We have WW!!!!
Yay to you! now the hardest part starts
As you conquer natar village, those not smart npc natars are building cranny... LOL, you wont need it, start to destroy it.
Now. remember WW race sometimes is race of minutes and hours. SO you DON'T HAVE any time to waste on unneeded stuff. one of most met mistakes is building residence. Yes, it makes loyalty grow, but let me be blatantly rude -if your ww is so bad defended that attacking chief will survive... you dont need this guide at all. Only justification to build residence is if at very beggining after you chief it there is scary looking attack and you know you wont get enough def by that time. The build resi and brace for impact - hope attacker didn't set catas or forgot to aim residence. WW will work perfectly even with 0 % loyalty.
DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT build any other things! You don't need anything else. If you build anything else you are wasting your precious time!
Few common mistakes i have seen:
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- lets build residence! Loyalty is 0! We need loyal WW! Answer: loyalty at ww don't matter unless you plan to let all your defense be wiped. Only time when i agree residence can be built is if you take WW and see another team coming for it.Then you might pray they didn't sent catas and build residence so their chiefs bounce even if they manage to wipe defense. Also if there is another team coming and you fear they aimed resi and might accidentally kill something useful.
- Lets build MP to higher levels! Then we can ship out excess crop to feeders! It will do us good!Answer: get your hands off marketplace. Saving few k crop versus precious minutes in WW race? Let crop overflow... accept that there will be both overflows and episodes of starvation in WW and don't sacrifice precious time for imagined gain.
- Lets build barracks! Then we can build troops and raid others for crop! Answer: no matter how crazy it sounds, i have heard that proposal. Trust me here... DON'T
what appart storage will you need?
1)marketplace.To manage crop & resources you need to know what’s coming. So get MP to lvl1. It is fast to build even with lvl10 MB you get when conquer natars village,so get it before all rest
2)rally point.You need lvl 1 rally point to see what’s coming your way. It is fast to build even with lvl10 MB you get when conquer natars village, so get it before all rest. Kick out vampire heroes! Your opponents + various kinds of noobs will send you single heroes to leech on xp. Send them away, xp will be needed for your own alliance heros. Also small pee in cornflakes is to send catas – they eat like pig and use valuable crop.
3)MB to lvl 20. There is no instant build in WW village, so 20 level main building is only chance to speed up building process.
4) wall. Wall gives defense bonus and upping it to lvl 20 is mandatory.
Then it is decision time. Storage. How many GWHs, how many GGs? Maybe WHs? What level?
When you chief WW, unless there were accidents involving catas, you'll get it with following storage buildings:
1 WH lvl 20
1 WH lvl 10
1 G lvl 20
2 G lvl 10
This is basis for you to work with. You will need 1million of resources (each) and 193630 crop to queue WW lvl 100. How you achieve this capacity is question of your strategy - GWHS and GGs, many WHs or mix of both...remember WW has 15 building spots, so open that travian FAQ and dive in to numbers to find mix of capacity and building time that suits your goals. Discuss it in alliance leadership. Look at help.travian.com for data. search for WW screenshots & look what they have.
Here is googledoc i made for one server, proposing different alternatives. You can look there to get an idea how it could be done.Those are by far not the only ways or even not the best ways most likely.Whatever rows your boat ;) It is done assuming buildings above is not cataed.
Note: since goal of doc was to compare the alternatives not to see exact times when things will be built, the times isnt halved. Build times in WW are half of normal, remember that. Why they put in FAQ the full WW times is beyond me – like you could build WW in non WW village:P
What you choose greatly depends on server, situation and preferences... There is no correct answer and there is no wrong ones. Plan.Estimate. How often you will get hit? How big are armies? If you think it will be bloodbath – maybe seek one where there are more buildings but with lower level? Will attackers aim GWH or WH? Maybe leave finishing GWH for last, keep it lvl 1 so attackers can proudly brag they used 10k catas to off lvl 1 GWH? Or there is chance you will slip through unnoticed? Then go for fastest route possible. This part is very dependant on server and political situation so you will have to figure it yourself...
Another important decision is crop storage capacity - you need just200k to order last lvls of WW, but with just 200k granary space you'll crawl walls when feeding it... in short look to your alliance - if they're disciplined and motivated - you can try lower levels of granaries. If you suspect youll have activity and motivational issues when sending crop - consider getting higher lvls so you have more reaction time and can stockpile some crop. from what i have seen crop storage in WW vary from400k to shocking over million. And atm as i am writing it, we are feeding minus6 million crop with lill below 200k granary. Really, this depends on how good your sitter team is and how good the alliance is. On other hand – don't jump higher then your navel – if you feel you will need more granary space, make it... Better waste some time, then burn out WW team and supporters who will see troops dying in hunger.
Now, about catatargets… Albeit logics suggest to build more lvl 1 GGs & GWHs & WHs & Gs so in case of hit there is a chance that hit will go to them not to important ones, I have never seen that happening... SO IMHO only goal of filling all spots is to make deceiving screenshots ;)
Crop. Important issue in WW site will be crop unless your WW holder is roman. And not just crop to feed defenders but also crop produced by cropfields. Otherwise you will get lack of food message trying to build something. Imagine that happening when queing WW lvl 100? So keep in mind that everything you build not just takes precious time but also uses precious crop. WW alone takes 550 crop, add to it infrastructure. Since there is no one correct way to build up Infrastructure, there is no single count of crop needed to support it. Once you have decided on infrastructure, calculate crop for it and cropfields needed to support it. Don't forget to activate gold bonus for crop!
About building order... It is another thing where the reality of server might make you change plans to fit situation.Overall, my suggestion is as follows: start with infrastructural buildings – MP and RP. You need them to manage WW. It will take minutes. Afterwards my suggestion is MB/wall – if you have no attacks, and don't think you'll get serious ones, get MB first. It will skim off building times from all the rest. After wall and MB –I suggest go for granaries – will ease defense feeding. After that – WH, cropfields and WW itself ;)
Another issue you have to decide – how you will build it. There is 2 strategies, one i call „limping bunny” and other is „sneaky fox”
Limping bunny
Start build WW as soon as you get plans. Pause to build up storage. Spread rumor that your WW team is noobs and have messed totaly up storage. For example built 5 GG and 6 WH... Whatever bullshit you can immagine. Try to create idea that something is really really wrong in that ww.Maybe that some sitters went building happy and built all ironmines on teutonww. More stupid you look, better for you – less likely you'll be marked as prime target for others. The trouble here is that you will have to manage the story for your aliance too. People are „see&believe”, it might be challenge to keep peoples attention, crop and def if your WW is lagging behind, even if objectively it is way in front with all infra.
Sneaky fox
Get all infrastructure ready before building WW. Then as soon as you start building ww, build it up till the end. Fairytale for public – aww, we are just decoy, we will still have to pause to finish storage,plant a disgruntled member whining that ww team is stupid, racing with ww when they have yet no storage and thus looking most highest lvl...
Those are by far not the best and not the only strategies... look for one yourself.Remember – deceit, decoy and PR – when you are weak, make them see you strong.When you are strong, make them think you are weak and not a threat. Play smart,spin public opinion. Remember, you gotta spin even opinion of allies and„friends” – no use for elaborate ruse if there is somewhere skype logs with you bragging to buddy from other server.
Some notes on WW catering:
1) you need almost 24h coverage for that account. 2 sitters &owner is not enough so trash your msn, skype & mailbox for hardcoretravianers that have retired or are not playing on this server and try to lure them in to dualing ;) Of course, look for trust able persons! Keep in mind that veteran players will run from WW duties like devil from cross
2)get gold. WW account will need gold and a lot of it. Sitter can buy gold...
3) feeding WW.Feeding WW defenders is one of greatest challenges in endgame. Some starvation is unavoidable but its WW teams job to manage crop. Remember that villages WWholder settled right next to WW, depot ones? Now its their time to shine ;) Ask for resources shipments from alliance members to them, npc res to crop &ship in WW. Seek out the tools to help you predict starvation times (and no,plus overview isn't enough, i have run WW where full granaries offered just some2 minutes of crop, but in reality incoming crop was good for over 2 h without starvation) I deeply discourage usage of any script or ad don for it. There is plenty of tools out there who will analyse MP copy and paste, look to gettertools WW croptool for example. Gettertools croptool has another benefit -it gives a link that can be MMed or put on skypechat to all alliance so players see when holes in supply line is and kick in with their crop. Dont worry, the tool dont give out real numbers, just % of how full the granary is. Tho I strongly suggest talk to veteran players. There are some AWESOME custom parsers around because honestly, getter one is awesome, but lacks precision, imho.
4) defending WW. Look at defense rate and decide what troops you will keep. If your alliance is def based and defenders income is good, kick all not 1 crop troops out. kick out all non defensive units.
5) incoming attacks analysing. You will need to know what is coming your way & react accordingly. use one of many attacks analysing tools out there. Mark landed ones. Archive attack reports. Make screenshots of them. Countermeasures to attacks - later.
6) utilize WW holders sitter spots. Since there is no limit to transfer to WW village - resources can be transferred even between accounts connected by sitting, find 2 players with developed croppers really close to WW and make WW holder their sitter. It will help WW holder to deal with crop crisis more efficient.
7) set up &utilize communication tools. Skype public chat is good for WW team, alliance leadership & trusted feeder players. That will let you to coordinate actions, react fast, exchange info.
8) Don't forget rest of alliance! Many alliances during endgame tend to forget about rest players.... But actually they are the ones bringing victory to WW. They need to feed WW with crop religiously, train & send defenders,attack & defend. Inform them about whats going on!! I as WW sitter used to make thank you note and send daily to ~50 random players from reports on WW account (care full, not send them to attackers). here you can let run your immagination - vary those notes from simple thank you to elaborate stories and even collection of interesting links about endgame, poems or links to small time killer games. whatever rows your boat, really. Easiest way to do it is to open reports in WW acc, right click on report, open it on new tab or open MP/RP and click on senders. Open all reports in page, go to next, repeat. Then go to tabs, click on senders name and sent TY note. Rinse&repeat. Try to remember whom you already sent a note to avoid double sending.
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