On 23rd February we hosted the 7th Ambassador's Workshop. We discussed briefly alliance punishment and then moved onto alliance troop management. Here is the list of discussed topics:

➡️ Should we include an alliance punishment?
➡️ Suggestions for improvements on the Alliance troop administration

Travian Team
Brian - Product Owner
Jake - Game Design
Laure – Customer Service Manager
Martina - Community Communications Manager
Froz - Game Specialist
Liudmila – Content Creator
Pepper - Community…

You have questions about adventures... we have answers! Let's kick-start 2021 with a hero inventory full of goodies!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUxnIOy-iY

Chapters:
0:00 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUxnIOy-iY&t=0s] Welcome to Ask Travian
0:57 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUxnIOy-iY&t=57s] The Basics
1:54 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUxnIOy-iY&t=114s] How many adventures do you get per day?
2:40 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbUxnIOy-iY&t=160s] No…

On December 8th, 2020 the sixth Ambassador's workshop took place. The workshop focused on the rework of the Vacation Game & discussion about the End Game. Here is the list of discussed topics:

➡️ What changes need to be done to the Vacation Mode?
➡️ How can we make the end game more interesting?

Travian Team
Brian - Product Owner
Jake - Game Design
Laure – Customer Service Manager
Martina - Community Communications Manager
Minke – Team Lead Community Managers
Liudmila – Content Creator…

How do Natars play? We are sure you asked yourselves that question many times! As you know, Natars are shrouded in mystery but they are ready to reveal a couple of their secrets...

https://youtu.be/RSBWMmIaq9E

Chapters:
0:00 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBWMmIaq9E&t=0s] Welcome to Ask Travian
1:31 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBWMmIaq9E&t=91s] Any curious facts?
3:44 [URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSBWMmIaq9E&t=224s] What about Natars' units?

*NOTE* Oops, we made a…

On November 5th, 2020 the fifth Ambassador's workshop took place. The workshop focused on the rework of the Marketplace & Trade Routes. Here is the list of discussed topics:

What are the must-have of a reworked system?
What are the nice to have of a reworked system?
What is not necessary for the system?
What are the possible features/improvements that could be tested on Annual Special?


Travian Team

Brian - Product Owner
Jake - Game Design
Nils - UX Design
Laure – Customer Service…

On October 1st, 2020 the fourth Ambassador's workshop took place. The workshop focused on prioritizing topics for different departments and purposes and lasted 2 hours. Here is the list of discussed topics:

Prioritized topics for the Development Team
Prioritized topics for the Game Design Team
Prioritized topics for the upcoming workshops
Prioritized topics new topics to be discussed

Participants
Laure – Customer Service Manager
Martina - Community Communications Manager
Minke – Community…

Which tribe shall I choose? We are here to help you out! This is the fifth and final episode of a mini-series entirely dedicated to our beloved tribes. And here come the real rulers - the Egyptians!

https://youtu.be/UhJPLkaAtRw


Subtitles are available in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Arabic, French, Czech.

Oh, we have an exciting contest at the end of the video, so make sure you watch until the very end! To participate,…

Which tribe shall I choose? We are here to help you out! This is the fourth episode of a mini-series entirely dedicated to our beloved tribes. Let us introduce you to... the Huns!

https://youtu.be/OwceM0UVyRk


Subtitles are available in the following languages: English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Arabic, French, Czech.



Episode 1 (Teutons) ► here [URL:https://youtu.be/theOTnlX7ZA]
Episode 2 (Gauls) ► here [URL:https://youtu.be/WKaFT7lgrdQ]
Episode 3…

Which tribe shall I choose? We are here to help you out! This is the third episode of a mini-series entirely dedicated to our beloved tribes. Let us introduce you to... the Romans!

https://youtu.be/36iSwpdL_ro
Subtitles are available in the following languages: English - German - Spanish - Turkish - Hungarian - Portuguese - Russian - Italian -Arabic - French
Episode 1 (Teutons) ► here [URL:https://youtu.be/theOTnlX7ZA]
Episode 2 (Gauls) ► here [URL:https://youtu.be/WKaFT7lgrdQ]

On July 7th 2020 the third Ambassador's workshop took place. The workshop focused on the multi-account topic and lasted 2 hours. Here is the list of discussed topics:

Multiaccounting - Tools
Multiaccounting - Punishments
Multiaccounting - RET
Techaccounts
Techaccounts - Rule changes
Change of pushing restrictions
Same PC - Account interaction
Sitter bans
Leader to get ban notifications
Alliance Punishments
Participants
Brian – Product Owner
Jake – Game Designer
Cécile – Head of…

Which tribe shall I choose? We are here to help you out! This is the second episode of a mini-series entirely dedicated to our beloved tribes. Let us introduce you to... the Gauls!

https://youtu.be/WKaFT7lgrdQ

The subtitles are available in the following languages: Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

On May 12th 2020 the second Ambassador's workshop took place. The workshop lasted 2 hours and we discussed some interesting topics:

Cooldowns after joining an alliance
Trade routes - Activate/Deactivate button
Crop distribution on the small map
Building deletion queue
Allowing attacks on banned ww/artifact villages
Wavebuilder cost
Village list overview
Third sitter
Add speed factor to the brewery
Participants
Brian – Product Owner
Jake – Game Design
Laure – Customer Service Manager…

During our topic prioritization session, it quickly became clear that the main topic to be discussed - which definitely concerns all communities - is multiaccounts.

After a long conversation with the Ambassadors and some additional internal discussion, we have agreed on holding off this topic a little longer in order to collect some feedback from the technical and legal deperatments.

As a result, this topic will get an additional dedicated workshop on top of the one which was already…

As you all know, due to the Coronavirus situation, we have been forced to move the Legends on Tour 2020 Summit to October.

After a bit of thinking, we have found a good compromise tokeep proceeding with the involvement of the community into the game developmenteven with the onsite event being postponed.

We will work similar to how the developer works, that means we will have “sprints”.

A sprint is a time-box of one month, where we will focus on specific topics. As we are not a development…

Which tribe shall I choose? We are here to help you out! This is the first episode of a mini-series entirely dedicated to our beloved tribes. First in line: the mighty Teutons!

https://youtu.be/theOTnlX7ZA

The subtitles are available in the following languages: Arabic, Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

The transcript can be downloaded ► here…

Dear community,
The voting phase is over. Votes have been counted and the ambassadors that will represent the different communities have been chosen. We want to thank you all for participating, both by sending an application, and for voting your favorite candidate to represent our domain.

Below you can see the final voting statistics:



Also BlackBlade will join as Ambassador for the Anglosphere domain --> more information here…

Curious to know how the hero item bug was defeated? Let's hear it from Denis, our Tech Lead and Senior Dev!

https://youtu.be/Y_gsxTheQ_g

The subtitles are available in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
The transcript can be downloaded ► here [URL:https://blog.travian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/TL-Ask-Travian-26-Subtitles.zip]

Are you ready? It is time for you to pick your favorite candidate for the Legends on Tour 2020 Summit!
First of all, we want to thank every applicant for your interest in the community and in the 2020 Summit. A total of 116 applications were submitted worldwide, which we - the Community Management Team evaluated.

In the past 2 weeks, all interviews with the potential candidates took place on Discord. We definitely talked a lot, as we had more than 23 hours, 41 minutes of interviews.

What we…

New Year, New Ask Travian, New Guest!
Which was the most difficult Wonder of the World to create and why? Let's hear it from our artist, Kaj!


https://youtu.be/-1yzewyBdJQ


The subtitles are available in the following languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

The transcript can be downloaded ► here [URL:https://blog.travian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Ep25Transcript.zip]

The "Legends on Tour" summit is coming back with an update to the format. In this post, you can get all the information you need to apply and become a legend yourself.