Is the Rally Point Restriction on its way out?

The latest servers to start on Travian.com will not have the controversial Rally Point Restriction that was first introduced in Travian 3.6. Server 6, which started a new game on March 12th, was originally believed to include the recently introduced restriction that limits the number of attacks a player can send from their rally point which they [...]

Speed Server Restart on Travian.com

Today is the start of the newest Speed Server on Travian.com! Good luck to all the Speed demons out there on the new server! Click here to register if you want to join in the fun! This new Speed Server will use Travian version 3.6, but similar to the recently started Server 6, it won’t [...]

Travian.com Server 1: Rally Point Limit Removed

Here’s some news that I’m sure many top Travian players will be happy about. Server 1, the next server to start on Travian.com, won’t have the Rally Point Limit that was introduced in Travian 3.6. Here’s the text of the announcement from the Travian.com admin: UPDATE: We all get the chance to show that the rally point [...]

Travian Crewchat Report Part 1

The Travian Crewchat took place on December 9th. Like the last time I covered one of these, I’ll be picking out the highlights from the chat event that are the most newsworthy and summarizing them in this post.  I’ll also give my thoughts on some of the things that were said.  If you want to read the entire chat, [...]

Not Exactly a Ringing Endorsement…

One thought I’d like to add to my post from yesterday about how Travian 3.6 was announced. If the new version a game is first introduced with the words “So here goes, and brace yourselves as the changes are… enormous.“, you know you’re going to be in for a bumpy ride.

My Thoughts on Travian 3.6 (part 2)

I wanted to follow up on my earlier post about my thoughts about Travian 3.6. This time, I want to get into some further thoughts about how Travian 3.6 was announced and the timing of the update. Now, I know that Travian doesn’t have a professional P.R. department, and whoever makes these decisions usually doesn’t [...]

Quote of the week

I posted Imram’s piece on why he’s in favour of the Travian 3.6 changes earlier, but I thought this part is worth repeating, with emphasis: It now promotes simming and focuses less on aggressive farming. But then again, how aggressive you are depends on you as a player and not the game mechanics.

In Favour of the Travian 3.6 Changes

I’m planning on posting part 2 of  my “Thoughts on Travian 3.6” later today. In the meantime, I thought I’d share this piece written by Imram, a player who supports the Travian 3.6 changes that was posted on the Travian.com forums. It’s nice to hear that someone likes these changes. Even if I’m not happy about Travian 3.6, [...]

Speed Raiding in Travian 3.6

One player has made a handy guide for how to get your raiding set up fast with the new Travian 3.6 features. Read it here: http://forum.travian.com/showthread.php?t=130402 Quote from the guide’s intro: This guide is not for those of you that dont mind spending hours sending out raids each day… This is more a guide for lazy people [...]

My Thoughts On Travian 3.6 (Part 1)

Ever since Travian version 3.6 was announced, there’s been a big reaction from players on the various Travian forums around the world. I’ve posted several stories about Travian 3.6 on this site, but I haven’t really gone through how I feel about the new version of the game in-depth. Now that it looks like it’s [...]

S8.com Restart Announced

They’ve announced that S8.com will be restarting on Friday, December 18th. Pre-registration will open on December 16th. Read the official announcement thread here. S8.com will be Travian version 3.6, but it won’t have the auto-recall feature that lets you instantly return your troops.

Travian 3.6: More about the Rally Point Changes

Here’s a further explanation of the Rally Point changes in Travian 3.6. I must say, when you put it this way, it makes a lot of sense: Dear players, as the changes to the rally point brought up a lot discussion we want to tell you the reasons why we decided to make those. We [...]

Travian 3.6 Reaction from S8.com leader

One of the leaders of ArES, an elite alliance from S8.com 08-09, posted his thoughts about Travian 3.6 on the .com fourms: Vercingetorix: The biggest problem I have with 3.6 is the rally point restrictions. As pointed out, s10 has only been in testing for what, 3 weeks? The rally point restriction will hurt the most active [...]

Travian 3.6: All .com servers servers to be upgraded next week!

A big announcement was made on the Travian.com forums earlier today by the .com admin, Tschena. All Travian.com servers will be making changes to Travian 3.6. Not all of the 3.6 features will be going into effect, but players can expect to see new graphics and get new free features. but the biggest controversy is that all servers will [...]

Travian 3.6 Trade Routes

In an earlier post I linked to a guide for the new features of Travian 3.6 that was posted on the Travian.com forums. Now the same person has written a handy explanation of how the new Trade Routes Features work. Read it here: http://forum.travian.com/showpost.php?p=1500831&postcount=2 This is sure to be a big time-saver during the Endgame phase when players are regularly sending crop [...]