FoEhints: City Planning in Forge of Empires

[@mememeet4140]

The quality of this video is outstanding.

[@mememeet4140]

by the way if anyone is interested in playing this game i would be glad if you would use my invitation link: de.forgeofempires.com/?invitation=5654672-de3-l&ref=player_invite_link

[@vitorfray]

With the new city editing tool, it is much more pleasuring to plan your city.

[@Jaden-lv7kx]

Still would be nice to have the ability to flatten your buildings.

[@HesteBremse]

For city planning it is also important to avoid having roads on the edges of the city - they will be doing only 50% of their job, which is to connect the buildings. Also one should avoid having to many Double Lane roads - they take a considerable amount of space and gives less passive happiness than 1x1 roads. In fact double lane roads should at best only connect buildings that require Double lane roads.

[@FoEhints]

Yes, absolutely correct

[@alphapimp]

Your presentation and delivery are second to none, and great music as well. Watching them all. Thx for the in depth philosophy and the core breakdowns of this great game 👍

[@jazzandfunkequalsjunk179]

The quality of your voice is outstanding.

[@THEREALKEEGANWELCH]

No, It Isn’t It Is AROUSING

[@FoEhints]

City Planning The efficient design of a city is a big factor in a player's success. Before you ask 'WHERE' to place a building, you should decide 'WHAT' type of building you should build. Houses In each age the is a house type which can support a much bigger population than all others. In the bronze age this is the chalet, in iron age it is the cottage, in early middle ages the clapboard house , in high middle ages the town house, in late middle ages the apartment house etc. Typically this building always comes very late in the tech tree of each age. You should use this type of houses only. Other houses would deliver more coins, but if you play often enough, coins will not be short. Space is the real problem. And with this type of houses you reduce the space needed for houses significantly. And I do not skip ages. Indeed I place the appropriate houses in each age as soon as possible. That requires a lot of supplies, but playing wisely you will have enough. Production Buildings In the beginning I build many production buildings. I prefer to use the big production buildings as motivation has a much better effect on these. I especially recommend the farm and the tobacco plantation. In later ages you will use less age specific production buildings as you will have many event buildings. These often are more efficient than regular production buildings of the same age. E. g. the large confectionary from the winter event of the progressive era produces 2,123 supplies per hour. The much bigger garage only 1,740. Event buildings help a lot to reduce the space required for production and to always have enough supplies. Some great buildings offer a bonus for the production of supplies. This can reduce the number of production buildings significantly and reduce the space needed. On the other side spending forge points for such a building will reduce the speed for researches and great buildings with fighting bonuses. So such great buildings are not my first choice. Goods Buildings Of course I always build two goods buildings in every age. For my own development and guild support this is usually enough, especially when producing three times a day (2 x 8 hours, 1 x 4 hours). Even if you race through the ages goods will not have a shortage until the industrial age. In the later ages, goods will be a challenge sometimes. Players having research break for developing their great buildings will have less problems with always having enough goods. Great buildings to support goods production are not really required until modern era. In lower ages such great building are only recommended for tradespeople. You can sell old goods buildings if you have enough goods in your inventory. Some 300 of each type are sufficient. Only for gvg you never can have enough goods. In higher ages you should consider that producing current goods will require good of a previous age. Cultural Buildings and Decorations from previous videos you all know that I dislike decorations. A polish on a cultural building is so much more efficient, but nearly wasted on a decoration. In your early development most will make exceptions, but then there is a rule: A cultural building with less than 100 happiness per field is a waste of space. Generally prefer huge buildings instead of tiny. This again has to do with the polishing effect. Of course I appreciate happiness from great buildings like my Alcatraz. If someone would build a great building for happiness only it should provide much more than 100 happiness per field to compensate all these forge points invested in it. Notre Dame would reach that level after investing 1,470 forge points. And you cannot increase this by polishes. Therefore I never would build Notre Dame, as the bonus (supplies and happiness) are not compensating these many forge points. Military Buildings For the fights in the provinces one military building per type is enough, if expanded to 4 units each. Those who participate in guild expeditions will build a second one of some types. This reduces the breaks between fights significantly. When you know what you want to build then you should start to think about how to arrange these. Huge buildings should always be placed at the side of your city. This reduces the length of your streets. Buildings preferably should be connected with their shorter side to a street. Similar buildings can be stacked very efficiently. Towns in the form of a square usually have less streets and less wasted space than long cities. Those who want to try different designs for their town might want to use an app for it: foemanager.com I highly recommend not to use the game's password when registering there. This avoids the developer of this app being blamed in case something might happen to your account. The app can only read from the game. So you can easily try out everything. Also the app enables you to have a completely different view on your city. This way you recognise space tiles much easier. You also can create additional space to temporarily move buildings there while trying new designs. Have fun trying this out.

[@TriCop]

Town hall should be placed in a corner?

[@FoEhints]

I highly recommend this. It reduces the wasted space (i e for streets) and placing it to the rear corner avoids hiding other buildings behind it.

[@merrickfair7819]

What do you mean by 32,73,111 etc

[@HesteBremse]

placing the Town Hall in a corner is the standard best solution and you wont go completely wrong with that - but it is in fact not the best solution. The "Forward Town Hall" - placement is saving you some road space that the Corner placement can not. Forward means to move your TH slightly inwards from the side, so much that you make space behind it for up to 3 GB´s. Those 3 GB´s you can connect using only 3 1x1 roads on the rear of the TH. The Forward Town Hall requires you to have a good solid Square or a contained rectangular city expansion layout (meaning not a long one, or one with many Tooth´s = Randomly expansions sticking out from the main shape). ______ And I am not here to counter FoEhints reply, he makes very good and essential information on the Game. But for City Layout in FoE I have a very special skill and I have made countless studies on how to maximise the space available in both the old city planner as well as in the new one. Forward City Hall is the best at saving some road space, but it also requires you to think and plan carefully how your city evolves.

[@mr_bogga]

I'm new to this game so you are very helpful😁

[@Vandarte_translator]

Your informations is really useful and highly appreciated.

[@philipmarq]

Am I correct in assuming that you sell the old age houses you have built and then build the new age house to replace it?

[@FoEhints]

Yes, I do that in every new age. The result is: more population, more coins, less wasted space

[@rrhoop]

I've noticed that the best houses are usually at the end of the age so what I have started doing is, once I enter a new age, I unlock my 2 goods buildings that I need, then I follow the line all the way to where the best houses are, which usually means going all along the bottom or the top row. Then I switch out all my houses. That way I have the population I need at the beginning of the age & not have to wait till the end. It also gives me the needed population to get a lot of goods buildings up as I tend to have 4 goods buildings for my current age by doubling up what I have unlocked. For example, right now I'm in LMA. My goods buildings are: 1 Bronze 1 Iron age 1 EMA 3 HMA 4 LMA Once I get to the next age, Bronze will go all together: 1 Iron age 1 EMA 1 HMA 3 LMA 4 Colonial

[@Indy509]

As I've gotten up in ages I've done away with houses altogether. Event buildings and GB's provide all that is needed. Im currently in industrial era and have a surplus 7k population with 0 houses.

[@pedromendes6846]

u are a genious, i havent tried yet but im 99.99% sure that this video will help me a lot

[@black97_0]

You think you'll ever update some of your older videos, like this one?

[@ZalvadorZali]

Did the graphics for the iron age house change?? Should I stay with roof tile or get the villa?

[@janica.4688]

I absolutely love your videos! 😊

[@niranjanr8075]

I just wanted to ask, you know we build residential buildings of a certain age and then we move on, so should we demolish it when we move on or keep them

[@TheFloydPinkus]

I really like your videos. Subbed :)

[@piglin469]

How do I make a good forge video also I just restart My city and its way better

[@austintribble1674]

what do you think about Oasis's? I have 3 not sure how efficent they are tho

[@JackBlues1000]

where i can find this city planner?

[@czapkafaraday7040]

Good video but I disagree with you, using the 1H tehnique ( smaller production buildings and obviously the 1h houses) you will eventually get more gold and suppplies and motivation is not that important, for example: I've had compared the HMA coin buildings and the supply ones. The result was quite expected 1H tehnique was better although if you relly on the motivation and 8h or 1Day production you don't have to spend that much time on the game, it depends on the player's choice...

[@FoEhints]

if you are playing that much, 1h productions can give much more coins. I recommend the houses with longer production times as they have more population per house. This reduced the space required for residential buildings

[@jimmyp1298]

Except from the population it is the time that we have not . We cannot connect to the game every 1 hour so there is a chance of losing a lot of money...

[@FireBrand777]

love this

[@stefa7034]

LOVE the music!

[@AussieWolves999]

Do a new version of this video

[@arfanc6953]

Thanks for the info I like your channel keep on going

[@josemiddelhuis6902]

Ican’t find the foemanager app? Is it still avaleble. Sincerely José

[@FoEhints]

Foemanager.com is up and running.

[@BIGREDDOG09]

his voice has a real nice range hah, imo building a GB purely for it's happiness bonus is a waste of resources as happiness is so easily achieved after just playing a few events and placing the rewards

[@FoEhints]

yes, today the event buildings provide more than enough happiness. When the video was published the event buildings still were much worse.

[@kayseek1248]

If only I knew this earlier.

[@sieme-stopmotion]

Thanks fore halp and youre voice is still funny 😂

[@daveirish8890]

Hi There, FoEhints I Turned Down Your Music (Just a little) So I Could.. >> Hear > Thanks-GREAT-VIDEO

[@WantedSandvich]

Question? So is Colosseum even worth it?

[@FoEhints]

I don't like it. It is a huge building (especially for people in the first ages) and the advantage is some happiness (the small number of medals is not even worth to mention - in later ages you will receive so many medals from other sources ...) 4,000 happiness (on level 10) sounds a lot for a player in the first ages. But later a normal cultural building provides even more on the same ground size and can be motivated. 2,720 forge points could be invested better, I think. I would not build it.

[@WantedSandvich]

Thank you for the tip. Maybe you should make a video talking about the value of different Great Buildings, their worth in terms of investment and space :)

[@rrhoop]

I had no plans to put out the Colosseum or Notre Dame. There are much better GBs. For example, Deal Castle gives way more medals than Colosseum & it gives a much needed military bonus. Maybe when I get way far into the game & I've gotten everything else 1st, I may put them out then.

[@FoEhints]

yes, this woll come soon

[@skillplay1532]

hello i am in colonial age and i dont know if is beter to build twice fast and heavy unit barracks or i have to build more suplies building

[@FoEhints]

+Skill Play this depends If you have many rogues the number of required military buildings will be reduced. More than one military building of a type is only needed if you play guild expedition and/or gvg

[@skillplay1532]

i have four rogue hideouts

[@ritamcguire615]

I can't even get 1! And I play all the events.

[@theemperor-wh40k18]

Rita McGuire did you get one?

[@borcegjozinski8066]

Im in EMA period.Shoud i have 2 mounted archer ranges?

[@FoEhints]

It is not a must - but I highly recommend it. I demonstrated in my videos how strong mounted archers are. They have a weak attack value, but as they can move very fast, they hit with each move, always move first and and play hit and run with other units. Sometimes I used more than 4 in a fight. But the main reason to have more than 1 range is to reduce the time between fights. If you are an active player, you will want to have a second range - except those who prefer to use goods in negotiations to get sectors and to have progress in the guild expedition. here the links to the FMA playlists (sorry still in German, not yet translated): FMA: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3-ui2arZrh3nKs Bonus Quest: kzbin.info/aero/PLDfrOfAZN9xvGwjn1EWVBXwPZCwHcLQNs

[@daveirish8890]

>> Thanks-GREAT-VIDEO

[@josephkaroly8152]

I'm on pro4 area goods and army and supplies buildings are pretty large

[@FoEhints]

your city received many expansions and grew a lot. But also the buildings are getting much bigger.

[@josephkaroly8152]

@@FoEhints I have 2 worlds one I'm on high middle ages

[@Leto85]

I'm in late medieval age and I haven't even unlocked one single great building.

[@HesteBremse]

You can always start with a Zeus (fighting Stats), Lighthouse of Alexandria (production Bonuses) and I recommend a St. Basils as well (Coin Bonuses or coin worries gone). - If you like fighting then you will need an Alcatraz to get daily Units and it is also good for Passive Happiness. There is a list of several GB´s that should be avoided regardless of how you choose to play. Notre Dame is being one of those - mainly consider what your really need to support your gameplay - and at higher ages Coins and Supplies are nothing to aim for with a GB.

[@kimmimcknight3417]

The Bronze Age chalet is pronounced, "Shall AY", not "SHALL et"...it's French...

[@ardimahardikawidyatmokoxg0555]

Kimmi McKnight ...so what are you trying to achieve

[@LinhNguyen-qw4zh]

I'm recently come progressive

[@davidsparks4913]

If you concentrate on special buildings like governor villa or crows nest and others you will find that they are much better than houses and decorations. you will get more happiness, population and gold. i am in the lower middle age and have 0 houses.

[@FoEhints]

absolutely correct today. Can you imagine how much more difficult it was some years ago when players did not have such good event buildings?

[@sketchstevens5859]

I just saw the promiscuous ad

[@THEREALKEEGANWELCH]

H

[@henrybass9860]

Other people pay with their FP so every great building is worth it.

[@HesteBremse]

That si simply not correct - not every great building is worth it. The about greatest challenge in FoE is Space - or rather lack of space - many GBs´ takes up a lot of space so they better be worth it. Thus GB´s does not automatically attract others players to invest in them - because not all GB´s are worth it. They a long term investments

[@warriorangel6805]

Three of my friends have the same issue....... it says to update your version of the game & when it brings you to the app store screen there is no button to push for the update....... I see this is how you get rid of people, because they never paid you real money for the game..... maybe everyone should stop playing the game....?

[@FoEhints]

Please inform the support

[@warriorangel6805]

FoEhints my friends did but just got the runaround....

[@Jaden-lv7kx]

FOE support kind of sucks.

[@phillycatlady]

That’s nonsense. Support is great.

[@theweirdwolf1877]

Why would they want to get rid of players? Are you dumb? That is just stupid. It’s one of your usual issues which happen with every app, fixes itself in a day or two. Sorry for the late/slightly rude reply