You should try to arrange your city so that all the buildings are touching as few road tiles as possible. (8) Roads produce nothing, so you want to minimize roads. Often event buildings like the Airship and the Governor's Villa have the best efficiencies, so you should focus efforts on events when they arise. Try to maximize your production per tile. So you might have 3x3 = 9 tiles building that makes 160 production in an hour, and another that is 4x5 = 20 tiles and makes 220 production in an hour. (7) Different buildings have different efficiencies. (6) When you build your city use all the tiles for something. Milk them! I wrote a separate guide to sniping which can get you started doing that. (5) Sniping and Sabotage are important techniques for farming goods and FP from your neighbors. For example, if you buy 50 Explosives for 10 Forge Points, you can trade the 50 Explosives for 90 Rubber, then trade that for 170 Coffee, then trade that for 320 Silk, then trade that for 600 Ropes, then trade that for 1100 Honey, then trade that for 2000 Iron, then trade that for 3600 Lumber.

(4) If your guildmates are high age and do not have the low level goods you need, buy the goods they have, then trade them down to what you need using the market system. This is far better than trying to make the goods yourself. If you are in a guild, you can buy goods from your higher age guildies using forge points. (3) Higher level players get most of their goods from fighting in Guild Battlegrounds (GBG), not from making them. Therefore, you want to almost always prefer buildings that produce forge points. From this you can see that buildings that produce forge points are about 5x better than buildings that produce goods. (2) Tiles in FOE tend to yield about 1 FP or 1 Good each for the better quality buildings. 1 FP ~ 5 Goods ~ 50 Diamonds is the rough approximation in value between these items. (1) The three basic resources in the game are diamonds, forge points and goods.

Below I have listed many of the key elements of city planning and growth strategy to help you make your decisions as you progress. If you are new or just starting out in Forge of Empires, there is some basic strategy you should know so that you grow your city efficiently.

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