7 tips newbies of travian must know

If you are really keen about playing Travian and want to go on to build a World Wonder, there are some things you absolutely need to do. As in every other game, winners are those who use certain tools that losers don't. The trick is in finding out what they are.
Typically, newbie Travian players are likely to face a few problems when they start out and search for a Travian tool or two to help them out. For instance, many newbies are lulled into a feeling of false security, by the beginners' protection they receive. In fact, this beginners' protection only lasts a few days.
When the protection time ends, newbies are brought rudely back to earth by a series of attacks by more experienced players who have been licking their lips in anticipation of the day. So, if you learn these first, before you venture into playing Travian, you will never find the need or urge to use cheats:

1. You must find out how to survive in the face of continual attacks, before you have been able to raise an army, or even find your feet in the game.
2. You must learn how to make such attacks pointless, at the least, so as to deter future attacks.
3. You may become impatient knowing that the game typically spans a period of 13 months. There is a way you can increase your speed by cutting down this time span to a third of its duration.
4. You may be hard pressed for time, and not be able to spend sufficient hours on the game to work it to your advantage. You need to find out if there's a way by which you can spend minimal time playing, and yet play to win by maximizing your returns.
5. Some players do badly because they have selected a tribe not in keeping with their individual personalities. If this sounds absurd let me assure you that the qualities of the three tribes of Travian are each geared to suit certain attitudes and personal traits of players.
6. Learn to use diplomacy as an effective tool, whether while negotiating to join an alliance, against aggressive opponents, or while corresponding with a multi-hunter.
7. As the game revolves around building up your resources, the order in which you build these resources is an important part of the help you need to get.

Once you have learnt these, the Travian game will no longer appear difficult as it first did.

You know you’ve been playing travian too long when.....

Some of these are pretty funny. I identify with about half…
You know you’ve been playing travian too long when…

1. At work your boss talks about a company merger to decrease competition and your reply is that “well Sir mergers rarely work but if we take their best 20 people then we can farm the rest”.
2. When your girlfriend says she wants to move in with you, you inform her that you’ll go ahead and start dropping the loyalty of your neighbour and kill his troops.
3. You don’t watch the news anymore but wait for someone to forward you a “report”.
4. You buy a laptop so you can make sure you’re not over your warehouse limit if someone else is on your other computer.
5. At the board meeting the CEO asks you to get to work on the hostile take over of another major corporation and you inform him that your plan is to send 4 separate armies 5 seconds apart to win them over to your side.
6. The name on the front of your house is “Village 1″ and you mark your postal code as -226|-354.
7. At the last family gathering you counted your family members and informed them that as there were already 58 in total you would soon have to start kicking some out to get better ones.
8. You can’t understand why you can’t find FUSED on the world map.
9. You’re still reading this instead of looking for free porn on the internet while your ques build.
10. You have just been served divorce papers and you told the mail carrier to send the letter to your diplomat.
11. You broke up with your girlfriend and you send her a threatening message that senators are on the way.
12. Your kids ask you to go outside to play catch and you call for a sitter.
13. You’re hosting a party and you tell your guests exactly what time they need to leave so they all get to their homes at the same time based on the speed they like to travel.
14. You meet a new guy at work that seems pretty cool but you ask to see his mail so you check on.
15. Your neighbor pisses you off so you start building catapluts so you can sling garbage over the fence.
16. You get run over, and you promise the guy that you gonna send 2k cats to crush his rally point.
17. You tell your family that you ‘claimed’ the abandoned village across the street, and are ’senatoring’ it 
18. You show your wife this thread in a desperate bid to prove it’s more entertaining than the DVD’s and wine she just brought home.
19. Your wife and kids are disappointed. They are confused as to why the huge crater in the back garden is called a “Clay Pit” and not the beginning of a swimming pool as they first thought.
20. Your partner asks you to see a psychologist. She can’t work out why you sneak into other people’s back gardens at night before coming home carrying bricks, corrugated iron and branches from their trees. What alarms her further is you tell her “It’s ok, im just farming”.
21. People start to wonder why you write your postal code as -201|-356.
22. Your GPS is nothing but colored dots and when your cursor hovers over them, they give you your neighbors’ last names and their current population.
23. On my interviews I tell them I helped lead a top 10 alliance on s4.
24. During your psych eval, you swear the psychiatrist said something about lowering the level of your walls to 0.
25. On your CV/Resume, your objective is to be leader of the alliance on s3.
26. Your spouse wants a vacation hideaway, and you tell her that space has already been slotted for 8 killer axemen.
27. You ask for a zoning variance to build a 20 foot wall made of wood, iron, and clay.
28. You can tell at a glance whether an unscouted village is offense, defense, or Sim City, just by the number of points.
29. You get upset when squatters start moving into the abandoned buildings you’re constantly surrounded by.
30. You walking on your own down the streets of Braintree and a group of local chavs surround you, and you wonder, “where the hell is my support?!”.
31. You come home to find that your wife has left you, taken the children and pets, and you scream “Who the hell killed my troops and where is the report!”.
32. When you got a failing grade at school you sent a report home in the mail instead of telling your parents directly.
33. When you get in a physical fight you get really confused about how you missed the attack warning and failed to evade.
34. When you get angry at your wife for not being able to create the 1,000 clubmen army you need to defeat your neighbor.
35. When you demand for your local farmer to trade crop with yuu at a 2:1 ratio for X amount of clay, lumber and iron.
36. When you call your friends to a forum meeting to discuss plans to make your relatiopnship last.
37. When your real estate agent says he has found you a great house and you reply that you have 3 settlers but will have to wait for enough culture points in a few days.
38. When u farm a construction site for resources thinking to yourself ‘what a noob, he can’t even build a cranny never mind a village’.
39. When you make up ‘You know you have been playing travian to long when…’ comments.
40. When u attack Egypt (for example) to steal their construction plans to build your WW.
41. When your wondering which chat up lines the senator uses when he makes love, and try to use them.
42. When travian fires your favorite administrator and you drink away his memory.
43. When you get up at 3 a.m. and your wife asks what you’re doing, and you say, “Well, me and my friends are attacking our neighbor all at the same time tonight, and all my friends live in different time zones”.
44. You take it easy on your new boss and tell your colleagues it’s only until his beginners protection expires.
45. When you log onto Travian before changing condoms.
46. When bringing your alliance past the top 100 milestone brightens your week.
47. When you have male bonding experiences through IGMs. (I really do love you guys though!).
48. When you are so desperate to tell off the alliance leader who attacked your alliance that you log on in a cat. 2 hurrican.
49. When you rather stay home and go online then go out with friends or family.
50. When you dream of what will you do with your res when you wake up…
51. When you cant sleep because your villages might be cata’d to death…
52. When www.travian.com is bookmarked, or the most used site in your browser.
53. When you send a confederacy to george bush saying ‘we are both very strong alliances and together we can conquer this server’.
54. When www.travian.com is the most used site on your browser at work!
55. When you are playing dodge ball with your school mates, and you call for a break to coordinate attacks against the biggest threat in the opposing team.
56. When you get ticked at a friend and declare war on them.
57. When you have to prepare for a business trip and instead spend that time explaining travian to the intern, so he can watch and play your account while you’re gone during office hours.
58. When a country declares war on another and you tell someone,”Hmm, I think I will make them a branch of our alliance”.
59. You wonder if the pest control guys will have enough troops to clear an oasis for you.
60. When you run a bill on ur cell phone for constant access on the internet.
61. When you are 30 years old haven’t talked 2 a girl in 20 years and you are eating your own feces in your mom’s basement.
62. When you have different farms at different distances memorized as the following-5 Squares away-Minor distraction.
63. Squares away- Important phone call.
64. Squares away- Dinner.
65. Squares away- School (when you dont have cpu class).
66. Squares away- Sleep (when you dont pull an all nighter).
67. You play travian while your waiting for halo 3 to load.
68. When travian is your homepage.
69. When you shout at the TV, saying that Mike Rowe (the dirty jobs guy) should be working in a Roman stable.
70. When first thing in the morning you send the raids, then feed the baby…
71. On your 15 min break from work,you run to the library to send out more raids.
72. When your failing tests cause your thinking of ways to cata the teacher.
73. When your teacher says that you’re settling for less, and could do better. You just burst out laughing, since 5 minutes earlier you’d sent settlers to a 9 cropper.
74. When you start calling friends “village” and enemies “farm”.
75. When people avoid you because you lost your rat on your first day of non-noob protection.
76. When you start scribbling down alliance plans instead of taking notes.
77. When even your fellow Travian players tell you to get some sleep.
78. When someone kills your rat and you give him a funeral.
79. when you spend all of lunch running home and going on the computer for 2 mins then running home claiming you went for a jog.
80. When you want to go on vacation so you hire a group of bikers with baseball bats and a rat to guard your house from theives.
81. When you drop a hammer on your foot and yell, "Holy Theutus Thunder, I dropped my clubby!".
82. When your neighbor’s dog poops on your yard and you say,”Army, the enemies village is two squares away!”.
83. When you start photoshopping the pictures of the soldiers to make a travian porn site.
84. When you ask someone to sit for you when you run to the bathroom.
85. When you start calling people “questmaster” and you follow them for a rat.
86. When you postpone business meeting, telling everyone to take seats and enjoy coffee while you send some catas.
87. When you read RR in car plates as “request reinforcements”.
88. When your wife is having a baby and you ask the doctor if he can hurry up because you need to send some raiding party.
89. When you see your son for the first time and you say "you’ll be one great travian warrior just like your father".
90. "When you confuse the world baby formula with crop".
91. When you turn down a date with the HOTTEST girl in the province,to spend some quality time with your farms.
92. When you think doing chores is fun now because that gives your troops time to come back.
93. When you have to lie on the forum to impress the other forum geeks….jk on the geeks.
94. You look forward to the next real life event (date/lunch/meeting) by counting down the exact second.
95. When your Gold bill is higher then your Cable bill.
96. When you hope you have enough gas to get to work because you spent your last 5.99 on 100 gold.
97. When you use a voice recorder to remind you who your new farms are and their location.
98. When you have outside forums for your alliance, your alliance council, and your confederacy alliance council.
99. When you realize that the local town farmer’s market does not involve farming, nor internet access.
100. When you get to page 19 of this thread and go, "WTF only 30 pages left?".
101. When you save up your change and cash it in at a coinstar, to buy Travian Plus.
102. When you make a new village, and you use Instant Completion on the lvl 1fields and buildings.
103. You wake up every three hours in the night to make sure your warehouse doesn’t max out.
104. You actually read all of these and laughed at most of them.