My journey around the qualification servers runs smoothly for the most. Except for last Tuesday when I suddenly got real attacks on several servers, croplocked on Asia. Maybe the players are bored in waiting for artefacts?
So far I have qualified on 9 servers. My goal was 10. The only servers that needs more effort that I have time for is Turkey and Russia. The two biggest servers along with International where I have an active account and have qualified. I never believed I should qualify on Arab Emirates when it started with 11.000 players…
And yes, I know that I can’t get more then 1 ticket to next Final. I have used the same email on all to not be accused of making me multi accounts. ^^
Maybe you remember that I predicted that on Arab Emirates there soon will be more Natars then players. That have now became true. 2300 players, 4700 Natars. 2100 players have been deleted the last 2 weeks, not so many of their own free will I guess ^^
When I checked Saudi Arabia the first time this week I noticed that they was the only server that have increased the number of players, + 600. Not real players for sure. With some curiosity I checked again, those 600 was gone and 100 more.
I have followed this development for a while, and my feeling that this qualification is more of a final test of TG’s new tools against bots then about to qualify becomes stronger 😀
I couldn’t withstand so I checked the other servers too. Of course I had to do a list. *chuckle*
The servers can be arranged in 3 groups. Remember this numbers is for the last 2 weeks. The cleaning of bots accounts started a bit earlier on AE, SA, Int and Scand. Scand dropped 400 players which not shows in the list below.
This servers seems to have been less affected by bots and script users or they haven’t been cleaned yet but I noticed when it was done on Scand, DE and RU. I’m delighted to find RU in the group where we can suppose it have been less cheaters ^^. Asia have increased with 50 players the last 2 days. Real players or not? Average of Natars looks to be around 400.
| Players | +/- | Natars | |
| Scand | 1442 | -150 | 436 |
| Asia | 2455 | -400/+50 | 551 |
| HU | 1740 | -600 | 441 |
| Ibero | 2456 | -600 | 407 |
| DE | 1795 | -900 | 399 |
| RU | 4225 | -700 | 863 |
The second group, where Luso was the last to be cleaned this week, has up to the double of deleted players as the first group. Natars is in the same range so I guess 400-600 Natar villages on a server can be the average amount. On some servers the chiefing of natar villages have become bigger then the appearing of new natar villages.
| Luso | 1557 | -1100 | 456 |
| PL | 2339 | -1100 | 462 |
| FR | 2922 | -1300 | 607 |
| Balkan | 2036 | -1200 | 726 |
| CZ | 2393 | -1200 | 631 |
The last group of servers has a difference in Natars compared with the rest. The exceptional amount of Natar villages and the high degree of deleted players with AE as the outstanding server.
| Int | 4227 | -1600 | 1714 |
| TR | 4922 | -2000 | 1418 |
| SA | 4141/3161 | +600/-900 | 2963/3207 |
| AE | 2362 | -2100 | 4686 |
Maybe we can look forward to a Final with players that have earned their ticket in a fair way. Those who survives the qualification. We are now down to 40.000 players in total. How devoted are this players? Normally more then half will delete before endgame.
The average amount of players that qualified from each server last qualification was 1200. I will drop but not so much, the most players in qualification is a bit more devoted to the game than an usual player.
Be careful my friends, play a fair game and next Final will be more fun with the real best players in the world.
I got an interview with a player from an account on Int that was banned, A story not uncommon, sad to say.
moss from International
I got this skype conversation from a friend of moos
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Cool: I was screwed up
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I am still out of town for an international travel and will be back tomorrow.
My dual was lazy and stupid, he tried to use bot and got my account banned
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I will check in later today to see the damage
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That really hurt
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Okei, I now get a chance to take a look at my account. it is a mess.. the structures have been reduced half. Troops are gone. My dual told me it is the punishment from the MH. I kicked him now. It may take some time to rebuild. On the way home now and need to go. Will be back home later tonight and will check what to do.
Cool
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I wrote an igm and asked a few more questions.
How much troops did you loose? They wiped out all my troops.
What sort of bot did your dual use? Some PHP codes or scripts he wrote himself. He is a good student, loves more web programming than gaming I think.
How fast did MH detect him? Not sure. He said he used it on and off for a while. I think he began to use them intensively when I was gone and he has to take care of it 24/7.
How long time did it take before the account was unbanned? About 1 day.
Tell us something about yourself please. Where are you from? USA. Male or female? Male. How old are you? 35? What do you do for your living? Teacher How long have you played this game?3-5 years. What do you do when not playing Travian? Life. What do you think about T4.4? Looks good.