Travian

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Travian is a MMOG developed by Travian Games GmbH in Germany. In Travian, players interact simultaneously, competing with thousands of other players online in a virtual world set roughly in the Classical antiquity at the time of the Roman Empire.

1 Gameplay
- 1.1 Tribes
- 1.2 Resources
2 Variations
3 External links

[edit] Gameplay

Travian is a browser-based game, made in PHP, which is played directly through the internet. No downloads, installations or plugins are required, although a graphicpack may be downloaded. After registration, players may start playing Travian immediately, free of charge. Travian provides enhanced access, such as access through mobile phones, for a fee. Also, a "Plus" feature, which provides additional tools, is available for purchase, with prices starting at $2.99 per month.

[edit] Tribes

A player starts with one village, populated by either Teutons, Gauls, or Romans. Each race has different troops, advantages and disadvantages, and different strategies. The Romans are described as the best race for beginners because of their easy playability. However, the armies of the Romans are more expensive and do not match the specialization of the other tribes. Teutons are better at offense and can build armies early on, Gauls are often considered the tribe best at defense, but also have the fastest troops.

[edit] Resources

There are four different types of resources in Travian: wood, clay, iron and crops, all of which are required in various quantities to build and expand. The resources are produced by fields in one's village, producing resources at a preset rate, which may be upgraded. Though unusual for an online browser-based game, field tiles continuously generate resources. For example, if 30 units of a resource are to be produced per hour, one unit is generated every 2 minutes, rather than 30 units on the hour.

[edit] Variations

The game has servers running in dozens of languages, each language having its own domain extension, e.g. travian.de in German, travian.fr in French, and travian.com in English.

There are currently seven game servers running the English version of the game, numbered s1 to s7. Each server represents a separate world.

Travian version 2 games are in progress on s4, s5, and s6, while version 3 is in use on s1, s2, s3, and s7. Server s3 runs at triple speed, so a building which might take 33 minutes to build on s2 will take only 11 minutes on s3.

Also, a new extension was recently opened, travian.us, which is proclaimed to be accessible only to players in the United States and Canada. There is currently only one server on the .us site, and it runs version 3 at the same speed as travian.com's servers 1, 2, and 7; however, upgrades to resource fields take only half the time on the .us servers.