Anno

This game still looks good desu senpai. I remember playing this on an athlon dual core and 4870.

How do I get gud at 1440

Just find a layout/build guide and you're good too go.
Prioritize building your secondary island quickly to make it produce tools.
Hold off building in the orient ti'll you have plenty of supplies.
Don't get too build happy as too much buildings eat too much taxes.
Always produce surplus and trade either by selling them in your warehouse or by making a trade route to dump them in AI warehouses, fish is a good early product to trade.

I wanted to like 1404 but the tiny landmasses killed it for me. I wanted to build huge cities but never had the room.

Banished was never an early access game.

It's sort of a cross between Anno and Dwarf Fortress.
You'll want to play mostly vanilla first, but I recommend the Time is Money mod, it's just a small mod that moves the speed/pause buttons.

There are options for giant islands. They're pretty big, I think I only filled one of those exclusively with houses once or twice.

Play the Continuous game. There's an option to select Huge Island and Easy Construction Difficulty in the option.

Now that I see my old screenshots I realize I was wrong. They're not that big and I've one of those every game I played. Well a mod that adds continenal-based trading and makes the whole map land would be cool.

sci-fi setting > historical

You can build a big city if you set the island size to large. Just try not to clutter it with production buildings.

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2070 is pretty good, but 2205 was too easy.

>tfw just having a continuous game all by yourself

At least let a beauty accompany you, bruv

>that pirate scenario
Anno 1404 is so underrated.

I would if she would stop stealing all the orient islands.

>Anno 1404 is so underrated.
Dont most people say its the best? I'd say 2070 is underrated

really wish there were more pre-modern Anno games

what ages havent been done that would fit anno?

take it further back maybe? remake the really older settings? introduce more asian elements? idk i just need more anno in my life but the futuristic stuff doesn't quite hit that sweet spot

Ancient Greece, pre-Classical to Classical eras. Explore the Aegean Sea, colonize the Italian coast, control Sicily, fight off the Mycenaeans for Crete.

I was thinking of this maybe, but that's kind of weird since the series name is Anno and you're talking about BC there

THE EMPEROR WILL HEAR OF THIS!

Does Classical ANNO China or ANNO Russia or ANNO New World would be good idea?

wouldn't building an alms house mitigate it

also he should be thankful you let beggars in, it made him a nobleman!

Anno is really just Year. Could be used to describe whenever.

Would have to change it to Archon or something. Although Anno: Archon doesn't have a great ring to it.

>tfw 2205 is shit

Not exactly. For pre-Jesus years you'd have to go into negatives, and Anno -500 would never fly

of course it would, but they whine anyway. noblemen are hilarious.

>ships bringing in bread, beer, wine, meat 500 tons at a time
>they devour it all in less than a 5 minutes

WE NOBLEMEN HAS SOPHISTICATED TASTES
MAKE US EYE GLASSES RIGHT NOW SO I CAN SEE MY FUR COAT BETTER

Oh right, didn't get what you meant.

this game has the best main menu theme ever made

What is Blood & Gold: Caribbean?

Is Deep Ocean expac worth it

It probably has the best soundtrack ever, full stop.

absolutely, if a bit over priced. also arrc mod is great.

I'll wait for it to go on sale then

>banquet for his majesty starts playing

is banished any good I actually bought but only played like two minutes and then forgot about it

YOUR WATER SUPPLIES ARE RUNNING OUT

my gripe about 2070 is how late you get the secondary group

also I feel eco is much better to play than tycoon due to being able to reduce imbalance easily

I've never planned an anno game but the image in the OP post has me interested

Which game in the series is that in particular?

Can somebody give me a tl;dr about what the games are like/why I should be interested?

looking on wikipedia,. there's en entry in the series called 1503. I have a huge boner for precolumbian america stuff (maya, aztec, etc). Can I do stuff as a native group/using their artectural style, or purely as yurop colonizers?

I've played vanilla a fair bit and I wouldn't recommend it.
It's alright for the first session if you enjoy watching your ants slowly alter the world from wilderness to village.

It's just that there is no depth and even amongst other similar sandbox games: No point.
The AI is stupid and annoying to a point that it kinda forces tragedy and disaster in how it stockpiles.(Say you have ten houses, enough food for all, the first eight will reach the granary first, grab more than they need to survive to stock a surplus. The remaining two houses just die).
This is easy to work around by just recognizing how large a storage surplus you need.

Which then is where the tedium lies. You can't do anything very quickly because you need about 85% of the population producing the 115% or so of the town's resource consumption at all times. Usually more, but micromanaged on and off later on if you use the seasonal farms.

Of the 15% population you have left there isn't anything to pursue.
Bridges and roads and tunnels use up more material the longer they are, and then are built all at once. They're the biggest resource dumps and even at the end of that they're tiny single lane things.

I haven't tried mods but I am mildly familiar with them.
If you're to play Banished at all, fuck vanilla. Just get as much shit in the game as you can the first time, it's the only way it'll manage to last.

P.S. Make sure you ALWAYS have some villagers on the 'spare' assignment. They fill up other roster jobs as the people holding them die, and serve as general labour in the meantime.
The reason this matters is for only one job: The teacher. You want your children educated if you can, they join the workforce a couple of years later but work more efficiently as a result.
If you have one teacher teaching ten students, the teacher dies and his position is not IMMEDIATELY(drafted from the 'spare' labour job, player action after the fact is too slow) filled then you have 10 permanent failures.

Anno games only ever let you play as Europe. Game in the OP is 1404.

It certainly doesn't appear so.
Which is a shame.

I'd love a Mayan/Aztec civilization sim like the Caesar games or Pharaoh.

>why I should be interested?

if you take joy in logistics and keeping e-plates spinning you will LOVE these games. they're all about colonizing islands and setting up a vast trade network to meet the needs of the populace with as much efficiency as possible and to keep everything running like a swiss watch.

i fucking hate ubishit, would've bought anno 2070 since i like it pirated, but while uplay is there: nope.

Ecos are generally better, but they suck at centralized production because muh ecobalance and no source of cheap electricity. Fully upgraded solar towers are the shit though.

anyone else just play with little conflict? like, you turn off aggression for pirates/corsairs and put alliance or treaty?

yeah I guess to balance their ecobalance is electricity, but I thought the thermal plant is good enough to mitigate it

It's not that hard user. I can't play shit like paradox games but I went in this game without any difficulties.

>anyone else just play with little conflict?

all the time. playing against the ai or people is fun, but i love to chill out and build enormous trade networks. it gets really fun when orient and occident really starting blending together, the oriental large traders are glorious.

Thermal plants are only good early game. Late game it's usually massed coal power plants/solar towers/centralized nuclear power + energy transmitters.

Thorne did nothing wrong.

technically speaking both sides didn't do anything wrong since you both cooperate

and even then FATHER is a good guy in the free game mode

That's less insane, 2.0 version.

>tfw no Cyberpunk Anno

I like Anno but I'm sick of water. Can't they make it sand or space?

If you find it for a few bucks, it is worth it.
Personally I got bored of it after the first two rounds, so ~15 hours.

Mostly because there is absolutely no goal at all. Once you make it past the point where you don't have to struggle for survival anymore it becomes rather trivial and repetitve

>no enemy within themed strategy game where you further and further change your people to overcome an external threat, and in commentary of human society's failings by the end of it you try to have a conversation with your once bright and varied council, but they've all been nigh-lobotomized into servile specialists

In the end you kill yourself out of despair and your creations cannot function without you, leading the the extermination of both species.

Try Colonial Charater mod

>want to play the more recent annos
>they have also been on sale for acceptable prices
>but they all require UCancer

Ucancer and at least in 2070's case, install on a limited machine count.

I really don't know why the fuck they keep doing it. I simply can't believe that this nets them more customers than just dropping all the insufferable DRM.

Ubisoft are fuckos, more news at 11.

Still though, at some point you'd expect one of them to go
>You know the thing we have been doing for years now and that is really hated by our customers? Maybe we should stop doing that.

1404 is not hard to get into because it has a excellent Story mode which always acts as a tutorial in the Anno game. Just pirate it famalam or wait for a sale and buy it for $2.

bought on steam, refunded and kept the game files. lol.jpg

which is weird, because I remember Dawn/1404 to have uPoo, but then it got removed and returned without it

You could try Guild 2, similar to Anno but focused on merchant family rather than city.

Also 2205 sucks dick, 2070 would be alright if it wasn't for mandatory ubishit.

1404 was before it's time

Isnt 2205 becoming great once you get to colonize the moon? Thats what I read in all the German reviews.

I would be alright with that option, too.
If they really think they need all the cancer DRM, just release it that way to make sure no one pirates it at release.
But then please remove it after a year or two. At that point it does nothing but keep away costumers that might be interest anyway.

>because I heard the learning curve of Anno games is steep as fuck.
You wot
They're really straightforward

The moon is pretty much just the exact same thing, just limited to craters and the stupid meteor safe zones. Atleast the arctic has the heat thing that makes you build in a specific way. The moon is just Meteors.

yeah I forgot about that, but didn't it have some form of DRM or something? That's why it was removed from Steam for a while

I enable pirates so my giant fleets have something to do

1404 used to have tages with an activation limit. it was patched out literally years ago.

All Anno games are the fucking same.

Played one, and you've played them all.

so it was that then

Can somebody recommend a strategy game set in no particular time, that has farming or resource gathering and controls little people, that isn't Stonehearth (still in early access) or the Sims ( had enough of sims)

I meant I had enough of the Sims.

settlers

Pharaoh or Caesar III

Diggles.

Dorf Fort
Rimworld
Cultures
Settlers
Banished
Russian Banished knockoff
Timber&Stone if it's not dead

What about one of the Anno games, could one of these scratch the itch?

Guild series, literally any RTS, or you could try the new life is feudal maybe, if that's any good ( I have no idea what exactly the game is and if the first one is good but it looks to be in similar vein)

This. Diggles were awesome back in the day.

>Russian Banished knockoff
elaborate

Remembered playing the demo waaaay back then and liking everything about it.

Too bad I couldn't find the full version.

I don't remember the name, just that it was a game that looked just like Banished down to the UI, with more features or something
I'll try to find it

Brown bunny girl.

Got it
Life is Feudal: Forest Village

Pale-ass nurse with purple nipples

These are the two I made while I was fucking around with this thing.
Hope you like.

FUCK ME WRONG THREAD.

Might want to check which tab you're posting these in, bub.

>Having to refill norias every 5 minutes

Why isn't 1404 moddable so we can get rid if this garbage

>tfw you preordered 2205

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>preordering ubishit or any other big titles
>preordering ever
it's fucking retarded, they bait losers like you with 'exclusive' stuff to have guaranteed money no matter how badly it bombs once the reviews are out. Same with funding indie/kickstarter projects with shady people involved.

Thanks for the cards anyway senpai.

It is, and it is fixed.

I got a refund

They had a simple, winning formula and they just HAD to change it into some casualized dumbed down bullshit that takes away most of the fun that I have playing those games. Anno was the one exception that I had to my rule of not buying Ubisoft games and they just had to fuck me over for that. Fuck you Ubisoft, just fuck you.

Don't beat yourself up user, there's criminally few bunny girls out there, so make sure to spread 'em

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Is this cm3d or AA2?

Certainly aint either. I think it's illusion's newest thing. Honey something.

2D isometric Annos best Annos
3D Annos are literally pleb tier

>Local library had this game on CD
>Rented it and downloaded
>Game can be played without CD

>I heard the learning curve of Anno games is steep as fuck
it's literally not

the game has a great tutorial guiding you along as you play a normal game and is very, very forgiving even on regular settings.

Or put it on easy if you're scared

Those were the days

Get Patrician 3.

Based library.