ANNO 1800

Been playing this all weekend with my son and its a great game, had some issues where it pops up saying its recovering data and re loads to the same place to stop desync, guess these will be worked on.

The gameplay seems really quite indepth and games last for ages lol

I have a n artisan city currently and making over 5k without any trading, settled on a couple of islands to grow the different crops required for beer etc.
Snaps seems to need a lot of farms and distilleries to get any where near what they need.
Pre ordered the game and looking forward to it now.

To anyone needing a key dont forget to look at post 60 where you can get a free key yourselves, i see all codes have gone from that link. The beta ends tomorrow (monday 11pm).
 
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Looks very promising and a move away from the last Anno I played properly 2070, reminds me more of playing banished especially now they are letting you setup fields yourself instead of the pre rendered ones from 2070.
 
Is anyone able to highlight the main differences between 2070/2205 and this one from what they have experienced so far?

It looks like they've re-introduced some of the complexity that was removed in 2205 so would be interesting to know what's changed, unless it's too early to say just yet?
 
This is more a updated 1404 than 2205 and such. Same theme where you build up tiers of people but overall seems more polished and more stuff to do
 
Quite liked it, didn't understand the trade union and harbour building that gave influence. And you could put items in slots. Not sure if I was doing something wrong or it wasn't included in the game yet. Didn't notice any increase in work rate.
 
Spuj said:
Is anyone able to highlight the main differences between 2070/2205 and this one from what they have experienced so far?

It looks like they've re-introduced some of the complexity that was removed in 2205 so would be interesting to know what's changed, unless it's too early to say just yet?
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I played it briefly after realising a friend had emailed me a beta key. Changes I noticed were:

Population tier workforce are required for different buildings. In 2205, which I'd forgotten they'd done it, they had population as a resource. Buildings needed x number of people to run. In 1800, certain buildings will need say 20 farmers (tier 1) population, more advanced buildings will require tier 2 population. This means you can't just make, for example, a tool island to pump out tools, because you'll need houses on that island. You also can't just place down lots of Tier 1 houses, because part of the productiion chain will need Tier 2 population to run.
Maps are bigger, island size is probably on the scale of 2205, but map style is like 2070 - i.e. multiple big islands,
Looks like it's now max 4 player, but small factions - think hector and people who don't settle don't take up a slot AFAIK,
You can no longer have multiple people controlling the same party, you have play as a different character and be allied with them by setting the tea, but you won't be able to touch their stuff.
There is a new/old world aspect - I didn't see this personally, the way my friend described it sounds like the new/old world plays how 2205 did different sectors
There's a wind direction giving a speed boost to ships
Influence areas of building seem bigger
Farms can now be 'drawn' in 1x1 grid squares to a max of whatever size it required to max out the capacity of the farm
Happiness has changed. Certain resources don't seem like they're required to upgrade, but keep happiness up - beer for example.
You can influence your settlement using a Newspaper event.
Not sure how transferring good works, I couldn't give my mate some wood from my boat. In the end i dumped it overboard and let him pick it up
Music wasn't as good IMO, but that's subjective. And I really liked the 2205 and 2070 soundtracks, so I'm probably biased :p

All in all it seems interesting. As a game i think 2070 was still the best. As for less modern themes, I think 1404 was better. I actually went on to 2205 after playing 1800, I was bored, mostly I think because of the flipping in/out of different sectors :(
 
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@loftie that's some really useful feedback, thank you for taking the time to write it down.

I love the Anno games however the first I played was 2070, so I'm probably going to pick this up so I can experience playing the game in an older setting, and if there is some good complexity and some changes (which it sounds like there is) to it then it will be good to play.
 
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