I agree with the post. I am playing a total of 5 accounts, across 5 servers, and I have a full time career and a family to look after. And honestly, neither of these aspects have yet seen any reason to complain, due to Travian. Moreover, I am ranked within 200 on all servers that I am playing on. So, how do I do it?
1. Every morning when I wake up, I spend 30 minutes, time-boxed, and do the necessary actions on all accounts.
2. Since, I am a big enough player and do my Diplomacy well, I do not get attacked a lot. I play as an anvil and have crazy anvil sizes, so even my enemies are wary about attacking me.
3. I have two sitters from different time-zones, who log in once a day each and take care of stuff during my work-day and then at late night.
4. I return home, and spend 30 minutes again on Travian.
5. After dinner I spend 15-30 minutes on Skype for Strategic Discussions, and then take the necessary actions / communicate the same to my sitters.

So, what is the take-away? To play Travian effectively, without killing all your time and making it too complicated, you need to:
1. Excel in Diplomacy
2. Set-up good sitters / duals preferably across time-zones
3. Be part of a good alliance and help out your alliance effectively
4. Be careful about the fights you pick up, and keep Ego out of the game (it is just a game!)
5. Have a solid defensive strategy

However, none of the above would hold true if I were playing as a Hammer (Offensive Player), although my biggest Hammer weighs in at over 20000 Swords at L20 (but that is around mostly as a deterrent) and 500+ Catas at L20 again. An offensive game play requires far higher time-commitment than a defensive game play. Lots of people do not understand the importance of defense on Travian, but this is one of the most important items that will get your alliance the WW. It’s much more easy and cost-effective breaking enemy hammers at your gates, rather than attacking them to destroy. When you break-up any hammer, you effectively set that player back by at least 7-10 days. It’s much more potent than attacking unless you are Chiefing someone. By the way, on the first server that I played Travian on, I started about 40 days after the server started and ended the same as part of a winning Meta ranked at 186 on that server.

So, hope you guys also get to enjoy Travian as much as I do, without allowing it to take over all your life.

Cheers,
RS

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Chargebacks

So I call PayPal to see what is going on and the guy explains that it appeared as if my IP was coming from a different state than what I usually log in from, I told the guy I have a cable modem and he said that explained it that they probably moved me to a different hub. So he releases the payment and sends an email to Travian explaining it was not my fault and hopes they would understand and lift the ban. He said it was not really a chargeback and they should not have occured no charges, it was basically a delayed payment due to there security features. I have sent several emails to different people and no response as of yet. All my resources are overflowing and the Travian Plus and 25% Resources Bonus are turned on wasting gold.

It’s very easy to play and enjoyable however as everyone here has mentioned it does take time to really be successful. And you must either grow fast to survive as an individual or join a competent alliance.

I’ve done both and also started an alliance, the alliance I started was kept small and tightly coordinated and we were successful up to the end when the larger alliances finally turned their attention on us.

If you happen to spawn in an area with an aggressive player just delete and start over in another spot, this move alone might give you a more enjoyable experience.

As for the problem with the multihunter and the admins I have to agree with some other players that there is some corruption going on as well as some arbitrary decisions. I have been banned multiple times on multiple servers and have successfully appealed each and every one without any penalty, the problem with that is you can’t play while you are banned so all your resources overflow and you lose it not to mention your rivals are still building their army so you’re falling behind very quickly.

It’s a great game overall, however after this last ban and having sitters make mistakes with my villages I’m retiring from Travian and will find other use for my free time. Sitters, it’s very difficult to find competent quality sitters, when you do find 1 or 2 then you can have fun in the game and have a life as well.

Good Luck.

However, the game is fundementally geared towards alliance play, and it is disappointing that Travian does NOT reward excellent single player play.

Travian is an untrustworthy game.

I have been the victim of a partial administrator, who just deleted my brother’s account because he “thought” I was having multiple accounts (forbiden in the game).

So, he deleted my brother account and the money we invested on it as well. So intolerable.

A piece of advice, be careful.

Moreover, the rules stipulate the presence of a super administrator who survey all of this… rubbish, there is no way you can contact him, and the administrator just don’t let you do so.

They developing the game all the time, improving it and keep the fun up to date.

Now days, they have so many server (I stopped counting) for every country there are at least 5-6 server and one speed server.

Travian is truly one of the best!!
Amit

I think Travian is fine the way it is.

G