Travian is a very fun online game. You play it against real human players and the game never stops even if you don't log in for a day or more!
It's a bit hard specially for beginners and this guide is here to help you choosing the right tribe and using it to your best advantage. The goal of the game is to dominate the travian world by being the #1 Player!
What tribe should you choose? This question is the hardest! It all depends on your play style, but I recommend you to choose the Romans. Why them and not anyone else? First because later on you will need to leave your game idle because it will take some days until the constructions are complete. With the Romans you can build 2x faster because you can build 2 buildings at a time!
Now the army. Imperians are the best units in the entire game. Silly! You might say... No, I am not. Later on you are going to need the most efficient soldier per cereal production and at this point the Imperians rule!
The only thing you should focus on is just on resources production. Forget about war, unless you need to steal resources from your enemies.
You may have a dual account, meaning that multiple people share the same account. This is okay as long as none of those people have or play another account on the same server.
Unless your playing as a team its pointless to play the game the top players are all teams
The advantage of spending real world money ends up pointless unless you plan to spend hundreds of dollars as the others playing as a team does not run out of their advantage
You can confirm this with Taranis Super Administrator on the games forums http://forum.travian.us