Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys is clearly a man who likes to keep busy, han… Read Full Bio ↴Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys is clearly a man who likes to keep busy, handling plenty of production assignments and backing like-minded artists during his downtime from the band, and in 2015, after the Black Keys took some time off after drummer Patrick Carney suffered a shoulder injury, Auerbach decided to make productive use of the hiatus by launching a new side project. The Arcs were formed by Auerbach and Leon Michaels, a multi-instrumentalist who was part of the studio crew on Auerbach's production projects for Dr. John and Lana Del Rey. Telling the press "I just wanted to do my thing and get extra weird," Auerbach headed into the studio with Michaels and a handful of friends and colleagues, including Nick Movshon, Homer Steinweiss, Richard Swift, and Kenny Vaughan. The Arcs made their debut with a 7" vinyl single released to independent music stores to commemorate the Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao title fight in May 2015. A-side "Stay in My Corner" and the flip "Tomato Can" were songs inspired by Auerbach's passion for boxing, and "Stay in My Corner" also appeared on the Arcs' debut album, Yours, Dreamily, which was recorded in a handful of freewheeling sessions lasting less than two weeks. Yours, Dreamily appeared on Nonesuch Records in September 2015.

Biography by Mark Deming

Once We Begin
The Arcs Lyrics

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Down through the temple
Back around again
Once we begin the only thing there is for you to do
Is to do absolutely nothing
And you may feel now a pleasant tingling sensation

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to The Arcs' song Once We Begin seem to be referring to a kind of spiritual awakening or journey. The line "down through the temple, back around again" could be interpreted as a metaphor for a journey through the self or the soul, returning to a starting point with renewed understanding. The second line, "once we begin the only thing there is for you to do is to do absolutely nothing," may be suggesting that in order to reach this state of spiritual awakening or inner peace, one must release themselves from the burdens of the external world, freeing themselves to simply be present in the moment. The final line, "and you may feel now a pleasant tingling sensation," may allude to the physical and emotional sensations that can accompany such a journey.

Overall, the lyrics of Once We Begin seem to be painting a picture of a deep, introspective and spiritual journey that one must undertake in order to find peace and understanding. The message is one of letting go of external distractions and finding a sense of peace and stillness within oneself.

Line by Line Meaning

Down through the temple
Descending into the depths of one's mind and soul

Back around again
Circling back to the beginning, starting anew

Once we begin the only thing there is for you to do
Once the journey has started, the only obligation is to surrender control and allow the experience to unfold

Is to do absolutely nothing
Rather than resist or try to manipulate the experience, the only action needed is to accept and let it happen naturally

And you may feel now a pleasant tingling sensation
By letting go and embracing the journey, a sense of euphoria or excitement may arise

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Daniel Quine Auerbach, Leon Michels

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Roar 77

3y↑13

Got my Arc at level 180, which is sort of the peak level. Took a couple of years, but It is all about gaining more Forge Points. At the peak I could net over 4000 FP every day just from the Arc. I considered to take it to 190, but that is more for show.

Donovan Ulrich

Nice 👍🏻
But if you can get your guild up to 180 all around
Now you can start a 2.0 thread
Are you "losing" profit, no. Your trading profit for expansion
Cuz if everyone has a 180 Arc 2.0 + daily collection is a profit plus helps advance the buildings

Kane Sword

3y↑18

I'm in Wolfpack, #1 guild on F world. We run a arc thread with 12 players contributing 200 fps per day for 3 days for the selected player, then moving on to the next player until each player gets to 130.

marso nal

3y↑4

One thing you might want to consider is at 0.01 ratio you wont be getting it unless the base fps prize is at 1000+fps. So if you want to level past 80 it's better to power lvl to 83 in one go . It'll be a more realistic 333+ base fps prize.

FoElite

3y↑3

That's a fair point. The calculation is a bit sloppy and misses a few important things. For example, 130 = 95% means 10 fp spot become worth 20fp, so you make 1 fp each time. That's a huge cut over and can account for dozens of fp/day.
Or on the other side, as you mentioned, some levels might not generate any extra fp, especially for smaller fp rewards.
I figure over a large enough sample size, the this provides a good reference point to figure out if you should keep leveling your arc, and how valuable it is to you.

Oliver

There were some really interesting facts and i have an idea, how important is the arc past 80. My goal is level 130 as a fighter i think. Than level all other great buildings to 100 and keep up the arc level to 160 or 150. Traz is also very important. But arc have the oper hand and getting it to 180 would be a dream.
Only waiting 2 years and making SO MUCH forge points, that is crazy my dude. Chateau, AO and Traz could eventually a good option. But we talk about so much time. And if you have an goal at this game, you`re not getting boring
But my suggestion is, the best point to start leveling arc past 80 is probably if all other great buildings are already advanced like lvl. 60

Yea anyway, you made a legendary video, keep you work up!

ALF S

3y↑1

Nice video. I'm on a new server of about 2 years. I just up my arc to 88 and I already found my profit considerable by keeping spending in two 1.9 groups with my small 14k bank. I earned at least 1k in two weeks.

Manning Bartlett

3y↑3

All excellent points. Another one worth mentioning is more about growing your guild - the more Arcs, Obs, Atoms you have the better for the guild treasury, which helps massively in GBG. So helping your guildmates level those buildings faster (by paying higher than 1.9) is beneficial to you in the long run. You can easily make 2000+ FP per day in a properly configured GBG setup.

Bass Boost Addiction

@Fábio Dias if you have an arche on 80 you always get back your whole FP invest....what do you mean? if you have an arche on lvl 90 you get 1% for free back.
you spend 1k and you get 1010 FP back. if you have a good guild with an active push group, there are gonna be a lot of people who lvl their buildings everyday. you put in 1000 and in 10min its lvl up and you get 1010 back.

Fábio Dias

@Bass Boost Addiction yeah but after putting 1k forge points on someone's building, you might get 500 points out of that you never make the whole thing. Unless your arc is at level 100 or something. I m taking like 6 days to level up on of my buildings

Bass Boost Addiction

@Fábio Dias in many cases people are lvl up their buildings in the push group, you take P1 for 1k FP and this guy lvls up his builing 10min later and you get your 1k back again to invest in another...and so on

Fábio Dias

Spending 15 thousand forge points per day. In what planet are you guys living in? I'm making 100 points a day!!!

Davy Yang

3y↑4

In our world, my guild, we are starting to transition our guys into a 1.94 thread for certain buildings like Obs and that forces some people to consider leveling their Arc to 120. It gives the players an incentive to level their arcs and their abs at the same time and also, feeds a ton of goods into the guild at the same time

Fábio Dias

@Davy Yang that's insane

Davy Yang

@Fábio Dias lol. Snipe snipe snipe. Fight fight fight. I mean in a single day I can get over 1000fps in fighting in a super active GBG oriented guild. That plus sniping you can sometimes get around a few thousand FPS in a single day. Now I don’t even bother putting FPS producing things in my city anymore. No point.

Fábio Dias

3y↑1

Spending 15 thousand forge points per day. In what planet are you guys living in? I'm making 100 points a day!!!

Davy Yang

@Tony Xhris that’s why we only do 1.92 and 1.94 for specific buildings in the beginning. Our leaders agreed to limit the type of building you can put in it. Also, anyone who uses it to level their buildings should try their best to support the rest of the guildmates because they prime less which means the excess FPS go to others as well. It really starts with the leaders actions and if they don’t pay it forward first then the leaders suck. Hahahah

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Bad Gamer Scott

We had someone in our guild speed level their Arc from 160 to 180, everyone was amazed he had so much in stock, but hes #3 player in world H EN server

Marcus Whited

3y↑2

I've got an L80 Arc and have been camping in LMA for about 7 months...I am always in the top 3 or 4 in my hood with 12.3M points. I feel like there are very few opportunities to snipe in LMA, but I am afraid if I move up to Colonial or Ind, there will be even fewer. My logic is that as players advance through the ages, they are more likely to land in guilds with lots of 1.9 activity....which is obviously not good for sniping opportunities. So, my question: Do sniping opportunities INCREASE or DECREASE as you progress through the ages?

Marcus Whited

3y↑2

@FoElite I appreciate it - thanks. You do a great job on your videos.

FoElite

3y↑8

Increase dramatically. 1.9 is still less common than you'd think, and a lot of guilds are very slow to fill 1.9 request.

More real estate = more fp = faster gb leveling = more sniping chances

David Welp

2y↑1

Thanks for the video. It explained everything I was looking for.

Razíel Necrolektrik

With the CF past 80 I can understand going 100 maybe 120 but def not past 120 as it's just too expensive for the 5% per level

ronxlii

3y↑1

I do wonder… if in a guild where every member had a 130 level (5%) arc would it be better to have everyone aid each other at 1.95 and make no profit or would it be better if everyone aided at 1.9 and everyone kept the 5% profit for themselves? Or maybe it really doesn’t matter.

FoElite

3y↑2

I'll be making a video about this topic too 😎
Ember is on point though

Emberguard

3y↑1

It doesn’t entirely matter if everyone is contributing at that rate. The profit is invested in the GB. It’s just a matter of whether that profit is in the form of higher GB level or in the form of Forge Points.

The only difference is whether you only want your city collection in inventory or to have a portion of your investments (5%) also going into inventory. The only reason to need it in inventory is if you’re then able to reinvest that 5% somewhere to get more profit then the growth of your GB is worth

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Peter Steel

3y↑1

My guild is doing 1.9
My trinity + traz + AO + TA are 69. I'm at a point where "just" a 1.9 thread wont cut it anymore. These babies are getting really expensive. I have decided to cancel everything else to take my arx to 100. Right now im at the main 1.9 of the guild. Another external 1.9, have an Arc at 95 and by the time I reach 100, I will join a 1.92 thread to level my babies there. I will use the other threads + sniping for fp farm. Be smart. Level your ARC!

mechmat12345

3y↑1

Which gbs do you suggest leveling highly (say, 60+) before thinking about taking your arc past 80? Or do you suggest we just keep going after 80 without worrying about other buildings as long as we're spending a lot of fp per day?

gandalfsupreme

2y↑1

@Fábio Dias if you use 1.9 threads you can spend thousands there, it's not all about daily 24 hours collection

Fábio Dias

3y↑2

Spending 15 thousand forge points per day. In what planet are you guys living in? I'm making 100 points a day!!!

FoElite

3y↑2

i suggest ~82-83 pretty quick. Then focusing on sniping and leveling other GBs. Prob wouldn't go much past 86 until traz, cf, and fighting buildings (including AO) are 60ish. if i remember right, i just slowly leveled arc. one level here, one there. not 100% focus.

Charles N

3y↑1

Question plz: In your spreadsheet, your fp/day doesn't go up as your Arc levels up. Why should I level my Arc up higher and higher, if the fp/day doesn't go up? Why not remain at Arc 81?

FoElite

That about is how much you get each level. The full version includes levels that give more than .1%, so it was a different amount gained per level.

So you'll need to add each level. For example, 90 would be 10x for how much you gain past level 80.

precise1

3y↑3

What is considered a good FP bank? I recently hit 250K and I don’t know if I’m a hoarder or it’s just pocket change for some of the higher level players

Fábio Dias

3y↑1

@Bass Boost Addiction yeah I know I saw it. But did I understood what any of it meant? No. This is insane dude. I ve been playing this game for a year. It's unbelievable how complex this is

Bass Boost Addiction

@Fábio Dias idk if you play this game with your phone, at first i thought its a mobile game, but actually its a browser game and the foe helper is just a browser extension like ad block. it has some functions and it tells you how much you have to pay to be save in a building.

Fábio Dias

@Bass Boost Addiction I checked what that is. But I swear I don't understand any of it

Fábio Dias

@Bass Boost Addiction well I got a question then, browser and foe helper? What is That?

Bass Boost Addiction

@Fábio Dias because you have to spend smart, dont invest in a building if some1 can overtake you. just invest if you are save. you have to play with the browser and foe helper. its easier. and with the browser you can look at any1's buildings. look at the buildings and cities of the people if they are self-leveling and giving away FP for free or if they are a diamond world/wishing well world, they are giving FP for free as well. send them friend requests and make some profits.

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Johnny Schoutsen

Nice video, just don't see how much your investing per day on leveling the Arc itself. So I have no idea how you go through the levels.

Razíel Necrolektrik

In the top hoods though most GBs aren't going to have spots

Mary J

3y↑1

Thanks for information. Interesting.

Daniel M. Hendricks

Thank you for the insightful comment.

Drudi

I commented 3 months ago on your video and asked should i build arc, i got it to lvl25 by now but only recently figured how huge gbg and ge4 are for producing fps so it really slowed me down in first month🤦🏻‍♂️. Also, recently I figured hoe huge Arc is as it pays off if you spend fps. I'm hma and I'm not sure if i should level up in age after this event bcs i have 2500 free people but no free space. Idk if it is okay to be that way or is it blocking my progress?

Atiagooq

@Elf Loved 😂

Drudi

Thanks all of you😁

Elf Loved

3y↑3

Population is something you should not care. All my cities have 10k pop or higher and I often ask myself how do they even eat?

Manning Bartlett

3y↑2

Get your Arc to 80 before you level. If you want to also level your fighting buildings to be more competitive at GBG, that's a good approach, but getting your Arc to 80 is your primary goal.

Tristram Coffin

3y↑2

Idle population isn't important. Watch Pat's 10 Mistakes vid to tell when you should level up in Age.

Donovan Ulrich

I dont snipe much
I overpay to guarantee my neighborhood snipes for prints.
So tossing my daily 500 city FP at my Cape and CdM daily once makes sense, if im levelig my Arc passively once a week free on collections.
If i could snipe more, Arc focus would make sense. But base city means more, then GbG will make the difference when CdM is 80

FoElite

It's pretty simple - if you snipe, leveling Arc up past 80, or 100, or even higher makes sense. If you don't snipe, then no need to level it up that high.

Sniping is by far the fastest way to make FP. it's even faster than gbg. But it's not something most players are willing to do. Fighting is more fun for most players. that and players underestimate just how much profit there is out there.

Donovan Ulrich

Arc 86
Cape 42
CdM 58
Flipping cape, CdM each once a day on my daily
My bank grows 100 FP a day if i dont level Arc, i spend the bank to level Arc currently (so i can flip in 48-72 hours)

FlyinRaptorJesus

3y↑2

3:20 in runescape 92 is half of 99 lol

Fábio Dias

Spending 15 thousand forge points per day. In what planet are you guys living in? I'm making 100 points a day!!!

Roger Der

3y↑3

About time you made this video. :-)

Roger Der

@Fábio Dias About 5 years. My Arc is at 180. I have a fairly sizeable stash of FP to keep investing.

Fábio Dias

@Roger Der what? 200 000 thousand??? How long have you been playing this game dude???? That's insane

Roger Der

@Fábio Dias When you snipe and can make FP, you can start to spend a lot. There are some days I spend over 200K FP because of sniping and rage leveling.

Fábio Dias

Spending 15 thousand forge points per day. In what planet are you guys living in? I'm making 100 points a day!!!

Carlos Oviedo

hi guys can someone explain me :" the days to breakeven"
didn't understand please!!

Carlos Oviedo

3y↑1

@Manning Bartlett ohhhh now i get thanks mate

Manning Bartlett

3y↑3

It is the time it takes to recoup the FPs you spent. If you spend 1000 FPs to level a building, and you get back 10FPs a day, that is 100 days to break even.

Razíel Necrolektrik

Going past 180 is only for treasury goods

Gesandte_of_Azazel

Baroness Fahrenheit

Do you have to have an Arc at level 80 to join a 1.9 thread?

Baroness Fahrenheit

@Manning Bartlett Thank you!

Manning Bartlett

3y↑6

Players with small arcs typically use 1.9 thread to collect prints. You only lose a couple of FPs on a P5, and it can be worth it for the medals and prints. Plus you can get 1.9 on the higher positions on your buildings.

Emberguard

3y↑4

It’s expected if you in a 1.9 thread that you’re both contributing and receiving, not just one direction. You don’t need to have it at Lvl 80 to be contributing 1.9. You can be contributing as soon as you get a Arc, but you should absolutely get a Arc and be levelling it if you are participating in a 1.9 thread

Gindi4711

3y↑1

Afaik 100% is the maximum. There is no 100.1%

Hr. m

@FoElite I shearch all the servers in the game on all countries, and no one have Arc over 180.

FoElite

3y↑1

Do we know that for sure? Anyone go up to 190 or 200 yet?
Could be at .01%
Wouldn't make sense to do it (bad you).. Whether it exists or not. I don't know of anyone going over 100% but also don't know if anyone tried going higher.
We know inno will use .01% for other buildings, so why not arc?

Parnell Yeatts

3y↑2

Fix your audio output.

Spiros Antonopoylos

3y↑1

same on you

Electric Universe

I cant believe youre saying this @level 81 it costs 1k fp to build and you ll get a .1% increase in fp 1k/.001 = 1M fp

mechmat12345

Did you not understand the video? The profitability of an Arc over level 80 is directly related to how many fp you spend per day. A million fp doesn't take long if you're spending 20,000 fp a day.

Beta Prime

i had many arcs

1cculus

Math is beautiful. Buy Bitcoin.

Fábio Dias

What does snipe mean? I don't understand half the video my guy

Fábio Dias

@Shaun Duquette ahhh ok, thank you

Shaun Duquette

3y↑3

means stealing positions on neighbour GBs

Erkki146

3y↑2

I am so glad I quit playing this game. Pointless optimising of numbers and just a huge time sink. Just as the higher levels of the Arc provide diminishing returns ingame, it also provides diminishing returns in the levels of satisfaction when you're playing the game. Do something productive with your life instead wasting it on MMOs and browser games. I mean it's not like you're going to add to your resume :"I've leveled my Arc to 180 in FOE."

Erkki146

3y↑2

@FoElite Making an income from Youtube is another matter and I would argue even making videos about FOE gameplay is quite a creative process.
However, when you dump your 10k FP for the umpteenth time to someone's GBs to make that small but cumulative "profit", it gets repetitive and tedious quite quickly.
I had a friend, who quit playing an MMO and when I asked why, he said he didn't want live his life on someone else's server. This has always stuck with me, hence my stance on this.

FoElite

3y↑3

Fwiw I get a small monthly income from YouTube and my digital marketing company has met multiple clients via forge 🤔

Daniel M. Hendricks

3y↑2

Could add "Commented on YouTube videos about online games" to your resume instead. What else do you do in your spare time that is resume worthy?

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Spiros Antonopoylos

3y↑1

crooks

Fábio Dias

3y↑1

Spending 15 thousand forge points per day. In what planet are you guys living in? I'm making 100 points a day!!!

cyllan anassan

dude honestly , i dont get you, playing this rubbish game when there are so many real games out there

Me Me

3y↑1

@cyllan anassan !...........! Here's the attention you wanted.

1cculus

3y↑1

@cyllan anassan imagine not being a crying baby about a game. LoL

benjamin foreman

3y↑4

@cyllan anassan bro I play Civ but some games are fun just cuz I can play on my phone and be on and off in 5 min and not have to find time for hours to play making it harder to play and this also teaches strategy as if you want to do well you have to think

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