It is an amazingly pretty castle though. Choosing between GBs is now much tougher after the 0.26 update. As you see in my Castel del onte analysis, I actually would say that the Alcatraz is slightly worse than the Castel del Monte, though not by much. Great Building Level Up Order RaymondCityCR Mar 20, 2022 RaymondCityCR New Member Mar 20, 2022 #1 For new players (like with only Zeus), what is the best order to get and level up great buildings? Zeus level 75-77 costs 1192 forge points. In effect, they are like large Premium buildings (often much better! You will make a huge investment in FPs in your GBs so making a mistake early on will be costly. For one, at this level, 44 is not a lot of space. Can you provide the link? Would plan to delete at some point. Thank you Agent327, that is exactly what I needed. As we all know, the worst bonuses for a Great Building is flat coins, supplies or even happiness. No GB can supply you with attached units. Castel del Monte: Level 10 until post-arc then 55+. Great Buildings are special buildings inspired by world history which can be built to provide powerful benefits to the player. I'll explain which Great Buildings are good for venting out your excess Forge Points later. (You will want to get the Cathedral up to at least level 6 though, before it will be paying more than the land cost). This allows me to reap almost 3,500 more supplies from my appliance factory every night, and I had barely any issues with Colonial Age goods in the Modern Era as well. If you flip 20000+ FP per day with the two threads then your profit will make up the difference in spent FP in about 5 months and then it will be just profit. The daily income provided jumps significantly after level 7, and is rather nice when maxed (12640 coins since update 0.26), but does not improve further over time. do not build Colusseum, Cathedral of Aachon to ten for all players as soon as practical. It looks like that this is to repel the plunderers once in a while. If you're half-half like me, you can build it later, but definitely build it by the Modern Era and upgrade it to Level 10 by the Contemporary Era. I thought Galata Tower is an event building! Youre going to fight. Any GB that can boost your Goods, Coins or Supplies production is necessary as well: The Lighthouse, St. Marks, RA Hall, Chateau, Frau, Dynamic Tower. So as you all know, there are over 40 Great Buildings in Forge of Empires. CDM? No high level player has it. HAGIA SOFIA Very Good Its too big. Then pick those that fit your style of play. Medals (based on level and age of the Great Building). Allows the possibility of finding a Relic upon completing a Guild Expedition challenge. 500FP donation to your GB of choice in your city. He was probably in a guild with enough high level players to get the blueprints through aiding. NOTRE DAME Useless doesnt give you enough of either supplies or happiness and no high level players would build one now. With all those supplies, youll be able to upgrade your houses fairly easily. Although this is somewhat helpful to all players for conquest of map sectors (and hence saves on some goods), it is particularly helpful to players later interested in PvP contests and medals, so has enduring value. Thats the equivalent of 12.3 Churches, or 4.3 (LMA premium) Palaces, but in much less space of course. Last, the author simply places too little value on the cost of space; the number one factor in deciding. The other benefit is a defence boost (100% when maxed). Doesnt worth to have it. Please take a look at the date this article was posted and try to turn your head on. LOTUS TEMPLE useless the rarest GB in the game. Its not as powerful as some other GBs, but this is offset by the smaller footprint. Nice Great Building to have, but it's really down to you. It provides two very important bonuses: Forge Points and Attack Bonus. Building Age Size Skills Observatory: No Age 3x3 Guild Goods Support Pool Bonus: Temple of Relics: No Age 6x6 Relic Hunt: Oracle of Delphi: Dont rely as I did on building separate Goods, Supply, Residential, Cultural & Decorations when, with some effort, GBs will supply those necessary needs faster. Note that this is purely subjective to your needs and desire to invest in your own GBs. Press J to jump to the feed. Chance to double collect the first number of buildings collected. Chance of getting random reward when winning battles (list of possible rewards detailed on the building's page). Even at Level 10, 4 Gambrel Roof Houses from the Colonial Age can match the Babel's povided population, and it only costs 35,000 coins and 120,000 supplies, instead of 2500 Forge Points. multiple Arches, or markets, only to tear them down again later on when something else more space-effective is available. Chance to double the resources plundered after successfully defeating a neighbors defense. Is there a list of what BP can drop from motivating each type of building within the game? I am currently in the Colonial Age but I think your strategy would still help me out some. And it helps everyone. Much better to build a Zeus and CoA and level them up, less space and more useful attack/defence %. IMHO avoid all FPs that give a fixed amount of asset and go for the ones that increase goods and coins by percentages. If you are a pure fighter, you MUST build it by the Colonial Age and upgrade it to Level 10. The above ends with Hagia Sofia. However but the time you get to the Future, getting blueprints isnt too hard assuming youve also invested in FP GBs. DYNAMIC TOWER ok Tough one this one useful when it gets levelled up a higher AND you aid lots of people every day. The real bonus it gives is unattached units, which will guarenteed your success in the Guild Expeditions and the Guild Battlegrounds. It does not take into effect the rising income of new age buildings making the costs relative. You are using an out of date browser. Just dont rely on them at the expense of a good GB or two. COLLISIEUM. In addition, the calculated FP to block the first place and the total construction costs of the Great Building by the owner. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Haghia sophia . Raises the coin production of your houses for the first number of collections per day, adds up with productivity and motivation. CF depends if you like Quests.. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. How do you advise people of low level to get the blueprints and goods to build the Tower so early in the game? The only thing I hate about this is that it is the largest building in the game (hence really large footprint), but it's easily justified by it's bonuses. So is the Deal Castle 267 times better than the Tower? I hope someone could look at my city and help me understand the game better. Better have shrines of knowledge. The Statue (and Cathedral etc.) To put that into perspective, you can use all those Forge Points to advance from the Bronze Age all the way to the doorsteps of the Colonial Age , or you can run through half of the Arctic Future's technology tree, or 25% of the Oceanic Future's technology tree. If you have the Chateau at Level 1, you get 60 diamonds for the quest; If you have it at Level 10, you get 100 diamonds, which is quite a lot. This is can unlock nearly one city expansion per day, which is astounding! Replace your LoA or add and it is not bad. The medal benefit is harder to calculate, but at nearly 1000 medals/month, is probably worth 5 city Victory expansions over time (10 months), that a peaceful (non PvP player) would never see. In Patch 1.29 (7 July 2014), the maximum level of Great Buildings has been removed. TA level 59-61 costs 1190 forge points with 1.9 thread. I'm happy to tell you though, that you can also have GBs in Comment *document.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a852163ec87b48c132191338f207af57" );document.getElementById("c80a69ff47").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Forge of Empires Great Buildings Value Analysis. BUILD. Forge Points must be added to achieve each of these new levels. SPACE NEEDLE Useless Not enough happiness and you absolutely dont need gold at this stage of the game. I'll rate each Great Building via [TBD] catagories, and rate each of these categories from 0-10, before calculate the average and translating it to an S to F- system. Cape Canaveral: Wouldn't have built until after Arc. But what do we have as icing? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Relics appear as standardised icons in various places around the GE map. A fully maxed Colosseum provides 4000 happiness and 32 medals per day (big increase in update 0.26). Military Boost Your guide ended with Arctic Orangery. Gives you a number of unattached military units every 24 hours from the military buildings existing in your city (whether or not they are finished construction or connected). At 6400 Happiness, a maxed Hagia Sophia makes the Colosseum look puny. St Marks Basilica: Excellent (peaceful/traders). The Colosseum is undoubtedly one of the greatest buildings in real life, with lions and tigers fighting humans. You obviously dont play. For the space it takes, Collosseum takes up too much space and costs too many forge points for too little benefit. Provides a boost for production of Special Goods in Arctic Future and beyond. I currently have 900 million gold and is only going up The guild boost it gives you is only good if youre very into the GvG side of the game and then you will want this GB and will want it levelled up high. Players who have Great Buildings have a "castle" icon on the social menu. I think the ownership rate of the Space Needle speak for itself. Likewise, the space needed is also a big factor. Forge of Empires Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. TA? In that case most of them are bad investments. It doesn't go outdated easily, but overall, it might not be a good idea to build it if you don't have a lot of space left, and do not prioritize this over the Alcatraz or the Castel. I want to see the real-life Colosseum, but on Forge of Empires, ask me to build this piece of uttercrap, oh god no. Not sure if I even like CF but some swear by it. These are at minimum sufficient to pay back the cost of the space and goods required to build it. (Its also more happiness than four premium Printers, for the same space, i.e. The Castel is moderately sized (55=25 squares), providing an attack boost, and forge points. Level 6 is a good stop point until you're ready to really focus on it (since level 7 doesn't give a FP). St Marks is large (66), provides a better daily Goods output than the Lighthouse, and boosts coin production. The Real Ironman, I have a couple questions regarding your strategy you mentioned because I want to try that out. Useless gold and not enough happiness to make it worthwhile. The % scales well up til level 10 as well though so taking it to 10 before you're ready to do post-10 levels is fine. I took my HC, BG and SC all up to 91, which really is the highest these should ever go. 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