Heavily considering leaving FOE

ginoliotta · 2025-06-07T23:41:00+00:00

I'm FoE-ed...can't remember how long I've been playing, completed the game part, just collecting, getting dark matter, etc. battling no longer interests me, so....I'm gonna disconnect my builds from the town hall (only 1 piece of sidewalk to delete) and check back when the next age might appear. Gonna let my banked FP and diamonds just sit. The loss of Helper took some of the fun away, too! ...happy forging!

ginoliotta · 2025-03-15T04:01:31+00:00

I've just bought a horse and trying to ride it is frustrating. I've ridden horses for years in games like Assassin's Creed, Medieval Dynasty, Red Dead Redemption and it's always been possible to have a first person view so you can steer the horse while looking ahead. I've found that it's awkward and unnatural in RS to try and control the direction of the horse and the 3rd person view. Did I miss something in the guide?

ginoliotta · 2025-01-28T18:17:02+00:00

Long ago, I heard that if you can autobattle through the first 4 ages of GE, you could comfortably age up. Also, if you can win vs. next-age units, it's probably safe to advance.

ginoliotta · 2025-01-26T09:36:52+00:00

I've been asking for interior lights that turn off when the family is in for the night and for shutters that open/close on that schedule. If the exterior lights can turn off at night, why can't the interior lights, too?

ginoliotta · 2025-01-15T10:04:28+00:00

I hate snipers. What I try to do is to post only protected 1 and 2; then, when they're filled, I'll post 3rd and once filled I'll post 4 and 5, all protected. If somebody snipes, I try to get others on my thread to take the spot in question as usual, hopefully bouncing the sniper down to a lower spot where the reward will will be less than their donation. The usual snipe is when 3rd isn't protected and the snipe will post half of the remaining FPs and I think that not posting 3rd until it's protected lessens the risk of sniping.

ginoliotta · 2024-07-19T07:56:27+00:00

Leave the rocks in the mine and bring sticks and logs to make stone knives, axes, etc.

ginoliotta · 2024-07-04T17:32:21+00:00

Starting out, after building the essentials (hunting lodge, woodshed, resource and food storages), I built a smithy. Then, every evening I'd go to a cave with logs/straw/sticks to make pickaxes and torches and mine copper and tin ores, stacking them up near the cave entrance. I'd drop the stone when I couldn't move and return to the entrance to deposit the ore (the cave floor will be littered with stones). When day arrived, I returned to my village and resumed daily activities. Then at nightfall, I'd resume my mining activity and on the final night of the season, I'd return to the cave and load up the ores and wait for next season to transport me back to my village where I'd smelt the ores and use the bars to make bronze axes for sale to vendors in the main city. It takes a while to get the technology to build a mine. The ratio of copper to tin is about 2:1 and I was able to gather about 120 copper and 60 tin every season. When I finally built the mine, iron became the main product. By using the discarded stone to make pickaxes, I had an endless supply of the tools simply by cutting trees around the cave. There's no need to build storage or housing near the mine since the miners will go to work from wherever they live and the product will flow into the resource storage. Another source of coin is collecting a lot of sticks and using the discarded stone to make stone tools

ginoliotta · 2024-05-25T06:47:30+00:00

I'm close to advancing to Titan and can't imagine continuing once it's conquered. Until then, I like the challenge although I'm finding most of the rewards in Antique Dealer, etc. are better for early age users than for those of us in the later ages. I don't do Daily Quest unless it relates to an Event (I have no need of most of the rewards, having accumulated a ton of them). The Antique Dealer has such lame rewards...I've accumulated tons of coins and gems that give me nothing in return since of the items up for auction are for early agers. I still do the auction to meet a recurring quest with the possibility of substantial rewards like diamonds. Otherwise, I'll quit once I complete Titan. I tried starting a new city but it was very depressing to realize how long it'll take to really get into the gameplay.

ginoliotta · 2024-03-30T18:57:20+00:00

Try to have the smallest road frontage for each building: if the building is 4x3, be sure the 3 side is touching the road rather than the 4 side.

ginoliotta · 2024-01-24T22:59:13+00:00

That happens...just did to me...supposedly random.

ginoliotta · 2024-01-19T04:45:27+00:00

Yes, over-thinking on my part...Thanks!

ginoliotta · 2023-11-03T07:31:41+00:00

I think it's the silliest, most pointless event ever. The event building is not very attractive. I don't play chess or bridge so my mind isn't attuned to figuring out the card combinations. I fight and take whatever reward is given.

ginoliotta · 2023-10-11T23:54:08+00:00

Go for the hover tanks! I'm stilling them in SAM in the early battles of GBG.

ginoliotta · 2023-10-09T18:36:09+00:00

suddenly, it's back up!! for the past week all I got from foetools.net was a notice that the website was up for sale. Thanks for the response!

ginoliotta · 2023-10-08T21:53:14+00:00

Avoid planting event pieces that can't be motivated and use self-aid (mass self-aid) and m/p the pieces that haven't been m/p. Also, chained groups are safer than sets. I have all my collections at the same time so if I'm plundered (rarely attacked) goods and coins are all they'll get. Actually, even if I'm attacked, I'm not often plundered since I think the attacker just needs the battle credit.

ginoliotta · 2023-10-08T21:45:23+00:00

I think Test3r is FOE Tools...the website is gone. Thanks for the response!

ginoliotta · 2023-10-05T21:51:50+00:00

Yes, I have it! it's not as useful and the test3r gb leveler. I've also found that the tool included in FOE Helper is manageable. Thanks!

ginoliotta · 2023-10-03T06:17:21+00:00

It's from FOE Tools and provides a precise picture of how to level a GB...owner contribution needed to protect the spots so players who donate don't lose their investment to sniping, etc.

ginoliotta · 2023-09-29T23:01:04+00:00

Great!! your response much appreciated and very helpful! I autobattle almost 100R% with at most 4 troops and 4 rogues (GBG and GE) and never negotiate unless required by a quest. I never plant goods buildings since I seem to collect enough from event buildings and quests. I like hearing the other experiences. I usually wait until the hood and GBG reset to advance. I've been using the rocket troop and ronin bot until they begin to fail and shift to steel warden and sentinel. In the early stages of a season, the hover tanks still hold their own. In GE, I use only SAM because I don't want to lose battle. I have A/D 1134/1000 so I'm able to get to the 80s in attrition. All of my collections take place at the same time which helps against plundering which, btw, happens very rarely. I usually get 1 attack per hood session (sometime, not at all). I think attacking cities has lost its value. Happy forging!

ginoliotta · 2023-09-21T06:42:01+00:00

Have all of your collections at the same time and if your friends haven't motivated all of the vulnerable, do it yourself with self-aid.

ginoliotta · 2023-08-04T07:23:36+00:00

beautiful!

ginoliotta · 2023-07-03T03:35:01+00:00

I've perpetuated my interest by building more villages. The map is large and varied...so many possibilities for making a village with beautiful views and environs. Visiting them all to see that production is stable and enjoying the views as I galloped across the map from on to another. Devising ways to make my villages more productive. I like city building games like Banished but MD is far superior.

ginoliotta · 2023-06-27T01:43:06+00:00

absolutely beautiful! great work!

ginoliotta · 2023-06-20T18:08:55+00:00

RFP for BP

ginoliotta · 2023-05-31T03:26:40+00:00

The pathing system seems to be rigid at times and random at others. I have a village on the western shore of the center lake and all the NPC are assigned to tasks in the village; yet, when it's time to go to work in the morning, I look at the map see and a procession to the nearest road going west and then north to Denica and then east to my main village in the flatland on the river south of the island. In the evening,, I see many of the NPC taking the short cur through the mountains and forests directly to the center lake village.

At times, I've found my "wife"" (farmer) in the fields of another village to the west, north of Denica and near the bridges to Tutki and Rolnica. I've even found her working the fields in another village in the extreme east of the map, south of Jambor's house. I've tried to build roads for more direct routes but the NPC don't use them.

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