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Shinjin:
I would like to point out that Undecima is almost exactly like Travian. I played travian before and I liked it, but Undecima looks a little more dumbed down on the graphics and gameplay. I am sorry that I won't be giving it a shot, but if you maybe brought a little more HD to the GUI and possibly made it less like Travian, it would be a huge hit and maybe even take alot of Travians players away. Other than the previously said comments, Good on you for making a game on your own and going for the gold!
Hmm... I can't say much about graphics as they have a team of professional artists and I'm only a developer who had to learn how to draw (regardless, I like my units much better than Travian's), but... the Gameplay is much more advanced (or at least different) than Travian or many other game that I know of the same genre.
The only common thing between two games is that you start in a small village... From their on it's pretty much all different (but don't you start in a "small village" in a lot of games?). No tedious micro-management with dozens of crop fields and clay pits; you can control only one town; no blatant farming of new players by somebody who started a bit later than you. Different system of artifacts, different system of surrounding locations, different system of advancing to a new level (that's not in Travian at all); different system of diplomacy - only personal alliances and no dominant groups that control the game; a chance to play and win for anyone. Different system of combat - if you detect an incoming attack, you can scout it and then decide whether you want to defend, counter-attack it, hire more mercenaries, or let it hit your town and dodge it, but then you can intercept returning enemy troops and claim back everything what they captured from your town. I can continue for quite a while, but the point is - it's the same genre, but different games.
I'm not saying that Traivan is bad - I'm saying that they are different and only a person who hasn't tried Undecima, can say that Undecima is "whatever" version of Traivan. Some people would still prefer Travian, but some will find Undecima more original and interesting to play.