The role of the sitter is to log into your avatar whilst you are unavailable to look after it for you and to respond to any issues that may have come up. As a result of this, they have the ability to change most things within your avatar, so you should only choose sitters that you absolutely trust.
Dual vs sitter
A dual is someone who does not already have an avatar on the gameworld, who you invite to play on your avatar. You can have multiple duals playing with you.
A sitter is someone who already plays the server who you can give limited access to your avatar to assist while you are unavailable.
You may add a sitter on the "Sitter" tab of your preferences and give permissions. You can also view the avatars you have permission to sit for.
You may only have a maximum of two sitters at any one time and they must be part of your alliance or confederacy. You may also allow or deny sitters to do certain things.
Note
The Buy and spend gold permission is important, with it set they can purchase gold on your avatar and spend without limits, refunds cannot be given for gold spent by the sitter.
Sitter Login
When you are added as a sitter for another avatar you can log into it through the sitters button in the top right corner of the game. In the same place you can later return to your own avatar.
Old method
There is an alternative way to access sitted avatar by logging out of your avatar and then logging in with their avatar name but your password. You will be granted access as if you had typed their password (so they must not share their password with you).
Please note that this option may not be available in all cases and will be completely removed in the future.
Every avatar starts with 14 days of owner inactivity allowance. (A sitter may log in at any time without affecting this allowance).
- For every day that any of the SITTER IS ACTIVE on the avatar AND any of the owner(s) of the avatar ARE NOT active, 1 day is subtracted from the allowance.
- For every day that any of the owner(s) of the avatar ARE active, 1 day is added to the allowance, regardless of sitter activity.
- If both OWNER(S) and SITTERS are NOT active, no allowance is added or subtracted.
To make it simple:
If only owner is active = +1 day
If owner and sitter are active = +1 day
If only sitter is active = -1 day
If nobody is active = nothing
Once the avatar reaches 0 days of owner inactivity allowance, the sitter’s access will be revoked.
- Avatars will not be able to gain more than 14 days of owner inactivity allowance.
- Whenever the allowance is running out (3 days left) a permanent info box will be displayed for anyone that manages the avatar to remind them.
A dual is another player that can access your avatar and have full control over it, including access to the avatars that you are sitting for. Generally, you do this if you do not have the time to run an avatar entirely by yourself.
Since the introduction of Lobby, duals can be added and managed in the Lobby and there is no need to share password to the avatar anymore.
You should make sure you trust the player before adding them as dual, because they will have full control to do almost anything to your avatar.
Requirements
You and players you want to add as duals must have your separate lobby accounts. If you don’t have them yet, you can create them very easily on travian.com website.
There is currently no limit on number of duals added to an avatar.
The dual cannot play on more than one avatar on the gameworld. You can either have your own avatar or play as a dual on one avatar on the gameworld.
There are no restrictions on how often the dual accesses the avatar or whether the owner of the avatar is actively playing on it. For the purpose of sitter restrictions, dual activity counts the same way as owner activity.
Adding duals
The owner of the account can add and manage the duals in the lobby. In general, buttons related to duals are colored blue.
First, the owner of the avatar adds the dual in the lobby. You need to know the full lobby account name of the dual.
Then, the dual has to accept the invitation.
Removing duals
Removal of duals works in the same way, in the lobby. The dual can also remove this connection any time in their lobby.
Old method
Avatars not connected to lobby cannot use the dual system described above. While we highly recommend to create lobby account for such avatars, it is still possible to share access to the old avatars using the old method - by sharing the avatar password.
You should make sure you absolutely trust a dual before giving them your password because they will have full control to do anything to your avatar. It is also against the rules to give your password to someone that already plays on your gameworld.
You should not share your lobby account password. If you have a lobby account, add and manage duals in the lobby, as described above.