S9.com Roundtable Interview Part 1 (updated)

I conducted a special roundtable interview with leaders from all 3 of Server 9′s big alliances – TRUST, Chaos Factor, and Rangers – last Saturday, shortly after the game had ended. Posted below is the first part of this interview. The players that were present were: Rangers: Cupcake, Khess (aka Jess), Natasa (aka Manitowoc), Quietmonk CF: [...]

Glitched!

I’ve almost got part 1 of the S9.com Roundtable interview done (I’m splitting it into two parts because it’s pretty lengthy), but now WordPress is glitching up and I’m having trouble finishing it. I’ll try to get it done soon, hopefully this will pass soon. This seems to happen often when I have posts that [...]

S9.com: TRUST and CF Both Win the Stare Down, But Was That More Important Than Winning The Game?

On Thursday I posted my recap of the S9.com finish that I wrote for Travian Magazine, but I also wanted to do some more in-depth analysis of the ending, so that’s what this post will focus on (and after this I’ll try to finish posting the interview – I’ve ran into a glitch with getting [...]

New Features on Travian Servers

Travian Servers will have 3 new features starting today. An official announcement was made on the Travian.com forums here.  The 3 new features are: Players can use BBCode in In-game messages Players can set restrictions on what their sitters can and can’t do Players can share battle reports with other players on the same sever [...]

Server 7 Restart Announced

Just in time for players who are finished with Server 9, it’s time for the return of Server 7! The server will begin in just over a week from today, and pre-registration starts next Wednesday. Click here to read the official announcement. The Server will Travian version 3.6 but without the Rally Point Restriction or the Instant [...]

Deadline Day for Travian Magazine, take two

I wasn’t completely happy with my first version of the story for Travian Magazine, so here’s my second edit which I’ve resubmitted, and hopefully they can use it instead (even though it’s technically past their deadline).  Server 9 came to an end on May 22nd. The winning World Wonder switched alliances with one hour left in [...]

Deadline Day for Travian Magazine

Sorry the site has been slow on updates lately. It’s certainly not for lack of content – I’ve got tons of stuff to write about and put up on the site! It’s more a matter of me not having much free time right now. I’ve started a new job recently (yay, more money!) and the commute [...]

S9.com Roundtable Interview coming soon!

Man, I just did the most epic interview in the history of Travian Champions, with a Roundtable discussion of players from Rangers, TRUST, and CF from Server 9. I can’t wait to put it up on the site, but it’s going to take me a while to edit all of it and put it into readable [...]

S9.com: The Final Results

Server 9 is over, with Babuk finishing as the winning World Wonder. But the real story may be that he switched alliances at level 99, from TRUST to Rangers. And many players are shocked that this has happened (I know I am, though I’m going to try to get the full story before I rush [...]

Website Update

Anytime I go several days without blogging, it’s always a bit awkward getting back to doing it regularly, and it’s been 11 days, one of my bigger “off” period since I’ve started this site. So I might be a bit awkward at first, but I’ll try to get back to daily updates, and devote a [...]

Bizarre Forum Thread of the Day

Sometimes Server 9 weirds me out: http://forum.travian.com/showthread.php?t=136239

S9.com: The Stare Down

I’m low on time so I’ll have to keep this post short, but there’s a lot to say about the current events in the S9.com endgame. Thunder pulled the trigger on their expected attacks on The Watcher’s World Wonder (I expected that they would wait a few more days, so this was a small surprise [...]

How much will Lord of Ultima Change the Online Strategy Game Marketplace?

The Online Strategy Games Blog (one of my favourite blogs after my own) has a guest article by Jonah Alexander in which he speculates about how the new Lord of Ultima game being released by EA (Electronic Arts) will affect the Online Strategy Games marketplace. I recommend reading the whole things, but here’s part of it: The addition [...]

Solo Play

Godspeed wrote a reply to the post where I talked about being burnt out from playing Server 9. I thought I’d reply to some of what he said.   Yep we all get tired at some point. That ‘burn out effect’ but in you case your like the superman of travian with all the coverage This is why [...]

S9.com: Inside Thunder’s Top Secret Bunker

Check out this hilarious video made by a Chaos Factor player after they reduced Inocka’s World Wonder to Lv.0: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af8_1272712909&p=1