Top Raider from Speed.com

I’ve added the Top Raider from the most recent Speed Server to the Hall of Champions entry (because the number isn’t available from the in-game stats itself, I have to wait until I can get it from an analysis site, so that’s why it wasn’t available at the time I originally did the entry). 

Congratulations to TheYoungTurks, who raided over a billion resources on the Speed Server (1,422,994,207 to be exact). TheYoungTurks was also the highest population player on the server, so now he’s doubly honoured.

You can view the complete Speed Server entry here: https://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/speed-com-nov-09-mar-2010-travian-3-5/

Special shout-out to the #2 raider, iLosc, who also passed the 1 billion threshold.

Speed.com: Winning World Wonder Video

Warlady made a youtube video that shows the whole history of the winning World Wonder from Speed.com. The captions in the video are in Polish, but it’s pretty easy to understand what’s going on even if you don’t understand them.

Speed.com winners inducted into the Hall of Champions!

The latest Speed server winners from Travian.com have now been inducted into the Travian Hall of Champions!

You can see the entry here: https://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/speed-com-nov-09-mar-2010-travian-3-5/

Congratulations once again to PF!

Click to enlarge the trophy

Some Pictures from Speed.com (Nov 2009- Mar 2010)

To go along with the Hall of Champion entry for the recently finished Travian.com Speed Server, I thought I’d post some photos from the ending of the server.

  

  

This is the defense at the winning World Wonder, held by Warlady.

 

Unlike Top Defender, the Top Attacker honour was very close between first and second place.   

The Top Heroes of the Speed Server

Even though R.A.I.D was the top attacker, they didn’t have the highest level hero. K S A, the #7 attacker, finished at an incredible level of 205.  

   

The Top Defenders

Only 5 players finished ahead of the Natars on defense. You also have to admire 72vsAK, who stuck out to the end of the game with only 1 village left. He must have taken a tremendous beating. 

This is a great shot of the winning World Wonder city. This is a very interesting build that they used. Only one Great Granary and a regular Granary, and only 3 Great Warehouses and a whole lot of regular Warehouses.

This is the profile of Warlady, the winning player. She ended the game with only four villages left, two of which were World Wonder villages.

PFF, the winners of the previous speed server, returned to play this round but they weren’t able to repeat as winners. But from the medals in their alliance profile you can tell that they still managed to do okay.

I’d like to thank Bea, a player on the Speed Server who runs her own blog for servers that she plays on at http://bea-travian.blogspot.com/, for letting me use these photos that were originally posted on her site. There are a ton of other great screenshots from the game on her site, so go check it out if you want to see more.  

This is the third time that Bea’s blog has helped out Travian Champions, her blog and her insight into the game was also helpful when I was doing the entry for the previous Speed Server, and for S5.com 08-09. So once again, my deepest thanks to Bea and her great blog.

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 have the Rally Point Restriction. This seems to be part of a continued reaction to the massive outcry of players on Travian.com who didn’t like the new changes introduced in Travian 3.6. I’m sure the competitive players who like to raid a lot and the alliance leaders who like to send a lot of fake attacks will be happy about this.

There were some problems with some of the pre-registration links but hopefully they’ve got them sorted out now.

I’m just putting the finishing touches on the Hall of Champions entry for the latest Speed Server today and it should be done in just a little bit. (I would have finished earlier but I had some problems with WordPress that screwed up my first try, and I had to start the whole thing over)

Poland and Friends Win Speed.com

The Speed server on Travian.com has come to an end, with the alliance PF emerging victorious. The hall of champion entry for this server will be finished sometime in the next few days, after which is will be added to this page.

Travian Champions congratulates PF on their win!

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 now have the Travian 3.6 “Gold Club” implemented on them, even ones that are almost over, like S6.com and S1.com.  Read the announcement thread here. The full text of the announcement is below:

Here is the full text of her announcement:

Dear players,

all servers will get an upgrade either to T3.6 directly or to T3.6 code with some restrictions on December 2, 2009.

New servers (com10)

• Rally point: only 5 troop movements (attacks, raids and reinforcement orders) per building level
• Status icons for reports, to identify easy attacks without losses, trades etc
• Research loop for armoury and blacksmith
• Enough resources at…. and “capacity” after raids shown without PLUS (and for academy, armoury and blacksmith)
• Direct link to the NPC trade
• Direct link to “instant build”
• 10% off and def bonus removed (only NEW Servers)
• PLUS cost down from 15 to 10 (only NEW Servers)
• Graphics for artefact’s and resource fields
• Village and link panel can be collapsed

Gold club:

• Gold club costs 100 Gold for whole server time
• Returning troops immediate callback (and they return immediately to your village) cost 5 gold. This only affects returning troops. And only those without catapults and chiefs of any tribe. Those can not be called back immediately.
  Additional, the callback is not possible if the village is being under attack/raid hitting within the next 3 hours.
• Master builder: prepare three more buildings in loop even without enough resources, cost 1 gold for each
• Send away all troops before an attack comes in (they leave at the moment of the attack and return 180 seconds afterwards) 2 gold each time troops dodge. The total amount of dodges can be set by the player for each village separately (troops have to be at home for at least 10 seconds except they are returning from the usage of this option)
• Trade route for 7 days, 2 gold per route for 7 days (only for own villages)

then there are free features in the Gold club:

• Merchants run three times (if selected)
• Farm list – you can setup to easy find and attack your farms
• 15 and 9 cropper finder with oasis bonuses filter
• Farm statistics easy overview how effective your raids to a specific village have been

Features formerly in the PLUS Account, now free for all players:

• Enough resources at…. shown without PLUS (also for academy, armory and blacksmith)
• “Capacity” after raids shown without PLUS
• WarSim with all features
• Walls etc and Rally Point can be built anywhere and be moved on their specific building site

Changes for the PLUS Account:

• Lowered price for PLUS Account from 15 to 10
• Research loop for armoury and blacksmith
• 10% off and def bonus removed (to remove the possibility to buy a combat bonus for Gold)

Upgraded Travian 3.5 Servers (com1, com2, com4, com5, com6, com7, com9, comx)

• Status icons for reports, to identify easy attacks without losses, trades etc
• Research loop for armoury and blacksmith
• Enough resources at…. and “capacity” after raids shown without PLUS (and for academy, armoury and blacksmith)
• Direct link to the NPC trade
• Direct link to “instant build”
• Graphics for artefact’s and resource fields
• Village and link panel can be collapsed

Gold club:

• Gold club costs 100 Gold for whole server time
• Master builder: prepare three more buildings in loop even without enough resources, cost 1 gold for each
• Trade route for 7 days, 2 gold per route for 7 days (only for own villages)

then there are free features in the Gold club:

• Merchants run three times (if selected)
• Farm list – you can setup to easy find and attack your farms
• 15 and 9 cropper finder with oasis bonuses filter
• Farm statistics easy overview how effective your raids to a specific village have been

Features formerly in the PLUS Account, now free for all players:

• Enough resources at…. shown without PLUS (also for academy, armoury and blacksmith)
• “Capacity” after raids shown without PLUS
• WarSim with all features
• Walls etc and Rally Point can be built anywhere and be moved on their specific building site

Changes for the PLUS Account:

• Research loop for armory and blacksmith

Classic servers (com3)

• Status icons for reports, to identify easy attacks without losses, trades etc
• Research loop for armoury and blacksmith
• Enough resources at…. and “capacity” after raids shown without PLUS (and for academy, armoury and blacksmith)
• Direct link to the NPC trade
• Direct link to “instant build”
• Graphics for artefact’s and resource fields
• Village and link panel can be collapsed

Gold club:

• Gold club costs 100 Gold for whole server time

then there are free features in the Gold club:

• Merchants run three times (if selected)
• Farm list – you can setup to easy find and attack your farms
• 15 and 9 cropper finder
• Farm statistics easy overview how effective your raids to a specific village have been

Features formerly in the PLUS Account, now free for all players:

• Enough resources at…. shown without PLUS (also for academy, armoury and blacksmith)
• “Capacity” after raids shown without PLUS
• WarSim with all features
• Walls etc and Rally Point can be built anywhere and be moved on their specific building site

Changes for the PLUS Account:

• Research loop for armory and blacksmith

 

Stay tuned to Travian Champions for more news and clarifications about Travian 3.6 and how these changes will affect the game!

Another Video from Speed.com

I posted a youtube video made by the winners of Speed.com earlier, but here’s another one from one of their opponents. It was linked to in a comment on the old Video, but I think it definitely deserves its own post. It’s set to the music from “Breathe” by U2  which is one of the best songs from their new album, and it even has an inspirational message at the end.  (Two U2 songs in a week? Man, talk about a band that’s everywhere.)  Hine’s World Wonder may have come in last place, but it’s probably the highest last-place World Wonder I’ve seen at level 61. Enjoy:

Thanks a lot to Hines for sending this video to me.

Speed.com Winners Inducted Into The Hall of Champions

 

https://travianchampions.wordpress.com/world-com/speed-com-jun-oct-2009-travian-3-5/

 

Travian Champions is proud to make the first ever Speed Server Induction into the Hall of Champions. Congratulations to PFF&TLL for their hard fought victory and for being the first alliance to win the Speed.com server for Travian 3.5.

Speed.com: Video from the Winning Alliance

Here’s a youtube video from the winning World Wonder team on Speed.com. They really went all-out with this.

 

(Thanks again to Bea’s Blog)

Speed.com Victory Speech

This is the victory speech from Holymly, the leader of the PFF&TLL Meta on Speed.com.

Speed.com: Armies From the Losing Side Left at Home

A player from one of the alliances that lost on the recently completed Speed Server posted on the forums to say that they had armies that could have been used, but were never sent. Let this be an important lesson for any other alliance out there.

You can read the entire thread on the forums, but here are the highlights:

Xicote (leader of the alliance INT NW): Congratulations PFF for the victory,

INT NW is a portuguese alliance from ptx. We were here by our own, all the defence in Landinho’s Wonder Wonder was from INT members, we were 30 members only.
We had the BIGGEST ARMIES IN NW!
PVP really sucks, because of them INT didnt used 7 hammers

We attacked Raysama (the Winning World Wonder) and PVP said that 3 more attacks were going there, but they didnt attack, and we lost

INT NW ARMIES AT HOME

H0PH0P
http://i34.tinypic.com/6rkr5d.jpg

Nunoamt
http://i34.tinypic.com/2usgxms.jpg

CWJ
http://i35.tinypic.com/kd8zfb.jpg

Landinho
http://i34.tinypic.com/2ypi0zm.jpg

Guzmania
http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3986/comx.png

PVP AND TG (other alliances on the Speed Sever that were allied against PTT&TLL) SAID THAT 3 More attacks were going to Raysama, we trusted them.
THEY FAILED, the didnt attack.

Obviously, it’s a shame that these huge armies were never used when they definitely could have done some damage and possibly changed the outcome of the game. But who’s to blame for that, the alliance that made them and didn’t use them, or the alliance that miscommunicated about how much they were sending? As you would expect, opinions on the Travian.com forums are split. Here’s one response:

Undisputed 1 (PFF): Come on! (PTT&TLL had) three top WWs and you have your hammers are still at home? You dont need PVP to give you orders, just use common sense.

I’m not sure I can say myself, but there’s one person on the forums who makes a point that I agree with:

Surikat: Making a hammer is not the only thing, knowing when to use it, is just as important. And a little overkill is aways going to be better than a huge underkill after lvl 90-95.

I’m sure all the losing alliances will remember mistake the next time they reach the final stages of the of a Travian game. If you’re going to wait until your opponent is past level 95 to strike, you had better not make any mistakes! Especially on a Speed Server, where a lot gametime goes by before you can correct it.

Speed.com Player Blog

If you were following this site during its coverage of S5.com, you might remember that I sometimes linked to a blog kept by Bea, who was one of the leaders of the alliance EG-Rebel on that server.

Bea also played on the recently finished Speed.com, and this time she was part of the winning alliance, PFF&TLL. You can read her blog here: http://bea-travian.blogspot.com/. The most recent 27 posts on it are all about the Speed.com endgame, so reading all of them will tell you the whole story of it from Bea’s point of view.

PFF&TLL Win The Speed Server

A Hall of Champions Induction will be coming up shortly. Congratulations to the winners.

Speed.com is Nearing its Conclusion

The Travian.com Speed Server will be ending soon, and just like all the other Servers, the winners willl be listed in the Travian Hall of Champions. Here are the current standings, according to a post in the forums:

1. RAYsama PFF To Dare Is To Do PFF&TLL 95
2. vir2e PFF-Joyride PFF&TLL 91
3. hawk TooGood SW – WW 86 –
4. bigtrouble MayonVolcano-WatArun PFF&TLL 83 –
5. powe The Union – Lulu Mae P-I-U 77
6. 7keys PFF-Never Surrender PFF&TLL 75
7. Saint FRY–Crop every day WW-SW 74 –
8. Tupeu.ro PVP world P-I-U 69 –
9. The Art of War G.W and Wings & Co AT 68 –
10. Landinho Fєєl the ιиτєиsιτy P-I-U 57
11. Capito PFF Fluffy PFF&TLL 54 –
12. gamerodoyle Hope & GoodWill WW-SW 51
13. HINE It’s P-I-U time P-I-U 46

Staying up to date with the Speed server is a difficult task and there’s also S6.com and S1.com to follow, so I’m not sure if I’ll have time to really do anything in-depth on it, but it will get added to Hall of Champions on this site when it ends.

If anyone has an account on the Speed server and would be willing to let me “co-play” on it just so I can hve access to the standings, please send me an e-mail or a PM on the Travian forums.