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Both are taken into account, we want all DLC to ideally be useful at any point of your game. This is tricky, as you might imagine, yeah. But even if we're taking "late game": If you built your World's Fair and got 10k Investors, you technically are in late game, but your experience is vastly difference from someone with 500k investors.

On such a huge savegame, money will indeed not matter much anymore, but the optimization bonuses from the buffs might be interesting when chasing new records.

Wouldn't say we're super satisfied with what kind of "exploits" are possible but we're not planning any major balance changes right now. Several reasons, one is that changing the game's balance is always tricky when existing savegames rely on certain mechanics to work in a certain way. It could break savegames and would make a lot of people very unhappy. Another one is that the balance problem you mentioned is not solely tied to Docklands itself but also e.g. to certain item...

Then there were mostly likely other things that had a much higher priority to be done instead. Anno is a very feature-heavy game with a broad community that plays the game quite differently, and we have limited resources for development.

So for high-effort changes, we tend to focus on things that appeal to the broadest part of our community; alternatively, we look for "easy wins" for things that we know will only appeal to a fraction of players, but will make that group very happy.

In this case, active pause is both high effort, and something that is not top priority (see the mixed reactions to the slowed game speed announced today). Unfortunate for those really keen on it, but the truth is that game development is a long series of compromises.

Not having used the mod in question, I could not make any comparison, sorry.

That’s an interesting theory!

Because active pause while still being able to play the game would require a major rework of how the engine and game handle certain things. Such a rework is far beyond the scope of a Game Update two years after launch.

We hope this comes in handy when your entire city is on fire again :)

Relevant: https://twitter.com/anno_en/status/1393506724901007365?s=21

In these lockdown and working from home times I can definitely relate to the allure of traveling to a tropical beach, but for Season 3 we wanted to focus on the Old World, which is structurally the centerpiece of Anno 1800, and where you spent by far most of your time.

Think of the Tourists as the kind of rich young educated people journeying across Europe on educational travels that we frequently saw in turn of the century literature.

I get that everybody has their favorite place to get their news, and dislikes it when others are used. Some like Reddit, or Facebook, or the Anno Union, and I have even seen people claim that there is no point in posting anywhere but the official forums, cause that is “where everyone is”. In their defense, maybe they were a time traveller from 2001.

For us as a company needing to make money, it is important for our message to reach as many people as possible, across many different channels.

That also directly benefits you in the community, because the game being successful is what has allowed us to so far release 12 DLCs and 29 Game Updates (with a few more of each on the way) when our original plan had been to do 4 DLCs. For example, one important factor in Anno 1800’s success has been its popularity on Twitch during the betas and launch, which helped introduce it to a whole new audience who had never heard of the brand before. Of course, we still frequently see o...

As I said, it is not an active pause feature. For more previews of stuff coming with the next Game Update I would suggest keeping an eye on our Twitter channel, so knows what might be revealed there soon 👀

Yeah, that's the idea. Fun fact: The hotel's ground plate was bigger originally, but reduced to work better with residences.

Yeah, no limit on hotels. But while they can house plenty of tourists, with their size and the needs you need to fulfill, I'm not sure how useful they are for record building, tbh. Let's wait for "The High Life", though...

Indeed, as announced in last weeks blog.

We don’t have any plans to add active pause to the game, no.

If you can supply them all and have the space... you could, sure. But placing so many restaurants will take away plenty of space for residential buildings - which you want profit from the buff, after all