PAST EVENT - Pro Tip Event

It is official, The Settlers Online: Castle Empire has been alive and kicking for almost two years! With that in mind we wanted to host a pro tip event. Show off your Settlers knowledge by contributing your pro tips in the thread below. These pro tips can be simple one liners or extravagant strategies for either the beginning noobility or for the pro kings and queens of the empire.

Prize: 25 Players at random will get 250 Gems each!

When: 5/15/2013 – 6/12/2013

Rules: You can post as many tips as you want. Do not copy a tip from someone before you. Keep each tip as its own post so you have more chances to win!

IT really is to your advantage to have all troops and supplies ready before you begin your adventure. You will be done quicker and have more fun if you are not delayed waiting for more troops to cook.

Keep your gold as much as you can, you don't want to waste it buying resources on the TO. You're going to need it later on in the game for building upgrades and geologists, explorers, and generals.

Join a good guild as soon as possible. They are a huge benefit, with people to help buff your island, take you on adventures, help you with resources, and you get guild coins as well.

before sending your final attack , it will save you from having to wait 1 1/2 hrs for your troops to return if you assign all troops to you other generals.

Do not waste gems on items you can purchase in TO or that can be traded (or that you can make yourself), use gems for building license mostly

Two tips:

First, join an active guild as quickly as possible. A good guild will help you grow quickly and make the game even more enjoyable.

Second, a good way to free up building licences is to replace your build houses with ones from your star menu (bought with gems or traded in the TO) These star noble houses don't take up a building licence but still increase your maximum population limit.

their are some buildings that are best run buffed only like gold chain and most expert buildings

it doesn't matter if one of your productions are a little red ex: bronze, u can keep your supply up with a strategic buff once in a while

once you begin making a resource, make sure you can support it. If you can't make enough horses, then don't waste efforts on a stable (though I have one stable running at all times - rarely use it but it does build a resource I can trade).

Buffs are totally free things that you should take advantage of when you can. Let your friends buff you and it will last longer (1.5x longer than the normal buff would last). Buffing increases the output of something but does not use any more resources to make it. So if you buff your toolmaker, it will make twice as many tools, but still use the same amount of initial resources.

Must not believe in any prices of the stuffs in Trade Office. No trade offers can be called as a fair deal or a good deal. It depends on the circumstance.

Water wells do not take building deeds (but they do take people). So build wells whenever and wherever you can. They are cheap resources to build, and it gives you something that you can either trade or use for other things (like horses, bread, brew).

Do not build and rebuild gold ore mines ... it cost alot of resources, it is better to have one only or two tops at level 5 and keep adding gold ore deposit in it and with buffing it will greatly help. Do not forget to stop running your gold ore mine lvl 5 if it becomes low and you might be away for a while it is better to wait and get new ore deposit

have your production buildings set for optimum effect, you will get your resources faster

always have your geologist searching for deposits. They can find deposits for you and you can leave them unbuilt until needed. That way you can find all of your mines and stones/marble ahead of time, so when you run out, you can quickly rebuild and go again. When your mine has just 1-2 deposits left, tear it down to regain some of your resources.

Swaping adventure's lootspot is the best way that you can do with the lootspots.

spend lots of real money on gems and then buy everything w/ gems. (like the cool decorations!) you can trade gemstuffs for 3X the amount in GC!

Don't worry about producing everything - some items like iron swords - the resources used to make them can be sold for significantly more then the weapons themselves are worth. Run excess in goods that bring the most coin per hour and buy the rest.

Protip - most (a few are not) of the people on this thread are noobs and I can prove WHY their statement is wrong and inefficient if you whisper me.

ProTip: When you see the blue text in chat then it's a good time to shut up, before you feel the wrath of the banhammer.

Place your store houses close to your mines and your poduction buildings close to (next to) your store houses.
All buildings entrances are positioned to the SE, so save your little workers travel time by placing buildings within 16-32 seconds transport distance.
This will reduce the time it takes to gather, smelt, bake your resources

Good hunting!

P.S. Oh and it saves on hunting time too :)

Protip - rebuilding gold mines (lvl 2 is the best if you plan to let them run out) is more efficient then using gold parrots.

ProTip: If quitting the game, be sure to show love to all who have helped you along the way by giving them your gear! :D

Keep your wells and fields in as few spots as possible, then you can quickly see at a glance which ones need to be replaced.

Although some believe that the fish platter (30 minute buff made with 10 fish in the provision house) is not worth it.

A level 3 fisherman pulls 3 fish approximately every 3.4 minutes.
If you double production using the fish platter buff you will get an extra 27 fish.

That's 270% production!!!

I say they are worth it... especially if you are playing a 30 minute adventure.

Good hunting!

P.S. Oh nd fishing too :)

Protip - outside of settlers for soldiers, only baskets, fishfood, and meat deposits should be made. Every other provision house product not worth the provision house time it takes. Also when buffing - only self-buff if you are trying to time buffs to end at a particular time.

Protip - most buildings have a 24s, 32s, 40s, 48s ect walk time. However mines and wells cover distances twice as fast. There is no 16s walk time for a regular building (only mines/wells)

being new to the game i found out that asking questions in help chat was a big help.. so dont be afraid to ask questions before doing anything...

I don't normally participate in this kind of thing, but after sifting through these responses, I couldn't find a single legit "pro-tip" in here (5/14 2:04pst); it's nothing but the most obvious advice every single player is aware of by day 3. Allow me..

1: Destroying a well or wheatfield shortly before it runs out will give you ~20-25% of the original building cost.
2: The Tavern is the biggest waste of building license in this game. Once you have 2-3 of each specialist they will cost thousands of gold coin. When you have saved up enough and are ready to buy another specialist, wait for a low level mine to run out, temporarily use that building license to make the tavern again, purchase the specialist, and tear it back down to rebuild your mine. Repeat when necessary.

Always check before building on a mine if you start to build and change your mind it will remove the deposit and you will need to find it again.

Don't rush to level up. There's always something to do in game but if you are simply rushing just to get to the next level you will bleed yourself of resources and make it a hundred times harder to continue leveling later.

Protip - When deciding where to place a workyard that requires a deposit, place the workyard so that the deposit is directly at its door. This will save you more travel time than you'd think. Don't let the term "Deposit Missing" fool you. Trust me, it's there. Try it for yourself.

P.S. - I'm loving all these NoobTips, as well. It's good to laugh. Happy Settling!

You cannot move storehouses. So place them carefully so that you have enough spots to place production buildings around them.

Quickest way to level 50 is by doing nords adventures and Black knight, and while you run them you sell the loot spots for gold coin that you can use for upgrades or to buy more adventures in TO.

Protip - quickest way to 50 is Surprise attack. Nords and Black knight follow. Surprise attack gives more xp per "hour of barracks time" then nords does, making it the fastest adv to level with. However nords and Surprise attack lose you money each adventure. Do RB, SFTR, BK, outlaws for pretty good XP while MAKING money as you level.

tip 1 if you run low on hardwood planks or marble, make them in the provisions house using pine wood, and stone plan it to work while you are off line and be ready when you return.
tip 2 make friends they can help you a lot.

To stay a happy settlers player you should take pride in a certain part of your island, so that you can marvel at all of your progress.

You know you are in a good guild when you receive guild coins every day.

Pro tip - Special resources

Trade for special event resources like pumpkins eggs soccer balls and presents inbetween the yearly event people are willing to get rid of them really cheap