Forge of Empires Great Building Strategy After the 2026 Update Delay

Following the rollback of the Great Building overhaul after five hours on live servers and its postponement to 2026, you should immediately return to standard progression rules. Do not hoard Forge Point (FP) packages or freeze your city layout in anticipation of mechanics that will not arrive for years. Existing reward structures, sweet spots, and military bonuses remain fully intact.

Resume Standard Leveling and The Arc Progression

The multi-year delay eliminates any reason to bank Forge Points in inventory. Hoarding millions of FP leaves productive city capacity unused and slows your account growth.

The Arc remains the primary engine of account progression:

• Target Level 80: Make reaching level 80 your primary milestone if you have not finished it. At level 80, The Arc's 90% reward bonus allows you to secure top reward positions on other players' buildings at net-zero personal FP cost.
• Use 1.9 Threads Safely: Community 1.9 reward-sharing threads are fully stable. The postponed update tested changes to contribution reward curves, but the rollback ensures that standard 1.9 contribution spots carry no sudden mechanical risk.
• Exploit the Sweet Spot (Levels 30–70): Between levels 30 and 70, third-party contributions cover the vast majority of leveling costs. Coordinate with guildmates to push through these levels quickly using banked packs.
• Guild Treasury Scaling: Continue leveling The Arc beyond level 80 if your guild requires high-era goods to fund Guild Battlegrounds or Guild Expeditions.

Reinvest in Core Combat and Utility Buildings

Because existing stat curves remain unchanged, focus your daily Forge Point income on buildings that improve combat performance in Guild Battlegrounds (GBG) and Guild Expeditions (GE).

Prioritize the standard offensive trio:

1. Statue of Zeus: Occupies a 3x3 footprint and requires no road connection, making it the most space-efficient military offensive building in early and mid eras.
2. Cathedral of Aachen: Provides dependable military attack and defense boosts alongside steady coin generation.
3. Castel del Monte: Offers dual utility by providing military attack strength and a steady daily generation of Forge Points.

For military campaigns, keep Alcatraz leveled. Guild Battlegrounds continues to inflict high attrition penalties, making the steady daily production of unattached rogue units essential for sustained combat. If you started foundations for major utility structures like Chateau Frontenac or Himeji Castle, proceed with leveling them to their standard working levels (typically level 10 to 58) rather than leaving them dormant.

Clear Inefficient Great Buildings for Event Structures

Do not waste active city grid space preserving low-performing Great Buildings in the hope that a future rework will make them valuable.

• Delete Obsolete Great Buildings: Structures such as the Colosseum, Notre Dame, and Space Needle yield minimal happiness, population, or goods per tile. Storing dead weight on your active grid for years reduces daily resource generation.
• Prioritize Modern Event Buildings: Seasonal event prizes consistently deliver high attack statistics, goods, and Forge Points per tile without requiring blueprint gathering or external leveling investments.
• Audit Road Connections: Replace underperforming Great Buildings with high-output event structures to maximize stat density per expansion square.

Next Actions Checklist

To bring your city back up to peak efficiency under the current rules:

1. Spend Banked Forge Points: Reinvest idle inventory packages into your core Great Buildings or into securing reward slots on guild 1.9 threads.
2. Complete Foundation Sites: Finish any partial builds paused during the update scare.
3. Optimize City Footprint: Remove outdated Great Buildings to make room for current event prizes.
4. Boost Combat Stats: Funnel daily FP income into military Great Buildings to raise your Guild Battlegrounds attrition ceiling.