your villages. You want them to be in range on the Travian Map so that they can send you defenses should you ever need them.</p>
<h3>The Travian Large Map</h3>
<p>The Travian Dope large map is a copy of the ingame Travian Map. This has all the same functions as the Travian map, except that it&#8217;s large, making it very easy to find farms and watch out for aggressive players. This tool is a farmer&#8217;s best friend. Keeping tabs on your neighbors is so difficult with the tiny default map.This map also displays idle players, which is a key piece of information when looking for farms.</p>
<h3>Farm Finder</h3>
<p>This tool not only lists players near you in order of range, Travian Dope display key statistics like population, idle time, and distance. This Travian Map tool is an essential raiding tool. It has an attack link built in so you can right click and open in new tab. From there it&#8217;s only a couple of clicks to farm. Using this map tool to find close players allows you to quickly queue up a list of farms.</p>
<h3>Travian Crop Finder</h3>
<p>The <a title="crop finder" href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-crop-finder/crop-finder/">crop finder</a> is similar to several other <a title="Travian crop finders " href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-crop-finder/crop-finder/">Travian crop finders </a>that I have reviewed. It allows you to quickly search for 9 and 15 croppers with oasis criteria and even includes an option for unclaimed villages. Any player looking to establish a large offensive village will love this tool. This tool is probably illegal and Travian Dope admits to running a Travian crop finding account to parse the data out of the game. However, Travian doesn&#8217;t cut off data downloads for Dope, so I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s probably safe for you to use this tool and share it with your friends.</p>
<p>Be sure to <a href="http://traviandope.com/suggest.php">leave praise</a> for the great work of  <a href="http://traviandope.com/">Travian Dope</a>.</p>
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		<title>TM Bot Crack</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-cheats/tm-bot-crack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-cheats/tm-bot-crack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 20:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travian Cheats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you probably already know about the famous TM Bot which automates the playing of Travian for a hefty fee by having you install a Java program. This cheat will farm for you, build for you, and trade for you. All the top players are using it. TM Bot will make you a top [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of you probably already know about the famous <a href="http://www.tmbot.net">TM Bot</a> which automates the playing of Travian for a hefty fee by having you install a Java program. This cheat will farm for you, build for you, and trade for you. All the top players are using it. TM Bot will make you a top ten player, right before you get banned for cheating at least.</p>
<p>This program gives the program author complete and total access to everything you do on your computer, including your Travian accounts and anything your parents might do on the computer. You have been warned.</p>
<h3>TM Bot Cracked</h3>
<p><span id="more-147"></span></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t care about some game hacker having access to your computer, and you&#8217;ve got money to burn, you can buy the software from him. If you&#8217;re don&#8217;t believe in paying programmers for their work, there is also a <a href="http://www.crackingforum.com/cracking-programs/79104-tmbot-cracked-versions.html">crack available</a> for TM Bot. You must sign up for an account on the forums, make sure you use a <a href="http://10minutemail.com">throw away email</a> address&#8230; this is a forum for people who CRACK USER ACCOUNTS.</p>
<p>Using this program WILL get you banned by Travian Multi-Hunter. I would NOT recommend this program if you want to continue to play Travian.</p>
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		<title>140,000 Visitors</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/140000-visitors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/140000-visitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Travian Guide was a spur of the moment project. I wrote the guides because I was unhappy with what I found in the Travian forums and knew I couldn&#8217;t get anything I wrote &#8220;stickied&#8221;. My guides have been found by over 100,000 Travian players in the past year alone. I&#8217;ll keep looking for new and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Travian Guide was a spur of the moment project. I wrote the guides because I was unhappy with what I found in the Travian forums and knew I couldn&#8217;t get anything I wrote &#8220;stickied&#8221;. My guides have been found by over 100,000 Travian players in the past year alone. I&#8217;ll keep looking for new and interesting OSG sites to point you guys to. If you want to write a guide (and get <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tips/free-travian-gold/">free Travian gold</a>, drop me an email.</p>
<p>Happy farming!</p>
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		<title>A Strategy Game site</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/strategy-game-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/strategy-game-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found a new game blog site called OSG. Oliver covers many popular OSG&#8217;s including Travian, Ikarium, and Evony. For those of you looking to stay up to date on Travian or looking to stay abreast of all the popular games, check out OSG here. Oliver&#8217;s latest article uncovers stolen art by the browser [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just found a new game blog site called <a href="http://osg1.com/">OSG</a>. Oliver covers many popular OSG&#8217;s including Travian, Ikarium, and Evony. For those of you looking to stay up to date on Travian or looking to stay abreast of all the popular games, check out OSG <a href="http://osg1.com/">here</a>. Oliver&#8217;s latest article uncovers stolen art by the browser game king and conquer. He&#8217;s an active poster and fun to read. I hope he continues to unearth other browser games, because there are lots of little gems out there.</p>
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		<title>SWMUD</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/swmud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/swmud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travian is Overrun by cheats. The game isn&#8217;t free. You have to pay a ton of gold just to keep up with the cheaters. On top of that, once you get big, you have to play 12 hours a day just not to fall behind. When your tired of the grind, try the most addicting, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Travian is Overrun by cheats. The game isn&#8217;t free. You have to pay a ton of gold just to keep up with the cheaters. On top of that, once you get big, you have to play 12 hours a day just not to fall behind.</p>
<p>When your tired of the grind, try the most addicting, TOTALLY FREE,  game I have ever played. It&#8217;s a star wars based game that has always been free, they won&#8217;t ask you for a credit card, and they will never give any one advantages or gold. It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/wordpress/go/swmud/">SWMUD</a>. You can find it <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/wordpress/go/swmud/">here</a>. But, let me warn you. If you do try this game, you&#8217;ll spend so much of your free time playing it, you won&#8217;t have time for anything else.</p>
<p>Be prepared for PvP action called Player Killing (PK) that&#8217;s more in depth and challenging than any game you&#8217;ve ever played. This game will actually give you &#8220;the shakes&#8221;. If you give the game a try and want some special treatment, message a player named Bottler and tell him where you heard about <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/wordpress/go/swmud/">SWMUD</a>.</p>
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		<title>Free Travian Gold</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tips/free-travian-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-tips/free-travian-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travian Tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.travianguide.com/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you want some Travian free gold? Well I know how to get it!  Let Travian Guide make it for you. Yes, I&#8217;ll get you Travian gold for free. All you have to do is write an article relating to the Travian game and send it to me. You can include your Travian referral link [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you want some Travian free gold? Well I know how to get it!  Let Travian Guide make it for you. Yes, I&#8217;ll get you Travian gold for free. All you have to do is write an article relating to the Travian game and send it to me. You can include your Travian referral link right at the top of your post. Travian Guide gets thousands of visitors every month, and if you write a decent article, your article could be read by hundreds or thousands of people every month. When someone uses your links, you&#8217;ll get gold. You should submit your Travian article <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/contact-me/">here</a> and start earning Travian gold for free. Many of visitors already play a Travian server, so if you want, you can <strong>post referral codes from any game you play</strong>.</p>
<p><span id="more-116"></span></p>
<p>Every time someone signs up for a Travian server using your referral link and plays to 75 population you get 20 gold! I used to use Travian Guide to get my self free Travian gold, but I no longer play Travian. This site sits here and no one is making free gold off of it anymore. So, write an article, put your referral link in it, and start earning free gold. The best part is, once you write an article you&#8217;ll keep earning referral clicks month after month for as long as you play Travian. I&#8217;ll keep your links up on Travian Guide for at least 3 months, and if you are still playing Travian and want to keep the links up, all you have to do is contact me and let me know you still want your referral links up.</p>
<h3>What to Write About</h3>
<p>If you need ideas for what to write about go here: adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and search for Travian. To increase the chances that I&#8217;ll publish your article, try to make sure it&#8217;s relevant to the topic your writing about, and useful for Travian Guide readers.</p>
<p>Some ideas include:</p>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-game-guides/travian-roman-guide/" class="kblinker" title="More about Travian Roman guide &raquo;">Travian Roman Guide</a></li>
<li> Travian Downloads</li>
<li> Travian Gold</li>
<li> Travian Map</li>
<li> Travian Dope</li>
<li> Travian Bot</li>
<li> Travian Cheats</li>
<li> Travian Tools</li>
<li> Travian Plus</li>
<li> Travian Manager</li>
</ul>
<p>If you write and I publish 3 of your articles, I&#8217;ll throw in an added bonus of buying 100 free Travian gold for you. If you&#8217;re interested in writing articles for Free Gold, you better do it soon, because I can&#8217;t afford to buy gold for long.</p>
<p>So, <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/contact-me/">submit your article now</a>.</p>
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		<title>Travian Champions</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/uncategorized/travian-champions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travian Champions is a very active Travian website run by Randomgeek. RG covers a wide range of up to date Travian topics that I simply don&#8217;t have the patience to cover. While TravianGuide focuses on guides, strategy, and tools. Randomgeek is on the ground, getting interviews with the top players and keeping the community informed [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://travianchampions.wordpress.com">Travian Champions</a> is a very active Travian website run by Randomgeek. RG covers a wide range of up to date Travian topics that I simply don&#8217;t have the patience to cover. While TravianGuide focuses on guides, strategy, and tools. Randomgeek is on the ground, getting interviews with the top players and keeping the community informed about the combat inside Travian as it happens.</p>
<p>I asked Random Geek to send me a short synopsis of the best Travian Champions has to offer and here is what he sent me:</p>
<div>Of course we&#8217;d have to show off the Hall of Champions itself, so here&#8217;s the page I made for the winners of the recently completed Speed Server:</div>
<div><a href="http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/speed-com-jun-oct-2009-travian-3-5/">http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/speed-com-jun-oct-2009-travian-3-5/</a></div>
<div>Here&#8217;s the link to the Hall of Fame page itself, it also shows the start date of all the <a href="http://travian.com/">Travian.com</a> servers:</div>
<div><a href="http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/">http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/</a></div>
<div>I&#8217;ve got a few posts I&#8217;m particularly fond of. A lot of people really liked the interview I did with the leader of the winning alliance from S5.com:</div>
<div><a href="http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/travian-champions-interviews-neo/" target="_blank">http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/travian-champions-interviews-neo/</a></div>
<div>I post a lot of Battle Reports on my site, and this battle from S8.com is one of the biggest of all time:</div>
<div><a" href="http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/s8-com-the-battle-at-cassinis-world-wonder/" >http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/s8-com-the-battle-at-cassinis-world-wonder/</a></div>
<div>And I also collect the victory speeches from the leaders of winning alliances. Here&#8217;s the victory Speech from the leader of the winning alliace from S3.com:</div>
<div><a href="http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/speech-from-the-leader-of-s3-coms-winning-alliance/">http://travianchampions.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/speech-from-the-leader-of-s3-coms-winning-alliance/</a></div>
<div>Thanks a lot for putting this up on your site! Much appreciated! I&#8217;m glad that you like what I&#8217;m doing on my site, I hope to keep it moving forward and maybe eventually make it into something bigger.</div>
<div>Randomgeek.</div>
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		<title>Travian Multihunter manual</title>
		<link>http://www.travianguide.com/travian-cheats/travian-multihunter-manual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rylar</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travian Cheats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted before about how Travian Multihunter works, but here are some details from the Travian Multihunter prospective. I&#8217;ve included a screen shot and some additional details about Travian Multihunters actually work as seen through the eyes of a Multihunter. Here is a short list of things I find particularly interesting: &#8220;The cookie ID tool [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve posted before about how <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-cheats/how-travian-cheats-get-caught-by-multihunter/">Travian Multihunter</a> works, but here are some details from the Travian Multihunter prospective.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve included a screen shot and some additional details about Travian Multihunters actually work as seen through the eyes of a Multihunter. Here is a short list of things I find particularly interesting:</p>
<ol>
<li>&#8220;The cookie ID tool should not be mentioned under any circumstances.&#8221;</li>
<li>Multisearch checks for accounts that have duplicate passwords</li>
<li>Logins and cookies&#8221; Travian keeps a browser ID cookie. Deleting it flags your account</li>
<li>Does Travian know about Brute Force?<br />
Yes, it does! Any IP may have 20 attempts in 10 minutes &#8211; 21 and it will be banned for 10 minutes from this account.</li>
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		<title>Travian Roman Guide</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tenants of Good Travian Roman Play Read the guide about how to not be a farm. Focus on farming all in-actives in range twice a day Never leave your army sitting at home, an army at home goes to waste. Avoid fights with players who have army Your goal is to only hit those who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Tenants of Good Travian Roman Play</strong></p>
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<li>Read the guide about how to not be a farm.</li>
<li>Focus on farming all in-actives in range twice a day</li>
<li>Never leave your army sitting at home, an army at home goes to waste.</li>
<li>Avoid fights with players who have army</li>
<li>Your goal is to only hit those who can&#8217;t defend themselves</li>
<li>Never listen to IGM&#8217;s from your farms because they are your resource fields. Don&#8217;t destroy them.</li>
<li>Use diplomacy to work towards joining a decent alliance. Once you are accepted a real alliance your empire becomes much stronger.</li>
<li>Remember, too many allies means less farms.</li>
<li>Your resources should never be empty while your at the computer, and your warehouse should never fill up while your away, if it does, make it bigger or play more often!</li>
<li>Raid non-stop, when your army is at home its being wasted. you should be trying to create a buffer zone around your capital making it difficult for anyone to invade your capital.</li>
<li>This work is an original guide from <a href="http://www.travianguide.com">Travian Guide</a>. <!-- if you copy this post please keep this link intact -->
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<p><strong>The Goal of this Roman Guide</strong></p>
<p>Go from a single lone town of peasant farmers, to an active raider within a strong alliance. This Travian guide will attempt to take you through the first 10 days of your account, at which point you will be ready to found your second town. You should found your second village by the 14th day, or else your already well behind, and have made major errors in playing Travian and are already likely to become a farm.</p>
<p><strong>Who this <a href="http://www.travianguide.com/travian-game-guides/travian-roman-guide/" class="kblinker" title="More about Travian Roman guide &raquo;">Travian Roman Guide</a> is for</strong></p>
<p>New players with the basic understanding of the interface and how game screens work that don&#8217;t want to be someones farm again.</p>
<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p>This Travian Roman guide will not teach you how to become a top player (as I never manage that myself), but it will give you the basics to become a farmer instead of a farm.If you are currently a large players farm, you should probably restart your account because the farmer always wins in Travian. This guide focuses on Speed server, because I find all other servers of Travian far to slow and boring. In fact I often find speed server to slow once I run out of people in a reasonable range to farm. This guide requires a reasonable amount of play time to follow. However, reasonable in Travian terms is at least two hours a day everyday. If you can&#8217;t play your Travian account twice a day for an hour each day, then you will be unsuccessful and the most you can hope for is someone bigger protecting you.</p>
<p><strong>Day1-2</strong> Note your start date in your profile so you can track your on progress. Begin building your resource fields, focus on clay, then wood, then iron, and lastly crop. Building resource fields requires more clay than wood, more wood than iron, and very little food. Your objective will be to get 3&#8242;s for all clay and wood resources, 2 for iron (3 if Roman), and 2&#8242;s for food. I try to keep my food around 50-100 per hour until my resources are finished in a city because more just goes to waste, or has to get traded on the market.. Once you hit 3&#8242;s in wood and clay it is time to build a level 3 main building, a barracks, and a rally point, and a warehouse. Once you have two units trained you are ready to raid. Go to /www.traviantool.com/ and do a search for inactives around town. In your first few raids you&#8217;ll want to hit people with less than 10 population who are at least 3 days inactive because even 1 defender could slow you down. If your target is the square next to your village, you are in luck. His 3200 resources will soon pay for your first batch of soldiers. Raid this target over and over again until his resources are gone. Spend his resources on more troops and resources upgrades here and there. You may also need to expand your warehouse to hold your new found resources. Once the first farm runs out of resources, move on to the second best farm on your screen. Remember that these farms will tend to refill their resources after a 12 hour period. So, you should hit each of your farms again at the end of the day. Repeat this process over the next couple days until there are no easy resources left within 20 minutes of your capital.</p>
<p><strong>Day 4</strong> At this point an experienced player will start noticing a real difference between Teuton and Roman. As Teuton your raiders are dirt cheap and you&#8217;ll start amassing them quickly. You will also be ready to hire a few scouts soon. Roman legionnaire are expensive and slow to train, even with the new found resources from farming they are hard to pay for. While the Teutonic army is rapidly approaching 100 Clubbies! At this point the guide starts to vary some depending on your race. I will follow the Teuton path from here as it is the most aggressive. With 75 club swingers you&#8217;ll be able to start raiding villages 2 at one time, and you&#8217;ll likely drain their complete stock of resources in 1 hit! This means your ready for bigger fish. I begin hitting any realm within 6 range of my own that is 3 days inactive. If the guy looks scary skip him until you have a scout you should quickly out pace anyone near you. It is important to avoid getting into any real fights. Your only goal in Travian should be to hit people who can&#8217;t defend themselves.</p>
<p><strong>Resources Note</strong> I don&#8217;t always build resource fields evenly. I often have more resources than I can spend on anything other than troops. So I will take short cuts on my clay or wood, because building time slows me down more than resource usage. As long as you sit at the computer and raid actively you should be able to afford any upgrades you want to buy.</p>
<p><strong>Caution</strong> If you have active farmers around you, they may see you as an easy farm. It is important to send your army on a 5 hour attack (10 hour total mission) before you log off for the day, and before you go to sleep at night. Your army is your main source of resources, if they die you will suffer a devastating setback. Think of your army as you would your resource fields. You don&#8217;t want to lose troops just as you wouldn&#8217;t want to lose resource fields!</p>
<p><strong>Day 6</strong> If you raid actively you should be ready for a hero today, just in case any of your farms gets active on you. By this point you should have 150 clubbies, and level 5 resource fields. Your warehouse should always be able to hold 10 times your hourly production, but no more (so you can go to sleep without falling behind). Meanwhile your probably raiding 8-10 separate targets (more if you spend more time on Travian). When you log in for the morning, open your map screen, right click your targets, open in new tab all 10 of your targets. Go through and send just enough troops to empty out each target. If you can&#8217;t remember how many resources each raid target has, keep a text file of the number of troops to send to each target. If a target has 800 of each resource then send 800*4/60= 54 club swingers (or 800*4/40=80 Legionnaire). A target with 1200 of each resource would require 1200*4/60=80 club swingers. By this point if you didn&#8217;t start late in the game you should already be shopping around for a small wing of a large alliance to join. You should stand out from your neighbors, and you are ready to contact a big alliance near you and inform them of your successful start. A recruiter looking at your area will easily see that you are the largest town within 10 squares. You can also paste him or her your most successful farm reports so he can see you have quite a large army for your size. If you are not accepted into an alliance don&#8217;t be tempted to start your own, it is a clear sign of weakness. Also, do not join a farm alliance unless you can find one that appears larger than your threatening neighbors because it offers you nothing, and gets you put on a “farm list”.</p>
<p><strong>Caution:</strong> Lone fast building players are often prime targets for veteran farmers. You won&#8217;t really be able to field a decent army, so just stick to your offense plan. Send your army out when your not playing so, under no circumstances should you lose any soldiers on defense or even let someone scout you with your army at home. You will cause them to fear you, which means they will see your existence as a threat to their own. Just let the farmer come in and take what he can get, yet don&#8217;t let him slow you down. Keep up the raiding, keep trying to find allies. You may soon out grow your over confident farmer. However, if you happen to load 4 minutes away from a serious player, like yourself, who has a large head start on you, then you may have to restart and try again. But. before you do, you should dump all your resources into training a pure defensive army and hero with as many walls as practical. You will have to build up for several days in a row which means you&#8217;ll have to hide them from him. By taking the time and store up a large force, you can wipe out one of his or her raiding forces. This can be especially true if you repeat the event or delete the account before he or she can recover lost resources from you.</p>
<p><strong>Day8</strong> It will be time to expand to a second city soon, slow down club production and start a residence.</p>
<p><strong>Day10</strong> If you make it to this point without being attacked, then it is getting less likely that anyone will attack you. By this point as Teuton I carry 50 spear fighters, and around 600 Clubbies. (In almost all games I get careless and lose 50-100 clubbies beating down my upstart neighbors. This should be avoided if possible as it costs you precious raiders. However, some newbies your size may carry 25-30000 resources with no armies to speak of. By using scouts on all active players before hitting you can make sure they are defenseless, but remember their defense may just be away. By this point in the game I farm the nearest 20-30 inactive players. I also usually have 1 or 2 farms my own size who either didn&#8217;t have army, or who had a very small army. I break my army up into groups of 50 and send them out to the nearest 12 targets. As the closer raiders come in, I send them back out again. I do this twice a day, so that I can have enough resources to build settlers, keep up building resource fields, and replacing lost clubbies.</p>
<p>Its time to expand! Army production takes a back seat for 12 hours while the expansion is underway. By the end of day 10 you should have your first expansion. If not you are slacking on your raiding efforts. Once you get large enough you&#8217;ll go weeks or months without using defense. However, right now you are extremely vulnerable. If you aren&#8217;t in an alliance yet, recontact the people you laid ground work with previously. Point out your drastic increase in population and second village because this will let them know you are a serious player. However, if you started late, you will probably have to go it alone for a while. This means you will have to found multiple villages before a decent alliance will take you seriously. Maintain friendly but not overly pestering contacts with smaller wings of big alliances. L.R. for example is a huge wing and certainly full, but L.R.2 will have fewer and smaller players, thus making them more receptive to new recruits. You&#8217;re goal should be to reach the minimum population or army requirements for the alliance you wish to join.</p>
<p>Day11 You should make it to a level 10 forest resource by the end of today. From here the sky and a third village is the limit! Your second village should be starting an army, and begin raiding the villages near it so that it can support itself and stop draining your first town.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t make it to a large alliance within two weeks because you&#8217;re under constant attack, then you have three choices:</p>
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<li>Consider this round a practice run and learn about war and defense.</li>
<li>Found your second city well away from your farmer, preferably near a large collection farms.</li>
<li>Restart your account and hope for better position.</li>
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