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Anonymous05/28/25, 10:43No.2051520anno 1800 is not perfect
I like this game but I feel like game can have too much content. When you can ignore about half of the game without any consequences I think there's something wrong with your game. At the end of the day it's subjective but I liked the scenario driven gameplay with 1404 where you had different challenges to accomplish. 1800 feels purposeless at times by comparison. There's no real challenge to city building with anno game design. You mustly wait for resources to pile up and build production chains. While satisfying it's not enough to be engaging just by itself.
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Anon05/28/25, 13:10No.2051644
Its biggest issue is fucking Uplay.
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Anon05/29/25, 16:24No.2052860
>When you can ignore about half of the game without any consequences I think there's something wrong with your game
precisely the opposite. that means you can build a city the way you like. you're not dependent on in-game mechanics, you're able to express your play through them in a variety of combinations.
The best RPGs do not require you to finish all the content to finish the game. They leave even more instances of content and to be discovered in subsequent runs. That is called replay-ability. You want a solved game that plays itself once you enter the right equation. But that is no play, that is using an algorithm.
Anno is very easily affected by this disease since it's a management game and like all management game analytical autists are draw to them like flies to Scheiße.
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Anon05/29/25, 19:54No.2053031
Are we talking base game or including all dlcs? Because looking at the add-ons they do mostly seem to add new stuff and mechanics that aren't necessary. Although even the base game have a lot of going on. From managing settlements on multiple islands on two maps, taking care of chain of productions, trade routes and keeping all suppliers in check, doing quests, fighting with pirates, rushing to settle new island before AI, doing the "choice your adventure" expeditions, looking for new items for zoo, museum and guilds, and so on. It's always something to do and at times ti feels like busywork.
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Anon05/29/25, 21:01No.2053117
I'm not sure what is bothering you with it.
While endless/sandbox was always the main thing in all games, aside from 2205 which was weird, the scenarios, challenges and campaign are always an option.
An the whole build up ever more complex production chains to reach higher pop tiers while facing off against the ai is the core gameplay loop. Optimizing it is the whole appeal.
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Anon05/29/25, 21:19No.2053143
What's better? Placing manufacturing buildings close to production buildings so raw resource can get transported directly into them and then to warehouse or setting one warehouse all for production buildings and another one somewhere away all for manufacturing buildings?
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Anon05/29/25, 22:19No.2053190
>There's no real challenge to city building with anno game design.
Play with Lady Hunt, The insane guy and the General (Di Costa is it?). Tell me if you get beyond workers.
Even if you play without enemies and decide that your trade routes are going to be perfect and all population needs are fulfilled (including luxury needs and bonus needs) on every island, Anno is the most difficult game you will ever play.
On top of all those mechanics, you then have to build a beautiful city.
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Anon05/30/25, 04:11No.2053422
Whole game is very muddled and suffers from crysis of identity. It supposed to be this intricate building wide on many iles to form supply chains to then have main ile without any industry just being fed imports to have investors
but no you just have 2 mega ilands and rarely need more than 2 off-ilands
and then you also have completely overpowered union items which allow to have any ferility anywhere and influence is limitless cos hacienda attraction degree lol
and then you can just do stupid shit like have specialists which give free pocket watches and grammaphones pand arty and champagne supplying whole mega island via dockyard importsI fell like there both too much bloat and not enough friction at the same time
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Anon05/30/25, 05:08No.2053464
No you can't ignore half the game. You get bugged to open up the other continents over and over. All of them have scripted quests and events that you have to play through every single playthrough. But you are right, the game is not perfect. It's actually much weaker than anno 1404. I hate the UI and we are getting more of the slop UI in their new rome game.
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Anon05/30/25, 21:53No.2054362
I genuinely feel like the game has too much optionality. It's hard to pinpoint what to do with the game exactly. I can't even decide if I want AI opponents or not. Do I win once I kill them? Am I playing a fucking RTS? If I continue after defeating them, why play with AI in the first place? If I don't want exactly am I going to do? Just build until the savegame gets giga bloated and starts crashing? When I am playing do I put high tax difficulty or low? Do I allow moving buildings or not? What's challenging about now allowing it? I'll just have to wait longer for stockpiles to fill. Money will become meaningless at some point after snowballing. And so on.I love the thought of playing the game, but I just can't find a reason to play it.
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Anon05/31/25, 12:59No.2054958
>build pretty cities
>square roads
Pick one and only one
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Anon05/31/25, 13:32No.2054983
For anyone that is deep into optimal layout autism, do you think that diagonal roads will be useful for more space efficient layouts?
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Anon06/01/25, 12:21No.2055989
started playing this game since it was on gamepass. problem is that its just the base game. ive played cities 1 a bunch and to me that game comes across as a version of cities without traffic altho i saw its more like an automation game in the endgame. is there any point trying the game out without the dlcs? since ill be missing out on some core aspects i think.
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Anon06/01/25, 19:21No.2056328
I end up having to reroll or restart too often trying to rush and claim islands so I don't lack the basic materials.
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Anon06/02/25, 24:08No.2056545
I've never built on crown falls it's too intimidating.
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Anon06/02/25, 14:47No.2056990
Why Is everyone reluctant to trade? I just buy stuff I need and don't sweat when missing some essentials.
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Anon06/02/25, 20:48No.2057304
I kinda wish the series would go back to its roots of early American colonization. Call it Anno 1512 or 1611. This said I also fancy Anno 1854 with archipelago version of pseudo-United States where you have two settlement types/cultures of moderate climate industrial Northerners and more tropical and plantation focus Southerners who hate each other guts and you need to balance between their demands or else they rebel. I don't think there's a lot of chance for such entry in the series but I think it would be cool. What's your dreamy era for Anno title?
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Anon06/04/25, 24:04No.2058322
>No land combat in the Victorian Age
Dropped
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Anon06/06/25, 11:36No.2060363
I only played 1800 so far. Convince me to play 1404/2205
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Anon06/11/25, 05:35No.2064604
>I like this game but I feel like game can have too much content.
I only play the base game and never feel this way.
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Anon06/12/25, 17:13No.2065892
Low res because 4K res fucks file size. Rough sketch for how I think I want to reorganize my current city.
