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Introduction / Welcome General Topics

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Cultures 4

Travian International Interviews

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Get to Know About Hacking and Password Security

Jigsaw Miscellaneous
Last month’s Guessing Contest
Last month’s Football Contest 26

Editorial

Administration of Travian International

Tschena, Phanttis

Chief Editor

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Archonn, diadem, Headenforcer, HeartBreaker, Ice,

KnightStalker, Onedude, REXOR, Vanilla Latte

Chief Designer

Prda90

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Introduction / Welcome

Welcome to the sixth edition of

the Travian newsletter brought
to you by the Travian .com
team. In this edition we will tell
you something about password
security, as well as show
interviews with some comx
Wonder of the World holders.
There is also a jigsaw for you
to enjoy. Let us know what you
think, and what you would like
to see in future editions of the
Travian Com newsletter.

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Writers Corner
Untitled until now
Story continued from the last edition of the magazine:
He was pleased by the working people. They were
no fighters, that was for sure, but if they would
continue like this the palisade would be finished
before nightfall. Now the next step would be to work
up the defences, but this would require preparations
and not just in gathering things. He needed to plan
this carefully for he would need to train these
people in the arts drilled into him for ever since he
was a small child. The art of war, the art of handling
a sword. But there the problem would lay, these
people were simple farmers and not battle-
hardened warriors like himself. He knew that in
villages like this the local smith would not even know
how a sword or war axe should be forged. For now
he would need to think calmly and he would need
paper and ink to write down instructions. The local
academy should do the trick.
Although it is named academy experience told him
that it was not much more than a small house were
the local elder came to give advice to the young and
brash.
Moments later he stepped into the small building,
the aroma of tea and wine nearly bashed in his nose.
He instantly remembered why he didn’t like to go to
these places.
Well the sooner he was done the sooner he would
be able to get out.
Hours went by, the small table in front of him was
littered with scrolls with scribblings, doodles,
drawings and calculations. His former master, one of
the mighty Natarian emperors always tried to make
sure that his warriors were not only fit for a battle of
the body, but for a battle of the minds too. He was
thinking about a barracks, a place to train, so the
villagers would be properly prepared to fight.
Not just with pitchforks and other tools, but a place
where they would learn to wield proper weapons. As
he was drawing up a raw sketch a young kid with a
plate of food and a jug of wine entered the room.
"Sir, i have brought some honey bread and wine. The
elders always complain that thinking empties the
stomach to much thus it was thought you would be
hungry."
The story will be continued in the next edition of the
magazine.
This story is written by shadowspirrit.
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Jack Havoc As he read it, his expression went from plain, to a
little amused. “And does this machine actually work,
Enroot?“ asked Blackwood with a little of sarcasm.
“Yes.“ Enroot answered. “The one I made has a few
glitches to it, but otherwise, works.“ “Very well Enroot.
Gentlemen, from now on, this shall be our new goal.“
With that said the meeting ended.

“Master, where are you?“ called out Shredere,

Blackwoods servant, as he walked into his masters
study. “What is it Shredere, I’m busy in here, or
haven’t you noticed?“ Blackwood said impolitely.

“I’m s-sorry master. Your guests have arrived.“

“Finally, and they say I’m always late for these

meetings,“ mumbled Blackwood as he stormed out of
the room.

During the time Blackwood was in his study,

Shredere had been preparing the dining hall for his
guests. He had set up the large dining table with
seven chairs. There were six normal chairs around
the outside and a large chair at the head of the table.
There was something that Blackwood never told On the other side of Myrddion, Jack was sitting idly
Shredere, which was who the men he invited over on his living room chair when suddenly there was a
are. They are the men he works with; every one of knock on the front door. “It’s open,“ he yelled. “Jack,
them wears a hood over their head so they can’t be what are you doing?“ said the man who just walked
easily identified. into the room. Jack had a lute in his hands and was
sitting in front of a glass container holding several
flies. “Well, from what started out as a mere science
experiment, it has brought me to the thresh hold of a
As the last man finally sat down on his chair,
monumental discovery. Now if I play a chromatic
Blackwood started the meeting. “Gentlemen, the task
scale.“ He started playing the lute. “And this is
was laid down at our last meeting. Now, do you have
remarkable. If I change to internal clusters“ He
any ideas?“ That was when one of the other men
changed the rhythm on the lute. “Wallah. They fly
stood up and handed Blackwood a sheet of paper.
counter clockwise, in synchronised concentric circles,

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as though they were in a flock. This is accentual
Kevin. I, using musical theory, have created an order,
out of chaos.“ “What happens if I do this?“ Said Kevin
before he took the lid of the container and tapped the
sides of the glass. The flies all flew out of the
container.

“Come on Jack, there has been a new theft, and this

time they left us a small clue.“ “Where was it this
time?“ asked Jack. “The Old Garden. Someone stole
the Cromonius tree, the only one of its species left in
the world. Now hurry up.“ With that, they left for the
Old Garden.
Jack and Kevin were now standing outside an old
looking house on the outskirts of Myrddion. Kevin
walked up to the door and knocked on it. “Is anyone
When they got there the one thing they noticed was
home?“ He called, but there was no answer. He
the window which the criminals had seemed to use
knocked the door down, and to his surprise, saw mud
was broken from the inside. Jack sat down on the
all over the floor. “So our little Enroot must have been
stones next to a pile of the glass, and carefully
the one who snuck into the Old Garden,“ Jack said
started licking the outsides of the glass with the tip of
as he walked into the room. “Hmm… and it seems
his tongue. “What are you doing Jack?“ Kevin said.
that he must be working with a man named
“Well. From the taste of the glass, it seems that the
Blackwood. Don’t you agree? Kevin?“ At that moment
criminals had used a mixture of egg and honey I
Jack turned around to see an empty space to where
believe. They must have broken the glass days ago,
his friend was standing only a few seconds ago. Jack
before it rained, and put the window glass back
looked down at the floor and saw two new footprints
together using this recipe. They would have had a
on the wooden floor. They were leading outside, so
key to the front door to set this up. Tell me Kevin,
he followed.
who has their own key to this garden?“ “Well, only the
monks who worship here. Oh, wait. There is also a
chap whose name is Enroot Hastings. I do believe he
helps out with the gardening here, so he might have When Jack was almost to the end of the trail, he
a key.“ “Well let’s go give Enroot a little visit then. came across a huge mansion. It was over four stories
Come on Kevin, now you’re holding me up.“ high and had gargoyles perching on the top of it, as if
guarding. He quickly ducked behind a nearby bush
when he heard voices coming from behind himself.
He looked through the leaves and saw that they were
Blackwood was now back in his dining room. Sitting
wearing hoods over their heads. They were talking
on his throne-like chair, he started the meeting. “Now,
about something that sounded like a sacrifice. Jack
gentlemen, we have almost everything we need to
knew straight away why Kevin went missing all of a
make this work. The only thing missing is the
sudden.
Sacrifice. I’ve sent Enroot off to gather the *resource*
for that task as punishment for his *mistake*in his last
job. Once that is done, we will be able to build our
very own time machine.“ With that the meeting Moments passed before he decided that the path
ended. was clear, than he ran commando style down the
path towards the mansion. It was as if the gargoyles
knew he was there, he thought, and that they were

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*staring* at him, *watching* him. When Jack was
almost at the gate to the mansion he saw that there
seemed to be no guards, so he did a quick analysis
of the area and confirmed that to be true. With a lot of
careful planning, he sprinted commando style again,
passed the gate and into the mansion.
Once he was in, he paused to slow down his breath,
than continued down the hall. It was long and narrow,
with very few places for him to hide if someone was
to come along. There were paintings of people
among the walls, each with their frame covered with
gold and jewels. He paused when he came across a
room on his left side, it looked a bit odd. There was a
table in the middle of the room, which was about the
size of a man’s body. The one thing that struck him
was the odd shaped machine sitting right behind the
table. Than all of a sudden something struck him over
his head. He fell to the ground, the last thing he saw
before he became unconscious was seven men all
staring at him with anger. Amongst them he saw
Enroot, who was looking at him with a different
expression, but before he could figure it out, he fell
into a deep sleep.
When he awoke he saw Kevin tied across the table,
which was still in the centre of the room, at that
moment he jumped out to try to save his friend, but at
that moment he realized that he was tied to a chair. It
was Blackwood’s chair. “Good. You’re awake. I
thought that we might have to do this sacrifice
without you,“ said Blackwood. “What are you talking
about Blackwood?“ Demanded Jack as he tried to
wriggle himself free from the rope tied around his
body. “Well, to make my great invention work I need
a sacrifice, and it so happened that you and your
*friend *seem to have stumbled upon my plot.“
“What is the invention you’re talking about
Blackwood, and why do you need a sacrifice?“ asked
Jack.
“Well. According to great Egyptian history, you need
to sacrifice a man in order to be allowed by the great
Egyptian gods to time travel.“
“Well what about the theft of the rare tree that those
monks worshipped. What purposes did that solve?“
demanded Jack.
“It was all to get you and Kevin, the sacrifice, here.
We didn’t need the plant, and Enroot almost ruined
the plan by letting the theft lead to him, but I used his
mistakes as an advantage to kidnap your friend here.
I knew he would stand behind you, so I got Enroot to
wait until you turned your back, than kidnap him.
So prey to your god as you lay witness upon this
great power as it is reviled“; then Blackwood turned
around to the table with Kevin tied to it and signalled
for the sacrifice to begin.
*Will Jack and Kevin make it out alive, or will
Blackwood’s plan to sacrifice Kevin and travel back in
time to take over the world succeed. The future will
show it.*
This story is written by Vanilla Latte.
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Cultures
Travian International (i.e. the .com servers) contains
people from various cultures. Every culture has its
own characteristics and people from other cultures
may not even know or recognize that they hurt
another person. Therefore we want to introduce one
culture / country in every edition of the magazine.
countries, its landscape dominated by rugged
mountain ranges that separate various basins or
plateau from one another. The populous western part
is the most mountainous, with ranges such as the
Caucasus, Zagros and Alborz mountains; the last
contains Iran's highest point, Mount Damavand at
5,610 m (18,406 ft), which is not only the country's
highest peak but also the highest mountain on the
Eurasian landmass west of the Hindu Kush.

Islamic Republic of Iran The Northern part of Iran is covered by dense rain
forests called Shomal or the jungles of Iran. The
Islamic Republic of Iran eastern part consists mostly of desert basins such as
Facts the Dasht-e Kavir, Iran's largest desert, in the north-
central portion of the country, and the Dasht-e Lut, in
Capital: Tehran
the east, as well as some salt lakes. This is because
Language: Persian the mountain ranges are too high for rain clouds to
Politics: Islamic Republic reach these regions. The only large plains are found
along the coast of the Caspian Sea and at the
Area: 636372 sq mi / 1648195 km²
northern end of the Persian Gulf, where Iran borders
Population: 74196000 (2009 estimate) the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab (or the Arvand Rūd)
Currency: Rial (IRR) river. Smaller, discontinuous plains are found along
the remaining coast of the Persian Gulf, the Strait of
Religion: Shia Islam is official and also most
Hormuz and the Sea of Oman. Iran's climate ranges
common religion of Iran
from arid or semiarid, to subtropical along the
Time Zone: GMT +3 Caspian coast and the northern forests. On the
northern edge of the country (the Caspian coastal
plain) temperatures rarely fall below freezing and the
area remains humid for the rest of the year. Summer
temperatures rarely go so high.

Iran is located in the heart of Eurasia and Western

Asia. Iran consists of the Iranian Plateau with the
exception of the coasts of the Caspian Sea and To the west, settlements in the Zagros basin
Khuzestan. It is one of the world's most mountainous experience lower temperatures, severe winters with
below zero average daily temperatures and heavy

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snowfall. The eastern and central basins are arid,
with less than 200 mm (7.9 in) of rain, and have
occasional deserts. Average summer temperatures
exceed 38 °C (100.4 °F). The coastal plains of the
Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman in southern Iran have
mild winters, and very humid and hot summers. The
annual precipitation ranges from 135 to 355 mm (5.3
to 14.0 in).
children a gift as “Eydi“ and when it’s the last day of
Nowruz or the 13th day of the year they release their
grass on sea. As in food, they like many local foods
such as “fesenjon“ and “torshekebab“ and each
province has its own local foods, but they are not
good only at this but they also make delicious pizza
and kebab too.

Iranians enjoy watching and doing sports especially

Iran has many places for its visitors such as Naqsh-e
Jahan square and Azadi tower and the newly made
Milad tower, one of the most famous and old places
to visit in Iran is Pasargadae which was the capital of
Cyrus the Great.
football or soccer. Also Iran is home to several
unique skiing resorts, with the Tochal resort being the
world's fifth-highest ski resort (3,730 m/12,238 ft at its
highest station), and located only fifteen minutes
away from Tehran. Being a mountainous country,
Iran is a venue for hiking, rock climbing and mountain
climbing.

Iranians are often friendly people; their culture is a

mix of ancient pre-Islamic culture and Islamic culture.
They celebrate many ancient tradition like Nowruz
(Nowruz is an ancient tradition celebrated on 21
March to mark the beginning of spring in Iran) and
Islamic Celebrations like Mid-Shaban (known as Nim
Shaban in Iran) as an Islamic country. They make
“Haft Sin“ on Nowruz which consists grass or
“Sabzeh“ which represents new life, Apple or “Seeb“
which represents beautifulness and healthiness, kind
of dish prepared from the juice of germinating wheat
or “Samano“ which represents felicity, garlic or “Sir“
which represents remedy, sea-buckthorn or “Senjed“
which represents love, vinegar or “Serkeh“ which
represents patience and Sumac or “Samagh“ which
represents the colour of sun rise. on Nowruz they
also go to visit their relatives and friends they give This report is written by KnightStalker.

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Interviews 6. SaNcHeScO Great Wall Of PFF PFF-TLL 38

7. Pisonja The House Of Wax!! NW WW 38

comx Wonder of the World (WW) holders
8. J0RU Boracay-Pattaya PFF-TLL 35

9. BlueChucky WonderfulFairPlayers FP WW 28

10. irteen Viva SW SW WW 18

11. Black Ninja SW WW 0

12. dracek. NW WW 0

13. AYNALI NW WW 0

The PFF-TLL meta*:

1. Oradea

2. Sanchesco

3. JORU

Natarian Tribes are here… I first introduce, SaNcHeScO from PFF-TLL meta*.
This guy is pretty much tough in the game, he played
Time to end everything…
solo on his account. I could have imagine that he is
it's a RACE! Keep it up! online for 17 hours a day or sometimes even more. A
quote in my chitchats to him "SaNcHeScO: dual is
two (2) people on one account; sitter is a different
thing :); I have sitters but they only come when i ask
On this issue, I tried to reach out all the WW holders them because I must work and watching troops don't
and most of them responded. There are lots of starve". A fine young man lives somewhere in
issues, problems, changes in confederation and even Europe, work full time and play hardcore on this
change to allied/meta*. game. I was joking at him that he dropped his college
and so he can hold WW full time hahaha. This guy
started to play on this game 4 years ago in nlx server
The current standing: Info were taken July 15th 9:42 but he did not finish the server and stop playing
pm GMT+9 midway in the server. This is his come back on this
game and his first round in comx and viola! He got to
1. Oradea WonderFool PFF-TLL 52 hold the WW and race to the other players. He is a
defence type of player and he "quoted- he is proud of
2. Hateful 2010 WW World Cup FIST 45 defending dragonlion and knows that he is on the
side of a good team". In the last 2 years, he did not
3. Abdiel SW Glory SW WW 42
lose his track in the game but was diligent in reading
4. BlueChucky WW - Fair Play FP WW 40 guides and tricks. Right now, he is making a Gaul
offense guides and he will try this to aux server as his
5. kuky222 Warriors Wonder NW WW 39 experiment. We will see if he has results and I am

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sure, he will likely to share who likes to play Gaul’s knock it down to zero. She is a web surfer and found
tribes. an ad to one of the website that she was visiting and
decided to try it out. Now, she is here on this game
for about 3 years now. Luckily, even she got hit
recently but it only knock down to three (3) levels and
Me: Did you encounter any problems after you
gives her still the leading of the race.
conquered the WW village? Like a confederation or
ally member tried to re-chief it? He said: He had no
trouble with it but the only thing that he can think of:
He made mistakes of being sleepless on that
evening. Plus he added that for people in the forum
telling PFF all about bot scripts users, that there are
still players in this game old school like me who play
without those. At this moment, he is happy playing
with his new team, as per se!

SaNcHeScO: Hey! This is JORU's time- who is

JORU from PFF-TLL meta*? I was surprised when I
knew that bigtrouble is on JORU team. I tried to
reach bigtrouble before I send this to Tschena and it A few questions I sent to her: read below.
seemed that our time will not be on a good timing.
Real life is always on the way… but the only thing
that I can say… who has the best structures two
rounds ago. Find it out here on this blog. http://bea- Me: Did you have problems encounter when you are
travian.blogspot.com/2009/10/best-structures.html. I chiefing the WW village?
know how the TLL manages on their WW. Bigtrouble
Stacey: Chiefing of the WW village was easy. We
is the big asset on JORU team and even to his
have a great team working together, and it went off
meta*. This is all I can say.
without a hitch. Now Building Plans was another
story! lol

Me: Is this your first time holding the WW?

Stacey: No, I held the WW when we all played on the

IMU server.

Me: What do u like to tell to everyone especially to

your enemy alliance?

Stacey: I would love to tell everyone what a great

team the Fools alliance is. The leaders are great,
always winning to help someone new, and we all
have a great time playing. As for my enemy alliance?
It's a game, nothing to get so testy about.

However, the leading lady on the race, Oradea. The Me: How do you feel being the leader of the race?
Oradea team is leading by Stacey, a woman (just like
Stacey: It's fun watching the attacks roll in trying to
me LOL), the main owner of the account. Her WW is
guess which one is going to be a real attack. We all
leading on the race currently and no one ever tried to

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know eventually we will get hit, already happened
once, and hopefully the next one won't be too bad.
Me: I, thank you for your time Stacey. I will talk to you
on the next issue of the magazine on how things
work.
<<<<-------->>>>>>>
The NW WW meta*:
1. Pisonja
2. Hateful
3. kuky222
4. dracek
Pisonja WW holder; I found out that he never played
to any different world/server but only here in
.com/international server and we have a .com loyal
player as per se! He has a friend from Africa and
introduced this game to him. He found this game
amazing and lots of challenges and strategy.
He never had been encountered difficulty in
conquering the WW village since he has a great team
work from his alliance ABYSS WAR and all of his
allies. He quoted "This is my first time and with the
help with my Team Experience, I am like an old
player which is handling the WW in a few times"
He wanted to tell to everyone: To my team ABYSS
WAR, NW WW and our allies. You are the best team
I have and I won't regret having you from the
beginning till the end of this game. We win or lose. I
really appreciate all the teamwork we gave to each
other. And to our enemy alliance, make sure you
guys give your best attack and defence. We will be
here fighting and defending whatever it takes to get
us wins this server. I feel not only me but all my team
that we really deserve to be here, we feel the
greatness of being oneness in offense, defence,
strategy and leadership. Personally, I thank my
buddies, Repline, Svraka1, Macedonian, Magician,
Tsunamybob (Tiffa and Bob).
Hateful WW keeper, is one of the leader in the NW
alliance. He played this game for over 4 years and
played also in slow server and stop playing midway.
No one introduces him on this game but he tried to
find a multiplayer game in the web and found travian.
He played alone mostly of his account but he has
wonderful sitters looking after. He mentioned zappy
and cyn (his co-leader), he said: They played
together in two years now. What a great bonding of
friendship.
At this moment, his team is made up of a true
international group of players. This is pretty cool
indeed. This is the message he like to tell to
everyone: "I would like to tell my enemies that you
should always keep your enemies close to you and
it’s not over till it’s over".
Lastly, this is his message for his meta*: I would like
to say this to the meta* though :) that loyalty got us
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here above all and we all carry each other when chiefing to the WW village that Black Ninja currently
needed in any way; we all lead here-there is no one holding but all changed. There are lots of things that I
leader here. am going to dig on this team… why they keep the
WW and not letting irteen have it? Instead, they killed
irteen chiefs landed. Is this a kind of a voodoo
magic? LOL ..
However, the other two WW keeper. I was hoping to
get their attention but it seemed that they are busy. I
will try to post their interview on the next issue: The
WW keeper, kuky222 and dracek.

I tried to reach out Abdiel, he is leading the SW WW

meta* WW. Next in line to Oradea. I bet the PFF-TLL
<<<<--------------->>>> meta* planned to knock him down. They might be
waiting that he will touch down to 70 or 80 and
The SW WW meta*
hammers will pound him and knock it to zero.
1. Abdiel

2. Black Ninja
In the last minute, Jaxdash step up for an interview.
3. Irteen/fengjie She is one of the leaders in LVT main but then I am
tight of time right now. I could not wait for her to come
online. I will save a spot for them the next issue.

However, who is the first conqueror of the WW village

this round? Oh that one goes to fengjie. Fengjie
belongs to Mordor Alliance (correct me if I am
wrong). The CH, BKL and Mordor Alliances do not
want G.W to be on the WW race. So, after they took
the WW village, fengjie other villages were destroyed
completely by his co-alliances and left the WW village
alone. They locked it up and this is what they did two
rounds ago. Chinese players, clever!

In the other side, there was a change and decided to

let irteen got the WW village. Irteen came and re-
chief it. Irteen is around on this game for a long time
and he is also playing in research server and he is
also a WW keeper there and finish up 3rd. I will make
a special interview for irteen and post it to the next
Black Ninja never been white ninja LOL. He is from
issue.
LVT3 alliance - the most noobies alliance in the SW.
I casually talk to this guys but I will say. They are
pretty much new on this game. Their experience on
the game is not enough to be on the race but they <<<<----->>>>
will learn of course. They have some pretty good
stories behind the wall… Irteen was supposed to be

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FP WW meta* lead by Blue Chuckey. He is keeping
two WW village on his own account. As a leader of
FP of the meta* and a WW keeper. He must have a
handful. He is currently holding two WW village. One
of his WW village were being knocked down to zero
by PFF-TLL meta* hammer grga.
and trainers and Sarinen is the conqueror. Here on
this link:
http://travian.ws/analyser.pl?s=comx&uid=40035, you
can see the events on his accounts.. Too much
conquering starting on the early game.

Gambito is a top 4 rank player and has 186.766

<--------->>>
FIST meta* is gone but I thought AYNALI change it to
18PLUS, he does not have plan to build the WW. Let
your diplomats run his mouth to the other alliance
and make an agreement.
offense points with defence points of 66.681 kills.
Playing with a lot of villages, I think it made me
throwing up LOL but I know it is fun to flip
those….builds and trains. His message for all of us,
First, he is very thankful to his team mates and his
defense banana Drill for giving an extra work on his
account and let us have some fun…

<<<<<------->>>>> A special interview to one of the

leader in the SW Gambito---<<<<---->>>>>> Good luck to the WW keeper… more hammers
landed in your villages for sure.

An interview to one of the finest leader in the SW, he

let me come in on his door. I had fun talking to
Sarinen from Gambito account - HD Alliance leader.
HD alliance had a special relationship to LVT and
they are supporting to irteen WW. But then it
happened that during the conquering of the WW
village - the village which is supposed to be for irteen
account - it went to Black Ninja. All things were
complicated in the SW. There were lots of, conflicts
but it shows currently, there is a union in the SW.

Now, the HD alliance is supporting to WAR WW.

Gambito is one of the leaders in the past rounds and
remain the same quad which is in the SW. Sarinen
started to play in DKX server 5 years ago and he is
on his 3rd round here in comx. The exciting part, he
was hooked by this game through his wife and taught
him. They played together but in a different account. *Note of the editorial staff: Metas are large groups of
It must be fun when both of them awake at the same confederated alliances.
time and send an attack at 3AM hahaha. and who
knows what will be happened after that LOL.

Interviews was done by diadem.

He mentioned, he is playing with Savanna as his dual

and Margitorix this round. This two are great builders

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Server News
Rewards for winner of the climbers of the week:
We are happy to inform you that all servers that are currently without artefacts will get rewards for the
climbers of the weeks as little stimulation for our new players. The winner of the climber of the week medal
category will earn 10 Gold as well as his medal.
Server report was done by Rexor.
Registration has been closed since Natars with their
precious artefacts appeared. Everyone's trying to
steal few pieces of their treasure because of their
incredible powers. Here is a small list.
Small artefacts
SG MC, VIP and MH are alliances with the highest
number of small artefact per alliance. Each alliance
owns 4 small artefacts SG MC owns the trainers
talent, eagle eyes, titan boots and the architects
secret. VIP has stolen architects secret as well as
titan boots. They also take care of artefact of diet
control and artefact of the fool. MH has in their
possession artefact of the fool, two artefacts of
trainer’s talent and rivals confusion.
Other alliances, such as WoD L, V*GFury and
RONIN have 3 artefact, HM, NoDe X, V.I.P.,
SG~GL~, -WoD-,V*GFZ, PT(tm) and WoD own 2
artefacts per alliance.
I would like to highlight alliances (r)olling, =PI=, RGU,
which has 1 artefact in an alliance. Even though they
are not big branchy alliances, they stole 1 artefact
and are able to protect it. Good job :)
Large artefacts
In here, SG MC, SG = Art and MH have more
artefacts than anyone else. The architects secret,
eagle eyes, storage master plan and rivals confusion
belong to SG MC, while the architects secret, titan
boots, eagle eyes together with trainer's talent can be
found in alliance SG =Art. MH has stolen titan boots,
diet control, trainer's talent, storage master plan from
others,
Alliances WoD and -WoD- follow them with their 3
artefacts.
NoDe X, WoD L, NoDe H and ?. are alliances with
two artefacts.
Generally
As we can expect from the previous summary, the
best alliances in statistics are those with artefacts. #1
is VIP today followed by Node H, SG MC, NoDe C,
WoD L. The slight exception might be KABOOM
alliance on 8th place, which, as it seems, has no
artefact currently.
Good luck everyone. :)
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Server report was done by Headenforcer.

Things are starting to kick off on com2 now, MDS and

DA, last round’s champs, are off to a strong start.
Both of these teams are all over the top 10’s of the
week as well as the top population, offensive kills,
and defensive kills. Conquerors from DA is in the
lead for highest population, closely followed by
Badger from MDS. Badger also holds the title for
most offensive kills, while cocolevis from Kirin-1 holds
the rank of number one defender. The main
opposition for the champs this round looks like
Ashoka and Kirin. It looks like the champs have had
a great start, but as we all know, anything can
happen in Travian.

the alliance Takers had the most offensive kills, and

Server report was done by Headenforcer.

Com4 has finally come to an end. UnderWorld3

successfully built a World Wonder level 100, not to
mention their other WW that finished the server at
level 9. This is a great accomplishment for a player
joedaddy from Fusion-B had the most defensive kills.
with two WW villages. In other WW news, matador
The alliance ONE (S4 NORTH) had the highest total
has lead Therror’s own WW to level 60. It is still a
population and most offensive kills, and FUSIONWW
victory for Therror and the South West Underground
had the most defensive kills of all alliances. It has
though as they have been strongly supporting the
been a very surprising and stressful round for many
NORTH WW’s. FUSION finished the round in second
players, so how many will return cannot be guessed.
with joedaddy’s WW at level 94. The fruit team pulled
Will the next com4 be won by completely new teams?
off third place with beauwolf’s level 87 WW. paul &
silas finished with the largest empire, Gooders from

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Server report was done by HeartBreaker.
Well here we are in the End Game process.
The race to build the best WW has started. The
excitement is a little jaded by the fact that there are
now only 7 WW’s in the race as the awesome LoDm
team has made sure that the other 6 have been
rendered out of game with their very clever ploy of
getting them into one village accounts thus making
them useless. Can’t help but wonder why they have
taken two WW’s which they have not rendered
useless. As they claim not to want to build one of
these boring monstrosities
So at this moment out of the 7 WW’s that are in the
race LoDm have one of their own and of course have
control of the Pests WW. PANTHEONS have 3;
goodness knows what is going to happen when they
start to build them, or if they by chance get anywhere
near looking as though they might win the race.
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The other 2 WW belong to Nirvana and to MAD, So MAD and Nirvana will do their best to clear this
despite being courted by LoDm (as soon as the infestation of locust from our server. They may gloat
WW’s were announced) a courtship that involved the and show of battle reports and sing their own praises,
very charming FriendsForce and the even more but they serve their purpose and it is indeed quite
charming zzzouave talking to all the alliance leaders amusing to watch them try and illicit responses on the
they could. When they did not get what they wanted forum. No fun to show off when nobody responds to
that way they resorted to bullying and threats you, we have no wish to feed their monster ego’s and
although still done with the charm and finesse that us we hold back our BR’s to show when the time is right.
lady players have come to love. Tempting though it
was to join them in their quest; they failed to fully As I type my report the plan villages have arrived and
explain how it would work, so after much deliberation so the fun begins again.
and talking to our members we decided the only way
Enjoy my friends and I will keep you updated on how
to enjoy the game was to be traditionalist and go for
things are going in my next report.
the WW winner.
Good Luck to all playing and may the best team
win!!!
As usual even the best laid plans can go wrong, and
Forgive me if I hope that teams name begins with an
with smart and very impressive plan LoDm did indeed
“M”
get the vast majority of the WW’s, and proceeded to
make all the ones outside their own quadrant
unavailable for conquering. Clever though this plan
was, I can’t help feeling the WW rules need looking at
to stop this sort of thing happening again.

Server report was done by Onedude. This shows the extreme advantage early game
raiding can have!
Last month I talked briefly about alliances. This
month, massive advances have been made on this
front. The RANGER's and VIP alliances are within
negotiations to form a super-alliance, which would
have 10 wings. However, should negotiations turn
nasty, it looks like it could start the first big war of the
server. There is also a growing divide between the
biggest players, such as Samsonas
<http://s7.travian.com/spieler.php?uid=10342> with 5
villages and a killer population of 1525, and, for
example, Mcbeth
<http://s7.travian.com/spieler.php?uid=7573>, at only
a third of that.

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Server report was done by Ice.
Immediately after the previous s10 report cross quad
wars ended. The TBD/ONE war that seemed like it
was ready to explode, just fizzled out immediately. It
seems neither leadership had the heart to continue
fighting and are content with leaving each other alone
until endgame starts. Neither TBD or ONE will
confirm who is the first one to request a ceasefire.
ONE when asked, stated that it was a mutual
agreement. Someone must have breached the topic
and it can be noted that when ONE scuffled with
LORDZFR, and LORDZFR responded by pummelling
a couple of ONE leaders, ONE asked for a ceasefire.
Server report was done by diadem.
World Wonder Holders VS Natarian Knights
LORDZFR, in the NW, continues to pound on Rena,
a second tier alliance on the server. All signs indicate
that LORDZFR and TBD have a server or endgame
agreement. Both have very conspicuously avoided
each other and at times outright coordinated
together. The server consensus is that LORDZFR
and TBD are the favourites to win the server. C are
considered long shots in the game as they have not
been able to hold on to their artefacts and have the
lowest population average of the four major metas*.
ONE will have a tough fight against the LZ/TBD
conglomerate, especially in light of their lack of
cooperation with C. Not only does the North have the
strongest metas* but they are very likely united, while
the south has no cooperation.
Prognosis for s10 is that endgame will lack much
action, which is in line with the server history of no of
real warring. Cross quad wars lasted only a couple
weeks and all metas* seem content to sim until
endgame. Endgame is a different kettle of fish, so
there is hope that it could be interesting.
*Note of the editorial staff: Metas are large groups of
confederated alliances.
There are so many things that changed in the last
couple weeks.
In the SW, fengjie is the first conqueror of the
natarian village but then the CH alliance locked up
his account by destroying his villages and left the
WW village. The GW alliance was after that village
but then CH won't let them have it. MGM1 tried to
chief other natarian village but it was being captured
by another player.
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The CH alliance decided to let irteen run the WW
village by re-chiefing the village. At first, Mordor was
not happy about it but then irteen earned their trust
by letting the leaders joined to the WW holder
alliance. Just lately, the three (3) joined into one
alliance named, SW WW.

On the other side, GIMP tried to talk to the SW to be

one of their allies. Because of the common enemies
which is on the East. Diplomats are still on conferring.

The SW LVT got two WW villages which is run by

Abdiel and Black Ninja. Irteen was being bombed
since Black Ninja decided to keep the village by
killing irteen's chiefs landed after his. He is supposed
to help lowering the loyalty but all things changed.

Therefore the PFF-TLL meta* is on the lead. Oradea

touched down to level 80 but only few hammers
came and made 3 levels damaged.

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The last issue of the magazine, FP were being allied the next few days. I hope this endgame won't take so
to PFF but then there were changes happened due long.
to some ego. Leaders could not come up of what
they wanted for the benefits of the team. But in the
last few days, blue chuckey came back to PFF but he
Enjoy the game and kept building defence for your
lost his plans to build WW village.
own WW just to stop the hammer coming to.

One of the NW WW holder, they lost their plans also.

*Note of the editorial staff: Metas are large groups of
There must be lots of things going to be happened in
confederated alliances.

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Please note that the instant recall function and the

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Do you like writing?

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If you are on com3, com6 or com8 and think you can

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Forum News
Forum Banner Competition: August

The following banner won the August competition:

Second place:

Third place:

Congratulations to the winners ☺

Forum Banner Competition: September
We want to offer you the possibility to create a forum
banner for Travian. Each banner will be checked and
the best ones will be presented to the other players in
a poll. The winning banner will be uploaded to the
.com forum.
The 3 winners will get nice awards usable on a .com
server of their choice:
1st place: 90 Gold
As theme for the banner (size: 798px × 140px) you
should choose something related to the month
September.
We will not accept .gifs as we also have users with
slow internet access, but .jpg , .png or .tif are fine.
The size has to be the size of the current banner.
One hint: if you violate trademark laws we cannot
accept your banner.

2nd place: 60 Gold Please send your banners to forum@travian.com

until August 15th. We wish you good luck!
3rd place: 30 Gold

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Get to Know About Hacking and Examples:

Password Security 1) If your 'secret question' is "what is your

mother's original surname?" DO NOT add
your whole meta-alliance members as
facebook friends so that everyone sees your
mother's name. -___________-'

2) DO NOT tell out loud what your pet's

name is, to your alliance even if they ask, if
that is your email address’ secret question!
-___________-'

We cannot help you if you leak out your

mother's family name or your pet's name
to mischievous people!

One more advanced example was in-game message

(= IGM) sent, which asked player to log in again. The
link was not to login in Travian but to login in the
webpage of password fisher. The webpage was
made to look like our page, but with addition that the
login screen also asked email address.

There seems to be some hacking rumours circling

once again. So I write some guidelines and common
knowledge once again too!

 Please keep in mind, we from Travian

Team never ask for your password.
 Take care not to give your password to
anyone who you do not trust.
 Do not use account name as password.
 Do not use '123456' or 'qwerty' or
something equally unsecure as your
password.
 Do not save the password to public
computers or log files or papers that are
publicly available.
 Change the password regularly.
 DO NOT PUT EASY TO GUESS password
recovery question to your email address!
So, if a player logged on there with his account
If you lose your email address, you WILL
name, password and email address, he not only gave
lose the account ownership also.

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full access to his account to the password fisher, but
also possibly password AND email address of the
email box registered for that account. The IGM read
as follows:
Travian has defences against brute-force password
hacking. Up to date all cases I have handled during
past 3 years, where hacking has been suspected
have been result of weak or leaked passwords.

Hi! Please take care and remember the password

security!
today 03:51:40 pm

You bot?

please login http://xxxintravian.com

Administration Travian

Some things to think of if you see something like that:

1. We would not ask you to login anywhere.

Especially not via in-game message from
some not-so-well named account.
2. The address where the IGM tells you to login
is not of Travian domain.
3. The messages from crew always have
coloured box next to them, and only ones
sending IGMs are Multihunter and Support.

Multihunter cannot help you if you login to wrong

page, giving out your access details.

To get a new secure password, use the forgotten

password tool to generate new one to your email This guide was written by Phanttis.
address.

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Jigsaw

This month’s puzzle is a jigsaw. Below are the 225

pieces. The first 3 people to email
magazine@travian.com with the completed picture
will get 50 gold. Your email should also include the
username and server of the account which you want
to get the gold.

Hint: You can print the pieces, cut them up,

rearrange them and take a picture with your phone or
camera. You could also use a program such as
Word, Excel or Photoshop.

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How many players had been deleted at the end of
the most recent com9?

Answer: 154396 players

Congratulations to Shubhorup who guessed

65000.

How many troops were in the natar capital at the end

of the most recent com9?

Answer: 64700 Pikemen

296832 Thorned Warriors

200183 Guardsmen

7 Birds Of Prey

369344 Axeriders

Last month’s Guessing Contest 238132 Natarian Knights

2192 War Elephants

1091 Ballistas

1 Natarian Emperor

9 Settlers

Sum: 1172491 troops

Congratulations to Charles who guessed

1125772.

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How many animals were in oases throughout comx Last month’s Football Contest
on Monday 14th June?
The correct ball position would have been:
Answer: 1147178 Rats

475900 Spider

267816 Snakes

208010 Bats

406755 Wild Boars

252870 Wolfs

268027 Bears

62637 Crocodiles

109624 Tigers Congratulations to Marko who gave the following

picture:
4952 Elephants

Sum: 3203769 animals

Congratulations to K Kudose who guessed

2500000.

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