Travian Strategy Guide

This is not a strategy post, but it’s about a change that I think should be made to travian. Right now you can send out as many attacks as you want at the same time in travian, and to be among the top raiders of any server you have to take advantage of this. I’m usually in the top 10 plunder list on any server I play when I’m a teuton, and the way to get there is to raid hundreds of villages simultaneously. I’ve watched accounts of players that are even more extreme than me with close to 1,000 attacks outgoing and returning at the same time.

This is pretty easy to do as long as you have enough time, the usual way to do it is to farm with 3-4 clubs on each village early on, and then increase as you get more troops to 5-10 to stop them from dying on residences and such. I don’t even check my attack reports when I raid like this, just to save time. This does get pretty boring after a while though, and that’s one reason I’d like to see something get changed here. The other reason is how easy it is to automate this process, there are several bots out there now that will farm for you using this strategy 24/7.

The use of bots in travian really does seem to be a growing problem, and the reason is probably how easy it is to set up a bot to farm like this and how large of an advantage you’ll have doing this compared to a casual player. Last server I played I got hit by bots constantly, 3-4 clubs daily from the same players every day. The clubs kept dying but they didn’t care or even notice since their bot had hundreds of raids going on all over them map. I’m not saying all of the top raiders use bots, but really quite a few of them do.

Anyways, something other similar games like Evony and Ikariam does is to limit the number of attacks you can send at the same time by the level of a building. In travian one option is to limit it to the residence/palace level, maybe 5 attacks at level 0, 6 at level 1, 7 at level 2, etc. Somewhere between 20-30 attacks from any single city at the same time would be a good limit in my opinion. Right  now who grows the fastest is decided by who can spam most attacks out, putting a max limit to attacks in the game would instead reward players who make smart and profitable attacks. Anyways, just throwing my opinion out there, what does the readers think?