Basics + Interface
Aim of the GameThe road to success lies in the wise use of resources – only if you find the right balance between revenue and expenditures can you unlock new technologies, improve your city further and follow the path to fame and glory.
The Ages
The Continent Map
The City
Research
At the top of your city view in the center, there is a display showing your Forge Points. Every hour you get one more, until you have reached your maximum. These points are the engine that drives forth your empire: You need them to trade, to level up Great Buildings and, more importantly, for research. You conduct research by investing into technologies in the research tree with your points. If you have come up with the required amount and (if necessary) the unlocking costs, the advantages of the new technology will be available to you and you can build something new in your city from your building menu.
Quests
Fulfilling quests is worth it – because you get interesting rewards such as goods, coins, supplies, units that are not tied to slots in military buildings, and diamonds. There are basically two different types of quests. Your right-hand man, Ragu Silvertongue, leads you through the main story. You cannot refuse his quests – you have to do them. At a later point in the game, there will be a second questline with an additional storyline, quests which you can't abort either.
Your other advisors give you very different assignments: Your architect Fernikus will often ask you to construct buildings, and your scientist Mandrubar will push for research. You can reject or discard those quests of your other advisors. There is no shame in doing so, and if you doubt a quest fits into your strategy, you can reject or discard it. This may even occasionally be necessary because unlike the quests of Ragu Silvertongue, it might happen that your advisors give you an unattainable quest. Most of the quests that you reject are, then, however, irrevocably gone, and you will get no chance to do them later. But this is no big deal – it's impossible to see all the quests in the game, and you will receive only tasks that are adequate for your current situation in the game – and often a variety of possible situations are included. Therefore, if you reject a specific quest, you will get another to replace it.
After you reach the Iron age, you will unlock a 3rd type of quests, namely the Daily challenge. These challenges are only available for 24 hours after the daily challenge reset and will offer you two different sets of rewards. Once you complete 7 daily challenges, you will receive an extra special reward and the quest counter will reset to 0.
The daily challenge will offer you a chance to get buildings as well as Forge points and more ordinary rewards like medals and if you are very lucky even rare event building! During some events, you may also be lucky to get important event currency to help your progress during the event.
Maps and Battles
Prepare yourself well for this: pay close attention to what units your opponent has, and bring units on to the field which are a good match for them. In general terms, fast units are good at fighting against ranged units, and melee units are good against fast units. Ranged fighters in turn have an advantage against melee units. You can do more to increase your chances in battle: If you infiltrate a sector, the enemy units are already damaged at the beginning of the battle, which can provide a distinct advantage. Furthermore, if you are utilizing the terrain on the battlemap wisely, and always try to gang up on an enemy unit with several units of your own, you should prevail in battle and crush resistance.
Players
Goods
After some time you will need goods. Always keep in mind and plan ahead as to ensure you never get to a point where you are stuck because you lack the necessary goods. You do not have to produce all the goods yourself – concentrate on those which you found good deposits for on the continent map. Team up with other players and trade these goods with them to get ones you don't have. You can also exchange goods with non-player dealers; but their exchange rate is so bad that you should do it only if you really have no other choice. There is also another way to get goods: If you employ your army, with skill and good timing, you can rob your neighbor of goods productions.
Tips
- Always plan ahead
- Remember to use your Forge Points before your Forge Point bar is full
- Make sure to start producing boosted goods as early as you can
- Use your boosted goods to trade on the market for goods you don't produce
- Use the space in your city as efficiently as you can
- Get all the expansions you can – they never expire and are essential for development
- Do not forget the daily bonus from your town hall
- Always pay attention to the level of happiness
- Visit the cities of other players and motivate or polish their buildings if you need to get coins fast
- In battle: infiltrate! Look at the enemy's set up and employ counter units, use terrain advantages and attack a unit with several units!
- You can find small incidents in your city and the surrounding land, coast and sea.
Interface
The Interface in Forge of Empires is very intuitive and easy to use. While there are many similarities between the desktop and mobile versions, they differ on several important points:
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