ANNO 1404

VaderDSL · 6 Jul 2009 at 22:03

Love this game

if an AI colonises an island, can you establish a warehouse at the other end? or are you blocked alltogether.

ALso I am stuck on the attainments, not entirely sure what they all mean, so far I have figured out I need the attainments to increase the social level of items and goods I can buy from the AIs.

Do people when they establish a presence on a new island build loads of warehouses to cover the entire island then go from there with the buildings or do you expand in phases?

IN 1701 I used to build warehouses all over a new island, but in 1404 it seems less effective that way. ALso the supply chains in 1404 are great

so much more detailed than 1701, this is a reason to get it over 1701.

Nieldo · 6 Jul 2009 at 22:17

I started a new continuous game, medium settings with 3 medium AIs. Managed to snag mysself some decent islands at the start.

On my main island I just expand as normal, dont bother with putting warehouses all over it, it usually fills up pretty fast anyway.

On the first island I made a beeline for I put about 4 warehouses up just to make sure I reserved the space, its going to be my bread and beer factory.

Then I settled a desert island, I dont like the way you need to make buildings for nomads, they are a totally different culture, why would they want to come and live on your island. Anyway at least you dont need to progress them past nomads to unlock all the orient factorys.

Ive noticed grapes fertility on some islands, I took my people to noblemen stage on my last easy game before starting this one, I didnt see any requirements for grapes.

eekfek · 7 Jul 2009 at 13:58

well my CE box just arrived, ordered it late yesterday afternoon , installing ...

the chest is actually really good, smells of old wood and leather ! compass is v heavy for its size with metal engraved inlays ... now lets hope the game is as good ! :eek:

joffy · 7 Jul 2009 at 15:56

I'd like this game, but as I'm planning to get Win7 when released, will have to wait so not to use up one of the 3 installs limits.

TheSwede · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:00

joffy said:
I'd like this game, but as I'm planning to get Win7 when released, will have to wait so not to use up one of the 3 installs limits.

Can't you work around that problem if you have more then one harddrive/partition and install the game(s) on another part then the OS, and after doing a new install of Win7 in October just make a new shortcut to the game? Wouldn't that work and you would still have access to all your saved games and still have 2 more installations left? Obviously it would depend if you can change your destination drive during the installation of the game, which only the people that has installed it already can tell us?

platypus · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:26

D D Danneh said:
Pff, I'd got over 2000 Noblemen, 1500 Envoys, a historic warehouse and a cathedral. Now I'm back to 200 noblemen and no envoys with no monuments.

How? I've only just started playing mind and am trudging through the campaign at the moment.

cHk4 · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:34

With out reading the whole thread... What type of game is this? Like Civilization ?

Thanks

VaderDSL · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:43

It's kinda like Civ 4 + Sim City + Age of Empires, kind of

Vanilla · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:50

Love this game. It's taken me hours and hours to get even to copper mines!!!

VaderDSL · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:53

Vanilla said:
Love this game. It's taken me hours and hours to get even to copper mines!!!

I'm pretty certain I've got it nailed on Easy up till the third or fourth level, positive cash flow, 4 islands, now I'm in the process of moving all my plantations to separate islands, transporting them back to the main island where the manufacturers will use the goods being brought. I'll have some decent sized warships patrolling the shipping lanes for protection, although I have been paying the corsairs recently.

Psypher5 · 7 Jul 2009 at 16:56

Got the Ce, well ordered

D D Danneh · 7 Jul 2009 at 17:35

Nieldo said:
Ive noticed grapes fertility on some islands, I took my people to noblemen stage on my last easy game before starting this one, I didnt see any requirements for grapes.

I haven't used grapes myself, but I do know that as you satisfy their needs, Noblemen and Envoys gain new ones, in exchange for much increased cashflow. When I got to Noblemen I was at about -200 cashflow (with 100K cash

and building 2 monuments). After satisfying just a couple of their "additional needs" (coffee, fur coats), my cashflow went up to over +1300.

Most likely the grapes are one of the additional needs for the Noblemen or Envoys later on.

It is annoying when corsairs manage to kill some trading ships though. I noticed that they ONLY spawn at their island, yet I set some warships to patrol outside their island, and they still managed to destroy some trading ships. Is there any way to get warships to guard trading ships? I know you can make them follow, but they don't attack until the trading ships are weak. Unless I set two warships to every trader (expensive :eek:

), the corsair ship always destroys the trader first.

Snaggle · 7 Jul 2009 at 17:56

Gave into temptation .. Just ordered CE box hehe

Persil

Nieldo · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:10

D D Danneh said:
It is annoying when corsairs manage to kill some trading ships though. I noticed that they ONLY spawn at their island, yet I set some warships to patrol outside their island, and they still managed to destroy some trading ships. Is there any way to get warships to guard trading ships? I know you can make them follow, but they don't attack until the trading ships are weak. Unless I set two warships to every trader (expensive ), the corsair ship always destroys the trader first.

Theres a setting for the warships I think, aggressive and defencive, default is defencive so maybe if you switch it to agro it will attack them as soon as they come in range of your ship, not tried it so it might not work.

rypt · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:25

Bah, I'm one of those people that always wants to have the island set up perfectly and I always get annoyed when it looks wrong

So far have re-started a game twice because my harbour area did not look as "cool" as I wanted it :/

willhub · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:41

Should this game be able to run maxed at 1680x1050 on my rig? Seems a little laggy for me.

Snaggle · 7 Jul 2009 at 18:43

demo was smooth as for me ...not tried full version . But i know the "crack" is very laggy

Persil

Silent UK · 7 Jul 2009 at 19:13

eekfek said:
well my CE box just arrived, ordered it late yesterday afternoon , installing ...

the chest is actually really good, smells of old wood and leather ! compass is v heavy for its size with metal engraved inlays ... now lets hope the game is as good !

Any chance you could post a better picture than the above one of the chest?
Just I'm about to order and thinking of treating myself

eekfek · 7 Jul 2009 at 20:00

Silent UK said:
Any chance you could post a better picture than the above one of the chest?
Just I'm about to order and thinking of treating myself

here's some shots off the N95, not great but you can see the dimensions i suppose ;-

Langlest · 7 Jul 2009 at 20:06

i just took some too but it looks like im too late

ill post them anyway cos you can never have too many pics of something