A Real City Planner Tries Building a New City in Anno 1800!

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A Real City Planner Tries Building a New City in Anno 1800!

In today's episode, we're giving Anno 1800 a try and we'll see if I'm able to build a well functioning city or if I send it to the poor house with my focus on landscaping.

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[mngo]

i’ve never seen someone playing anno 1800 so inefficiently… and it’s so refreshing ✌🏼

[RESrachel_]

The amount of excitement I had when I saw this video pop up! Anno 1800 is one of the supreme city decorating games out there. You can place so many trees, Phil, you'll love it

[Bennisim]

the min-maxers all cried out in pain at once LOL i love your perspective to building in this game. Its refreshing and i just love it. Please do another episode!

[reym]

Man, its nice to see you play anno! Its definitely slightly different than city skylines, focusing more on the supply chain stuff and trade routes.
One of the most useful tools of this game is the statistics screen(ctrl+q for shortcut), where you can see if your production chains are balanced well, it will definitely help you balance stuff once you get into the more complex chains.

[Remy-today]

A couple of tips: Early game don't produce steel beams but buy them from Archibald. Overproduce soap and sell the excess to the prison, make sure to set a minimum stock amount on your island and set up a shipping route for it. Beer is essential for turning a profit as soon as you reach the third tier of Artisans. Artisans also need fur coats for which you need cotton fabric from the new world, however there is an item (Costume Designer) that lets you swap out cotton fabric for wool. Completely eliminates a long journey to another region, super useful. Also, don't produce canned food right away when hitting artisans, it will always be a money looser and you should only ever built it when you are ready to upgrade to engineers.

[WrappedBaggage]

No kidding, I literally just started watching another youtuber's series on this game 2 days ago and I imagined how fun it would be to see you tackle this game and this popped up. I would love a full series on this on this channel.

[AmethystTheFoxx]

Never seen anyone play Anno quite like this. Most people are only driven by profit and efficiency, so they completely neglect the decorations and how creative you can get in this game. I love how you're different, and that is exactly why I love watching your content. Amazing video as always :)

[WilliamMCMXII]

YES! I love Anno 1800 and its great to freshen your content up (not to say that I don't love your usual content) ! I'm excited to see what you can create in the future.

[seanscully]

not sure if you're on a PC, but if you press CTRL + SHIFT + R, you can get first person view and walk through your city, it's really cool if you decorate the place nicely like you like to do!

[overlordflowers]

The reason your income fluctuated so much was because you're not meeting your resident's demands fully. If you press CTRL+Q it brings up a statistics screen it brings up what is being demanded (by other factories or your population) vs. what is currently being produced per minute. Also, selling soap to Eli is definitely a money-maker but potatoes are not as worthwhile.

Also, steel is a pretty expensive process in the early-game so it's usually recommended to just buy some from traders until you get a more robust economy.

That said, I love watching your Cities: Skylines playthroughs so I'd love to see some Anno 1800!

[firematt]

This is the most insane approach to Anno I've ever witnessed. I am simultaneously impressed and infuriated.

[matt]

Doesn’t matter what game Phil plays, Myrtle always finds him 🔥

[kristoffernorman]

Episode 2, please!
Tip: there is a tab which shows the production/consumption ratio! Press the income status on the top left ingame and from there you can find the tab for production/consumption ratio which is a huge help to balance the economy. Don't forget to take islands early either, since capturing/buying from an NPC is very difficult unless if you are a much higher "tier" then them!

[einfachlasse]

Really nice to see someone play the game with such an unusual building style.
A few tips i havent seen people post for first time players:

At world creation remove Beryl, she can be too challenging when you play for the first few times.
Trade Unions dont inherently boost anything. They need special items to do anything. Placing them without an item means they will just eat up your money and influence.
Your population can give you quests too and they are usually very easy to complete. When you spot a crowd with a star on top just click on it.
The correct ratio is actually two grain farms -> 1 wind mill -> 2 bakerys:
1 farm produces 1 wheat per minute. A wind mill turns 1 wheat into 1 flour in a half a minute. Which means it can turn 2 wheat per minute into 2 flour. A bakery turns 1 flour per minute into 1 bread. Which means you need 2 bakerys to keep up with one mill.
Fulfilling your populations needs for luxury goods is your biggest money source and should have high priority.
Silos triple! the output of animal buildings and are nearly always worth it. 1 grain farm is enough to feed 5 silos.
The A.I. players on the super small islands are considered "neutral A.I."
They buy everything from you and buy specific goods for higher prices than normal (Selling Eli Bleakworth tons of soap is a strategy some people like to use early game)
Finding Sir Archibald Blake is important, he is the guy who sells you steal beams which refresh over time. Producing them yourself is considered to be only worthwile once you reach the third population tier.
A very important thing to not stress youself too much: when you reach the third population tier, if you own all the DLC, you get bombardet with quests for new regions and other stuff. The only one that is really necessary is the one for the new world expedition, you can save the rest for a point where you got nothing else to do.

[samodiva_]

Oh I love Anno 1800! Super happy to see you discover all it has to offer and beyond! Soundtrack is also sublime!

[Onyxx]

I would watch a series of you playing Anno 1800
Edit: you dont have to click "patrol route" when you send your ship around the map instead you can just right click where it should move.
also I love how you plan your city and it looks really cool but in the beginning you should build blocks of houses and don't focus too much about aestetics since its expensive.
I really like this video and would love a series but I also want to see you succeed.

[spider]

I was thrilled when I saw this come up. Please keep playing Phil, Id love this to be a series!

[MandoF]

Watching your build fences and evaporate your money was hilarious haha

[Beninator-mtnx]

I love anno and I hope this becomes a series since it would be great for this channel. Anno can be a difficult game but I would love to see your take on it.

[ash]

Road Hierarchy comes to the 1800s. Back when lead was considered OK for you and factories popped up next to houses for workers to get to.