Change to Finish Special Productions

 

Important changes to Finish Special/All Productions items!

Starting from August 19th, you'll notice that Finish Special Productions and Finish All Special Productions items can no longer be applied to:

• Guild Battlegrounds and Quantum Incursions buildings that produce building Fragments.

It will also remain that the items cannot be applied to:

• Time-limited buildings;
• Cultural Settlements buildings on the Ascended Level.

We understand that this change can significantly impact your gameplay, so we want to assure you that this decision did not to us come lightly.

The reason behind the change

To help you achieve your faster city growth and layout  updates  we made FSP/FASP items readily available as rewards and as products of certain buildings.

However, this availability has led to a widespread strategy where players use buildings that produce FSP/FASP items to collect the necessary Fragments and acquire hard-to-get GBG and QI buildings without actively engaging with those features.

This strategy has led to a critical disadvantage for many players who invest time and effort into these features, and addressing this unfair imbalance was a non-negotiable priority for us.

Exploring other options 

In preparation for the change, we considered other options, such as removing FSP/FASP items or limiting them more aggressively.

However, such measures would have overly restricted all players' ability to boost their productions with FSP/FASP items and buildings that produce them, which is not our goal.

Instead, we focus on addressing the main concern: preventing the farming of prestigious rewards without the requisite skill, effort, and fair investment.

Implementation 

Once the change  is implemented , tooltips of affected buildings will indicate that  FSP/FASP items cannot be used  on them.  If  a building has no such indication , you can use those items on it .

We regret having to take away this aspect and not accounting for it in the first place. While we recognize some of you might reject the change, we hope for your understanding of its benefit for the game economy.

As a result of this change, you may find it necessary to adjust your City layout. To account for those changes and reduce their impact, we will add a Cobalt Blue Lagoon to all players' Inventory. 

We thank you for your understanding and continued support. 

 Sincerely, 
 Your Forge of Empires Team