Travian Farm tip
To farm in travian is to attack other villages for resources, like I’m sure everyone knows. In the beginning farming heavily is pretty much the only way to be able to grow as fast as the other big players. Farming can take a lot of time when you start to get a lot of troops and lots of potential farms around you, and especially if you don’t have any co-players to help you out it’s good to find an efficient way to do it.
One way I’ve found is very efficient is to add links to all your farms in a html document. The way to make such a html document is just to first open up the attack screen of every village you’d like to farm in seperate tabs in your webbrowser. The attack screen is the one where you select the troops, each url should end with a2b.php?z=323184, the number being the ID of the village and different for all the links.
When you got all these tabs open, you just copy these links into say word or some other text editor that can save html files. Usually what I do is to have one paragraph for each 7×7. The first one being my own 7×7, next one the 7×7 north of me and so on. You can also add some notes to your html document if there is something specific to remember about each of the farms, like how many troops to send, how much resources he’s producing, crannies, etc.
I sometimes have as many as 200-300 different farms added in a html document like this, and trust me, sending 300 attacks one at a time takes a very long time. When I do it this way however, I just open my html file, ctrl + click each of the links to open them in a new tab, and then send about 50 of them on their way at the same time. The reason I don’t do all the 300 at the same time is cause of having 300 tabs open in your webbrowser will slow your computer down a lot.
One thing when you have this html document with your farms, don’t forget to update it. If some of the villages delete or are taken over by friends of you, the link will still point to that same place, so make sure you check it now and then to avoid attacking allies.
I’ve found this to be a very efficient way to farm, I’m curious about what you guys think of it though, or if you have some other tips on how to farm efficiently. If so, please leave a comment below.
thats a good way, but what i do is similar, but a bit slower. i have all the farm attack reports in my reports, so i just click on them if i want to farm them. and if they delete or something, a little ‘?’ comes up beside their name, so you just delete them from your list.
gorax
5 Feb 09 at 10:46 pm
Yes, that seems like a good way to do it also.
Iwind
6 Feb 09 at 2:10 am
treid to make the html document but failed
could u post how to make it exactly?
abdo
13 Feb 09 at 7:12 pm
Simple.
Open notepad and type this:
a href=”www.yoursitename.com”>yoursitename</a
add ad end. I couldn’t have added it because this comment would regisater it as a valid link.
Changing yourstiname to your desired link.
Than hit save as and change the .txt postpone to .html
and open in your internet browser. You can add as many links as you want,
but remember, if you want to add a line break
(line break is
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You cannot just hit enter, but must type this where you want the line to break:
/br
add at end.
Someone
15 Feb 09 at 9:54 pm
1. Open Microsoft word
2. Paste all of the links in there that end in a2b.php?z=323184
3. File->Save as web page (select ‘Web page (*.htm, *.html)’ in the drop-down)
And you’re done.
I’ve been keeping track of everything in an Excel spreadsheet. I have a separate sheet for each farm (I can track how many resources per raid, time of last raid, etc etc), and a main spreadsheet which has links to each one and totals from each farm and from all farms. But I get very OCD about everything, so it’s probably over-organized for most people and an excess of information.
Kami
20 Feb 09 at 9:10 pm
I’m no web guru, so html is beyond me. I am, however, an Excel guru, and have developed a nice set of functions and macros to manage my raiding.
Basically, the spreadsheet has one tab that is a “journal” of all my raids. I record village, location, date, time, troops used, bounty taken, and some other efficiency ratios. A second tab has a list of my favorite farms, and uses vlookup functions to pull in data from the most recent raid. Based on my own crude estimates of how many resources I believe the farm produces per hour, and my total bounty target (at this point, I aim for 2,000 resources per trip — I’m not that large yet), the second tab will spit out the date and time of the next raid. This is intended to make the most efficient use of my troops as possible, without sending 100+ armies and grabbing 500 total resources. There are obviously other factors (e.g., other players raiding and defensive actions by a suddenly active farm), but it’s worked out well so far.
I can say that this has made raiding much more easy to deal with, and much more effective, as well. That said, it’s starting to get old…
Maxx P. Ness
20 Feb 09 at 9:57 pm
For those that use google chrome … I like to have the bookmark manager open and my descriptions follow a pattern of tribe, travel time, village name = number of troops at what pop count. From there, it is simple to open bookmarks in new tabs. I also like to link to the village screen in the beginning rather than the attack screen so that I can quickly check the latest summary of how I’ve been farming that village. I started this instead of the Word document because I was more or less lazy but it’s working for me.
Aladdin
23 Feb 09 at 12:10 am
That’s a great way to stay organized. I’m fairly small right now so I’m keeping notes on my neighbors and the html links are much better than writing down coordinates.
jy
27 Feb 09 at 8:52 pm
Thanks for the guide. Aladdins comment about google chrome was very much appreciated aswell!
Johan
11 Mar 09 at 7:06 pm
That’s a very nice tip!
I, instead of adding links to the attack screen, would use the village screen. There we can see if the village is really there, confirm their name, and their ally. If they joined our ally we’d see easily. There we can confirm their current pop too.
Hikari
12 Mar 09 at 8:28 pm
@Maxx P. Ness
Wow man, that sounds awesome, I wish I had leet Excel skills like that. Any chance you putting up such a document for download?
cheesecrow
22 Mar 09 at 1:32 am
Gonna try this out. What’s the ID of your village Iwind?
Jaya
2 Apr 09 at 6:06 pm
1. This is not called an “html document” an html document ends in htm or html file extensions and is used mostly in design of a webpage. This is merely a text document with links and notes in it, nothing more.
2. The Ideal method is to own a private farm search/listing tool/webpage which can work just like a public farm search but with added benefit of showing your notes or history of raiding in the same interface as village lists and give u the automation of sorting by various factors and also searching.
This won’t be a script or anything illegal it will merely be a personalized and history/stats keeping farm searcher. Who knows, maybe u can find a farm search that allows these private features once u sign up or something. this way, there is no hassle involved. everything is always automatically up to date, u can even implement an attack screen within this tool to avoid opening new pages.. java could help a whole lot here.
just my 2cents
pro travianer
9 Apr 09 at 9:49 pm
Easier way to do it is by existing tool. I have found this nice utlity:
http://www.traviantoolbox.com/en/farms_search_on_server_usx
Hope this will be helpful.
IndiNeo
11 Apr 09 at 9:14 am
dude im really confused by the html, can someone plz put in like a STEP BY STEP noob way of explaining that? and im a little confused of what this will even do…what purpose does it serve to save the picture of each 14×14 map?
ryomu
16 Apr 09 at 4:30 pm
it is good but
if u farm the n that way u cant see if they have resourses left in it can be a waste of time
bb
25 Apr 09 at 6:45 pm
April 11, 2009 at 9:14 am
Easier way to do it is by existing tool. I have found this nice utlity:
http://www.traviantoolbox.com/en/farms_search_on_server_usx
Hope this will be helpful.
^
it is really helpful
thanks dude:)
abdo
4 Jul 09 at 8:48 pm
I do a simple thing, and this works very well if the sitter does the same game approach.
I send a raid and only look at the report when I send again another raid. Wich means all readen reports are attacks on the way and I can erase them.
So I´f I have 500 trops on my village, my sitter can go to the reports, send the same amount of troops and clear the report.And I know how to do on his village also.
The down effect, is that you will loose sense of what that villages are, cause its only a report, most of the times you dont see the village and if she grows. And expect to recive a lot of IGM´s saying you´re attacking a allied on a conquest village.
Do this and use beyond!
Toxic
4 Oct 09 at 6:09 pm
OR – you could just pay 20 bucks and get the exact same thing in the gold club. and in the same browser.
Conanbarbarian3
29 Mar 10 at 8:41 pm