You must fill all your crew slots before you can send them off to work, and you can only shuffle the selection (called exchange) once for free per trip. Ideally, you always want to pick crew members that are going to increase the number of special goods you’re bringing back, and never pick ones that will decrease it.

This is important because your crew members are going to affect how much you bring in using that number as a base amount. The initial unlock isn’t going to yield much at base amount, but as you upgrade your harbor/terminal that base number will increase. Since you need a lot of them to get through the tech tree, the sooner you start mining the better. The sooner you get it unlocked, the faster you can start gathering the special resource. So from here forward I am not going to specify between the two eras and am simply going to discuss how the process works and some general tips to keep in mind.įirst and foremost, it’s important to unlock the harbor/terminal as soon as you can. Both of these work in exactly the same way, they simply gather different resources for us. Come Oceanic Future we’re also going to need Orichalcum, which we can find on the ocean floor in our submarine that takes a deep dive out of the Oceanic Terminal. In the Arctic Future we are introduced to Promethium, which we can mine from the ocean by setting sail from the Arctic Harbor. Yes, that’s correct, once the special goods are introduced they’re here to stay. Since there’s no way to trade for them, this makes them extremely valuable and the sole limiting factor to how fast you can advance through these two eras… and eras beyond them. These two special areas are introduced in their respective eras because we are also introduced to the concept of special goods–goods that you cannot trade for, you must produce them yourself. In Progressive Era (PE) we saw the addition of two-lane roads, come Modern Era (ME) we then had to start refining goods and then in Tomorrow Era (TE) it became re-refined goods and now in Arctic Future (AF) we are introduced to the Arctic Harbor and then in Oceanic Future (OF) we meet its cousin, the Oceanic Terminal. As with any good game, the further you go in FoE, the more complex things become as it pertains to keeping your city running.

Forge of empires strategy guide