Feature New Era of Great Buildings: Explore Prestige Tiers

[Zyleta1991]

New Era of Great Buildings: Explore Prestige Tiers

The day is upon us! Great Buildings Prestige is coming to Beta March 9th!

Following the announcement of the initial design, we went back to the drawing board and are happy to introduce the final, overhauled feature. Those of you who are familiar with the original announcement will find noticeable differences in the new design. Most notably, we've significantly simplified the GBs' migration to the new state.

Check our official announcement to learn all there is about the next stage of Great Buildings evolution. Prestige brings new long-term goals to their progression, with impactful milestones and powerful bonuses to match the effort. As a part of this update, only a selected group of GBs will receive new Tiers. For the remaining, we will lay the foundation that allows us to introduce Tiers in the future.

This is one of our most intricate updates yet, so be sure to check out our detailed official article.

Once you're familiar with the changes, join Feedback Thread to discuss the update and share your feedback.

 

[Zyleta1991]

Great Buildings Prestige: what to know before the Live release​

With this message, we would like to share an interim summary of the discussions and considerations that have been had in the development team since the announcement of Great Buildings Prestige. We thank everyone who has put in effort to test the update so far! Your feedback provided the very basis for our work.

While we wish we could consider every individual point, we had to narrow the conversation down to the most popular topics where we could determine a general consensus. To be specific, we focused on the Great Building migration (i.e., player concerns about level adjustment and consequential refunds, including potential exploits), level-up costs, additional unique GB effects, the Arc contribution bonus, and the rankings.

At this point, we are testing various suggestions how to address your concerns and, most importantly, checking how feasible they are from a technical and balance point of view. Despite our best wishes, feedback can rarely be implemented unchanged due to those limitations. Since we're still working out the details, we cannot yet say how exactly the update will change before the Live release. One point we can already make is that we recognize the importance of the Arc contribution bonus both for in gameplay and social interactions, so we are actively considering the best way to utilize its potential while keeping the balance.

In this context, we'd like to emphasize the test nature of the Beta server. Content we release here is always subject to change, so avoid using it to inform your strategy for Live gameplay. This rule applies to all content, but especially to Great Buildings Prestige thanks to its impact and complexity. In particular, the GB migration is likely to change before the Live release.

Our main intention with Beta remains to explore new approaches, content, and solutions. We thank you once again for joining us in this exploration, despite the rapid changes and calculations it involves. The Great Buildings Prestige update is a prime example of how your feedback has already successfully contributed to shaping the future of Forge of Empires!

We include the archive of Wiki pages detailing the state of Great Buildings, as of the time of the update on March 9th. Please do not treat it as final balancing, but rather a snapshot of the current state that is likely to change. Click here to download.

It will take us time to work through all the feedback and settle on solutions, so please stay tuned for more news about Great Buildings Prestige!

 

[Zyleta1991]

Great Buildings Prestige is postponed​

Following our recent announcement about Prestige, we received numerous requests for more information about the feature specifics and its release date. So, we wanted to take a moment for extra clarification.

The ongoing redesign we announced is a complex process that will take time. Between the technical and design complexity of the feature and other development topics requiring urgent action, we expect for it to take at least a few months. During this time, the design will remain in progress and thus subject to change, so we cannot yet share any specifics of it. Until the new design is introduced on Beta, you can expect the current state to remain, as any potential rollbacks would require information we can only get once we answer all currently open questions.

We appreciate your eagerness to learn more and will bring the news as soon as the development process allows, but only then.

To conclude the current stage of the development, we compiled the most popular recent questions into an FAQ you can find here. These questions focus specifically on the current state on Beta and reasoning behind it. While, as mentioned, we can’t share specifics about the future design, those who wish to know more about the behind-the-scenes process may find it interesting.

In the meantime, developers who aren’t involved in the Prestige topic continue working on other game features and new content. We've already teased some, and will continue unveiling more over time, so stay tuned!