Yanik: 4 Ways Adapted for Travian

The following is an adaptation to Yanik’s Silver’s 4 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Avoid (or Recover from) Burnout!

Yanik’s Silver is an Internet Marketer who’s material I have come to highly respect over the last year. Among other areas of life he focuses on helping people go out and do the things they love most about life.

I just read this article that he posted on his blog and felt that the 4 ways mentioned applied to Travian players as well as Entrepreneurs.

Here they are (adapted)

1. Truly Disconnect

Just because Travian is your #1 true love and you can think of nothing else but playing it from 6:00am until you hit the sack in the evening doesn’t mean you can’t take a break every once in a while.

They key to making this work is finding a sitter that you know trust and know will keep the quality of resource allocation and speed of your account going while you’re absent. Where do you look for this kind of player? Ideally in the upper ranks of your alliance. Someone who has 2x your population or whose success in attacking is unprecedented would be a good choice.

Part of the problem when players take a break of Travian is they’re concerned they’ll have to fix everything when they back to their account. You can fix this by A) getting a good sitter and B) giving clear instructions on how things should be fun in your absence.

Once you have these two things taken care of you can leave Travian alone for a week or two and take some time off to focus on your personal life and regain your focus on why you play Travian.

2. Refocus on Your Resources (pun, yes)

What drives many players to quit playing Travian is their inability to succeed in the game by their own standards. Instead of focusing on the troops that you don’t have and your villages that are being destroyed (which can throw your entire day off if you’re not careful) redirect that focus to the successful experiences you’ve had. Think about the day you hit your 30,000 Praetorian goal or the first time you destroyed a village and zero’d it completely to the ground.

To sum up #2 I’m going to quote Yanik:

“Once you adjust your focus your selective perception kicks in and you’ll see there is significantly more that’s good than bad going on. (You might or might not have noticed this is a variation on being grateful. Your gratitude connects you back to the source of your original success.)”

3. Set a big vision

It may have seemed OK to set a goal of building 4 villages when you first started playing the game. But now you’ve invested many many hours into your account and could be feeling at a loss without a sound plan for measuring your success on a server.

Last round on USX (US speed server) a top 10 player asked me what my goal was for that server. She asked me this about 3 weeks in. Taken aback I responded that I wanted to build 100,000 Praetorians. Somehow that set a goal for me and I worked toward it until the end of the server. As it turns out I ended up having about 15,000 more than I set out initially.

Setting a big goal brings a new purpose to your gaming experience. It also rally’s other players to your cause who can help you get there.

“…you’ll find people getting on your team to help achieve it. My friend, Tellman Knudson, has set the goal of raising $100M by running across the country barefoot. I think that fits the bill.”

Ideally you want to set yourself a goal that makes you do something completely different. That way you can experience the game in a new light and new way that both challenges you and fires back up that initial thrill you had when you first started playing Travian.

4. Get back to the fun

Think back to when you first started playing Travian. Did you ever wish your account had some super ability to produce resources 1000x faster than everyone else? What about troop size? Did you ever dream of having a 400,000 troop hammer that could crush anyone’s army? Try to remember why you wanted to feel that way.

Now take that feeling and find what you would have to do in your game to make it happen. You’ve probably learned so much about the game that you could get much closer to a 400,000 hammer than you could when you first started (just for the record, I’m not sure it’s possible to make a hammer that big).

Make sure the fun, rich and rewarding reasons you first started playing the game are still the reasons you are playing now. If they don’t exist you may want to add them to your game. Was there a trick you wanted to try out? How about destroying a village in 8 seconds flat?

Rediscover those initial reasons that brought you into Travian with all the confidence in the world that you could be #1.

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