

Developing these fields increases their resource output. Each player starts the game as the leader of a small, undeveloped village, surrounded by undeveloped resource fields.

Travian: Legends is set in classical antiquity. Its creators may have drawn from an earlier German board game, The Settlers of Catan, for layout and the resource development theme. Travian: Legends is programmed in PHP and runs in most modern browsers. In 2006, it won the Superbrowsergame Award, in the large games category. Travian has been translated into over 40 languages from the original German version, and at one time boasted over 5 million players on over 300 game servers worldwide. Set in classical antiquity, Travian: Legends is a predominantly militaristic real-time strategy game. It was originally written and released in June 2004 as "Travian" by Gerhard Müller. Travian: Legends is a persistent, browser-based, massively multiplayer, online real-time strategy game developed by the German software company Travian Games.
