Some things I want to address: 1. The charts only include main event buildings, OR the best building introduced if there was no main building. So Buccaneer's Hideouts buildings, the Jester's Stage/Grilling Grove, and the new Mediterranean Memories buildings in the upcoming Soccer Event are not included here. These are much more efficient, but I wanted to keep the charts from being any more cluttered than they already are. 2. The changes to Guild Battlegrounds are looking like they might be bigger than I first thought - they most likely WILL require defense boosts of some sort - which is really awesome. 3. I'm fully supportive of spending money in FoE. And I get that some players will spend money regardless. But to me, it's a hard ask to get me to spend money on something that will simply depreciate so quickly as an event building. Old event buildings used to be worthwhile to spend on because they could last for a while (ie, House of the Wolf, Heroes Tavern, and Eagle Mountain). That's just my opinion though. Spend money as you wish. 4. Tassadar's city was built entirely using free diamonds from diamond farming. But it still illustrates how high you can get city boosts. I forgot to include this in the video.

Totally agree with you. They are in fast growing mode to benefit and especially attract new players eager to spend fresh money and they forget that what makes a Game like this attractive is the diversity and the challenge of building your own empire in the long term, not from one day to another. Those are the players Who keep playing and the base of a Game.

I've been playing foe since 2017. Old event buildings are now useless... Although I don't want to remove them since they hold a place in my heart

I played forge of empires for a few months back in 2019-2020. About two weeks ago I stumbled on a video by foelite and decided to give it another try. I was quite surprised by how easier it had becomed! Indeed, (although I have not checked with numbers,) I have the impression that power creep didn't affect only event buildings. For example, with FP rewards from the event, I managed to get to Iron age in less than one day. Moreover, I remembered that back then, my first GB (not counting delphi) was lighthouse of alexandria, and that I was quite proud of it because I had trouble getting it. But on the second day of my new world, when i opened my first chest from the event-BOOM- 10 blueprints, including 6 from Zeus, which, with some help from my guildmates enabled me to build it on the following day(and i still could have opened chests if I wanted). I was quite active so i don't know if I am average for a two weeks old playerbut I am currently in iron age with zeus level 8, a fully upgraded sunhaven palace, quite a few event buildings that give me additional attack boosts, daily forge points etc, (i actually believe i have more than what i had in 2020after a few months of playing) and hence am on my way to finish GE4 which I never managed to do on my ancient world ! When I was playing this game in 2019, I liked to plan what I will do in the long term to complete GE, advance in the tech tree and so on. As of time of writing, this game seems to have lost this charm...

This was something that I saw too. I have a ton of event buildings I hadn't put in my city, because I was too busy & needed the space to age up. Now even the event buildings from a few events ago aren't worth deploying. Meaning there was no value in doing the events last year. (events are a major chunk of the game). Soon we will be tossing out GB's to add an event building. getting FP's for GB's is another chunk of the game. Kinda reduces the motivation to play GbG too. Without the need to do battles, why have attack buildings? There is no point doing settlements. So they have killed off another major chunk of the game. The ability to "buy" your way to success this month makes the months you have played in the past a waste of time. It must be tough to be in inno now, but if they aren't careful this isn't going to end well.

I agree completely here. I started playing in July of 2022 and I remember being so excited to see buildings like the Heroes Tavern release. However, after spending around $25-30 per event since the Wildlife Event, I can tell you the power creep is insane. I was in LMA in the beginning of this year, with small boosts and only about 1 million score. Now, in October, I have at least two of each event building from this year (except the Panda Shrine), and my city has absolutely blown up. I have nearly 19 million score, a 1570%/850% attacking army boost, and nearly 20,000 of each PE good. I’m camping Progressive Era to level some GB’s, and these event buildings have made that process incredibly easy, as I produce anywhere from 700-800 FP per day. Other things have helped my growth, like Hover Tanks and a Lv 80 arc, but my growth in less than a year has really shown myself and my guild mates that this power creep will eventually kill the game. It has to plateau soon, or Inno will have to release new features to make these boosts worth something. I’ve stopped spending money on the game now, of course.

is the name of the game....Forge of Empires or Fragment of empires?

I agree, it isn't healthy for the game long-term. I'm wondering why bother with cultural settlement buildings. In my main city I added several keymaster workshops and that will yield 2 max Tower of Conjunction buildings a year. This latest event I added the trailside smithy and that will yield 2 Sunhaven Palaces a year. I've seen this kill other games in the past.

To be fair, the new final age Great buildings could be seen as a difficulty increase (at least they continually cost goods to keep levelling) but at the same time they are a massive power creep in itself...

One thing that also contributes to the powercreep is not only the increasing stats for buildings, but also how many you get. In the past you just got one for free and had to spend like 10-20k diamonds for each additional building. Now you get 1-2 full buildings for free and get buildings, that produce the main building or even buff that production as well. I never had more than 2 of one event building in the past, as it was too expensive. This first changed in the Winter Event, where I got 3 on my main world and 5 on my second world to get these nutcracker guardhouses. Now my city has 38 cartographers houses and already 9 buccaneers bays. I spent like 40k diamonds that event and I get one full event building every ~20 days. In the past I would just have gotten 3-4 Bays and that's it. It is getting out of hand and I am already at a point where I don't see why I should spend that many diamonds, if the next building is going to be even better. I really hope they will slow down very soon.

The sentinel outpost has been the most efficient / overpowered building for a few years now. I always told people that when event buildings will eventually match and even go beyond the efficiency of the sentinel outpost, it'll be the beginning of the end for the game. Fast forward a couple of years and we see buildings that are orders of magnitude better than whatever came out just a year ago. Even the harvest kit is obsolete now, which is ridiculous (1.64 atk/sq. should NOT be outright obsolete). As I've witnessed in some of the very few mobile games I've played for a few months or more, this kind of will to inflate stats usually signals that the game is reaching "terminal velocity" when it comes to stats inflation and will likely cease to exist in one to three years of time... But not before the company milks as much money from its user base before pulling the plug. Well done on killing the golden goose.

What makes the game fun for me is being only free to play. Most of my guild mates are like that. I can contribute all through level 4 of GE and help my guild but it's still a struggle. We don't even touch lvl 5 lol.

I'm glad you talked about this I am a ftp player, have been since I can remember maybe 2014? With all the event buildings power creep I lost interest. My entire city was just event buildings which I felt meant I lost all identity of the age I was in. Thus losing all motivation to progress in that age. So I started a new world I still love Foe so I didn't want to stop and this time around I have challenged myself to use no event buildings and honestly I am having a lot more fun. I love each age feeling unique and having its own beautiful aesthetic.

I think part of the problem could be solved by slowly diverging event buildings into specialist categories. It would help if events were actually challenging in some way, instead of just a way to get players to spend hard-earned cash. Something like a military-focused cultural settlement combined with an expedition, or a battleground against an AI, where your skill at building, fighting, and negotiating is rewarded. Monetization would come with an event pass, but the main reward buildings are limited to one of several options, depending on what strategy you chose to employ during the event. Separate, smaller event buildings, or side buildings, would also need to be specialized, and would be awarded as milestones on each possible solution track. This would encourage players to specialize their main city, as reward building stats would match whatever strategy you employed to solve the event.

glad you brought this up as someone who didn't spend I was glad to see that last event actually had one building that had to be played for. I think with settlements there should be a bonus if you have all settlements plus I got spring selection kit x 4 and even wondering if it's worth putting cherry garden set in now. For something to be rewarding challenge level had to be right.... not too hard =despair setting in not too easy either = boring I a. grateful to those pay to play as they make game accessible for all of us but codnt they just bring in awards which give bonuses like they give too in bloom or something like that so just something to reward time effort thought and learning having put in, such that my town can still compete. I know some feel like giving up when they see towns with huge nos of these very big event buildings in them.....

Absolutely correct. For me at my stage of game it is good that I get better Event Buildings. But LB should be higher valued overall.

I had thought with the addition of fragments for nearly everything, that was Inno's way of addressing power creep. I guess not.

Interesting perspective. We need to understand that at the end of the day this is a business which in order to run needs to produce. You also need new players. If we go back to years ago when we started playing, naming our cities "M this, F that" to tell others what to boost in our cities, getting the Great buildings and building them, took years. There's no one in their right mind willing to give 1-2 years on the old playing style just for a game. So what do you do as a game developer, you make buildings in event that can boost the new players to keep them engaged. Is it wrong? -> depends, if you sit and think(I've been playing this game for years and now I can totally start a new city with a new event and get up and running really fast). Change comes fast in this world and also in games. As old players we need to adapt to circumstances. Also the new players are willing to invest more than the old (old ones have diamonds farms running already and they wont invest as much). And as a FP/tile and Atk/tile, getting the gold upgrade comes with a price so getting a lot for it it's rewarding. And from event to event getting into the 1% or gold league it takes some investment, depending on where you're playing

What a funny coincidence: just today morning, considering spending some spending on the new event, I realized how powercreep increased in speed: my Terracotta Vineyard with many lavender fields was “up-to-date” for around 3 years, whilst the Katebo Candy has become almost obsolete within just the last 12 months! My conclusion was that the only solution is to stop spending real money to avoid this trap, deliberately set by the developer, with no doubts. Also, after many months of torment, I finished the Mughal Empire settlement and had some doubts if the main building is worth of placing in the city - I fully share your thoughts on the matter. Thank you for your smart, very useful and perfectly structured video👌

Great Video👍

I wish forge of empires won't be broken 😢☹️🙏😩😑😓

bro just look at the wisteria windmill and one event later oil press. powercreep is insane

It's 01.06.2024 and the history event has ended a little bit before: U could get into the gold league with just the boni from the 25€ chest. So not many people are spending so much extra diamonds into the events The settlement buildings got a big upgrade but we are at a point where LGs aren't worth it anymore (most of them)

Can you do a power creep update video with the newest buildings and upgraded settlement buildings?

haha, Cultural Settlements .. i was just thinking about that, been playing the game for 6-7 years, only Cultural Settlement I ever completed is Vikings, cuz the rest of them are complete crap when it comes to the rewards, I'v been saying that for a long time, 6+ months to get a crap building, while you can get a better one in 2-4 weeks on a event :D

Power creep is part of the game. Event buildings become obsolete after 3 or 4 years. Problem is that innogames hasn´t really updated the options where to spend all what is collected.

Great video expressing concerns that I also have about the game. And I like the idea about more levels for the cultural settlements. What about the new Titan GBs? They are also massively powerful compared to previous GBs -- but then again, they take a lot more resources to level up. Do you think they are part of power creep? Or is gaining levels hard enough to justify the benefits they give?

This power creep issue is definitely scaring me too! It's like watching inflation occur in FoE also and not just rl :( Inno *needs* to put the brakes on this.

While i agree with everything you've said for players like myself that have been around for over 5 years its been clear for a long time that Inno has no desire to keep the game around. They are milking it for all its worth before it goes. Take GvG. They will not do anything to combat cheaters. I have talked specifically to mods/community managers. They know people are using bots for sieging/DAing/Fighting, but they don't care. Its not a priority to take on at full scale. Why is this a problem? Rankings. GvG while it is the least played aspect of the game (most players play on the mobile version) its still the top way of generating prestige which is how the guild ranking are calculated. So on my server one guild that is known for using bots and even gives discord classes to its players on how to use them controls 85% of the AA map and they maintain the #1 spot. Players have gotten burned out taking on this crap. The next big issue that Inno won't touch is alt accounts/Push accounts. Push accounts are easy to spot. When a player has the top spot on a GB that is donating 15K fps ABOVE the reward return on 5,6,7 levels its clear its a push account. No one just burns that kind of FPS out of generosity. On my server the same guild I was just mentioning has 10-15 of them. If you pull up their GBs its quite literally a joke. I think one of them had a total of something like 150K forge points "donated" by a single player more than they returned in rewards as that GB pushed from 150-180. Seriously 150K forge points. We documented it. A friend and guild mate of mine built a portfolio of spreadsheets on the issue and what was Inno's response? "Players can donate however much they want to another players GBs even if it looks completely out of the ordinary". In other words so long as Inno can pretend its a real player and they are just super generous it doesn't matter. That is exactly what the mods several of us have spoken with on Discord have told us. That brings up the next issue which is the TOS. Did you know the TOS has a clause in it that basically says the community managers get to "interpret the TOS as they see fit and their decisions are the final decision regarding any TOS dispute" In other words the TOS you agree to when you sign up is meaningless words. We have seen players banned for "in appropriate content" because another player in another guild messaged them talking trash and they responded in kind. The massager reported the person that responded and the responder got placed on suspension. We provided screen shots of the PMS in open tickets to the community managers showing that everything they accused the responder of was being done towards him in the first place. It didn't matter. They also informed us that screen shots cannot be used as evidence in TOS reports even though there is a spot a the top right corner for you to upload images supporting your ticket. That are are a mountain of real issues that Inno refuses to address to make the game fun. Because of this they have lost a lot of the older players. To compensate they are running power creep through the roof to entice new players to "want to be the top player" even though they can't since many of the top players are there due to cheating. I have event touched on subject like players selling accounts and forge points. Its all designed to milk as much money as they can before the game implodes. Inno is doing nothing to ensure the long term stability of the game. So again while I agree with everything you are saying until folks like you start holding Inno accountable for the issues they are sweeping under the rug that are far beyond out of control power creep its not going to matter.

Very noticeable the change in power on new buildings. Add this to the castle system and massive increase in incidents, all creates inflation, by any other name.

how is the top FP per tile building the Sunhaven Palace? At FE that gives 21FP on a good day (if you win the large pack on that day) and it is a 4x4 building. Meanwhile the Aegean Garden Resort gives 88 on a good day and it's just four tiles more at 4x5.

Been playing on a world for over 1 year and approaching the 2nd and camping in Indy with OF troops while working on my plans to level up to future age eventually. Sadly I can't keep up with a player that appeared out of nowhere 3-4 months ago, bought 16+ buccannears and 24 cartographers house to go with them (but let's be honest, in 2-3 more events they will become redundant and dead space since buccanner will be outclassed in %/tile all around like it already is), 5 viceroy's, 8 sunhavens, 4 wisterias, 4 legendary lodges and 6 couple resorts. The trend continues with the current event, already having the max golden upgraded building on day 2 (lol) and with with each passing event having more and more broken event buildings I can see a few more that the same will happen, and probably replace a few since they will be outdated. In a matter of a few thousand dollars, 3-4 months, that player has double of my city stats of almost 2 years. Sure this could've and always happened in the past, or else the top rankers wouldn't be so far away from the others, but the lack of balancing this buildings just enables this kind of ridiculous spending sprees for insane progress even more, and even more notieable boosts and overall production wise. Like this player, now pretty much permanent in my neighbourhood, and with a full diamonded map to push into OF+ map and get troops, I can imagine many more appear in other servers, and even in this server I can imagine a few that did the same, just are not permanent in my neighbourhood and therefore I wouldn't rlly know. But for how long will they need to spend such a ridiculous amount of money? Probably not for long, myb after aging up to max era eventually to fill a lot more space, but the faucet will be turned off at some point, and what we will have left is a broken game with irrelevant updates, that will stop making money, and in desperation, they will probably try to power creep it even harder, because it's always like that. Once you dip you feet in power creep, you can't get out

I find it hilarious that by trying to make a good, semi-complex strategy game, Inno has created a community of hardcore number analysts who could probably run the game better than them.

I have been thinking the same thing for several months.

Agree

Making cultural buildings stronger is the last thing I want

even getting fragments of stuff that i don't want sucks too because the way they designed it, every time i get one it interrupts collection.

el peor error que cometieron fue el permitir obtener más de una casa del cartógrafo eso desbalanceo completamente el juego, ahora con respecto a GVG o campos de batalla en mi servidor ya pocos juegan los gremios grandes que solo son 2 no dejan jugar ni hacer batallas a los gremios más pequeños está totalmente desbalanceado, yo propuse que se cambiaran el sistema por una batalla campal entre 2 facciones o te toca bandera roja o te toca bandera azul que será escogida al azar.

Or players will be addicted to the next best thing and will be trapped in a loop of throwing away their hard earned money. It is kind of addictive, i must say, especially for new players who really want fp production. Also, some players flex on having multiple of these op event buildings. So much so, that some top guilds are requiring players that spend money in the game so that they can absolutely destroy gbg or gvg. The entire thing is slimey.

Agree 100%. Been playing for aobut 7 years now. Started a diamond city 6 months ago. That city is stupidly overpowered in EMA with 3 Sunhavens, 2 Bucaneer's and so on! The buildings are producing fragments of small buildings with attack/defence, so I have no need to do any more events or do anything in fact. The stats I have now of aobut 400% attack/def are the same as what I had after YEARS of playing in my main city. Developers don't seem to realise that making everything obsolete or too easy is the fastest way to lose players. They will keep it up though.. that is guaranteed. I have paid £20 every month for the golden upgrades and extra bits in the special reward line. The top tier building is rubbish compared to the golden ones and so you feel obligated almost! Prior to these golden upgrades I would only spend £20 a year on diamonds to pay for city squares. So, their plan is working as they must be raking in revenue. Losing players who are bored is probably meaningless to them and they are revelling in the new income stream! Oh, and yes, event buildings are SO powerful now that great buildings are deleted to make space for them. I deleted Haggia, Inno, Traz (yes!), all near level 80 to make space. Cape may even go next... I also don't feel the need to build the titan buildings. Why bother? The event buildings are half as good and look nicer, and have little extras going on to make them more fun! Last thing - the last event building - the Autumn Vineyard. Ridiculous. I now get 20 bps for the Titan buildings evey day (cos of gold upgrade and blue galaxy). What happened to being thrilled to get a set of BPs for these buildings and patiently waiting to acquire more? Now, I will have a full set of BPs for any new GB after a day! It's just dreadful. Oh well. sad that it is so imbalanced now.

The problem with bringing harder challenges such as 5 Expedition, new battlegrounds and other is that it will turn the game into a total P2W fiesta. Without spending 25 euro/dollars on each event to get golden tier buildings you will simply get behind everyone else, which would turn off alot of players.

Hey I just got two of the new Sunhaven Palace, so shhh! Seriously though, it’s money and money quickly. they don’t want people to spend years building, they want short term gain and that final drip of cash from a game that is on its last legs anyway

I start playing back in 2014... I can relate, my 1st town haven't got past the futur age because I just abandon it and start again on another world with friend, in fatc, I have abandon 3 other world because of that :/

Everyone I know has stopped playing FOE...well just me but statistically that's 100% I thought power creep was going to be about a new game, oh well the search for a new game for me continues :D

I wish it would be you who creates the game lol. Would be much better. greetings from France ;)

And I wanted to install this game after 2y gap... I'll probably pass, thanks for the video.

Great Buildings being powercrept is concerning

I would love to see a chart that showed world wide stats on Attack and defense for attacking and defending armys. World wide not server or country.if there is such a thing i would love a link Please!

how's their relative new game doing? Rise of Cultures? do they want to kill FoE to make a shift toward that one?

Aachen is not long for this world. Zeus will have one more year if the rate of inflation remains at these levels.

Dont worry, they will come with something to boost GM and colonial monument. I am sure of it :D

At least these new event buildings give a chance to free to play players not be left behind compared to those who spend big.

Interesting video, but I don’t agree with it all. FoE has always been designed to keep progress slow and therefore balanced. Event buildings rewards improve with each era so early buildings always become redundant over time. But its not as if a player would get so many Sunhaven palaces they would instantly delete the pirates buildings. Most players would only win 1 or 2 event buildings (unless they spend money and have diamond farms) so it tasks years to progressively swap them over. And city planning is an interesting challenge in itself. Also, the buildings have a range of rewards from fp, attack, defence and goods. The value per tile graph is too simplistic in that regard. Until recently I completely discounted defence army boosts, but have quite enjoyed rebalancing for GE V. And each building gives fragments for other smaller buildings so I take account of that when selecting which version to build. With Titan, I have switched heavily to blueprint producing buildings, so Its not solely about the immediate fp and fighting rewards. And the golden upgrades are a neat way of improving earlier buildings. Titan era is clever. Although the GBs are exceptionally powerful, it is virtually impossible to build them unless you are in that era gathering the goods as players get so much benefit from keeping them instead of selling for fp. Things I would change. The cultural settlement buildings need polishing. I only keep playing Egypt because of the Flying Island. And I have removed all the secondary SC buildings. The GBG reward buildings should have unlimited upgrade options like GBs do. As a diamond farmer I am disappointed to have to spend real money instead of diamonds for the additional reward threads in events. But I play the game a lot and don’t mind sometimes being indulgent.

players do get rewarded for playing and playing often and everyday, the neighborhood list is currently arranged by era, they may have to change that according to a player's level of power to make it more challenging, I think Inno creates within the game what they are experiencing as a business, IMHO.

The death spiral has started. I've seen this same pattern in other games near the end. There are no new players spending money so the squeeze every dollar out of the "$ whales".

Still, Inno does seem to be going hard into making buildings cost population again and adding buildings that cost happiness. Glad to see that they remembered that once upon a time, players had to worry about population.

Nearly half the GB,s are not worth having, so why not phase them out and introduce new ones.

I wouldn't mind some sort of permanent second city/town. I am currently in Post-modern so do not know if this happens in later eras or not. Perhaps a revisit to each previous era so that you have a Bronze Age town, An Iron Age town, An Early Medieval town etc? Each contributing particular era goods to later eras. Era specific GBs stay in their set era towns, as do cultural buildings etc. Or perhaps themed towns having greater boosts than unthemed, Asian themed, Celtic themed, Mediterranean, Pirate etc?

I think that the main goal of inno is to hype players as much as they can before they nerf gbg and other stuff like they did with ge(they made it impossible to finish ge5 without spending 10k goods)and now they are adding tons of buildings that give 40 goods per day and legendary lodge gives goods now too. Players were furious about ge because it wasn't feasable at the time but now that we get such a good buildings, players will be more acceptable to radical changes

see above....

This game is like a fire the bigger it grows the sooner it'll burn out.

If you have a wallet power creep is no problem - if your free to play then tough road ahead for you.

at this point, settlements are good for essentially only emissaries now. i still play them, it’s just getting boring.

Titan buildings are way better than older ones. I think they need to make Attack much better. You need 1000/1000 or more to have system fight for itself but still hadn't made it thru expectations. HATE fragments. It seems like a way to drag things out. And make us play longer. I hate Space ages because they are just dungeon grinding .era's that want to make you not move fast. Which some lose interest in playing. It already takes years to get there. Now they drag you out. things like closing mining when you level even. Yes you can put up a building in next era to help. But thats just to make you take up space. Need way to much of older mining goods in space too.

as noob i want these buildings lol

I don't bother with the Cultural Settlements anymore as the reward is not worth the effort.

Great video, and I couldn't agree more. While I've really been enjoying replacing all of my old event buildings with much better ones in recent months, it's also been a bit worrying seeing so much rendered obsolete virtually overnight. It feels a bit like a runaway train. That said, what I've seen from the difficulty in raising the more powerful Titan GB's, the difficulty and cost of level 5 GE, and hopefully the renewed challenges presented by changes to Battlegrounds, I think there is serious cause for optimism about this all balancing out. The company knew they had to do something to reignite fans and get people spending again, and they basically gambled on risking power creep/leap for a jolt to revenue. The initial part of the plan seems to have worked, as people have been spending again - let's just hope that all of the balance changes to things like GE, GBG, and now "guild raids" accommodates and sort of re-contextualizes that explosion in event building efficiency. The game can either evolve or die, but that's easier said than done - I like what I've seen so far, personally.

You started with a really strong point about power creep but then softened to say it might not be a problem yet. It's a problem. You can tell because top cities only have 3 or 4 different buildings in them. My biggest disagreement is on GB's power over time. Fps become so easy to acquire in the end game that you have to spend them somewhere so it's just not a problem. Arc already 180? Great, take AO and CF to 200. The attack stats are starting to matter much less except for defense and this should be the main focus of the power creep argument. Goods are now way more important for many players trying to get their SAT GB's to even level 40. The game does need actual innovation and less repetitive motions or it will continue to see players drop. What would actually incentivize new players to join?

Yep, I am losing interest in the Arms Race pretty quickly.

Bring back bad buildings again!

on the other hand, as a players who plays 6 years, and Leads a Top 1 2000 days guild, I have to say, that the "new modern players" are blinded by all the other varieties of income and how you can be a effective player without focusing your entire game on attack and GBG income ... 5K+ attack? is a pure waste of space, as currently there is a attrition cap at 150 attrition, meaning if you can win a fight on 150 attrition, you can win a fight at 1000 attrition, because the difficulty of attacks doesn't increase after 150 attrition ... so, every attack % above the attack % that is needed to reach the attrition cap, is a pure waste of space, and could be used for something else, like passive goods income, or passive treasury income, or even passive FP income ...

Take the "might" out of the title, add "will".

This power of event buildings and large buildings breaks the structure of the game, so their power needs to be nerfed to be more balanced

the new titan gbs are what i think are bs and even worse with the gbg buildings you get IF you are good enough to get them. These only make strong guilds even stronger and shit on all the small guilds

It's wild that a game I have so much fun playing wouldn't be a game without people spending ungodly amounts of money on it. While I'm just free to play because I love the grind. Inno literally hates me, and everyone like me and didn't make the game for me, which hurts. Like sure make your money but can we have any passion for what was created? Is it really just sharks from the show shark tank trying to maximize profits? There are no nerds like us who actually like grinding MMO strategy games free?

I started Foe in August last year, spent $100's. Probably the best game I've played on mobile. Ngl, my city's kinda op.

I love this game but i have to admit its pointless af Whats the point of "advancing through eras" if 95% of all the buildings of "advanced players" are event generic buildings or special buildings that dont have anything to do with the actual era they are in? Hundreds of forge points per day and millions of resources per day... for what? In orden to win the game? The game has no end wtfff. Whats the goal we are achieving from playing this game for years?? Can someone explain it pls?

....Wow, people are still playing? I had started on one of the newer servers and it died so hard it was hard to field even one guild. Then another new server started and that died even faster due to people quitting when they saw others spending/using large diamond reserves. I quit awhile ago due to dead servers as they kept making the game worse with every single update over an entire year of bad updates that made the game progressively worse to play where people who had played since launch even quit due to how bad the updates were. I Really really do not understand why/if this game is even still alive anymore. It was a better game if they didn't update it prior to 2021. It would be more worth it to play.

I can assure you that this is not a problem, InnoGames is in the process of fixing a lot of things in the game where this will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.

I think in 2 years I have 12000% attack boost and my City Produce 6k fp daily 😂

I kinda disagree. The power creep gives newer players a chance to catch up quicker. The rise to be able to be in a top 50 guild and do hundreds to a thousand fights is far shorter than before. Theres nothing more likely to make someone quit than feeling like they arrived too late. The best GBs still do far more per square than any ebent building once you've invested enough and got there (att trinity especially) and theres nothing like traz, Blue Galaxy, Chateau Frontenac, TT and others) its still better than most event buildings. Nothing adds to guild treasury as well as the 4 GBs that do. I think theres a consensus already that settlement buildings are a chore and the reason they survive is that they are like a perpetual event. You can have min - max options, but also have something that is to the side, without time limit and still be worthwhile. Overall, the game is past its used by date, but what theyve been doing lately is rewarding to players more than before and profitable too. In the event with the Conjunction buildings i played as far as a could and when i looked at the rewards in the top lone, i figured the $14.99 was worth it. That kind of ebent turns free to play players into pay sometimes whennit is worth it. Sadly, the people that started playing in 2014 are not their target market anymore. People like me that started last year are.

Why spend 1000s of FP on a few levels of a great building when one event building gives me that attack. Sure, eventually Ill go back to leveling the trinity and others but no rush.

They need to make GBs worth more with the higher levels. Change it up.