When to Age Up | Forge of Empires

Today, I go over everything you need to know about aging up in Forge of Empires. Whether you're wondering if you should move up, what to do to prepare, or even the best day to age up, you can find the answer here!
I apologize in advance for the rougher quality of the video. I was on a bit short on time and wasn't able to polish it as much as I usually try to.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:06 Why Age Up?
1:20 How to Know When You are Ready
2:10 How to Prepare
2:50 When to Age Up
3:54 Conclusion
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Forge of Empires is an award-winning and free-to-play RTS MMO city-building game developed by InnoGames GmbH. It was released for browser in 2012, with mobile versions being released in 2014 (iOS) and 2015 (Android).

[@nightowlgamer2951]

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.

[@glublutz6172]

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

[@UBERnerd14]

It's pretty useful for a quick glance at what you need. I've been aging up some cities recently and it's been nice checking to make sure I've got all the goods.

[@dmcadoo3131]

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

[@kurtisbubier8275]

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.

[@UBERnerd14]

Event quest requirements can be a bit tricky. You can always check the FoE fan wiki for the questlines in advance to prepare, though! forgeofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Forge_of_Empires_Wiki

[@evanputterill8286]

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.

[@FJ_0412]

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

[@UBERnerd14]

I'm actually going to make a video on the Tiny Town soon. And the mic thing.... I left my better mic elsewhere and had to get this done, so I used a worse mic and made the mistake of speaking too loud. I didn't have time to re-record the audio so I just had to stick with it :( This video was on a much tighter schedule than what I usually try to target, so it isn't quite up to my standard.

[@francesconati75]

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.

[@UBERnerd14]

Absolutely! That's a great list there. I usually try to shy away from aging up because the guild wants you to, if you're happy where you are. However, if you don't know which age you want to move to, asking your guild where they need you can be helpful :)

[@joshsmith3598]

No, no and no. People age up without researching what the better ages are. As a consequence they miss the best ages to settle in to grow and end in ages that have crappy troops. The best way to progress in FOE is GBG. You have to find the balance between an age that gives you decent space to load up on attack buildings and utilise best troops in a GBG setting. Only certain ages match those parameters. Once past earliest ages and need to get more space? Progressive is the place to settle. RFCs are one of the best units in the game. They allow you fight better in GBG than any other early to medium age troop. It isn't close. You can grow your core GBs fairly rapidly by doing a few rounds a day in GBG ( a decent guild helps of course). As opposed to being in Industrial or Modern era with troops that are too evenly matched and make fighting fast and without changing troops in every fight much harder. The next age to settle in is Future age. To do this well, narrow the GBs, concentrate on attack and attack defense for attacking army, and stock that bank up. Far too many newish players get GB shiny object syndrome: getting GBs they don't need, yet. As a result they dump Fps into those GBs that would've been better spent in core GBs (Arc, Traz, Trinity, CF and a bit later AO). Of course if you are not a fighter then yes aging up can be done age by age but if you truly want to grow fighting is easily the best path to take. To do that you need to be in the ages with the best troops. Lastly if a Guild is demanding you age up due to treasury goods? They are not a good guild unless you're camping forever in an early age, otherwise? The decision should be yours, not the Guilds.

[@jordanarcos391]

Nice! That's a good list. Some peers in my guild sprinted through EMA to HMA and LMA. I'm looking at there cities and GE contributions and shake my head.

[@tails183]

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

[@UBERnerd14]

Let's be honest here, you can look in nearly any age and see players that flew to close to the sun.

[@paulhellawell5920]

@@UBERnerd14 I've aged up early every time as I like the challenges you get.

[@dumbledorephenx7468]

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

[@bob_greene]

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)

[@UBERnerd14]

I think at this point, many players are getting goods mainly from event buildings than goods buildings, but definitely solid advice to build up previous age goods first

[@yohanneslong1970]

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.

[@UBERnerd14]

Thanks for pointing it out!

[@markissboi3583]

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 >>

[@markissboi3583]

Quest's left side panel ALWAYS start the 1st b4 you collect or do Anything - how many time i collected from tavern & base then find i couldve done a quest xd Learnt that mistake fast xd invest FP all the time 1 fp helps if a biggy which i got a few from . Hold on Leveling up Or battles & task get harder do all map and collect Goods 1st and some extra for next level reasearch's makes it easier do 1 day goods = 20 1 week 140 dye Wine iron stone rock etc always check look ahead to see what youll need 1st Map negotiate or battle .

[@UBERnerd14]

Sounds like you're starting to get a good idea of the general strategy for the game! Hope to see you stick around :)

[@ywills7890]

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?

[@UBERnerd14]

I believe the main event building for the winter event (the winter wonderland pyramid) provides fragments for two buildings that both provide fragments of Reno kits!

[@ywills7890]

@@UBERnerd14 Thanks, just noticed I've got a few fragments for the Winter Wonder Retreat Selection Kit which has those two buildings you mentioned, might take me some time but at least I can see a path to producing them now. Will aim for two leveled up pyramids out of this event if I can make it work.

[@snackybuns]

I have a ton of trees of vitality, which take up a 1x1 and produce 1 fp and 1 one up kit frag every day. My Druid hut produces fragments for the trees so I keep spamming more trees :P

[@JoseFrituz]

i have a pretty strong city, im in the future era and i dont know if i shoudl adavance to the artic future

[@yellowpapricorn8770]

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

[@UBERnerd14]

If you're in a higher age (AF/OF+) you can get stuck though where you can't unlock techs to get the residential, goods, etc. buildings needed to complete quests because you're short on special goods. You will probably still be fine, but it's something you should consider if you're in one of those higher ages.

[@giordanobruno9013]

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!

[@UBERnerd14]

After it starts. And that's a fair question, I should have made it more clear :)

[@giordanobruno9013]

@@UBERnerd14 Thank you so much !

[@patx1238]

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?

[@UBERnerd14]

It should be the age you were in when GBG started, so the old age.

[@nuralsihr]

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

[@majdavlk649]

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

[@UBERnerd14]

There's a bunch, but most are towards the beginning of the tech tree. Arctic future unlocks the Arctic harbor Oceanic future unlocks the oceanic terminal thing. Space age mars unlocks colonies

[@majdavlk649]

havent gotten that far, will have to look up the wiki what those do. are there any between high medieval and the futures?@@UBERnerd14

[@UBERnerd14]

Quite frankly, the biggest difference is in the number of expansions you have to play with

[@RAD_Gamer876]

1:43 69 attrition