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If all else fails, you can always join your enemy’s alliance to stop a farmer. The first time I did this I felt really stupid, but I came to realize that it isn’t a bad way to find a good alliance since players who are good at Travian are always raiding and driving everyone else crazy.

If you want to join your enemy’s alliance make sure you do it right. Here are a few guidelines to keep in mind when joining your attacker’s alliance:

?    Your allegiance to your former team of player is important. Make sure you leave it on as good a standing as possible. Have you helped other players in your alliance? If you have contributed in any way to your previous union they will be less likely to pound you with catapults when you leave theirs for another.

?    Try to get into an alliance that can protect you and is stronger than your previous one. This means if the player who is raiding you is inferior to most of the players you are teamed with, it’s a better strategy to stand up to him/her with reinforcements from friends. Always move upward as you change from one team to the next.

?    Be discreet. Even at the beginning of the server, one small slip up where your name is found on two forum application threads can make a bigger player want you dead. Especially speed servers where everything happens faster. Keep confidential messages closed and only post/send a message when you meet the requirements of the alliance you want to join. A player who takes 2 weeks to join is more likely to be attacked than one taking 2 days to join and get in.

These tips go beyond the obvious polite words, being nice and having a team spirit tips that are mentioned on every alliance page. The three tips above come from experience and can completely ruin your game if you get them wrong. Make sure you do your homework.

Farming in Travian can be fun; however there comes a certain point in your “farming career” where you can make some really stupid mistakes that cause you more grief than the resource that you steal do you good. What are these traps? How does one avoid them? Read on.

·         My target will never grow: If the person you are raiding is active they are growing. They likely have several crannies set up and as soon as they have troops in their village they send them somewhere safe. Scout out the surrounding villages near your farm to be sure his/her troops are not getting ready for a major assault on your village.

·         Raiding at the same hour every day: If you farm a player at the same time every day they will make sure they spend down or send their troops out during those times. To maintain inconsistency, raid your farms when you get up to go to the bathroom in the night. Your wife may think you’re crazy but you can assure her that you are being considerate (of your troops).

·         Oasis/Reinforcements: Some farms will store their troops in your oasis. If they do so, you will be feeding them. Storing troops in a village is very obvious. However storing them in an oasis is not. Throw a quick glance at your rally point statistics so that you know what troops are in your village.

·         Neglect to read a farm’s profile: When you are farming 50 or more farms every day it’s easy to forget to look at their profile page. Some farms are being protected by bigger alliances or players. You don’t want to wake up to find you had 3 villages catapulted to zero because you forgot to read a farm’s profile and scooped up 150 crop. Be aware of who you are raiding and who is messaging you.

So far we have looked at the way a farmer thinks and how you can use defensive strategies to stand up to him/her. Another way you can defend yourself is by becoming a protege or vassal to another player.

What you need to do is send a message to a much larger player asking them if they would be willing to help you out. Again, let’s take a look at how larger and bigger players think on Travian servers.

After building your first 10 villages, the game gets a little repetitive. A need emerges to try new strategies. This need can be fulfilled by any number of ways. One of those ways is by protecting smaller players or alliances. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that a bigger player will just welcome you with open arms.

Be prepared to offer something in return for help. If you both have a common enemy you could suggest that he reinforce your village in order to lay a trap for your enemy. This is exceptionally amusing for powerful defensive players who spend 90% of a game simming 10 hours away from everyone else.

You can also capture a bigger players attention by offering them 1 hour’s worth of resources per day or sending them a lump sum of crop to feed their troops. Getting help from a defensive player is your best bet since they can help you out while your attacker has no idea who they are. Bigger players also need homes for their troops to be fed. You can always offer to host a large battalion of defensive troops.

Regardless of the strategy you use for approaching bigger players, just remember that they are probably a master of time management and would like to help others without spending all day doing it. Make things as easy for them as you can.

If you spend much time building their village on Travian, you can attack someone again be quite annoying. Also at the speed of servers that can do everything much faster, a pesky Germanic tribes, each player driving to delete your account.

I will try with a different strategy anywhere in this article. If a you, you tried to pass. Any player who does not want to be able to reach a persistent approach to solving the problem. Unfortunately, most actors are not aware of what these strategies.

What is a peasant? A farmer is a player to attack their villages to steal their troops to their resources. Some attacks may bring, so that 80,000 of each resource has a player in their bed.

To order a farm (farm-target) to your attacker three questions in the examination of his people. First, these people are additional resources that can steal, which are not protected through the cracks? If the answer is yes, he / she and RAID Scout your people.

Secondly: "The people have troops that can kill with my hero, a hero to get the points?" A hero can be leveled and get points down against an offensive / defensive bonus. A hero level 30 can, for example, 20% bonus attack in an attack with other troops. For him, the level, you must kill soldiers. This makes an attack, that 50% of the offensive unit is worth losing. If there was a hero in the strike force was "not in vain. "

The third, a farmer asked, "If I did not this person's farm, and there is about heroes, I can be the first people?" If the people are in question can not expect your capital, then, that is Chief. . . especially if it is a town of 15 harvest.

How to protect a farmer? Have a couple of strategies in the next part to see this article.

The obvious way to shake a farmer to build a defense. If you are not yet built, which some angles, you should do that. If you have a horse who knows that holding a 10 angle level 2000 credits 1000 Take advantage of this bonus. The Romans and the Germans have this advantage but as non-Germanic must do to be attacked, not registered.

Some players who are against the angles of advice, since they have a valuable space. Later in the game, if your building is on level 10, you can bring them down. It takes time to destroy a cache to down, but be in a better position than not playing well?

Angles, one can only measure, and finally has to get up and fight. When it is not as important as. If you've searched every time you need to store a safe place for your troops. This is courteous to your neighbors and the elderly is paying off. While some of the driving force of the other players can enjoy going crazy (myself included), others are quite happy to keep their troops and protect them for you if you pay for these crops that do not support o.

You can keep your troops in another village or in an oasis. Lose track of most farmers, the oases of the players of event: RAID RAID. I was surprised several times for the Praetorians players always easy storage in an oasis, until it reached 1000 and then to me.

If you choose is up against the enemy than they attacked. You need to have the largest army seen "think" attack him. A farmer as well as many troops you send with RAID, as it believes you really need, maybe the other players of others, he / she is sent agriculture.