In a couple weeks, I’ll be aging up to PostModern and I’ll take you through my standards and preparation. For reference, this city is just over 2 & 1/2 years old and made with high standards from my older city. The main point to this city was take my sweet time enjoying every age, within tolerance. Second was a response to me leaving Future too early in Cirgard, leading me to severely overcompensate early, leading to a long term game plan (Future, early 2025).
As to the standards I suggest,
A checklist for aging up:
1. Renovation and 1ups? Have one for all or most buildings, making new, current goods is a priority, but attack bonus only increase at certain ages. Research. Think strategically about when you age up to save 1ups and Renos. I’ll probably age up during the Christmas event, so any new buildings will be current. Save that last piece. I’ll save up SoH pieces to build new, current one and sell the old ones.
2. Plenty of goods? Not only for tech tree, but long term supply of your old age. Approximately, thousands. A few when young, many thousands as you get bigger. Maybe stagger them for old and new, your’s and/or guild donations.
3. What’s your hood rank? As a gauge of current and forthcoming competition, being in the top 5, consistently, will make sure your not the newest, littlest in that age.
4. Save up to put a few levels on your Traz. As soon as you unlock you next combat troop, drop one or more (if you can’t store your Rogue Hideout, build multiple troop buildings to change the ratio). Troop buildings don’t need to be completed or even hooked to a road, for the Traz to make that troop.
5. Get your CF to 40ish or more. Not only to help with previous and new good development, very important when processing new age quests and increasing diamond income from them.
6. Don’t charge thru the tech tree immediately. Quests will activate including the storyline. Unlock the storyline quest’s request and do as many as you can, skipping low grade rewards. As you need to Research a military or other specific tech, unlock it and go back to processing quests. Diamonds and troops from beyond your new age are at stake. Go forward in the campaign map can help, but you run the risk of bad mistakes (Avoid Oregon!).
7. Wait til GbG starts. Your new, current troops will face your previous age’s troops and earn new rewards. But your AO bonus will not apply.
8. Are your attack stats good for the transition? Ask around to see how someone in your new age does in GbG and GE, comparing Att/Def numbers. It should give you a good clue to what’s about to happen. For reference, go into Arctic Future with a mere 1000 attack and you will probably regret it, in my opinion.
1st. With 59 1ups and 71 Renos, taking my time, patience pays. I’ll still conserve as per habits, mostly to sell some surplus 1ups and Renos, won’t need more til next February/March. I’ve already wrote out a matrix of all my Event buildings, by hand. With size, attacker Attack & Defense, if Aging up increases AA&D, FP/goods, a mark for BG targets and attacker A&D per square. Fortunately, the Winners Plaza is improving this age (+12% total), but if it wasn’t, aging up wouldn’t help anything, so easy to save 12 1ups every other age. The next priority is aging up Buildings that provide more attack bonus aging up. For goods purposes, upgrade as many buildings as you’re comfortable with. If you leave a building at an age, it produces that age. Whether Guild goods or personal goods of the previous age might still come in handy. If you’re needing to conserve 1ups and Renos, try saving up your Statue of Honor pieces. Store your old age SoH and sell. Build new SoH of new age.
I don't spend money on this so no keymaster workshops for me... I do think I will be able to get the Phantom Tower though!
