Forge of Empires: Build a City

Deleted the game and thought I saved my account but did not. Sorry.

Forge of Empires has become Hay Day with fighting! It no longer requires any strategic thought. The developers believe that strategy means more fights rather than offering alternative routes to an objective.

The AI is counter intuative. The clock doesn’t tick at a normal second ( it’s too fast and irradiated). When I push the buttons it doesn’t respond friendily… ie I push the attack button and it doesn’t respond. Then I push it again and it does auto battle before I can assemble my troops and they all die. Horrible game play experience. It smooth and resistant to normal human timing. Additionally, the experiences are overly redundant (town, settlement, incursion settlement. Same battles in each experience, etc). The last bit is minor and can be improved, but the others just get worse and worse. The trade market used to let you click trades fast and smooth. Now it’s jerky and difficult. There is a timed delay programmed into the system to intentionally hinder Me. Terrible. Dark if you ask me.

Been a number of events I finished completely and didn’t get the final reward. It supposed to be a free game by law don’t have pay to get the prizes if you need all the case history I be happy to supply with that information. Which is not hard find in the 21 Century.

This is critical to my daily happiness. LOL! Please fix. App is failing to launch.

Love this game. I play it all the time. Still learning, this is the first game I have played in my life, I'm 65. I like it a lot.

Been playing for close to a decade but it stopped being fun a lot time ago. I stay involved because of my current guild mainly & bc of all the layers of work & time put into building a city. The regular events like weekly expeditions take a lot of time & resources but the ‘prizes’ don’t equate to the effort. It asks for more & more of your resources as you grow but gives back very little. It’s a bit of a joke really. Also they missed so many marketing opportunities it sure how they’ve kept going for so long. At least one can say it’s not just a money grab. It it does demand time.

i logged back in using my apple ID and my city was unavailable to select.

This has to be the best game I’ve ever played. Its always kept my interests with all the new updates and excitements of aging up. I would highly recommend this game to some one who enjoys a committed gaming experience.

Update 4/3/24 The blatant cheating continues. Support continues to ignore it. Update 3/4/24 The developer response suggests I contact support. Had they actually read the review, they would see that there was repeated contact with support and support did absolutely nothing. The cheating continues. My response to the developers is to tell support to enforce the rules. Push and Alt accounts are against the rules… enforce the rules or the biggest cheaters in the game also become the top players and top guilds. That makes this a game that any competitive person should avoid playing. Update 2/13/24 The blatant cheating continues and the moderators continue to do nothing. The developers don’t even comment on this review or care to investigate. —— Once upon a time, the game was fun. However, the unfair play has become unbearable and the moderators do nothing about it. Example: Multiple accounts all feed Forge Points (millions of Forge Points… yes, millions) to a single account. The accounts also set fake sieges so the main account can fight 5,000+ battles in a day to gain ranking points. The accounts have been reported repeatedly over several years (years!) and the moderators have continued to allow it. Apparently, since it is allowed to continue, whatever is going on is within the rules. It is impossible to compete against this level of allowed unfairness and many players have quit because of it. In my opinion, three things could be happening. First, the moderators could be too incompetent to figure out what’s really going on. Next, the moderators simply don’t care about what’s really going on. Lastly, this level of unfairness is actually within the rules. The rules are written to make it sound like what’s going on is against the rules, so if you dare try to emulate the same gameplay, you risk getting banned. All of these things make for a terrible gaming experience. So, how does someone report this? … you file a ticket with the moderators. The moderators investigate and end up doing nothing. So, how do you report a moderator for incompetence or purposely not doing their job? You can’t. All reports go back to the same moderators that are allowing this to continue. When you ask for a higher level of support, you are told there is none. Instead, you are told to go to the Inno Games contact page to get in touch with Inno Games directly. That message then gets completely ignored. I recommend finding a different game, but if you really want to play this game, just play for free. Trying to actually compete against this level of unfairness is not worth your time or money. Nobody should waste another dime on this game and everyone that has spent money to try to compete fairly should ask for a refund.