Unknown Horizons

[Crendgrim]

Build only a single one of each of the "settlement-centric" buildings, such as marketplace, church etc. Build all of them together in the centre of the settlement. Arrange houses around them so that the covered area is filled up in such a way that every house can at least ascend a single time. Don't build any of the farms, factories etc in that area. Build farms at the coast of the isle instead. Built factories who need the goods produced by them next to them so that the farms are covered by that factory's reach.

So far it is as I'm doing it (and I'm used to do in Anno 1602, too).

Set factories and farms which are currently not needed "to sleep".

Most of the time I need most factories, but when I see that I've got too much of a product, I already do so.

Set the tax rate (this exists only in some versions of the anno series...) so that, unless your people shall ascend, are *almost* unhappy (so that they almost descend).

• Do everything to advance to second increment, everything's easier if you have an access to farm.
• Reduce taxes to the lowest to boost settler numbers, it will raise your income

Your advices are interfering here
Actually, I tend to try to level them up to Level 2 to get access to farm, wool, bricks etc. and then raise the taxes, so my inhabitants won't get too fast to Level 3. I have problems to manage their needs on Lv2 already, because I have too less money

• Build houses first, then build food producer buildings, that'll help you to control the money flow.

Also an interesting idea which is worth to try. I always tried to have enough food around (I ran out of it several times).

• Trick your workers and farmers by removing roads, so they won't store on random storage. This will boost your production.

I don't exactly understand what you mean here ... is it important where my goods are stored? So, should I try to forbid clay pits to bring the clay to the storage and instead directly to the brick factory?

Example savegame file if you're using the current bleeding edge version : http://db.tt/n69S4Mz

Now I have to figure out how to load this. Won't be that hard, I guess. Else I'll ask

So .. thanks a lot for your advice. I'll try some of it in hope that my money won't get down to zero any more


Crend

[Anonymissimus]

Crendgrim:
Don't know what's your problem. Tried the tutorial a bit - on the middle tax rate (which seems to allow population growth, but not ascension), the tax income exceeds maintenance costs easily even though I built both the fisherman and the hunter. This was way different in anno1503 sometimes where one had to built lots of houses until positive balance. The highest rate works probably only if you fullfill all requirements. So only thing you have to do is wait (instead of building stuff and spending money for it), but since no competitors are there that's no problem. Also you should always sell not needed goods (stuff which you can produce infinitely).

[Gambit]

Version 2011.01 was just released. Lots of new features.

[Crendgrim]

Anonymissimus:
Okay, maybe I tried to play too "fast" ...


Crend

[atomicbomb]

I don't exactly understand what you mean here ... is it important where my goods are stored? So, should I try to forbid clay pits to bring the clay to the storage and instead directly to the brick factory?

They can't do that, they must store the clay in storage first and then brickmakers will take the clay from the storages.
The workers and farmers are stupid, sometimes they will store products into far storages instead into nearest one, so I tricked them, I removed their access to far storages by deleting roads, so they will store it in right place.
If you figured out how to load my savefile, you'll find a settlement with 196K gold. It also has a good city pattern.

No money, huh? take a look at this! http://db.tt/jBaDsK6 <<Edit

[Gambit]

Storages don't actually do what the name implies. The storage is all shared.

See when your producers get full they stop working. And they're unable to take whatever they have produced and give it to your town. Storages might actually be called "collectors". They spawn people that go out and empty your producers out and take the stuff into town so that they can continue to produce, and so that you can use the materials produced.