Stuck for want of goods and coins

[NOELEENL]

I'm new to the game but I have a couple of problems I need advice on. One quest is to place settlers in the Mayors house, but it is full so I can't. I don't have the goods to upgrade and certainly don't have the gems, so I'm currently stuck. I also don't have enough gold coins to buy the geologist or the explorer so again I am stuck.

The question is, how do I upgrade? I bought two storehouses thinking that would help, but they both show only the 50 settlers the mayor's house does. What are the storehouses actually for if they don't store anything?

I'm very confused here and could really use some help.

Thanks

[Dorotheus]

you need to build residences to increase your population limit,

[lulu10093]

you need residences or noble houses to make room for extra population not storehouses

[NOELEENL]

ok. thank you for that - but can you explain to me why we have storehouses if they all show only the same thing and not each one being independant? ty

[NOELEENL]

ok just went to check but the first residence is only available at level 15 and I'm only level 9.

[lulu10093]

store houses are to hold as many resorces as you can
and if your stuck then flowing quest chain will help you out this may help you

http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/23522-Guide-Fhearghus-s-Guide-For-Dummies-The-Settlers-Online

[Hairy]

Yep, there's a well-known text fault when trying to add settlers at maxed pop limit.

OPEN-Text-Adding-settlers-above-maximum-tells-you-to-upgrade-Store-House (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/25361-OPEN-Text-Adding-settlers-above-maximum-tells-you-to-upgrade-Store-House?highlight=text)

Why it still hasn't been corrected is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

[NOELEENL]

THANK YOU. I looked at it up to level 10 and it doesn't help me out. Unfortunately my mayors house is full of settlers so I can't add the family of 10 that I had to get for the quest. I got them but can't put them into the mayors house. Until I do I can't finish the quest. It keeps telling me that I have to increase my storage but to do that I need 1200 gems or 800 hardwood (and I have none) and marble which I don't have. I'd consider bombing the mayors house and rebuilding but I think I would lose all the other storage stuff then wouldn't I?

[NOELEENL]

Yes, this is the problem I have but I can't add any residences because I don't have the level yet.

[Hairy]

There are two ways to create some space for extra population.

1 has been mentioned already, ~ build residences, "but the first residence is only available at level 15"
The other is to train some troops & get them killed in battle.

Adding settlers to the Mayor's house sounds like the "Settler Shortage" side quest, which according to Fhearghus's-Guide-For-Dummies (http://forum.thesettlersonline.com/threads/23522-Guide-Fhearghus-s-Guide-For-Dummies-The-Settlers-Online) (and for seasoned players who can't remember early quests) is a quest that's done at level 17.

If it is a side quest, it can be ignored until later levels.

edit

I've just been told by Iolanthe that you may have encountered "New Settlers", a one-time Main quest that can appear at low levels when your population drops to 5 or fewer.

Being a Main quest, it cannot be cancelled, but again I hope it can be ignored until later levels.

[marj19]

It is a main quest - to buy a migrant family of 10 and then place them in the mayor's house.

[lulu10093]

can you not lend a noble deed off a friend in the game just to add them then send it back to them?

or if you cant trade yet ask a friend if they can gift you one then you can send it back once you can trade

[NOELEENL]

sorry I don't know what you mean lulu. For starters I don't have any friends in Newfoundland except one who just started tonight and now I've got to the stage where I can't complete anymore quests. One says halve the time of a specialist, one is to pay to complete a building instantly and both of these mean spending gens. While I haven't finished the send the family to the mayor's house quest, I am not allowed to use gems to pay for anything. That quest is holding everything up unfortunately. I friended you but you are on a different world so I can't ask you to help me unfortunately. If you can see some way to it would be great.

[Foxy1]

Just to mention, if you have the provision house you can convert stone to marble and pinewood planks to hardwood planks, which allows you to utilise these commodities before you can actually produce them.

[Iolanthe]

Hey NOELEENL, have you looked through your Quest Book thoroughly? Hairy's right about being able to ignore those quests for a bit, none of the three quests you mention give xp, nor do any of them unlock quests that do but there should be something available that does. Until level 15 (when you can start winning xp by defeating Bandits) there should always be a quest that gives xp. For level 9 take a look in "System Functions" for "Further Help" or in "Tool Production" for "Copper" or "Mines".

If those have all been done and there is nothing else that gives xp but the game hasn't noticed and you haven't done this already refresh the browser window and log out and in again. Things sometimes stick. Hope that helps a bit.

Soon you will have a quest to upgrade some buildings and while the game should supply the resources if you run short Foxy1's tip about Provisions is a great one. Try not to upgrade too many Residences though, at 19 you can build Noble Residences and they hold more Settlers than the plain sort. There is a tradeable version of Nobles for gems which is what lulu meant, if you can trade, have a friend with a spare one and are in a pinch borrowing it for a bit is a common way to fit in some extra Settlers before returning it. That's usually something that happens a bit further on the game but it's handy to have in the back of your mind for later, just in case.

A general bit of advice: Unless you buy gems don't spend any unless a quest asks for them, before too long you'll get an idea of what they're worth and they're worth a fair bit indeed. Hang on to your Coins as well, in early levels the game throws a fair few your way but it won't always be like that.

[JessieSun]

NOELEENL, ignore quests and clear your island from bandits first.