Tribal Wars!!! (World 1)

[Lukie]

http://www.tribalwars.net/

Does anybody else play this? It's a browser-based MMORPG type game. It's more like a strategy game though to be honest. Basically everyone starts with one village, you build up resources, troops, etc., then you attack other villages and stuff like that. It's not the type of super-advanced game like you're thinking, and a lot of the stuff is text and you don't see animations for battles, just results. I posted a few ss's at the end so you can see what I'm talking about.

The game doesn't really require a huge time sink, but you have to be able to check in on the game a few times a day to make sure things are running smoothly. Also the first 3-4 days are pretty slow as you're basically just building up your resource production. I'm a bit over a week in and I'm not going to lie, it's pretty addicting. If anyone decides to give it a shot, drop me a line.. my handle is 'Lukie'.



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[Lukie]

Mostly my attacks have been plundering the resources of weak, inactive players. Here's a screen of the battle report from a bigger one last night though. The guy had way more troops and way less resources then I thought, so this was a huge mistake of an attack.

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[bigred]

Looks OK I guess.

[jyms]

fold preflop

[Lukie]

fu

[bigred]

It definately looks like an addicting game, and not a fold preflop. Maybe a limp? I just don't have that much time to play games. I conference call and such all day for my internship so I can browse FTR but not play games.

[Lukie]

it's reasonable to just spend a few minutes at a time playing, several times a day. Especially at the beginning.

[jyms]

That's not nice lukie. I just said it first. If bigred said it first you would have had a better, more thought out, and funnier comeback than that. I'm starting to think ya don't care about the content anymore. And quite frankly, you may be losing your sense of humor.

[bigred]

Maybe I'll give it a try, can we form an alliance Lukie?

[Lukie]

That's not nice lukie. I just said it first. If bigred said it first you would have had a better, more thought out, and funnier comeback than that. I'm starting to think ya don't care about the content anymore. And quite frankly, you may be losing your sense of humor.

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[Lukie]

Maybe I'll give it a try, can we form an alliance Lukie?

sure

[Lukie]

alright bigred started playing, anybody else?

[BobbySalami]

Im in, I only play simple ass games like this so I dont have to worry about what the controls are....

[Lukie]

Im in, I only play simple ass games like this so I dont have to worry about what the controls are....

What's funny is I usually go for the more hardcore games and I get really into them. But it's kind of cool playing a more laid back, smarts-type game like this for a change.

If you're interested, I could get my tribe leader to send you an invite. My name in the game is the same as FTR, and you can search me and find out all kinds of info about where I am, my tribe, the members, etc.

Also, if you need any help just drop me a line on AIM, sn is Lukie Style 3.

[dsmrolla06]

i may give it a shot, i need something to keep me occupied while i surf the internet all day

[midas06]

aim me tonight to get me to play Lukie

[dsmrolla06]

maybe we should just start the FTR tribe

[Galapogos]

Signing up right now, seems kinda cool.

[bigred]

I'm aleady playing. My city is called Gotham City.

[Lukie]

that's a cool name, but it doesn't hold the jock of 'Imperial City' aka lukieville. Coolest name ever.

[Galapogos]

I'm Hooters!

[Lukie]

that's a cool name, but it doesn't hold the jock of 'Imperial City' aka lukieville. Coolest name ever.

[ItDepends]

Hey lukie, sweet find. At the start of next round we need to do an FTR competition in game.

[Lukie]

Hey lukie, sweet find. At the start of next round we need to do an FTR competition in game.

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I told you this on AIM but I figure I might as well tell everyone. This sounds like a pretty good idea, and to be fair, it would probably be good everyone had the same start. The mods for this game are opening up a second world where everyone can start at the same time. In this game, new players start at the edge of the map and are obviously significantly weaker then the players who have been playing for a while.

[dsmrolla06]

the new one doesnt start for another month tho right? everyone could start playing now and at least get the hang of it. In the second one we may be able to be fairly close instead of 30 continents away

[Lukie]

the new one doesnt start for another month tho right? everyone could start playing now and at least get the hang of it. In the second one we may be able to be fairly close instead of 30 continents away

lol i think we're like 2 continents apart. The whole map is a 10x10 grid of continents i think, and its not full either.

Not sure when the new world starts, for some reason I thought I read it would be sometime in July, but yeah, it obviously wouldnt hurt to start playing in this one. I'll probably keep my account in this one and play the new one as well.

[mcatdog]

I signed up, username is BillyBibbit, village name is The Cuckoo's Nest.

[Lukie]

I signed up, username is BillyBibbit, village name is The Cuckoo's Nest.

nice, check your mail box (on the game).

[Lukie]

Things Lukie has done to piss his neighbors off, thus far:

1. I'm the biggest, badest mother****er in my area (true).

2. I attacked one guy who was active but not as strong as me, and wiped out his entire army. The bastard didn't have many plunderable resources though and I lost a bunch of guys, so I have a grudge against this guy. His troops shouldn't have been there and he should have had lots of monies.

3. I 'attacked' my ally with a scout. Meaning, it wasn't an attack on his village, but basically I sent a spy after him. Apparantly, he got upset and this is a terrible-mannered thing to do. Oops. The scout died and I didn't get any info though, unfortunately. I just wanted to test those things out... (seriously, didn't mean any ill-will towards him)

4. I have the following written in my profile; I'll let it speak for itself:

I have many support troops in vaikasass village and Bloody_Kings village directly south and southwest of my border. I consider these villages to be mine. Any attack on them I will perceive as an attack on me as a whole, and I will respond by retaliating in full force.

If you disagree with this, send me a message, and maybe we can work something out.

Have a nice day.


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I think the tribal wars world is about to turn on me...


edit: the thing about the troops in those 2 villages goes something like this: They are both inactive players, and at the start of the game, everyone takes resources from inactive players. Nobody in my area is even close to being able to take over villages, so I've just declared them both to be mine in the meantime. They're so f'ing close to me that they practically ARE me. That's my reasoning anyway, and it works for me.

[bode]

just created one. my name is Bode-ist, village name is megalopolis

[jyms]

I'm checking it out now. Name is the same as here.

[Pelion]

ill play. probably be called pelion.

[givememyleg]

I bookmarked it and will check it out sometime during the day.

[jyms]

It's day here.

[jyms]

you have 134 members in that tribe? what up? hey I started a tribe called FTR we need to band up.

[Pelion]

im in. i think ive sent you a pm in the game

[Lukie]

I've been pissing people off in my area left and right, I gotta stay with this tribe (at least for now). As far as the FTR tribe, go ahead and build it up if you'd like, I'll probably join in the future. If anybody wants to join the one I'm currently in, let me know, and I'll have the leader send you an invite.

As far as beginning strategy, I'm no expert, but I've already sent it to like 5 people so for future reference, my advice goes something like this. I sent it to galapogos a while ago (yesterday, i think?).

You're the 3rd FTRer besides myself to sign up. The others are bigred and Dsmrolla06. Like I told the other two, at first, you're going to want to concentrate on building up your resource production, most notably wood and clay. People can't attack you for 5 days, and even after that, if you're an active player, I'd guess it's unlikely they will for a while anyway. Before that time is up, I'd probably upgrade the wall a few times just in case, make a barracks, and some spearmen. The spearmen kinda suck but they have a high carrying capacity and you can plunder the resources of some of the inactive players around you, and there will probably be a few.

As far as getting a tribe together, that's something I'd be interested in, but in the future. The tribe I'm in is reasonably big and I kind of want that backing right now because I'm pissing a lot of people off in my area. As you can tell in my description, I've already declared 2 villages around me to be mine, and I've attacked another who was already pretty established, and wiped out his entire army. So at least for the time being, I want to stay in my tribe, especially considering the 2 other strong players in my direct area are in tribes that are allied with my own. If you want to join, let me know, and I'll have the guy send you an invite.

[Lukie]

you have 134 members in that tribe? what up? hey I started a tribe called FTR we need to band up.

I'll tell my leader to ally this tribe.

[bode]

yo TJ, send me an invite to the FRT tribe. username is Bode-ist, village is Megalopolis.

[jyms]

done. If we get enough members maybe some of the bigger guys will leave us alone. When we get big we can join another larger tribe like lukies and dominate.

[bode]

domination.... MWAHAHAHAHA

[Pelion]

im pelion. I only started today but send me an invite to the FTR tribe if you can

[Pelion]

also teach me how to win

[Toe]

Only read the first post, i play something similar:

www.ogame.org

Same type of thing except its in space and you have different planets, the coolest thing is you can build a death star on it. I play it with some real life friends and it is addictive as hell. However discussing how you just aquired hyperspace drive level 4 and plasma technology in front of a non player is rather embarresing.

[bode]

i play tribal wars with my fake friends

[jyms]

You need to get your villiage headquarters built up a little so that you can build things faster. get it built up to 5 or 6 and then get a barraks. you can build troops while building up structures. for now that's all I know, but it seems that wood clay and iron are god so get as much as you can by getting villiagers and buildings to make or reap as much as possible.

me and bodeist are real close so we should be able to dominate the area soon enough. pelion, if ou joined same time you may be close too.

[Pelion]

ok im upgrading my wood and clay stuff atm. Need to wait for more resources before i can upgrade again.

How do you get more people? do they just grow with time or do you actually have to do something?

[Pelion]

you can see my coordinates on the tribal window if you click my name. im gunna make a room in the FTR chat room for our tribe

[Pelion]

turns out im miles away from you two. Im right below lukie though.

[jyms]

I think you need a bigger farm for more people

[Pelion]

farms increase maximum population but do you need a bigger one to grow at all?

[andy-akb]

Just started today, no idea what Im doing really. Andy-akb an invite to the village would be appreciated.

[jyms]

I'm not the expert but as far as i know, if ya can't feed them they won't exist

[Lukie]

when the first number is almost as big as the second number, upgrade yoru farm. My farm will start upgrading as soon as my iron mine upgrade is complete.

At the beginning, you have to build up for quite a while before you even have to worry about it.

[jyms]

what did lukie do to Bigred? he hasn't been around all day.

[Lukie]

MWAHAHHAHAHA

[Lukie]

Ok so the tribal wars admins have just announced the start of world 2, which will be July 22nd at 14:00 server time. Right now it's 3:05pm EST (15:05 EST), and 21:05 server time, in case anybody even remotely cares.

Basically what this means is the following: If you want to play you have a bunch of options. You can play in both worlds if you'd like, but they are completely independant of each other. World 1 is already fairly well established, and you start on the outside of the world. The inside seems pretty competitive but the outside is pretty easy. If you want to play in world 2 but have never played, I'd recommend playing in world 1 for a bit just to get the hang of it, because I expect world 2 to be pretty competitive from the start. I'm going to keep my account in world 1 and also play in world 2.

I'm going to stay in the tribe in in for the first world, and if you'd also like to play in world 1, feel free. I'd say there's close to 10 FTRers that have either signed up or shown interest so far. If you want an invite to this tribe, I can arrange that, or you can do your own thing.

If you only have the time or desire to play in 1 world, I say everyone from FTR should play in world 2 and we should make an FTR tribe from the start.

[jyms]

I won't play in two worlds but we can do whatever the tribe deems appropriate

[Lukie]

ok im upgrading my wood and clay stuff atm. Need to wait for more resources before i can upgrade again.

How do you get more people? do they just grow with time or do you actually have to do something?

when you make more troops and buildings, the number of people in your village gooes up.

edit: ditto with upgrading buildings

[kingnat]

I'm in... kingnat Village: Natural Springs

Give me an invite, por favor!

[givememyleg]

HOW DO I GO ALLIN IN THIS GAME

[kingnat]

God Damn... i can sure upgrade that headquarters... fo sizzle...

The little tutorial thing suggested upgrading the lumbermill first, but it seemed like the headquarters upgrades so quickly that it would be best to get that up a little first thereby decreasing the time to upgrade the other crap... is this wise... it seems like the way to go...

I also seem to be on the ass edge of the a bunch of stuff... how does one easily locate where I am in the continents and such and what is the easiest way to find other people??

[bode]

im just going to stay in world 1 for a week or 2 so i can get the hang of it and the FTR clan can start owning everyone around us. i might give world 2 a try after a while.

[dsmrolla06]

I think everyone should start world 2 right when it comes out so that we can hopefully be fairly close to each other and we wont have a disadvantage over other players.

[Pelion]

i vote we get a bit of practise in and then start world 2 when it comes out

im gunna play both though. If the FTR tribe wants to stay on world 1 ill stay. If you want to play both ill stay. if you just want to play world 2 ill join FTR in world 2 and probably join Lukies tribe in world 1.


Also I think we need a few more people with powers to organise tribe memberships and such.

[Pelion]

I r building a market place to see what it does. Probably wont bother with a barracks for a few days

[Irisheyes]

K I'm in too. Name in the game is Irisheyes. This looks cool. At the moment all I'm doing is upgrading my wood etc. Send me an invite to the FTR tribe please.

[dsmrolla06]

if we wait to long to play world 2, then all the other players in it will have a head start on us. I dont think were really gonna need any practice, seems fairly easy so far

[kingnat]

Wouldn't it be useful each of to specialize in one raw resource early on.. then use the Market to trade back and forth??

I decided to start upgrading Clay first.. so I can just keep upgrading clay... Irish can do Timber, Pelion can do Iron (or whatever metal thing they have..) etc. We can double up on things of course then just use the trade feature of the market to spread around the wealth...

Wouldn't this be the best way to start off???

[Irisheyes]

Wouldn't it be useful each of to specialize in one raw resource early on.. then use the Market to trade back and forth??

I decided to start upgrading Clay first.. so I can just keep upgrading clay... Irish can do Timber, Pelion can do Iron (or whatever metal thing they have..) etc. We can double up on things of course then just use the trade feature of the market to spread around the wealth...

Wouldn't this be the best way to start off???

Can we share resources like that though?

I think it would be great if we got a big FTR tribe going early on World 2.

[Pelion]

i dont know how easy it is to trade and ive already upgraded my clay and timber.

Once Ive got the market up and running ill see whats what.

[kingnat]

Wouldn't it be useful each of to specialize in one raw resource early on.. then use the Market to trade back and forth??

I decided to start upgrading Clay first.. so I can just keep upgrading clay... Irish can do Timber, Pelion can do Iron (or whatever metal thing they have..) etc. We can double up on things of course then just use the trade feature of the market to spread around the wealth...

Wouldn't this be the best way to start off???

Can we share resources like that though?

I don't know, but the market is supposed to allow you to trade w/ other players... what do you trade if not resources?? Lukie... any insight?

[Lukie]

God Damn... i can sure upgrade that headquarters... fo sizzle...

The little tutorial thing suggested upgrading the lumbermill first, but it seemed like the headquarters upgrades so quickly that it would be best to get that up a little first thereby decreasing the time to upgrade the other crap... is this wise... it seems like the way to go...

no, this is a terrible idea because resources, not time, will hold you up early in the game.

I also seem to be on the ass edge of the a bunch of stuff... how does one easily locate where I am in the continents and such and what is the easiest way to find other people??

go into the rankings and search for peoples' names. then you can look at their city and where they are located. New players are put at the edge of the map because the inner part of the map is full of tougher, older, experienced players.

[Lukie]

I'm in... kingnat Village: Natural Springs

Give me an invite, por favor!

cool, invite should come sometime today. Tribe Destiny.

[Lukie]

I think everyone should start world 2 right when it comes out so that we can hopefully be fairly close to each other and we wont have a disadvantage over other players.

these are my thoughts as well.