https://www.anno-union.com/devblog-cultural-crossroads-in-the-provinces/>decide whether your people become TRVE ROMAN CITIZENS or remain Eternal Anglos.
>>1830337>Anglo symbol is a limp swastika
gameplay fucking when??
>>1830337I actually like this.
>>1830401All they have to do is say "we want a sexy female Roman legionnaire" and they'd sell millions of copies. Instead they're almost embarrassed about it.
>>1830401If she is cute it's fine.
DAYUMNdidn't know anglos were that swarthy
>>1830408Can't believe she is #FFFFFE instead of #FFFFFF
>>1830408thicc brown mamasita for the plap plap plap doggyskinny ginger for the tight naked cuddles
>>1830408
https://archive.is/cfAlCApparently religion will play a big role and we may finally get land combat again
>>1830401ESGbux>>1830408>Anglo woman is a swarthoid mutt with a neck tattoo
>>1830401Because it's idealized version of the World just like in every Anno game. That's why there is no slavery in the series even tho realistically it should have a huge presence in all historical Anno games. Maybe less so in Anno 1404 but it still would be present.
>the Romans main focus was on peace Hm...
>>1830827To be fair, that's true. The Romans were so anti-war and paranoid about being attacked they horseshoe theory'd there way into conquering everything in sight.Gaul and Carthage mindbroke what was originally an arrogant but insular city state.
>>1830831Think before posting
>>1830831This is America invading Iraq in self defence tier reasoning
>>1830827Rome kept getting attacked though, they had no choice but to make a buffer for italy
>>1830842I support Iraq invasion tho
>>1830842It's literally how the Romans thought. Whether or not it is justified is irrelevant. I'm not joking about Gaul and Carthage mindbreaking them.
>>1830401I have a feeling more women play Anno than other games of similar nature. But this has nothing to do with women and all to do with Ubisoft being turbo gay, turbo bankrupt and desperate for that DEI score.
The history of Rome is basically>oh shit, Etruscans, we need to go to war to keep Rome safe!>oh thank the Gods, the North is secure>OH SHIT GAULS, WE MUST CONQUER NORTHERN ITALY TO KEEP ROME SAFE!>oh thank the Gods, the North is secure>OH SHIT CARTHAGE, WE MUST CONQUER SICILY AND NORTH AFRICA AND CONSOLIDATE ITALY TO KEEP ROME SAFE!>oh thank the Gods, North Africa and Italy are secure>OH SHIT THE GREEKS, WE MUST CONQUER GREECE TO KEEP ROME SAFE!And so on.
>>1830408>You make the barbarians whiter by civilizing themUNBELIVABLY BASED
>>1830408>tfw no incredibly cute redhead mercator waifu
>>1830889The conquest of greece and gaul was pure imperialism. They were an extremely warlike people before the latifundia and plagues turned them into medieval serfs
>>1830900I thought the Romans conquered Greece basically because they were tired of all the dumb shit the Diodochi were pulling on each other which kept causing them to get involved over and over
>>1830904They invaded first because the macedonian kingdom was getting uppity and to safeguard greek cities' independence, but that was just an excuse obviously. Then they marched to war and razed to the ground various cities Athen included after the asiatic vespers, killing everyone and every animal.
>>1830908It wasn't the first time Athens was razed, and razing Athens is just the decent thing to do.
>>1830401>women dont play anno gamesneither do N-people, but Enbasa was basically Wakanda
>>1830972I think people greatly overblow how wanked africans were. Enbesa was extremely mudhut tier, with scholars who obfuscated the truth of their own history, pirates who had destroyed the stability of the kingdom and peasants too stupid to unclog an enormous freshwater spring. The only real wank were scholars all being black, but every tier was represented by a singular avatar, so I think it's overblown.
>>1830401This is nothing new, 1800 is also full of cute women in men’s positions
>>1831483>>1830401I can accept this up to a point but the moment we see an uggo foid I'm dropping the series. There's the black airship chick in 1800's last DLC who's annoying but at least semi-cute. That's already pushing it.
>>1830401Stop being so fucking gay.I like to look at cute girls, I don't want to look at at just dudes for literally thousands of hours because it's """"historically accurate"""" for a game that pretends the entire world consists of tiny archipelagos.
>>1830908Why would they kill every animal? That's rude.
>>1830408ah yes. female blacksmiths
>>1830337>the romans are whiter than the angloshuh
>>1830891keki like to imagine theyre just taking care of themselves instead of sleeping in a swamp
>>1831983To be fair, they're not native Romans, they're Romanized Celts.
>>1831987yeah i just realized this after postingi wonder if we get other provinces or are we only focused on the british isles? i'd like different sessions
>>1831991There is the Latium region as well. I bet they'll have more sessions as DLCs, just like 1800 They'd be crazy not to do an Egyptian region.
>>1830401Anon, Anno is a game for German normies that happened to get popular internationally. But the devs will always pander to the target audience, which happens to be politically retarded German normies. source: am German
>>1832090guess why they made nigger scholars in 1800
>>1832090>politically retardedi think actual history is getting a bigger hit here
>>1831958youre a closet homo
>>1832391no u
>>1830408Which way white man? You can have your tatted up slag living in a mudhut or you can have your tamed gaul waifu living like a proper Roman
>>1832090the gameplay loop of these games is inheritently German. If you have a game that's about managing economies and production chains, it hooks the German mind. It's one of those stereotypes that's just true. It's like how niggers like watermelon or Jews like money.
>>1830337really, no fucking gameplay trailer just this shitty blog update??
>>1830408Top is considered a 10/10 in bongland
>>1831449>The only real wank were scholars all being blackI always assumed they were some sort of exchange student, hence the need for exotic goodsalso when you go to street level their models use normal skin color too
>>1830815i think the first anno 1602 has black female slaves who work the spice, sugar and cotton farms kek. it never explicitly said they are slaves but its implied.
>>1830408>AngloAnglos were still hanging around northern Germania at this time, that woman is a native Briton aka the celtnigger people who got eventually btfo by Germanic Anglos, Saxons and Jutes.
>>1831449>I think people greatly overblow how wanked africans were.could you translate this into american?
>>1833893People act like the african expack, land of lions, was extremely pro-africa/black, but in reality, it highlighted how backward they were and that the only reason to go there is for their rare resources, which mainly consist of spices and food.
>>1833308I mean it effectively shows braindrain. The best and brightest moved to europe. The scholars behave perfectly gentlemanly and not even snooty iirc.
>>1830401Fink wants diversity and braindead coomers are there to support it
>ANNO>SASSO
>>1830408>wader, my son>you are man now>you must choose wife and have children>will you choose beautiful smith and preserve our local way>or foreign mercator invader
>>1830408>roman way>pale thin redhead>local way>tatted up fat slag fresh off the tanning bedNailed the bri'ish experience.
I like futuristic ones desu
>>1834097I genuinely liked the faction mechanics of 2070. Having to choose between solarpunk tree huggers and dystopian industrialists was a great addition.
>>1834117Yeah I really enjoyed it. And the underwater stuff too.
>>1833401wait, britons were med?
>anno 1800>interesting era, age of industrialization and switch from sail to steam, sunset on age of piracy, etc>ton of interesting stuff, research, loot, etc>interesting alternative history stuff>the only thing missing was the ability to tell the queen to fuck off and proclaim independence.I feel like Anno peaked with 1800 for me personally. I have a hard time imagining Anno 117 can top that.
>>1831916It took me a while to figure out airships because I turned off the tutorial as soon as Amelia Nighart popped up.
>>1834117They were good. It was perhaps a little too easy to minmax, but the idea was a good one.
So I decided to try playing Anno 2070 because I got the itch to build an underwater base but I don't want to play Alpha Centauri or Beyond Earth.WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? Why am I building robot rice plantations? Why am I colonizing an island to grow nothing but veggies and why do I not need people? I just want to build at the bottom of the ocean what the fuck.
>>1834547If you just want to build underwater then have a look at "Surviving the Abyss".It's a resource-management base builder with no enemies. EA and probably soon to be abandonware, though.
>>1832437We used to do this in real life, but now we have so many laws that it's impossible to do anything and its just more fun in video games. I actually work as a fiber planner and getting shit done in games is decidedly more fun than real life where a majority of the work revolves around pandering to bureauRATS.
>>1830337>>1830367>>1831983>>1830408>>1830803Celts, not Anglos. Anglos hadn't left their homeland yet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeln
>>1834433Crazy that a game made in 2018 by fucking ubisoft was not just good, but the best in a long and storied franchise
A dozen hours in on a new save, time to make Crown Falls less shit.
>>1835326
>not a single trailer at gamescondamn how far is the release? early 2025 at best?
>>1830900Gaul absolutely was not imperialism, in fact the invasion of gaul was quite controversial as the Romans didn't want an empire or a standing army for that matter. You conflate the transition from Republic to Empire with the Empire itself. During Caesar's time, the Marian reforms were still a generation old and everyone over the age of 30 could remember when the Roman army was a civil service not a profession.
>>1835329
>>1835448
>>1834117Same, and I say that as a very hardcore anti-global warming denier. I felt both sides were not only handled respectfully, but that having both working together in the endgame was peak citybuilding. 2070 won me over completely, and you'll never see me complaining about any aspect of it besides the FUCKING DAM GACHA.What I really want from a Rome Anno is the Roman pops eventually needing goods and services from the Barbarian pops and vice versa. Not just "Rome wants British copper and dyes", but "Rome can build a Colosseum, which has several different types of games and some are enjoyed by Romans while others are preferred by Barbarians; and the Roman military needs Barbarian auxiliaries to function at peak efficiency" and so on and so forth.
>>1835451Managing multiple regions will be optional in Anno 117 because the devs want the game to be easier for casual players, and you'll also be able to choose which region you start in. Since the Mercators require import goods and the Smiths don't, that means you'll be able to do everything with just Smiths (and their higher tiers), and they'll never require anything from the Mercators or from Latium. The same will be true of whatever population is in Latium, and the split population mechanic is only in Albion.
>>1835451>my fellow romans, without barbarian auxiliaries Rome will not survive
>>1835451They actually did a good job at not making the industrialists cartoon evil. The guy at the start of the campaign was pretty one dimensional evil but he gets fired a few missions in when his stupidity causes massive loss of money and life.
>>1833401This isn't true. British ancestry wouldn't be what it is today without all the ingredients. We think of previous civilizations as this pure homogenous bunch of people but they were just mutts before us.
>>1835449
No dedicated 1800 thread so I'll ask here. Does anyone have a campaign map seed where Ditchwater has wheat and hops? I like the starting island
>>1835812i didn't even know there was different seeds for ditchwater, come to think of it I think I always traded with a second island for the hops
>>1835526Considering how well received lifestyle goods was as a feature in 1800, I wouldn't be surprised if latium residences had lifestyle goods that need to be imported from albion so it rewards players who step out and set up industry there
>>1835851I swear I had a roll where ditchwater had wheat + hops, but that was versions ago and I've been getting peppers no matter the settings. Oh, well guess ill just use the union items
>>1835574That's historically accurate though. The Roman Army was very auxiliary heavy.
>>1835856you might be right, hard for me to remember but if I recall there is a close island that is good for whatever else you need to get to engineers other than the new world
>>1835647What level of cope is this?>Tycoons>literal Ministry of Truth>it's a corporate dystopia>eat burgers and plastic>+low space usage>+military>+coal extraction does not require a mine>+strongest eco balance buildings>-can not actually improve eco balance>Ecos>dumb hippies>drink tea, eat sushi, pasta and iPhones>-military>-huge space usage>-use up slots>+can actually improve eco balance
>Caesar 3 + friends>buildings just use money to build>residence upgrades are free>pops travel to the map and contribute to work force>sequels made nobility residences separate, so your workforce doesn't just disappear>nobility numbers are way lower, but pay lots of taxes>Anno>buildings use materials to build and upgrade>pops materialize in, ready to pay taxes>completely different from the workforce, and whatever mysterious power runs the actual production buildings>higher tier of pop are always more numerous, so you have cities that are 75% "ruler" classI'm not saying I want Anno to be Caesar 3, but there has to be some kind of middle ground here, no?
>>1830408this was literally made with AI jesus christ it looks so awful
Which Anno to play? I dipped my toes in all but 1800 but want to know which one mechanicaly is the best, most well designed one of the bunch.I've got 1701140420701800
>>1836650Whichever one got the most DLC, duh.
>>1836650Can't speak for 1800 (because vulcan shaders on Linux introduced a bug that only affects this game and I'm too dumb to downgrade only them), but:2070 >>> 1404 > 1701
>>1836654but muh expansion packs
Not terribly happy with the potato farms, maybe I should scale down the schnapps production and mix up the fields a bit. Still better than the normal grids I usually do.
>>1836709Nah, just plant potatoes everywhere. What's the worst that could happen.
>>1836650I've played 1602, 1701, 1404, 1503 and 1800.I'll tell you 100% it's 1800 for me, the mass production mechanics and multiple sessions are handled the best.Also i'm a pirate chad that used empress before, unfortunately she's absolutely fucked in the head so no more cracks, but you can do the same thing i did is buy 1800 base and use ubi dlc unlocker like i did to get all dlc for free
My almost 1m pop save
Some industry still left on falls, also i kept the AI's alive to keep me company but beryl is non stop begging to kill her.Retarded bitch is surrounded by several warships and has 1 tiny small island with maybe 300 pop vs 1million and keeps war declaring non stop.Mid way destroying her port??UHHHH i'll sue for peace!! But only if you pay me 200k, damn the ai is so retarded in this game
>>1836721>buy 1800 base and use ubi dlc unlocker like i did to get all dlc for freeWoah based, thanks. Multiplayer works with it like with creampai?
>>1836781haven't used any mods or multiplayer, just played on my old save from release 2019 empress crack lmao.
>>1836709will they ever drop grids?
>>1830408>female blacksmithkekinb4 black senate members or something similar
>>1830408>becomes whiter by joining med civilizationVargbros... how do we reply to this
>>1830815>That's why there is no slavery in the series2 characters in 1800 are escaped slaves
>>1830408>fat welsh monsteror>10/10 demure beautyChoices, choices
>>1830408>tier 1 man>tier 2 stronk womynwhat did they mean by this
>>1836731The Iron Tower with the ni- scholars looks pretty decent, I might steal it. Looks a bit odd with the oil cisterns just outside their windows.
>>1837069All coastal stuff is bloated as fuck, crown falls despite such size has really small harbour area.Should propably rebuild it all down later
>>1836987Think the avatars have worked that way for some time now, alternating every other tier. Happened in 1800 and 1404 anyway, don't exactly remember 2070 or 2205.
>>1837188Actually, population avatars were all male in 1404 and 2070. I haven't played 2205, and the wiki is pretty barebones so I can't speak for it, but it would make sense to introduce gender equality in a futuristic setting.
>>1837443Were they? I was thinking about it. I guess it was just some of the buildings had female avatars? I'm pretty sure apple orchards were women, am I crazy?
>>1837447I'm pretty sure the buildings didn't have avatars until workforce was introduced, so you might just be crazy. Maybe you're thinking of the people on the ground? I think the cider orchards had a woman stomping apples in a barrel.
>>1837188I remember tier 2 in 2070 being a nig
>>1830405That's the thing isn't it. Nobody will actually care that much if she's cute. Like >>1830408 and the whole conversation is people thinking the roman girl is cute and the issue is only that the made the anglo ugly.And anno games had female and non-white characters since they have had characters so this isn't really like a sudden influence of wokeness that people are on on guard for.
>>1837443Not really. Gender equality ruined civilisation. Women must become property once more.
>>1836709Test. Maybe do something like this on the plateau instead?
>>1837729Been rearranging, keeping a house attached to every farm.
>>1837932Cider stall by an apple orchard.
>>1837729l>>1837932Very beautiful.Shame u need mods to build like this.Biggest shite is you cant place orchard plot like farms instead u gotta do those retarded circles
>>1837729>>1838066Thanks anon, I appriciate it. Doing the gardens/backyards of those worker residences made me think of doing something flashier for investor residences. And thank god for mods.
>>1837729Are you using two different mods to replace the electricity poles? Because I see both Jakob's lights and the Spice It Up lights on the roads
>>1838272It's certainly possible. I added mods from nexus and later from the in game mod browser when that was released and I'm too lazy to clean the mods up and crosscheck.
I really like the different sized factories that Jakobs has put out.
>>1838546Grape producers are richer than potato farmers surely.
6 hours muckin around
>>1841082What mod are those big grey commiblocks to the left of vanilla artisan houses?
>>1841087Military mod. I need to clean up the barrack area
>>1841261Thanks anon
>>1841261Here is a quick cleanup shot of it. I need to get in with the decor and spruce things up
>>1841289Old Town WIP
More work stuff.
Subway/Railcar Production hub
Industrial done for any production that can be built on Crown Falls
>>1841615That's a well developed industrial hellhole.
Finally started on artisan quarter, but now work for eight hours and then sleep.
>>1845672I'm thinking of using artisan terraced residences as walls around the island. I do believe I have to start an artisan nursery now.
>>1846443
>>1847191
It's becoming increasingly likely that the next Anno will be cancelled and the studio sold.
They should've named the game Ammo.
>>1848524Tfw no Hanno 450.
>>1835448Some high rollers have to look out of their window and see plebs across the way fucking their sisters and putting sausages in their eyes. Nice plaza between them though.
>>1848555Thanks, I have been considering mixing the different tiers more, for instance switching the cousinfuckers out for strong powerful womyn (engineers).
>>1848569All memes aside that's really good. Creative mode or are you playing the game?
>>1848573Playing the game but with the production cheat set at x4 and no AI. I could play creative but menus are all fugged, my autism doesn't like when things are different.
>>1848580Oh yeah I remember getting put off by the menus being different too. Quadrupling your production will bring problems of it's own but it will give you more space to build (parks) in so that's a nice compromise. I haven't played Anno since December but I'm getting the itch.
>>1848582Cute island, I should've gone for something like that to start out with instead of Crown Falls. I rotate between a few games, the past few months it has been Anno. I have to figure out some huge plaza with skyscrapers and skyline tower, and other monument sized buildings.
>>1848590Yeah Crown Falls always breaks me. It's just too big. You can make a kino Central Park on it though if you have the national parks DLC. Don't give up!
>no new blog update for weeksman these cunts are super early in dev
>>1848590
>>1850030I tried to use the steampunk cosmetics. It went so so.
>>18308151404 had Arabs, no? Pretend Ottoman/Mamluks. 1404 shouldn't be any different except a lot of the slaves would be white.
>>1852195What bothers me about a lot of the cosmetic packs is that they aren't cohesive with the other ornaments in the game. So if you want to use them, you have to set aside an area for just that cosmetic pack. And then they give steampunk skins to the investor residences, church, and university despite the fact that you'd never normally build those together, and don't give skins to the member's club or power plant which the investors do actually need.
Anno 1800 gets a permanent storage slot for me. Never uninstalled.
>>1852781It would be nice if they had road options that would mesh with the steampunk cosmetics, I suppose I have to wait for modders to add it.
>>1830337It's pretty well established nowadays that the idea of 'Romanisation' was a mirage, so I don't really get why this is being made.
>>1852970The games will depict the Roman Empire as consisting of many small islands, too.They are using the name "Rome" this time when they previously avoided using the real names of real-world states, but I don't think that's down to increased historical accuracy. "Rome" just is a much bigger draw than a pseudo-Rome with a fake name.
>>1852970>It's pretty well established nowadays thatOnly in your head.
I hate how ugly and large the hotels are. It's a headache trying to build them in any island not Crown Falls and making them fit the panorama
>>1852970>Jane Webster – In her paper “Creolizing the Roman Provinces: Processes of Social and Cultural Change in the Roman Empire” (2001), Webster discusses the idea that Romanisation might have been a mirage, advocating for the use of the term "creolization" to describe the cultural blending and hybridization that occurred.I'll creaolize your bussy
>>1853350>>1853146>>1852970Romanization is a "mirage" basically means it wasn’t just Romans forcing their culture onto everyone they conquered. Instead, it was more like a cultural mashup, where locals actively contributed to shaping the new blend (like Romano-Brits, Gallo-Romans). Also, Romanization didn’t happen the same way everywhere; different regions mixed Roman stuff with their own traditions, depending on their elites and local situations.
>>1853326Fortunately there are mods that include hotel variations, including small ones like in this screenshot>>1848569Several of those nicer buildings around the plaza are hotels so they feel much less intrusive.
>>1853357When we talk about romanization we talk about non roman people being forced to live in roman-made infrastructure and rely on roman civic logistics at the expense of their old methods. We talk about forceful adoption of roman beliefs under threat of crucifixion. Yes, the romans would frequently adopt ideas from conquered populaces as a way to manipulate them. We already have a word for this process: syncretism. They did it with the greeks, with the gallic celts, with the north african and middle eastern cultures and with the britons.What you're referencing is just a piece of bad academia espousing truthisms in the hopes of selling old ideas to a new buyer. Boxing with shadows is the hallmark of someone just trying to peddle bullshit.
I have a question for Anno 1800.It's currently on sale and I wish to buy the base version then pirate the DLCs, are they preinstalled or do I have to fetch them myself ?
>>1854358The fuck, just buy the whole package retard.
>>1854369so instead of 14 dollars I buy 80 dollars worth of dlc ?
>>1854358You use the ubisoft unlocker whatever it's called
>>1854565yeah I'll probably do that, I heard elsewhere all dlcs are preinstalled like total war. Also fuck this piece of shit launcher blocking me because I don't have the proper password, needed a lot of resets
>93 GBYeah it BETTER have all the DLC bullshit installed wtf
>>1854565creamapi? does it work with anno 1800?
>>1854749UplayR2Unlocker
How bad is the Ubisoft account thing? I'm tempted by the sale on Anno 1800.
>>1855889It's as annoying as any second account login after Steam, really.>lost access to my e-mail without hope of recovery>while having 2FA on>probably can't play R6 or any Annos or Assassin's Creeds or any other Ubi game, anymore>will need to message support to transfer my games to another accountCan't be fucked.
How exactly does attractiveness from nature works in 1800? Can you regain it if you delete stuff? Read somewhere that cultural items make up for the lost attractiveness rating
>>1856072You get it from any tile that doesn't have anything built on it, and also from any items that increase the Visitor Pier's attractiveness for some reason. You get more attractiveness per tile from most ornaments, though. The real sources of attractiveness are cultural items, Docklands, and abusing the items that give buildings attractiveness. The common trick for unlocking the final Hacienda policy is to build a town hall with a Beatific Bishopess slotted in it and then cram as many chapels as you can into the radius.
>>1855936What about stability? I remember when that shit first appeared it was always online DRM and the servers went down all the time. That still the case or did they actually fix that aspect?
>>1856089You can play in offline mode, but you still need to connect occasionally (though that could be because of the Denuvo).
>>1855889I play Ubisoft games using their launcher without steam, it's just a launcher like steam.
>>1856095So you can't get into a situation where in the middle of your single player game it cuts you off because their servers are down?
>>1856119I'm not that anon, and I'm just giving anecdotal evidence, but I haven't had a problem to play Anno ever. The only real issue I've had is when the launcher cause windows to send up an alarm ("do you really want to runs this program?") two three four times in a row before the ubisoft launcher is accepted for another few months.
>>1856119No, that's never happened. I've only been in the situation a couple of times where the game refused to start until I put uplay into online mode
>>1856081Ah, ok. That's why I see people spam the temperate grove for that little bit. > The common trick for unlocking the final Hacienda policy is to build a town hall with a Beatific Bishopess slotted in it and then cram as many chapels as you can into the radiusSounds gamey as fuck jej but i'm kinda starved for influence as is. I'll give this a try along with the hacienda residence bonus
will Anno survive what is happening to UbisoftAnno Devs get in here and answer me you nazi bastards
>>1856547There are hacienda ornaments that give you a fuckton of attractiveness when used compared to old world ornaments. They are walls and fences too so it is nowhere near as gamey as the bishop trick. Also don't do the bishop chapel thing the bells will break your speakers and ears.
>>1834117Pretty sure you pick one at first and the other one shows up way later
>>1830337>>1858819>>1848517>>1830888Hahaha, say goodbye to your funny, Trade Router Logistics Franchise, /vst/.
just means its going to launch on steam and actually sell.
>>1858819Yes, because bluebyte is a good studio and ubisoft is just their publisher.
>>1859150I thought it was ubisoft Mainz. Mainz is always a little cunt without fail in EU4 as well.
>>1858907let micro buy them i wanna playtest this shit on pass
will i still be able to play my anniversary editions on my ubi connect?
kek
I hate orchards, why do they take up so much damn space
>AnnoActually, I was considering buying one of the older titles (they're on quite big sale btw.) on GoG. Which one was the best one? I remember playing 1602 and 1503 as a kid
>>1830831>militant pacifistsThe only way pacifism can work, anyway.
>>1866429>put off buying the game(s)>power goes out in explosive fashion>sale ends tomorrowwell, shit
>>1866897Nevermind, they fixed it overnight.
>>1865500Trees need a lot of water and space for their root systems and canopy. You can't put trees too closely together or they will not produce fruit reliably.
>>18664291404 AKA Dawn of Discovery is the best 'classic' style game.2070 is a near future game that is very good.1800 is probably the best Anno game they've ever made and takes place in the late 1800s with a dash of fantasy elements.
>>1867171>with a dash of fantasy elements
>>1830401Because women exist. A "realistic" depiction of history wouldn't even include all men, because most of them were worthless and powerless manual labourers living hand to mouth and spending as much of their time as they could afford drunk off their tits because it was the only thing to do before television. History, in the sense of people with actual agency, is only a tiny, tiny sliver of human experience.Nobody bats an eye when you elevate the promise of a male labourer to something that, realistically, he never had. But if you do it to a woman...I think most men just don't want to confront the fact that even in the modern era, they don't matter. They cannot see that the way women are being artificially elevated in games equally applies to the men, and that the behaviour is no different, because to do so would be to recognise that we're all getting fucked by the bosses and always have been for all history and still are. If there's a cock up your ass that you can't take out, the best you can do is ignore it, right? Anything that dispels the illusion has to be destroyed because the problem itself is intractable.Workers of the world unite etc. etc.
>>1866429>>1867171>leaves out the best Annongmi newfag
>>1870882Ah, I see, so you the player aren't Julius Caesar, so Julius Caesar can't be Julius Caesar, he has to be a black woman, because black women exist.Is this what passes for reasoning with leftists? Cells of the brain, unite.
>>1867343There were black people in europe in the 19th century, yes.>>1870885pic unrelated
>>1870886They're not making Julius Caeser a black woman, though, and it has nothing to do with you the player.When they choose to use a man to represent "Workers" in Anno 1800, that is elevating a working man to a prominence he did not have in the actual 1800s in the exact same way that they would be doing if they chose a woman to represent workers. In reality, both the men and the women were essentially irrelevant actors with no agency and neither of them mattered. They were both equally worthless and equally dispossessed.You will now post some intersectional bullshit about how ackshually women were treated worse than men and men had more agency without realising that you are making the exact same argument that liberal academics do. In reality, measuring the inches of oppression at the bottom is irrelevant compared to the miles between us and the elites. You use those inches to justify positioning men over women, and liberals use those inches to justify positioning women over men, but the correct position for both of you to adopt is a sort of soup-like homogenate that can be easily distributed over crops.
>>1870927>instead of subverting sexual hierarchy they should correctly represent class struggle!!How about both flavours of leftist ideology go to hell instead?
>>1870952I didn't say either of those things you fucking retard. The Anno games are fine. What I said was that you're a fucking moron who doesn't recognise his own hypocrisy.qq moaar.
>>1870905>leftoid hating on the best anno gameMakes sense
>>1870905It's just funny that the black people are the smarties in Anno 1800, when Enbesa are nothing but small-minded retards. It took me a long while to figure out what the King Kang meant when he talked about "Mighty Enbesa!. "Wait, is he talking about these desolate islands filled with superstitious idiots?" Worker pops in the old world have more drive and intelligence.
>>1830399jews and as you can see by the replies everyone is a fucking retard now die zoomers.
>>1871007If you zoom into the actual scholar buildings, the streets are mostly whites. It's just the avatar choice. Does the engineers being represented by a spectacled woman bother you too?They show in Enbesa that africans are incredibly backward and tripping over their own clannish ignorances, continually benighted until you show up to fix their shit.You're very ineffective at being racist, find better targets.
>>1871802Suck my balls, nigger. Nobody wants fucking lectures.
>>1830401anno always had this, and it has nothing to do with selling to women it's about having an interesting setting
>>1830972how is enbesa wakanda? it was a shithole that just recently discovered irrigation
>>1871007they're not, if you actually played the fucking game you would know that the deal was that you get access to enbesan resources in exchange for educating their students (this happens when your empire almost invades them and you have to secure a peaceful solution) the avatar is the guy who suggested the whole thing originally, he gets made the head of your new university and thus he represents them with his iconas usual you screeching retards don't play games
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>>1871911then you can't read? how the fuck did you miss the enbesa quest? did you just skip through it?
>>1871940Yes, there is a character. Then the same model is reused with a reskin to represent the scholars. Didn't you play the game? Besides that, m'xir troon, I don't really care if your feelings are upset that I find it funny that retarded negers are supposed to be the most enlightened ones in 1800.
>>1871946i get it, you cant readits fine
>>1871976Likewise, xir.
I hope this game survives the ubishit downfall
>>1872243It doesn't look like it will. Tencent wants to shut down the studio.
>>1872256my dad works at tencent and says you're a gay retard
>>1872243same, i am hoping they break free and become their own thing
>>1872256Just convince the new Chinese overlords to let them make a Chink focused anno game. West Indian trades and all of that.
>>1872243If they put black people anywhere on the marketing they are pretty much doomed.
>>1874116Well, judging by the latest screenshots that has Black Britons, they're doomed.
>>1873838The fact we got the fucking arctic and Ethiopia instead of India or China/Japan was a huge ball drop honestly.China & Japan (especially Japan) were both fascinating historically speaking in the Victorian era and would have fit perfectly alongside adding a fuck load of complex luxury good for late game. You could easily have a similar Land of Lions plot with the standin Japanese/Chinese Empire fracturing in a Satsuma Rebellion/ Boxer Rebellion type situation and having one of their lesser leaders bother you for help industrializing.
>>1876191cmon bud you KNOW they can't put china in a 19th century mod, because of the implication(OPIUM WARS LMAO)
>>1833223she looks kind of un-bong thoughbeit
>>1876191the chinese really really hate that century and anno never allows controversial stuff in it
>>1876191Japan would've been a good one, the late 1800s were a time of major reforms for japan and your company could've been brought in as a western advisor
>>1873838If they make the next Anno "Anno 9"(which they really should), they'll probably make it based in ancient china since they can't really do rome twice in a row.
>>1877657Oh that would be cool. Instead of the player being the foremost 'civilized' and technically savvy faction you're the student. Spend the game trading goods for technology, money and diplomatic power, eventually choose a great power to get into bed with, end the game by conquering one of the other great powers. FotS but anno.
>>1874230>black britons This can't be real.
>>1877718Don't worry, it isn't.
>>1867343Exists to make the resident portrait's all look different from one another.Female farmers and engineers are unrealistic but exist to add character variety.There's nothing wrong with this unless your a fag who hates variety lol.
>>1830337Too bad we'll never have a good space anno game since it'll be turning into mobile game trash once the chinks take over ubisoft.
>>1830401You know back in those days romans used to boat in african warriors from the continent to help fight some of their wars and impregnate their women
>>1830831>they horseshoe theory'd there wayAre you still in middle school?
>>1830831>>1830889Based Romans.
>>1878130Counter point: Farmers and especially Engineers are really fucking cute and this nigga is not even funny or endearing like the Investors and Workers. The only other bad pop characters are the Artistas.
>>1836335Is the AI in the room with us right now?
Thoughts on the China mod for 1800?Also RIP the map editor, not updated since last year
>>1887486The China mod looks very impressive. From the streams we got, though, the Magnate mechanic looked pretty worthless. People said as much, so hopefully the modmaker retools it before release.The game hasn't had a major update in a year, so the map editor doesn't need to be updated.
>>1830408>anglo is an ogre>roman is qtAccurate
>romeslop what is it with le heckin' roman empire, shit is like marvel for incels we'd better get a decent future anno after this
>>1888086it's the we wuz of all western civilizations anon.
>>1888086They did two future Annos consecutively before 1800, they weren't gonna go back to it that quickly.
>>1887530I still wish they added the other maps. My autism can't bear having the same island in both OW and Trelawney.
where are screen and gameplay video of Pax Roman?
>>1830842Yes, it's extremely based Fuck gauls, fuck Carthage and fuck Iraq
>>1834336No, but Britons and Iberians shares a ethnic linkWelsh people have jet black hair frequently
Are there new screenshots from the new Anno game yet?
>>1888069There is no anglo in that image, why do you retards keep calling celts anglos?
>>1892972inheritage
if anno 1800 let you build outside of the grid (and maybe let you choose a few different shapes for various buildings and roads) it'd be close to a perfect gameas is it's so goddamn square. fucking 90 degree turns on your railroads
>>1898763Trains in general are complete shitThough to be fair, it's hard to come up with a use case for them when goods and people are capable of teleportation
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3274580/Anno_117_Pax_Romana/
Damn, I didn't even know there was a new Anno game under development.I know it'll never happen but I pray for the day that uplay dies a violent death.
>>1904261pretty
>>1904261I like medieval settings more than 1800 industrial.
>>1904569I hold the opposite opinion.
>>1904569>>1904597I like both.
>>1904569I really really really like both of them. I just didn't like the african stuff in 1800.
>>1904796Africa and the Arctic both sucked
Wew, the thread is still up after several months. Maybe I'll start posting a few screenshots again in a week or two.
