Anno 1800

Anno 1800 Dev Tracker




14 Dec

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As the artist responsible for building Bright Sands I have to say thank you and I am sorry :D

When I built Bright Sands generally the goal was to build it visually appealing and underlining the story (big industry area at the large harbor bleeding into the residence area, world fair in the middle, lots of tier 4 and 5 to make the island look rich and advanced, exploited forest area and the graveyard). For islands that have mainly a visual and story purpose it is much easier and way quicker to ignore the economy and the gameplay to a certain extent but of course this results in a city that cannot be fully reconstructed by the community.

It's really cool that you liked the city and wanted to rebuild it like it was before. Thanks for trying! It looks very close to it, good job!


13 Dec

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Originally posted by itistemp

I think after you open a save it takes a few minutes for the prices to get adjusted. I sold a clipper full of beer to the pirates without checking the prices first and got the standard price for beer as opposed to the higher rate they pay.

The good news: This should get fixed with tomorrow's update.

Warm & soapy money-showers for everyone!


11 Dec


10 Dec

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Originally posted by Takarazuka012

Available for 2,99€ (or your regional equivalent) this CDLC adds a new tree ornament to your game which is based on the Ceira tree you can also find on the island of La Xultuna. We are not making any money from this DLC: From each purchase, all net proceeds (that means after any fees or taxes are deducted) are going to Ecologi (at least $1/1€/1£ per purchase).

Full details near the bottom of this blog: https://anno-union.com/devblog-eden-burning-green-game-jam/

Beautifully written, thank you


08 Dec

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Season 4 is not part of any currently available edition of the game, no.


07 Dec

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Originally posted by videki_man

Just realised that I've been playing Blue Byte games for almost 30 years now. I started with Settlers 1 in 1994 and Battle Isle 2 about the same time!

That's a while! My first ones were Settlers 2 and Battle Isle 3 :p

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Originally posted by Asciana

You'll always be Blue Byte to me <3

Which is funny, since we were only "Blue Byte" for about 5 years. "Related Designs" until 2014 and "Ubisoft Mainz" since 2019.

The original "Blue Byte" studio is the one in Düsseldorf.

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Originally posted by Seilofo

The most obvious for one of the cosmetics DLC's would be last voting' third placed and excellently connected to the season "New World" pack

Spoiler: That's not it :P

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Originally posted by TbNewt

Thank you for this! Can I nitpick and point out the great work is done by the team at Blue Byte, not Ubisoft who as publishers have likely more a hand in e.g. marketing and distribution, not the ideas and development itself.

Well, we are all Ubisoft employees, and our studio is actually called “Ubisoft Mainz”, rather than Blue Byte :)

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Originally posted by Ezard94

scenarios are making their return to the Anno franchise: they plan to release at least (!) one new scenario with each DLC

If I'm not wrong, it's worth to precise that these new scenario will have the same "ecological game mode" than the one who will be out the 14 December. They will not have the classical anno 1800 gameplay.

That is not correct. Season 4’s DLCs are unrelated to “Eden Burning”.


06 Dec

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Interesting...yes.

"they do these things on purpose to mess with us" - sums it up quite nicely, yeah

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Originally posted by videki_man

Okay, so this feels a bit forced by Ubisoft instead of what Blue Byte Mainz wanted to do. Hope I'm wrong.

I think the existing game features should be improved instead of adding lots new stuff. Like making the Arctics relevant. You can easily set up a few islands there and forgot about them forever. The Expeditions are also kinda meh. Same stories repeating without real depths of the decisions. I'm glad it will focus on the New World though, additional tiers really have place in the game.

I can assure you that it is us on the team that comes up with the ideas and brings them to HQ to get approval for developing them.

I know for certain cause I have been part of presenting them to management for all 4 Seasons :)

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Originally posted by sagikage

This game is the best thing Ubisoft has done and one of the best games in its genre. I hope they never let this franchise go. We very rarely see a Triple A studio making a strategy game nowadays, that's why its also so precious to me. A big well done to everyone who worked at this project, you can tell its made with passion!

That’s very kind ❤️

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Originally posted by EliseEline

I don't know how to feel. I personally don't like them saying and acting every time as if there will be nothing anymore and then there is a new season anyway.

Doing it this way, it starts to feel like they want people to buy the newest complete edition before they say: oh here is more for you to buy after all.

I'd rather have a different form of communication. This comes off a bit wrong at this point.

We didn’t say that there would definitely not be more beyond Season 3. At the same time, the new editions come out at the start of the Season, when we don’t even ourselves know if there will be another Season in the next year. Obviously we cannot sell something that may or may not happen.