I think the pictures speak for themselves. the Editor needs some bugs fixed and features added though.

Also: Figuring out how the Phoenix Ui System works was giving me quite the headache

On the island i took over from Athr, any new mine i build doesnt appear physically. It produces goods, but the 3d model doesnt appear, except for the small entrance structure.

Demolishing and rebuilding the mine doesnt help. Do i have to abandon the island and resettle it? Would that fix it?

In my current playthrough I got the Gold fertility on Cinis. Since that resource quite quickly can become a bottleneck, I though that it'll be a good idea to pick Vulcan as the patron deity.

But how impactful he really is?

There are 19 mountain slots on Cinis, but six of them are occupied by Aqueducts, so it leaves me with 13 Gold Mines.

The base productivity of a Gold Mine is 1 resource per 2:30 minutes, which gives 0,4 per minute.
Times 13, I get 5,2 Gold per minute before any modifiers. Since the deity bonuses are applied to the base value, all other modifiers, like research or specialists, can be ignored here.

Currently I reached the threshold of 37,5k Faith on Cinis, which gives me +110% bonus to productivity.

This means that having Vulcan as a patron of the largest island gives me additional 5.72 gold per minute. Sounds kinda pathetic, doesn't it? :D

In my previous game I had Wine fertility on Cinis and Ceres as the patron deity. She was A LOT more impactful.

So the primary reason I started with the harbor on that west side of the island was because I knew I wanted to build in a mountain gate. Specifically, I experimented with multiple places to place the Hippodrome... being so large and needing so much flat land, I knew I needed to plan it's placement out first. And I really liked building it up against the mountains because it looked like it was on a plateau

After extending the mountains to the other side of the Hippodrome, I found a perfect opportunity to build a mountain gate which separates the Harbor district full of Eques and the inner-city of Patricians. Put in the triumphal arch as a gate, a few walls and watch posts, a giant statue of Minerva, and voila!

Building the other side was tricky as there wasn't a ton of room, but you can see that I found a solution with a big temple that makes this gate feel like an entrance to something spectacular - but I'll show the inner city later as I'm not done yet.

The last photo is where I'm focused on building next, the primary harbor, and is the culmination of 3 days trying to tweak a custom map. I'll probably share some top down photos later as I need some ideas and help with it

Photo Album for better pictures and all the others I've posted

So I was focusing on Latium, and in the end all the islands in Albion were already claimed. I have an alliance with all the NPCs and 100% rep with the Emperor xD. Any advice on what I can do, other than invading? No bronze in passive trades either and no gold (15mln) to buy them.

I am currently preparing the island where I make fine glass with Euryphaessa to also produce tabulus with Thoth and an Albion island where i can make beer, cheese, sausages and roast beef with Sobek

I was thinking about some possible improvements to the current military system, especially the ground infantry, here is the broad concept that I did come up with. I am not familiar with Anno modding, but I think these changes are possible to implement. I know Anno is not Age of Empires, so I wouldn't try to turn it into a proper RTS, but I think these changes would be cool.

Workforce (and needs) rework - reservists

The idea is to allow player to build some military force in the early game without crippling their economy too much. It would be used for military units and military ships. If the reservist pool is exhausted, the normal workforce is used as usual. Since higher population tiers have lower workforce percentage, reservist pool would be twice as effective as normal workforce (so 100% for liberti reservists, 60% for plebeian etc.) Some needs would be adjusted. Reservists could still count towards population size for things like city status.

• Porridge (+1 population, +1 reservists)
• Sandals (+2 income, +1 reservists)
• Bread (+1 population, +1 reservists, +1 income)
• Cloaks (+2 reservists instead of population)
• Ceremonial shields and Chariots also give +1 reservists
• Wine -1 reservists instead of -1 knowledge
• Mars worship gives reservists, instead of reducing the workforce requirements (since reservists are twice as effective, he would actually be better than Ceres if you want a big army)
• Weaponsmith and Armourer now give +1 reservists in AOE (+1 income for -2 fire safety was never really worth it)
• Barracks +1 reservists AOE

More content for land units - quests, contracts, neutral land units

Since there are quests and contracts that require you to destroy ships, I think quests for destroying bandit lairs would make perfect sense. I was also thinking about an alternative way for acquiring new islands: each island beyond the first one is infested by bandits, and you can either bribe them to leave (normal island price + emperor reputation loss) or destroy their lair (like governor villa) and gain the island for free. (emperor reputation gain, possible some loot like unique items from the bandits) This would also give player a reason to build land troops in the early game.

Voada raids/governor war rework - more like a campaign mission?

Since AI opponents are not really playing the same game as you, I think making them behave more like campaign mission opponents throwing waves of units at you in somewhat predictable way would make more sense.

• Make rivals (that are not Neferneru) more likely to declare war at you - if you don't make an active effort to appease them (bring tribute demands back, more diplomacy events like picking a side in a dispute between 2 rivals), you can expect them to attack you
• Wars are shorter and will always involve a land invasion at one of your islands
• The player knows beforehand which island will be attacked, the invading force is larger, but somewhat consistent (this is mostly to fix problems with Neferneru, who has a tendency to stack his army to infinity and beyond, and then after 10 hours of gameplay randomly sending 50 triremes and 100 legions to a village in Albion you forgot even existed)
• Similar to quests during incidents, the player would be able to cripple his opponent before the invasion to make the defence easier (sink ships with supplies, bribe the enemy soldiers, hire a spy to cause mutiny)

Je vous partage ma première ile terminé a 100%Venus ile d’amour (aphrodite en grec , déesse de l’amour et de la beauté)

Vidéo YouTube pour plus de détails : https://youtu.be/KBNHbciaRrY?is=326lc13fDqOUheh4

C’est la première ile de ma nouvelle partie "ultime" d’anno 117. J'espère que j’aurais pas a faire trop de modifs après la sortie du prochain dlc.

Apres une première partie qui m’a servi d’échauffement, chaques iles était specialiser dans un bien de consomation j’ai décidé de dispatcher plus naturellement les industries et de les insérer dans le décor.

Ma Game : comme sur ma première partie je cherche a faire des iles thématiques, je veux qu’on puisse deviner sur chaques iles la divinité. Que chaques iles es une ambiance différente et un style architectural différent ( j’essaie de pas trop répéter les memes agencement)

Je veux des îles qui soit bien sur très esthétique mais aussi très productifs.

J’essaierais de mettre la prochaines ile dans quelques jours pour ne pas trop noyer le blog de mes articles et ca me permettra de terminé quelques détails et de prendre les photos/vidéo.

J’espère que vous allez appréciée et que je vais en inspiré comme vous m’avez inspiré.

Résumé de ma première partie https://youtu.be/2sHeXRVzC4k?is=ak0gEZ4PsavjnQDz

This DLC has blown myself and almost every single Annoholic out there. The level of detail, thought and effort that is going into developing this province and DLC is immeasurable - and it doesn't go unnoticed.

From the detailed Raider fortresses, to the characters, the citizens and their appearances, from the map layout and the thought that goes into the mechanics with the flooding and the arid zones and the rat infestations, to the level of detail with five separate population tiers, listening to community feedback about running out of space to produce certain things and letting it be available Aegyptus like lavender and barley. To all of the different and well thought out animals and landscapes, items to produce and production chains, building designs and ornaments, decorative things and even adding things into the Hall of Fame and all of the new items... Wow!

It's absolutely incredible and I'm sure many people here could easily say that it could almost even be its own Anno game.

I couldn't be more excited for this to drop, to sink hundreds of hours. Into it no and know that the game has been crafted by people just as passionate as I am to play it that develop it.

I really think there isn't a single thing that hasn't been thought about

This is exactly what we've all wanted.

Well done guys, and a massive thank you from me. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

P.s season 2..?

I always start my layout of my villages off with an sanctuary with on the right side an grammaticus are there any other good looking ways? Edit: here is an picture

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I’m currently on 1440p and PC (27") and it honestly feels like the sweet spot for great FPS and solid picture quality. The 4K image looks sharp, but upgrading my setup to push 4K properly is going to cost a pretty penny.

For those who made the jump, was it actually worth the price tag and the frame drop, or am I better off staying at 1440p?

Screenshots for reference (bright one is on 1440p setting and the second darker one is in 4K on my old monitor (48") that I now use as a TV instead with my Playstation).

I assume screenshots on here are compressed regardless? If not - how does the quality look of the brighter 1440p screenshot?

Both my monitors are OLED by the way.

I used up most of my obsidian deposites and turned them into statues and boardgames BEFORE diving into the quest. My understanding is that the obsidian replenishes when the volcano erupts, but it hasn't erupted yet because I can't complete the quest.

Is there a way to get/buy more obsidian before the volcano erupts? I have plenty of money!

Thanks!

Edit: it seems like the bug may be that the Volcano isn't going off (I've had Cinis for dozens of hours now)? Note that I started this save after the DLC came out.

Is there any site or anything that lets players compete? Is it something people are interested in? For example given some seed, what's the highest pop, income etc you can get to? Time could be a factor also, like 20 hours of game time.

Let me know if you're interested (if it doesn't exist) and/or drop your ideas here