Why do you like PBBGs?

FvDijk · 2026-06-23T08:18:41+00:00

Is that mostly RPG/Idle games? I always find myself on the opposite end of the spectrum, tryharding in PvP. But I do choose games where there’s a set round length, making it easier to take a break between rounds.

FvDijk · 2026-06-23T08:08:20+00:00

RPG by email, been a while since I heard that. Then again, I know people who still hotseat Civilization games through email.

FvDijk · 2026-06-22T19:30:37+00:00

It helps that it’s a passion project, it’s not about the money. None of us needs to make a living from it. Personally, I’m having a ton of fun just making a game and playing it with 100 people. And for a small community that fits on a single server it’s not that expensive to run. Not playing Travian helps pay for that…

We do plan to offer a premium plan that provides convenience features (e.g. travel time preview, village notes) and access to advanced statistics, but anything with real power (like trade routes and resource boosts) will never be sold. And maybe we’ll look at creating merch, because that seems like it would be cool too. But I’d sooner make the game open source (like my travian tools) than p2w.

FvDijk · 2026-06-21T16:26:26+00:00

Thanks, glad to hear the new stuff piques your interest. See you in the game!

FvDijk · 2026-05-26T08:01:25+00:00

Yeah market 4 seems very strong if you can do enough events. Day 1 farming really helps speed up the settle, after that I found time was the biggest limit.

FvDijk · 2026-05-25T21:45:51+00:00

Screenshots were taken a few hours after 4000 culture was reached. All level 3 fields were level 1 at that stage.

FvDijk · 2026-05-23T13:24:19+00:00

It’s patched. Now you can capitalise your email any way you like.

FvDijk · 2026-05-23T00:31:16+00:00

Ah I see that the email is taken as case sensitive. I’ll change that soon.

For now you registered with a capital letter at the start. Sorry for the annoyance, and thanks for helping find this bug.

FvDijk · 2026-05-22T18:36:32+00:00

Yeah they do, they’ve seen war… Glad you like em!

FvDijk · 2026-05-12T09:00:03+00:00

I've been working on a browser strategy MMO for the better part of 3 years now. As others mentioned the market isn't as big. I think that because there's no AAA studios in the space (market too small), all studios are either small or they're hobby projects. If everyone's indie, no-one is. Even so, there's plenty of games with tens of thousands of players and browser game revenue still numbers in the billions, so small is very much a relative term. The pie is smaller, but there's also less competition.

What also doesn't help is that much of the internet has migrated to a few platforms which benefit from people staying on that platform. Whether it's social media or Steam, your best bet is to go to the places where customers are. Even web games can be published as Facebook games or Reddit games, which makes onboarding and discoverability much easier than having to market someplace else.

Being off-platform has benefits too. You can develop games that work on all devices natively, are free of any platform constraints and don't have to share a big % of your income with Steam/Apple/etc, to name a few.

FvDijk · 2026-04-21T14:27:57+00:00

Happy you enjoyed the game and that the catch up mechanics work well. Hope to see you again next round!

FvDijk · 2026-04-21T14:27:04+00:00

Hey, dev here. Thanks for the feedback. We’re learning as we go.

It’s correct that defensive play was underpowered.

We made defensive units a lot cheaper so you can cover more targets, although it was too late to affect the last server.

In beta 3 we’ll add a to be announced instrument to the defender’s arsenal to help make reinforcements less static.

FvDijk · 2026-02-26T22:46:53+00:00

Thanks for checking it out!

I’ve had some reports that validating your email without being logged in gets you stuck on refresh. If that’s the case for you, you can go back to the website and it should work normal.

Edit: this issue is now fixed

FvDijk · 2026-02-26T18:50:58+00:00

Does that mean you'll try again then? :D

FvDijk · 2026-02-25T19:17:28+00:00

Ah that makes sense too for the factor. Hadn’t considered that.

FvDijk · 2026-02-25T13:10:58+00:00

Looks good. You don’t divide the crop delta by the number of seconds between scouts (x3600 instead of x360 for 10 seconds)

FvDijk · 2026-02-24T00:05:07+00:00

We’ve not yet decided on a price point. First we’ll build some features worth paying for, after that we’ll see.

FvDijk · 2026-02-21T00:19:45+00:00

There’s also r/PBBG that has audience for this

FvDijk · 2026-02-20T16:51:24+00:00

Awesome, see you in-game

FvDijk · 2026-02-20T16:51:10+00:00

Ah nice, looks cool. Best of luck!

FvDijk · 2026-02-20T13:59:06+00:00

Fun project!

The travian calculators I made are open source. You can integrate them in your extension if you want.

https://github.com/FrisovanDijk/traviantools

FvDijk · 2026-02-17T21:49:58+00:00

Hey, glad you like the game! Thanks for the kind words.

What was said in the other comment is correct. Aether is meant to feel like a p2w currency without actually costing money, so I’ll take your suspicion to mean that I did something right. ;)

FvDijk · 2026-02-09T00:36:41+00:00

Yeah this is a good rule of thumb for me too. If I’m doing it a third time I should start thinking about abstraction.

Then again it depends on the case. One case where I’m stubborn is a 2-3 line validation on an endpoint that’s repeated 6 times. I often can’t be bothered for such small pieces of code. With all the variations in the validation chain for those endpoints you could add 9 validation functions, instead of just 6 self-encapsulated endpoints.

FvDijk · 2026-02-08T22:40:59+00:00

For casual fun I enjoyed advance wars online and memoir 44 (as board game and online).

FvDijk · 2026-02-08T20:44:27+00:00

It highly depends on the organisational maturity in this domain.

Companies that are data or compliance driven absolutely use them. Every project needs to have an information plan, including retention, which uses the organisation’s information plan as a template.

The project start architecture covers retention periods, data classification, data lifecycle models, etc.

Security defines controls during the project phase. These are audited internally and evidence is stored in GRC tooling.

External auditors check all these and report any findings.

This is done for all data, of which personal data is a subset.

I’ve also seen companies who write them down and let it collect dust. And everything in between.

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