FoEhints: Ranking Points in Forge of Empires

The ranking of all players in Forge of Empires is based on points, players receive for their progress and activities. The ranking points are summed up from three categories:

- Building Points
- Fighting Points
- Points for spent goods


1. Building Points

All buildings in Forge of Empires have a number of points assigned, based on their size, their age and the type of building. Event buildings and premium buildings have a higher value than normal buildings.

With event buildings the ranking points grow significantly as they advance ages, e g by using a renovation kit. In many cases you will find the ranking points in the wiki of forge of empires.

Great buildings are calculated based on a normal building of the same size and era plus the points for the goods required to build them plus the value of the forge points used for the last completed level.

A construction of the Statue of Zeus has 390 Ranking Points:

1. Value of a regular building of the same size and age
2. Value of the goods
3. As a construction does not need forge points, this is 0.
As soon as the Statue of Zeus reaches level 1 the Ranking Points grow by 600 as level 1 requires 40 forge points, each having a value of 15 Ranking Points.

If a building is destroyed, it's Ranking Points will be subtracted again.

2. Fighting Points

All points of all battles are included in the ranking. This includes attacking you neighbors, battles in gvg, conquering sectors on the province map, fighting at the daily challenges or in the guild expedition.

The battle on level 1 platform 1 of the guild expedition of the Iron Age give 432 points for the PvP tower. To calculate the related number of Ranking Points you have to divide this by 50. This battle will let the player advance in the ranking by 8 points.

The battle of level 1 platform 4 of the guild expedition of the Iron Age gives 648 points, which is equivalent to 12 Ranking Points.

Another example from the Contemporary Era: If you move your mouse over the result window after a battle, you will see how the points are calculated. Each unit has it's specific point value. Received damage will be subtracted. These 25,920 Fighting Points are equivalent to 518 Ranking Points.

Recently I published a video about level 4 of the guild expedition of the Arctic Future. These 15 fights gave a lot of Fighting Points:

Those who fight through level 4 of the guild expedition of the Arctic Future receive additional 2.274.188 Fighting Points compared to someone who stopped by the end of level 3. These are 45.483 Ranking Points. And this does not include the ranking points for the platform I negotiated. I will explain negotiating later.

For most players fighting is the fastest way to improve the ranking. Many attack their neighbors every day. This provides more fighting points every day than level 4 of the guild expedition.


3. Spent goods

Whenever a player spends goods, he or she will receive Ranking points for it. Examples for spending goods are researches in the technology tree, constructing great buildings, negotiating sectors on the province map or platforms in the guild expedition or donating goods to your guild treasury.

The number of Ranking Points per good depends on its age/era. The higher the age of the good, the more Ranking Points it will generate.

If a player in the Iron Age donates 200 goods to his guild's treasury, he will receive 600 ranking Points for it. Donating medals will not give Ranking Points.

A player of the Arctic Future would have to spend more than 2,021 goods to the guild treasury to receive as many Ranking Points as the player described above for completing level 4 of the guild expedition. This demonstrates how much fighting is emphasized in the ranking compared to using goods.

Those who negotiate in the guild expedition receive ranking points for the goods used in the negotiations. In the shown example the player receives 2,475 Ranking points.

For collecting from the Arc, the Atomium or the Observatory a player receives Ranking Points as their goods are donated to the guild treasury. The video shows the collecting from an observatory level 6. These 30 goods result in 675 Ranking points. If you play regularly you will receive these Ranking Points every day.

Collecting from the Arc, you see the Arc at level 17, the 5 times 36 goods of the Arctic Future provide 4,050 Ranking Points for the owner of the Arc.

That is already nice, but there are more and more players with an high level Arc, e. g. on level 80. This Arc then donates 5 times 162 goods to the guild treasury. For a player in the Virtual Future these are 20,655 Ranking Points just for collecting from the Arc. Compared to Ranking Points from fighting this is a lot. Now you know why I said that only for most players fighting is the best way to improve the ranking. High end players with a high level arc, Atomium and Observatory receive so many Ranking Points from these great buildings that fighting cannot compete with it.