This is an addictive game so be warned. If you were about to grab a smoke, or start a semester of summer school..... do not click!!!!!
Travian (http://www.travian.us/)
This is a browser based MMO that reminds me of the board game Settlers of Kattan. You start off with a small village with a single building. Then you ration your resources of Clay, Wood, Iron, and Wheat and try to construct more buildings and eventually an army.
This is not a very graphical game. You can download graphic packs which change the look of your town, but bear in mind that battles are simply calculated and you never see any of the combat. Starting off may be tough, because there are alot of folks farming/raiding newbies. So build up those crannies!
If you do choose to sign up, I would love to have you as my neighbor. I wouldn't mind some referral gold either. ;)
I play on the SouthWest / NorthWest border on US server 2. My name is Ogleby and my village is Gumble Goat -92, 12. Message me once you get it started!
If you choose NorthWest or SouthWest there's a good chance you'll end up somewhere near my village.
(http://www.webkoktejl.cz/img/4a/travian-vesnice.jpg)
Please remember to refer Ogleby!! I needs the gold to make some Axemen! ( << sadly addicting)
Yeah, and the fnny thing is, once you've played the 6 day time, people who have 300 troops start attacking you and taking your resources while you have nothing to defend yourself and never will. Since last thursday I've been attacked almost 20 times by different people, so building anything is pretty much impossible. Though they recommend building a hideout for the resources, people just bomb you down with catapults. It's a nice game yes, but doesn't realy work as a multiplayer. Consider playing something like Red Alert with fully developed players all around you, and you just trying to maintain your base building.
I have only been attacked by one guy so far. I sent a message to him and he has since ceased.
Luck of the draw I guess.
It's kinda annoying with having to wait half an hour for a building to be made, but looks like a fun game.
Well think of it as sort of a once a day sort of game.
The longer you play and build up your main building, the shorter building time becomes too.
This is a brazen attempt at gaining referrals. ;)
QuoteThis is an addictive game so be warned. If you were about to grab a smoke [...] do not click!!!!!
Maybe The Suitor (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=34659.msg453397#msg453397) should pick up this game...
Started playing this from April last year until about January/February, and it will take a lot of your time up. It's a good game, but there are 3 major drawbacks:
1) If you want to win the game or join a half-decent alliance you may find yourself up very late or very early (ie setting alarm in middle of night) to send out coordinated attacks for when a sitter can't do it for you.
2) Not sure how many servers are using it now, but there's a currency called Gold which allows you to basically pay to win - you can buy bonuses to attack and defence, NPC trading and vast interface improvements such as build queueing. In my opinion this makes the game very unfair.
3) The server will eventually reset, which may be a good or bad thing.
That said, it is great fun and diplomacy is key, so you will make a lot of friends - nothing like joining your alliance razing an evil player ;D