Travian Strategy Guide

It seems to me that everyone just assume that the speed server is 3 times faster than a normal server, and that’s about all there is to it. I haven’t actually read any guides or posts that really give some more insight into the differences between the two type of servers. It surprises me that people haven’t thought more about this, as the best strategies on a speed server for any given tribe, differs a lot from how you should play the same tribe on a normal server. I’ll give some examples here.

Farming
Isn’t farming 3 times as fast on a speed server as on a normal server? Well not really, as travel times are only twice as fast you can only make twice as many attacks on a speed server as you can on a normal one. Your tragets will still produce 3 times the amount, but if you can’t get to it all it doesn’t matter. If you run out of targets on a normal server cause of low production you could always expand your farming area. Considering crannies and how active farms you have also makes it more complex.

In general farming is less important on a speed server and your recourses production is more important. How much more important your recourse production is all depends on your playing style and how active you are as well as other factors. You could say that this makes teutons a little weaker on a speed server compared to a normal server, and gauls and romans stronger.

Culture points and parties
Most top players keep parties running 24/7 on the speed server to make sure they can expand their empire and build more villages as rapid as possible. On a normal server you usually won’t have enough recourse production and farming income to make this possible. It is also important to get new villages on a speed server more quickly, cause of what I mentioned with recourse production above. Also notice that parties cost the same and last just as long on both servers. Building buildings like embassies on a normal server is a good way to get culture instead of those expensive parties.

Choosing your main offense city
Most players tend to use great barracks and great stables in their main offense city on speed servers to be able to get a massive army quickly. With this high production of recourses you have on a speed server this is a good idea. On a normal server however it’s pretty hard to keep such a high production running 24/7 with less income so I’d argue choosing your 15 cropper capital without great barracks and great stables as your offense city is the better option.

I’m sure there are more things that could be mentioned here, but this is what I came up with on the top of my head, feel free to leave some comments.