Safiren's Corner

[Safiren]

It's nice to have a english forum to write on. I hope you will enjoy reading my observations from the Tournament.

The outcome of the first days registration isn't as bad as I feared with the late announcement. There are big differences on some servers compared with last year. Maximum will be reached after one week.

I hope that Captcha will prevent multibots. A funny thing is that I needed to do a captcha the firsts times I logged in on ae. Arabian players was banned for multiaccounts a lot in last final...

	2 days	Last year 1 day
International	5300	6500
Germany	2000	1700
Russia	3300	2800
France	2000	2800
Hungarian	1300	2900
Czech	2200	3200
Poland	2300	1800
Turkey	5200	4000
Arab Emirates	12600	6000
Saudi Arabia	4800	5600
Scandinavia	1300	1200
Balkan	2100	6500
Spain / Chile	2000	4500
Portugal / Brasilien	1700	3600
Asia	2300	0
	50400	53100

[Safiren]

Top player and Top farmer is checked before midnight sunday servertime. Second village this evening when I was home from work. I have no possibility to check all 15 servers on work so I can't tell you who was first with second village but I got a message from International that it had happend 16:30 servertime. (Last numbers is rank in pop)

Server	Top player			Top farmer			Second village
	Player	pop		Player	farmed
International	cookiekhan!	211		The Antichrist	152000		peacekeeper	55
							Buckshot Sint	75
							Zloy	450
Germany	Bloody Stayer	219		Vaniteux	123000		Babo	21
							Liqu!d Love	53
							Die Angsthasen	83
							Venceremos	157
							Bon Voyage	184
Russia	Gaja	223		4yGatSteR_	120000		incognitus	20
							serb	122
Hungary	Over	213		D3VILS	102000		Jellybean	230
Czech	offce	219		Feak & Blizzy	124000		offce	1
							Storm	7
							ricin	216
							Naro & Jaruš	256
							Spontex	278
Poland	misiukolorowy57	214		Ganger Squad	161000		anonymouse	8
							Ganger Squad	9
Saudi Arabia	Tally	185		خريص	139000		0
Balkan	Bane	197		viking	103000		Duo Queue	163
Portugal/Brazil	Burro&Jumento	226		FCA	127000		0
Spain/Chile	FlorenceCassez	203		LastChance	165000		Hanso	44
							Astro	58
							Dalton	181
Asia	Happy	216		ENALI	146000		Macey	22
							ENALI	108
							devil_u	117
							chin123	124
							one day	131
							M&L	178
France	toko	218		mxkevmx	99000		Prince_charmant	6
							Dai Huen Jai	19
Scandinavia	Infected Dirt	213		RockNRolla	182000		RockNRolla	1
							Ares	19

[SylverEagle]

On the international server it was;

zloy
peacekeeper
twisted fate
buckshot sint

i believe as I saw twisted fate with a village before buckshot

[Safiren]

I realized last night that is was Sunday again. A bit confusing to have 2 Sundays in a week. I have a feeling that I've lost a Monday somewhere.. I need that Monday so plz give me a call if you find it.

I've corrected the numbers on the Real Sunday midnight but I missed to collect a few, sorry.

Interesting that the amount of players don't seem to inflict on how much it is possible to farm.

The server that has most players farm less. It is random if I need captcha even to login there.

Server	Top player			Top farmer			Players on server
International	Dare Devil	466		Pop Eye	750000		7900
Germany	Wunder Lampe	471		G-HAD	673000		2600
Turkey	My roma_ro	647					7200
Russia							4700
Hungary	Diizzel26	432		D3VILS	453000		2100
Czech	offce	491		offce	756000		3300
Poland	Ganger Squad	516		Ganger Squad	788000		3000
Saudi Arabia	Aka Sky	466					5900
Balkan	viking	573		PlaNNeR	738000		3400
Portugal/Brazil	urro&Jumento	477		Somos os Piores	486000		2600
Spain/Chile	Thabatos	445		Last Chance	655000		3300
Asia	Gray Cardinal	465		Gray Cardinal	887000		3300
Arab Emirates	KissofDead	469			302000		11600
France	Dal Huen Jal	520		PieDporC	569000		3700
Scandinavia	RockNRolla	415		RockNRolla	810000		2000

[Safiren]

Enali Top farmer Asia server


Safiren wrote:

Hi!

I'm sorry I'm late with the questions, but irl, it is Game of Thrones on mondays here . Do you always use the same nick? I asked around and some recognized it but didn't remember from where.

I hope you have time to answer some of the questios.. I'm happy for what you can give me and my readers

Regards

Safiren


ENALI wrote:

Hi, Safiren

Sorry for not answering your questions until now.;p

- Yes, I always use this ID.


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

- I'm a chinese guy, who is studying informatic in germany at the moment.
And I'm 26. I've been playing Travian for almost 2 years I think.
Besides from playing game, I'm preparing and writing my bachelor thesis now.

2. As you can understand we are a bit curious about what happened with your accout. You were top raider but suddenly was banned and you losted pop. Is it something you can tell us about it?

- This is actually a dual account. Yes we got banned becuz we took some PUSH from other accounts, which were later said to be BOTS by MH. However, i didnt handle this stuff directly, so i have to reserve my opnions about this problem.
At that moment when we got banned we already have altogether 800 keulens.
Sadly all our troops were cleared and pop was halved in order to unban our account.

3. What do you think about the Tournament and why have you choosed to play on Asia server?

- I participated in the last 2013 TT Finals, and i like that kind of teamworks. That makes game intersting and players can be motivated.
There is no specific reason why we choosed APAC, its just qualified. So we decided to have more fun and play loosely.

4. As I can see you and Dai Huen Jai isn't alone to farm as you do. I have accounts on all qualification servers and one every server it is a few that farm this much. Was is your secret (a russian guy on the scandinaivan also farmed over 800)? You must have something in common.

- How to farm much? Dual means nearly 24h/day and I guess im not quite an expert, I do farm well, however, my dual partner did far better than me.

5.Is it anything you want to say to the other travian players around the world?

- last TT finals, i reallized russians are really prof. players and also do well as a team. And I saw euro guys were united and showed overwhelming power.
Chinese team did well last round, however, i think we can do better
The most important thing, i hope every player can have a lot of fun in this game, whatever u are trying to have a real battle in game or just being a farmer and contributing to your team.

[Safiren]

It was lucky I started to count ny way trough the servers. When I was done I discovered I missed two. One of them I had happened to close today but the other one, Balkan, I haven't logged in on it since 6th May – lol. I have counted – twice- that I have 15 tabs now in my browser

This week I took a closer look on the inactives. I started with farmlists on some servers and on my own server, Scandinavian, 90% of the inactivs was banned. A bit frustratering. So I check the others with the tools that are avaible in a wide area around my starter. Not many banned at all on the most servers. Scandinavian is the worst, Hungary and Balkan have many too but not as on Scand.

I checked the Natars too because I have noticed an unusual amount of Natar villages on Arab Emirates. And yes it was rue, both arabian servers has un unusual amount of Natar villages. International is third.

The players have increased on on all servers exept arabians and is now 70.000. Far behind last years numbers, 165.000. As the start was nearly equal as last year it seems that it is the group of plaers that are interested enough to keep an eye that have started. And it haven't been filled up with multibots.

The notice that Qualification should start was only a few days and not announced on forums. I begin to se why.Less time for the cheaters to prepare and since they probably starts early it's easier to track them down if it isn't so many players.

TG looks to have been successful in their hunting. The use of Captcha in registration was an awaited change and looks to have worked good, except on Scandinavian, I wonder why. It's easy to see on the account names that it is a bot. I still need Captcha to login on the arabiaa servers, mostly on ae.

So TG use the Tournament to test their new tools and I'm gladly a “test monkey” if it give us a fair game.

There is one another remarcable difference between this qualification and the last one. When I was out of protection last time it didn't take long time before I had a lot of incoming raids. 20-30 was usual every time I logged in. 50 on some servers. France had the most with far over 100 for weeks, topped on 150 I think. Bots..

This time the raids are sporadic, not many per day if at all. Of course I have crannies enough

I have to end this. Below are the statistics. Some names shows up again. RockNRolla who farmed equal with Enali last week have much less this week. A result of the many banned accounts on his server supposedly.

	Top ally	Top farmer (millions)	Players	Natars villages
Saud Arabia	Lions	Paranoia 2.7	5456	1316
Arab Emirates	World	Never peace 3.4	10017	1843
Hungary	AVG	TEJE5K4VEK 3.5	2391	86
Czech	KSN&MoD	OFFce 4.9	3889	156
Poland	TH1	Ganger Squad 4.1	3528	101
Russia	Nova		5373	225
Turkey	KARA		7863	398
Germany	TF	Rox 2.3	2746	97
France	ZI-GOS	Royal Air Force 2.7	4452	147
Ibero	LAT	LastChance 3.6	3595	154
Asia	Beer	Enali 8.4	3444	199
International	Wolfpack	The Antichrist 3.7	8327	631
Scandinavia	HH	RockNRolla 2.2	1966	113
Luso	MET	Gen DK 1.8	2800	142
Balkan	HELLAS	Hooligan 2.8	3983	148

[Safiren]

A bit late but I waited for an interview and then a lot of time goes to manage all my observation accounts. Yesterday evening I couldn't resist any longer and made a long farmlist on scand instead of posting in my Corner *chuckle* The 18 June artefacts will appear and the qualification will be closed for new registrations. If you haven't started yet or have friends that wants to play next final then it's time to start an account now. I have listed my ranks to give you a hint where it will be easy to qualify even with a late start. On the first 8 servers I have 2 villages, pop 350-450. Next 3 servers, member of an ally but still low active ,2-3 villages, pop 450-700. Last 4 is my more active accounts, 4-6 villages 1400 – 2400. Lol – I could for sure need some duals ^^ Natars Players My Rank AE 4203 4450 1295 RU 575 5000 2587 CZ 407 3600 1529 Balkan 428 3350 1493 SA 2333 3500 1201 TR 915 6950 2933 HU 259 2350 961 Luso 285 2550 1139 PL 284 3400 1700 DE 265 2700 1271 FR 353 4250 1589 Ibero 338 3100 349 Asia 426 2800 432 Int 1401 5850 253 Scand 278 1600 77 I checked the Natars and Players again. The Arabian servers is somewhat amazing. There will soon be more natars then players there.. International seems to have been cleaned too. I guess that Turkey is next, the last server with most players in beginning. It makes me wonder how many players on the servers that are real players. Many times we accuse Travian Games for changes that in our opinion destroy the game – but the simple truth is that we players ourselves have a great part in this. Don't accept cheaters as leaders or in allys! The rest of the server seems more “normal” so far. Around 300 natars, 3000 players. Total amount of players is 55.000. Saud Arabia and Arab Emirates International and Turkey I saw someone mention that it will be 30.000 players in final. That is not true. The server can hold 30.000 players as a maximum. There is a big difference there. The 2 last finals it have been 15.000 players as most and ended around 8.000. But don't worry, you will not notice the difference. Be prepared that every single spot will be occupied very far out. If you don't like neigthbours the final isn't for you. Top week 4 Last week gave us several surprises. Enali from Asia lost his toprank. Ganger Squad from Poland is the new Champion – and not only as robber and attacker – they was Top deffer too. 3 Gold medals. Congratulations! TP meta, Poland, got all 4 Gold medals. KSN&MoD/MoD&KSN, Czech, European, Turkey, and AVG/CsN, Hungary, got 3 Gold medals. I think European is a new constelation on Turkey as KD is on Saud Arabia. On Luso (Portugal(Brazilien) MET is the dominating meta. On France two allys is fighting for the Gold medal, ZI~GØS~™ and /-Ru*, they got two each. And sorry, I closed the wrong tab and lost International, the only I remember from there is that REV did quite well. Top Attacker Top Robber Millions Top Deffer PL Ganger Squad 19K Ganger Squad 44,2 Ganger Squad 13K RU Billy Milligan 23K Ermak 25,5 Asia ENALI 35K ENALI 22,4 vp the great 9K AE mohammad10 17K TiTaN AtTaCk 16,9 ASSMED 10K CZ Nitager 17K Ricin 16 Vasek 23K Balkan Tenkista 14K FTS 15,7 AJEmKul 11K DE JEFF! 26K Babo 13,6 Psycho Kalle 38K Scand RockNRolla 26K RockNRolla 11,3 Ako Suminoe 7K FR Pegase 21K Joker 11,1 popoledingue 14K HU TEJE5K4VEK 11K TEJE5K4VEK 10,3 Toth 7K TR pasapasa 26K dominant 9,1 Revolution 13K Luso Sorry 13K gyzmo 8,9 sergioconceicao 8K SA PARANOIA 13K PARANOIA 8 Omari 7K Ibero Edward Newgate 23k Supermercado 4,1 Bulldog 15K Interview with Ganger Squad/TP, Poland ____________Safiren wrote: Hi!You have had an amazing week! Top attacker, Top Deffer and Top Robber. With that you are the Top player of the world this week. Congratulations! Your points on Robber list is stunning! Ẃith 44 millions resources you have twice as much as Enali who so far have been Top robber of the world. Please be kind and tell us how you managed to do this. Who are the players on your account? Where did you played in the last Final? How are your relationship to Cynk on the qualification server? Can you tell us anything else from this server? What do you think about T4.4? May I use your profil in my blog? Best regards Safiren Hi Safiren! Thanks for the message. We have so much points of robber because our account is active 24h. Also Seveno play here and he very likes to farm, he spends a lot of time to make lists. We are four people on account. Seveno and pacuhh played on last final in account Seveno. Rudolfina - Kaska and conrad played in Ginger Kids. You should remember both accounts. Now we are playing together and we have big fun.Cynk and TH, their are ours main enemies. We can't forget what they did in last final - they are traitors and we will do our best to beat them. Now we are preparing to war with them and we will see see what happens This is first T4.4 server and we think the some of change are good, we can say more after the server. Yes of course you can use ours profil if u want. Regards team Ganger Squad