Time to waste? Prozac beats Travian hollow. Travian sucks!

I had some time to kill.  You know, that time in between having a good idea and waiting for your brain to get it right before making the idea work.  So I tried Travian.

Travian is a drug.  Seriously.  Try Travian and the drug takes hold very fast.

It's a game, allegedly.  Well, no.  It is a real game that is fun, allegedly.  All you need is a browser and to take leave of your senses, and  Travian does the rest.

You build a village and make alliances with other village chiefs to conquer the known world.  It's a real time browser based economics and warfare simulation game.  For the first age some weirdo avatar told me what to do.  Then I was on my own.

First impressions?

Well, have you ever driven the slowest car in the world, and then hitched a caravan to it?  Trust me, it gets slower as you play it.

Best yet, if the people who got in early ever find you they'll nuke you.  Yup, the little guy just can't win!  

"Real time" is a joke.  The time is so real you can imagine them sitting down and having meetings inside the game.  It takes for EVER to play even a single action.  I'm waiting now and have been for the past two hours, to have enough resources to let me upgrade a wheat field!  In another two hours I'll have enough.  That's why you need Prozac.

I should have known when the validation email took 30 minutes to arrive when I started.  They wanted me to get used to being bored out of my skull!

If you want to play a serious game you need to use real money to buy fake gold to spend inside the game.  Without "gold" my wheat production would fall below the level of production my game people need to have in order to eat.

Look, I'm rambling.  That's Travian for you.  Thousands of worldwide players all watching the production figures on their resources grow with excruciating slowness while they wonder if anything is going to happen, and all about to be nuked by an early player who is big and hardcore.

Travian.....  For insomniacs everywhere.  Even nerds find it terrible!