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[Alan T]

Embassy level 6 will be built at 10:20pm EST. So those looking to join up, try then!

[Brillig]

Well, eventually you could build a new village near the rest of us and move your capital there...

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Brillig

Well, eventually you could build a new village near the rest of us and move your capital there...

I have thought about that.

I was just wondering about how everybody in our world only has one village and I came upon that website:
http://travian.macaputo.de/servers.php

and this is the details of the S5 server:
http://travian.macaputo.de/serverinfo.php?s=com5

Look at the village dispersion:



Now look at the village dispersion of one of the older servers, welt1.travian.de, which started in August 2006:


Yowza!

FM

[Surtt]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

at times like these, you'd have been quite happy being a Gaul. Could have built and upgraded a trapper a few levels and trapped his troops...

FM

Yeah, I didn't look too hard before I started.
Just took one, more or less, at random.

[Alan T]

FM, you need a new line in your signature to have people come conquer with us over at Travian

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Alan T

FM, you need a new line in your signature to have people come conquer with us over at Travian

yeah, since I've more or less parked my truck, I think I'll change it for a Travian one

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Surtt

Yeah, I didn't look too hard before I started.
Just took one, more or less, at random.

didn't look too hard either, although I had read the tiny thing of Romans=attack, Gauls=defense, Teutons=mix of both. That Teutons thing meant to me that you usually never get all the advantage of either and end up falling short trying to get everything in one package... Hopefully I'll be right in the long run...

FM

[Alan T]

Embassy level 6 has been built! Join quick. I'll look to upgrade to level 7 as soon as I can fund it. The costs are:

wood : 790
clay: 570
iron: 660
crop: 350

So it might be a bit

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Embassy level 6 has been built! Join quick. I'll look to upgrade to level 7 as soon as I can fund it. The costs are:

wood : 790
clay: 570
iron: 660
crop: 350

So it might be a bit

how many spots are there in the level 6 one now? and how many FOFCers are actively playing this at the moment?

I'd say upgrade only if there's really a need... I' could send you 100 of each four if you need, or more of one or the other. Let me know...

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by damnMikeBrown

I seem to be way behind the curve.

Lumber:24
Clay: 28
Iron: 24
Food: 13

Cranny: L5

I knew I'd seen you post in here... What's your username in the game?

edt: forget it, I found you on page 2 of this thread or about. Drunson...

FM

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

how many spots are there in the level 6 one now? and how many FOFCers are actively playing this at the moment?

I'd say upgrade only if there's really a need... I' could send you 100 of each four if you need, or more of one or the other. Let me know...

FM

We have 4 invites out and only 3 spaces. If we end up with one of the 4 not being active, then I don't need to upgrade until needed. For now I'll do some very desperately needed upgrade on my resources and we'll see how it goes I guess.

[Surtt]

Did you send me an invite at "surtr"?

Where do I look?

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Surtt

Did you send me an invite at "surtr"?

Where do I look?

click on your embassy, the alliance invite, if there's one, will be in there...

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Alan T

We have 4 invites out and only 3 spaces. If we end up with one of the 4 not being active, then I don't need to upgrade until needed. For now I'll do some very desperately needed upgrade on my resources and we'll see how it goes I guess.

yeah, work on your village too, we're not about to take over the world, at least not yet

FM

[Surtt]

Originally Posted by FrogMan

click on your embassy, the alliance invite, if there's one, will be in there...

FM

K,
doesn't show any invites.

[FrogMan]

the news items of the alliance also don't show an invite sent to you either... I'm sure Alan will send you one once he reads this here...

FM

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Surtt

K,
doesn't show any invites.

Check now, sent you one. Sorry about that

[Surtt]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Check now, sent you one. Sorry about that

Got it, thanks!

[Surtt]

No attacks since 3:00 this afternoon.

I think going home empty handed 3 times discouraged them.
(probably be back in the morning, though)

[FrogMan]

I now have 21 FOFCers on my list of links:

Brillig

BrianD

Yellow5

lordscarlet

WVUFan

Castlerock

TazFTW

Warhammer

Neon Chaos

Alan T

Coffee Warlord

Vince

HerRealName

daedalus

sabotai

MrBug708

Tucker Rocky

Surtt

chinaski

IMetTrentGreen

DamnMikeBrown
That makes 22 if you add me. If you are playing and your name isn't in there, let me know

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Surtt

No attacks since 3:00 this afternoon.

I think going home empty handed 3 times discouraged them.
(probably be back in the morning, though)

time to upgrade the cranny before they come back

FM

[Surtt]

I have a level 6.

I wasn't able to save up to build a level 7 between attacks.
So I just started building anything I could to leave them with out anything to grab in hopes of discouraging them.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Surtt

I have a level 6.

I wasn't able to save up to build a level 7 between attacks.
So I just started building anything I could to leave them with out anything to grab in hopes of discouraging them.

one other sad thing about the Teutons, their cranny holds less than other tribe's

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by daedalus

i was tinkering with tribal wars with some of the people from my movoda guild for awhile. interesting while it lasted but, as i do not like to attack people (in spite of being santiago in SMAC), it was never going to be a long lasting game for me.

now, if we had a whole contingent of FOFC migrating to one of these games to make a tribe . . . i can see it being fun. and horrific.

that page 1 post got me googling and I signed up for Tribal Wars, it's funky how similar the two games are.

Anybody here also play Tribal Wars? I had started a village on world 10 but found it was going a bit too fast for me (had a speed factor of 1.5) so I just requested a restart to let it die after seeing that they will open a new world tomorrow between 9 and 11 eastern. It will be called world 11 and will have a speed factor of 1. Let me know if anyone of you plan on signing up for it...

FM

[Alan T]

Our alliance is full again at 18. Is there anyone still needing to get in to the alliance? Let me know so I can start saving up to expand the embassy again.

[Brillig]

Sure, I'll give Tribal Wars a try. What's another bottomless pit of timewaste anyway?

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Brillig

Sure, I'll give Tribal Wars a try. What's another bottomless pit of timewaste anyway?

I'll start another thread to keep the two separate and to try and get people to sign up in world 11 in the same part of the world...

FM

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Our alliance is full again at 18. Is there anyone still needing to get in to the alliance? Let me know so I can start saving up to expand the embassy again.

and let me know if you need anything resource wise. I just cleaned out my inventory after starting production of my barrack, and upgrading two croplands to 3 but I got decent production levels and could send a couple hours of production your way if that would help...

FM

[CleBrownsfan]

I kind of have been playing this half assed but I think it's time to join an alliance 'cause this douche bag keeps on attacking me... In game name is Broth32.

[Alan T]

CleBrownsFan, I need to upgrade the embassy again for more room, so might be about 24 hours or so.. I'll post when I can invite you!

[lordscarlet]

OK.. After Thursday I will not be able to play regularly for two weeks (wedding and honeymoon). Who wants to sit for me? I'm primarily going for a resource building approach, with some minor raiding right now.

[CleBrownsfan]

That's cool... what's the advantages of a clan in this game?

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

That's cool... what's the advantages of a clan in this game?

I'd say possibly scaring the people who are farming you, more than anything

FM

[Warhammer]

Anyone have any extra clay or wood?

[Yellow5]

Incoming attack from bearbar

Might be able to catch im with no troops if someone hits him.

[Alan T]

Embassy update, need another 7.5 hours to have enough lumber needed. (Need 790 lumber total for this upgrade). I'm ok on the iron, clay and crops. Then almost 2 hours to build.. so the embassy will be upgraded at some point in the morning once I get to work (about 8-9am est) for those trying to join.

[Yellow5]

ALan I just sent everything I had. Not much but it's something.

Also, I am trying to negotiate a 'no attack policy' between our alliance and Bearbars alliance. He keeps asking me to join his group and we have some good dialog going.

[Yellow5]

dola

He is cool with an Alliance no attack policy but we'd have to ru it by their leader, Combine.

What do you guys think? If he accepts it would help get the heat off of me and Castlerock in our area. If we think this is a good thing then our leader would have to contact their leader and set it up. Just trying to get some early diplomacy going for our group.

[Castlerock]

thumbs up from me... but there is a new bigger fish in the neighborhood now.
Didn't get anything from me so maybe he won't be back.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Yellow5

dola

He is cool with an Alliance no attack policy but we'd have to ru it by their leader, Combine.

What do you guys think? If he accepts it would help get the heat off of me and Castlerock in our area. If we think this is a good thing then our leader would have to contact their leader and set it up. Just trying to get some early diplomacy going for our group.

Originally Posted by Castlerock

thumbs up from me... but there is a new bigger fish in the neighborhood now.
Didn't get anything from me so maybe he won't be back.

cool with the alliance and we could even talk him into going after that new fish...

Won't be easy with one line private message though

FM

[lordscarlet]

I'm down with an alliance. And Yellow5, I think you're way too far away for me to sneak in while he's on his way to you.

[Alan T]

I can speak with Combine about a non agression pact between our two alliances. Any objections?

[Alan T]

Dola,

Would be a good time to promote someone into our alliance's diplomat with official position. Anyone want to nominate someone from this role? I can set them up to be able to set up pacts and such as well.

[Castlerock]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Dola,

Would be a good time to promote someone into our alliance's diplomat with official position. Anyone want to nominate someone from this role? I can set them up to be able to set up pacts and such as well.

Warhammer

[Yellow5]

I second that.

[lordscarlet]

Yellow5 seems to be good at the back door action, I nominate him.

[FrogMan]

Originally Posted by Castlerock

Warhammer

Originally Posted by lordscarlet

Yellow5 seems to be good at the back door action, I nominate him.

I approve of these two nominations.

FM

[Yellow5]

I think we also need to setup a few people as recruiters. Once we have all of this stuff decided, let's edit the FOFC alliance description with info on who people should contact if they want to join, wants alliances, etc. and list who we are friends/foes with.

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by Castlerock

Warhammer

What did I do?

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Yellow5

I think we also need to setup a few people as recruiters. Once we have all of this stuff decided, let's edit the FOFC alliance description with info on who people should contact if they want to join, wants alliances, etc. and list who we are friends/foes with.

I have had a decent amount of people come to me asking to join, and I have been politely turning them all away. Its pretty expensive to add more people into the alliance right now, so we'll want to figure out a better way on how we do this (if we want to add outsiders in).. What requirements we use to add them, etc.

Originally Posted by Warhammer

What did I do?

People are nominating you to be a diplomat for our alliance. If you and yellow5 are interested, I'll set both of you up as official alliance diplomats with the ability to negotiate various treaties.