Veteran General

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Description
The Veteran General allows you to attack enemy camps by assigning troops to him then attacking an enemy base. He attacks and travels at twice the speed and recovers in half the time. He can carry 250 troops at a time. You can get 1 Veteran General from the Easter Event and 2 from Gem Purchases. However those who purchased 1 from the Easter Event in 2012, will be able to purchase another in the Easter Event 2013.

Type
General

Cost
4,999 http://www.thesettlersonlinewiki.com...ources/gem.pngGem or 1,350 http://www.thesettlersonlinewiki.com...eastereggs.pngEaster Egg

Travel Time
15 Minutes

Recovery Time
2 Hours

Troop Capacity
250

Character Limit per Account
3

Updates

2013-04-09 - Added Twice the Speed thanks to Tage - peck_ed
2013-03-13 - Create Guide - peck_ed

Without this general, you will always lose battles from players who spent money to get 5000 gems. I understand it's a commercial game, but this general is an off-balanced way to get people spending. You only realize that you need this general once you start reaching level - let's say - 30.
If such was not the intention, then I don't see why there was no smart upgrading mechanism for generals; e.g. once a general gained X experience, it's automatically upgraded to an improved general. Or integrate mechanisms of other games, where you can upgrade your 'hero' by e.g. earning/buying armour-plating.

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Originally Posted by MrBranch

This general is exactly what makes this game no fun for players who don't want to spend a lot of money. Without this general, you will lose your battles. So you need to get 5000 gems. Go check your wallet!

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Sadly it looks like you just missed out on the Easter Event, hopefully you will have a chance to get one for free again next April

MrBranch i believe that the science system will probs help with this once it gets applied to gens as well

Isn't the limit now up to 4 for some players who got 1 vet from last year's Easter and a second for this year's Easter plus the 2 from Shop? Might have it wrong on this one though... were players able to get a second egg Vet if they had one from the previous event?

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Originally Posted by stefanceltare

Isn't the limit now up to 4 for some players who got 1 vet from last year's Easter and a second for this year's Easter plus the 2 from Shop? Might have it wrong on this one though... were players able to get a second egg Vet if they had one from the previous event?

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If you got one from the first Easter Event I believe you were only able to buy 1 additional with gems from the Merchant.

the limit in the Merchant was changed to a max of 2 for all players. so my question still remains...

Yep, a donation of 2000 gems today...if that's the way to solve it...

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Originally Posted by stefanceltare

the limit in the Merchant was changed to a max of 2 for all players. so my question still remains...

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The limit is still 3. 2 via Gems, 1 via Easter Event, if you were lucky enough to play in the first Easter Event, you may have 2 via Easter Event and 1 via Gems

That clears it up, thanks!

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Originally Posted by MrBranch

Without this general, you will always lose battles from players who spent money to get 5000 gems. I understand it's a commercial game, but this general is an off-balanced way to get people spending. You only realize that you need this general once you start reaching level - let's say - 30.

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It's called Pay to Win :)

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Originally Posted by peck_ed

Sadly it looks like you just missed out on the Easter Event, hopefully you will have a chance to get one for free again next April

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Exactly. All new players that started after the event have to wait a whole year to get one, or pay a ridiculous amount of real money ... or stop leveling past 30 for a year ... or lose a lot more battles than those who started to play earlier ... wouldn't be that bad if price was reasonable, like Scout and Jolly Geologist or the other General from the market :)

Indeed I started after the Easter event, but luckily before the 20 Year Anniversary event. When writing my remark, I was not aware of such gem donation for events. Even now I still don't understand why such a donation was needed for the Anniversary event.
Annyhow, I'm now a little above 3300 gems, so with 100 gems every 7 days. there's about 120 days left. ... :-)

"He attacks and travels at twice the speed"

Is that on land in the adventures, or just transferring from your home island to the adventure and back ?

Thanks !

Transferring to and from Advs, healing after defeat, and fighting are all twice as fast as a Tavern General, this is true of all gem and Event Gens. That the fancy Gens fight twice as fast is the reason they are not recommended for use as 'blocks' in place of Tavern Gens, the fight will often end far too quickly and with painful losses all around. Everyone walks at the same slow speed. Odd breed of Horse that...

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Originally Posted by MrBranch

Without this general, you will always lose battles from players who spent money to get 5000 gems. I understand it's a commercial game, but this general is an off-balanced way to get people spending. You only realize that you need this general once you start reaching level - let's say - 30.
If such was not the intention, then I don't see why there was no smart upgrading mechanism for generals; e.g. once a general gained X experience, it's automatically upgraded to an improved general. Or integrate mechanisms of other games, where you can upgrade your 'hero' by e.g. earning/buying armour-plating.

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Not once have I ever lost a battle to another, granted we currently cannot battle others players so as you can see it is not really an issue. With the weekly log in bonus and gems from levelling any long term player can get one "free", or has been mentioned hold out and hope he makes a return next Easter, it is what I and many others have done who joined after last Easter.

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Originally Posted by Gytha_Ogg

Not once have I ever lost a battle to another, granted we currently cannot battle others players so as you can see it is not really an issue.

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Not talking about pvp, but the fact that you can win fights in a single wave with this general, while you lose and need a second wave with a normal general (and you lose many more troops).

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Originally Posted by Gytha_Ogg

With the weekly log in bonus and gems from levelling

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Next Easter will come before you're able to get enough gems for it, if you don't buy them :)

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Originally Posted by MrBranch

Without this general, you will always lose battles from players who spent money to get 5000 gems.

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It was just a matter of speaking. There are indeed not much competitive elements in this game, but there are many searching for it. Take the example of recent Anniversary Event; there have been competitions for the player producing the highest amount of non-buffed water production. Others were proud when donating high amounts of balloons. Myself, I'm always trying to loose less units during adventures than the best (comparable) results posted by players anywhere on the internet. And yes..indeed I'm hoping that one day there will be a real battling element with other players in the game; that's a challenge I'm really looking forward too.

You are correct, MrBranch, that the game gets painful after level 30 when you start doing adventures, if you don't have a vet, in terms of avoidable 2 wave attacks.

If you wait until there's a 200% happy hour, though, 5000 gems is not as expensive, and by then you've spent so many hours on the game it seems worthwhile. At least, I didn't begrudge paying the equivalent of around 4 coffees to get a vet.

Thanks Iolanthe ! That cleared it up - I didn't think my vet was galloping any faster than the others !

I have also found him useful as a refill troop carrier. :)

Already 1000nds of battle games available on internet - no reason to change this lovely game into a player versus player battle game !! Many other possibilities are available to create a "competitive" additional section.