Saturday, March 31, 2012

Get paid to play a fun game - Townian

No Investment Required
How much can I make -  Up to 12 cents per town per day and you can have as many towns as you want.
Minimum cash out - $5
Payment methods - Paypal,  Liberty Reserve.
How often do they pay - Unsure.
Payment Proof - None yet since the site has just recently launched.

Townian is a new html based browser game that pays you to play, the game has just come out of beta so no payment proofs so far, however, the game is actually so fun I would play it either way. It reminds me of RTS games like starcraft, warcraft, and age of empires. It most closely resembles age of empires, you build buildings and from these buildings you create troops or gather resources, you can build a wall and tower around your town to protect against attacks from other players. The amount of civilians in your town and the amount of taxes you set determines the gold you get per hour and this is how you earn on the site, you convert that gold into real cash that pays to paypal at a rate of $.00001 per 1 gold. This may not sound like a lot, but you can have as many towns as you want and each will produce gold hourly with no effort at all.

Once you have your town maxed out or a few towns that are decent or if you have a lot of referrals, then you may consider upgrading to premium. Premium members can cashout ANY resource not just gold and the cashout minimum is lowered to $2. You also get discounts on troops and increased referral earnings. Premium is $3/month.

You should read the "how to play" by the creator of the game here: http://townian.info/how-to-play-townian/

I'd also like to add a few tips of my own.

The game starts you off with $1 in your account with a cashout at $5. Though this dollar is not really intended to help you get to cashout sooner, it's intended to give you a boost to build your town faster and thus gain resources faster which will help you cashout sooner than if you didn't use that dollar and built everything from scratch. You can buy resources from the "Premium" tab at the top.

The guide above says to set the taxes at 50 and while this is decent advice for someone just looking at the game for the first time, as you progress this becomes less and less realistic as long as you are still building. What I do is keep taxes set so that my gold per hour and my stone, wood, iron per hour are about the same since I am building up at the moment. If I were trying to cashout I would set the taxes higher to get more gold per hour and that 50 might be a bit more appropriate. Try changing the tax rate and then looking at your resources per hour and then changing it again until you are happy with the numbers.

Another somewhat confusing aspect for new players, even though they just added an in-game tooltip to help explain it is food. You get food per hour just like you do the other resources, but you also get a reduction in food production per hour for each civilian you have in your town. So for example if you had a town with 20 civilians and a grain mill that put out 50 units per hour, you would be getting 30 food per hour (50 -20=30). Another example is if you had 90 civilians and a mill that put out 80 units of food per hour, you would be getting 5 food per hour, which is the minimum.


Here's a pic of your resources. The number in the brackets for population is your maximum and you can increase it by upgrading your Huts. If you hover over a resource it will show you the max you can hold, which you can increase by upgrading your warehouse or granary respectively and it also shows your resources per hour.

This will probably make no sense at all until you try out the game a bit and become more familiar with it, but these few things took me a few days to realize and get right so hope it helps you guys too.

The downside: There are adf.ly links that come up every now and then on the site, but it really isn't a big deal.

If you have any questions or advice please post it.

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Here is my town.