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| Welcome to the Guide Index |
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There's a lot of guides in this forum. By my count, more than 90. It can be hard to find exactly what you're looking for without spending several minutes digging through the forum. With that in mind, this index is designed so that you can find what you're looking for quickly.
Each guide is categorized into several different sections, explained below. The order they are in below is the order they will be in this index. Guides are organized in the order of their section, then by last year updated, and finally alphabetically.
- Essentials - Some of the most popular guides on this forum
- Informative - Guides that give information on the game
- Game Analysis - Mathematical looks at the game
- Tips - Short collections of tips for the game
- Tools - Player-made tools to help with the game
- GB Threads - Guides devoted to GB
- Videos - Video guides
- Data - Large amounts of raw information on the game
Some useful information before the index: here's the [link] to the official wiki, where you can find a lot of information on the game.
Just to add a disclaimer, I am not a mod or employee of Inno, so it is possible that some of the descriptions are wrong as a fault of my own. If you think a description should be updated (or if you write a guide and want to write your own description) please PM me.
The list was last updated and ranked in September 2022.
Essentials |
- City Planning and Management Guide (2022)
- A thorough look at how to design an efficient and effective city
- Cultural Settlements Guide (2022)
- An full guide for how to efficiently play all the different cultural settlements, and their rewards
- Higher Age Units Guide (2022)
- In-depth tutorials on how to receive higher aged units to gain a massive advantage
- Updated Guide to Game Abbreviations and Commonly Used Phrases (2022)
- A thorough list of all common game abbreviations
- Hands off Diamond Farm: GE 64 Weekly (2019)
- A tutorial on how to build additional cities to farm diamonds
- Dulahan's Guidelines to Lvl 80 Arc Rush (and Beyond) Starting from Bronze Age (2018)
- Strategies for players to rush levelling their Arcs
- Cosmic Raven's Version of Heavy Questing (2017)
- An in-depth strategy into maximizing quests by using the CF
- Get Your First Two Great Buildings in Less than a Month (2016)
- A tutorial on how to get GB quickly, especially at an early stage in the game
Informative |
- Beginner's Guide (2021)
- An introduction to everything in the game, for new players
- Egypt Settlement Quick Start Guide (2021)
- Hour-by-hour tutorial for the Egyptian settlement
- Sniping Guide for New and Intermediate Players (2021)
- A guide for how to snipe other players well
- Amiar's Simple Guide to Settlement Gold (2020)
- A short guide showing how to get gold in the Viking (and all) settlements
- Game Abbreviations (2019)
- A list of game abbreviations for most features in the game (until 2019)
- Guild Battlegrounds (2019)
- An introduction to everything guild battlegrounds, along with strategy tips
- Heavy Questing Suggestions (2019)
- A simpler version of the Heavy Questing Strategy
- Orius' Guide to Sets (2019)
- A look at many of the game's sets and some optimized layouts
- Attack/Defense Boosts and Their Sources (2018)
- A guide on buildings that give military boosts to the player and how to get said buildings
- Beginners Guide (2018)
- A guide giving basic tips and game info, along with helpful links
- Checking GvG Maps (2018)
- A guide on how to check the GvG maps to help your guild
- Morbidejs' Guides (2018)
- An assorted collection of videos on FoE, including gameplay, tips and tricks, and more
- Negotiating GE Tips (2018)
- A full strategy guide for all negotiations (but specifically for GE)
- Attacking with Troops (Basics) (2017)
- An image describing each units boosts against the others
- Some Guides for New Players - GE (2017)
- A brief guide on strategies for GE
- Understanding Guild Power, Guild Level, Guild Global Rank, Prestige, Crowns (2017)
- An explanation of how various guild currencies contribute to the guild
- Understanding Why You are Attacked and What to Do About it (2017)
- A guide detailing plundering and how to avoid it
- Brief Guide to Special Buildings (2015)
- Short list of special buildings and their properties
- General Defensive Military Guide (2015)
- Tutorial about how to defend your city
- GVG for Small or Mid-Sized Guilds (2015)
- A tutorial on how to be competitive in GvG as a smaller guild against larger ones
- GvG Users Guide (2014)
- An in-depth tutorial for how to play GvG
- iPad FoE Guide (2014)
- A tutorial for how to use the 2014 FoE mobile app
Game Analysis |
- Pushing the Continent to the Space Ages in Progressive/Industrial Age (2022)
- A look at one player's work pushing the cMap to the Space Ages in PE/InA, with tips and analysis
- A Model for Evaluating Layouts (2018)
- A tutorial on how to build your city to make the most of roads
- Analysis of Cape: Number of Days to Reach Break-Even (2018)
- Mathematical analysis of the Cape's break even times
- Assessment of Seed Vault (2018)
- Analysis of the Seed Vault and its value comprable to WW
- Good Buildings Vs. Special Buildings (that produce goods) (2018)
- A brief comparison of goods buildings vs special buildings
- Self-Sustaining Condition for Unbirthday Party (2018)
- Mathematical analysis showing the CF levels needed to be self-sufficient looping quests
- The Power of the Oceanic Future Blacksmith (2018)
- How to use blacksmiths in OF to generate many rewards with a CF
- Great Buildings - Categories and Ratings (2017)
- Lists of GB and their efficiency, rated by category and best to worst
- Supply building Efficiently (2017)
- A list of the supplies/tile for production buildings from BA and IA
- The ToR Guide (2.0) (2017)
- Mathematical analysis of the ToR's value
- Actual Real Estate (Tile Size) Required to Run 1 Current Goods Building (2016)
- Calculation of tiles needed per goods building total per age, until PE
- Expected Number of Blueprints to Build a Great Building (2016)
- A mathematical look at the number of BP you need for a GB (with Matlab code!)
- Obsolote - Analyzing the Value of ToR (2016)
- A look at the break even point for ToR, later updated into a newer ToR Guide 2.0 (above)
- One Lane vs Two Lane Comparison (2016)
- A mathematical comparison of the efficiency of one vs two lane buildings for ages PE-FE
- Production Buildings and Supplies (2014)
- Screenshots of supply building productions per age, until CE
- An Analysis of a Road-Building Strategy (2013)
- A mathematical look at which direction to build roads in one's city
- Forge Point Calculations for Great Building Contests (2013)
- A very mathematical and analytical look at taking spots on GB
- Wishing Well Value Comparisons (2013)
- Comparison of Wishing Well production efficiency to tech tree buildings, until InA
Tips |
- Bronze Age Tips (2022)
- A couple of short tips for players in the Bronze Age
- How to get 100 or more Active friends Quickly (2022)
- A brief tip collection on how to get friends easily
- Some Suggestions for Beginners (2022)
- Tips for newer players to avoid plundering
- Be a fast GOSU in GBG (2021)
- Tips for fighting quickly in the game, especially GBG
- Event Tips & Tricks (2018)
- A collection of tips on how to complete event quests easier
- My Friends (2018)
- A collection of tips on how to be a good friend in this game
- Some Quick Tips + Basic Guidelines (2018)
- A collection of tips for newer players on many aspects of the game
- Standard Orientation (2018)
- A guide attempting to establish the baseline for city orientation
- Common Game Abbreviations and Phrases (2017)
- Short list of common abbreviations
- Efficient Road Infrastructure (2017)
- Short piece about one player's road layouts and how they adapt to changing requirements
- Little Tips for Newcomers, by a Newcomer (2017)
- Tips from new players from several forum members
Tools |
- Order of the Arc (2019)
- A link to a player's website dedicated to showing profitable Arc levels
- Ranking Calculations (2019)
- A tutorial on how to calculate ranking points for your city
- The Useless Tavern Calculator (2018)
- Link to a tool for finding how many collections it takes to get some amount of tavern silver
- FoE Calc For MS Excel (2017)
- A game tool for Excel and instructions on how to use it
- TNM's FoE Toolset (2017)
- Links and explanation for one player's game spreadsheet
- World Map (Revealed) (2016)
- All the continent maps, labelled, from BA all the way to early AF
- How to Make a Model of Your City Using Excel (2013)
- A tutorial on how to create a copy of your city in Excel
GB Threads |
- Arc Circle Options (2019)
- A look at different strategies for levelling Arcs
- ROI Based Swap Team/Group Method (2019)
- A method for swap threads calculated on ROI
- Idea for Arc Swap Group (2018)
- A short guide giving an example for an easier way to have an Arc levelling group
- Lock-in Profits with 1.9X Arc Boost for Popular GBs (2018)
- A guide showing which levels on popular GB can be locked for profit
- MsLead's Beginner's Guide to Sniping Great Buildings (2018)
- A guide focused on how to snipe GB
- Preset Style Arc Swap Group Guide (2018)
- A strategy for setting up an Arc swap
- Buying Goods for FPs (2017)
- A short guide explaining the best ways to buy goods with FP (ie, for higher aged GB)
Videos |
- HOW to Make High AGED Units go After your Rogues & NOT your Main Units in Battle (2019)
- A video guide on how to fight well on the cMap with higher aged units
- Combat AI Explained (2018)
- A short video guide on how the combat AI interacts with rogues
- Guild Expedition: Introduction and Basic Strategies (2018)
- A video tutorial on how to play the Guild Expedition
- Power Start for New Players (2018)
- Link to one player's collection of videos about the game
- A Brief Video Guide on the use of Rogues in GE (2017)
- Short video guide on rogues in GE
- How-To Video Tutorial for Novice GvG'ers (2017)
- Short video guide on GvG
- How to Prepare for the Upcoming Winter Event (2016) (2016)
- A video guide for the 2016 Winter Event
- Print Your Blueprints in Forge of Empires (2016)
- A video guide on how to quickly get blueprints early-game
- Video Clip: Friends Tavern (2016)
- A short video about the Friends Tavern
- Video: Winter Event 2016 in Forge of Empires (2016)
- A video about the 2016 Winter Event
Data |
- Forge Bowl 2022 (2022)
- Data for how many footballs one would need for a level 10 event building in this event
- Military Unit Speed/Initiative in Arctic Future and Beyond (2021)
- List of which units move first in a battle and mathematical values for those positions
- Comparison of break-even time for all FP-producing GBs (2018)
- A mathematical breakdown of certain GB's break even times
- Special buildings (2017)
- A list of the stats of all special buildings until 2017, up to FE
- Story Quests in Arctic Future and Beyond (Oceanic Future 3 Map Included) (2017)
- A list of all the story quests and their requirements for ages AF - OF part 4
- Contemporary (CE) Map Negotiation Goods Totals (2016)
- List of all goods required for negotiating the CE map
- Contemporary (CE) Map Opponents, Goods, Rewards (2016)
- List of enemies and province rewards for the CE map
- Expansions (2016)
- Lists of expansion costs (until 2016) and PvP tower rewards for ages BA-AF
- Goods Buildings & Tech Tree Requirements (2016)
- A guide of goods building stats, goods requirements, and goods trading ratios
- GvG - Goods Costs per Siege (2016)
- A list of the goods required for each GvG siege placed
- GvG - Guild Benefits by Level (2016)
- List of guild benefits and cost per level from levels 0-50
- Military Buildings and Units (2016)
- A list of the costs, abilities, and stats of all units from BA to early AF
Note |
While I am an author of a few guides on this forum, I have done my best to remain neutral when describing and listing guides. If you feel otherwise, please PM me or comment down below and I will do my best to fix it.
Additionally, I plan on checking in on this every 2-3 months. If you post a guide and want it to be added immediately, please PM me or leave a comment.
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