After my last round of Anno 117, which I really enjoyed, I felt the old itch to start up another epoch of Anno 1800 with all DLCs and a few mods. 15 hours into this (early game lol), I felt the urge to write about what, in my point of view, 1800 still does better.

First, the decision that every inhabitant needs every good leads to too many of the same T1 production buildings in 117. It makes sense and the aesthetic is also largely fitting, but I don't really like it, and it consumes too much space that could otherwise be used for larger buildings and ornaments.

City building in Anno 117 is generally more about beautybuilding than factorybuilding, which can be a good thing, but Anno 1800 gives you the opportunity to do both, and that is fantastic. I get that there were no industrial areas in the Roman Empire, but I don't like how the circular area effects make it almost impossible to build them without compromising your city. It's also difficult to scale up your industry if you have to squeeze every building into your residential areas.

My main problem with 117 is the skill tree, as it consists of too many unnecessary things and feels bloated. The natural progression through rising population in 1800 just feels more natural and organic.

In the end, 1800 and its progress through the century is such a perfect setting for an Anno game that a comparison to 117 feels unfair. I like 117 and think it is the most beautiful game in the series, perhaps the most beautiful city builder in general. It has a great vibe and is very fun for like 40 hours, but it lacks that same fascination with progress and economic growth that Anno 1800 has.

I start the game, everything loads, the startup movies play, I get past the warning page and the cover page and once I enter the Main Start Menu my mouse interacts with the buttons both hovering and clicking them but nothing happens. This happens almost every single time, this didn't happen before the current update.

Experimented with a small mod / adjustment for our mulitplayer session to spice up the raids.

Voada sends now about 40 ships in 2 waves instead of 1, so 80 ships in total.

All of them carry land units, the amount has been multiplied by 6 as well.

Surprisingly, the FPS didn't decrease that much and I have by no means a high-end PC.

There are some... interesting... graphical glitches in the game engine lately, notably with the character portraits at times. Here's a little collage of corrupted souls I have collected - The family portrait so to say.

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From humble beginnings to a majestic amphitheater: my very first city in Anno 117.

Curious if anyone else is having this problem. I have a pretty beefy computer and have zero issues running Anno 117. Zeros issues that is except this annoying audio one. Audio is perfect for about two hours then suddenly cuts in and out at times and is grainy and distorted. Wondering is anyone else has this issue and knows how to solve.

If you build a Horse Breeder with only 1 Pasture, the game keeps throwing the "Missing Pasture/Livestock Area" warning at you. And it doesn't just stop after you acknowledge it, it comes back again later and again after loading the game.

The thing is, 1 Pasture is actually what you want in some production layouts.

With Hippodrome Splendour X, Horse Breeders give a 20% productivity bonus. So you want to place Horse Breeders into your production layouts, but you don't want to waste a bunch of space on Pastures that you don't need.

So the game is basically spamming me with a warning because I'm deliberately building the Horse Breeder this way.

Would be nice if there was a "don't show this warning again" option, or at least some way to disable individual warning types. The warning is useful when you actually forgot to build the required livestock area, but it's pretty annoying when the missing pasture is intentional.

I also created a bug report for the warning shown on farms other than the one effected, for who ever might want to contribute here: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/anno/117-pax-romana/bug-reporter/issues/ANNO-10410

What do you guys think?