Traviaut :

FAQ

How does it work?

TA downloads html pages from the server and sends requests back in the same way as when you click in the browser.

Is it allowed to use this bot?

No. Travian rules do not allow to use any bots. You use TA at your own risk.

Will you steal my password/account?

No. Passwords are saved in a file %home%/.traviaut/servers.cfg and are sent to the server in the same way your browser does it. TA will not send the passwords to any other site. Just check it with a firewall.

What's that UA (UserAgent) thing?

It will help TA to look like your browser. You will find your UA here, just fill in the text in the settings dialog. There is also UA generator in the paid version.

TA doesn't upgrade a resource field to level 11 in the main village

TA doesn't know that it is the main village. Upgrade one field to lvl 11 manually and it will start upgrading them again.

How can I set the proxy?

Proxy can be set per account. There is a simple format

server username password

if you extend it to

server username password proxyIP proxyPort

then TA will use the proxy for access to that account. I'll make the account config more userfriendly in the future.
We don't provide any proxy server and TA doesn't support proxies that need a login

I need a help, TA doesn't work

Try to find yourself. If you really don't know, send me an email (it's in the beginning of the log) with the log. It can happen, that I'll need an access to your account. I'll use it just to find the cause of the problem.

License key management:

you can use your license key in one TA instance at a time
it's ok to restart TA on the same PC
it's ok to close TA on one PC and start it on another one, there is just a 10 minutes timeout where the paid features will not work (Too fast internet address change error)
if a new TA instance is started and the old one is still running with the same key, the key is removed from the old one
if there are more travian accounts than allowed for a given key, the key is removed
if the key is removed (either manually or automatically) TA switches to a free edition and you have to put the key there again

Explanation of settings:

toolbar

update - updates all villages
OnTop - TA window will stay above all others
login - account list
settings - hmm, settings
pause - will stop TA immediately
build - if disabled, TA will not do any actions on the server (only updates the info)
minim - minimize TA to systray

Settings

User agent - set there UA of your browser - you will find it here
Amount of minimal trade - TA will not send resources from the village if there is less than set here (in % of hour production)
Update period - how often your villages are updated
Warehouse reserve - TA will try to not overflow the warehouse with this reserve
Avoid resources overflow - if the warehouse would overflow within 1 hour, TA will send 4 hours production to neighbouring villages
Maximal trading distance - TA will not send merchants from a village if it's far than that
Crop factor - see section All about buildings, resources and priorities

All about buildings, resources and priorities

When TA decides what to build next, it looks at building (and resource) levels and priorities. Suppose there is warehouse with priority 12, main building with 9 and wall with 5. Then somewhere in the future, the levels will be according to these priorities - warehouse will be at level 12, main at 9 and wall at 5. So the priority defines the speed of upgrading for each building.

Default priority for a building is 10.

Now what about resource fields. TA has built-in balancing strategy. The default setting of resource priorities is set to 15, 11, 1, 1. It means that the lowest resource in the whole account gets priority 15, second lowest get 11 etc. If you don't want upgrade the resource that's highest, just replace the 1 in the 4. box with 0. (or even in the 3. box).
If you set all the priorities equal, then the fields will be upgraded at the same speed and you will most probably end up with something low and something already too much to fit in the warehouse or granary.

Crop has a special behavior so there are more tweaks for that. First of all, you can set the Crop factor - a ratio related to other resources. The default is 50% so crop will be kept at 50% of other resources. Then if your resource balance is [3000,3000,3000,1500] TA will be happy with that.

Another case is when you have army in the village or crop balance is low and you can't upgrade buildings. TA detects that and when it happens the priority negative crop will be used. TA tries to get crop production and crop balance in the village above 30 per hour.

Why it doesn't upgrade the crop fields in the new village? You have probably enough crop in the whole account. If you have all resource priorities above zero, it will be upgraded at the end.

How trading works?

TA can supply to any village that needs resources. It runs after the target village is updated.

The target village has to be enabled (green button).
Village settings -> trading -> supply this village must be on (default)
If TA knows about any arriving merchants, it will wait before sending another ones. TA doesn't detect any merchants sent by the player (or by TA before you restarted it).
each activity tries to get resources 10 minutes in advance
The amounts are rounded up to a multiple of 50.
TA keeps reserve of 1 hour production in the target village (to avoid full warehouse) (can be changed in Settings -> General -> Warehouse reserve in hrs of production)
TA makes list of source villages - those where is no activity planned in next 10 minutes.
Far villages are skipped (see Settings -> General -> Maximal trading distance)
If there is negative crop production in the source village, the crop won't be sent.
There is an "amount of minimal trade" check to prevent frequent sending of a few resources. For example, if this is set to 25%, TA will wait for at least 25% of hour production of the source village if bigger amount is needed. If the production is 1000 (25% is 250), 500 is needed and there is only 200 in the village, TA will skip that one.
There have to be some merchants available in the source village of course.

Feeding the army - if there is crop for less than 2 hours, TA will try to get crop for 8 hours (or up to granary capacity) to that village. I'll make this configurable in the future.

How merchant works?

When merchant is enabled, each village checks what's the resource balance on the whole account and tries to fix it via the market.

Balance is calculated by taking minimal and maximal resource and getting ratio of that. Crop factor (from general settings) is taken into account. So if there is [1000, 3500, 2000, 800], crop factor is 50%, then it's converted to [1000, 3500, 2000, 1600]. Minimum is wood 1000, maximum clay 3500, ratio is 3.5, that's balancing factor 350%.

Here are the settings and conditions:

period in minutes - how often will each village try to make the offer
balancing factor - limit for the calculated ratio - if it's less, it will not make the offer
merchants to send - how many merchants to use for the offer
merchants to keep - the offer is not made if there is not that many merchants available
minimal marketplace and trade office levels - if it's less, it will not make it in the village
preferred resources - if it matches the calculated minimum and maximum, offer is made otherwise not, if NONE is set then it's fully automatic
offer crop - you can control if you want to sell crop when it's maximum, sometimes you want to keep even a big amount of crop so here is the blocking setting

If the maximum or minimum is different from the preference or maximum is crop and offer crop is set, then the offer is not made.

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