With Forge of Empires you can enjoy a magnificent Real-time strategy and city-building video game. This is one of those games with which you enjoy breaking your head, and there are many situations that take a lot of mental effort. There are others, however, that seem more like player or developer error, because they are situations that are not explained, and that supposedly should be quite intuitive, but in practice for one reason or another, they are not. . That is why today we will see an action that should be simple but with which many players have had difficulty: how to loot in Forges of Empires.
Forge of Empires is a very attractive example of strategy games, or so its more than 16 million active users. The meaning of the game is to control a city and try to build a great empire. The objective of today's article is to overcome some minor but annoying (and accidental) barrier that the game can offer us.
How to loot in Forges of Empires?
Short answer: once you defeat a neighbor, tap on the buildings with a thunder icon to loot them
For those who are just starting out, this may sound a bit "in Chinese", so I am going to give you some context. Surely This little guide will be very useful for those who are starting out in this fun video game..
“How to loot” is a fairly common question when someone starts playing Forge of Empires. The reason why it is so common is that the same game, among his first missions he asks you to loot some neighbors, without giving a tutorial.
What is a neighbor in Forge of Empires?
You may be familiar with the neighbors (or not) but let's take a good look at all this neighborhood mechanic, so we don't miss out on any benefits.
You could say that Forge of Empires is a community of small communities. The first thing you do is choose a world (with thousands of players) in which to establish your city. In this world you can chat, participate in the Ranking, or join a Guild. If you wish, you can create another city in a different world.
Now is when the good part comes: worlds are divided into neighborhoods, each with a maximum of 80 playersThose are your neighbors. In the normal interface of the game, you can see at the bottom of the screen: the bar of neighbors. In the neighbors bar you will see some neighbors, you can open it to see the rest.
Neighbors are your community and the main attraction of this game:
- They are the ones you will face in the PvP tournaments
- your neighborhood and you will share the same market, so there will be abundant interactions between you
- Like on Facebook, you can become friends with members from your neighborhood, this will unlock new interactions between you
- The same friend interactions are available to members of the same guild, plus other benefits
- Neighborhoods are not 100% static, every week a rearrangement of some neighborhoods occurs so that everyone has enough resources and players
- You will be able to communicate in a chat for the guild, for the neighborhood, with a single player or even for the whole world. Avoid being rude or hurtful, you could get banned and also! This is not how compas are made
How to defeat and loot neighbors in Forge of Empires?
Now that we're aware of the neighbors how do we defeat them?
Buildings, another very important mechanic in Forge of Empires
A very important measure of your progress in the game is how many buildings you have and how advanced. At some point your city will fill with buildings and you will have to expand, but that is not important now. There are several types of buildings, and each type fulfills a different function. Today we are interested in seeing the military buildings:
- They are the way to create your army, since, in exchange for some resources, they offer you military units
- Military buildings are divided into 5 subtypes. In each subtype of military building you can create only one type of military unit (riders, warriors, slingers, etc.)
- Each military unit has differences in costs and requirements; and provide different advantages in battle
How to attack in Forge of Empires?
Once you learn how to use the military buildings correctly, you will be able to create your troops. In each type of military building you can create a specific type of troops, the troop types are as follows:
- Units fast, light, heavy, close range, long range. The names of these units will depend on the era in which you are
Before attacking, you need to access “Army Management”, here you can add your created military units to the offensive or defensive army. Here are some important points about it:
- In both armies there can be only 8 units, and each army fulfills different functions
- The offensive army is the one you will use to attack other players. The damage they take will be effective and take time to heal, these troops could also be destroyed
- the defensive army He will be the one to give a "warm welcome" to those same attacks by enemy armies. They will be the enemies to eliminate to loot your city. This army will be fully healed once any attack they receive is finished.
How to loot enemies in Forges of Empires?
And we have returned to what we were discussing at the beginning. Follow the steps below to loot any enemy.
- Once you have your offensive army ready, you can select on any player and tap the attack button
- It is important to know how to choose an enemy, plan a strategy viable based on your offensive army and the opponent's defense. The battle mechanics make the game very fun, you can see a detailed explanation about them at this other article
- If you manage to beat the neighbor you attacked, your city will appear with icons resembling an electric shock on some buildings. Tap them to loot and acquire new resources
And this has been all, I hope this little guide on how to loot in Forge of Empires and other important mechanics has been useful. Leave me any questions you may have about it in the comments.
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