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I tried doing the campaign on expert but I hosed around so long like I always do I got to a point I couldn't really compete militarily because they all were ignoring each other and loving with me. Big ol'  Also trade routes between the new world and the old world may be my least favorite thing ever. It's like 10 minutes back and forth.
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I've been having some trouble with trade routes - often a ship will be unable to unload everything it's carrying to a given port(if the receiving island's storage is full), and from then on whatever cargo slot is in use is effectively just locked. Even on the next voyage, if the receiving island's storage of that resource isn't full, it won't unload it. Eventually the trade route grinds to a halt and nothing gets transported unless I manually empty the inventory while in port. Yall had this problem at all?
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Apr 22, 2019 04:21
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Well.. you can just consider that slot always-used if you put something in it. Alternatively, there's an option in the trade route option to tell your ship to wait at the dock to unload everything before moving on.
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Apr 22, 2019 04:44
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totalnewbie posted:Well.. you can just consider that slot always-used if you put something in it. TIL. Thanks to you, and thanks to the devs for zero tutorial on various crucial systems.
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Apr 22, 2019 05:02
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there's also an option in there to huck remaining inventory overboard if there's anything left in the slot after dropoff
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Apr 22, 2019 05:07
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This game owns RIP all my free time...
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Apr 22, 2019 05:36
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Mazz posted:I tried doing the campaign on expert but I hosed around so long like I always do I got to a point I couldn't really compete militarily because they all were ignoring each other and loving with me. Yeah, I had a really frustrating experience last game where due to AI or proximity to the pirate base or something, every time I built a frigate a pirate convoy of four frigates would sail in to my harbor, blow the poo poo out of the ship, and sail away. Even when I took one or two out with harbor guns, by the time I buy Kt a New frigate, the pirates would come back with just as many as before. I started a new game and doubled my normal cannon production, and now I’m doing that to Anne.
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Apr 22, 2019 06:38
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Screw the free press, consumerism propaganda makes you bank. Also, not nearly enough screenshots of people's towns in this thread.    
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Apr 22, 2019 08:52
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How do you take screenshots like that? I know F1 removes the UI and junkers tour camera to the ground but I have know idea how to do it from the air.
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Apr 22, 2019 09:11
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CTRL-G removes the UI
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Apr 22, 2019 09:11
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Campaign is honestly doing my head in now. Normally i just play peaceful sandbox in Anno but thought i'd try the campaign but the pirates are driving me up the wall. Is there any benefits to completing the campaign other than achievements?
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Apr 22, 2019 10:36
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Asciana posted:Campaign is honestly doing my head in now. Normally i just play peaceful sandbox in Anno but thought i'd try the campaign but the pirates are driving me up the wall. Is there any benefits to completing the campaign other than achievements?
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Apr 22, 2019 10:48
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FractalSandwich posted:Same thing happened to me. I decided to start over with the pirates turned off, but there's no particular reason to stick to it if you're not otherwise enjoying it. The Queen portrait for finishing it on Advanced is pretty cool, I guess, but that's about it. Wait.. can you do the campaign without the pirates?
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Apr 22, 2019 11:28
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You sure can. If you go into the custom difficulty settings, it does lock off a few of the options, but most of them are there, including all the ones having to do with competitors and pirates. When I did it, it bugged out a little bit and Jean still showed up, but his ships just sat around his base and left me alone.
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Apr 22, 2019 11:40
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I have a map without a single coutchoc/rubber fertility in it. Not one in the New world. I couldn't believe it, I had to stop for the night, and then check today. No loving Rubber. Between that and the whole "Orbreros lady gives me a quest to build a Museum when I'm at like 200 Orberos" mess, I think I'm just gonna restart. For reference, you need 1,500 Orbreros to unlock a Museum in the New World.
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Apr 22, 2019 11:56
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This game makes my PC's fan spin like it's trying to go into orbit, I take my headphones off at the end of a session and it's insanely loud. Does that mean it's thrashing my CPU or GPU, and can I turn anything down or off to make it stop?
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Apr 22, 2019 12:03
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Do you have the Steam version? There's a known bug with the Steam version running hot.
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Apr 22, 2019 12:09
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Pierson posted:This game makes my PC's fan spin like it's trying to go into orbit, I take my headphones off at the end of a session and it's insanely loud. Does that mean it's thrashing my CPU or GPU, and can I turn anything down or off to make it stop? If it would trash anything it would crash or your PC would shut down. It just means some load on GPU or CPU is so high that your automatic fan control needs to counter that, which is good.
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Apr 22, 2019 12:09
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As long as your PC is cool your fans can sound like a jet engine tbh.
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Apr 22, 2019 12:26
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Yeah I’m replaying the campaign on expert but I turned the tax income back up because low makes everything a chore. Being able to swap the individual settings around like that is cool. EDIT: Thinking about it I think low income stuff is tedious because you buy items with gold too. I can sell Frigates all game but I’m still skating with bankruptcy because the good rare stuff is 30 minutes of Frigate production, that kind of thing. Mazz fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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Apr 22, 2019 13:15
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vandalism posted:This game owns RIP all my free time... same. i spent 10 hours on this game yesterday.
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Apr 22, 2019 17:11
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The ULTIMATE (so says the author) Anno 1800 calculator.
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Apr 22, 2019 17:25
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ROFLburger posted:same. i spent 10 hours on this game yesterday. 10 hours is when the Narrator assured me there was no achievements for session length. 
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Apr 22, 2019 17:47
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The narrator talking poo poo when you play way too long is GOTY stuff.
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Apr 22, 2019 18:27
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It's an old Anno tradition, I think even as far back as 1503 or 1702 they already had the announcer ask you to take a break.
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i just have a few ship of the lines patrolling lanes between islands between the pirate base and mine and it seems to take care of it. They never succesfully pirate any of my goods they just lose ships but all theyll do is offer a ceasefire so like lol im not letting them build up a fleet and dont feel like assaulting their 500 gun emplacements at the moment.
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HORMELCHILI posted:i just have a few ship of the lines patrolling lanes between islands between the pirate base and mine and it seems to take care of it. They never succesfully pirate any of my goods they just lose ships but all theyll do is offer a ceasefire so like lol im not letting them build up a fleet and dont feel like assaulting their 500 gun emplacements at the moment. You can kill the entire pirate base with 3 SOLs and some cheese. The only real threat is the big gun due to his high aoe damage - but if you come in from the narrow passage with the steep mountain, the big gun can't shoot - but will lock on to the ship. Then you bring the rest in through the main entry and blow the gun up as it's still pointed away from the real fleet.
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HORMELCHILI posted:i just have a few ship of the lines patrolling lanes between islands between the pirate base and mine and it seems to take care of it. They never succesfully pirate any of my goods they just lose ships but all theyll do is offer a ceasefire so like lol im not letting them build up a fleet and dont feel like assaulting their 500 gun emplacements at the moment. Yeah, the pirates are no longer any real threat to me after I got a few SoLs patrolling around. I just ignore them at his point, they just complain I sunk their ship and keep demanding money for a ceasefire.
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Can you not have a ship escort a trade vessel between the new and old world? They just stop at the transition point.
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Taking out the pirates in the new world was as easy as parking about 8 SOL's inside their little inlet and declaring war on them. 8 broadsides from them killed the big cannon almost instantly, then I let them target what they wanted. The island was conquered in about 30 seconds lol
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Artisan: Please find my daughter for me! Me: Have you tried...looking behind you?
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FileNotFound posted:You can kill the entire pirate base with 3 SOLs and some cheese. I'm gonna need a recipe for this cheese, because I'm losing at least one ship every time I assault islands way less well fortified than the pirate base. Haven't even tried to crack that bad boy yet. Game's good, by the way. Game real fuckin' good. My only wish is for some scenarios, like the ones from 2070--the special gimmick missions.
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Redeye Flight posted:I'm gonna need a recipe for this cheese, because I'm losing at least one ship every time I assault islands way less well fortified than the pirate base. Haven't even tried to crack that bad boy yet. Shore defense will target boats through terrain like mountains but can't shoot, so you park a ship behind a ridge/mountain as close as possible and all of them will target it. They don't change targets even though they can't see the current target, so the rest of your boats get free shooting time. Your original boat has a very annoying habit of trying enter Line of Sight to shoot back since its a weird automated engagement, but just keep clicking the place they are at and they'll stay put while your others shoot. Theres also sometimes a small gap in the LoS where you boat will shoot but not be shot at, which is even more broken. It works on any island with terrain cover close enough to the shore defenses btw. This is some random google screenshot for a visual but park a boat on the right side of the island right behind the ridge there and all the shore defenses will target it and ignore everything else.  Some of the islands make this essentially impossible but the pirate coves at least are very easy to exploit this way. Mazz fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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So uhhh I added Silva to this expert game and eventually pissed him off by buying shares in his islands.... he rolled up with a 8 SOTL, 12 boat strong fleet and just wiped me and the other AI off the map. Time to roll back that save, but that awesome.
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Anno 1800: My daddy died in a mine..
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BadLlama posted:Anno 1800: My daddy died in a mine.. I build my first mine, he hates me for it. Out of curiosity, I check his islands, he's got like a half dozen mines. Hypocrite.
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BadLlama posted:Anno 1800: My daddy died in a mine..
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Steel is by far the most annoying thing to produce, I'm at 1200 for every other building material but Iron is needed for so many other things that I almost never have steel in my producing Island.
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Thom12255 posted:Steel is by far the most annoying thing to produce, I'm at 1200 for every other building material but Iron is needed for so many other things that I almost never have steel in my producing Island. One minor thing you can do is set the trade for building materials to buy to max; all of the neutral trade ships seem to drop off building materials, and I think it expands with each citizen tier. Steel is definitely on the list. Once I have steady income I'll generally set all of the starting materials to 75 when I make a new island and by the time I get around to using them they're usually maxed out. Same with the new world albeit slower. Mazz fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Mazz posted:With each tier adding new things you didn't and really couldn't plan around, you do run into problems where you just can't puzzle poo poo together anymore. I got to engineers and it'd be easier to start a new game with them in mind than rework everything I had set up to that point, especially since I was using the smaller islands that are really easy to max out given they need populations before engineers too. Like there's nowhere I could possibly put electricity on my forge island because I didn't think about it and I'm supporting 1800 workers entirely by trade as it is there. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely just something to adjust to with experience/practice, but being able to plan out in depth w/ blueprint mode beforehand would be pretty cool, yeah. Are you playing the campaign? How did you get the option to settle on new islands? I'm farther than that and haven't unlocked it yet. I'm starting to hit a point where my growth is really stagnant but I don't have the required fertilization to make anything to raise happiness, and I'm also starting to just run out of space in general (unless I build stuff near where there are future resources like oil)
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