FoEhints: Modern Era in Forge of Empires

The Modern Era in Forge of Empires

The Modern Era is the the 10th age in Forge of Empires and has been added to the game with Update 1.17 on January 17th, 2014.

In the technology tree of the Modern Era you can develop a type of two lane roads, motorways, which provides happiness. Two lane roads not only lead to a significant change of the city's structure, they also provide much less happiness than the smaller streets. As a result the enthusiasm of your population is at risk, if you replace many small streets with two lane roads. Also the new motorways don't make this much better.

You can develop the good productions very early. It still only makes sense to produce those goods related to the resources you find on the province map. But to get access to the other technologies you have to develop all good productions of the Modern Era.

Absolutely new in the Modern Era is the fact that you no longer need coins and supplies only to produce goods. On top you will need unrefined goods to produce the new refined goods.

Example:
- Concrete Plant uses wires to produce ferroconcrete

On the province map you will not get new resources. Instead you get one more bronze age deposit and one from the colonial age. Now you can produce yourself three out of five goods of these ages, in case you cannot trade these enough in the market. Especially those players who only could produce paper and coffee in the Colonial Age often have problems to trade these for other goods. Then the new resource, e. g. pine wood for tar, kaolin clay for porcelain or nickle ore for wires is very helpful.

Beside the required unrefined good the good productions of the Modern Era need a related resource on the province map. Without it, only one instead of five goods is produced every 4 hours. This resource is from the province map.

Example:
- Concrete Plant needs rock

You already have two such resources since the bronze age and you will get a third on the Modern Era province map. You now can produce three different goods on your own. This makes absolutely sense as often the bronze age resource does not correspond to the Colonial Age goods that you can produce. With an active market you will be able to compensate this easily. Otherwise you will have to produce much more by yourself.

For all Modern Era technologies in the technology tree you need a total of 1,440 forge points. This is not much more than before in the Progressive Era. At least this aspect is not making your life harder.

1.124.456 coins
3.964.321 supplies
1440 forge points, equivalent 60 day of 24 forge points/day
goods from previous ages:
(colonial age, industrial age and progressive age)

These are goods from the Colonial Age, the Industrial Age and the Progressive Era. As always these are goods from the three previous ages.

Colonial Age:
40 paper
90 coffee
90 porcelain
90 wire
130 tar

Industrial Age:
320 coke
300 textiles
430 whale oil
160 fertilizer
130 rubber

Progressive Era:
340 white tin
330 explosives
250 asbestos
380 gasoline
450 machine parts

On top I highly recommend to have a good stock of goods from the Colonial Age, as these are needed as unrefined goods when you produce the refined goods of the Modern Era. I already emphasized this in previous videos of this channel. In the Modern Era this is the prerequisite for your ability to produce goods without interruption. Those who don't have a sufficient stock possibly need to build again good productions of the Colonial Age. This happens to many players.

For your research of technologies in the Modern Era many goods from this new era are needed:

As you need these goods very early in the technology tree, many players try to trade them at least partially before entering the Modern Era to speed up development.

Usually trading goods from one age to the next age in a relation of 1:2 is named 'fair trade'. As Modern Era goods require unrefined goods to be produced, it is really fair to ask for twice as many goods of the Progressive Era. On the other side I recommend not to pay twice as much for goods of the following Postmodern Era, as their production is not so much more difficult. This is something that I will explain a bit more in detail in the video for the Postmodern Era.

The two great buildings of the Modern Era are
Space Needle
Atomium

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The topic 'Fighting in the Postmodern Era' will receive its own video, coming soon.


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