I figured I'd share this, as this has been fun enough of a game to pull me away from Civ a little bit 
. The game is called Tribal Wars, and it's a browser-based online game based on an identical German game (Die Stamme is what I believe it's called). The idea is, you create your little village, grow it based on collecting resources, you can build your army, as well as create or join a tribe, which is a group of players, often in the same region, who help each other. The original version is German, and the english version run by the same people has been out for around a year. It's free, but you can pay for additional benefits (that you don't really need IMO). I enjoy it, so I figured I might as well post it. The biggest disadvantage of it, is the community (at least in the .net version) kinda sucks... There's a few people trying to engage in normal conversation, and a bunch of kids flaming and trolling...
If you do give it a shot, either pick World 10 (a faster world) or World 11 (a slower world), because those are the newest ones, so you'd be the least far behind. Pick a fast world if you've got a lot of free time, or a slow world if you don't, and there's no limit on how many worlds you play on. There are versions in other languages too (about 5-6 others), but unfortunately I'm not sure where they are (google them).
Anyways, that's about it, it's nice because it's light and all you need is an internet browser and to check it once or twice a day. Here's the links:
http://www.tribalwars.net
http://www.diestaemme.de
. The game is called Tribal Wars, and it's a browser-based online game based on an identical German game (Die Stamme is what I believe it's called). The idea is, you create your little village, grow it based on collecting resources, you can build your army, as well as create or join a tribe, which is a group of players, often in the same region, who help each other. The original version is German, and the english version run by the same people has been out for around a year. It's free, but you can pay for additional benefits (that you don't really need IMO). I enjoy it, so I figured I might as well post it. The biggest disadvantage of it, is the community (at least in the .net version) kinda sucks... There's a few people trying to engage in normal conversation, and a bunch of kids flaming and trolling...If you do give it a shot, either pick World 10 (a faster world) or World 11 (a slower world), because those are the newest ones, so you'd be the least far behind. Pick a fast world if you've got a lot of free time, or a slow world if you don't, and there's no limit on how many worlds you play on. There are versions in other languages too (about 5-6 others), but unfortunately I'm not sure where they are (google them).
Anyways, that's about it, it's nice because it's light and all you need is an internet browser and to check it once or twice a day. Here's the links:
http://www.tribalwars.net
http://www.diestaemme.de
