Apparently so. The little dash next to the green and orange "Plus" in upper right should have changed to a tick to show you have Plus.

Then if you go looking around crefully you should find little extras in various places, such as an archives option in reports and messages section, the sent button there being clickable to reverse the sort by date order, and a bunch more things all listed in the Advantages section of the Plus section, which I have been annotating with (NYI) for the items that I have found to seemingly be Not Yet Implemented.

-MarkM-

Edit: harking back to the "banker" motif... since the not yet implemented parts were not yet marked as such, maybe we can offer you a discount on your next gold purchase?

I have seen a few pathetic games no one would probably have bothered playing were it not that the money you looted from others was "real money".

I am not sure looting Bitcoins is a good idea, bit-propagandistically speaking. As a promoter of Bitcoins I suspect I would tend to prefer a game in which pretty much the only thing that can not be looted is your Bitcoins. (Lets not think about Hacker games while on the propaganda trail. )

So I was thinking that although you cannot loot people's P2P coinages because they aren't stored in the game but, rather, at home in the player's own vault and with backups in their family crypts and encrypted on various third party storage systems and email accounts and so on you nonetheless win such coins indirectly, by buying virtual assets with which you can loot other people's virtual assets and try to defend your own virtual assets.
 

Admittedly not all the advantages listed in the Advantages section of the Plus section seem to be implemented (mostly the larger map it seems, which the programmer evidently planned to implement as karte2.php which doesn't yet exist), most of those I have the gear to check do seem to be present. I am building a rallying point now to check the part about improved vies in the rallying point but most of what I have been able to check so far does seem to exist. (I don't have enough resources currently to try the building queue yet.)

-MarkM-

EDIT: The population, but not the troops (or rat anyway) was being subtracted twice.

-MarkM-

all your buildings and troops need crop. so every time u get bigger or build more troops your crop production will be less than before.

big copy of travian, but as travian now has t4 with hero adventures this looks like a nice alternative. but payment doesnt work.

This is a piece that surprised me..  I guess there are always contentious issues around real-world mining - but I wasn't aware of Gold-specific campaigns, and it certainly hadn't occurred to me that this might be an argument for bitcoin!

Whoa, you were consuming 11 of the 10 units of crop you were growing.

Somehow you had gotten into a crop supply deficit. I hope that was an artifact of my various attempts to fix the problem allowing you to somehow slip by or something.

-MarkM-

Why do you think that by definition, any bitcoin clone is that vastly inferior to bitcoin?
Some of them might have desirable properties.

The largest advantage of bitcoin right now is adoption - "everybody" (in the bitcoin community) uses it.
If a large amount of people started using FooCoin, that coin would gain a similar advantage.

BTW, market cap might not be the best measure of a coin's strength - I can create 10,000 of a new coin, place one BUY order at $10,000 a piece, and reach a market cap of $100M. Is there a better definition that captures the relative strength of some alternative coin's economy?

Profit!

Honestly I think this is the more realistic scenario.  Bitcoin will never challenge a fiat currency for dominance, at least not anytime soon.  When and if it does, the global hashrate would, by definition, be high enough to *almost* preclude this scenario.

The only solution - honestly - is to get as many people as possible onto the network (the valid network )

That's one of the things my partners and I are trying to do.  Bitcoin CANNOT just be for tech geeks if it is going to survive without being compromised as described in this thread; and it will only succeed economically if it begins to gain mass acceptance.