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Dear Explorers!
Guild Expeditions are by now a well-established and popular feature of Forge of Empires. We've got some changes incoming (on Tuesday) that we think are pretty exciting. Read on to learn more!
New rewards
We have implemented new rewards!
There are new buildings as well as new consumable items.
What we were aiming for here was to introduce some rewards specific to Guild Expeditions, in much the same way as you can only get certain rewards from certain in-game events. We think that this can add more variety to the game, and also allows you to show off your Guild Expedition accomplishments better
.New buildings
The functionality of the new reward buildings will be generally recognizable from other buildings - we haven't introduced any new skills, but we did style them accordingly
.Simply click on the spoiler tags to see information about each of new buildings.
Terrace Farm - 5x6 Production Building
This building produces different outputs depending on which production length you set it to:
| Age | Population Required | (5m) Coin | (15m) Supplies | (1h) Supplies* | (4h) Medals | (8h) Goods** | (1d) Forge Points | Points |
| Bronze Age | 140 | 40 | 110 | 260 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 150 |
| Iron Age | 270 | 100 | 260 | 610 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 240 |
| Early Middle Ages | 390 | 170 | 430 | 1,020 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 600 |
| High Middle Ages | 500 | 240 | 600 | 1,430 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1,200 |
| Late Middle Ages | 620 | 310 | 790 | 1,890 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 1,800 |
| Colonial Age | 730 | 400 | 1,200 | 2,870 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 3,000 |
| Industrial Age | 840 | 480 | 1,490 | 3,850 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 6,000 |
| Progressive Era | 950 | 570 | 1,810 | 4,350 | 43 | 10 | 5 | 9,000 |
| Modern Era | 1,060 | 660 | 2,250 | 5,410 | 61 | 10 | 5 | 15,000 |
| Postmodern Era | 1,160 | 760 | 2,830 | 6,800 | 85 | 10 | 5 | 24,000 |
| Contemporary Era | 1,250 | 850 | 3,690 | 8,850 | 121 | 10 | 5 | 36,000 |
| Tomorrow | 1,350 | 950 | 4,270 | 10,250 | 164 | 10 | 5 | 60,000 |
| The Future | 1,510 | 1,050 | 4,900 | 11,750 | 200 | 10 | 5 | 96,000 |
| Arctic Future | 1,600 | 1,150 | 5,560 | 13,350 | 243 | 10 | 5 | 144,000 |
Requires road connection. Happiness/Great Building boosts influence coin and supply outputs. The Goods are from the building's era. Can be plundered. Cannot be motivated. Renovation or One-Up Kit needed for upgrading it.
Fountain of Youth - 3x3 Random-producing building
Road connection required to the Town Hall. Cannot be motivated or plundered. Can produce coin, supplies, goods, medals, Forge Points, or Diamonds, every 24 hours. Output is not affected by Great Building boosts. Building upgrades to your era whenever you enter a new one. It matches the behavior of the Wishing Well.
Sacred Sky Watch - 3x2 Residential Building
| Age | Population | Coins (per day) | Points |
| Bronze Age | 2 | 530 | 30 |
| Iron Age | 4 | 900 | 48 |
| Early Middle Ages | 7 | 1,500 | 120 |
| High Middle Ages | 9 | 2,100 | 240 |
| Late Middle Ages | 12 | 2,780 | 360 |
| Colonial Age | 16 | 4,230 | 600 |
| Industrial Age | 19 | 5,270 | 1,200 |
| Progressive Era | 23 | 6,390 | 1,800 |
| Modern Era | 27 | 7,950 | 3,000 |
| Postmodern Era | 31 | 10,000 | 4,800 |
| Contemporary Era[TD]35 | 13,020 | 7,200 | |
| Tomorrow | 39 | 15,080 | 12,000 |
| The Future[TD]44 | 17,280 | 19,200 | |
| Arctic Future[TD]49 | 19,640 | 28,800 |
Requires road connection. Happiness/Great Building boosts influence coin output. Produces 1 Forge Point when motivated. Can be plundered when not motivated. Renovation or One-Up Kit needed for upgrading it.
Sacred Sky Watch will be prioritized when Aiding from the next version of the game on.
Tribal Square - 4x3 Residential Building
| Age | Population | Coins (per day) | Goods* (if motivated) | Points |
| Bronze Age | 28 | 350 | 5 | 60 |
| Iron Age | 61 | 830 | 5 | 96 |
| Early Middle Ages | 93 | 1,380 | 5 | 240 |
| High Middle Ages | 131 | 1,930 | 5 | 480 |
| Late Middle Ages | 172 | 2,550 | 5 | 720 |
| Colonial Age | 217 | 3,890 | 5 | 1,200 |
| Industrial Age | 266 | 4,840 | 5 | 2,400 |
| Progressive Era | 317 | 5,880 | 5 | 3,600 |
| Modern Era | 372 | 7,310 | 5 | 6,000 |
| Postmodern Era | 428 | 9,200 | 5 | 9,600 |
| Contemporary Era | 488 | 12,000 | 5 | 14,400 |
| Tomorrow | 550 | 14,000 | 5 | 24,000 |
| The Future | 615 | 16,000 | 5 | 38,400 |
| Arctic Future | 683 | 18,060 | 5 | 57,600 |
Requires road connection. Happiness/Great Building boosts influence coin output. Produces one of each good from the building's era when motivated. Can be plundered when not motivated. Renovation or One-Up Kit needed for upgrading it.
Tribal Square will be prioritized when Aiding from the next version of the game on.
Ritual Flame - 2x1 Defense Structure
Provides 8% defense for your defending army. Does not require road connection.
Face of the Ancient - 2x2 Decoration
| Age | Happiness | Points |
| Bronze Age | 225 | 20 |
| Iron Age | 388 | 32 |
| Early Middle Ages | 429 | 80 |
| High Middle Ages | 479 | 160 |
| Late Middle Ages | 534 | 240 |
| Colonial Age | 628 | 400 |
| Industrial Age | 708 | 800 |
| Progressive Era | 778 | 1,200 |
| Modern Era | 832 | 2,000 |
| Postmodern Era | 867 | 3,200 |
| Contemporary Era | 1,007 | 4,800 |
| Tomorrow | 1,223 | 8,000 |
| The Future | 1,465 | 12,800 |
| Arctic Future | 1,706 | 19,200 |
Gate of the Sun God - 2x2 Decoration
| Age | Happiness | Points |
| Bronze Age | 225 | 20 |
| Iron Age | 388 | 32 |
| Early Middle Ages | 429 | 80 |
| High Middle Ages | 479 | 160 |
| Late Middle Ages | 534 | 240 |
| Colonial Age | 628 | 400 |
| Industrial Age | 708 | 800 |
| Progressive Era | 778 | 1,200 |
| Modern Era | 832 | 2,000 |
| Postmodern Era | 867 | 3,200 |
| Contemporary Era | 1,007 | 4,800 |
| Tomorrow | 1,223 | 8,000 |
| The Future | 1,465 | 12,800 |
| Arctic Future | 1,706 | 19,200 |
Other rewards
In addition to new buildings, we have also come up with new items that will introduce even more variety to rewards you can get in the Guild Expeditions.
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Motivation Kit - motivates a building of your choice in your city.
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Mass Motivation Kit - motivates all buildings in your city at once.
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Expedition attempts - will let you continue the current Expedition. If you happen to finish an Expedition with more than eight of them, they will be available to you at the beginning of the next Expedition.
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Forge Points - direct Forge Points that are added to your stock instantly.
Relics
You will now be able to get some new items in the relics, too. One Up Kit and Store Building item join the pool. Also, you will now be getting the new Expedition-themed buildings from relics! Forge Points and other items that were available before are still there.
Other changes
Battles
Balancing Expeditions so that they're fun and rewarding is a tricky business. It gets pretty complex when we're dealing with dozens of different units and abilities across all the different ages. We're pretty happy with how the original balancing for Guild Expeditions turned out, but we were able to take a look at data about things like completion rates across the ages and saw that the balancing for a few ages was a bit out of line with others. Most changes were about reducing battle boosts in areas that players were struggling. The unique position of Arctic Future as an Age which was gradually released means the balancing needed a bit of upward adjustment to provide the appropriate challenge, since much has changed there.
If you're interested in details, click the Spoiler below:
- Iron Age - Removal of boosts in the 3rd difficulty
- Early Middle Ages - Removal of boosts in the 3rd difficulty
- High Middle Ages - Decreases in boosts in the 3rd difficulty
- Late Middle Ages - No changes
- Colonial Age - Decreases in the 1st difficulty
- Industrial Age - Decreases in the 1st difficulty
- Progressive Era - Decreases in the 1st difficulty
- Modern Era - Decreases in the 1st and 2nd difficulties
- Postmodern Era - Decreases in the 1st difficulty
- Contemporary Era - Minor decreases in the 1st difficulty
- Tomorrow - Minor decreases in boosts in 1st, 2nd and 3rd difficulties
- The Future - No changes
- Arctic Future - Increases in boosts in 1st, 2nd and 3rd difficulties
We've put a lot of thought and love into those new additions, so please let us know how we did! We will be happy to read your opinions in the feedback thread!
Yours,
Forge of Empires Team