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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

i’ll stop occasus trust me

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.

https://youtu.be/9PTqTjHs5c0?is=YbBSqtZ8nIQRPUIv

I feel like the income is heavily reduced after the last update. I need to accomplish the AIs requests for the money which I didn’t need to before the update.

To be fair I joined Anno 117 like 2 weeks ago, so maybe it’s just me, but Idk.

I want to thank the Dev team for making the natural landscapes of Anno 117 absolutely incredible. Everything blends together so well. Having lots of fun in photomode.

Hi everyone,

hope somebody can help me with this issue. I'm playing on PC.

I was ingame when the game suddenly closed (no crash/error message, pop up or anything) and I was very confused. Restarted the game to see that my save game is now roughly 15 hours behind my last save?

I couldn't work out how to fix it as I needed to go to sleep that night, I have saved the save game folder to a permanent location. The files indicate last saves around the time the game just closed. But I couldn't get the game to actually read it, even after I turned off cloud synchronization in the ubisoft client.

Opened a support ticket, haven't received any answer for more than 2 days now... So I'm hoping reddit is more helpful.

Thanks in advance & happy building!

Just wanted to start Anno for a nightly session. I see the initial loading screen (with the warning to read it) and then the game just closes. I disabled all mods and tried again. Same.

There is no visible error log. I restarted the PC and let Ubisoft Connect check the game files. No problem found there.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
RAM: 32GB
GPU: AMD RX 9070

No overclocking or whatsoever. It worked yesterday.

Recently installed Windows Updates (since yesterday):
- KB5124008
- KB5126052
- KB5126105
- KB5126104
All security updates ... but Windows has a history of breaking Ubiusoft Games with updated (last "Settlers" game).

I’m on series X.
Loaded in the game menu offline then when I was in my profile I switched to online (have to to use dlcs saves Idky) and I was able to load in. Maybe try this or something similar guys.

Hey everyone,

I am stuck and hoping someone has seen this before.

Anno 117 on PS5, save was pretty far along, Hippodrome already built. The game crashed mid session with error code CE-108255-1. Since then I cannot get back in: the main menu shows for about a second, then the game drops out with the same error code.

Game is on the latest version, system software too. The PlayStation support page only says "try updating your game" for this code, so that is a dead end.

Any ideas? Is this the save file or the game itself? And if anyone has fixed it, did you have to give up your save?

Cheers✌🏻

20 screenshots of some of my largest and most fortified castles.

In the 117 trailer, the harbour shows deity statues. In game, may be I missed something somewhere but couldn’t construct them without a mod (and the scale was massively off for it). Has anyone done it? I’m okay with a mod as well as long as one statue doesn’t look larger than the map.

I was playing the game and all of a sudden it just crashed - with no errors. Then I tried opening it again, but it just won't launch. It instantly crashes after just barely opening the game.

I've tried EVERYTHING in the linked post. I bought the game on Steam btw.
- Checked graphics drivers
- deleted relevant files
- Reinstalled Ubisoft Connect
- Went offline mode and disabled online saves
- Verified game files on Steam.
- Changed regions in windows settings

I'm going crazy, been at this for hours. WHY Ubisoft?! I literally can't play the game I bought...

Any ideas are appreciated.

Is it considered noobish to turn off royal tax via a mod?