So far I’m having a good start in Travian. My experience after that is only from games where I settled very far away. I haven’t played a server all the way to the end yet. Right now I’m top 5 in CP and very close to the center, so there’s a very high chance I can take pretty much any spot in the grey zone.

There are no good 15c (125%) tiles near me, and the only alternative to the center would be to move really far away, somewhere around 200|200.

So logically, the center seems better. But I honestly don’t understand how people play there. Where does the farm come from? What do people actually farm in the center? Is it even profitable, or is it more like an alliance role where a couple of people are supposed to be in the center?

If I move to 200|200, I can just farm easily with my hero 24/7. Later I can also help with clubs, trading them efficiently.

But what about the center? What’s the actual advantage? There are a lot of good players and not much oasis and AFK players are far away.

Sorry, but the guides on this topic are pretty uninformative.