The City Rebuild Process: You Can Do It! Forge of Empires (2024) FoE

[@cpl_ethan]

Great videos! Just found your channel recently and have been catching up on them all! I have been playing FoE for a little over a year and these videos are very helpful and educational! Two things I have tried to find as a new player that could make good videos for us newer to the game 1. How/When to age up and when to camp an age 2. Play styles of the game. I know you are all about efficiency but the conversation of efficiency around age and tech tree progression could be very interesting! I camped in LMA for 9 months and just jumped to industrial to have some new troops to fight with and more tiles to use. Keep up the great work, looking forward to more videos!

[@BardoFarkins]

Thank you so much for the great comment - it means more than you know! I am glad to hear that you have found the videos to be helpful. I also spent quite some time in LMA - it was a great age to camp for while. Thanks for the suggestions on the video ideas - I agree, those would be great topics that I have not really covered yet. Wow, what a great comment! TYVM!

[@markspangler8573]

Thanks. Good vid. You gave me the courage to tackle better organizing my city.

[@BardoFarkins]

Hey, I appreciate it. Thanks for watching! Please consider subscribing if you would like to see more.

[@colton..]

The optimizer is not the best really. It just isn't smart enough to give an optimal layout. It's a good start, but if you want an advanced layout you must follow tedious steps such as: 1. town hall in middle with ~6 to ~10 evenly spread road branches that touch Town Hall on one edge 2. minimize road corners, optimally having one (or less) right angle corner for each road branch (~6-10) in your whole city. 3. rank your 18 (X road branches * 3 buildings) largest buildings by tile-area and dimensions. Hang 1-12 off the ends of the roads, 2 per each road end. Hand 13-18 off the outside of each road corner, 1 per each corner. 4. the inside of each corner place 2 1x1 buildings such as Tree of Silence or Blood Lillies. ( = 12 trees of Silence ) and 1 2x2 building such as Joyful Nutcracker Guardhouse ( = 6 nutcrackers ) 5. rank the rest of your road-requiring buildings by area. place them descending order by their shortest side (ex: Animal Crossing 3x6 should only touch 3 road edges) 6. place all of your road-requiring buildings 7. fit your roadless buildings in the remaining space. This formula should produce a road efficiency >100% as shown in FoE-Helper's Town Overview. The highest I've seen is a full city with ~120% road efficiency. As you can see, Bardo's tool gave him a layout around 80%. More roads = bad More corners = extra road edges per building = bad

[@BardoFarkins]

Thanks so much for sharing your strategy. I definitely can see the flaws with the City Builder tool. It did improve my city quite a bit, and I recognize that my layout could still be quite a bit better. I'd like to play around with your formula when I have plenty of time to try it. Appreciate you checking out the video - thank you.

[@mozesdaniel3259]

can you help me ortganise my city @colton thanks

[@mozesdaniel3259]

can I add you on IG so will be easyer to communicate?

[@guidodenbroeder935]

The City Builder simply doesn't work correctly. There will be significantly better layouts than it produces.

[@ShannaShands]

@colton.. do you help others with their cities?

[@y3llowflash13]

Very good and helpful video. Devided to rebuild mine! Question do you have any diamond farm cities ? and do you plan to show them ?

[@BardoFarkins]

Thanks for watching and for the positive feedback! I have never had a diamond farm. Many times I have considered starting one, but just never got around to it. Sometimes I feel like I have enough trouble keeping up with just one city!

[@tristramcoffin926]

Also, I have a question. Is there a way to use city builder but tell it you want say a handful of buildings in specific places and have it solve with those prerequisites? For example, for aesthetic purposes, I want my Traz and Deal Castle next to each other in the SW corner of the map. Then, I want CB to solve for the space around it. Thanks.

[@BardoFarkins]

I would say that you could use the tool as a starting point, perhaps, and then make some adjustments as you would prefer. It is not a perfect tool. It can help, but actually, after I did this video I decided to spend a morning just redoing my city on my own after taking a look at some different styles and designs of players that I consider to be elite and the best players on the entire server. I ended up with a much improved "spiral" design. Thanks for watching and good luck!

[@RochelleBilski]

I breezed past building an electrical plant until I entered the Modern era. how can I go back and build it. I can't get it to appear for me to select & build what do I do now>

[@BardoFarkins]

So, the Electrical Plant is a cultural building of the Progressive Era. If you are in Modern, you can still build it! Just go into your build mode, click the cultural tab (4th one down) scroll through and you will see it. Hope this helps and please consider subscribing to the channel for future content. Thanks :)

[@kimtmikkelsen]

I like it. Thanks for sharing your work. So City builder doesn't touch City Hall. Why do you have yours in the middle?

[@BardoFarkins]

Thank you! That's just where the optimizer placed the City Hall. I think you will see with this tool that it will always place it somewhere near the middle and them branch all the roads out from the City Hall like a spider.

[@DonnaBrew]

Can't use that website with a Mac. I refuse to use any browser but Safari. So this is a no-go video. Cheers.

[@BardoFarkins]

Yeah, bummer. Thanks for watching though!

[@kimtmikkelsen]

Also - in your wrap up you didn't show or comment on QI - as far as I can tell.

[@BardoFarkins]

Oh!.....Was I supposed to? LOL I have some guides for QI settlement maps, but I am not well-versed enough on it to do a video.....just yet!

[@stahlcord8522]

HI, how do you get the list on the right hand side of your screen with the FOE info?

[@BardoFarkins]

Hey, thanks for asking. That is the FoE Info tool. I did an entire video on it if you are interested in checking it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rna1aIB-gLSmZ8Usi=tpbbKF0RCRhDmP-z

[@stahlcord8522]

@@BardoFarkins ok, thank you.

[@kaligulamikrus2394]

👍

[@aidenneill7481]

Very nice !!

[@BardoFarkins]

Thank you, I really appreciate it and I hope you found some value!

[@giantjackrabbit]

GHreat video. Thanks

[@BardoFarkins]

I appreciate the positive feedback. Thank you for watching!

[@angelfury8182]

good video dude :)

[@BardoFarkins]

Hey AngelFury, I appreciate it 👍

[@tristramcoffin926]

elephants help the guild. also, if you have store buildings in plentiful supply and you do why not store everything bc you never know what Inno will retcon

[@BardoFarkins]

I have a ton of items in inventory that I am afraid to put in the AD or even delete because I wonder if eventually Inno will buff them! Elephants do help the guild, sure, but overall their space footprint makes them fairly inefficient compared to my other buildings. Thanks for watching - good luck!

[@pppp-og5qt]

Interesting, i used it for the first time and my road count went from 93 to 159 roads, i'm so happy with the result, not.

[@BardoFarkins]

@@pppp-og5qt oh wow! That’s not good! Whoa.

[@greatozgreatoz5641]

When will we see you Age up?

[@ttwwiisstteedd960]

Can you pauze quit playing foe and then rebuild again after like on the phone?

[@BardoFarkins]

When you say "quit playing" do you mean starting over from the beginning? Or simply taking a break from the gameplay to work on your city rebuild? You can use the "reconstruction" tool whenever you want, but just keep in mind that doing so will likely "reset" a number of timed buildings, especially linked buildings. I may have completely misunderstood you!

[@ttwwiisstteedd960]

@@BardoFarkins taking a break close the app and then go back to it, can i still go back what i alrrady placed down or do i have to do it over again or does it remember what i did

[@BardoFarkins]

@@ttwwiisstteedd960 Oh, I think I understand.....no I believe that when you start rebuilding the city, you have to keep the browser open until you finish what you are doing and then click the "checkmark" (apply all changes to your city) button at the bottom. If you don't, you will lose all of your progress! So make sure that when you are going to do it, you are allowing yourself plenty of time to do the whole thing.

[@ttwwiisstteedd960]

@@BardoFarkins yeah because on clash of clans, you can build, do your thing and come back when you want, and you can make 3 or 4 layout, i wish they do that like that on foe too 🤞🤞

[@andresaavelar4654]

LoL I really need to reorganize my city, right now it's not that efficient... But despite following all the tips for an optimal city, I always end up with less than 100% efficiency

[@BardoFarkins]

Yeah - I do too....as you can see! Thanks for watching.

[@consuratorsimoff3718]

bruh, I rebuild cities to my guildmates and I usually reach 115%+ road efficiency in the first try, it's not that hard dude

[@BardoFarkins]

Awesome! Congrats on your elite-level skillz! Obviously not everyone can do this if you do it for your guildies. Appreciate you checking out the video.

[@MarkUgartechea]

Give me 20 minutes and I will build you the cleanest, most efficient city possible.

[@BardoFarkins]

Hey thanks! Since doing this video, I actually decided to scrap the plan offered by the tool and start from scratch on my own. I am very happy with the result! Eliminated a ton of roads. I'll have to do a follow-up video to show what I did, why I did it, and how there are limitations to the tool that I did not know were there when I made the video. Thanks for watching!

[@catalinrud1560]

I got hopes for an update where you can make your own flag and choose your type of government like constitutional monarchy or absolute monarchy and have families at the first ages but as you research more stuff you can unlock political parties but the fascist one doesn't need to exist so nobody gets offended

[@BardoFarkins]

Interesting....That would be quite an update! Thanks for watching and weighing in with your idea.

[@catalinrud1560]

@@BardoFarkins This would be as effective as the land reform made by Pyotr Wrangle and it would boost considerederably the popularity of the game

[@edhahaz]

It added all the roadless towers next to your HQ. This tool is trash

[@BardoFarkins]

I definitely think it has some flaws. I also would definitely would not call it trash. It can help someone get started, especially if their city has major problems and the user is not too familiar with re-builds. But you are right, I did not expect for it to place so many of those sentinels near the center. But as, I showed, I can move alot of them out to the perimeter. Thanks for checking it out - appreciate it!

[@chris1454]

That website is a scam! The most efficient way it found for my city was with +100 roads...

[@BardoFarkins]

It certainly has flaws, no question. But I would definitely not call it a scam...I mean, it's free, you know? But, you're right, there are some issues with road placement recommendations and I didn't like how it put so many of my sentinels near the center, since they do not require roads, that was weird. Here's the deal....things like this....people can try them out (for free) and decide for themselves if it is something that might help them or not. Some will like it, some won't.

[@chris1454]

@@BardoFarkins but +100 roads is kinda ridiculous, that's undenieable

[@BardoFarkins]

Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with you. I am in an elite guild and here are the road counts of our top 5 players (all well over 2 Billion points): #1 413 #2 311 #3 318 #4 278 #5 274