ANNO 1404

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Seem to have it cracked now, the tip about taxation was what did it for me.

Turning over just over 1,000 gold pieces, with a population of ~5,000 :).
 
Another quick tip. It may seam like a waste of honour but buy some of the attainments that give your NPCs more trading ships and greater budgets. I always have something like rope makers ticking away nicely and the NPCs can buy a lot. When you get cannons and maxed out traders they can buy up to 50k per load if they buy all cannons. VERY handy for getting you out of a rut where you have positive income but very little actual capital.
 
Have run out of space on my cyder/hemp island :p

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Will be a long time before I get cannon, have purposefully not ascended anyone to patrician yet, have a population of 5,000 with 4,500 of those being citizens.
 
Sweet. Remember too if you have a lot of space of an oriental island you can build up a settlement nicely there. I mean you need the bare minimum of orientals to get your spice and glass later on, but they are easier to please then peasents. And when you get envoys you can have more patricians from citizens then would otherwise be possible, allowing higher tax rates and denser populations.
 
Dunno how people get populations of over 30k (quite a few on youtube), must take a fair old while..Going to take the plunge and upgrade one house to Patricians now...

Er is there anyway to force a building to get stock from the warehouse? I have a mosaic workshop sat next to the warehouse, it has 5/5 clay in it and won't pick up any quartz, so won't start producing...
 
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Indeed, we'd have to know where your other quartz quarries are in relation to other production buildings needing them, or warehouses. Tbh its always a nice idea to backstock a few dozen of raw materials before you start using them! Gives a little leeway.
 
platypus said:
Dunno how people get populations of over 30k (quite a few on youtube), must take a fair old while.
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it takes some doing if you concentrate on Occidental only, both in time & effort. i'm at 35,000 pop, 2Mill cash, 10,000 net income all in Occidental society. the demands for staple & luxury goods takes some satisfying. the only way i could do it was to take over the entire map. which was entertaining.

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Coo' Vog, how do you do that? I did think that by taking someones warehouse you'd take the island, but it didn't work, how do you beat the AI, take over every one of their islands? If so that would take ages.

I've run out of space and I'm badly in need of another island for a city, and resource production. I've got 5,000 patricians, and need one more tannery before I can promote anymore. Oh and have started to lose money again :p.
 
Bought this the other day and tbh its a total change to settlers :o

Though i do find i run out of money quite quick & fail :(
 
platypus said:
Coo' Vog, how do you do that? I did think that by taking someones warehouse you'd take the island, but it didn't work, how do you beat the AI, take over every one of their islands? If so that would take ages.

I've run out of space and I'm badly in need of another island for a city, and resource production. I've got 5,000 patricians, and need one more tannery before I can promote anymore. Oh and have started to lose money again :p.
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You buy out the council on the islands. If the AI is nice enough and you're sweet to them it wont even unally you. Buy out the council on an island gives you that island and all the resources on it. Once the enemy has few islands left, or critically I've found, no occidental island, he will give up and leave.
 
Theres an option, assuming its enabled at the start. When you click on the enemy warehouse you get the box pop up at the bottom right of your screen. To the LEFT of that box there are tabs on the side. One is the trade tab, and one is the council seat tab. You buy council seats there which are more expensive depending on the size of the island / settlement. You can only buy the occasionally (its on a countdown), but the frequency of this is alterable by attainments. You need to buy 3 different seats then you can buy out the settlement by clicking the option in the center.
 
Is this a Venice add on option? Or the original? I'm allied to someone who's island I've got my eyes on, but don't recall seeing anything to that effect!
 
I find I lose money too fast- is this just because I dont build enough houses?

Playing through the campaign atm.
 
sammo62 said:
I find I lose money too fast- is this just because I dont build enough houses?

Playing through the campaign atm.
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I used to find that, its all about controlling ascension through taxation and what have you, keep them happy but not euphoric so they pay more tax and only ascend when you're ready.
 
platypus said:
I used to find that, its all about controlling ascension through taxation and what have you, keep them happy but not euphoric so they pay more tax and only ascend when you're ready.
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Yeah I've managed to reduce my costs a lot with this method but I still find it near impossible to be in the net positive. All my profit comes from selling Rope/Glass/Weapons/tools to other islands.
 
Keep it up - as you progress you'll need to start selling LOADS of materials (I have 999 storage on my main island and regularly dump 200+ ropes/linen/weapons on the AI players). If you think its hard at the start, it begins to get really hard to stay in profit as you go on.

In my current game I'm losing ~500 "regularly" at the moment, just lucky in that I have 500k banked.
 
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