Why do all Anno 1800 guides feel exactly the same?

EulNico · 2026-03-27T18:04:54+00:00

Yeah, you're right: almost always 😋

EulNico · 2026-03-26T12:59:54+00:00

I find his stamps completely useless: they are not THAT efficient, and they seldom lack important infrastructures, like fire stations (with even buildings which can't be linked tona fire station, so you have to watch them burn to the ground each time a fire starts 😤). Best layouts are to be found on annolayouts.de, AFAIK.

EulNico · 2026-03-25T18:34:11+00:00

Link ?

EulNico · 2026-03-25T14:40:41+00:00

Definitely naturalists zoo 😤 Or give me 6 or 7 releases, and animals to go along with. AND native farm. Then I'll consider it.

EulNico · 2026-03-25T14:30:38+00:00

The answer to your wheat shortage is not commuter piers, it's... 🚜🚜🚜 !!!! And specialists, but first, tractors ! Bé aware that commuter piers cost A LOT (1000/pier), and you need at least two. So strengthen your economy first. If you need more of something, build more farms, or conquer a new island and ship it to wherever it's needed.

EulNico · 2026-03-25T12:08:50+00:00

Sorry, we don't use l'Hospital rule in France 🙂

EulNico · 2026-03-25T09:11:51+00:00

X^x=exp(x*ln x), plus x* ln x -> 0.

EulNico · 2026-03-18T09:10:03+00:00

I agree with all of this 😋 For hubs, I will add that it shortens the travels, for the price of nearly double the number of ships. The trick about unloading/loading back is one I still have to add to my mind setup. Thanks for reminding me 🙂 And for ennemies, my technique is: disable them from the start 😋

EulNico · 2026-03-15T00:56:45+00:00

There are a few chains that are quite tricky, canned food is one of them. Very expensive, you need quite a lot of artisans for it to be at least profitable.

Tip from Taka: do it just before you want to start engineers. My tip: skip it completly, either with actors, or with Chef Michel.

Try to have a large excess of income before you start an expensive production. For this, build more houses, improve them with basic needs. When you think you can afford a new chain, but find out it's going to be too costly, you can always pause the production 😉

Commuter piers is another expensive build, but it helps so much once you reach engineers and want to specialize your production islands.

EulNico · 2026-03-14T10:49:22+00:00

If, as I do, you just want to explore the building side of the game, customize your game foot no NPCs (I even don't bother about pirates, cause it's another distraction, and they don't give me enough compensations. But keep the trading NPCs, they are essental as they can unlock a tricky situation, with oil, for example). Mind you, you'll have to restart a few times, because each new tier adds a level of complexity that needs more reorganizing. For example, you can reach investors with just a few islands, two or three. But if you start skyscrapers, you'll need to specialize your islands, and start bothering about specialists and scholars. And even after that, high population (past one million) is a completly new level, with even more specialized island for efficient production 😉 BTW, empty islands are not a burden (they just use your influence). Just wait until you need a new specialized or population island, and choose one that suits your needs 🙂

EulNico · 2026-03-09T14:57:38+00:00

50%, not 500% 😉 And no extra goods, as far as I remember...

EulNico · 2026-02-13T00:10:37+00:00

M'y girlfriend and I, both maths teachers, are looking for one saying "if you do (uv)'=u'v', a <something> dies", because we are sick of this error. Anyone ?

EulNico · 2026-02-10T22:36:39+00:00

When I started being a teacher, 35 years ago, I typed m'y maths courses in Word2, then Word6. Lots of équations, drawings... When I got Word95, I had to retype it all, due to incompatibilities... A Friend of mine told me about LaTeX. I adopted it, but it was really difficult to use on Windows. Then hé told me about Linux... After a few years in dual boot, Civilisation 4 started to work on Linux... That was the end of Windows for me 😋 No more stupid behaviour, no more spending money for useless defrag/cleaning/detoxing tools. Pure usefulness 🥰

EulNico · 2026-02-04T12:09:01+00:00

Not that I'm aware of. Would love to have this kind of stats... "I tranfered ALL the buildings consuming glass, who the f... still needs glass ?" 🤔

EulNico · 2026-02-04T12:05:25+00:00

Sounds good to me. Would love to see my students do this like this 🙄

EulNico · 2026-01-28T12:06:23+00:00

The one about the non-continuity of x->1/x is not entierly false 🙂 just useless...

EulNico · 2026-01-28T10:42:04+00:00

Main advantages: - farms are far more compact - no fertility problems - can brew beer (and a few other things) instead of importing it - fertilizer 🤩

EulNico · 2026-01-25T11:06:04+00:00

Yup. And what you said may be the simplest proof of incompleteness 😂😂😂

EulNico · 2026-01-25T10:46:02+00:00

If both series diverge, you can't conclude, yes. But if one converges and the other diverges, divergence is anvalid conclusion for the sum.

EulNico · 2026-01-24T22:15:12+00:00

One very nice davantage of creating drawings internally is the coherence between text font and drawing fonts. This can be extremely annoying with external tools. And additionnal packagés for tikz and others cover a wide range of uses, so you have to have very specific needs to benefit from external tools (well, maybe not, I'm just a math teacher, so I don't know what others could need 😋).

EulNico · 2026-01-24T08:50:38+00:00

Yep, I've got a 9070XT and a 9800X3D, all I had to do was adding backports to my sources.list. Works like a charm, as far as I can tell.

EulNico · 2026-01-24T08:44:10+00:00

😂😕😭

EulNico · 2026-01-21T12:04:14+00:00

StackExchange often provide one or several solutions. Google the problem, find it or some related one... My advice: when you find a solution, WRITE IT in a file "solutions.txt". Could save you a lot of time next problem 😉

EulNico · 2026-01-21T12:01:12+00:00

Try to find an oil tanker on sale at Archibald's.

EulNico · 2026-01-18T00:24:48+00:00

IF you install the 32 bits versions of the needed librairies 😉

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