Stargate

Part 1: Better safe than sorry

In this game, you need a good spawn location to get anywhere. Let's start with that...

Firstly, the quadrants of a server are very important. Usually the South quadrants are the most tranquil, but it varies from server to server. You might want to remember that when choosing your quadrant. If you don't care, then choose random and pray.

Once you get your location, take a look at your 7 x 7, if there are a lot of higher population players near you, please consider deleting and restarting somewhere else. If there are not, then take a look at your 13 x 13, see what it looks like there. If you see a lot of players that you feel could be a danger to you, delete and restart. If players around you are roughly the same size, or if it's a new server and there are not many players, then you will probably want to stay there. Your neighbors are potential allies or farms.

This all depends on the age of the server; if it is newer you will get near a lot of new players, if it is a few months in there will not be a 'perfect spawn' location. Now, the game has a built in system that tries to make sure you get near new players, though it is not a for sure thing.

For more information on how this works, please see this thread on our sister forum.

http://forum.travian.com/showthread.php?t=78078

Another thing to remember is to make sure you will have some farms if not a lot by the time you are ready to farm. At least make sure there are some villages that are in yout 13 x 13 that will be farmable for you when you are ready.

If you are new: whether the server is one week old or several months make sure you have at least one cranny (Level 10) at the end of your Beginner's Protection period. It doesn't matter what server you play on; you will probably want to do this.

For Teutons and Romans: A level 10 cranny can hold 1000 resources, that is 1000 of each!.

For Gauls: A level 10 cranny can hold 2000 resources, that is 2000 of each!

(Also, when being raided by a Teuton, they can steal 1/3 of the resources hidden in your cranny, meaning if it held 3000 they could steal 1000...)

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Part 2: The Attacks Begin

Raiding in Travian is very important, you need to make a profit from your raids or they are pointless...

If people are raiding you and you give up a lot of resources and/or hero experience, they will keep doing it. As long as they are profiting from you it is worth it. Which is why you need to make it pointless for them to attack you. If people get nothing, they will stop (most will anyway).

• If you notice a raid or attack coming your way here is what you want to do:
• Check what race your attacker is.
• Check your cranny level(s), get your resource levels below those numbers; if your attacker is a Teuton multiply your cranny capacity by 2/3 and get to the resource level you get.

Crannies will always cover the amount required to upgrade, so upgrading your cranny should not be a problem. One cranny is allowed per village until it gets to level 10, after that you can build as many as you have spaces available. As a rule, make sure your cranny level covers at least your warehouse and granary levels, if not more.

When you are attacked the first few times, move all of your troops out of the village. Send them on a raid to someone far enough away that they will not return until after the raid has hit. You can also reinforce a someone you know, or someone you don't know. If you want you can send them to someone, so that they are gone when the attack/raid hits then cancel the troop movement. You have 90 seconds after sending to do so. You will want to wait until about 20 seconds before the attack hits, then send them out. Recall them immediately after the attack lands via your rally point.

All attacks, when you are small, should be dodged. If the attacker sees troops, they will most likely come back with catapults. As I said, many attackers will constantly attack you for his hero experience if they see soldiers. I have used this tactic many times to get a high offensive rank, don't be a victim of this.

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Part 3: How to beat those farmers

Before you do anything else, take a look at reports from when the person in question attacks/raids you. If they have profited and continue to do so, you may want to read the earlier parts of this guide again. Anyway, if they are still profiting from raiding you, they will probably not want to stop. It is worth more to attack you and get resources than to be your friend. If they have not profited, send them a message (these will be covered in a bit).

Sending messages to a farmer is one of the best ways to get them to stop, though this does not always go as planned.

Sorry if this seems repetitive, but it is far easier to get farmers to give you a return trip than it is to get them to stop. Taunting your attackers after you cranny up is never a wise thing. Most larger players have catapults and you can go from 80 population to 0 population within a day. So this is never the way to go.

When you are going to message someone, make sure you are in a good mood, or at least are calm. This is the internet, hardly anyone takes threats seriously, and most just laugh at insulting curse word ridden messages. Sending one of these to your attacker will just make them want to attack more. Remember, Travian is a game; this should have no effect on your real life, don't let it. (Restart if you have to.)

Now to the messages part!

Here is a message that someone sent me. This is another of my 0 population victims.

With this message, there are several things wrong. First of all, he said I cannot destroy his crannies; it is very possible to destroy crannies (which I did do to him). It may have taken a while longer, but it got done. His language usage was another problem that I had with him, while I do use "chatspeak" a lot, I usually type properly. If farms send me complaingt in "chatspeak" or "1337" they get destroyed. To really seal his doom, he said that I was wasting my time. Thanks, but I’ll determine what wastes my time, thank you. My catapults had no other targets, swordsmen are too slow to raid with, and it’s hard to resist the temptation to catapult someone after a message like this.

This is a message, this is not some crap that a 3 year old typed. I respect people (more) when they type like this when they are asking me to do something. He paid me a certain amount of resources for a few weeks and I let him be on his way. (Note: This will not always work...)

Anyway, repeated farming is a common problem. Just ensure that they don’t get hero experience, resources, or fun out of attacking. Try offering tribute, but in all cases, send civil messages only.