25 Hours in Anno 1800, Most Chaotic Playthrough

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If this is your first time hearing about the game, here’s my review on it Anno 1800 Is 90% Off On Steam Gameplay & Review .To put it simply, Anno 1800 is arguably some of the most complex resource management and strategy games I have ever played.

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The game expects of you to be balanced in all fonts, not only on the economic but also the way you conduct your people and the way you interact with other players in the game which can be AI or your friends(if you choose the multiplayer) option.

It’s as if, we’re being the president of a country and we have to carefully expand our establishment, managing our reserve funds, ensuring our people are not rioting –yes, there’s even police, and police station in this game. Even more so, we have to carefully manage the relation between each company(country) since in this game, corporatocracy is the government system—Think about VOC or The East-Indies.

On top of rival companies all over the map, there is one common enemy or potential friends/trade partnership, the pirates. They are located on the right corner of the map, roaming around the waters and ready to destroy any ship touching their territory without hesitation.

With such complexities thrown into the game, a mere hour on two isn’t enough to advance from agricultural society to a more advanced society in the game. The first attempt to win the campaign, I was only able to advance through artisan’s tier which is only the 3rd tier among the 5 tiers exist in the campaign.

Now, let me show you the kind of game I play as a noob and my most chaotic 25 hours into this game.

Game Settings

Campaign with settings that you can see below.

just like the other day, it's Normal (easy)

My strategy

Since I am mostly still learning about the mechanics of the game, I have tried diverse range of approach to this game.

First, I don’t really expand the settlements too fast. Second, I am building just the necessary needs for the people and to get the goal. Third, I am grinding by using trading ships which will help generate extra income. Last but not least, the quests that can generate from as low as $2000 to a whopping $9000 even just for a simple float picking task.

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Even with that strategy, I have still failed securing the firth tier of the game which is investors era. However, today as a mark to complete my 25 Hours into this game, I have figured a way to sell a portion of my island share to the queen. This buy and trade shares can generate a good sum of income.

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Being a propagandist

One amusing feature about this game is that they have newspaper. In this newspaper you can have the ability to edit the default news that is generated by the publisher. It will appear as something like this that you can see below.

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However, the edit version will have news that encourage people to consume, and distract them from the truth where as you see above, I was in the middle of bankruptcy. So, from other players sometimes my influence point is lessening hence affecting my diplomacy with the other owners in the map.

Being a propagandist isn’t so bad in this game as the people’s productivity and happiness wouldn’t be that affected. However, you have to find out how to avert future issues that may arise due to the lack of funds which hinders your progress in the game and worse, a bankruptcy.

Money is everything

In this game, money is everything. It costs to maintain houses, settlements and public services- it’s like a bucket with so many holes that if you can’t plaster them as quickly as you can, it will just leak everywhere and a fast track to bankruptcy.

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That is to say, I probably still need to learn a lot or read of the wiki. I mean, there might be something I have overlooked.

I forgot to screenshot the bankruptcy part 🤣

Ever since I purchased this game, I have played 2-3 hours almost every day, trying to get to the 5th tier of the game. I even scribbled on a paper counting how many workers I have to get and how many buildings just so I don’t go bankrupt. Alas! Everything is still in vain :D as I haven’t figured out how to advance to the 4th and 5th tier in this campaign.

If you were myself and has played anno 1800, how would you survive? Or perhaps you would love to join this chaos, thinking about building an imaginary island and a wealthy corporatocracy.

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Heyyy, umm the game looks nice but also looks me complicated for the beginners? What's the name of the game

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I enjoyed reading this experience.
It's clear that the game isn't just about building cities, but rather a true test of your economic and political management skills.

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😄 definitely, unfortunately I am dumber than Elon so I keep running through bankruptcy haha

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City builders are fun. I havent played Anno yet, but i have seen some excellent and funny reviews.

In England, depending on where you live, the English accent varies in the region. Like for example up north, people's accents are very...i can't say strange but...country like. Anno kinda sounds like "I know"...

I personally play Manor Lords and the first Frost Punk (they fcked up big time with FP2). Anno's still on sale so i may try the demo to see if i like it.

Also, jus wanted to encourage you if you have time, to head over to my page and have a watch of my most recent video "introducing Hive/Blurt". I also encourage you to look into setting yourself up over on the blurt.blog and blurt.media....it's not so saturated as Hive and i know that you will do very well there with your gaming videos.

We need more gamers there!

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Take care Chica!

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I've heard of manor lords but have never played it. I mean, if you love similar games you'd love Anno1800. It's quite addictive game :D thanks for checking out and you're right about the accent, it's really something familiar. I major in English lit and 80% of my professors back in the day studied in the UK & Scotland so they picked up the accent.

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Your chaotic 25-hour journey sounds both frustrating and exciting at the same time and this was such an engaging read.

I enjoyed your detailed breakdown of the game's mechanics and your personal strategy. If I were playing, I'd probably try aggressive trading and alliances, but I'd definitely end up in financial ruin like you, lol.

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hahahaha it's frustrating but keeps me excited to wake up in the morning. I am trying to limit my play hours to 3 hours max/daily.

Aggressive trading is an option but the ship moves pretty slow and sometimes production can slow down too. I forgot to mention, the ship trading is another set of mechanics that you have to understand in this game. So, you just gave me another good idea to explore, aggressively trading with the ship and see how it plays out.

This game isn't quite easy 🤣but it's what motivates me beating the game. Thanks for checking out 😊

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hahahaha it's frustrating but keeps me excited to wake up in the morning. I am trying to limit my play hours to 3 hours max/daily.

I get that. The challenge makes it more rewarding, and having a daily limit keeps the experience fresh and should let you enjoy your sessions.

Aggressive trading is an option but the ship moves pretty slow and sometimes production can slow down too. I forgot to mention, the ship trading is another set of mechanics that you have to understand in this game. So, you just gave me another good idea to explore, aggressively trading with the ship and see how it plays out.

Yeah, managing the ship’s speed and production timing must be a challenge, but it could lead to some fun experiment. I hope it works out.

This game isn't quite easy 🤣but it's what motivates me beating the game. Thanks for checking out 😊

You know what? no pain, no gain 😆 So, keep pushing through, and enjoy every hard-earned win.

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Sounds rough... one of the reasons I don't play these real time strategy city-builders is because after a point it just gets too complex to manage for me. That newspaper feature is pretty unique, never seen that in another game.

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hahahaha I get you, I love strategy games and it's the genre I play the most. I get a headache after a while but these games teaches you to be patient and have longer attention span and focus 😂. The newspaper is definitely unique,it's almost as if you're really running a country and almost IRL like where govt has their own newspaper that sometimes can be a propaganda tool as well 😆

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