The Worst Anno 1800 Advice New Players Hear

[@TakaYouTube]

Arctic Guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZ66aJdjfqear9Esi=LvJPz87MyZWgs-U4

[@C0lbyte]

I know luxuries aren't vital, but it is for my OCD 😂

[@AlrightMikeGames]

That part. Ha

[@jeremygrant1325]

They also make $$$$ at artisan+

[@C0lbyte]

@@jeremygrant1325 Yep. Mo money for things to put into trade union and the one for the houses in town i cant remember the name of.

[@jeremygrant1325]

@mrKBiegel town hall. Also I think it's the actress person provides rum and canned goods if there's a variety theater present. Killer money maker that one.

[@tomoliop]

The point on breaking even before starting a production chain is quite important, thanks!

[@ohn9ne]

I never even looked at that

[@SekritJay]

I would say the 'difficulty' from the Arctic is more to do with the tediousness of resource provision for that region versus the value you get from it

[@azjay1007]

Thank you so much for this! Started playing a month ago and the part where you explain the formula to determine the break-even point, clears up the part of Anno I was most confused about.

[@Phelper99]

I appreciate your videos. I just found this game last month. I still do the stuff you rage about, but I'm getting better. This game is amazing.

[@errgoseven4680]

Great vid Taka. I can only imagine how ludicrous a playthru that builds every possibly supply chain in Anno 1800 would be.

[@migueq77]

Artic workers: We're doing important and dangerous work at the gas mines, we need safety and keep ourselves worm! Taka: Here's a heater Artic workers: That's it? A heater and good luck?! Taka: I never said good luck..

[@TakaYouTube]

LOL!!!! Yesss!!!

[@White0Reaper]

Another thing I would like to add for the Artic is that with the addition of the Lifestyle needs, it has become so much easier espeicaly to setup the Ice plateaus. With little to no effort I supplied them local mail, Rum and Mezcal to Technicians which brought down the number of houses needed. I am currently on a new save but I want to try setting up a small airship with the 2nd plateu and see how effective doing regional mail between the plateus in reducing it even further.

[@AAbipolar]

I just got back into Anno 1800 after taking a break after the High Rise DLC was introduced. There is so much more to this game, some game breaking I think, but also some very interesting. The airships now that a see flying around with cannons are definitely seem like one of them and I don't even have aluminum profiles yet. Thank you again for continuing to put out these guides.

[@peterschaller7928]

Love the video (as always) ... my current gameplan is to get all the goods I need for spectacles, steam motors, etc (like brass, glass, etc) from dockland-trading and get specific items to substitute some goods (i.e. Glass Maker for the windows or Chef Michel for the Cannery) to keep costs down.

[@Dienaris]

Hey Taka! Great video as usual. Glad to see you still play this beautiful game.

[@akimbo5u]

Awesome, Anno GOAT!

[@flalks1506]

I'm not sold on skipping the steam motors. If you stick to clippers you're obviously very right thats way cheaper. But buying steam ships, god forbid multiple, is just terrible value. Doing some napkin math setting up steam engine line + shipyard costs around 200k with a maintenance of circa 3000, which means you can run the whole chain for around 30 minutes before reaching the 300k expense of buying a single cargo ship, netting you over the 20 required engines to build the ship yourself. All in all it's around the same cost for the first ship, it gets even more terrible if you buy a second one. Considering you are gonna spend the 200k to setup the chain later anyway you are overpaying even more. So if you dont play with half cost for idle production buying ships is objectively worse from a financial standpoint.

[@debenator6263]

Just started playing a couple weeks ago, great game. Only problem is i lost the contract in the confrontation mission, even after restarting and checking every tradepost and ship i cant find it.

[@danj5485]

And dont forget to by shares from the npc, they help Alot!!

[@bryanweishaar244]

Greatness!!!!

[@ralpharmsby8040]

So how do you go from farmer to worker in such a short time, even allowing for triple speed?

[@alexandererhard2516]

I mean the 40 minutes part was just an estimate. I don't know for sure if triple arrows is 3x speed or maybe rather 4x speed (In which case 4x 15 min would be more like 60 min instead). Aside from that it also depends on how much money and starting resources you have. With 75k and perhaps both an island and ship to start out this is definitely feasible in 40-60min. Keep in mind that no luxury goods also means no resources and workforce invested into those. Meaning you can progress faster, as long as you are not bottlenecked by money.

[@malcolmduncan]

For the algorithm.

[@Zerrith-pr7rx]

The comment of not needing luxury items. Not providing luxury can result in negative news paper right? I hate having to spend influence on the paper when trying to gobble up the good islands before the AI.

[@malcolmduncan]

Also, i know you don't "need" luxuries to make money, but i like a light RP game of this and i want my guys to be as happy and comfy as possible.

[@TakaYouTube]

Totally get that and all for it!!! I was just debunking the myth that you have to supply luxuries in order to make a profit.

[@malcolmduncan]

@@TakaKZbin I get that and completely agree, i don't rush to build the luxuries, for your reasons, but I do build them, for mine, both perfectly valid ways to get enjoyment from a great game.

[@freaking-alive]

Recently i've finished with ALL goods to every region and tier. I provided everything my people would ever wonder, included mail and things in the same category (i don't know how is it called in English, I guess it's personal requirements?). And it was great, I mean, this feeling

[@FOXGaming22]

​@@freaking-alivewe call it full supply.

[@poiuyt975]

That's my approach as well. I'm not a min-maxer, nor a beauty builder. I'm a role-player, the worst of both worlds. :D

[@Grasss]

"I could be making more money" , isn't it a point here to make all the money you can make?

[@TakaYouTube]

Yes and no. You want enough income to cover maintenance costs for everything, but you can make straight coin by selling goods as well. A lot of people ignore trading with other NPCs in the game but there is A LOT of money to be made there. The point here was to show that you don't NEED luxury goods to make a profit.

[@BlackViperMWG]

But perhaps some time later

[@brucebaker810]

The point is to achieve your goal. People vary. Goals vary. Peoples' goals are often "win thru wealth and what i can do with it". But might be just military. Or tech. Or scenarios. Or pretty. Or "with/without x".

[@aaronmcneil9102]

Thanks for the info, subbed because you make the best anno guides

[@WiwekL]

Is there a way to manage amount of goods taken by ship based on the demand or at least amount of available space in destination? The game is great, but fixed amount of goods loaded into a ship seems to be underdeveloped there. It’s either constant microadjustments or throwing them to the ocean.

[@judgemcnugget7110]

I could be wrong, but for the standard routes it should be possible to determine the exact amount that is automatically picked up, no? I could be wrong though, lol. I know you can set your trade ship to wait until the goal harbor has enough place to take all of the intended cargo (e.g. 50 coffee) and/or make the ship wait until it can load the full cargo amount at the loading harbor. I also often - also in the case of coffee - make it so that the new world islands harbor is set up so that 15 or so coffee is the minimum amount which the harbor keeps.

[@WiwekL]

@@judgemcnugget7110 There was another video by the author where he explains how to calculate the amount of goods to take based on frequency of the ship arrival and demand per minute. But this requires frequent adjustments every time your population changes or modifiers such as specialists are applied. I use another approach. Almost all my ship are deadhead - they carry cargo from A to B and return empty. A has minimum limit, so local population has needed goods. When the ship arrives, it unloads either fully or partially, if no space is left. If it unloads partially, it carries the same cargo back to A. it means that it loads less cargo next time if the destination is full, self-balancing in this way. So no adjustments, no wait time in B and no thrown-away goods.

[@Fallub]

I really like this video. Thank you. Although, I think you need the steam motors for tractor sheds. So unless you never want to upgrade farms with tractors you have to build them just for that.

[@TakaYouTube]

True yeap! You do need them for tractor sheds, but you can also buy them from Nate. It's about 175k for 10 of them, but that isn't too bad really.

[@FreeSamich]

Does that early settlement profit (that doesn't include luxury production) include steel production, or are you buying steel and some bricks? That's what I've been doing to reduce maintenance costs and the number of workers needed on my first island

[@TakaYouTube]

No, I never produce steel until late artisan/early engineer. However with the +1000 income I had, I could support a steelworks chain if I wanted.

[@requiredparticular6831]

To be honest, a lot of people are acting like soap is a luxury even in Anno 2024! 😂 Been binging your videos after just picking this game up and going bankrupt before I could pay the uncle! Never got into any Sims games beyond the quick laugh of an adult babbling like a baby and peeing their pants because they didn’t want to use a dirty toilet but couldn’t clean it for themselves. But potty train those Sims and make it Pirate days Sims (Or Old Sturbridge Village [a mock 1800s village in Massachusetts]) Sims, if you disable the pirates, and I’m fascinated! That’s oversimplifying the game, of course, but it’s definitely not the usual kind of game I play.

[@patriciahalloran7531]

My numbers crashed 650 population before investors😢 dont know what happened watches and lightbulbs are so expensive to run

[@jamesrosenbaum8770]

You could decrease your production on soap at the citizen level to balance out the tallow production. Doing so would give you some bonus happiness and properly reflect your supply/demand ratios :) I do hate seeing a production building go to 0% because it ran out of goods... But I'm sure in Taka's case, that's a level of micro that maybe isn't worth it.

[@SirValoso]

I just did the arctic after procrastinating on it for a long time because I remembered reading years ago that it was hard. Then I did it, had some fun at the start. It wasn't really 'hard' it was just I hated discovering I had to do it all over again on the plateau because it's sort of the opposite of how I like to play because it kind of wants you to spread out. Once I had enough workers on both islands I just deleted all homes down to a minimum

[@LurkN-t1e]

Great vid thanks! Just getting back into anno myself.

[@geng6069]

can we do it in campaign this not giving luxury to workers or farmer ?

[@Tiogar60]

So you are telling me that a no alcohol run is possible? :D

[@chrishansen8201]

I thought i had the hang of it until canned goods came around then i gave up on happiness

[@inspire6837]

commenting to boost engagement

[@el-pez12]

But 700 divided by 15 is 46?

[@toddshoemaker4285]

I'm getting close to 2 million population. Looks like the bottle neck will be New World stuff but haven't reached it yet. I went into this game with the goal of supplying every item (e.g. lifestyle, needs, happiness) to everyone on every island. Definitely Beauty over max. population. I've hit one bottle neck thus far, Arctic reports. This is because I have over 277k scholars giving me about 2.8m research points -- one of my scholar islands isn't getting arctic reports. Some more facts. Prod. 30t/m arctic gas. 1374t/m elevators. 900t/m brass, 1300t/m steel, 1100t/m motors. Own 1,809 extravaganza steamers for trade. I have two medium size islands making only brass, steel, and motors, one in cape and one in old world. I have two more island coming online that will supplement elevator production (i.e. used to have each island make their own elevators and ship them motors but I'm moving all elevator production to two separate islands, one in cape and old world. No mods but all latest DLCs. The Princess still owns 4 islands and 4 of mine are in their infancy, including Crown falls (i.e. Crown is half-way done) so I'm certainly not running out of housing space. 162 wing limit thus far, which is just over 1.6 million population. I went over to the New World and beefed-up production so it should be stable. I'll give you my game and we'll race towards 2 million, and we'll both watch your subscribers rise. What say you?

[@smoothies2733]

I remember my first play-through. I was -30000 but had 2mil in the bag cause I overproduced everything and sold everything. The amount of soup I sold could bubble the ocean haha.

[@LorisSingh]

You need soap to get money

[@Okay-pr9fp]

The problem with this game is everyone has there own system to play, and if your a new player trying to figure out how to play it you’ll look up videos it seems very complicated this is mainly because the KZbinr that make videos on this game over complicate things and it just hard to learn from these videos , the best way I’ve found to learn in this game is just to play it with trial and error, you will have to restart a lot but it’s the best way to learn

[@LorisSingh]

Comment, like

[@kenneth69]

I still remember my first playthrough. I had it bad waking up in the middle of the night with realizations of ways I should have been using, changing up whole islands, sleeping. lol Oh, also thank goodness for soap and cannon sales, but relying on them even though it is amazing money can make a player sloppy.

[@daimonos418]

This was the first Anno vid I watched after buying it recently. Here from Factorio / Satisfactory, picking up this and Against the Storm at the same time. Good place to start, thank you.

[@TheOis1984]

hi Taka, i'm still struggling how to acquire an oil tanker in campaign. i look around the building options and couldn't find a steam shipyard icon... btw seeing your income, population and cash reserves really shocked me :O ! how do you do that ?

[@CUfkes]

eye opener, thanks ! BTW, what are the setting for the map in this video ?

[@Kirsche98]

Have to admit. After 200h playtime im knowing most of this things. But im also watching you ever since start playing this game^^

[@martinkeene7965]

Big thanks for these videos. You've brought back my enthusiasm for the game after not looking at it for a couple of years.

[@petervanzon4765]

Love your videos Taka. Your my main ANNO 1800 source of information since I started playing the game. Thanks for your work in making all your ANNO 1800 content.

[@pm_mick9914]

Hey Taka, I think you got the math wrong in one part. You talked about getting 20% less income, but you cut 20% off the balance, you need to chop 20% off the income before expenses. For example, if your income is 10000 and your expenses are 9900 with a balance of 100, chopping off 20% income isn't going to bring your balance to 80, it's going to bring your balance into the negative.

[@TakaYouTube]

Yeah I did misspeak there sorry. It's 20% of your income from houses not your overall balance per minute.

[@WeirdViking]

"The arctic really isnt that hard or complex" .. shows ELEVEN fully operational islands with complex logistics chains for goods and cargo :D

[@TakaYouTube]

It's actually not complex at all! King William Island is simply supplying husky sleds and canned food for the four gas plateaus and a single airship picks up and drops off the correct amount at each plateau in a loop. Each plateau has one or maybe two at the most support islands and one airship picks up what's needed from those one or two islands and takes it to it's one plateau. That's it. That's the Arctic.

[@Storm7777]

Hey Taka! Great vid! I really appreciate your tips. They laid a foundation for me to learn game and come up with my own strategies. Thanks again!

[@squirrelzar]

The campaign does not make any of this clear haha

[@brucebaker810]

Temperance pubs. Not even coffee house.

[@mariovelez6132]

I wonder if the game is as good in the PS5.

[@David-lr2vi]

Ome thing to keep in mind with steam engines and advanced weapons is that you only need to keep those production chains running until you build the quantity of engines or weapons you need to build the ships that you want to build. Once the ships I want to build are done I’ll switch those supply chains off until I need to build more ships. Of course that works best if you play the game with zero maintenance costs for deactivated plant, which I do.

[@TakaYouTube]

If you're using Docklands, and most players are, those two goods are some of the highest value items for export, so you could keep them running to provide export goods in addition to using specialists.

[@David-lr2vi]

@@TakaKZbin. They do sell for a lot of money but the newspaper still has a sook if you’ve got negative cashflow for an extended basis so I try to keep a positive cashflow wherever possible by switching those factories off if they are causing a negative cashflow. On my current game I’ve now gotten through to investors and I’m now getting about $10k positive cashflow anyway even with those factories on so now I don’t really need the money from selling the motors and weapons. Temporarily switching those supply chains off that I didn’t need helped a lot with cashflow during that transition period though where I wanted decent ships but didn’t have the full cashflow to support those factories yet. One thing that was hard to wrap my head around when I first started (before watching your videos) is that population is everything. Everything can be set up perfectly for people’s needs but if you don’t scale your population according to your industries costs you will be perpetually broke. Excess population is actually a good thing in this game, which kind of seams counterintuitive as I kept thinking a lean population count would reduce costs but all it does is decrease profits.

[@Abbittibbi]

Thank you Taka!

[@enigmaticspace7578]

Just one question. What are the map seed and map settings that you've used for your thumbnail?

[@TakaYouTube]

That's an old old screenshot... I don't have that save game anymore. You can look on the channel though for the No Crown Falls playthrough and the info on it should be there.

[@USSTOLEDOSSN769]

Here's a tip. Yesterday, I was going through the options trying to find a way to improve the game's performance. When I came across the box for Autosave, the lightbulb went off. Unfortunately, you can't turn it off, but you can set it to 1 hour. Performance will improve greatly.

[@freaking-alive]

Wait, are you talking about the performance during the save, or does it really affect the whole game?

[@USSTOLEDOSSN769]

@@freaking-alive I just got done with a 3 hour session and the improvement in overall performance was remarkable. I'm no computer expert, but I think that if the autosave is saving every 5 minutes, the CPU gets overworked. I have an i5-9400F GTX 1660 with the LG UltraGear 27 inch QHD HDR G-Sync monitor. Important: make sure you're using Direct X 11. Direct X 12 will crash your PC.

[@liorlotr]

how i know how much population can 1 supply chain support before i need to double the output? i want to have the population ready before i upgrade the production.

[@TakaYouTube]

Statistics screen and Production tab. If you're not familiar with it, look on my channel for one of several videos I have on it.

[@domagoj905]

Google the building. Use the wiki.

[@pasuhk997]

New player here ;)

[@calebbrown9091]

Need anno medieval

[@austinhearn6111]

Nice video!

[@RorysonTV]

Thanks for making these videos, I just started playing a few weeks ago. What an amazing game, love everything about it, including Scenarios.

[@teaguejelinek4038]

Thanks

[@TLOUTheorist]

What happened to this video?????

[@tortorok3812]

algh fuel

[@TC-cq7oc]

10:40 - I'd add that royal taxes can affect the break-even points. Not by much - sewing machines still break even just before 1000 pop, but spectacles can still be in the red until about 85 homes. Royal Taxes depend on actual population, not house count, so there's no exact number, so if the engineer houses are all low-pop, you can break even at 75, but it's not guaranteed.

[@TakaYouTube]

The break even point for profit on a supply chain is not related to royal taxes. We're not talking overall income balance for a given tier, just micro level of how much you need to break even on maintenance costs vs income for that 1 consumer good. You're trying to look at population and that doesn't matter.

[@TC-cq7oc]

​@@TakaKZbin - I think I might be miscommunicating here. What I meant is that Royal taxes take a percentage of your income from that tier. If you have 1000 engineers and raise your balance by 1000, royal taxes increase by 90 - so your total income only increases by 910. Since the income is reduced, you'll need more houses to hit the break-even point. Here's an example for Spectacles. Let's consider a town with 76 Engineer homes and a population of exactly 2375 engineers. (To make the math easier, we'll round up the cost of the spectacles chain to exactly 1900, and pretend that spectacles don't increase population, which would increase royal taxes) In this case, Adding spectacles increases the town's income by 1900, and costs 1900, so it looks like the town has broken even. That town's royal tax rate is 20%. This means that the 1900 added to its income also added 380 to royal taxes. Thus, that town hasn't actually broken even - building the spectacle chain actually made it 380 balance poorer. (Again, this is without counting any changes in population) The town is effectively only getting 20 balance per house supplied after taxes, so in order to break even, that town shouldn't build spectacles until it has 95 engineer houses. (And in truth, probably more, since spectacles add 4 engineers per house, which increases taxes by about 1 percentage point per 30 houses)

[@Afkhalla]

I will never build the Steam Motors chain, i just buy them from Old Nate, when i need a few.

[@TakaYouTube]

This is the way

[@freaking-alive]

There is one cheaty specialist that gives you steam motors and weapons every 3rd cycle of sewing machine production, it's also a good variant of getting it in my opinion

[@Afkhalla]

@@freaking-alive yes

[@rasferrastfarian739]

Oh Taka! You really are the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette "let them eat cake" oh but no because you wouldn't even SUPPLY them cake! lol 😛