Not a bad video, I love that you're making content for FOE. Just a few extra things I'd note. 3 major reasons for era'ing up besides what you noted, are rank points, GBG, and GVG. 1) higher era = more rank. 10M points is a huge achievement for an IA player, while casual Jup players get it every month. So if you want to reach the top player ranks, you need to era up. 2) Generally, your avg higher era player will easily reach higher attrition than your avg lower era player in GBG. E.g. an FE player can easily reach 60 attrition, whereas that would be quite a feat for an average IA town. Jupiter fighters can easily reach 80-100 attrition. Ofc, higher attrition in GBG = more fights, more strength for your guild if your guild cares about winning GBG, etc. There is also the matter of speed: your average SAAB fighter with nails and rogues can easily do 10+ fights without having to replace dead/injured units, making them VERY fast at hitting compared to an Iron player. 3) To be relevant in GVG, you kinda need to reach PME/CE/TE/FE since that's where most of the rank points are, aside from AA (which usually requires SAV/SAJ troops to fight with). Also, your era up standards (like being able to do GE4) apply up to FE. Going from FE > AF and beyond is a very different choice to make, with a whole bunch of other factors (e.g. do u have enough attack/def for the huge leap in difficulty, do u have SC/AI Core, do u have enough continent map progress not to be bottlenecked at SAM, etc etc). Personally, I think for eras under FE, if you can finish GE64 on auto and your town is filled with event buildings, you should consider era'ing up unless you want to camp in that era for some reason.

When I started my mentors advised me to be in the top 10 of my hood and have at least 5k of each good don't be in a hurry I just moved to artic future the advice I received had been very helpful

I never age up until I'm in the top 5 in my neighbourhood and have enough one-up)reno kits to upgrade all my buildings from day 1...... Then make a plan, determine which buildings you will be deleting, which you will be adding, etc.

Part of playing this game with utmost efficiency is doing things in correct sequential order. Very thorough and good information on when to age up. I like that relevant information in aging is included. I was not thinking about the event quest requirements that might be a hinderance in getting quests done. Summer Event 2023 started today. I am going to wait until event is over.

I never noticed the box with costs of each age. Thanks a lot!

If you want to see why tech racing is a bad idea, get to PE+ and look at the bottom ten of your neighborhood.

This is one of those constantly asked questions, "am I ready to age up? / how can I know if I'm ready to age up?" If someone asks me, I usually provide a few evaluation items to make a wise decision: - is your current city space used in the most efficient way, and is your development hindered by the lack of further space (i.e. you could build a very good event building but you really have no tiles left)? - are you usually placed inside the top 20% of your neighborhood? - can you complete GE level 4 all in autofight without major losses? - do you have enough one-up and reno-kits to update the buildings you want to update? If the answer is YES to all of the above, I'd say it's time to advance! There might also be some other reasons for aging up, for example in your guild you are the only player in a certain age and the guild's treasury is lacking goods from the age you are in, in this case you might want to move as soon as possible in order to avoid the whole guild being impacted.

Hey man, great guide. I lol'd at the mini city at the start. Brutal dedication. I'd recommend you get a better microphone btw, would up your production quality from an 8/10 to 10/10

My thumb rule for aging up is 3 things: 1. able to autobattle GE 1-4 2. top 10 in neighbhorhood 3. atleast 5k for each of the ages goods. I do age up slower than most but found that it makes the game much easier

some of us have goods & unit thresholds also as markers for a good time to age up; a few hundred units of your current age can be good (some might prefer even more depending on just how useful they are); probably about 2-5K of each age good in the lower ages has been stated as good levels; keep in mind that starting about modern age, prior era goods are also needed; so, adjust accordingly if U want to avoid using up space by producing goods U have bonuses from the campaign map (U may not have the space, especially if U're keeping it open for event build/sell)

Good video, helped reinforced my current approach. I'm typically stuck waiting for One up and reno kits so I can get current age troops and goods. Do you know of any event buildings that give fragments for either of these?

There's one special exceptions about best time to aging up, and that is from SAM to SAAB. SAAB units perform worse in SAM GBG than in SAAB itself, so in that case Monday after end of GE and GBG session is the best.

Started the game say 2 months ago now 4 bases and 2 side bases some have done better than no1 base depends what big friends you find . ditches small bases no buildings i seen always invest Ftokensv other peoples Great Buildings so i added 1 here & there to start with Got my 1st big hull 10,000 medals 30 FP and 7 blueprints reinvests 30 Fpoints back on others :) this keeps up for all 4 bases Holding at a lev till i have all the goods & some >>

Thank you for this! Question: I age up on thursday but... is it before GBG starts or after?!! yeah i know i'm a noob! plz answer!

When i age up that day then what goods will GBG require? Those from the previous era or those from the era I moved to?

if you have already dived into the ocean get out of it asap. but probably you have already known about that. anything is better than that. I prefer aging up in the beginning of the a new event. event quests demand hiring a lot of units, which I higher ages ease to get through story quests instead of grinding of gbg

what are all of the mechanics unlocked via tech? is mughal cultural village the last mechanic?

Try and get diamonds from all the recurring quests before you age up.