FoEhints: Postmodern Era in Forge of Empires
190The Postmodern Era in Forge of Empires
The Postmodern Era is the 11th age in Forge of Empires and has been added to the game with update 1.27 on June 3rd, 2014. This era is about the 70s and 80s, especially with the final part of the cold war.
In the Postmodern Era you can fill 5 new technologies with a total of 375 forge points without moving up. As in previous ages this is highly recommended and more important here than ever before. You cannot skip these 5 technologies as they all are necessary for the following technologies.
It is very nice to receive an expansion very early in the tech tree and a second a little later. Most players in the Postmodern Era have a high demand for space. This makes the expansions to be more than welcome. The 7th and 9th provinces on the map also provide an expansion each. Other provinces provide a third resource for the production of good of the Iron Age and the Industrial Age.
With the boulevard and even more important with the walkway the streets can be upgraded. This consumes a lot of resources but significantly reduces the space required for cultural buildings.
The requirement of unrefined goods to produce refined goods is already well known from the Modern Era. This time goods from the Industrial Age are needed to produce the refined goods of the Postmodern Era. Everything else is just the same as in the Modern Era.
Goods from the Postmodern Era are not much more difficult to produce than those from the Modern Era. The required unrefined goods from the Industrial Age only need 30% more coins and supplies than those from the Colonial Age, which have been the unrefined goods of the Modern Era. And the required space for the good production buildings is not much more in the Postmodern Era. Also the requirement of coins and supplies does not grow much. Therefore most players do not accept a ratio of 1:2 as a fair trade as it was with all previous ages. Depending on the servers a ratio of 1:1.5 to 1:1.7 is very common. Supply and demand are defining this individually.
In the technology tree you will soon notice that all technologies of the Postmodeern Era together require 5,030,000 coins. Compared to this the increase for supplies and forge points is moderate.
A total of 6,605 goods are needed. 1,510 of these are needed from the new Postmodern Era and another 5,095 goods are needed from the three previous ages.
Industriezeitalter: 1.925
Jahrhundertwende: 1.480
Moderne: 1.690
You can skip the technology waste management. This only reduces the forge point requirement by 39. But you keep one technology for later purposes, e. g. quests. You then cannot build the junkyard which is a supply production producing 50% more than other postmodern production buildings with the same size while reducing the happiness of your population a little.
The two great buildings of the Postmodern Era are:
The Habitat
Cape Canaveral
The Habitat is one of the two relevant great buildings providing population. No longer wasting space for residential buildings is a huge advantage.
The Cape Canaveral provides one forge point per level every day. Those who calculate to pay all required forge points from their own stock, will recognize that it will last years to get the investment back. Those lucks players who have sponsors being able to pay 1.9 times the forge point reward will also be interested in advanced levels of the Cape. For everybody with a huge stock of coins it is recommended to use the coins to buy forge points and then invest these forge points into the Cape. You should keep a stock of 10 million coins and invest everything else in forge points. Coins do not provide an interest rate, bit the Cape provides forge points every day and these push your game significantly then.
In case someone thinks about remaining in an era a bit longer, e g. to push the great buildings, I do NOT recommend to do this in the Postmodern Era. Instead go the next step to the Contemporary Era and spend more time there. More about this coming soon in the video about the Contemporary Era.
Fighting in the Postmodern Era will be the topic of another video coming soon. Then a special focus will be the two wave defenses on the province map. This will be exciting.
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