International .com

On the International server it is as usual. All WW is taken – by the russians mostly. Four players has from 1 to 5 WW each. That leaves two WW for the international meta, AIM, Family and -GoDz-.

It’s no sport to guess who will win this time either.

The Grey zone is crowded by russians and they build as tight as possible against the border as they use to do. AIM have builded a stronghold in south.

The Tournament tread on .com gives in best case one or two new posts per day but can be quiet for times. The most engaging topic is about the russians. Do they use bots and multiaccounts or not? Their good skills and organisation should be more honored if they cleared their ranks from cheaters. Of nine reports four is readable. The rules on .com is rigorus. The one who shows is only small ones from the beginning. No new ones since  22th April. No discussion.

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Le-frigo from GoDz

1. Your ally is one of greatest on this qualification server. From which country are your members? Have you played the tournament before, alone or as a ally?? Have you preplanned this server?

We are an alliance of mixed nationalities and used to play only normal .com servers before. We started this server to qualify and have a chilled server. We didnt intend to fight the russians but we ended up because they are just too dominant.

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2. What is your opinion about the status on the server?

It is boring with the clear Russian dominance.

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3. What are your allys goal for this server? Do you have any opponents? Have you met any skilled players or alliances that you respect for the way they are playing?

There are many great players, even player groups. But compared to the Russians it is all tiny and there is nothing that looks as if it could be challenging the russians. I like the Russians, i would even claim that they are beatable. But there would be a few top .com metas (CWL for example) that had to join in order to win against the russians.

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4a. (Not russian) The russians was superior in the last Final. To defeat them you need to cooperate in a bigger group. Which of your opponents here would you like to see as a partner in the Final, or do you know about some from another domain?

There are other alliances than russians. We would know about others coming. But in the end language is one of the main issues, and language is communication. So we just cant be bothered to ask for coorporation anymore.

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5. Tell us something about yourself and your account? Male or female? How old are you? Where are you from? What do you do for your living? How long have you played this game? What do you do when not playing Travian?

Male, leader account. not much into playing. But yeah 140k off and def to help the alliance.I am European, student, and usually i do like 6-10 hours sports per week apart from travian. Plus two nights a week i go out and dont care about the game. But i play the game since 2005 and won first .com speed server as leader of the winning alliance.

Safiren: Thanks, I have waited for your answers for a while, but now I’m happy 🙂 Can we talk about some of your answers?

“So we just cant be bothered to ask for coorporation anymore.“

<– You mean that cooperation is only possible between english speaking players (in your case)?

le-frigo: We tried to introduce iranians, koreans, all european languages (serbians), germans into leadership talks. and it didnt work neither, so english is just the most reliable way to communicate Not bothered about any cooperation anymore. We just play this server to an end and then go for ts6. IV was english speaking but not able to coordinate with us. Or we couldnt coordinate with them…

Safiren: I know about other domains that are eager to try to stop the russians and I think you need to find a way to cooperate. Maybe talk with them before the final starts?<

One of the biggest problems last final was that russian players showed up in a very high amount, using all their tickets to the final when other domains mostly only have 300 – 500 players instead of the 2K possible. That is their greatest advantage. what can other domains do to encourage their players to ccontinue to the final?

le-frigo: Hm not sure, well i have no idea about other domains, but usually there should be old-traditional alliances joining in finals and it would be a different story. a lot qualifications rounds are probably played by newly formed teams that dont have a huge player pool to reoccupie an account that qualified but owner wants to quit.

Safiren: Leadership seems to be the biggest problem. few leaders make it a hole round. I’m not sure but I think maybe the russians have no ready leadership this time. Will that ease for the “antirussians” or will their habit to cooperate still make them superior?

le-frigo: I am told that russian leaders will be back more numerous in finals.

Safiren:

“We just play this server to an end and then go for ts6.”

<– That means you will not play the final?

le-frigo: Yes, GoDz will not play finals. We tried to work with IV or AIM and with OOXX and Family this server. We offered def, we offered to coordinate attack times against the russians. But we never received anything back apart from side-attacks from them. OOXX destroyed one of our capitals while FC has been hitting 6 other capitals. We had an official CP and instead of talking with us about the issues with one player, they just destroyed the capital. Moreover they have few players speaking english, and they dont really use skype. This all made a partnership impossible.

As for IV/AIM, we never really knew what they are up to. Too big, too messy, and in the end too little coordinated. We offered def, we also sent defences but we felt as if they would force us into a tighter relationship than they have with their wings.

So we have been wondering what coorporation they want to have. We wanted to be allies, but not another IV wing. GoDz exist for 6 or even 7 or more years, and we dont like to sell our identity for a project IV, that seems to be not much more than a collection of players.

Safiren: Last final I noticed that that the english speaking players wasn’t able to cooperate and many didn’t want to cluster in metas. Along with ongoing troubles with leadership it was impossible to gather the NE-players to cooperate.

le-frigo: hm well that is one thing: META, GoDz have or had in their profil that we are eager to solve travians meta problem 😀 We just cant stand huge collections of players and wings all over the map. This server we told ourselves that we will stay alone but coorporate on an alliance level. I dont think you need to be a meta to work together. 4 alliances of 4 wings each having a communicative leadership room are fine. You can split the target wings, hit at the same time, and while one alliance is getting attacked, others can assist with defence.

I guess not too different to what the russians have with alone, FC, lerify, … Our understanding of meta is being one alliance all together, sharing tag, sharing philosophy. Alliances working together can have individual ways of organisation internally. Own philosophies and own ways to motivate members…

A Meta should be once huge alliance. But usually what you see is just a collection of alliances sharing a tag and not really knowing what is going on in one wing and the other. For example GoDz have 2 wings: We worked with U alliance on ts2 before who had 4 wings. We did share info about target, we shared attack dates (so we dont fake while others do reals and stuff), we shared def at some point and we still stayed two alliances. they have been japanese, we have been international. Both had different ways of doing attacks, kamikaze against careful off planners and such 😀

I just dont think TI needs to be a huge meta. I believe there can be numerous alliances working together. These alliances need to be in itself well run (off coordinators, def coordinators and such). The leaders of these alliances need to communicate with the other leaders. And if you have this, then you have even more flexibility than a huge meta.

Alliance 1 attacks Alone while at the same time Alliance 2 is doing a huge attack round on FC. And Alliance 3 is doing a Fake-only-round on ku-ku…

Russians will hit back on them. They start with Alliance 1? Well then Alliance 2 is safe and can send their def to support Alliance 1. Or the russians are forced to not attack all together against one alliance 🙂 We had 100500, lerify, alones, FC all hitting the same villages. in such a case we could gather a lot of def from allies that are not getting hit.

At least that is my understanding of how things can be organised the most effective way… one leadership running a whole meta of 10 wings will kill the leaders.

Safiren: It didn’t kill the russian leaders to make 3K russians cooperate, but then – the players was determinated to follow orders

le-frigo: well you dont need that (I have to admit i dont know how russians work)

Safiren: They had a official treaty that everyone had to agree too be a part of the meta. The funny thing is that the russians who didn’t want to follow the meta rules or more of didn’t like the leaders/players for personal reasons still cooperated for the higher goal in the end. They didn’t fight other russians other than verbal. I think they must have very good diplomats and when a matter have been settled they follow the agreements even how harsh the talking have been. And a member who don’t follow is kicked and punished immediately.

In other countrys allys/metas disagreements mostly leads to a diverse with players that “never” will talk to each other or play togehter again. I think that european/international players needs to realize that ego-playing don’t work in the tournament.

le-frigo: I dont think it is a problem if there are disagreements. usually you can solve them. think travian nowadays is anyway more played by adult people than it used to be back in 2005/2006.

Safiren: lol, you think that travian players have a matured behavior? On the scandinavian server the swedes can’t cooperate at all.

A player visibly without ally took the unique trainer. He didn’t want to be in the ally because he thought that other players will steal his farms. But when he lost the arty within one day (not deffed) the leadership tried to get it back with diplomaty. Single players didn’t respect the cease-fire and some showed very bad mannors, totally unwilling to use a proper language in chats. All ended up in war thereby dimishing the swedes possibillity to win the server and to form a good team for the Final.

Sad to say I have often seen such behavior when no diplomaticy can keep the players in line because of to many egos, amongst both leaders and players.

Safiren: You say that GoDz don’t will play the Final, mainly because that you can’t find alliances with enough of organisation to cooperate with and that it is a great lack of communication.

As you also have described it should be easy to form the necessary leaderboard and that metas isn’t so importent.

What do you think is the basic problem that it don’t work and what do you think is necessary to change it?

le-frigo: The basic problem is that alliances like CWL, Infamous, WILD or U that we met on .com domain are scared of joining tourney. Those are alliances with a decent structure, with a leadership and with experience to not fall apart within little time. GoDz faced most of them in the past and it has been a great fighting. If the powers of these fightings could have been combined and set on the Russians, i guess CWL and GoDz alone would make the picture for the Russians a lot different already.

AIM/IV consists of members from many of these alliances, but they are actually here without leaders and anything. For me, if .com would want to have a challenging team, then you need several of the experienced teams with a big player pool. The early game dominance of the russians might still be there, but at least in the longer run, there could be some challenges.

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COMEDI from FC-Gvozd

COMEDI

1. Your ally is one of greatest on this qualification server. From which country are your members? Have you played the tournament before, alone or as a ally??
Have you preplanned this server?
Ваш союзник является одним из величайших на этой квалификационного сервера. Из какой страны являются ваши члены?
Вы играли на турнире прежде, один или в качестве союзника? Вы заранее спланировано этом сервере?

ANSWER: Hello, my players are an alliance of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, we have people from Germany, Iran, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, but all the players of our team know the Russian language, it is important for the well-coordinated team play, all players are clear about team ordersrequirements, objectives …..
We landed on the server and already had our team that played together for two years, but took players with profiles in Russian.

ОТВЕТ: Добрый день, игроки моего альянса из России, Белоруссии и Украины, есть жители Германии, Ирана, Литвы, Великобритании, но все игроки нашей сборной знают русский язык, это важно для слаженной командной игры, чтобы все игроки чётко понимали команды, распоряжения, требования, задачи…..
Мы высаживались на сервере уже своей командой, которой играли совместно 2 года, но принимали игроков с карты, которые говорят на русском языке.

2. What is your opinion about the status on the server?
Каково ваше мнение о состоянии сервере?

ANSWER: This server is very weak, not fun to play, there is one worthy opponent. The game is reminiscent of a strong player beating a weak, unprepared player who has no rival team, although each player is playing well, but Travian – a team game, so in this game it is very important to work each team member as part of a whole organism. Only players from the alliance -GoDz- 2 times showed activity ……

ОТВЕТ: Этот сервер очень слабый, играть не интересно, нет достойного противника, игра напоминает избиение сильным игроком слабого, не подготовленного игрока, у соперников нет команды, хотя каждый игрок играет хорошо, но Травиан – командная игра, поэтому в этой игре очень важна работа каждого члена команды как части целого организма. Только игроки из альянса -GoDz- 2 раза проявили активность……

3. What are your allys goal for this server? Do you have any opponents? Have you met any skilled players or alliances that you respect for the way they are playing?
Какие цели вашего союзника для этого сервера? Есть ли у вас противники? Вы встречались с опытными игроками или союзы,
что вы уважаете за то, как они играют?

ANSWER: The goal we have is as always the same: victory and interesting game. Worthy opponents, unfortunately, no. There are experienced players, but they do not command. At the World Championships were worthy opponents from Germany and France, many thanks to them for an interesting game from the beginning to the very end of the server. In this qualifying tournament worthy teams do not see.

ОТВЕТ: Цель у нас всегда одна: победа и интересная игра. Достойных противников, к сожалению, нет. Опытные игроки есть, но команды у них нет. На Чемпионате мира были достойные соперники из Германии и Франции, большое им спасибо за интересную игру от начала до самого конца сервера. В этом отборочном турнире, достойных команд пока не вижу.

4. The russians was superior in the last Final. Do you think you will have better resistance in next Final? Is there any countries that could be a threat?
Русские были доминирующими в последнем финале. Как вы думаете, вы будете иметь лучшее сопротивление в следующем Final? Есть ли страны, которые могли бы представлять угрозу?

ANSWER: There are of course countries that may pose a threat , we are always ready to fight hard for the win. Players from Poland, China, France, Germany, will be sufficiently strong contenders in the final game.

ОТВЕТ: Страны, которые могут представлять угрозу конечно есть, мы всегда готовимся к напряженной борьбе за победу. Игроки из Польши, Китая, Франции, Германии будут достаточно сильными соперниками в финальной игре.

5. Tell us something about yourself and your account? Male or female? How old are you?
Where are you from? What do you do for your living? How long have you played this game?
What do you do when not playing Travian?
Расскажи нам немного о себе и ваш счет? Мужчина или женщина? Сколько вам лет?
Oткуда Bы ? Что вы делаете для вашей гостиной? Как долго вы играли в эту игру?
Что вы делаете, когда не играете Травиан?

ANSWER: On COMEDI we usually plays 3-4 people, Sergey, Vladimir and I am Anna – the regular players on account. We are from Russia, I’m from the Caucasus, Siberia, with Vladimir, Sergey from Moscow. Each of us has a family, children, work. We’re playing Travian together for almost 4 years. I am working as chief accountant at a jewelry store. In addition to playing Travian work and I cook, wash, clean, raise children and do a little exercise.

ОТВЕТ: нас на аккаунте COMEDI играет обычно 3-4 человека, Сергей, Владимир и я Анна – постоянные игроки аккаунта. Мы из России, я с Кавказа, Владимир с Сибири, Сергей из Москвы. У каждого из нас есть семья, дети, работа. Мы играем в Травиан вместе почти 4 года. Я работаю главным бухгалтером в ювелирном магазине. Кроме игры в Травиан и работы я готовлю, стираю, убираю, воспитываю детей и немного занимаюсь спортом.

6. Anyting else you want to say?
что другое вы хотите сказать?

ANSWER: It is very funny to read articles written by our competitors, who can not or do not want to understand that we are winning, not because we are not playing fair or not decent or that we are cunning evil liars who have multi-accounts, bots and scripts …. We play fair, do not break the rules of the game, but we have a team and I can call a player from the alliance at any time of the day and say that it is urgently need to get into the game, as his account has been explored, or to say what’s on my account and an account of my deputies go attack, and that it is necessary to check all your accounts. And people are waking up, ask for leave from work, call the other players and we become a single entity. Joke, laugh, experience, cry, swear, but we go for victory together until the end.

ОТВЕТ: Мне очень смешно читать статьи наших соперников, которые никак не могут или не хотят понять, что мы побеждаем не потому, что мы играем не честно или не порядочно, что мы хитрые и коварные обманщики, которые имеют мультиаккаунты, боты и скрипты…. Мы играем честно, не нарушаем правила игры, но у нас есть команда, я могу позвонить игроку из своего альянса в любое время суток и сказать, что нужно срочно выйти в игру, так как его аккаунт разведали, или сказать, что на мой аккаунт и аккаунт моих замов идут нападения, и что необходимо всем проверить свои аккаунты. И люди просыпаются, отпрашиваются с работы, звонят другим игрокам, и мы становимся единым целым. Шутим, смеёмся, переживаем, плачем, ругаемся, но идём к победе вместе до конца.

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Boethius from Alone

1. Your ally is one of greatest on this qualification server. From which country are your members? Have you played the tournament before, alone or as a ally?Have you preplanned this server?
Ваш союзник является одним из величайших на этой квалификационного сервера. Из какой страны являются ваши члены?
Вы играли на турнире прежде, один или в качестве союзника? Вы заранее спланировано этом сервере?

We are players from russian servers. We have played together before. We had planned the landing here.

Мы десант ruservers Мы играли раньше,десант сюда мы спланировали.
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2. What is your opinion about the status on the server?
Каково ваше мнение о состоянии сервере?

The server is quiet and calm. We are having fun here, sleeping, enjoying, running, etc.

We look forward to English-speaking and Chinese people on a lot of DEF.

Сервер тихий,спокойный. Мы тут резвимся,спим,гуляем,бегаем и т.д Ждем от англоговорящих и китайцев на чудострое много дефа
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3. What are your allys goal for this server? Do you have any opponents? Have you met any skilled players or alliances that you respect for the way they are playing?
Какие цели вашего союзника для этого сервера? Есть ли у вас противники? Вы встречались с опытными игроками или союзы, что вы уважаете за то, как они играют

Our goal is victory. Our enemies are different this time, but they have not impressed us.

Наша цель победа. Противник у нас разный,но пока ничем не удивил нас.
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4. The russians was superior in the last Final. Do you think you will have better resistance in next Final? Is there any countries that could be a threat?
Русские были доминирующими в последнем финале. Как вы думаете, вы будете иметь лучшее сопротивление в следующем Final? Есть ли страны, которые могли бы представлять угрозу?

Poland plays good. We would like to use this opportunity to greet our Polish friends. Czechs play well but they are very few. Expecting a good game from the Germans and French people. From Arab and Turkish players, we expect a good start only.

Хорошо играют -Польша.Пользуясь случаем передаю привет нашим польским друзьям.Хорошо играют -чехи,но их очень мало всегда. Жду хорошей игры от немцев и французов. От арабских и турецких игроков ждем только хороший старт.
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5. Tell us something about yourself and your account? Male or female? How old are you?
Where are you from? What do you do for your living? How long have you played this game?
What do you do when not playing Travian?
Расскажи нам немного о себе и ваш счет? Мужчина или женщина? Сколько вам лет?
Oткуда Bы ? Что вы делаете для вашей гостиной? Как долго вы играли в эту игру?
Что вы делаете, когда не играете Травиан?

Right now our account is played by two men and a woman, we are used to playing with two men and a woman. Our names are Den and Marina. Michail is playing with us. Shout out to you Mish ))

I am from Russia. I play since 2008. When I´m not playing Travian, I play football, paintball or work. I work as a chief specialist in the design of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning. Marina is a student.

Сейчас нас играет двое-мужчина и девушка,раньше играли двое мужчин и девушка.

Зовут Den и Marina. С нами играл Михаил.Привет тебе Миш)) Мы из России. Я играю с 2008 года. Если не играю в травиан,я играю в футбол,пейнтбол или работаю,работаю я (Денис) главным специалистом по проектированию отопления,вентиляции и кондиционирования. Марина -студентка.
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6. Anyting else you want to say?
что другое вы хотите сказать?

Enemies – surrender, you are surrounded.

Allies – we will win.

Противнику-Сдавайтесь,вы окружены.

Союзникам-Мы победим.

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Shayne(Seditious) from AIM

1. Your ally is one of greatest on thisqualification server. From which country are your members? Have you played the tournament before, alone or as a ally? Have you preplanned this server?