Travia is an Online Game that is a mixture Age of Empires and Tamagotchi. It is a Browser Based Game within the genre of Real Time Strategy (RTS). The game of Travia is Free To Play but also has a premium version called the “Luxury” version which offers more bonuses and features that are not available to free players. Unlike those browser games that only take a small period of your time. Travia takes a lot of time to play and go through. It could also be added to passive gameplay category in MMO games, as the gameplay itself only takes a few minutes of your day but you will keep coming back for weeks or even months.
In Travia you are leader or the chieftain of a village in roman times. You have different choices
on who you want to play as. For example Romans, Gauls or Teutons. You have the control over your Travia village and the lands around the village as you are the leader. The lands of Travia have resources which you have to gather like wood, clay, iron crops etc. You are expected to gather to expand your economy and village by building new buildings for different purposes which is one of the main features that Travia has taken from the RTS game Age of Empires. There is a building tree which has buildings for growth and economy like granaries and also buildings for military like barracks and archeries. Troops can be trained at the barracks and with them you can raid other villages or defend yourself from other players on the same travia server.
Now the game concept is clear, we can call Travian a MMORTS – Massively Multiplayer Online Real Time Strategy Browser Game. Travia can be very frustrating for those players
who not patient since the real time strategy is quite “real” time taking as it is very very slow in performing actions. Increasing resources production would not only take “real time minutes” but also will take resources. In gathering more resources giving Travia a touch of the real world. The downfall of this Online Game is you can only do one type of action at a time like gathering or attacking, but thankfully you can chat and send messages to your friends or enemies during your action time. The map will not only show the map of the area your in but also will tell how much time will it take for you to complete a certain action that your doing.
As you play the game more often you will find that the game mostly does all the work it self, it just awaits your instruction on what to do, which can be somewhat boring to those who are hungry for action. The game basically focused at those games who have used the “Email system” to play mulitplayer the difference being that it is browser based making it automatic yet still a bit boring. But it can be a great game for those who have little time to spend on games, as they can give instructions and comeback later to see what happened and what to command next.
The goal of the game is simple. It is to become powerful and dominate the server you are in. Now its your way to choose, either form Travian Alliances and become one nation under one banner or by conquering your opponents. New players who play Travian with determination can and will dominate the game, but its not a game for an causal person who just wants a taste of it for a few days. The good feature of the game is you can’t lose or win over another. For example if you are being conquered by another, the other player won’t be able to gain control of your last village which would give the chance to keep playing Travian again and expand.
Currently the game has more then a million players registered and playing since the game is Free To Play. This means you will always have someone as your enemy and someone as your friend. The game is built on simple non-animated 2D graphics which are beautiful made anda are guaranteed to make you an addict of the game. Travia however is now losing players to the brand new Free Browser Game of Evony. Evony is very similar to Travia, however it is updated in gameplay and graphics.
lol, you reviewd travian, not travia online… how retarded can you be