Hedonistics Anonymous

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

First you sign up, then you start upgrading like a manic

Apart from Mousehunt (ultimate devil's tool!) on Facebook, I'm currently hooked on Travian. It's relatively (read: deceptively) easy to play, doesn't require any download, and most importantly it's FOC unlike the OTHER devil's tool (read: World of Warcraft).

Basically you get a village, and all you have to do is to upgrade your crops, iron, clay, and lumber. Then you upgrade your main building, and build crannies, granaries, and warehouses. You get beginner's protection for the first six days.

Then you get your first attack.

Since you concentrated too much on upgrading your raw materials, you lack the foresight in building a hidden cranny. You watch in disbelief as your 120 lumber, 134 clay, 100 iron and 60 crop suddenly become 0 lumber, 0 clay, 0 iron and 0 crop.

Consumed with burning rage, you fire a message to your attacker: ASSHOLE!!!

And he replies with a contrite: Sorry.

Pacified, you patiently go about rebuilding your little village. Wisely, you construct a cranny to hide some of your stock. You also remember to upgrade your crops before upgrading other things because, y'know, them workers need to eat also yo.

Then the asshole attacks you AGAIN. He gets away with 70 lumber, which is a ridiculously tiny haul compared to the first attack.

Before the third attack, you upgrade your cranny to level 2.

This time, he comes away with nothing.

Feeling smug, you send him a message: Feeling better now?

Somehow he doesn't reply, but you don't really wonder why.

Btw, I'm on Server 7. :)

Labels: Facebook, Mousehunt, online game, Travian