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Anniversary Event's New Rival System *** updated with Inno's response at the bottom

We at FoE addicts are giving the middle finger to the new blatant pay-to-win (PTW) rivals system. Starting on day three of this event there has been a new rival questline. We have gone from two or three rivals per event to now a daily system. All of them had six quests to reach two milestone rewards and then two additional quests for additional prizes. In order to get the full upgrade of the eternal market that means doing all the rivals to at least quest six for this event. To let you all in behind the scenes a bit we have three people that regularly contribute to this site and a fourth that helps maintain the site when there are technical issues. All of us play the game and we range from casual to hard core so that brings-in some different perspectives. None of us want to continue doing the rivals everyday so we will stop posting the daily rival quests. For live event we will make one big post containing the information we have here from the ...

Anniversary Event 2025

Embargo until Feb 16, 2025 For the 13th Anniversary the merge mechanic is back. We'll go over the broad strokes as this is a well-known mechanic at this point. Gems: The board is filled with gems locked behind glass and a free gem that can be moved. You can match the free gem with a locked gem of the same color and level. You can create more free gems by using the spawner button. It takes event currency "energy" to spawn a moveable gem. Once you match a gem it breaks the glass and levels up. (You can also match free gems to level up and free higher level gems behind glass.) Unlocking gems advance the prize bar. Locked gems have a key part. There are only two variables. If you match gems with complementary key parts (color, level and type all match) it creates a full key. Feed the keys into the converter. The higher level gems provide more keys. Keys are then used to unlock treasure chests. Keys can also be obtained ...

Anniversary Event for live server starting on March 25, 2025

Quests are at bottom For the 13th Anniversary the merge mechanic is back. We'll go over the broad strokes as this is a well-known mechanic at this point. Gems: The board is filled with gems locked behind glass and a free gem that can be moved. You can match the free gem with a locked gem of the same color and level. You can create more free gems by using the spawner button. It takes event currency "energy" to spawn a moveable gem. Once you match a gem it breaks the glass and levels up. (You can also match free gems to level up and free higher level gems behind glass.) Unlocking gems advance the prize bar. Locked gems have a key part. There are only two variables. If you match gems with complementary key parts (color, level and type all match) it creates a full key. Feed the keys into the converter. The higher level gems provide more keys. Keys are then used to unlock treasure chests. Keys can also be obtained via the dail...

Viking Event on Beta

History Event is now the Viking Event Wheel of fortune mechanic with axes instead of knives. You and your neighbors compete for the good prizes on the board. Earn Viking coin through quests, incidents, daily challenges and event pass. Use coins to spin the wheel. Throw axes and purchase rune chests. You can throw multiple axes. Every time you throw an axe you get 10 points and 5 runes (formerly energy tokens). Once all three energy bars runes are filled you can collect a reward. You again have the ability to rebalance. The rune you have the most of will swap with the rune you have the least of. The cost for swaps increase with every rebalance. It resets at midnight daily. There are two paths to getting prizes. Gain grand prize progress by throwing axes plus bonus 5 points for collecting runes from a single slot. There are three powerful runes with a limited rune storage. Once the storage is full you can no longer get additional...

St Patrick's Event 2025 Live Server Feb 20 to March 13

Event starts on Beta Jan 21 and runs until Feb 11, 2025 Live server Feb 20 to March 13 The event mechanics and strategy is the same as always so we're just going to talk about the prizes. Main building is a nine level Celtic Goldsmith. That lv9 then makes the silver upgrade which then makes the gold upgrade so we're only listing that building. Fabled Celtic Goldsmith lv 11 4x5 and requires road houses a rare historical ally 69-111 red defense 22-43 red attack and attack defense for GbG 46-67 blue attack and defense gain 530 - 35240 pop gain 2910 - 70460 happiness gain 3470 - 584990 coin 3 fragments of whispering fields selection kit random production 70% 121 FP 25% 143 FP 5% 231 FP read that as an average of 132 FP Blueberry Field 3x2 no road required 14-24 blue attack boost 14-24 blue attack and defense GbG 21 FP 9 random next age units Costs 190 - 12810 population Ascended Blueberry Field 3x2 no road required will decay after 30 days 28-49 blue attack 28-49 blue attack an...

Sortable spreadsheet with all buildings in FoE as of March 15, 2025 Includes Beta and the new QI buildings from the 2cnd championship

For the spreadsheet click here Update from previous to add the new QI reward buildings. This spreadsheet is accurate as of March 15, 2025 and includes buildings that are only on Beta server right now. If these buildings change when they're introduced on live server then we'll update again.

Sortable spreadsheet with all event buildings including the Winter Event 2024 and Wildlife Event 2025

Link for spreadsheet Changes for this version is the inclusion of Winter Event 2024 and the buildings currently in Beta for the Wildlife Event 2025 We've also added a column for Historic Allies. Right now it's just a "y" for yes it houses a historical ally. It's a placeholder for people to quickly find the buildings that house a historical ally. We're thinking of just averaging out the bonus stats for allies and adding that to the building that stores them as that's the point of those buildings. Right now the value has not been changed to include the ally bonus but future spreadsheets will include that. We've also reduced the "value" of goods to a ratio of 10:1 of goods:FP. The reason for this is the introduction of event buildings that produce 100's of goods so they're no longer scarce even in SAT or SASH ages.

Guild Expedition Trials is finally here. It starts on Beta Server on Jan 28, 2025

If you've been reading this site over the last two years or Crash Cart's old blog before we took it over we've been talking about GE changes for years and it's finally here. Well the first part is anyways there's more to come. To make it easy what used to be known as levels will now be called trials. Expect to see trials/levels mixed interchangeably for a while as we get used to it. The first thing you do as a player is select your difficulty level. Easier, same as we have now or harder. The harder it is the better prizes. Once you select the difficulty level then you cannot change it until the next GE. Are we really going to call this GET? So once you lock-in that week you can't change. That may mean you select the easy one when a rival quest is on especially if there are a lot of negotiations. The first three levels/trials will be unlocked for all players and have to be completed before opening further levels. Ri...

GE Trials starting on live server March 4, 2025 Short version

This information is from Beta server and the system has already had one major overhaul. To see what it looked like click here . Then how it changed here and now we have what's on live server. The entire system has been rebalanced to become a lot easier. The rewards seem unfinished. For example a few of us have gotten trash prizes after the 79th encounter. Nothing like winning four more attempts when you only have one more encounter to finish. It just seems like this isn't well thought-out and I expect a lot to change in the weeks to come. I'll get to the things people want to know first and feel free to read further if you wish. The diamond rewards have been nerfed to about 2/3rds of what it used to be. The gold upgrades to the buildings below may take 40-50 weeks and by that time with power creep it may no longer be good. The harder the trial a player picks the better the reward they get with one huge caveat. We've been keepi...

Season 8 GbG championship Season has been announced.

Six weeks ago we wrote this post about how power creep is making GE and GbG obsolete. That was written after the GbG championship that provided Frontier Citadel and Frontier Watch buildings which are stronger than any of the ones that came before it. The point was to discuss how the game is changing and the role power creep plays in determining what aspect of FoE provides a better value for players. A lot of factors go into that but generally it’s this. How much time does it take to complete? What time restraints are we dealing with? What is the ratio of time/clicks vs. rewards? GE is only 80 encounters/week so it wins on time and clicks. QI comes in second in that you can harvest your settlement twice a day and do 30-ish fights twice a day. GbG comes in dead last by a long-shot as average players do 2k fights/season. Competitive players are doing 4-8k per season and top players are doing 12k + GE provides turns and you can buy more...

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