ANNO 1404

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Ordered the CE chest after having my mouse pointer over the buy button over the last few days.

Should arrive by 1pm 2moro with any luck (or so the site says), loved the demo and just thought "what the heck"
 
But for a goats farm I need to be allowed to use the orients stuff and apparently my "diplomatic level" is too low, how do I increase it and get access to there stuff?
 
willhub said:
But for a goats farm I need to be allowed to use the orients stuff and apparently my "diplomatic level" is too low, how do I increase it and get access to there stuff?
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Buy scrolls from the western trader for honour points.

Take scrolls to the oriental trader to gain reputation and get access to buildings.
 
Heads up: There is one online store selling the collector's edition. It looks real nice :) :
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The Collector’s Edition, packaged in a large and majestic wooden box, includes:
• Anno 1404 on DVD-Rom
• A 72 Page art book
• A unique panoramic poster
• An old fashioned compass
• A bag containing 6 almond seeds
• An exclusive bonus DVD

Originally, I was going to wait for the game to drop to below £20 to buy. But this collector's edition is well worth £30 :)
 
Inazuma said:
Heads up: There is one online store selling the collector's edition. It looks real nice :) :
24e75lc.jpg

The Collector’s Edition, packaged in a large and majestic wooden box, includes:
• Anno 1404 on DVD-Rom
• A 72 Page art book
• A unique panoramic poster
• An old fashioned compass
• A bag containing 6 almond seeds
• An exclusive bonus DVD

Originally, I was going to wait for the game to drop to below £20 to buy. But this collector's edition is well worth £30 :)
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hehe i guess you didnt read the full thread see page 2 , its already been posted and plenty have bought it .. :)
 
Got up to having 1k Noblemen and about 2k of the upgraded Nomands (whatever they are called) - and managed to get 100k in bank via selling stuff at my warehouse ... and then it all went oh so wrong.
Started running out of dates ... then milk ... then bread .. and by the time I'd sorted all that out my economy was ruined and I was bankrupt more or less

So have quit that game, will start a new one tomorrow :D

Corsairs managed to sink 4 or 5 of my "flag ships", and a new one is 3.5k to buy from the Lord dude :(

However I did discover that coffee and carpets is awesome for profit via selling; and that you get gems for hitting 1k honour.
It seems for best results you should build both the Nomad and normal settlements on same island (as the Nomads give you extra ascension rights). Equally you need to build a settlement using 2x bazaar areas to get enough upgraded Nomads to let you have lots of Noblemen.
This game is about 3x as complex as 1701 ... UBI have done an amazing job :)
 
VaderDSL said:
Don't you mean related designs and blue byte have done a good job ;) Ubisoft only published it :p
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Ubisoft own 30% of Related after they bought out Sunflowers (who owned 30% Related and published all the previous Anno games)
Blue Byte are also owned by Ubi.

Interestingly the original 2 Anno games 1602 and 1503 were made by Max Designs .. who I suspect were part of Sunflowers as well.
 
rypt said:
Ubisoft own 30% of Related after they bought out Sunflowers (who owned 30% Related and published all the previous Anno games)
Blue Byte are also owned by Ubi.

Interestingly the original 2 Anno games 1602 and 1503 were made by Max Designs .. who I suspect were part of Sunflowers as well.
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Bah humbug :D I was just nit picking :p
 
Interesting development: The price for A1404 here in Germany has just been drastically reduced by one of the largest retailers (don't know if I can mention the name here, but MeMa should make it clear some.

In just a few day from the original 49€ down to 39€, with further reduction possible. That's massive. I talked to the sales staff, and apparently they find it hard to shift, the copy protection is just keeping most customers away. Seems they're wising up.
 
I'm up to over 1m cash now, it's just rolling in. Managed to optimize my resource buildings, and finally moved my colony to a new island for more space, so I'm now on about 16,000 income and 11,000 spent, meaning 5000 profit :D I gave up with building a Sultan's Mosque, as I just don't have enough space to get the required envoys. I thought it'd be about 3000 Envoys, but you need over 5000, I think.

Make sure to keep the AI as allies, at least at the start of the game. There's nothing worse than someone killing your trade ships and stealing the resources off them. If you have a large trade ship carrying 75 of each building material, you've lost about 10K if that dies, and that's 10K of materials that goes to an enemy.

Note that after I got to about 100K cash, I quit selling anything, all my money comes in from my noblemen and envoys now. I'm now making a "military island", from where I'll then set about killing everyone else. Only one of them has any defenses, and they only have walls and a couple of towers, so it should be a cakewalk. I need to kill them anyway, because they're lagging up my map, due to a bug. There are only about 30 houses on their island, but there are literally thousands of people all stuck in the marketplace, and everytime I even go near her island, it lags to hell.

Oh, and make sure to let in any beggars. They are the ONLY way to get more envoys if you can't build any more houses. If you build alms houses, the beggars don't cost you anything, and the extra citizens/patricians/noblemen really help. Although I've turned them down a couple of times, and I've never seen them come back as bandits, like the game says they will.
 
Bought it this afternoon played 4 hours now non stop but allot the time for example my iron ore mine and stuff constantly harps Goods cannot be picked up. Is it because i dont have enough storage or cart men?

Also spice farms I finally get a nice island in the south and it says its not fertile :(
 
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