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Gadzuko posted:You don't need a mod for this, just kill them. Build a stack of battlecruisers and bomb them out of existence. Or just ships of the line. The only use battlecruisers seem to have is if you give them a specialist with extended range items to plink away at cannon towers while just outside of their range.
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I just use the AI Shipyard mod to spawn in a couple AIs once im nice and settled.
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Gadzuko posted:Also, I don't know if anyone else has experienced this but sometimes easy AI settle an island even when you tell them not to. I figured out it only happens when you're viewing a session other than the one in which they are trying to expand. So when you get the pop-up asking permission to expand, click the button to view the island first. It'll take you to the right session and then when you decline they will actually stop. I've had this too, but I figured it was related to the AI being repeatedly told no - eventually they just start ignoring you. But I could be wrong 
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Imagine playing Anno 1800 without the sound of Margaret Hunt's cackles echoing through your burning cities. Imagine not hearing Alonso Graves threaten to shove a feather up your nostrils. You are clearly blatant Wibblyists, and I will hear no more of it! Seriously though, 3 copper on the whole map? Did you play on expert or something? They returned how map generation works in one of the recent patches to prevent that sort of thing. Still... only 3? That is insane. You can get some trade union guys to pump up your numbers if possible. My NPC Cadre is the pirates for awesome trading opportunities, and then Hugo Mercier for his unique items plus Beryl O'Mara and Artur Gasparov. Beryl likes propaganda and doesn't react too bad to how I play the game, but she expands fast and if you don't keep up with her she will take over. Gasparov is entertaining and usually minds his own business but will occasionally just declare war for no reason. The trick is to be constantly doing missions for the npcs. It gives reputation and good money for the early game. Then you can trade with them to not have to do missions and keep up reputation. Never ally though or they will drag you into stupid wars. Trade is good, though. In all my recent games, hugo zooms off the the land of lions at breakneck speed. He is there before everyone and it is really immersion breaking. I hate him. At the same time, he helps automate my poo poo, so I need to use him. He heavily favors Ketema over the new world, leaving it ripe for the for beryl. The devs said this is intentional behavior but I think it is silly. I'm not sure what I could do to force him into the new world. He might just focus on land of lions regardless of what the player does. Gonna start a new game on Tuesday and build them docks.
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AIs are really not annoying to have around unless you go with three stars. Like play how you want and all, but more folks to trade with and receive missions from can be nice.
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Eschatos posted:AIs are really not annoying to have around unless you go with three stars. Like play how you want and all, but more folks to trade with and receive missions from can be nice. Yeah, 3 stars just want the player to lose and do a good job of helping that along. I've never played too long with them. I tried and it was too brutal. Lady Hunt has the most brutal AI and she uses a bunch of tactics to kill you and sabotage you. Di silva just expands a bunch and has a huge military. Graves is just nuts and will declare war at any time. I wouldn't mind a season 4 with some new AI opponents. I hope the next anno has AI that dont cheat as much or at all, but I think they have a hard time programming that.
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Alkydere posted:Or, even better, just play the game without AIs. I would have if i knew i could disable them. I swear i clicked on their portraits and what not but it never disabled them like it does with the pirates, so i figured i HAD to play with AIs. Once i read you CAN disable them i had already spent about a month of game time and almost fully colonzed old world/new world. There is no way i was going to replay all that so i decided to continue playing with AI. I am not a warmonger so i didn't really want to blow them up but its infuriating how they could start to colonize in Enbesa seconds after i get the first island, considering how Enbesa docks requires resources only found in Enbesa, so i have had enough of the AIs and am going to build some ships and blow them up. vandalism posted:
I have found resource distribution a bit unbalanced. In the old world i have zero saltpetre, it only exists on 2 islands (out of like 20?) and both are AI starter islands (afaik, its their largest islands). There are copper on other islands, i meant that my islands have 3. The 3 AIs have a grand total of 2! In the new world i have 2 out of the 2 islands with pearl abundance. Just by chance as i just land grabbed like mad and didn't pay attention to all the resources. In the Arctic i don't have a single island with seal skins. I grabbed all the big islands, having prepared my ships with trade post building materials so i could immediately go there once it unlocked. I did ignore the itty bitty tiny islands though and it turns out that all the seal abundance is only on those islands. In Enbesa i almost missed out on lobster, a fairly fundamental resource. It only exists on 3 islands and those 3 islands were the islands the AIs tried to grab seconds after i got the trading post on the NPC island. I accidentally hit decline when one of the AIs asked to settle on the island so they went and settled on another one. Had i clicked yes i would not have had lobster at all. (Kinda weird that neither lobster, indigo or bee's are on the starter island, all 3 are needed to grow the houses) Ineptitude fucked around with this message at 11:26 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 11:15
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Just in case you can understand this (I can't see how it would be helpful but I'm probably dumb  )The complete Anno 1800 info page http://www.annolayouts.de/index.htm?lang=en
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Feb 18, 2021 16:30
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Saltpeter is only used for heavy weapons, one of the most useless supply chains, so at least you can ditch it almost entirely.
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Feb 18, 2021 17:29
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Ineptitude posted:I have found resource distribution a bit unbalanced. Yeah, sounds like you got screwed by a bad map unfortunately. It sounds like you intentionally let the AI expand, though, which you don't have to do. There are no negative consequences from declining expansion aside from -rep which you can easily counteract with flattery, gifts and quests. The lack of saltpeter is going to be an issue for making your own battlecruisers but you can just build ships of the line instead, they are arguably better anyway. Ships of the line have more guns but are a lot slower than battlecruisers, so SOTL for harbor bombing and battlecruisers for hunting enemy ships. You can buy saltpeter/heavy weapons for some battlecruisers if you want by setting your harbor(s) to buy it through the trade menu.
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Feb 18, 2021 17:41
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I got a legendary guy who causes my sewing machine and bicycle factories the spit out steam engines and heavy weapons and that part of the game become much easier when you can just ignore 2 whole production lines
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Feb 18, 2021 18:06
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Agean90 posted:I got a legendary guy who causes my sewing machine and bicycle factories the spit out steam engines and heavy weapons and that part of the game become much easier when you can just ignore 2 whole production lines I feel a lot of people stuggling with Anno dont take advantage of the items. Take for example the Actor, shes an inexpensive item that is frequent at the prison and quest rewards. But her benefit is absolutly huge, providing both Rum and Canned Goods to residents in range of a Variety Theatre. Use the asset viewer people. Look for items that can solve your problems or at least make your life easier. Yes, Chef Michael is one of the best items in the game. But depending on your island, you may not even need him.
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Feb 18, 2021 18:13
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In the late game I frequently get legendary ship items from sinking Anne Harlow's lovely gunboats. Sadly, the last time Chef Michel was available on Eli's I was short of cash. I can sympathize with people finding playing the item lottery tedious and annoying, considering that it mostly takes time away from the more fun aspects like almost anything else. Also really annoying: the items that increase the number of modules you can build next to farms (like fertiliser). Yes, they're very good, but if you've already closely packed your fields you have to trash them all and start again (something that would be more tolerable if you could do it while paused and/or just autofill a huge area at once). Precambrian Video Games fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Feb 18, 2021 |
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Feb 18, 2021 18:32
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I think the key is to treat the items as happy accidents and not try to go for them intentionally otherwise your just gonna go insane
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Feb 18, 2021 18:37
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Agean90 posted:I think the key is to treat the items as happy accidents and not try to go for them intentionally otherwise your just gonna go insane Well, that's where scholars come in. Alternately, I tend to leave a cargo ship parked at each of the AI merchant islands once I'm making a ton of money, and every half or or so go through and reset their inventories a few times looking for useful characters.
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Feb 18, 2021 18:52
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Eschatos posted:Well, that's where scholars come in. Alternately, I tend to leave a cargo ship parked at each of the AI merchant islands once I'm making a ton of money, and every half or or so go through and reset their inventories a few times looking for useful characters. There's also a few that are super common. The "Mole Master" guy who replaces expensive new-world beef with fish oil for tacos is super easy to snag from Isabella.
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The release notes: https://anno-union.com/game-update-10-release-notes/ Lots of good poo poo here, especially for UI/QoL stuff. Though I think people will especially like this for cosmetics: Open water buildings and Quay Street You can now build harbour buildings in open water. To connect them with the land and with each other if needed, we introduced a new quay street. Simply drag a regular street out on the water and it’ll automatically turn into a quay street.
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Feb 23, 2021 13:47
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Oh poo poo they actually tell you how often specialists give extra resources now started a new game, I thought the legendary guy from my last game who causes my sowing machine factory to spit out steam engines and heavy weapons was op, but honestly the guy who makes my brick factories produce steel beams while also cutting their manpower usage to 10 is broken in a much more immediate way yes I could use 400 workers for 1 beam a minute, or I can just skip the whole thing and make more for only 10 workers a pop lmao Then I set up the docklands to sell my absurd brick surplus in exchange for other poo poo I can use Agean90 fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Feb 24, 2021 03:00
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Agean90 posted:Oh poo poo they actually tell you how often specialists give extra resources now I noticed this! It was so obnoxious previously that you had if someone had "Occasionally produces geegaws" you had to check the wiki how many geegaws they made. Now it will say "Produces Geegaws 1/3"
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So Reddit has declared Docklands broken and for those of you that can do the math involved, it probably will be, but for math dummies like me, the challenge is just enough. Just got started with my first export dock, I'll see how it goes.
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So in Anno 2070, my dumbass tycoon executives are once again threatening revolt if I don't build an ICBM silo, and once again I don't see the point in building that entire chain that I otherwise have no use for. The last time they pulled this, I don't them to bite me and lived through the insurrection. This time, I've built that fancy persuasion emitter thing at the academy and sent it over to my tycoon island. How does it work, exactly? Just, click it once the ultimatum expires and the boss babies wet their pants because I won't build their penis replacement, and everything will go back to normal?
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Mayveena posted:So Reddit has declared Docklands broken and for those of you that can do the math involved, it probably will be, but for math dummies like me, the challenge is just enough. Just got started with my first export dock, I'll see how it goes. It's only "broken" at end game when you have every specialist you could ever want pumping out bonus end game items. For low level its a great way to either get a lot of base materials or just completely ignore an entire production line.
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Mayveena posted:So Reddit has declared Docklands broken and for those of you that can do the math involved, it probably will be, but for math dummies like me, the challenge is just enough. Just got started with my first export dock, I'll see how it goes. It's an 1800 DLC. Which of these wasn't broken: -Bright Harvest letting you vomit out fat stacks of farmer-tier products with reduced farmers so you can now upgrade more to workers and beyond? -Seat of Power letting you create a massive palace that vomits out more and more powerful effects as you go. -Botanica which is basically an extra zoo/museum but with super-duper powerful effects -*Waves wildly at Land of Lions* loving everything THIS does? Of course it's broken, it's an Anno 1800 DLC.
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Alkydere posted:It's an 1800 DLC. Which of these wasn't broken: Yeah, basically this and also the next two Season 3 DLC are focused more on consumption than production (tourists, skyscrapers) so we're going to get some nice new resource sinks for all of this extra production. Just imagine how much coffee you'll need to feed a Crown Falls covered in investor skyscrapers.
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On the other hand, considering what the trade value probably is, there might be a reason to actually mass produce advanced weapons to trade them at the docklands.
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Alkydere posted:On the other hand, considering what the trade value probably is, there might be a reason to actually mass produce advanced weapons to trade them at the docklands. I think it's advanced weapons and sewing machines that have the best trade value
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Agean90 posted:I think the key is to treat the items as happy accidents and not try to go for them intentionally otherwise your just gonna go insane Just spam millions at Eli and you can find most of them no problem.  
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The new world lady has Feras show up a lot too. Got three or four from her last game.
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Alkydere posted:It's an 1800 DLC. Which of these wasn't broken: Anno games aren't designed to be challenging in that way. The people complaining about it don't make sense to me. Maybe you could argue some of the very old games were challenging, but even those games mostly made you sit around and wait rather than providing actual challenge. Anno is good to just kinda chill and build up an insane empire.
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Cythereal posted:So in Anno 2070, my dumbass tycoon executives are once again threatening revolt if I don't build an ICBM silo, and once again I don't see the point in building that entire chain that I otherwise have no use for. The last time they pulled this, I don't them to bite me and lived through the insurrection. This time, I've built that fancy persuasion emitter thing at the academy and sent it over to my tycoon island. My favourite tycoon ultimatum is the nuclear power plant ultimatum, though. Anno 2070 is very german at this: Abolish Nuclear Power, go surface mined coal forever. Wipfmetz fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Feb 25, 2021 |
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Wipfmetz posted:I haven't used them in my recent playthroughs, but I think you used them BEFORE the ultimatum expires, i.e. while the mission is active. Oddly enough this rabid German anti-nuclear power thing was the most jarring turn-off of one of Netflix's best new shows, "Dark". The show is still very good though.
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Gadzuko posted:Yeah, basically this and also the next two Season 3 DLC are focused more on consumption than production (tourists, skyscrapers) so we're going to get some nice new resource sinks for all of this extra production. Just imagine how much coffee you'll need to feed a Crown Falls covered in investor skyscrapers. I will assemble the Flat Iron building bean by bean.
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Wipfmetz posted:I haven't used them in my recent playthroughs, but I think you used them BEFORE the ultimatum expires, i.e. while the mission is active. It's not letting me, says it can only be used when a protest is active. As for me, I have built neither nuclear nor coal power. Wind power, motherfuckers. (and a hydroelectric dam on the nerd island)
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Cythereal posted:As for me, I have built neither nuclear nor coal power. Wind power, motherfuckers. (and a hydroelectric dam on the nerd island)
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Wipfmetz posted:How do you consistently build electric damns? It does require some research module for construction which always took me long grinding sessions to find... Save up money, spin the wheel on Also I love that Trenchcoat has become a thing. He was the best dude in 2070, the best holgraphic ghost Last Will in 2205. And now we find out his ancestor gives you zeppelins!
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Alkydere posted:Also I love that Trenchcoat has become a thing. He was the best dude in 2070, the best holgraphic ghost Last Will in 2205. And now we find out his ancestor gives you zeppelins! Wipfmetz fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Wipfmetz posted:How do you consistently build electric damns? It does require some research module for construction which always took me long grinding sessions to find... You put them in the Ark from another save where you have an island covered in techs.
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Alkydere posted:Save up money, spin the wheel on This is how I've gotten every single prototype I need for that poo poo, yep.
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With the season 3 stuff coming out, gonna start a new game. Haven't played in a while, are there any mods that are useful? Also, what's the best way to get the really good items and people? I never had much luck getting them.
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A Proper Uppercut posted:With the season 3 stuff coming out, gonna start a new game. Haven't played in a while, are there any mods that are useful? There are mods for cosmetic stuff and increasing dock building area. The game has a few mods but I haven't used them much. As far as getting good items goes, sail to the prison island and check out Eli's inventory. You can hit the dice button to reroll what he has. This becomes very expensive very quickly, so I usually wait until I have a few million coins before I try it. Nothing worse than rolling a couple of times only to get the person I want but then not be able to afford them.
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