I too know
the game that is Travian. I found it a few years ago through another online browser game I was playing (pardus, if anyone's interested). I had a similar experience with other players, accept after a whole alliance came along and catapulted my village to dust I couldn't be bothered with it any more. I told some friends about the wonderful farming opportunities to be had in my locality (namely my now abandoned villages) and left.
(7inchcodpiece, Mon 22 Dec 2008, 13:37, Reply)