Some of these are pretty funny. I identify with about half…

You know you’ve been playing travian too long when…

1. At work your boss talks about a company merger to decrease competition and your reply is that “well Sir mergers rarely work but if we take their best 20 people then we can farm the rest”.
2. When your girlfriend says she wants to move in with you, you inform her that you’ll go ahead and start dropping the loyalty of your neighbour and kill his troops.
3. You don’t watch the news anymore but wait for someone to forward you a “report”.
4. You buy a laptop so you can make sure you’re not over your warehouse limit if someone else is on your other computer.
5. At the board meeting the CEO asks you to get to work on the hostile take over of another major corporation and you inform him that your plan is to send 4 separate armies 5 seconds apart to win them over to your side.

If you are really keen about playing Travian and want to go on to build a World Wonder, there are some things you absolutely need to do. As in every other game, winners are those who use certain tools that losers don't. The trick is in finding out what they are.

Typically, newbie Travian players are likely to face a few problems when they start out and search for a Travian tool or two to help them out. For instance, many newbies are lulled into a feeling of false security, by the beginners' protection they receive. In fact, this beginners' protection only lasts a few days.

When the protection time ends, newbies are brought rudely back to earth by a series of attacks by more experienced players who have been licking their lips in anticipation of the day. So, if you learn these first, before you venture into playing Travian, you will never find the need or urge to use cheats:

1. You must find out how to survive in the face of continual attacks, before you have been able to raise an army, or even find your feet in the game.

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