Yeah...I gotta admit...It took me awhile to get to the good stuff! Point taken. Thanks for checking out the video, though!

Wow - A Level 180 Arc owner! Super-impressive work there - congrats! Thank you so much for the encouragement and positive comments. It means alot coming from such an experienced and accomplished player. I completely agree with you about the pumpkins. Hopefully this will be the end of me constantly building and tearing down blacksmiths! To get the production value AND the military value all packaged in the same footprint as a blacksmith is GREAT! Thank you for the sub. I see it as a vote of confidence and it motivates me to keep creating.

Congrats on getting to 200M! That's a big milestone. Yeah, FoE Helper is better overall, but it does not have the FP investment tool that is as good as the one in FoE Info. So I use both simultaneously, as you probably noticed! Which is another thing that I like, the ability to do both at the same time. Appreciate you checking out the vid and the encouraging words.

Great! Glad you found it to be useful. Appreciate the comment, as well.

Hey, you’ve been playing almost twice as long as I have - so you bring a great deal of credibility with your take. I get it. Hopefully there are enough others who were not aware. Really appreciate you watching, though!

I know that FoE Helper will do that....But I'm not sure if FoE Info gives you that kind of data....If so, I'm not aware of it! Thank you for watching and for the positive feedback!

@@BardoFarkins Interesting, I am using both now and I do not know how to see this in FoE Helper. In FoE Info, Preferences, there is an Option, fairly low in the prefs window to show list of users (Guild, Friends and Neighbours) at login. When then in the FoE Info Window, there is an option to open any and all of these 3 lists and if a user is 7+ days off line, then there is an Inactive label. Thanks and enjoy. :-)

I know it took me forever to check this out, but I looked into this today. I did find this in FOE Info, but it's not under preferences, it's under settings. There are click boxes where you can select to show, Friends, guildies, and Hood members at start up and it tells you who is "inactive". In FoE Helper, use the "motivate/polish Helper" and it gives the same info but more detailed....the key is that every other day or so you need to scroll through the event history from your town hall to populate the data and keep it updated.

Thank for you for checking out the video. Maybe you need to collect something.....then the tool will show what you have collected.....that's my guess. Good luck!

First of all, thanks for the comment! So... the GB Cost calculator tool on FoE Helper will show you what your profit could be, but it does not tell you the minimum amount that you need to place to make that profit....Right now, I am using both tools simultaneously and side-by-side on the same opportunity, and the FoE Tools version is much more clear about what you need to do for maximum profit efficiency. In my opinion, of course! But you are right, FoE Helper has something similar with the GB Cost Calculator, but it's not nearly as good. Appreciate your thoughts!

@@BardoFarkins i mean when you open up GB Cost Calculator on FOE helper, then go to setting in that little pop up window and put new value, if u put -99% and save it when you click on someones GB and open GB cost calculator you scroll over the left value and it tells you how many FP you need to put so the spot is safe, and if that number is lower than the number in the Difference column, you are making a profit.

Yes, I know what you mean and I have done that. My experience with GB Cost Calculator in Helper is that when I enter in the amount of my Arc reward in the setting (which FoE Info does automatically, BTW) but when I do this, the amount that shows in the left hand column is not the correct amount that I would need to lock in the spot. It just isn't. I am considering doing a video where I compare the two different tools side by side so folks can see how they are different....and how, in my opinion, FoE Info is better and more clear - at least with this ONE feature.

@@BardoFarkins I don't agree, if you read through my message, if u have option investment -99%, open someones GB hover over the left amount of FP, it says something like "to secure that spot you need to put exactly x FP" and if that x amount is smaller than the difference column, you are going to make some profit, it's called sniping, nothing new. Only thing is that you only see what profit u made is when you secured (already put the FP) but you can obviously see how much you are going to profit from that. Only thing, i mean only one is that FOE info tells you you are going to make x amount straight away without u needing to put any FP. Other thing about Foe GB cost calculator is that you just keep the window of it (GB calculator) open, and just open other people's GBs and it makes calculations immediately, plus its integrated very well, so i think FOE is kinda waste of space.

@@HeroClaws tnx for the -99 info, i use 1%, just sometimes the proffit is bigger. And obv this tool is great way to earn your first? ban :) i did use some tool long time ago, felt like cheating, i deleted the tool but it still whas in chrome and month leater i got this nice small ban.

I'm glad you found it useful and I appreciate you taking time to comment. I agree - I have got to get that FP bank down! FP's don't do any good just sitting there unused! I have been leveling several lower buildings (Obs, CF) that I think are a better use right now than 33k+ for an Arc level - but it feels like they are still coming in faster than I can spend them. LOL

@@BardoFarkins the usefulness of the Obs has also increased considerably since it gained all the blue boosts in place of guild power. 75% blue boosts on my level 100 Obs!

Yes, what a huge boost to the Obs! I wasn't expecting that, but it's really nice.

Thanks, I really appreciate it! 👍

What a great question. I change this over time as my priorities change, which is one of the reasons why it is so helpful. Right now, the only items that I have a value assigned are the following: Forge Points 0.35 Treasury Goods 11 ATT boost - attacking army 0.92 Def boost - attacking army 1.05 ATT boost - Def army 2.92 DEF boost - Def army 3.05 Goods - 10 I tweak this quite a bit, but I am pleased with where these weights are right now. These items are the only ones that are of value enough for me to include in the rating system. Great question - thanks for watching - I really appreciate you!

@@BardoFarkins My set up was almost exactly the same as yours except for one very big change. My FP was 2, set to make attack twice as important as fp.

I can definitely see why you would set it up that way!

@@BardoFarkins I thought I replied, but never did. I was the same proportionally as you with one big exception, My FP was double attack instead of half. Otherwise your defense is a little higher, but it is all the same

Interesting how we were close. I'm glad we can adjust these over time as as the game changes....how our priorities change. I just feel like FPs are so prevalent now with the power creep that getting them in GBs/event buildings are a little less important to me than they once were. I appreciate the dialogue!

I realize not everyone is going to like what I’m doing with the vids, but I do appreciate you giving it a chance and weighing in with some feedback. Be well!

Channeling his inner Jim Baker

Thank you for checking it out! I'm glad you see the value in these tools. It's tough for the mobile players who not have access to these types of tools. Doesn't seem to be a way around it. I love your question and I think most of us have been thinking about this and power creep quite a bit lately. The thing is, for comparing to previous event buildings, it's all relative and that's not really an issue to me. Where it gets more complicated is with GB's - like you said. I would like to weigh in on this in my next video perhaps. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and providing such a great question.

If you don't use it already, you might try FoE Tools at foe.tools/ Thanks for checking out the video and leaving a comment!

Awesome, thank you for checking out the video and subbing!

wait, my tool works on Mobile? I didn't know that, how?

That's cool that it works for another browser other than Chrome. I didn't know that! Thanks so much for watching and sharing this tip for our Brave users.

That is odd...Anyone else have this issue or have a solution? I have never experienced this sort of problem. Is your version of Chrome updated?

I figured it out. I´m dumb. Great buildings calculator only shows if you select a player and building like you showed in the video. It doesn´t just pop up once you log in.@@BardoFarkins

@@cynthiaboras9775 Well, you’re not dumb, it’s just new and takes some time figuring out how it works! Good luck!

Not because im the main dev of Info, but because the things I will note now, is the reason why Info was designed in the first place, Helper injects code in the game, Info doesn't, hence Helper is detectable and Info isn't, Helper got their users banned many times, Info got their users banned 0 times, we make a ethos on ensuring that none of our features actually give you a real game advantage over non "tool" users like mobile players, while Helper gives plenty of unfair advantages and many of their features are borderline cheats (Event helper - can easily be considered a cheat, as it gives you a unfair advantage over mobile only player, Negotiation helper was the same (this one got users actually banned) ... and don't get me wrong, I love FoE Helper as well and use it alongside my tool FoE-Info for some specific things, that simply can't be implemented in Info at all due to Info's text only design ... but ... that is not even really my main point ... do you find "Helper pop-ups" constantly popping up in front of you and getting in the way of the game useful? Cuz, many of us don't, if your a guild leader, do you find it usefull that all Guild stats get deleted as soon as you clear your coockies? Cuz, many of us don't ... with Info you get those same stats, you just need to extract them to a spreadsheet of your own design, where you can sort the data how ever you want instead of being vendor-locked to "Helpers own specific design" of the stats overview, so yes you do have to manually copy the stats to a sheet, but your stats are now in that sheet, forever ... instead of being lost everytime your Windows or Linux or Mac OS dies, and you need to reinstall, or everytime you clear your coockies etc ... many of us preffer a tool that doesn't get in the way of your game (like Info that is a sidebar and has 0 overlay pop ups) ... but FoE-Helper's 1.90 checker vs FoE-Info's 1.90 checker is for example, uncomparable, Info's is 2000x better, it sits on the side, you can quickly check a ton of GBs, when you switch between threads that have different support ratios the ratios automatically adjust, Helper does not have a GBG Target generator that reads marked sectors in GBG, and calculates your attrition reduction chances and generates it as a target list like Info does ... and most importantly, to all those who have went to the owner of this channel with claims that Info can get you banned ... well, so can Helper, except that Helper got their users banned many many many times in the past, while Info users got banned 0 times in 8 years of it's existence, and that's mainly because Info doesn't inject code, doesn't communicate with the server or the API of the game, all it does is scrape data off your local browser, and translate it to Human readable text, so when it comes to getting banned, your more in danger of getting banned by using FoE-Helper then you are by using FoE-Info, as Helper does everything that Info doesn't, hence Helper is detectable by Inno and Info isn't, as when you use Info, to Inno all your doing is having the developer tool console open, and that's not counting Helper's boarder line cheats (features that give unfair advantages to PC players over mobile players) another high point is: Helper slows down your game on older hardware, Info due to it's text only approach doesn't and works even on a "Toaster"

Thanks so much for checking out the vid. The GB Donation feature on Info is far superior than what is available on Helper - that's why I use both concurrently. It's really great!

It's a great honor to have the main developer share these perspectives and insight into the tool. Nobody on earth knows it better! My only suggestion, @kronickpillow - make this comment a "regular comment" as opposed to a response to another comment. My deserve your "own" comment thread! I am very grateful for you and your outstanding tool!

@@BardoFarkins thanks, I just did repost the same comment as a new one, I'll hit you up later or tomorrow to show you some intuitive use-cases for Info, that are not specifically feature related, more like, how we use the data that Info provides for some things, it will maybe give you ideas for more videos about Info, because we need more videos, as I completely understand that the initial look and design of Info looks a little teech savvy, and that many people who use it, haven't really figured out all the possible use-cases like we have when we were building this tool for our guild, Lords of War :-)

Hey, thanks for the encouragement and I really appreciate you checking out the vid. Are you one of these guilds: Tercio Warriors, The Bomb Pops, ExpeditionUnknown, House Atreides, or Rogue Machine? Sounds like you have done well, congrats!

F.o.E Formed a Year Ago, Currently top 5 @@BardoFarkins YW, Eu, BH, LF, FoE

Sorry that I am just now responding. The toolbar near the bottom right in the video is FoE Helper. It's a Chrome extension and it's awesome. docs.foe-helper.com/english/installing

Thank you for the question. I do not believe there is a way to use the FoE-Info extension on Firefox. It is a Chrome extension.

@@BardoFarkins Sometimes I help users with some extension for other browsers. You may know that FoE Helper, for instance, works on Edge, Opera and even Firefox, but I found no way to make it work on Firefox. It looks like its security system blocks it. Anyway, thanks. If anyone else finds a way, please let me know.

Thank you for checking it out and leaving a comment! Yes, you are right - to a degree. FoE Helper has something similar (GB cost calculator), but it is not the same as the "GB Donation" feature in FoE Info...and in my opinion it is not nearly as clear and as helpful. I may need to do a short video to demonstrate both tools working side by side on the same opportunity to show how they are different and how the FoE Info is so much better! Honestly it is not even close. But we all can decide for ourselves which we one we prefer. My goal was to provide the information and let you decide for yourself.

I agreed with Bardo, FoE helper have somethink similar but not that good like here. I didnt know about this FoE Info so many thanks for sharing 🙌

Hello and thanks for weighing in! I do not believe that this is an FoE Info or FoE Helper feature, because I am able to access the research cost button on the mobile version of the game. Just make sure you are in your Research New Technologies and you should see the icon in the upper left, very tiny! Can someone else verify that it is NOT an FoE Helper feature, but a standard in-game tool? I'm pretty sure I'm right. Thanks for checking out the video :)

@@BardoFarkins OK, I see it now THNX

Thank you so much for checking out the video and taking a moment to leave an encouraging note!

@@BardoFarkins no problemo! world needs more positivity :)

Oh no! Did you follow the walkthrough in the video? Once you have the Chrome Extension: go to FoE login screen click both mouse buttons at the same time click Inspect click little arrows at top (>>) click FoE Info log into the game as usual That should do it. Good luck, I hope you get it going!

Hate to see top guilds cheating...really any guilds cheating ,but especially top guilds - love it when they get busted. Which world are you in?

I appreciate you checking out the video....What about if you have friends that WELCOME you to do it??? (Well, in my eyes that's not a "snipe"!) Thanks!

People seem to either love it or hate it!~ LOL

Well hello :)

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@@user-nq4qv2qb3u I was thinking the same thing!

Yeah...I've looked into this and I don't know of any other way to use FoE-Info other than using Chrome. Thanks for checking out the video, though!

Fair criticism. This will likely never be a channel that creates 3 minute videos. I may get around to doing "shorts" at some point for a very quick tip. But I expect that most of my videos will be of similar length. Thanks for sharing some feedback.

Sorry that the video was not helpful to you, but thanks for giving it a chance. I would never recommend "sniping" friends who would not want you to do it. Yes, I agree, that would be a turd-move! What I demonstrated in the video is with players who welcome me to add any amount of FPs to their buildings. I have carefully crafted a friends list that includes the following set-up. The first 30 players on my list are friends that I do not invest in - I don't place FP's unless it's on a 1.9X thread. The remaining 110 players on my list are players that welcome and encourage me to place any amount of FP's on their buildings. So I do not consider that to be sniping. I put together a video that explains this approach: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kN-bY9B3tNTGd5s.htmlsi=7aWGWbD_CrdDu7Fi

Thank you for checking out the video and weighing in. I agree with you that it would be a poor strategy to level up your own Great Buildings with a goal of significant FP generation from them. Especially with today’s power creep! But, this is not what the video is about. The video is about investing in other players’ GBs for enormous FP rewards and utilizing the tool as explained to make it incredibly easy to do so. With a high level Arc and a full active friends list of players who do not use 1.9 threads and want you invest any amount, this will generate HUGE amounts of FPs. Way more than GbG will. Also it’s a much more efficient method from a time investment standpoint compared to GbG. In 5 minutes you might lock in several hundred FP profit investing but only earn 100 or so FP in 5 minutes of GbG. Just so that’s clear! Again, I appreciate you taking time to check out the video and weighing in with a comment 👍 These types of discussions are great and what I’m hoping to generate! I appreciate your perspective.

Well....thanks for giving it a chance! Sorry it was not helpful for you. Good luck with the game.

@@BardoFarkins I was just messing with you haha. Great video :)

OH! Well, good. What a relief. Someone had just given me my first thumbs down on the vid after 209 views and I thought it was you! lol. I appreciate you checking out the video, for sure.

@@BardoFarkins wasn't me lol

I appreciate you sharing your observation. My layout is quite efficient according to this tool: foe-city-builder.web.app/#/ Granted it may not be pretty or organized or look the way that you would like for it to, but according to this tool, it is quite efficient and minimizes roads. I tend to agree with the tool, actually. But thanks for weighing in with your thought!

Thank you for the comment. I obviously hope that this is not the case. I have been using the tool for quite some time now and have not had any problem, but who knows, you could be right (?) 2,371 views on the video and this is the first I have heard of such an issue. Have you - or anyone else - experienced this first hand?

@@BardoFarkins yes a few years back my self and 4 guild members got done for using 3rd party tool so it was FOE info or FOE helper support would not say witch one

Hmmmm. Did you stop using both? How long was the ban? Thanks! @@Ce0Grundy

@@Ce0Grundy you got banned for features produced by FoE Helper that Inno found inacceptable, Info didn't get you banned for sure, we'v recieved 0 reports of getting banned due to Info over the 8 years of it's existence

@@BardoFarkins it was 1st time for all so only 24 hours keep using foe Helper cuz back then support had post up say it would not get you banned That post also got removed by support in the past 2 years