Again, its better at higher ages, so you want to advance to the Colonial era or later as soon as possible. Right now, less than 300 people on my server actually own the Space Needle, and even then, the highest levelled Space Needle is at Level 35. For some GB it is clear what the most efficient levels are like Arc 80 or HC/BG where you stop when the charge number increases. Bottom line: get it if you are a PvP player, wealthy, or just collect GBs. The Goods output is primarily of interest to more peaceful players, and people wishing to buy provinces, rather than those trying to use military for everything. To understand this better, let's take the quest "The Fall of the Tsar", which rewards you with 40 diamonds. Relics appear as standardised icons in various places around the GE map. Do not level up Oracle at all. They represent great achievements in humanity's history and future and provide very powerful bonuses for your city! Post-Arc80 Level 60-70. Just dont rely on them at the expense of a good GB or two. Best. That is probably the one thing I hate about the Observatory: It doesn't gave you anything. Build this GB first. Start with Zeus, Lighthouse, Hagia, Aachen, Castel, Relics, Alcatraz, Cape. Thre are GBs that are worthless and other vital. And I will end with almost 3 Phantom towers and 4 workshops. Forge of Empires Great Buildings Values Analysisby davidb3. If you love this building, 60 is the minimum. DEAL Bad way too big and the defence bonus it gives is not worth the investment and space. Is there a list anywhere that shows optimal level to take GBs to? The other benefit is a defence boost (100% when maxed). Any GB that can boost your Goods, Coins or Supplies production is necessary as well: The Lighthouse, St. Marks, RA Hall, Chateau, Frau, Dynamic Tower. Bottom line: build this one for the happiness benefit alone. Ah yes. With all those supplies, youll be able to upgrade your houses fairly easily. https://en.wiki.forgeofempires.com/index.php?title=Great_Buildings. The supplies boost is very good (more than 27,000 supplies per day, when you have some farms), and actually exceeds the benefits of the Goods side. So the Lighthouse is better for its size but the coin boost of St Marks is so huge that it makes up for the larger size. St MARKS BASILICA Ok/bad As above, but gold is useless. Beyond that Arc is second best. Free choice. If you, like most players, don't care about city defence, then you get the same bonus from two levels on the other three buildings. Himeji Castle: 5, 10, 16, or 58 post-Arc. Probably not). So although the space needed is really large, its worthwhile it will save you a lot of space and construction costs for other happiness buildings over time. TA from level 59-61 gives 1% ATK and DEF for both attacking and defending armies. Pretty, too. Double Collection I built the Castel del Monte during the Modern Era, and hands down, this is the best Great Building in the game. It does provide a fair amount of gold, but it needs a reno kit to move up in age. Great Buildings are special buildings inspired by world history which can be built to provide powerful benefits to the player. Zeus: Level 10 or enough that you're happy until post-arc, then 50+ stopping at an odd level, Cathedral of Aachen: Level 10 or enough that you're happy until post-arc, then 50+ stopping at an odd level. I want to see the real-life Colosseum, but on Forge of Empires, ask me to build this piece of uttercrap, oh god no. How do I correctly do fp threads as well. For example, a Bronze age GB costs 150 bronze age goods, which cost 3000 cash and 3000 supplies to produce. I assume I will need to be on the buying end of that for the TE goods necessary to construct the dyna tower after I get the blueprints since it would take forever to trade up to TE goods from CA goods for them. Most happiness-related Great Buildings are pretty bad, and they are mostly treated as icing on cake like the case with Alcatraz. That 44 small size is suddenly more like an 88 monster. Once this is done, a single additional level will be unlocked. If you enjoy the warfare side of the game, youll need em. An article worth referencing would have a base point rating which harnesses the 6 pillars of success into a basic formula. When selecting a Great Building for deletion, the player will be prompted with a dialogue in which he has to confirm his wish to sell the Great Building by moving a slider all the way from the right to the left. This tells you a relic appeared on your GE map. Goods (Previous Era) Bottom line: take it for the coin production, or if you are in an aggressive neighbourhood. A bit too much time and effort needed to make it useful IMHO. That said, by the Colonial age, the Lighthouse is effectively providing over 12,000 coins and 39,000 supplies daily, in less space. If a level requires 80 forge points and you contribute 2 per day then 320/2 = 160 days to move up one level. Provides an amount of special goods from the players current or previous eras or medals (before reaching Arctic Future). Now, in trying to advise someone in my guild in her quest to choose the correct GB, I cant find anything other than the above. Most GBs will never see level 10, probably not 5. If anyone knows a formula I don't, I will add it here and credit your input. As the levels go up, more points are required and the delay grows. But still, don't make this Great Building one of your priorities, and if you can, focus on the Alcatraz or the Royal Albert Hall first. Cleary the author farms and must have been a poor player of the game. 4 comments. You must log in or register to reply here. Gives you a boost on most quest rewards. For the altruistic team players, it also allows getting level 0 GBs of other players into production faster, which will be more of a challenge over time. Bottom line: definitely worth while, and will quickly pay for itself. Plunder Repel However, I often see level Traz to 70 or Zeus/CDM to 61 . Provides a boost for production of Special Goods in Arctic Future and beyond. The Hagia Sophia is also large (76=42 squares), providing happiness and forge points. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. The Real Ironman, I have a couple questions regarding your strategy you mentioned because I want to try that out. Each Age offers two Great Buildings (with No Age, Early Middle Ages, Arctic Future and Oceanic Future having three Great Buildings each and Space Age Asteroid Belt, Space Age Venus and Space Age Jupiter Moon having one Great Building), each one with its own unique bonus, graphic and space required to build. The above poster recommends Zeus, Aachen, CdM and Terracotta Army all at level 61. The high ownership rate really already speaks volumes about how good it is. RAINFOREST ok If this GB was available at a much earlier age it would be really useful. I literally deleted my Oracle after I got back into playing the game, as it is now just wasting 9 spaces for baby-sized happiness and raw supplies. The Great Building at level 0 is just a construction site and it won't build itself like other buildings. Saint Basil's Cathedral (10.2%, 51.1%), 16. Youll still want to have some goods production buildings, but the Lighthouse definitely makes life easier. Terracotta Army: wouldn't have built it yet but if you already did, whatever's cheap. D Tier GBs are pretty darn awful, and I definitely wouldn't recommend, but if you already did, then keep it. Babel well yes and no. This is nice, but pretty weak compared to the supply boost benefit of the Lighthouse, or even to the goods production GBs output. Military Unit Zeus-63. Several GBs were rebalanced or nerfed in happiness, medals and goods production. You upgrade the Zeus to Level 10, and it gives you 30% attack bonus. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Level 60 is the fastest payback for it. Update: Note that the original analysis was made before the 0.26 update announcement on Feb 5, 2013, and some comments have been modified or updated since then. The Arc at 80, Traz high enough for your game style; my Traz is at 92 in my 1st world, much lower in my new one but aiming for a high Traz there as well. Deal Castle is huge (77=49 squares), providing a defence boost, and medals. After I do that I then sell those goods to people dying to get alcatraz. If you are in a 1.9 and have a busy 1.9 thread in your guild then it makes sense to get your Arc raised up to 100+ . Provides a supply boost before Arctic Future. Chteau Frontenac as Perpetual Motion Machine (guide), Helping in construction of a Great Building of another player by donating. Replace your LoA or add and it is not bad. Better have shrines of knowledge. It will probably even out toward a limit of 25% at very high levels.) Provides an amount of goods from the player's previous era every 24 hours. Cape-60.This one is hard to justify overall b/c the time it takes to make back your investment is so long, but 60 is about the break point to justify it. For the altruistic team players, it also allows getting level 0 GBs of other players into production faster, which will be more of a challenge over time. It means that if you contribute in a Great Building, you get EXTRA Forge Points. This is just my personal opinion, and you can feel free to disagree. Wondering if anyone has a list of targeted levels of each great building?? When maxed, it gives you 1140 people, which is more than 5 LMA Apartment houses, but without the corresponding >5000 coins per day. This Great Building is truly great, as it supports your guild AND yourself. Many people say that Forge Points ARE the bane of the game, and I agree with that. You can put points into your Great Buildings as much and as often as you like. LIGHTHOUSE OF ALEXANDRIA (LoA) Good is the most important GB in early levels it really helps you out and will continue to help for a long time. Frauenkirche of Dresden (8.71%, AA: 43.6%), 28. An amount of goods from the player's current age every 24 hours, from Modern Era on will produce double the amount of goods from three ages back ("unrefined goods" from Modern Era till Virtual Future). It may not display this or other websites correctly. ROYAL ALBERT HALL ok/Good. Contents 1 What makes Great Buildings special? This would be good to have. Notre Dame . must have it (for those who fight) Colosseum .. not good. Cathedral + 4 Gambrel houses + happiness bldgs => around 65 squares, provides 19120 coins/day at level 10. The Player will not receive any compensation for deleting the Great Building - neither goods nor blueprints nor invested forge points nor diamonds will be paid back. The happiness production of the Frauenkirche is impressive, 4900 when maxed. Youre going to fight. An amount of medals every 24 hours. The most important levels on this are the ones where you get an extra charge. Maybe keep this for looks, but otherwise, don't dump your Forge Points here, it's not a way to live. I have looked through all my guild/friends/neighbors and have not found anyone with that GB so I cannot contribute FP to get them. Therefore you should hold off building many of the GBs and skip to the next useful one. Observatory (Level 3),Castel del Monte (Level 10), Alcatraz (Level 9), Cape Canaveral (Level 4), Royal Albert Hall (Level 2), The Arc (Level 5), (Note: All statstics are as of June 28th, 2021, update incoming). Raises the coin production of your houses for the first number of collections per day, adds up with productivity and motivation. ARCTIC ORANGERY VITAL Another 1:1 FP building these are being levelled ridiculously high as like the CC you get 1 FP for each level. Just flat coins. The (maxed) daily output of 19750 coins (much less than the pre 0.26 output) is weaker than that from St Marks (which is a larger GB), but much better than the Cathedral of Aachen (same size, but earlier age). I'll rate each Great Building via [TBD] catagories, and rate each of these categories from 0-10, before calculate the average and translating it to an S to F- system. Cathedral of Aachen: Very good So the main benefit of those forge points is in donation races when contributing to other Great Buildings it will be significantly easier for you to win first place to get more blueprints and medals that way. 2000 coins per day from a GB may feel good in EMA, but is nothing later in the game. A fully maxed Colosseum provides 4000 happiness and 32 medals per day (big increase in update 0.26). Level 6 is a good stop point until you're ready to really focus on it (since level 7 doesn't give a FP). So like the Colosseum, the space needed to build this GB is well worthwhile. (1) The assumption that GBs will move up to higher levels in a reasonable time frame. Again, youll want to advance to the next age as rapidly as possible, to get the maximum benefit. I suspect that the Statue cant really achieve that real value level, so its mostly a decorative / vanity addition to your city, and helpful to those who really enjoy the PvP battles, or want to use those battles to improve their overall game score. Dont kill yourself to try get this one early (before the colonial era), but its ok if you can afford it. Forge Points / Happiness / Goods / Attack & Defense Power / Medals are the pillars of success in FoE. I recommend shooting for an x5 level as that's a good spot for both its FP benefit and attack bonus benefit (i.e. Guys, this advice is from about 5 years ago, the game was radically different then. Dont build unless you have to. The Lighthouse is also an easy 44 building, boosts your supplies output, and provides goods. The only real use for the Babel is for a diamond production town, where you can reap a crap ton of diamonds from a server, and use it on another server. 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