Have Travian Gold, Will Attack, Part VII

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On my Philippine Speed Server account, another friendly fire was launched by one of the members of another wing of our Alliance. Immediately, I sent an In-Game Message [IGM] to my membership sponsor, the one who destroyed my Granary and Warehouse before and sent all looted resources back to my Village as soon as she read my plea. I deliberately not sent another complaint to the wing leader of my Alliance because as soon as the attack was launched, he sent an IGM to all members saying that he was attending to some pressing matters in his Real Life.

I asked my sponsor whether was it common that members of the Alliance were attacked by highly populated Villages of other Alliance wing members? I also asked whether I should introduce myself, as suggested by our leader, to every single member of the whole Alliance—main, its various wings and confederacies. She offered a similar experience to my present predicament. She sent me another wave of reinforcements. Thankful at the gesture, I replied that maybe the incident was only a welcoming salvo from another member. She offered to help in any kind: troops or resources. I declined her latter offer as we all respectively need to generate our own resources to create more defensive troops.

Meanwhile, she was glad that I resume my offensive attacks. I replied that I only visited my former farms before the unfortunate events following the revival of my old Alliance X happened. Farms are Villages constantly raided and looted for resources. Some of my former farms have made great progress after the few weeks during my Baptism of Fire. Through my scouts, I have found out that a few even created a sizable troop count more similar to my present defense.

I have also created some Rams and Catapults, which could be used to reinforce any of my colleagues in the event that an all-out war ensues sooner than expected. Additionally, I have increased my defensive and offensive troop counts. With a semblance of peace in my solitary Village, I was even was able to upgrade the arms and armor of each of the military troops. It took that long because I have to rebuild both the Blacksmith and the Armoury from scratch after each were catapulted to smithereens. That’s the beauty of Travian, everything can be rebuilt as long as you have resources. Griping or gritting your teeth will just give you heart attack anyway.

From my former five Crannies, one by one these were replaced with more productive buildings: Grain Mill, Brickyard, Saw Mill, and Iron Foundry, which are all in place except the last one. My crop fields, after constant bombardment of catapults before have reached all Level 8 after a few days in the Alliance and some are no on Level 9. I intend to just upgrade one crop field to Level 10 and soon build one Bakery. Dr. Kevorkian offers a very succinct, intelligent and mathematically correct guide to resource field efficiency.The Guide states: “All to level 7. One to level 10, Brickyard to level 3. All to level 8, Brickyard to level 4. All to level 9, brickyard to level 5. All to level 10. This is the same for Woodcutters and Iron Mines.” I will not repeat much of his guide, but I urge Travian players to read and digest his guide; and everything, primarily in terms of resource efficiency anyway, will fall into place. Thus, instead of farming, one Village can subsist and sustain on its own. So why farm? It’s a shortcut!

As one of my Village’s aggressor’s profile stated:

“troops than population … i don’t care to [sic] medals i need active players”

Being a top farmer or attacker, one might be honored with war medals, but for me diplomacy is what makes Travian more challenging than just being in the offense or defense, or any virtual war game out there. Diplomacy makes the virtual war more humane … and that makes me sleep after a long Travian day. Who said you can’t learn from your aggressor? Anyway, the one who did much damage to my fledgling Village is no longer an enemy because we now belong to the same Alliance, although in different wings. So maybe I could consider him a war-colleague, but a friend? To this day, I even retained the Baptism of Fire rant in my player profile in the Speed Server. Fortunately, the supra-Alliance leaders have yet to order the rant’s removal. It is rather uncanny, yet it is a daily reminder of what really happened to my Village two weeks earlier.

Two of my closest friends had also since joined this same Alliance, a wing of the supra-Alliance, Thus, in a way, even if we are no longer known as Alliance X in Speed Server, or its reincarnation, the three of us have been in constant communication through IGM on what was happening in the Alliance X in Server 3. Both colleagues had since long quitted from our Alliance in Server 3. The last time I looked, most members of that Alliance have either been online a week ago or remained inactive, and almost everyone were constantly attacked and raided for resources. One member even claimed that the Alliance X leaders have abandoned everyone of us.

I have used all the default Travian Gold in my Speed Server account to rebuild most of what was destroyed. I do not intend to acquire any Travian Gold for this account because the race to build the Wonder of the World already began two weeks ago. It would be rather foolish to do the same. Yet, with my Village’s considerably re-strengthened troops, it could do as much damage as they were created with Travian Gold. I once read in the Travian forum a comment pointing its weirdness:

“People like me who won’t buy gold at all are always at a massive disadvantage and tbh, I think spending large amounts of money on an online game is weird (no offence to anyone who does). It’s called a game for a reason…”

Amen to that. But as I have written in one of the posts here, More often than not, the best things in life are not for free. Why spend so much just to enjoy a game? Or maybe I, among a lot of others, find a mischievous satisfaction in defeating or enjoy attacking a heavy Gold user?

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