Choosing a world

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When registering for a game of forge of empires, the game automatically places you in a recommended world. This obviously has the advantage of letting you skip the choosing process which is not very easy if you are a complete beginner.

However, world choice is very important and can greatly affect your playing style and experience. In this post I will try to briefly explain the differences between old worlds (that have been around for several years) and new worlds (that started a few months ago).

The age of the world can be - in general - figured out by the initial letter of its name. For example, in the image below from the US servers, the world Arvahall will be the oldest one (probably 5 years old at this stage) while the world Vingrid will be the newest one. Actually at the moment, there is an even newer world starting with W, the world Walstrand.


In general, older worlds will have more advanced and mature players, as well as more players overall. They will also have a lot of players that have quit the game or playing very little. Newer worlds will tend to have less advanced players (i.e. you won't find any tanks on the Walstrand world right now) but these players can be slightly more active overall, since they have just started.

Newer worlds are a little bit more fair. There are fewer chances that someone will start plundering you with an army that is 4-5 ages higher and impossible to defeat. The playing field is more equal and activities such as GvG (the equivalent of group PvP) are more fun overall. Progress in terms of technology is slower in these worlds, as there are no opportunities to accelerate your pace using advanced players (more on this on a future post!)

In older worlds, some players will always be ahead of you and you will need several years to catch up with them in terms of technology (unless you spend a fortune on money). These players could make life hard for you, but they can also provide opportunities (such as high level Great Buildings which you can contribute to and get beefy rewards).

What would i recommend:
If you want to top the rankings of a world and compete with the most advanced people, go for a new world. The same applies if you want to play a lot of GvG without having alpha clans that control the whole map already. Newer worlds should also be a bit better for people that do not invest a lot of time to the game.

If you want to play in a more dynamic world with more variety, that gives opportunities to cooperate with advanced players, then go for an older world. Be warned though that, should you choose this option, it will probably require spending more time in the game to fully enjoy the variety it offers.