But why!? As I mentioned in my last Travian update, I founded a new village. A few hours later it had already been destroyed by Saphira. For some reason he had to catapult my New Village to hell. Well, now I’ve re-built and have raised a few structures. Hopefully this settlement will survive…

Behold, Cranny City!

I’ve found that the most effective way for me to keep the bulk of my resources is to keep them in crannies. I realized that most other structures I could build (Academy, Stable, Armory, Blacksmith, etc) are just to improve my military. Since my village is getting hit by armies of 100 or 200 troops every day, the likelyhood of me raising a decent army from here is nil. So, might as well use the building plots for crannies. I guess it’s worked out alright, ’cause I just ordered my 3rd city to be built today!

Cheers,
Oliver

My second town has been around for 10 days now. It’s interesting how much easier it is to develop my second town! I’ve already got a Residence Level 8 and am hoping to get a third town before too long, which might be as far as I can go before Culture Points become a problem. I’ve had to upgrade Athenry’s marketplace a few times to keep the resources in transit.

Happy 50th day of Travian Server 8!

The last few days in Travian have been going pretty smoothly. I’ve leveled up my new residence to start generating loyalty and otherwise have been expanding resource fields. I used some of the free gold to activate my plus account (the building que has helped tremendously during the first few levels of resource fields that only take a few minutes to upgrade) and now I have access to the plus-statistics. Seems I’ve been growing pretty stadily, with a jump thanks to the new village. (note that a lower rank is best).

Sonuva…

As soon as I ordered my new village construction I went to the airport and grabbed a flight. By the time I landed my new village had been raided four times by archer from village head shot (-40|41 if you’d like to seek vengeance for me).

By now I’ve got a cranny and working on getting some loyalty, but it’s amazing how quickly new villages get picked off.

Cheers,
Oliver

Success! After the previous difficulty I asked for help from my alliance. We stationed a lot of troops in my village until I was able to build all three settlers. By the end I had about 100 troops and even someone’s hero protecting my settlers, and one of my mates stationed his settlers there as well. So, I just founded my new village.

Cheers to everyone who helped out,
Oliver

Tragedy!

I had finally built my first settler, but hadn’t thought about keeping him alive. I was able to avoid one incoming attack by sending him away, but he got killed later when I was offline. Keeping three of these guys alive is going to be quite a challenge when I still get an overwhelming raid every couple days…

Also, it seems alot of my title-dates were wrong. I usually just count up from my last post, but since I’m in a different time zone than the WordPress sever, I’ve been losing days every now and then. Hopefully this should set it right.

Cheers,
Oliver