Draqone
Corporal
Hello and welcome to my journal!
The response thread can be found >>>>> HERE <<<<<< .
I promised a few of my guild mates that I will post my progress, explaining some of the steps and my game philosophy. My philosophy is mainly about a focus on combat and efficiency. So, not only will this journal be well... a journal, it will also be a guide. Kind of like the book "Heart of Darkness" was not only a journal but also a social commentary. Except I doubt I'll win any literature prizes. Oh well, we will see. Maybe some of the people who are able to nominate for Literature Noble Prizes play FoE.
For those that don't know me, I am a member of the KSA guild on Korch, and I came back to FoE 3 months ago, having played it previously in late alpha in 2012. I am currently in HMA, planning to move to LMA tomorrow and probably colonial in the next few weeks.
I am happy with how it looks for now. The FP production is decent. I am fine on population despite not having an Innovation tower thanks to the Event buildings which are more space efficient anyway. My goods production allows me to complete some negotiations in GE and GBG. I have also maxed the chairs my Tavern, which means I can easily activate either the negotiation or attack boost, again, to progress the GE and GBG. Right now, I can fight GE lvl 4 with same-age troops and can push 20-30 attrition on the GBG everyday, with sustainable losses. Fighting the GE allowed me to build 3 lvl 2 Terrace Farms which provide me 36 FPs a day - TFs are not great, but good enough for the stage I am in.
My Himeji Castle provides me with 200k supplies a day and my Event Building provide me with 180k gold a day, which is pretty balanced and more than enough for early ages. Not having to run houses or early age supply buildings is very efficient. I have 4 million of each saved up already, when I move up an age I can use them to place new buildings. Not only that, I can use them to complete repeatable "Unbirthday" quests (UBQs) which through random rewards will give me an instant access to new age goods.
My combat bonuses for Attacking Army right now are 140 A and 100 D but they'll go up whenever I have a chance to upgrade them!
As you can see, I pushed into the colonial map and conquered all by one of the LMA bonus provinces. I am leaving the last province for roleplaying reasons and because 8 cannons are annoying as hell.
I am waiting a few hours for the GBG to start and then I'll move to LMA, which will grant me the Side quest. The side quest, which concentrates on conquering the bonus provinces will give me access to a few Colonial troops which combined with my Rogues should make this weeks GBG and GE a breeze. GBG and GE will be HMA, since they start before i move to LMA. Later, when I move to Colonial I will progress into the Industrial and PE maps, giving me Progressive Era tanks to fight (or rather smash) colonial.
I will still use my HMA troops in the GE and a few GBG fights, just to show which army compositions I use, but this I'll save for tomorrow, I need to keep my readers committed somehow!
Last but now least, those are my GBs. I am happy with them.
I will level what I can until I run out of blueprints and then I'll level my Arc to level 80. The only other space efficient building I could put in would be the Space Carrier for it's negotiation bonus which is very strong even at early levels but I am not going for it since I don't always negotiate every day and anyway, it wouldn't look good in my HMA city.
There is no point in building coin or supply boosting buildings for the reason I outlined above when talking about my city. There is also no point in building Great Buildings that produce goods. In early ages Goods buildings are small and the goods don't cost much, which means it's much more space efficient to have 10 goods buildings and trade whenever needed. Which is exactly what I am doing. Later on, my CF + Arc quest combo will provide me with goods anyway, so I never really plan to have any Goods buildings. I'd need to level GBs like the Lighthouse to level 30 for them to be as efficient as a Goods production building which is simply not an option due to my limited FPs.
That's it for today; keep tuned for my GE and LMA progress tomorrow!
The response thread can be found >>>>> HERE <<<<<< .
I promised a few of my guild mates that I will post my progress, explaining some of the steps and my game philosophy. My philosophy is mainly about a focus on combat and efficiency. So, not only will this journal be well... a journal, it will also be a guide. Kind of like the book "Heart of Darkness" was not only a journal but also a social commentary. Except I doubt I'll win any literature prizes. Oh well, we will see. Maybe some of the people who are able to nominate for Literature Noble Prizes play FoE.
For those that don't know me, I am a member of the KSA guild on Korch, and I came back to FoE 3 months ago, having played it previously in late alpha in 2012. I am currently in HMA, planning to move to LMA tomorrow and probably colonial in the next few weeks.
I am happy with how it looks for now. The FP production is decent. I am fine on population despite not having an Innovation tower thanks to the Event buildings which are more space efficient anyway. My goods production allows me to complete some negotiations in GE and GBG. I have also maxed the chairs my Tavern, which means I can easily activate either the negotiation or attack boost, again, to progress the GE and GBG. Right now, I can fight GE lvl 4 with same-age troops and can push 20-30 attrition on the GBG everyday, with sustainable losses. Fighting the GE allowed me to build 3 lvl 2 Terrace Farms which provide me 36 FPs a day - TFs are not great, but good enough for the stage I am in.
My Himeji Castle provides me with 200k supplies a day and my Event Building provide me with 180k gold a day, which is pretty balanced and more than enough for early ages. Not having to run houses or early age supply buildings is very efficient. I have 4 million of each saved up already, when I move up an age I can use them to place new buildings. Not only that, I can use them to complete repeatable "Unbirthday" quests (UBQs) which through random rewards will give me an instant access to new age goods.
My combat bonuses for Attacking Army right now are 140 A and 100 D but they'll go up whenever I have a chance to upgrade them!
As you can see, I pushed into the colonial map and conquered all by one of the LMA bonus provinces. I am leaving the last province for roleplaying reasons and because 8 cannons are annoying as hell.
I am waiting a few hours for the GBG to start and then I'll move to LMA, which will grant me the Side quest. The side quest, which concentrates on conquering the bonus provinces will give me access to a few Colonial troops which combined with my Rogues should make this weeks GBG and GE a breeze. GBG and GE will be HMA, since they start before i move to LMA. Later, when I move to Colonial I will progress into the Industrial and PE maps, giving me Progressive Era tanks to fight (or rather smash) colonial.
I will still use my HMA troops in the GE and a few GBG fights, just to show which army compositions I use, but this I'll save for tomorrow, I need to keep my readers committed somehow!
Last but now least, those are my GBs. I am happy with them.
I will level what I can until I run out of blueprints and then I'll level my Arc to level 80. The only other space efficient building I could put in would be the Space Carrier for it's negotiation bonus which is very strong even at early levels but I am not going for it since I don't always negotiate every day and anyway, it wouldn't look good in my HMA city.
There is no point in building coin or supply boosting buildings for the reason I outlined above when talking about my city. There is also no point in building Great Buildings that produce goods. In early ages Goods buildings are small and the goods don't cost much, which means it's much more space efficient to have 10 goods buildings and trade whenever needed. Which is exactly what I am doing. Later on, my CF + Arc quest combo will provide me with goods anyway, so I never really plan to have any Goods buildings. I'd need to level GBs like the Lighthouse to level 30 for them to be as efficient as a Goods production building which is simply not an option due to my limited FPs.
That's it for today; keep tuned for my GE and LMA progress tomorrow!
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