Anno 1800

Blazin said:

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- Lots of gameplay that seems to work around Items you place inside buildings and ships but they seem rare to get unless you focus quests/fighting.
- A pause mode where you can queue orders would be helpful. There are times that you don't need this but once you expand to the new world there can be too many notices all at the same time and it becomes cumbersome
- the wind direction mechanic is a nice detail, but it doesn't seem to really add anything to the gameplay and should probably be nixed.
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- Regarding the items, it wasn't obvious to me, but late in my play through I discovered that all of the non-diplomatic panel NPCs (the ones on the small islands with the interesting architecture) sell items and people. You can even pay money to cycle their inventories so you can fill all the slots in your townhalls/guildhalls/ships pretty easily once you're making big money.

- I was definitely yearning for a pause button at times that would still let me scroll around the world and evaluate things. Something similar to how Oxygen Not Included works where you can rapidly tab through the game speeds and pause with space bar would be awesome.

- I thought the wind direction was totally unnecessary as well at first, but when I hit the beta "late game" I changed my mind. I would have big naval battles going on, and would need to pull in reinforcements from trade routes and choose attack directions, the wind definitely effected my strategies.

Also, PSA: Beta Extended to Feb 5th

iirc there are 5 or 6 tiers in the release.


I will have to check on the steel thing. Pretty sure it was beams, as I had a steelworks right next to the mine and other production and the storage right across the street.

Tarrant said:

I'd love to get a code for this if anyone knows a way to get em.

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Uplay name? Supposedly I have 3 invites for people on friends list, but not sure if it works or not.

I saw a few people get riots on their streams even with police. They never seemed to have a problem with worker numbers or jobs, but I did notice a lot of them loved to print fake newspapers, which maybe led to people eventually rioting. Though the riots didn't seem to do much, just started up , lasted maybe 5 minutes between 2 houses and then the police put it down.

Game is good for $20. Nothing more. Its a nice relaxing time.

Blazin said:

CB is now over, there will be an open beta right before launch in April. I'll probably just play it a ton during the open beta get my fill of it and be done and never have to buy it. Or maybe buy it much later at 75% off after a bunch of DLC

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I think the '75% off after a bunch of DLC' is the right approach for this one.

I too played the closed beta. Gorgeous and fun game, but definitely not worth $60.

Dandai said:

Would you say it’s worth checking out for someone that enjoys city builders but has never played an Anno game? One of my favorite games of all time is Caesar 3. Pretty big fan of Tropico in small bites.

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Any Anno game is worth playing if you've never played an Anno game. The problem is the lack of difference/innovation between different Anno games.