Inno Games is changeing it's database and that's bad news FoE Helper and a huge part of the player base. UPDATED

 The way FoE used to work on beta server and still works on live servers (for now) is it used to load complete metadata when loading a city.  

FoE Helper harvested that metadata and made this game a lot easier and more enjoyable to play.  The game without FoE helper for me is mostly unplayable.  Unfortunately for players on beta they are experiencing the slower (not faster) load time so this change has already failed but more importantly the game freezes all the time.  

The game now loads information in an adhoc way when needed which has caused it to run slower.  But most importantly it has caused FoE helper to completely fail.

The folks at FoE helper are working furiously to try to get a work around but as of right now FoE won't even load on chrome (and chrome type) browsers.  So chrome, brave, opera etc.

If you use firefox it will load but not work.

If you use the official forums or the FoE discord please be vocal about your feelings on this.

Whoever had the dumb idea to change how FoE handles metadata they should no longer be allowed to have ideas.

Edit: Nov 12, 2025 FoE Helper is now working for both chrome and firefox