Championship Servers

    A world has 7 mountains. Maybe 7 kings who won a previous server can subscribe to this server. a random lottery gives them the mountain they are gonna get spawned at trough 80 invitational links given to each king.


    p2w would be enabled because how else would the game profit from it. All other rules of a server apply aswell.


    A gold reward would not be needed since the achievementmedal is what a true player hunts for <3

    (why else do we join halloween and bbashes)


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    I always thought a similar set up would be fun - except instead of 7 kings you only go in with 6.
    Every kingdom get's a random spawn point on a rim WW and then they can fight for the middle.

    I think Gold rewards are good because it gives people something of true value to compete for. There are plenty of veterans who don't care about Prestige, Achievement or Emblems. Think about competitive Esports, if there was no prize money it wouldn't get the funding it needs to grow into how big it is. The same applies here, where the bigger reward, the greater the competition. Though exclusive Emblems and Prestige would be great motivation for many players too.

    I think it should require 1st place in a normal server in order to be applicable to join. If you make top 3 the requirement you could see a lot of normal servers where Kingdoms will team up just so they can finish top 2 or top 3 so they can qualify for Championship, which could make for some boring servers.

    And yes I agree Championship servers should be only once every 4-6 months or so. This way they won't heavily impact normal servers.

    I think limiting Gold spending is a bad idea because that's relevant to the reasoning of prize funding. Travian Team would benefit from these servers by the massive amounts of Gold that would be spent to win. Some would play for prize money, some would play for the thrill of competition, some would play for glory, some would play for exclusive Emblems. A lot of different reasons for many different people to enjoy it. And the more money this makes, the more money the Travian Team can invest into them, and also into impr

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    I think Gold rewards are good because it gives people something of true value to compete for. r

    But how much gold is sufficient in your eyes? I spend +10K gold on a server for winning 500? Back in 2007-2008 I won a mousepad winning a dutch original server (farming trough tabs and such)


    Does an olympian race for the money or the medal?


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    But how much gold is sufficient in your eyes? I spend +10K gold on a server for winning 500? Back in 2007-2008 I won a mousepad winning a dutch original server (farming trough tabs and such)


    Does an olympian race for the money or the medal?

    That'd be for them to decide, but keep in mind when it comes to Gold, we're investing real money, while they have an infinite supply at zero cost. The prize could be 1 billion gold and they still profit. That's the magic of digital goods.

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    Wouldnt necessarily have to be a HHunt server......as 1x servers are 5 months long.....thats a long time to celebrate Halloween ^^
    But, yes.....a special server for 1x would be nice.....
    I should note that this special 1x server should have a timely announcement ahead of it......meaning...that it should be announced well ahead of its start date......so that players currently in a 5 month long server would have time to finish their current server and get into the special one.

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    Thank you very much to all for your participation, I agree, if it is for previous winners, noob or new players would come into consideration when planning it.

    Would you mind elaborating on those scenarios you contemplate?

    A Championship server could occur once a year

    (Or make it a twice a year event)

    A 2x3 speed server (if possible go back in time and let each kingdom start with 2 kings and 4 duke slots from the start)


    Should be international


    Those invited would be the winning kingdoms of each server for that year or timeframe

    Each winning kingdom(the king/kings) would be given a set amount(50 to 80/set by Travian) of registration keys

    to develop a pre-made team prior to server start


    Each team would start on a closed server(with maybe free resource bonus active for all) and given 3 days to

    establish themselves on the map. (free bonus would end after the 3 days)


    On day 4 the server would then be opened to the general public for 72 hours for open registration

    After 72 hours it is then closed for remainder of server life



    Prizes could be awarded to the following....

    Overall winner

    2nd place

    3rd place

    (Travian would have to determine how many placed teams would win something)

    Consideration also needs to be given to the kingdoms who play a part

    in helping another kingdom win or place high. This of course would be info

    coming from the kings themselves after server ends. Not sure how to go about that

    but something to ponder. Maybe something could be added so each kingdom could list

    up to 4 subordinate kingdoms who have helped them through the server.


    ATTACKER - Killing animals would not count

    DEFENDER

    ROBBER

    (Travian would have to sort what category to make awards for)


    Prizes that could be awarded.....


    Gold - This would satisfy anyone playing the game as gold is everything (dont go cheap here but dont over do it neither)

    Boosts - Could any of the boosts be given for the length of a server? (player claims when they start a server)

    Troops - Could a set amount of troops be given to a player? (player claims when they start a server)

    Specialty badge - Its something

    this is terrible...championship server but 2 of them at the same time? no point wtf champion server is that...start with 2kings 4 dukes at day 1?it's the same as 2 kingdom that didnt merged no point either...big kingdom will have advantage over all who are not premade?this is pointless and unfair...4 day after server start randoms can join?why?not fair again.Pointless and from TK team point of view lose in money....after 72h closed regs?why again?pointles...Usless?wtf are those suggestion?if you want championship server the only diffrence from normal 3x need to be: Once a year...Named champion or so server.With price for top 3 Kingdoms who win the server.Price need to be either gold or real money.That's it no usless futures.And there need to be active TK team to watch for multi abusers and bot abusers.

    Well, I like few ideas from his post.
    - Server announced 2-3 month before.

    - Closed server for 7 kingdoms.

    - Not sure exactly how positions would be decided , because cropper luck can be really big factor. Maybe a team generates some kind of ranking all year, and then 1st place gets to choose first their ww, etc.

    - Map starts with already 1 expansion

    - Each kingdom has 150-200 invites. ( it being less would be stupid, because a lot of players would help a kingdom to "reach" the ultimate championship server and they should have a chance to play there)


    It would create similar or even bigger attraction than current bbash. Like there are 2 "big events" in speed server players. You take a break in summer, comeback on september server, then you play halloween and then you start a server after new year and then you wait till bbash and circle starts again.

    Tho when to start such server. I would guess it should happen right after the new year? I dont see any other space in the "tk calendar".

    -2x speed

    -7 wonders, but the map is already expanded twice and people are placed on that outer rim having to work inwards

    -Only two factor verified accounts can join and play

    -Only accounts with at least one silver star can join and play



    It costs 250 Gold per week to play BUT

    Players ONLY get 250 gold per week to spend on anything they see fit. (like old test server) This means the way to spend gold becomes a real choice for everyone.


    It can't be a championship server if the amount gold a player has can influence the outcome in any way. Only experience / activity / strategy / dedication can be a factor.

    By far my favorite one so far. I wouldn't change a thing.


    The below is mostly just to avoid saying "this" and adding nothing. Less important.


    If you really need a free option, make it earned somehow. Spreading the word to a certain number of verified social media followers. Creating Travian content. Something like that.


    The only possible room for improvement that I could see is also making WWs closer than normal servers. Have a "grey" area like it used to (not sure if legends does this or not). The WWs are in that radius. No start spawns or menhiring allowed. Settling and chiefing only.


    You could also sell "test servers" building up to the championship every year. A team can pay a certain amount per month to practice on an isolated server this style. If you did this though, I would always have some "surprise" every championship server to avoid over optimization. But new revenue streams, new ways to hype up the build up, and new ways to emphasize building teams that last.

    Just wanted to let you know that this is been discussed, although we have not found a way we could implement this type of game worlds in this format, since it would be too little a game world to make it viable.


    But we keep in mind the wish and appreciate the idea.


    We really appreciate the passion and ideas incoming, don't stop please! :)

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    Just wanted to let you know that this is been discussed, although we have not found a way we could implement this type of game worlds in this format, since it would be too little a game world to make it viable.


    But we keep in mind the wish and appreciate the idea.


    We really appreciate the passion and ideas incoming, don't stop please! :)

    You're saying you can't afford a server running 5 months with 400+ people paying for 250 gold a week? I work in tech...what is wrong with you people?