Anno 1800 Gold is on sale for a relatively reasonable price. I've never played any Anno games. How is it? Should I pay for it?
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Anno 1800 Gold is on sale for a relatively reasonable price. I've never played any Anno games. How is it?
It's great, best Anno game yet.
It is the best Anno game
Just without land combat, which I will never forgive them for
It's good but the DLCs are still $500 and I'm not sure you can creamapi them
luckily the DLCs add nothing except "number go up" autism
That's the entire game you dongus.
theres a dlc unlocker on friendly russian forum that works
Do not buy from Ubisoft enemy of your freedom
It's a very good looking economy sim/tetris game. If any of that sounds good get it.
>economy sim/tetris game
The what?
You need X thing, build Y buildings to make at least X thing.
Fit the buildings of various shapes into your limited building space.
It's really just a puzzle game, not a city builder. Kind of like Frostpunk if you have tried that.
Absolutely not. It has combat and whole lot more intricacies than frostpunk.
>Anno 1800 is not a city builder
I'm looking forwards to your mental gymnastics on how you are right and everyone else is wrong.
This post articulates my biggest issue with 1800. I like the atmosphere. I like the supply chain city builder stuff. The non-builder stuff is largely fluff. Moving some random shit from the middle of the ocean to a harbor to get quest points is so low brow it's disengaging and obviously a move to just give you more to do. The boat combat is neat in novelty value but there's not a lot to it. At its core, the game is a city builder inasmuch as the old Sierra games were, which isn't a bad thing, but the game play loop here is specifically to place buildings within striking distance of other buildings. According to Hoyle? City builder. In practice? I get the puzzle criticism.
>Like Frostpunk
Someone has been soo assblasted that they are getting deranged.
If you like sandbox you will like it.
If you like campaigns with specific objectives and challenges you will be very disappointed like me.
It has one campaign map but it's just a glorified tutorial.
>It has one campaign map but it's just a glorified tutorial.
Isn't that every Anno?
It's an amazing game. Imagine if you took all the best parts of EU4, Victoria 3, Tropico, Workers and Resources (minus the autism). Sprinkle in some city building tetris, and you have anno 1800
>Workers and Resources (minus the autism)
Why even mention it, it's all autism
I played only 1404, what did 1800 better and worse?
Why is everyone ignoring me...
because you're gay
>cons
zero land combat
pozzed array of characters and citizen avatars
unnecessary bloat with ship/building items, though this may be a plus depending on your preference
very pricey dlcs, with content ranging from meh to great
the AI STILL doesn't play the game, just spawns shit on a timer
>pros
good looking, set in an interesting time period
comfy and utilitarian UI, managing lots of trade routes and islands won't give you carpal tunnel syndrome
blueprints are extremely useful once you start expanding
also being able to just relocate a building is a wonderful little qol feature
>lack of land combat is bad
lol, lmao even
And the land combat was just deploying a camp and then units autobattling each other. It scarcely qualifies as combat.
So it's literally the same, lmao. No thanks, I'll just pirate 1404 or 2070 again instead.
Biggest difference is that you play on multiple maps at the same time. Base game is old world/new world but DLCs add some more
Completely accurate, good job anon
I would say the fact that you played 1404 is good before starting 1800. I have not played with all the new DLC but overall it has more production chains and can be overwhelming and time consuming compared to the smaller scale of previous anno games. So if someone is new to the series, I would start with an older game first.
I think 1800 is just an upgrade to 1404 in every way.
Except for the setting- grim pollution and industrialisation is depressing to every non-urbanite
>grim pollution and industrialisation is depressing to every non-urbanite
I'm sure you mean yourself, not everyone.
it looks like it requires super computer to run well
Vietnamese rice farmers are advised to stay in AoE2 threads
Recently tried it and felt the gameplay was worse than all the old/"normal" Anno editions. You can get access to all DLC + all Anno editions via the "UBI+" subscription, sounds a bit like scam/trap but if you are the type to just grind a game for 1-2 weeks and then never touch it again (like me), it may be a good deal at ~15€ for one month.
it's shit
docklands too stronk
haciendas too stronk
scholars too stronk
am i missing anything?
stadium too stronk
chef michel acotor and mr bruno
Here is The Brunoville District. I tried to do it with the diagonal lines of the penny factories in sync because it looks good but it's just not optimal.
the old nate items seem to be a lot of work for relatively little reward
They were the best when his DLC came out. They added a ton of better items since then.
if you still need to install ubishit launcher to play it, don't
I got the base game on ubisoft and used the dlc unlocker thing.
just werks
merry christmas gays
1800 is superior but for newcomers I would suggest 1404 because it's less overwhelming. 1701 is even simpler but the history version is bugged (AI doesn't build troops)
meh i feel so dumb, i always give up when i reach the tier 4 house, its just too complicated having to micro management EACH social cast
It's not you, most people quit anno games before getting to final production chains... every anno suffers from the same thing... you realize that the whole gameplay loop is just figuring out how to fit the most production chains in the smallest area.
i keep a paper and pencil out to keep track of things
Anno has never ever had good combat
I feel 1503 was headed in the right direction with mannable walls but then it just went nowhere since the AI never attacked you and it was never brought up again
OP here, I decided to buy the Annoversary edition because it included a lot of (all?) the dlc. I haven't had a chance to really sink my teeth in yet but I'll let you guys know what I think.
the trains aren’t going fast enough to supply all my power plants on crown falls
do i just bite the bullet and switch to gas? that’s even more limited than oil though…
Yes. Gas plants have more range, so you'll need less of them, and you can also get more gas by using items. There are two that boost the production of the gas mines and one that makes arctic gold mines produce gas.
you get more oil from items too
I've been replaying it again, and it's absolutely fantastic. Highly recommend if you like that kinda game
Seductive charts bury me desk.
>50 different items that increase / offer alternatives for pearl production
>1 item that completely removes the need for pearls from the game
hmm
>land of the mayabeque
>aztec temple that works like a hacienda
>land of the japanese
content bros we eatin good
lmao I find it easier to slap down 10 pearl farms and make a trade route. It's literally less clicks than getting people out of the institute
Intredastig.
I remember this mod got announced years ago and I decided to wait until it got polished. Looks like maybe the time is arriving.
>land of the mayabeque
how is it? anyone played?
For a mod it is amazing. If Taludas did this in 100 hours as he claimed Ubimainz could rattle out more than cosmetic packs.
New Horizons is coming soon too, Jan or Feb.
>Jan or Feb
I taught they said no more DLC after the last Season unless it was cosmetic.
these are mods anon
Ok so raw timber, pig, grain and anything orchard needs to come in from the dockland.The space they take is just outrageous.
120 years from now my people will bring in everything from the dockland so that more space can be made for high price housing. I think Anno 1800 captures the change of economy from agrarian through industry to service industry very well.
any advice for someone engaging in friendly co-op MP with a noob? is there an easier way of transferring res between our islands than dumping them out as jetsam?
Jetsam is the fastest way. Make them do a docklands
>Ubisoft account
They're just never letting go of this shit.
I was not let down by the mental gymnastics.
My favourite puzzle game is street fighter 2.
Anno 1800 is my favourite open world RPG.
Wrong thread I know but I might get a good answer in here.
If my favourite game is battle brothers, anno 1800, patrician 3 should I get Jagged Alliance 3 in a sale?
I will post Sarmento eating ice cream since nobody posts images ITT.
JA3 is fine. It's no really deep tactically. And the setting is being a bit zany but that's kinda true of JA2 as well. I liked it but I didn't feel the need to replay it.
>I liked it but I didn't feel the need to replay it.
Thanks anon. I will pirate it if there is no replayability.
that's the ugliest harbor I've ever seen in my life
>SO GOOD TO SEE YOU UNCLE!
>that bloomin' turnip WAS THE SIZE OF'ER'ED
I want a DLC to improve the trains.
That would be cool, I want one where if you earn enough trust with the Neutral Traders (Do a certain number of quests for them among other things) you are offered a monument to build. Military camp for Archibald that benefits ships, Prison Camp for Eli that changes depending what resource you want to mine, Not sure about Kahina.
That's a really good idea. Kahina could be something that boosts pier speed, ship speed or even just money from passive trading. Could also be something that boosts trader restocks but that would probably be OP.
I want a mod/cosmetic pack that adds dynamic billboards based on what your legendary exports are.
vincente silva is the pissiest little vindictive b***h i've ever seen. I frick with him out of principle now.
Who's the AI you like the least?
Probably Black Pirate cause he is soo passive aggressive when you destroy his shit.
If we narrow it to the AI Players I guess Monocle wearing fatso.
fat woman is one of the most dangerous competitors and they make her a default pick
bump
Just beat the campaign on normal without any dlc on, it's my first time playing any Anno game and I'm loving it. Starting a new sandbox campaign now with dlc. Just a heads up to anyone here that you can buy the base game and pirate the dlc, if you are so inclined.
>you can buy the base game and pirate the dlc
and swindle ubishit out of their hard earned shekels?
how would one commit this heinous act?
>swindle ubishit out of their hard earned shekels?
I unironically don't want to give those frog fricks an excuse to stop making this niche German autism game.
>it's my first time playing any Anno game and I'm loving it.
Nice nice. I nearly lost my job when I first started on anno 1800 kek. Remember to have a sleep m8.
I could easily see that, this shit is addictive. Luckily I have 3 weeks off work for my firstborn's birth, so it's been nothing but helping my wife around the house and playing anno 1800
>OK I'm just going to quickly fix my steel production and then go to bed
>Suddenly it's 3am
Did they ever make more campaign stuff beyond the first one that ends way too early?
No because Anno is for min max German autism, not campaigns.
And that's a good thing.
There are scenarios you can play and each of the new zones has a (crap) questline.
Making a city that is both efficient and aesthetic makes Anno 1800 one of the most difficult games there is. It's not really a campaign game.
Who here likes expeditions
I like getting little surprises like (policeman solves all crimes instantly)
Remember to take a hippo or a pelican.
I wish they would auto sort themselves. When I'm in my late game and am trying to unfrick a production area I don't want to be forcefully alt tabbed to play a CYOA
>late game
Why are you being forcefully alt tabbed? Just let the Captain do his screaming and then vanish to your expeditions tab.
Why not get a research institute?
You do not have to do the quest of Enbesa but you do need 1500 elders AKA the most obnoxious npc in the game. Every time I click on her building the things that she says makes me seethe.
I am thinking to try out this mod that lets you unlock scholar straight away.
Anyone playing with this Old World Crown Fall mod that seems to be all the rage these days?
Any glaring issues?
Yes, I use it.
>Any glaring issues?
I just had to give up a 250k pop game because I got a flickering issue with the new Mayabeque mod. This might not have been Old Crown Falls though.
Other than that I've played dozens of hours fine on it.
Nice, it'll be nice to not have to do the midgame shift of all your stuff over to Trelawney once you unlock it.
Might wait until New Horizons is out though to do a mega save.
Make sure you have starting conditions as a ship and not a harbour. Margaret Hunt makes a beeline for the big island.
To all the people who are having problems with oil electric in Crown Falls you should try a Leading Electrical Engineer and a Magnetist. Every 3rd and 5th use of oil they generate 1 oil. If influence is the issue (that is a lot of trade unions) you need the footballs stadium
First time building the tower, what a slog. Worth it though.
Well done. Did you start with 75 before beginning or did you just begin at 25 and later find out you need 75 level 5s?
Yeah started at 25, made it extra difficult for myself by also wanting to supply all lifestyle needs.
Do you mean bear furs, furs, tapestries?
In either case it's still well done, Skyline Tower is one of the great goals of the game outside in-game/steam achievements. I got caught out on the 75 req which is why I asked. When doing it again I will start with 75 level 5s before doing it.
Yeah those, mail gives the biggest boost.
The quest giver says he's in a hurry to get the tower built, but I don't think it matters. I took my sweet time anyway.
What's the highest ton/min your bear fur goes up to and what investor pop count is that? Pretty scared there isn't enough room in the arctic for all the bear fur I would need.
Only 3 bear fur demand for 60k investors.
You are right, I took so long I got no medal at all. Guess next time I'll start with 75 lvl5 skyscrapers too.
>Only 3 bear fur demand for 60k investors.
Nice thanks. I have quite a bit covered then with this little shithole island and 9 explorers to spare.
It is a pity I can't whip workers in the arctic.
>skyline quest
woman who is better than man demands you get on your knees and say sorry for being a man if you want the best buff
The speed determines the level of the perfomance medal item you get at the end. Under 2 hours gets you gold, 2-3 hours gets you silver, and over 3 hours gets you bronze, IIRC. They boost the productivity of multifactories by 75%, 50%, or 25% respectively.
note that if you start and think the requirements are kinda easy. the last 2-3 steps are very real end game tier numbers and will frick you up if you aren't prepared before starting the timer.
Thinking about getting this game. Which dlcs is worth having? I like the look of the one with Antarctica and haciendas.
Bright Harvest is pay2win (sort of) and Seeds of Change (the Hacienda one) sort of is as well in the space it saves. They will both make the game less stressful. The Arctic is a different vibe from the rest of the game but I like it.
Start with those but if you can, get them for free.
If you like the game I would recommend getting The High Life which adds more complexity and difficulty to the late game. I would also recommend getting the docklands and if you are into the New World stuff, New World Rising.
To be honest though, if you do enjoy the game I would recommend every single one with the exception of Land of Lions.
Haciendas, unless they buffed them in the past 6 months are actually worse than regular New World housing for all pop classes. They scale poorly and require too much infrastructure. It's only use are for small islands where you need just a few tier 2 pops to man mines.
Haciendas only real use is for extra pops in the new world via those goods but thats a min maxing tactic.
The last DLC with New World Electricity is much much more powerful. But Docklands is the real most bang for your buck after Bright Harvest.
extra pops in the old world*
If you're a completionist, I would recommend getting them by Season Pass rather than individually. It's cheaper and you get a few extra ornaments.
You don't use haciendas for the housing, you use them for the farms and the fertilizer.
>You don't use haciendas for the housing, you use them for the farms and the fertilizer.
You beat me to it. Thanks.
How the hell do I git gud at focusing? I'm a scatter brain and always fall for the trap of doing everything at once. I can't focus on one thing at a time and I get very overwhelmed easily.
Don't get just enough. Need coffee? Go fill in a quarter of an island with plantations so you're good for a bit and wont have to jump back there in 90 minutes for more. Need building supplies for new stuff? Fill that ship up, you have hundreds, don't waste time making multiple piecemeal trips.
>ADMIRAL, ADMIRAL!
ignore that c**t
>HOW THRILLING, A N-
ignore that c**t
>If you pop off now, you-
ignore that c**t
>Your people are sick
>the fire is out of control
>Your people are rioting
Ignore all of these until you are done with what you set out to do. The only thing not to ignore is a harbour or ships being under attack. If that is happening focus on that (probably a war) and do not do something else until that situation (war) is done with.
Play a game without NPCs to see if that helps you. Even without NPCs it can still be the most difficult game you will ever play depending on your settings and goals.
is there an unlocker for the skins from the scenarios (gold/silver/bronze rewards, NOT the tickets)? or maybe someone has a save to share?
more airship skins are desperately needed
check out these terrace journalero houses compared to the swamp hobo version
>everyone shilling anno 1800 as the goat city builder
>buy it
>50gb download, 100gb install
yeah frick that
incompetent devs = shit game
refunding
would you rather the opposite? go download 100 gigs of cyberpunk or baldurs3.
You're looking at 5 years of content there.
Frick that guy, he got filtered, has been gatekept and can go back to his mw2 remastered gold edition
Should I just play sandbox? The campaign is kinda boring. Or do I need to stick with it, or else I'll be lost in sandbox?
Sandbox it but with one star AI or none. The campaign gives easy islands full of resources that's it.
sandbox is the main mode, go for it.
Tractors frick all my ratios up. Anyone know if there is a mod for old world fertiliser. I just don't have the demand for livestock in the new world to support this much fertiliser. Or is the way around it to set a minimum stock and sell excess to Isabella? She can stick alpaca wool up her ass.
There's some specialist who makes something old world produce fertiliser. Sorry I can't remember beyond that.
I found some by searching "dung" and "fertiliser" but they are all mod items. The legendary one is ridiculously over tuned. I'm bum rushing Embesa for a scholar university so I can, in turn, get the specialists and culture items required for a massive population.
The Animal Nutrionist and Enbesan Animal Nutrionist are from vanilla Anno 1800. They only produce dung, though, so you'd have to ship it to the New World.
https://mod.io/g/anno-1800/m/jakob-biogas-production
This mod adds a building that makes animal farms produce dung, but again no fertiliser.
>Shipping shit to another continent since only Manuel knows how to extract nitrates for poo
Imagine the jaded, washed out loser that is the captain of a ship moving hundreds of tonnes of animal shit. Probably dreamt as a kid of finding new continents or sea passages but now just a miserable alky.
Also iirc alpacas shit explosive material (I think I looked up why they are providing saltpetre once you electrify).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guano_Era
That was an interesting read, thanks m8.
>An exception to this would be a German population which arrived at the port of Huacho and traveled inland to colonize the Pozuzo and Oxapampa regions.
kek they did this 30 miles north of me as well where it is currently mild at -18c Even to this day that area is protestant.
Where are you in the northern hemisphere that isn't naturally protestant? Sibieria?
>Sibieria?
Close enough (1k km from the Urals lol)
I got the scholar institute set up. I like the old town pack with their buildings. 10k engineers seems to be the max so I will put those on this island as well but that is a job for tomorrow.
Also wtf are these idiots doing with sanga leather boots and tailored suits already consumption is at 4 TON per minute.
hope you got the mod for more scholar style buildings
Apologies for the double post, just doing a comparison shot
Is that the one with scholar style police and hospital?
r8 this autism
Saveme/10. Someone might think that this looks too artificial but square and clean fields would make my workday 100% easier and also prevent my alcoholism. Clean your fields peasants. Tired of looking at fricked up fields full of randomass vegetation.
what about this autism
this mf is using docklands for everything
Watching New Horizon mod previews, can't wait for that to come out. I've got a dumb wish to mod, but I have no faith in coding as I do 3d modeling. If I could, you would be seeing a bunch of dumb One Piece mods to either build a Marine base in your cities or turning Eli's prison into Impel Down
is sandbox the way to play this game? i can avoid the campaign right
No just ignore it unless you want to learn some stuff. There are a few profile faces you can get from doing the campaign.
The campaign guides you through the early game and you can keep playing it as a sandbox game after the story is over
i remember buying this on Uplay and enjoying it, now i'm wondering if i can buy the year 5 edition on steam without issues because the ubisoft store doesn't work on my country for some reason
Ok I'm done, this it it. Time for a different game. I was gonna beauty build but I didn't. See you all when I get that Anno urge again in a year or so.
kino shot my friend
take care
God I wish the high level skyscrapers looked better.
don't zoom in too close to church, chinatown gong or carbon filament noise is unbearable
>scholar goes on a rant about investors being common thieves
>does not realise who is funding his lifestyle of smashing up telephones and ripping tailored suits
typical
Picked this up on sale.
Enabled 3 AI. Pirates constantly an issue too.
But I'm so many hours in and it would feel like shit to restart.
depends on which AIs
bente, wibblesock and ching are good
by default they slip in the fat lady and she is very aggressive and expansionistic
Yeah, I got the fat lady.
It is probably best to restart, even though you don't want to. The Ai is a cheating bastard and one of them (Mercier) was settling islands faster than I could conquer them.
The game really gets challenging at 25k population and that competitor will mess with you feng-shui at every minute of the game.
Who's your favourite AI, neutrals and pirates included?
Haven't played hard opponents yet, that's for the next game, but I like Gasparov with his cool looking settlements, Malching for moral support when I have high your pollution and use propaganda and the Queen, she's hot.
Dislike: Wibblesock, old Nate and Isabel.
Check out the industrial ornaments mod by Turtur. He does some nice work.
Anne Harlow, The Admiral and the edgy schizo, Alonso Graves.
idk if I am reading it wrong but Archie keeps talking about shitting his pants?
>Malching for moral support when I have high your pollution and use propaganda
kek Silva is the same. He is probably liked by many because he naturally fits the playstyle in that he likes max working hours and propaganda. Because you are running close to the bone on influence for warships because you have to he likes that as well. He also likes you expanding slower than him which you probably will.
Archie has gas
I keep comparing Archie to Northburgh and it colors my perception of him
lmao, someone posted the meme in the last thread some months ago.
I set an excess material dump route on him and every so often he comes up in the top right talking about his guts.
Jungle expedition ornaments by Turtur are pretty good as well. He has taken the national park pack and tailored it to the new world
I'm nearly done with this island. The space left over I think might go into biscuit factory. I severely underestimated how much the investors would use. That would mean another citrus island though.
>increase fire from easy to normal
>FIRE EVERY 5 MINUTES
>10 BUILDINGS ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST AT ONCE
>CITY OF 5K PEOPLE HAS 6 FIRE STATIONS
>STILL LOSE 3 BUILDINGS PER FIRE.
Wtf.
are you sending out extras when it happens? do you have more(2-3) fire stations around your explosive industry to lower boom rate?
why the frick do you have to send out the second firecars manually anyway? "alright guys theres a big fire, we already sent one car so now the rest of us can sit and chill until the governor micromanage us"
I guess if you want to save one for an even bigger fire in the downtime, but realistically fires aren't happening more often than the cooldown timer so really there should be an option to automatically send them all out when a fire is in their range
There is an option for that, fire department upgrade which will automatically send out teams if happiness permits and they are supplied with fire extinguishers.
>You broke the key off in the lock!
I hate the fact that I have a thing for chastity and I hate this motherfricker for reminding me of it.
Sailing ships look so much better than steamships..
Yeah, I'm a luddite for steamships and a sailing ship lover. I play a house rule where I am allowed 1 shark ship per region and 1 battle cruiser per region.
I think the first ironclad defeated 17 sail ships and sank 2. It was later sank by the USS Monitor. Monitor and Battlecruiser in game should be ridiculously more OP than they are but I understand there is balancing to be done.
Well they already favor gameplay and balance over being completely accurate to historicity in many cases. Like why does your base level trading post start with explosive grenades of the late 19th century while ships are still very much early 19th century and using old fashioned cannonballs that rely on their impact alone to do damage?
I like the Battleships but the the steam cargo ships look like shit.
I just use the Tramp Steamer mod with them though.
No matter how long I play this game, I keep discovering new stuff.
very nice now you can run around jizzing
The new thing I found out is when I finally completed this expedition event.
Quite sad.
The Jorgensen genealogy lives
have there been any substantial hints or rumors as to what the next anno game will be set in?
Is a new Anno game even confirmed? Although I guess they said they're done with DLCs fro 1800 now.
The problem is the series has exhausted the timeframe between middle ages and modern times already where it is classically set.
(Because the digits of the year must add up to 9 always)
Maybe a remaster of one? Personally I'd love that for 1701
Nothing confirmed but the rumor is Anno 2025
That would be the lamest thing ever. They have intentionally always avoided an Anno in present time. So what, make it cities skyline?
The different era was always the important for the immersion in my opinion, even the futuristic Annos worked in that way
No production lines, just import everything from China. You now have to manage 800 - 1200 fake news articles some of which are contradictory to keep your population confused.
In fact management of mass media is the entire game.
I fricking hope it's not this shit. That would be so incredibly boring. I'd rather them do something like Anno 504 BC but I guess going pre-AD doesnt work with their name
>20th century not in plans
>rumors are 2025
>which is 21st century
god dammit I hope they're wrong
They list being "very close to our current time" as a negative for the 20th century, I really doubt they're doing 2025. A Roman-era Anno is far more likely. I've never heard these "rumors" outside of these threads anyway.
Or they meant "very close to our current time" as a negative because they're already planning an Anno in current time anyway. But yeah I can't really see that either.
And I doubt they'll try a futuristic Anno this fast again, last time they followed the industry where it was the hot shit to go futuristic like Call of Duty or Civilization, then everyone hated on Infinite and they backpedaled to WW2, similarly Blue Byte backpedaled to 1800. I didn't hate 2070 and 2205 but the fatigue is probably still there for a lot of people.
So if they confirmed they're not breaking the rule of 9 this must confirm that the game is set in 1305 or earlier
A Roman Empire one would be badass. Rome had a population over a million, 1,800 years before London reached that mark. That’s a lot of supply chain
Anno 108? Other regions could be North Africa/Egypt, Persia, Germania, Britannia. Sign me up.
Sounds good, right at the peak of Roman civilization.
But where would the group of islands be that are integral to Anno? I mean it doesn't necessarily need an explanation but a base minimum of immersion would be nice.
I guess you could just say they're somewhere in the mediterrenean, whatever
I supplied a luxury of 28t/min on souvenirs and my economy went through the roof. It was a frickton of busywork though.
Lets have some night time aesthetics.
nice shot
This mod here adds skyscraper style department store and skyscraper style warehouse (on the right with the road running through it). I tried putting the department stores in with my skyscrapers but I lost track of where they are lol.
With the right specialists you can make a self-sufficient island. That's pretty neat.
Has anyone run into a problem where Donny Bader's missions just vanish? I got to the department store but the follow on's are not vanishing. I'm stuck on toasters (and fridges because I have the arctic) but there's a few patents I'm locked out of.
I got this fixed btw. You have to put engineer skyscrapers around a gazebo plaza non stop. His next mission unlocked when I put the 4th one down.
This is my first palace and I really don't know what to do. Every time I look at this I just know it doesn't look right.
Build it in the center of the island rather than the coast.
Sounds like a plan. I'll put it top left on this picture near the river. The square bottom right is either for the skyline tower (the blueprint is going to be skyscraper level 5 hell) or a central park.
Thanks.
If you just do it for aesthetics and immersion I think having the palace on a separate island like this is pretty cool. Like a kings residence away from the common folk. Like Balmoral, Versailles or Herrenchiemsee which is coincidentally on an island too
I built a hacienda island that looked like that once. Instead of trees it was coffee fields though. Same layout other than that.
>Like a kings residence away from the common folk.
Yeah, I would like this for the Palace. I suppose I could do this. The thing about this palace though is that idk when I'm going to stop levelling so anything I make I will get extra modules for meaning I have to either blueprint it or constantly redo it.
Also I need an island with ultra high attractiveness because the only thing I'm interested in is 4th slot for a trade union which is quite far down iirc
>Feel like playing Anno
>Boot up Ubisoft connect
>'Remember me' unchecked itself again
>Forgot password, time to reset it and then I'll play
>Log in
>Your account has been temporarily suspended
It's honestly just getting insulting how out of their way Ubisoft goes to make even trying to play their games a slog.
very good with all the DLC and there are great mods for it and a few big ones that should come out soon-ish
If you were making a mod for Arctic Research Institute what needs and lifestyle luxuries would you give the technicians?
Seafood Stew
Dried Meat
Pigments
A lot of things from the engineers and investors could fit since the technicians are pretty snobby
Pocket Watches
Cigars
Medicine
Chocolate
Biscuits
Typewriters
Film Reels
If you want to make new goods:
Goggles
Snuff
Compasses
Pigments and medicines are good ones. I was thinking on bauxite as a lifestyle need (research)
Kind of a nice idea for giving it more use, but I don't really see the connection to the arctic. It would make more sense for a New World Research Institute.
I wish for a mod that completely remakes the arctic one day...
and that it would be like frostpunk...
and it gave an actual reason to go there...
Some guy was working on an Arctic mod, but he put it on the backburner while working on a different big mod.
We should have gotten a three tier arctic with this as the first tier.
>Ubisoft
Game will randomly disappear from their launcher and if you complain about it they'll tell you to buy it again
meh
I started this game. I am enjoying it. I am starting to like the Victorian era. My city is growing. Flourishing, even. Is it difficult to make mods for this game, if so, what programming language does it use?
Do y'all make ditchwater your main kino place while offshoring all industry to crownfalls, vice versa or mixed? Mixed as in industries spread out amongst old world colonies and other dlc regions?
no one actually plays the tutorial map for real... right?
not the answer i was expecting but still an answer
anno is a game about islands and trade. the big ones you dont even need to expand from ruin that.
If you're an autist like me that needs to have all the hard AI on the board it's a mad dash just to get the choice large islands
not having too many expansion locations helps that..
plus its nice having frickhuge harbors at large islands with multiple shipping lanes coming in and out instead of just your capital settlement
>Playing the campaign
ew
You're telling me that this game is amazing?
yeah, where you been.
Did Anno 1800 make all other Anno games obsolete? I heard that it's the best in the series.
But I used to play Anno 1404 a little, and wanted to come back. Or just play 1800 since it's the sam ebut better?
No, because if you want to play innafuture then 2070 is still the best.
Anno 1800 did obsolete Anno 2205, though.
How so? 2205 is pretty different from the rest of the series. I'm sad that it was disliked because I found it to have pretty cool ideas.
>How so?
> I'm sad that it was disliked because I found it to have pretty cool ideas.
It did, and they were all integrated into 1800.
What about 1404?!
I think 1404 will always have its fans, but it is obsolete by this point. Anno 1800 especially has added so many creature comforts and mechanics that I don't see why anyone would go back. The future is forward. Imagine what 1404 2 will be, rather than try to put on a fake smile and pretend that 1404 can hold a candle to 1800.
2205 is at a bigger scale though. It's easier to get to that larger size and faster, and the maps are designed with more space in mind. It has a ton of things better done in other Anno games but there is a legitimate reason to back to it
No since I'm still playing Anno 1701 and 1404 more than 1800, I don't even know what the hell 'make obsolete' could mean its not a fricking MMO or something.
>best in the series
Not hardly, I think a lot of new comers to the series have shown up with this one so obviously that's going to be the best one to them.
Does Anno 1800 have good single player?
Well... arguably anno games were never focused on multiplayer so if you like the anno gameplay loop I'd say yeah, single player is pretty good.
I like 1404 because it has the best aesthetics and music.
If this game doesn't have combat, how do you deal with opponents? Just buy them out?
The game does have combat. But you can buy them out as well.
Some guy told me 1800 doesn't have any combat...
It doesn't have any land combat, maybe they meant that
I like how this little area turned out.
very cute and comfy
What about 2070 and 2205 anno sisters? ain't nobody playing it anymore?
2070 is fine.
2205 is hot garbage. Not having a third tier on the moon is a HORRIBLE mistake, along with every other bad decision.
2205 is fine and not hot garbage but was overall going into the wrong direction. But it also made a lot of progress that made it into 1800. Such as, travelling to other maps that supply each other with trade routes, 4 houses in one which just looks better than the same tiles across the entire city, being able to drag a window across the screen to select and upgrade citizens and not having to click them individually, satisfaction buildings no longer just providing services in a radius but along the actual streets. They also scaled the map size and economy way up, you organized way more and it really felt like you're in control of some world spanning corporate empire that even reaches the moon. Also yeah, other regions like especially the moon were just simply cool and it felt and looked appropriately immersive and comfy Anno-like.
Downsides were no random generated maps, no combat in building area and warfare in general is easily circumventable, no free placement of trading posts, and no multiplayer. Some of these are pretty heavy downsides admittedly and I'm happy they didn't pursue this direction further, but now that we have 1800 I can look back at it and appreciate it for its positives while knowing that the downsides weren't there to stay.
Where would you put the next Anno? Remember that the sum of the numbers has to be 9.
Medieval dark ages with witch hunts, plague, inquisition terror etc. Also make it as dark as possible.
So dark that all chars will be black scholars
2052, Prequel to 2070
I don't really want to play Anno games before 1800 now. It will be forced complexity
>Build these steel pots for your people they are just as complex and requires as many production chains as a scooter however haha
Or it won't be forced complexity and too simple.
Think they'll ever do a fantasy Anno, or steampunk or something like that?
I hope not, but it would give them a lot of freedom to do whatever they wanted.
That'd be cool, could even bring back the faction system of 2070. Have one faction focused more on Steam and the other Diesel.
Steam does not have energy to use, what are you saying. Diesel is used to boil water so that it vaporizes into steam and spins a turbine.
I really hope they wouldn't bring back the "environmentalists vs industrialists" shit for a steampunk anno because it wouldn't make sense in the scenario as that wasn't a discussion in the 19th century
He probably means coal vs diesel, extending to the aesthetic of diselpunk vs steampunk or diesel locomotives vs steam driven by coal.
Basically this.
The one thing I miss from 2205 in 1800 are those projects you have in each map, those were neat. Also, I love the aesthetic.
i thought for sure we'd get to build the panama canal as a sector project in 1800.
>panama canal
>in 1800
>skyscrapers
>in 1800
>airships
>in 1800
>steamships
>in 1800
electrical grids
>in 1800
>rail networks
>in 1800
>oil drilling
>in 1800
>cars
>in 1800
yes, the panama canal in 1800. why not?
Alot of that works if 1800 includes the whole 19th century. Going by the earliest examples:
>Skyscrapers
1880
>Airships
1884
>Steamships
1783/1821
>Electrical Grid
1880
>Rail Networks
1830, 1881 for Electric
>Oil Drilling
1745
>Cars
1886
panama canal: 1876
Go look up how many times and where it was attempted before finally successful. How about the Suez instead? Happy now?
>The earliest record regarding a canal across the Isthmus of Panama was in 1534, when Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, ordered a survey for a route through the Americas in order to ease the voyage for ships traveling between Spain and Peru. The Spanish were seeking to gain a military advantage over the Portuguese
I didn't think it'd be that early.
Neither did I. I knew it had been attempted at least twice before it succeeded though.
>take a three month break from anno 1800
>buy Fallout 4 from GOG for a nice change of pace
>instantly install the sim settlements mod and start city building
ffs
They should make Warcraft: Anno instead. My femsaken wife needs a cute cottage.