Ramblings of a Northerner

Travian - Ages of Empires for the web

July 15th, 2006

A short while ago, I started playing Travian, an online game in the vein of Age of Empires without the real-time piece and having no client to install.  It seems not too bad, albeit very slow (in constrast with how those games usually work) and any thoughts of it “running in the background” without much management actually is a false assumption.  You do have to monitor it and do various actions to make it worthwhile as everything seems to take an hour to complete.  I’m not sure I enjoy this middle ground of game where it has none of the interest or excitement of a real-time online game and all of the delay of resource management of a turn based game (seems the worst of both worlds).

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