QI Middle Ages getting a cost rebalance

 

If you play the beta server you will find QI has changed.  The building costs from previous QI seasons have been altered and we think you'll like the changes.

We'll post some details after there's an official announcement.

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Halloween Event 2025 September 22 to October 13th on Beta

 Disclaimer:  This page was created long before the game launches on Beta and some of the assets have changed in both appearance and values.  We will update the values to match what will be seen on Beta but will not update the assets that were captured while testing the event.

There are a few changes from last year's event so we'll explain the changes as we go.

Mechanic of spinning wheel and throwing knives.

There is an easy to understand tutorial when you first enter the event.  You can also replay this tutorial at any time.

This is what it looks like after the tutorial.

First thing to do is click the "skip animation" box.  You are competing with everyone in your neighborhood for prizes and the spin animation just slows things down.

You use Halloween tickets to spin the wheel.  Everyone in your hood sees the same prizes.  When they spin the wheel that's like you spinning the wheel.  So you can wait until people in your hood take the bad prizes before you use your knives or you can throw quickly to try to get it first.  You can also throw multiple knives at once to increase your chances.  You can throw 1, 3 or 5 knives at once.  You earn a reward for every knife thrown and grand prize progress.

When you throw multiple knives at once you earn BONUS grand prize progress.

When testing an event there are no other players, guilds, hoodies or stuff like that so we asked what would happen if two players hit spin at the same time with only one prize on the wheel.

The player that spun first will get that prize, the wheel would refresh and the player that spun second will hit one of the prizes there.

That becomes more important when you consider there may be multiple people throwing five knives at the same time.  So every knife will hit a prize and no progress will be lost.

Prize types:

• Green - Common - each prize has up to 4 charges
• Silver - rare - each prize has up to 2 charges
• Gold - very rare - only one prize
• Special tokens - bat tokens and cat charms

Bat tokens - main currency to use in the event shop.  Get them from winning them on wheel and completing daily tasks.

Cat Charms - bonus currency.  Can only appear on the wheel.  There is no other way to earn this currency.  Use the cat charms in event prize shop.  Earning cat charms on the wheel give you bonus grand prize progress.

Event does have a prize lane with silver and gold as well.

This event does NOT have Rival Quests.  Instead it has daily tasks.  

There will be six daily tasks per day.

Tasks 1-3 earn normal bat tokens

Tasks 4-6 earn double bat tokens

Completing all six tasks per day will give you more event currency for the event shop but be prepared to purchase additional tickets to complete all six daily.

Rewards:

Main event prize - Boo'loon Grand Gala

Main prize is called Boo'loon Spectral Fair and has 9 levels.  The 9th level makes the silver upgrade to make it a "Boo'loon Masquerade Carnival".  The silver version makes the golden version which is pictured above which is the 11th level.

• 11 levels
• 5x5 requires road
• houses Rare military room
• 3,720 - 90,000 happiness
• 238 - 280 % red attack and defense
• 358 - 400 % red attack and defense GbG
• 2,850 - 500,000 coin
• 250 FP
• 3 fragments of Boo Bites Duo Selection Kit

Random Production

• 50% 35 light units
• 35% 40 rogues
• 15% 60 light units of the next age

Boo Bites Duo Selection Kit

choice of

• Spooktastic Shakes
• Beastly Burgers

Spooktastic Shakes

• 2x2 no road required
• 25% blue attack and defense GbG
• 700 - 50,000 supplies
• 10 goods of previous age
• 15 guild goods
• costs 240 - 8,000 population

Ascended Spooktastic Shakes

• 2x2 no road required
• decays after 30 days
• 55% blue attack and defense GbG
• 15% blue attack and defense QI
• 2% coin boost QI
• 1,050 - 75,000 supplies
• 15 goods of previous age
• 20 guild goods
• costs 240 - 8,000 population

Beastly Burgers

• 3x3 no road required
• 50% blue attack and defense GE
• 570 - 100,000 coins
• 30 FP
• 5 ranged units
• costs 180 - 12,000 population

Ascended Beastly Burgers

• 3x3 no road required
• will decay after 30 days
• 150% blue attack and defense GE
• 25% red attack QI
• 3% supply boost QI
• 710 - 125,000 coins
• 60 FP
• 5 ranged units
• costs 180 - 12,000 population

Nightshade Conservatory - Gold League reward

• 5x4 no road required
• 110% red and blue attack and defense
• 125% red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 20% red and blue attack and defense QI
• 2% bonus guild goods
• 200 FP
• 20 fragments of Boo'loon Grand Gala Golden Selection Kit

Random Production

• 40% 250 goods of previous era
• 40% 250 goods of your era
• 20% 250 goods of next era

Rattlebones Raveyard lv1

• 3x4 no road required
• 50% red and blue attack and defense
• 60% red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 60% red and blue attack and defense GE
• 65 FP
• costs 600 - 40,000 population

Random Production

• 40% 50 goods of previous era
• 40% 50 goods of same era
• 20% 25 goods of the next era

Can only be obtained in the event shop with the premium Cat Charms currency

Rattlebones Raveyard lv2

• 3x4 no road required
• 100% red and blue attack and defense
• 185% red and blue attack and defense GbG
• 185% red and blue attack and defense GE
• 108 FP
• 4 fragments of Obsidian Tower Upgrade kit
• 4 fragments of Mad Scientist's Dominion Upgrade kit
• costs 600 - 40,000 population

Random Production

• 40% 150 goods of previous era
• 40% 150 goods of same era
• 20% 100 goods of the next era

Can only be obtained in the event shop with the premium Cat Charms currency

Mad Scientist Lab (originally 2015 Halloween Event)

gets gold, platinum and ascended upgrade

Mad Scientist's Den Gold

• lv2
• 4x4 requires road
• 5 min and 15 min productions are supplies so can be rushed with regular supply rush boosts for quests
• 8hr is 30 FP
• 1day is 50 goods
• costs 2 population

Mad Scientist's Lair platinum

• lv3
• 4x4 no road required
• 5min, 15min, 1hr, 4hr are all supply and can be rushed
• 8hr 70 FP
• 1day 150 goods

Mad Scientist's Dominion orange ascended

• lv 4
• 4x4 no road required
• will decay after 90 days
• 200 QA recharge
• 5min, 15min, 1hr, 4hr are all supply and can be rushed
• 8hr 100 FP
• 1day 275 goods

Black Tower (originally 2017 Halloween event)

Gothic Tower gold upgrade

• lv 2
• 4x5 requires road
• 150% red attack GE
• 380 - 25,000 population
• 1,710 - 300,000 coin
• 220 - 20,000 medals
• 40 FP
• 50 goods
• costs 1,030 - 25,000 happiness

Random Production

• 50% 50 goods of previous age
• 50% 50 goods of next age

Baroque Tower platinum upgrade

• lv 3
• 4x5 no road required
• Rare military room
• 100% red attack and defense GE
• 100% red attack and defense GbG
• 15% blue attack QI
• 750 - 50,000 population
• 2,280 - 400,000 coin
• 330 - 30,000 medals
• 40 FP
• 100 goods
• 20 heavy units
• 10 heavy units of the next age
• costs 2,070 - 50,000 happiness

Random Production

• 50% 100 goods of previous age
• 50% 100 goods of next age

Obsidian Tower ascended orange upgrade

• lv 4
• will decay after 90 days
• 4x5 no road required
• Rare military room
• 410% red attack and defense GE
• 410% red attack and defense GbG
• 35% blue attack QI
• 4000 QA capacity increase
• 750 - 50,000 population
• 2,280 - 500,000 coin
• 550 - 50,000 medals
• 150 FP
• 300 goods
• 30 heavy units
• 20 heavy units of the next age
• costs 2,070 - 50,000 happiness

Random Production

• 50% 300 goods of previous age
• 50% 300 goods of next age

Eternal Market - Lunar Horizon

• lv 8
• 6x6 no road required
• 216% red and blue attack and defense
• 252% red and blue attack and defense GbG and GE
• 25% red and blue attack and defense
• 4,810 - 320,320 population
• 576 FP
• 630 goods of your age
• 630 goods of previous age

Historical Allies

Maharani Tarabai 

• lv 1 rare
• 25% blue defense
• 25% blue attack GE
• 25% blue attack and defense GbG

Peshwa Bajirao

• lv 1 rare
• 25% red attack
• 25% red defense GbG
• 25% red attack and defense GE

Avatars

Ok so about this event.  It's good and worth playing.  The previous two events featured main buildings that were already obsolete meaning advanced players would not place the main building in their cities.  That makes the gold league prize far less valuable as the fragments that make the main building have no value.

To top that off the event store was such garbage that the only thing sort of worth spending currency on was the fragments for allies.

This event has a good main event building.

A good gold league building because the fragments to make the main building have value.

You can get a terrific building in the event store and the lv2 of that building makes fragments for obsidian tower upgrades.

So what's the "best" strategy?  Well if you plan on doing the daily quests everyday then be prepared to buy a lot of extra tickets because it's kind of a trap.  The other issue is if you do the quests to do the quests then you'll be throwing knives regardless of what's on the wheel at the time.

So the quests look like this

and the wheel can look like this

As you can see the only good things on the wheel are already gone.  And to be clear the only things anyone should be going for are the special currencies.  

So here's the recommended strategy.

Try to play during slow times.  The less people playing in your hood the better.

If there's a good prize on the wheel then don't try to game the system by letting a hoodie spin a few times then try to snipe the good prize.  Just go for it.

Be aware of the daily tasks.  If it tells you to throw 3 knives at once then cue that up.  If there's no good prize on the board just wait until a hoodie refreshes it.  When you see a good prize then throw those 3 knives and complete the task.

So don't waste currency refreshing the board.  Let your hood do that for you.

Complete daily tasks on your schedule and only when a good prize is up.  It helps to do this while collecting daily as about half the tasks are easily completed while collecting.

If you do not want to buy extra currency then understand you cannot complete all daily tasks everyday.  You will run out of currency.  The daily tasks that require you to throw 5 knives 2 times and stuff like that are designed to burn up your event currency.  If you let those tasks go then it's possible to complete all other daily tasks.

There is a luck element as well in regards to event currency gained in incidents.  If you're really lucky then it will be possible to complete all tasks.  Possible but not likely.

You get 2x the rewards for tasks 4-6 so focus on completing all as many times as you can.  Some of it is random chance so for example if you have to collect silver twice it may take you two throws or 20.  That's why it's impossible to say exactly how often you can go for 6/6 tasks so plan to do it every other day until you're about a week into the event and adjust up or down from there.  You should be able to complete two tasks everyday when collecting without throwing any knives.  Then once you complete one of the use event currency tasks you'll get another non-event currency task like complete 4hr productions 10 times.

So when the event starts just complete all the event tasks with your first city collection and get them out of the way.  You will then have a lot of tickets to use when you need them and there's no need to use them daily or every 8hrs or anything like that.  

When it comes to the event store obviously the good prize is Rattlebones Raveyard so focus on that.

The lv1 building costs 24 cat charms.  The selection kit to make it a lv2 costs 40.

This event mainly gave blue QI fighters good building but red QI fighters can get the phantom abandoned asylum from the store with bat tokens.  

You can also get ally fragments with bat tokens but when you see the cat tokens on the wheel do whatever you can to get them.

The most important thing to remember is to game the discount system in the shop.  Only spend that currency on discounted items unless the store is about to close for good and you have to spend or lose it.

Check the shop daily and use the refresh daily then have patience if the discount is not where you want it.

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Master Spreadsheet updated for the coming GbG buildings and the Fellowship Event coming to live server

 

Click here for the full spreadsheet

or copy/paste this link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15yYr6dNDH8TOSb7rrivB-6eMGXtOndkV5QKw4pdInFE/edit?usp=sharing

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Guild Conquest WIP

 

This will be a WIP post and when the game feature is finalized we'll post a condensed version with the updated details.

As a WIP the information will change as it transitions from testing, to pre-beta, then beta, then live server.

Guild Conquest is the spiritual successor of GvG.  GC is designed for guild collaboration and to find a use for event buildings in inventory that can benefit the entire guild.

The major components of GC:

• Conquest City - produces resources
• Guild Conquest battle map
• Guild Great Buildings

Conquest City is separate and individual, permanent city.  Players can place their buildings (event or regular construction) from your regular inventory.  They will benefit the entire guild.

Each player will have to research technologies and your build menu will depend on which technologies you have unlocked.

The production of your GC cities will be stored in a treasury called "the Vault".  Collective productions will be used to achieve collective goals.

Conquest cities will be very similar to the cities we have now but with special marked-off spaces for GB's.

The circled spaces are where GB's will be placed.

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Prototype Testing

 

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Opal Seals Compensation

 

As everyone knows you were unable to collect an opal seal for about a week.

You will get 7 opal seals.  Now the real question is will we ever get something good to spend these things on?  

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Forge of Empires has introduced a new lag feature into the game. Just what everyone has asked for.

 

Do you enjoy seeing the shield and swords.  You know you do and more importantly FoE knows you do which is why you will be seeing a lot more of it!

It's not your computer.  It's not your internet service.  It's not your cache settings.  What is happening is you click attack and the server has to register that attack, process it, and then send information from the server to the client (your computer).  So we all know how awesome this lag is especially during busy GbG seasons.  The hamsters that spin the wheels that run the FoE servers just get exhausted.

Well there is now GOOD NEWS!

FoE has introduced a "zoom in, zoom out" feature that will cause you to left click furiously while holding down the R key only to find it registered zero hits.  So players will be staring at what appears to be a frozen screen with the shield and swords and getting zero or if lucky a few hits.

Now why would they do this?  Well they're trying to combat auto-clickers and bots.  By moving the attack button slightly the bots will get the frozen screen so that's great, no problem.  The issue is every freaking player that is NOT cheating will also get it.

Look GbG is annoying already.  Don't give us even more reason to not play it.

Now can humans avoid that screen?  Mostly yes.  

• -adjusting the left mouse click point
• -release and depress the 'R' key when the screen freezes
• -use curse words repeatedly.  It won't help but it does offer some pain relief
• -buy something from the store shop.  No this won't help the lag but playing this game is a form of self-harm so may as well make it worse

Now here's the funny thing.  The instructions listed above that allow players to minimize the impact of the zoom in, zoom out windows can also be used by the bots and auto-clickers.  Yeah but here's the punchline.  The bots and auto-clickers can do it faster.  So this anti-cheat feature will actually give the bots and auto-clickers an even bigger advantage against human players.

This last part is the chef's kiss part of this post.

An algorithm will be determining if an account is using a bot or auto-clicker.  This algorithm will see if the series of clicks is more probable than not cheating or human inputs.  So if you hold down the "R" button and spam left click without moving your mouse it will most certainly look like an auto-clicker.  

So we need people to understand this part.  The timing of left-clicks in terms of delay between clicks will determine if you dear reader are a human or a bot.  That's what this boils down to.  Also, bots and auto-clickers can stagger delays so they don't appear to be bots can you do that?

So what they'll do is collect data over a series of weeks or months and then do a mass-suspension or ban of players they believe to be bots.  It won't happen right away but when it does happen, and it will you won't know unless you're directly affected.  All you will see is a player that hasn't missed a day in 3 years suddenly be absent for a week.  Suspension length varies.  It starts with a few hours then increases with each offense.

And keep in mind by "offense" we're talking about spamming left-click in a way an algorithm determines you are more likely than not a bot.  If you try to appeal they will not even tell you what you did to get suspended or banned.  They will not tell you how to avoid being banned in the future.

Now if you use bots or auto-clickers then you get no sympathy from us.  But non-cheaters will get caught-up in all this.  Those players have our sympathies.

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GE changes

Embargo until Sept 7, 2025 come back then for some early information on the changes.  It's not done so when it is we'll post a more complete rundown.

 GE is getting a store because of course it is.

Reward Icons

Platinum upgrades

Forgotten Temple Changes

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