Travian is a great but simple game that only takes as little as 5 minutes a day. Its great fun and is like age of empires but instead of seeing your men walking over and building or killing someone its all done through statistics. You will need to use your head if your playing this game or your village will be turned into ruins. Its like the biggest board game you will ever play with over 15,000 players in each server.
Some tips-
1) If you are talking to another player make sure you are polite unless you are double there size and you can desrtoy there army. Yeh i think thats all.
2) Upgrade your cranny to level 10 before you finish your good will period and start getting raided by villages in the surrounding map

Some tips-
The game is based roughly based on the ancient civilisations of the Romans, Gauls and the Teutonics. While you live your own life your resource fields are making you wood, clay, iron and most important wheat which feeds your whole village. Also when you build a building it takes a certain amount of time. Your resources will help you build buildings and upgrade them to unlock better buildings soldiers and you will be able to research different things. All your resources have to be stored somewhere so you have to build a warehouse and a granary and upgrade it so you have enough room for everything. This is a very fun and addictive game which is helped by your interraction with other players. This is done by normal messages or through your embassy which will be vital for survial as you go through your travian experience. You will make friends which will help you to crush your enemys and defend you from other alliances that you insulted.
If you start playing this game in server 5 send me a message and i might send you a little gift. My name in it is markie...remember server 5!