GB changes coming to live server Nov 5, 2026

 This isn't us saying it it's Inno's announcement.  

https://support.innogames.com/kb/ForgeOfEmpires/en_DK/7009

We were not going to post about it.  We got the head's up on Halloween and at that time the values for SHS were still not final.  After getting the official announcement well it's still not final but we know for sure the bonus type has changed.

Look they've retracted announcements before so I will believe this after it's been on live server for a year or two.  

This is just a lie.

For copper buildings or copper tiers on buildings that will have a gold tier you can still use 1.9 and 2.0 threads.  But to use 2.0 threads on these buildings you can't do it with a lv 180 Arc it has to be lv 201

At lv 180 you can do 1.99 but not 2.0 without loss.

For gold tiers you can do 1.9 that is true.  In order to do that you need a lv 500 Arc, a lv 500 ShS and to have completed the tech tree in SAD age.  Some players will get there eventually but is it realistic to say you can do 1.9 on gold tiers in the next few years?  Probably not.

Can you do 2.0 on gold tiers?  As of right now there is no mechanism in place that would allow any player to contribute 2.0 on a gold tier building without a loss.

So what should people on live servers do right now to prepare for the change?

Get Arcs to level 201, delete the GB's you don't want to keep as the drop in ranking points will be higher after the change happens.

Open GB levels will revert to build level plus one so people that have been paying attention and have already opened levels will get the costs to open refunded.

People who aren't paying attention will celebrate this GB change and will focus on FP cost to level.  FP will not be the bottleneck.

If you want to level Traz to 500 ok the 756 million FP will take a while.  If your daily collection is 100k/fp/day it will take 20.7 years to level it.  You can do it.  I have faith in you but that's still not the bottleneck.  You will need almost 24 million goods.  Now some of us produce a lot of goods daily but let's say you're doing about 50k goods/day that will take less than 2 years so it's all good right?  No, it's goods of that era.  Go to your markets right now and find people trading PE goods I'll wait.  Even if you trade 2 SAD era goods for 1 PE good the players in PE can't support the market demand.

Ok so you put a goods producing building like the calendar reward for the winter event and make it PE era.  Ok that works but it only works because you'll have 20 years worth of collections.  You'll also need 4.5 billion medals.  That's with a B billion.

So when you look at any of these GB's and you see how nice it is at lv 500 you need to understand you will most likely never see that in your city.  This game will be in maintenance mode and servers shut down long before that happens.  I'm sure a few of you will do it but you're the exception not the rule.

So of the 21 buildings that will receive the gold tier which ones are good if you were gifted lv 500 right now.

Bad:

Zeus - GE boosts

Colosseum - military ally boost, high cost for trivial difference

St. Mark's Basilica - goods boost multiplier.  Not nothing but can't justify the cost when there are better options

CdM - can't justify taking past 201.  The minor fight boost (red attack QI) is hard to justify.  Will revise when we see the final numbers.

Deal castle - same situation as CdM but for blue attack QI.  Again will revise when we see the final numbers as these two GB's have changed in the last few days.

Royal Albert Hall - this is the GB that will get people wasting resources to build when they can put one or two buildings in city of the age they need and replace this completely.

CF - this will be hit or miss.  It's good for helping level allies and if you're in lower ages to get the diamond rewards when levelling up.  If you're in the most current age then it may be worth keeping if it's a high level but I can't justify building and levelling it.

Lotus Temple - still useless

Kraken - what they did to this GB is game design malpractice.  It's trash now delete before the update so it doesn't hurt your ranking score as much.

TA - don't level past 200 if you have one at all.  GE boosts.

HC - can't justify the cost when there are better options

VP - don't build and tear down if you have one

SC - It's a lot easier now than it's every been to get special goods.  Special goods have also lost their importance as it's no longer needed to level GB's.  The only real use for SC now is to power level, tear down and repeat while going through AF and OF.  For anyone in the most current age this is a tear down building.

Obs - keep it for guild goods Don't level it.

Good:

CoA - multiplier for red attack GbG

Traz - multiplier red attack GbG and static bonus red and blue attack and defense GbG.  Make room and start levelling it.

Arc was nerfed.  That sucks.  You still need it and it's worth getting it to lv 201 before the update and keep levelling it after.

AO - one of the best GB's in the game and it will remain so.  The enhanced crit hit will be a tease for players camping on lower ages and using higher age units.  Players camping in TE, using Hover Tanks and getting crit hits will love this.

Seed Vault - used to be only good for diamond cities.  I have yet to see enhanced helping hands work for diamond rewards so pump the brakes and let's see how this plays out.  It will also give blue defense GbG.  It's in the good category for now but let's wait to build and see what the numbers are.

BG - The QI boost is almost (almost) irrelevant.  It's one of the best GB's without the new boosts.  New boosts works on first collected buildings in settlement.  Settlement is only up 10/14 days.  For the first few days the first collected buildings are houses you're deleting to put churches in.  You aren't collecting clapboard houses or bakeries until your settlement is euphoric.  Depending on how you play QI you may only get a few days worth of double collections so hard to justify raising the level for the QI bonus.

ShS - build and level it

That's 14 bad and 7 good GB's with a couple TBD as the final form is still not known.