I've found an even better tool included with the game. In settings, select delete city and logout. Your day suddenly gets longer, no more wasted time working toward buildings that will be outdated in 6 months, no more annoying bugs and submitting tickets, no more silly children clicking auto-fight that think this is a fighting game. Best move I ever made... Delete, logout.
Great video, I love hearing anyone chatting about FoE. I recently achieved getting the Arc on my main world to level 180 which took ages but it was probably worth the trouble. I think the jumpin pumpkin is a really useful production building and can see a few on your world and as a special building it makes the game a lot easier when space is always a problem for most players I think. I am just not looking forward to placing the Vineyard in my diamond farms and waiting ages before I can get the fragements for the first one. Hope you keep making more videos on the game, just subscribed.
Wow - A Level 180 Arc owner! Super-impressive work there - congrats! Thank you so much for the encouragement and positive comments. It means alot coming from such an experienced and accomplished player. I completely agree with you about the pumpkins. Hopefully this will be the end of me constantly building and tearing down blacksmiths! To get the production value AND the military value all packaged in the same footprint as a blacksmith is GREAT! Thank you for the sub. I see it as a vote of confidence and it motivates me to keep creating.
As a recent member of the 200-million-point club myself (last week), I'm surprised this is the first time I'm hearing of foe-info. Granted it doesn't show too much different "info" than foe-helper, which I use, but the FP sniping tool is interesting. I usually do the math in my head when I'm looking for sniping opportunities, and it's not too difficult (FP left to level the GB plus the FP amount already on the spot I'm looking to snipe, all divided by 2). I don't have a friends list full of sniping possibilities, most of my FL consists of players in social 1.9 threads I'm a member of. But foe-info might be something I may look into adding onto my browser at some point. Thanks for the heads-up and keep the videos coming.
Congrats on getting to 200M! That's a big milestone. Yeah, FoE Helper is better overall, but it does not have the FP investment tool that is as good as the one in FoE Info. So I use both simultaneously, as you probably noticed! Which is another thing that I like, the ability to do both at the same time. Appreciate you checking out the vid and the encouraging words.
Just an FYI the module that shows upcomming incidents violates INNO TOS and can get accounts banned. FoE Helper used to do that as well but they removed that feature for this reason.
Hi Bardo. Thanks for the video. I was wondering what your values were in the ranking of buildings for the FOE helper were. I have done my own but would be happy to get a second opinion.
What a great question. I change this over time as my priorities change, which is one of the reasons why it is so helpful. Right now, the only items that I have a value assigned are the following: Forge Points 0.35 Treasury Goods 11 ATT boost - attacking army 0.92 Def boost - attacking army 1.05 ATT boost - Def army 2.92 DEF boost - Def army 3.05 Goods - 10 I tweak this quite a bit, but I am pleased with where these weights are right now. These items are the only ones that are of value enough for me to include in the rating system. Great question - thanks for watching - I really appreciate you!
@@BardoFarkins My set up was almost exactly the same as yours except for one very big change. My FP was 2, set to make attack twice as important as fp.
@@BardoFarkins I thought I replied, but never did. I was the same proportionally as you with one big exception, My FP was double attack instead of half. Otherwise your defense is a little higher, but it is all the same
Interesting how we were close. I'm glad we can adjust these over time as as the game changes....how our priorities change. I just feel like FPs are so prevalent now with the power creep that getting them in GBs/event buildings are a little less important to me than they once were. I appreciate the dialogue!
Thanks again for an interesting video and useful info. I noticed you did not mention the Friends menu (or I missed it). I believe it is awesome, as it shows you the Inactive (has not been logged-in in 7 days) players. Very useful to then remove them from your friends list.
I know that FoE Helper will do that....But I'm not sure if FoE Info gives you that kind of data....If so, I'm not aware of it! Thank you for watching and for the positive feedback!
@@BardoFarkins Interesting, I am using both now and I do not know how to see this in FoE Helper. In FoE Info, Preferences, there is an Option, fairly low in the prefs window to show list of users (Guild, Friends and Neighbours) at login. When then in the FoE Info Window, there is an option to open any and all of these 3 lists and if a user is 7+ days off line, then there is an Inactive label. Thanks and enjoy. :-)
I know it took me forever to check this out, but I looked into this today. I did find this in FOE Info, but it's not under preferences, it's under settings. There are click boxes where you can select to show, Friends, guildies, and Hood members at start up and it tells you who is "inactive". In FoE Helper, use the "motivate/polish Helper" and it gives the same info but more detailed....the key is that every other day or so you need to scroll through the event history from your town hall to populate the data and keep it updated.
Useful video on something I'd seen you use but wasn't quite sure how it worked. But, you've got to spend some of that FP bank! You could power level your Arc a few levels and still have 50k in the bank
I'm glad you found it useful and I appreciate you taking time to comment. I agree - I have got to get that FP bank down! FP's don't do any good just sitting there unused! I have been leveling several lower buildings (Obs, CF) that I think are a better use right now than 33k+ for an Arc level - but it feels like they are still coming in faster than I can spend them. LOL
@@BardoFarkins the usefulness of the Obs has also increased considerably since it gained all the blue boosts in place of guild power. 75% blue boosts on my level 100 Obs!
U can actually do the same with the Foe helper … What makes this strat op is that u can look at others people Gb in the global ranking and send the most promising ones an invite…
First of all, thanks for the comment! So... the GB Cost calculator tool on FoE Helper will show you what your profit could be, but it does not tell you the minimum amount that you need to place to make that profit....Right now, I am using both tools simultaneously and side-by-side on the same opportunity, and the FoE Tools version is much more clear about what you need to do for maximum profit efficiency. In my opinion, of course! But you are right, FoE Helper has something similar with the GB Cost Calculator, but it's not nearly as good. Appreciate your thoughts!
@@BardoFarkins i mean when you open up GB Cost Calculator on FOE helper, then go to setting in that little pop up window and put new value, if u put -99% and save it when you click on someones GB and open GB cost calculator you scroll over the left value and it tells you how many FP you need to put so the spot is safe, and if that number is lower than the number in the Difference column, you are making a profit.
Yes, I know what you mean and I have done that. My experience with GB Cost Calculator in Helper is that when I enter in the amount of my Arc reward in the setting (which FoE Info does automatically, BTW) but when I do this, the amount that shows in the left hand column is not the correct amount that I would need to lock in the spot. It just isn't. I am considering doing a video where I compare the two different tools side by side so folks can see how they are different....and how, in my opinion, FoE Info is better and more clear - at least with this ONE feature.
@@BardoFarkins I don't agree, if you read through my message, if u have option investment -99%, open someones GB hover over the left amount of FP, it says something like "to secure that spot you need to put exactly x FP" and if that x amount is smaller than the difference column, you are going to make some profit, it's called sniping, nothing new. Only thing is that you only see what profit u made is when you secured (already put the FP) but you can obviously see how much you are going to profit from that. Only thing, i mean only one is that FOE info tells you you are going to make x amount straight away without u needing to put any FP. Other thing about Foe GB cost calculator is that you just keep the window of it (GB calculator) open, and just open other people's GBs and it makes calculations immediately, plus its integrated very well, so i think FOE is kinda waste of space.
@@HeroClaws tnx for the -99 info, i use 1%, just sometimes the proffit is bigger. And obv this tool is great way to earn your first? ban :) i did use some tool long time ago, felt like cheating, i deleted the tool but it still whas in chrome and month leater i got this nice small ban.
To Start FOE info once download and added to( browser work in Brave), CTL, Shift, I to load and start before loading game. All other information in video is correct.
That's cool that it works for another browser other than Chrome. I didn't know that! Thanks so much for watching and sharing this tip for our Brave users.
Sorry bur the "Research Cost" button on the top upper left side is NOT there so it must be an add-on feature of FOE-info. NO such thing as SNIPING on positions that are not lock and are open for contributions. I say to bad manage you FP input better or take the risk. To illuminate players taking my contributors positions I seed at 1.9 all the way to P4. And because I do this I level my GBs real quick because contributors know their positions are protected and locked. I wish more players would learn that they need to seed their GBs properly.
Hello and thanks for weighing in! I do not believe that this is an FoE Info or FoE Helper feature, because I am able to access the research cost button on the mobile version of the game. Just make sure you are in your Research New Technologies and you should see the icon in the upper left, very tiny! Can someone else verify that it is NOT an FoE Helper feature, but a standard in-game tool? I'm pretty sure I'm right. Thanks for checking out the video :)
Those tools are really amazing, I only wish there was something for mobile too... Now, a question: what do you think of the recent event buildings being so OP, to the point where some GBs, even when they're high level, appear to be pointless now?
Thank you for checking it out! I'm glad you see the value in these tools. It's tough for the mobile players who not have access to these types of tools. Doesn't seem to be a way around it. I love your question and I think most of us have been thinking about this and power creep quite a bit lately. The thing is, for comparing to previous event buildings, it's all relative and that's not really an issue to me. Where it gets more complicated is with GB's - like you said. I would like to weigh in on this in my next video perhaps. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and providing such a great question.
Hey, you’ve been playing almost twice as long as I have - so you bring a great deal of credibility with your take. I get it. Hopefully there are enough others who were not aware. Really appreciate you watching, though!
Fair criticism. This will likely never be a channel that creates 3 minute videos. I may get around to doing "shorts" at some point for a very quick tip. But I expect that most of my videos will be of similar length. Thanks for sharing some feedback.
Thank for you for checking out the video. Maybe you need to collect something.....then the tool will show what you have collected.....that's my guess. Good luck!
Get it here: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/foe-info/clifeblhbipgjjlngahknaagkkikfhmo?pli=1 Once it is installed, you have to go to the FoE login, but don't login. Right click to get that column that I showed in the video....go to the 20:50 mark of the video for full instructions. th-cam.com/video/xER7MHKOs1c/w-d-xo.html
Not because im the main dev of Info, but because the things I will note now, is the reason why Info was designed in the first place, Helper injects code in the game, Info doesn't, hence Helper is detectable and Info isn't, Helper got their users banned many times, Info got their users banned 0 times, we make a ethos on ensuring that none of our features actually give you a real game advantage over non "tool" users like mobile players, while Helper gives plenty of unfair advantages and many of their features are borderline cheats (Event helper - can easily be considered a cheat, as it gives you a unfair advantage over mobile only player, Negotiation helper was the same (this one got users actually banned) ... and don't get me wrong, I love FoE Helper as well and use it alongside my tool FoE-Info for some specific things, that simply can't be implemented in Info at all due to Info's text only design ... but ... that is not even really my main point ... do you find "Helper pop-ups" constantly popping up in front of you and getting in the way of the game useful? Cuz, many of us don't, if your a guild leader, do you find it usefull that all Guild stats get deleted as soon as you clear your coockies? Cuz, many of us don't ... with Info you get those same stats, you just need to extract them to a spreadsheet of your own design, where you can sort the data how ever you want instead of being vendor-locked to "Helpers own specific design" of the stats overview, so yes you do have to manually copy the stats to a sheet, but your stats are now in that sheet, forever ... instead of being lost everytime your Windows or Linux or Mac OS dies, and you need to reinstall, or everytime you clear your coockies etc ... many of us preffer a tool that doesn't get in the way of your game (like Info that is a sidebar and has 0 overlay pop ups) ... but FoE-Helper's 1.90 checker vs FoE-Info's 1.90 checker is for example, uncomparable, Info's is 2000x better, it sits on the side, you can quickly check a ton of GBs, when you switch between threads that have different support ratios the ratios automatically adjust, Helper does not have a GBG Target generator that reads marked sectors in GBG, and calculates your attrition reduction chances and generates it as a target list like Info does ... and most importantly, to all those who have went to the owner of this channel with claims that Info can get you banned ... well, so can Helper, except that Helper got their users banned many many many times in the past, while Info users got banned 0 times in 8 years of it's existence, and that's mainly because Info doesn't inject code, doesn't communicate with the server or the API of the game, all it does is scrape data off your local browser, and translate it to Human readable text, so when it comes to getting banned, your more in danger of getting banned by using FoE-Helper then you are by using FoE-Info, as Helper does everything that Info doesn't, hence Helper is detectable by Inno and Info isn't, as when you use Info, to Inno all your doing is having the developer tool console open, and that's not counting Helper's boarder line cheats (features that give unfair advantages to PC players over mobile players) another high point is: Helper slows down your game on older hardware, Info due to it's text only approach doesn't and works even on a "Toaster"
Thanks so much for checking out the vid. The GB Donation feature on Info is far superior than what is available on Helper - that's why I use both concurrently. It's really great!
It's a great honor to have the main developer share these perspectives and insight into the tool. Nobody on earth knows it better! My only suggestion, @kronickpillow - make this comment a "regular comment" as opposed to a response to another comment. My deserve your "own" comment thread! I am very grateful for you and your outstanding tool!
@@BardoFarkins thanks, I just did repost the same comment as a new one, I'll hit you up later or tomorrow to show you some intuitive use-cases for Info, that are not specifically feature related, more like, how we use the data that Info provides for some things, it will maybe give you ideas for more videos about Info, because we need more videos, as I completely understand that the initial look and design of Info looks a little teech savvy, and that many people who use it, haven't really figured out all the possible use-cases like we have when we were building this tool for our guild, Lords of War :-)
Hey Bardo: I downloaded the FoE Info extension and got it to work once. When I closed out of the browser and got back into Forge, I no longer saw the side bar for the extension. What do I have to do to get this to open each time I log in?
From the FoE login screen, right click your mouse. A bar pops up on the right. Click the two little arrows at the top of that column (more tabs shows when you hover). Then click FoE Info in the menu that pops up. Then log into FoE,
I managed to install foe info. It does not show me great buildings on the list although enabled in settings and saved. I reinstalled twice. Nothing. Pls, help.
I figured it out. I´m dumb. Great buildings calculator only shows if you select a player and building like you showed in the video. It doesn´t just pop up once you log in.@@BardoFarkins
Sorry that I am just now responding. The toolbar near the bottom right in the video is FoE Helper. It's a Chrome extension and it's awesome. docs.foe-helper.com/english/installing
@@BardoFarkins Sometimes I help users with some extension for other browsers. You may know that FoE Helper, for instance, works on Edge, Opera and even Firefox, but I found no way to make it work on Firefox. It looks like its security system blocks it. Anyway, thanks. If anyone else finds a way, please let me know.
I realize not everyone is going to like what I’m doing with the vids, but I do appreciate you giving it a chance and weighing in with some feedback. Be well!
Oh no! Did you follow the walkthrough in the video? Once you have the Chrome Extension: go to FoE login screen click both mouse buttons at the same time click Inspect click little arrows at top (>>) click FoE Info log into the game as usual That should do it. Good luck, I hope you get it going!
Thank you for checking it out and leaving a comment! Yes, you are right - to a degree. FoE Helper has something similar (GB cost calculator), but it is not the same as the "GB Donation" feature in FoE Info...and in my opinion it is not nearly as clear and as helpful. I may need to do a short video to demonstrate both tools working side by side on the same opportunity to show how they are different and how the FoE Info is so much better! Honestly it is not even close. But we all can decide for ourselves which we one we prefer. My goal was to provide the information and let you decide for yourself.
Hey, thanks for the encouragement and I really appreciate you checking out the vid. Are you one of these guilds: Tercio Warriors, The Bomb Pops, ExpeditionUnknown, House Atreides, or Rogue Machine? Sounds like you have done well, congrats!
I appreciate you checking out the video....What about if you have friends that WELCOME you to do it??? (Well, in my eyes that's not a "snipe"!) Thanks!
Forge Points are so rookie. I see so many people building GBs for their FP output. What a waste ! You're spending more levelling up this waste of real estate than it gives back. Hagia Sofia. Junk., Cape Canaveral. Junk. If you play GBG regularly and competitively you'll make more FPS than you can spend.
Thank you for checking out the video and weighing in. I agree with you that it would be a poor strategy to level up your own Great Buildings with a goal of significant FP generation from them. Especially with today’s power creep! But, this is not what the video is about. The video is about investing in other players’ GBs for enormous FP rewards and utilizing the tool as explained to make it incredibly easy to do so. With a high level Arc and a full active friends list of players who do not use 1.9 threads and want you invest any amount, this will generate HUGE amounts of FPs. Way more than GbG will. Also it’s a much more efficient method from a time investment standpoint compared to GbG. In 5 minutes you might lock in several hundred FP profit investing but only earn 100 or so FP in 5 minutes of GbG. Just so that’s clear! Again, I appreciate you taking time to check out the video and weighing in with a comment 👍 These types of discussions are great and what I’m hoping to generate! I appreciate your perspective.
OH! Well, good. What a relief. Someone had just given me my first thumbs down on the vid after 209 views and I thought it was you! lol. I appreciate you checking out the video, for sure.
Nobody forced you to keep watching....Dude. There are ways to offer constructive feedback that show decency...and there are also ways to just simply be a jerk. Unnecessarily.
Look, feedback is welcomed. It's just part of being a creator, right? But I think most people would agree with me when I say that there is a decent and respectable way to give constructive feedback, and there is also another way to give feedback that is just plain rude.
@@BardoFarkins he's right, 11+ minutes of useless rambling. show that you respect our time and get to the point. the amount of rambling is absolutely ridiculous.
Snipe your neighbors not your friends! Don’t be a turd. Ever heard of FOE Tools? It’s been calculating GBs for YEARS and non PC players can use it too. This vid was a major downer for me
Sorry that the video was not helpful to you, but thanks for giving it a chance. I would never recommend "sniping" friends who would not want you to do it. Yes, I agree, that would be a turd-move! What I demonstrated in the video is with players who welcome me to add any amount of FPs to their buildings. I have carefully crafted a friends list that includes the following set-up. The first 30 players on my list are friends that I do not invest in - I don't place FP's unless it's on a 1.9X thread. The remaining 110 players on my list are players that welcome and encourage me to place any amount of FP's on their buildings. So I do not consider that to be sniping. I put together a video that explains this approach: th-cam.com/video/Zyk0mFOnbGg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7aWGWbD_CrdDu7Fi
Nah his reasoning was sound. If his friends used 1.9 and he was undercutting them, then that would be a crappy thing to do. But if they are self-levelers, a few hundred FPs from someone can be insanely helpful. Ends up being a win-win.
I appreciate you sharing your observation. My layout is quite efficient according to this tool: foe-city-builder.web.app/#/ Granted it may not be pretty or organized or look the way that you would like for it to, but according to this tool, it is quite efficient and minimizes roads. I tend to agree with the tool, actually. But thanks for weighing in with your thought!
Thank you for the comment. I obviously hope that this is not the case. I have been using the tool for quite some time now and have not had any problem, but who knows, you could be right (?) 2,371 views on the video and this is the first I have heard of such an issue. Have you - or anyone else - experienced this first hand?
@@BardoFarkins yes a few years back my self and 4 guild members got done for using 3rd party tool so it was FOE info or FOE helper support would not say witch one
@@Ce0Grundy you got banned for features produced by FoE Helper that Inno found inacceptable, Info didn't get you banned for sure, we'v recieved 0 reports of getting banned due to Info over the 8 years of it's existence
@@BardoFarkins it was 1st time for all so only 24 hours keep using foe Helper cuz back then support had post up say it would not get you banned That post also got removed by support in the past 2 years
I've found an even better tool included with the game. In settings, select delete city and logout. Your day suddenly gets longer, no more wasted time working toward buildings that will be outdated in 6 months, no more annoying bugs and submitting tickets, no more silly children clicking auto-fight that think this is a fighting game. Best move I ever made... Delete, logout.
LOL - made me chuckle! Good one. It's not hard to understand why folks might arrive at that point...thanks.
Great video, I love hearing anyone chatting about FoE. I recently achieved getting the Arc on my main world to level 180 which took ages but it was probably worth the trouble. I think the jumpin pumpkin is a really useful production building and can see a few on your world and as a special building it makes the game a lot easier when space is always a problem for most players I think. I am just not looking forward to placing the Vineyard in my diamond farms and waiting ages before I can get the fragements for the first one. Hope you keep making more videos on the game, just subscribed.
Wow - A Level 180 Arc owner! Super-impressive work there - congrats! Thank you so much for the encouragement and positive comments. It means alot coming from such an experienced and accomplished player. I completely agree with you about the pumpkins. Hopefully this will be the end of me constantly building and tearing down blacksmiths! To get the production value AND the military value all packaged in the same footprint as a blacksmith is GREAT! Thank you for the sub. I see it as a vote of confidence and it motivates me to keep creating.
OH MY GOD! SAY IT ALREADY!!
Yeah...I gotta admit...It took me awhile to get to the good stuff! Point taken. Thanks for checking out the video, though!
As a recent member of the 200-million-point club myself (last week), I'm surprised this is the first time I'm hearing of foe-info. Granted it doesn't show too much different "info" than foe-helper, which I use, but the FP sniping tool is interesting. I usually do the math in my head when I'm looking for sniping opportunities, and it's not too difficult (FP left to level the GB plus the FP amount already on the spot I'm looking to snipe, all divided by 2). I don't have a friends list full of sniping possibilities, most of my FL consists of players in social 1.9 threads I'm a member of. But foe-info might be something I may look into adding onto my browser at some point. Thanks for the heads-up and keep the videos coming.
Congrats on getting to 200M! That's a big milestone. Yeah, FoE Helper is better overall, but it does not have the FP investment tool that is as good as the one in FoE Info. So I use both simultaneously, as you probably noticed! Which is another thing that I like, the ability to do both at the same time. Appreciate you checking out the vid and the encouraging words.
Just an FYI the module that shows upcomming incidents violates INNO TOS and can get accounts banned. FoE Helper used to do that as well but they removed that feature for this reason.
Hi Bardo. Thanks for the video. I was wondering what your values were in the ranking of buildings for the FOE helper were. I have done my own but would be happy to get a second opinion.
What a great question. I change this over time as my priorities change, which is one of the reasons why it is so helpful. Right now, the only items that I have a value assigned are the following:
Forge Points 0.35
Treasury Goods 11
ATT boost - attacking army 0.92
Def boost - attacking army 1.05
ATT boost - Def army 2.92
DEF boost - Def army 3.05
Goods - 10
I tweak this quite a bit, but I am pleased with where these weights are right now. These items are the only ones that are of value enough for me to include in the rating system.
Great question - thanks for watching - I really appreciate you!
@@BardoFarkins My set up was almost exactly the same as yours except for one very big change. My FP was 2, set to make attack twice as important as fp.
I can definitely see why you would set it up that way!
@@BardoFarkins I thought I replied, but never did. I was the same proportionally as you with one big exception, My FP was double attack instead of half. Otherwise your defense is a little higher, but it is all the same
Interesting how we were close. I'm glad we can adjust these over time as as the game changes....how our priorities change. I just feel like FPs are so prevalent now with the power creep that getting them in GBs/event buildings are a little less important to me than they once were. I appreciate the dialogue!
very nice video my friend.keep up the good work!!!
Thanks, I really appreciate it! 👍
Thanks again for an interesting video and useful info. I noticed you did not mention the Friends menu (or I missed it). I believe it is awesome, as it shows you the Inactive (has not been logged-in in 7 days) players. Very useful to then remove them from your friends list.
I know that FoE Helper will do that....But I'm not sure if FoE Info gives you that kind of data....If so, I'm not aware of it! Thank you for watching and for the positive feedback!
@@BardoFarkins Interesting, I am using both now and I do not know how to see this in FoE Helper. In FoE Info, Preferences, there is an Option, fairly low in the prefs window to show list of users (Guild, Friends and Neighbours) at login. When then in the FoE Info Window, there is an option to open any and all of these 3 lists and if a user is 7+ days off line, then there is an Inactive label. Thanks and enjoy. :-)
I know it took me forever to check this out, but I looked into this today. I did find this in FOE Info, but it's not under preferences, it's under settings. There are click boxes where you can select to show, Friends, guildies, and Hood members at start up and it tells you who is "inactive".
In FoE Helper, use the "motivate/polish Helper" and it gives the same info but more detailed....the key is that every other day or so you need to scroll through the event history from your town hall to populate the data and keep it updated.
Pretty curious any tips for a mobile player with foe helper tools etc or anything to help grow my city faster
If you don't use it already, you might try FoE Tools at foe.tools/
Thanks for checking out the video and leaving a comment!
That is extremely helpful info, thank you for the video.
Great! Glad you found it to be useful. Appreciate the comment, as well.
Useful video on something I'd seen you use but wasn't quite sure how it worked. But, you've got to spend some of that FP bank! You could power level your Arc a few levels and still have 50k in the bank
I'm glad you found it useful and I appreciate you taking time to comment. I agree - I have got to get that FP bank down! FP's don't do any good just sitting there unused! I have been leveling several lower buildings (Obs, CF) that I think are a better use right now than 33k+ for an Arc level - but it feels like they are still coming in faster than I can spend them. LOL
@@BardoFarkins the usefulness of the Obs has also increased considerably since it gained all the blue boosts in place of guild power. 75% blue boosts on my level 100 Obs!
Yes, what a huge boost to the Obs! I wasn't expecting that, but it's really nice.
U can actually do the same with the Foe helper … What makes this strat op is that u can look at others people Gb in the global ranking and send the most promising ones an invite…
First of all, thanks for the comment! So... the GB Cost calculator tool on FoE Helper will show you what your profit could be, but it does not tell you the minimum amount that you need to place to make that profit....Right now, I am using both tools simultaneously and side-by-side on the same opportunity, and the FoE Tools version is much more clear about what you need to do for maximum profit efficiency. In my opinion, of course! But you are right, FoE Helper has something similar with the GB Cost Calculator, but it's not nearly as good. Appreciate your thoughts!
@@BardoFarkins i mean when you open up GB Cost Calculator on FOE helper, then go to setting in that little pop up window and put new value, if u put -99% and save it when you click on someones GB and open GB cost calculator you scroll over the left value and it tells you how many FP you need to put so the spot is safe, and if that number is lower than the number in the Difference column, you are making a profit.
Yes, I know what you mean and I have done that. My experience with GB Cost Calculator in Helper is that when I enter in the amount of my Arc reward in the setting (which FoE Info does automatically, BTW) but when I do this, the amount that shows in the left hand column is not the correct amount that I would need to lock in the spot. It just isn't. I am considering doing a video where I compare the two different tools side by side so folks can see how they are different....and how, in my opinion, FoE Info is better and more clear - at least with this ONE feature.
@@BardoFarkins I don't agree, if you read through my message, if u have option investment -99%, open someones GB hover over the left amount of FP, it says something like "to secure that spot you need to put exactly x FP" and if that x amount is smaller than the difference column, you are going to make some profit, it's called sniping, nothing new. Only thing is that you only see what profit u made is when you secured (already put the FP) but you can obviously see how much you are going to profit from that.
Only thing, i mean only one is that FOE info tells you you are going to make x amount straight away without u needing to put any FP. Other thing about Foe GB cost calculator is that you just keep the window of it (GB calculator) open, and just open other people's GBs and it makes calculations immediately, plus its integrated very well, so i think FOE is kinda waste of space.
@@HeroClaws tnx for the -99 info, i use 1%, just sometimes the proffit is bigger. And obv this tool is great way to earn your first? ban :) i did use some tool long time ago, felt like cheating, i deleted the tool but it still whas in chrome and month leater i got this nice small ban.
To Start FOE info once download and added to( browser work in Brave), CTL, Shift, I to load and start before loading game. All other information in video is correct.
That's cool that it works for another browser other than Chrome. I didn't know that! Thanks so much for watching and sharing this tip for our Brave users.
Sorry bur the "Research Cost" button on the top upper left side is NOT there so it must be an add-on feature of FOE-info.
NO such thing as SNIPING on positions that are not lock and are open for contributions. I say to bad manage you FP input better or take the risk. To illuminate players taking my contributors positions I seed at 1.9 all the way to P4. And because I do this I level my GBs real quick because contributors know their positions are protected and locked. I wish more players would learn that they need to seed their GBs properly.
Hello and thanks for weighing in! I do not believe that this is an FoE Info or FoE Helper feature, because I am able to access the research cost button on the mobile version of the game. Just make sure you are in your Research New Technologies and you should see the icon in the upper left, very tiny! Can someone else verify that it is NOT an FoE Helper feature, but a standard in-game tool? I'm pretty sure I'm right. Thanks for checking out the video :)
@@BardoFarkins OK, I see it now THNX
Research tip works on mobile too. New subscriber.👍🏽
Awesome, thank you for checking out the video and subbing!
wait, my tool works on Mobile? I didn't know that, how?
Those tools are really amazing, I only wish there was something for mobile too...
Now, a question: what do you think of the recent event buildings being so OP, to the point where some GBs, even when they're high level, appear to be pointless now?
Thank you for checking it out! I'm glad you see the value in these tools. It's tough for the mobile players who not have access to these types of tools. Doesn't seem to be a way around it.
I love your question and I think most of us have been thinking about this and power creep quite a bit lately. The thing is, for comparing to previous event buildings, it's all relative and that's not really an issue to me. Where it gets more complicated is with GB's - like you said. I would like to weigh in on this in my next video perhaps.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and providing such a great question.
Gratz on hitting 200mil, but this video is kinda lengthy for something most of us figured out 7+ years ago when Arc first launched.
Hey, you’ve been playing almost twice as long as I have - so you bring a great deal of credibility with your take. I get it. Hopefully there are enough others who were not aware. Really appreciate you watching, though!
You are a better person than I am. I don't snipe much anymore but friends are food.
how does power levelling work in foe helper. I am in HMA age with a lvl 22 arc. How is it outside.
You know, I have never used that particular tool. I see it there, but have never used it or figured it out....Anyone else?
You really need to learn to get to the point quicker.
Fair criticism. This will likely never be a channel that creates 3 minute videos. I may get around to doing "shorts" at some point for a very quick tip. But I expect that most of my videos will be of similar length. Thanks for sharing some feedback.
Hi, thank you for your video, i install bur i don't find rewards option, it's normal ? Or we have don't the same version?
Thank for you for checking out the video. Maybe you need to collect something.....then the tool will show what you have collected.....that's my guess. Good luck!
You need to get to the pointttt man 😫
Feedback taken. Thanks for watching and hanging in there.
Agree. Gives info-mercial vibes. Great energy and the content is there, just sell it a less
@@staschkuras3568 thanks for the feedback 👍
I was sitting here saying the same thing. Get to it! lol
@@Tee_Dawg1 Yeah, I probably should have been more concise. Lesson learned! Thanks for giving it a chance and hanging in there.
How do I install the foe tool? The instructions that came with it, is confusing.
just look it up in your browser, I use crome. not sure if you can use it on other browsers
Get it here:
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/foe-info/clifeblhbipgjjlngahknaagkkikfhmo?pli=1
Once it is installed, you have to go to the FoE login, but don't login. Right click to get that column that I showed in the video....go to the 20:50 mark of the video for full instructions.
th-cam.com/video/xER7MHKOs1c/w-d-xo.html
The game keeps changing but really I would say helper is way more use than the one you are talking about, adding and updating all the time.
Not because im the main dev of Info, but because the things I will note now, is the reason why Info was designed in the first place, Helper injects code in the game, Info doesn't, hence Helper is detectable and Info isn't, Helper got their users banned many times, Info got their users banned 0 times, we make a ethos on ensuring that none of our features actually give you a real game advantage over non "tool" users like mobile players, while Helper gives plenty of unfair advantages and many of their features are borderline cheats (Event helper - can easily be considered a cheat, as it gives you a unfair advantage over mobile only player, Negotiation helper was the same (this one got users actually banned) ...
and don't get me wrong, I love FoE Helper as well and use it alongside my tool FoE-Info for some specific things, that simply can't be implemented in Info at all due to Info's text only design ... but ... that is not even really my main point ... do you find "Helper pop-ups" constantly popping up in front of you and getting in the way of the game useful? Cuz, many of us don't, if your a guild leader, do you find it usefull that all Guild stats get deleted as soon as you clear your coockies? Cuz, many of us don't ... with Info you get those same stats, you just need to extract them to a spreadsheet of your own design, where you can sort the data how ever you want instead of being vendor-locked to "Helpers own specific design" of the stats overview, so yes you do have to manually copy the stats to a sheet, but your stats are now in that sheet, forever ... instead of being lost everytime your Windows or Linux or Mac OS dies, and you need to reinstall, or everytime you clear your coockies etc ...
many of us preffer a tool that doesn't get in the way of your game (like Info that is a sidebar and has 0 overlay pop ups) ... but FoE-Helper's 1.90 checker vs FoE-Info's 1.90 checker is for example, uncomparable, Info's is 2000x better, it sits on the side, you can quickly check a ton of GBs, when you switch between threads that have different support ratios the ratios automatically adjust, Helper does not have a GBG Target generator that reads marked sectors in GBG, and calculates your attrition reduction chances and generates it as a target list like Info does ...
and most importantly, to all those who have went to the owner of this channel with claims that Info can get you banned ... well, so can Helper, except that Helper got their users banned many many many times in the past, while Info users got banned 0 times in 8 years of it's existence, and that's mainly because Info doesn't inject code, doesn't communicate with the server or the API of the game, all it does is scrape data off your local browser, and translate it to Human readable text, so when it comes to getting banned, your more in danger of getting banned by using FoE-Helper then you are by using FoE-Info, as Helper does everything that Info doesn't, hence Helper is detectable by Inno and Info isn't, as when you use Info, to Inno all your doing is having the developer tool console open, and that's not counting Helper's boarder line cheats (features that give unfair advantages to PC players over mobile players)
another high point is: Helper slows down your game on older hardware, Info due to it's text only approach doesn't and works even on a "Toaster"
Thanks so much for checking out the vid. The GB Donation feature on Info is far superior than what is available on Helper - that's why I use both concurrently. It's really great!
It's a great honor to have the main developer share these perspectives and insight into the tool. Nobody on earth knows it better! My only suggestion, @kronickpillow - make this comment a "regular comment" as opposed to a response to another comment. My deserve your "own" comment thread! I am very grateful for you and your outstanding tool!
@@BardoFarkins thanks, I just did repost the same comment as a new one, I'll hit you up later or tomorrow to show you some intuitive use-cases for Info, that are not specifically feature related, more like, how we use the data that Info provides for some things, it will maybe give you ideas for more videos about Info, because we need more videos, as I completely understand that the initial look and design of Info looks a little teech savvy, and that many people who use it, haven't really figured out all the possible use-cases like we have when we were building this tool for our guild, Lords of War :-)
Hey Bardo: I downloaded the FoE Info extension and got it to work once. When I closed out of the browser and got back into Forge, I no longer saw the side bar for the extension. What do I have to do to get this to open each time I log in?
From the FoE login screen, right click your mouse. A bar pops up on the right. Click the two little arrows at the top of that column (more tabs shows when you hover). Then click FoE Info in the menu that pops up. Then log into FoE,
@@BardoFarkins can you do a video on this please?
I managed to install foe info. It does not show me great buildings on the list although enabled in settings and saved. I reinstalled twice. Nothing. Pls, help.
That is odd...Anyone else have this issue or have a solution? I have never experienced this sort of problem. Is your version of Chrome updated?
I figured it out. I´m dumb. Great buildings calculator only shows if you select a player and building like you showed in the video. It doesn´t just pop up once you log in.@@BardoFarkins
@@Cynthi_007 Well, you’re not dumb, it’s just new and takes some time figuring out how it works! Good luck!
how to getthe toolbar at the bottom rigth.
Sorry that I am just now responding. The toolbar near the bottom right in the video is FoE Helper. It's a Chrome extension and it's awesome.
docs.foe-helper.com/english/installing
I can't install FoE-Info on Firefox. Can anyone help me?
Thank you for the question. I do not believe there is a way to use the FoE-Info extension on Firefox. It is a Chrome extension.
@@BardoFarkins Sometimes I help users with some extension for other browsers. You may know that FoE Helper, for instance, works on Edge, Opera and even Firefox, but I found no way to make it work on Firefox. It looks like its security system blocks it.
Anyway, thanks.
If anyone else finds a way, please let me know.
hey everyone, dude gets to his point @13:00. @Bardo, you are sooooooooooooooooooo long-winded
I realize not everyone is going to like what I’m doing with the vids, but I do appreciate you giving it a chance and weighing in with some feedback. Be well!
Channeling his inner Jim Baker
i can not get mine to work
Oh no! Did you follow the walkthrough in the video? Once you have the Chrome Extension:
go to FoE login screen
click both mouse buttons at the same time
click Inspect
click little arrows at top (>>)
click FoE Info
log into the game as usual
That should do it.
Good luck, I hope you get it going!
I don’t mind people’s dropping FPs, as long as they don’t level me up
Yeah it sucks when your GB gets flipped right when you are about to "double dip"!
Heart of the Rift and other top guilds caught cheating. Will Inno games allow this? Wait and see if they address it or not.
Hate to see top guilds cheating...really any guilds cheating ,but especially top guilds - love it when they get busted. Which world are you in?
FoE Helper has had the ability to lock spots for quite some time,. This is nothing new.
Thank you for checking it out and leaving a comment! Yes, you are right - to a degree. FoE Helper has something similar (GB cost calculator), but it is not the same as the "GB Donation" feature in FoE Info...and in my opinion it is not nearly as clear and as helpful. I may need to do a short video to demonstrate both tools working side by side on the same opportunity to show how they are different and how the FoE Info is so much better! Honestly it is not even close. But we all can decide for ourselves which we one we prefer. My goal was to provide the information and let you decide for yourself.
I agreed with Bardo, FoE helper have somethink similar but not that good like here. I didnt know about this FoE Info so many thanks for sharing 🙌
nice video, keep up the good work! :)
Thank you so much for checking out the video and taking a moment to leave an encouraging note!
@@BardoFarkins no problemo! world needs more positivity :)
Congrats on 200, mill Been there for a bit, the next 100 Million will be great. Im on Parkog, Top 5 guild
Hey, thanks for the encouragement and I really appreciate you checking out the vid. Are you one of these guilds: Tercio Warriors, The Bomb Pops, ExpeditionUnknown, House Atreides, or Rogue Machine? Sounds like you have done well, congrats!
F.o.E Formed a Year Ago, Currently top 5 @@BardoFarkins YW, Eu, BH, LF, FoE
I still recomend to snipe only neighbours - every two mondays we’re getting new neighbour
I appreciate you checking out the video....What about if you have friends that WELCOME you to do it??? (Well, in my eyes that's not a "snipe"!) Thanks!
hate St. Pat event - waste my X
People seem to either love it or hate it!~ LOL
Forge Points are so rookie. I see so many people building GBs for their FP output. What a waste ! You're spending more levelling up this waste of real estate than it gives back. Hagia Sofia. Junk., Cape Canaveral. Junk. If you play GBG regularly and competitively you'll make more FPS than you can spend.
Thank you for checking out the video and weighing in. I agree with you that it would be a poor strategy to level up your own Great Buildings with a goal of significant FP generation from them. Especially with today’s power creep!
But, this is not what the video is about. The video is about investing in other players’ GBs for enormous FP rewards and utilizing the tool as explained to make it incredibly easy to do so. With a high level Arc and a full active friends list of players who do not use 1.9 threads and want you invest any amount, this will generate HUGE amounts of FPs. Way more than GbG will.
Also it’s a much more efficient method from a time investment standpoint compared to GbG. In 5 minutes you might lock in several hundred FP profit investing but only earn 100 or so FP in 5 minutes of GbG.
Just so that’s clear! Again, I appreciate you taking time to check out the video and weighing in with a comment 👍 These types of discussions are great and what I’m hoping to generate! I appreciate your perspective.
hello there
Well hello :)
Marshmallow
@@Qxilet I was thinking the same thing!
Meh. I don't use chrome - it just bugs me.
Yeah...I've looked into this and I don't know of any other way to use FoE-Info other than using Chrome. Thanks for checking out the video, though!
I thought I was coming here for a helpful video and all I got was an advanced tutorial on how to snipe with a tool. tisk tisk....lol
Well....thanks for giving it a chance! Sorry it was not helpful for you. Good luck with the game.
@@BardoFarkins I was just messing with you haha. Great video :)
OH! Well, good. What a relief. Someone had just given me my first thumbs down on the vid after 209 views and I thought it was you! lol. I appreciate you checking out the video, for sure.
@@BardoFarkins wasn't me lol
FYI folks;
Dude rambles until about 11:30, then starts to talk about relevant stuff, then rambles a bit more.....
Nobody forced you to keep watching....Dude.
There are ways to offer constructive feedback that show decency...and there are also ways to just simply be a jerk. Unnecessarily.
Rambling irrelevant monologue....I regret watching ...
Look, feedback is welcomed. It's just part of being a creator, right? But I think most people would agree with me when I say that there is a decent and respectable way to give constructive feedback, and there is also another way to give feedback that is just plain rude.
@@BardoFarkins he's right, 11+ minutes of useless rambling. show that you respect our time and get to the point. the amount of rambling is absolutely ridiculous.
Snipe your neighbors not your friends! Don’t be a turd. Ever heard of FOE Tools? It’s been calculating GBs for YEARS and non PC players can use it too. This vid was a major downer for me
Sorry that the video was not helpful to you, but thanks for giving it a chance. I would never recommend "sniping" friends who would not want you to do it. Yes, I agree, that would be a turd-move! What I demonstrated in the video is with players who welcome me to add any amount of FPs to their buildings.
I have carefully crafted a friends list that includes the following set-up. The first 30 players on my list are friends that I do not invest in - I don't place FP's unless it's on a 1.9X thread. The remaining 110 players on my list are players that welcome and encourage me to place any amount of FP's on their buildings. So I do not consider that to be sniping. I put together a video that explains this approach: th-cam.com/video/Zyk0mFOnbGg/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7aWGWbD_CrdDu7Fi
Nah his reasoning was sound. If his friends used 1.9 and he was undercutting them, then that would be a crappy thing to do. But if they are self-levelers, a few hundred FPs from someone can be insanely helpful. Ends up being a win-win.
Thank you! I'm glad you agree! Appreciate you watching and weighing in.
your city layout is awful ngl
I appreciate you sharing your observation. My layout is quite efficient according to this tool: foe-city-builder.web.app/#/
Granted it may not be pretty or organized or look the way that you would like for it to, but according to this tool, it is quite efficient and minimizes roads. I tend to agree with the tool, actually.
But thanks for weighing in with your thought!
Heads up FOE info can get your account temp banned
Thank you for the comment. I obviously hope that this is not the case. I have been using the tool for quite some time now and have not had any problem, but who knows, you could be right (?) 2,371 views on the video and this is the first I have heard of such an issue. Have you - or anyone else - experienced this first hand?
@@BardoFarkins yes a few years back my self and 4 guild members got done for using 3rd party tool so it was FOE info or FOE helper support would not say witch one
Hmmmm. Did you stop using both? How long was the ban? Thanks! @@Ce0Grundy
@@Ce0Grundy you got banned for features produced by FoE Helper that Inno found inacceptable, Info didn't get you banned for sure, we'v recieved 0 reports of getting banned due to Info over the 8 years of it's existence
@@BardoFarkins it was 1st time for all so only 24 hours keep using foe Helper cuz back then support had post up say it would not get you banned That post also got removed by support in the past 2 years