Travian Strategy Guide

In this travian cropper guide I’ll try to explain how to use a cropper most efficiently, and what you should look for when trying to decide which cropper to chose as your capital.

Well just to start, if anyone don’t know what a cropper is, it’s one of these villages that have 9 or 15 crop fields, kind of like the troop town in Evony, another browser game. Most people refer to these as a 9 cropper and a 15 cropper. Anyways, a 15 cropper is what we will focus on here. Almost all successful players chose to make a 15 cropper their capital, and the reason for that is to optimize resource production. Cause of the 50% bonus oases as well as two bonus buildings being available for crop production, you get much more resources total if you chose a 15 cropper as your capital.
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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. Read the rest of this entry »