It is absolutely terrible that Forge of Empires is described as a strategy game yet the information necessary to determine strategy is not given.
The first two occasions that the Event comes up with wanting a technology to studied there are alternatives. Yet on New Year's Day, the Event requires a technology to be studied with no alternative!
This is absolutely terrible. A player going to a new age is a major step and needs proper planning and timing. The decision whether to go forward an age or not is even more important UP FRONT on an Event that is giving buildings as prizes, because it is ridiculous to go through most of an event picking up buildings which - right near the end of the event - become obsolete.
There is no strategy to this kind of play. That is why, for years before I even started playing, customers were asking for alternatives. It is why Inno said they had "listened to their customers" and would be providing alternatives in future. But now this!!
There is time for Inno to change their mind. If they don't, I suspect they will lose a lot of players who will go off in search of real strategy games.
Completely agree, not counting hundreds of players i know that chose stay at the same age until
lift important GBs. What they will do ? nothing,just will not finish the quest for a few stars . Let me
take the chance and tell all we understand FoE need sell diamonds, and is creating mini-events
one just after other , plus the mega events that lead you to nothing, as this Winter event. Suddenly
a FoE Genius created the sets, even killing traditional buildings as the confectionary update . Did
you realize the 9 pieces for the set in about 1 or 2 ages will be obsolete , the buildings will be deleted
and diamonds you spent are lost forever. What is the strategy enforcing players go to new age ,
or destroy the city to build black smith ? I do my part of players revenge, i am founder or leader
in 9 worlds, and i tell them if the final reward worth it or not. There are 600 players that follow me,
they tell to his friends,they buy no diamonds, this involves maybe around 3,000 players .
In this event i already said to them do not spend a cent buying diamonds to try complete a set,
save the stars for anything that they like as renew kit, rogue hideout,etc...
Is really time to Inno wake up , stop with "research a tech" or"gain control over a province"
on mini events with 10/12 quests, stop not giving options for those quests, stop with the ridiculous
quests to finish 50 times a production or so. Use imagination ,give something more hard than
that for players don't destroy a city or quit FoE !