TROSOFSMOTHRACE
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I was referring to the more elaborate basic desicions under the old style of coins and supplies. The game has evolved now and I need to catch up.
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DeletedUser31440
You'll need to explain that in more depth for me I'm afraid, the ranking point change happened before I started.
TROSOFSMOTHRACE
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It's a moot point now that you have explained current play but under the old system (before GBs even) you really had limited space to construct your city. INNO has almost triple the game grids since the old days.
You really had to put a lot of thought into road construction and the best way to balance coins, supplies, goods construction to advance in addition to battles.
You really had to put a lot of thought into road construction and the best way to balance coins, supplies, goods construction to advance in addition to battles.
DeletedUser
That has nothing at all to do with the change in the ranking system. And I would argue that the overabundance of event/special buildings makes it even more of a challenge now.
TROSOFSMOTHRACE
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Especially since the event buildings are of greater value than the tech tree constructions. Truthfully the game has been extensively tweaked to prompt the necessity and use of diamonds to stay competitive
DeletedUser31440
Diamond expenditure to get event buildings or are you saying that regularly diamond expenditure is necessary to comptete?
DeletedUser
Depends on what you view as "competitive". Ranking points are irrelevant to being competitive, as they can be highly skewed towards heavy GvG players. When most of the player base can't even access that part of the game, having it so dramatically influence 1/3 of the ranking point calculations is absurd.
TROSOFSMOTHRACE
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Both, but mostly special events and quests. Second wave combat restoration as well
TROSOFSMOTHRACE
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It would be nice if the moderators would provide some more input into the more advanced aspects of current game play, I do appreciate the insights and information of you more astute players however.
DeletedUser31440
Not to sound mean, but I would suggest spending about a month back in the game and learning the basics of FoE today, once you have those you'll hopefully have enough of an understanding to ask more specific and pointed questions that can be answered.
DeletedUser8428
So the "moderators" you see listed here moderate the forum, not the game. They are volunteer players. Some have more experience, others have less. They are not necessarily the most advanced/experienced players of the game. Simply willing players.
DeletedUser29726
Moderators are just players who volunteer their time. They're not in general any more informed than the rest of the population. Inno employees mostly don't post apart from announcements.
with regards to the ranking system and the change:
As people's GBs started to explode in the old system, their points went up exponentially. The *only* thing that counted anymore was basically your highest GB level(s).
Under the new system:
GBs can still count - there's certainly plenty of people whose rank is primarily GB points. Other than the base points they give for construction it's simply 15 points per FP in a completed level. So you have to get the buildings really high to make it count. Also note that treasury donation GBs give you the points of the goods they donate to treasury, so getting those extra high counts double. And Arc drives the whole process AND makes those donations.
For most people battle points are the biggest slice of the pie. This means getting to one of the end ages so that you get more points per fight. And fighting GvG a lot (any fights count, but only GvG is an unlimited source of them - getting to the endgame age and fighting all your neighbors daily might slowly catch you up). To fight as much as you need to you need to increase the efficiency of your troops so the ones you have go further, and your production of them. This involves high level military GBs, which takes a high level Arc to get there. Many high ranking players aren't high ranking because they care about rank, but because they care about GvG.
Goods production technically counts (you just need to donate your goods to the guild to get the points for them - spending them other ways work too, hoarding them in inventory or trading them does not). I however have not seen someone use goods as the staple of how they get their rank.
A high level chateau is also a staple of trying hard as it can become your main source of coins, supplies, and goods.
As for coin/supply balance, it can still be a factor in your pre-endgame scenarios (i.e. if you're starting a new world and trying to catch up without dumping diamonds). But yes, level 80 GBs sort of make it irrelevant. The startup to get to that point becomes the core of most strategy now. What age are you going to switch to focus on levelling GBs to the point where the core of the game becomes trivial? How early are you going to focus on GE? (it's possible in your first week in iron age to complete GE4, but it's a challenge.) How much time are you going to spend twiddling your abort button for quests and which styles of quests best suit your playtime? With that in mind, designing your initial city layout is also still very important. It's going to be a long while before wasting space is no big deal. There's a lot of pressure to get in good GE rewards (especially Terrace Farms) that help level your GBs along with all the stuff needed to keep running GE and getting more good GE rewards.
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Agent327
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Lower ranked players in the hood get attacked and plundered more often.
Kranyar the Mysterious
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Higher in the neighborhood and guild often results in being aided more than if you are at the bottom as well.