Hey, thank you for some context for your personal use-case! Having some kind of "always-on" game that each of you can jump in and out at any time does indeed like a great solution for your situation.

Anno as a whole it not really built around supporting such a system (in contrast to e.g. Minecraft) but it might be something we can explore for the future, if time/resources allow.

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Heya, while you can't add AI players to an existing game, during setup of a new game you can add AI opponents.

In the setup screen where you also invite other players, keep the "options" button on your controller pressed (as displayed at the bottom of the screen). This should open a menu where you can select AI opponents.

Not sure where you got that from originally, but we are not planning something like that for Anno 1800.

As a fan of Frostpunk myself, though, the idea it kinda cool.

and I hope it stays this way until we're ready to reveal our new project. Let us have the joy of revealing it ourselves when the time is right ;)

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It's intended as a basic indicator telling you if your warehouse is filling or emptying for a specific good.

It's useful on a basic level especially in early game to see if you're e.g. running out of fish and might need to add another fishery to meet demand.

For a more detailed view, check the statistics screen (Ctrl + Q).

Certainly great to see the poll and read through some comments in this thread here.

And OP put it very well: we have both players not being a fan of huge islands and players who'd prefer us to get rid of islands and just give them large landmasses to build cities on.

For us, islands are an essential part of Anno and provide one of its core challenges: space management. The "standard" will therefore very likely remain normal islands (which, after all, also exist in different sizes) - however, that does not mean we're ruling out huge islands at all.

We certainly did learn some lessons from their implementation in Anno 1800, though, and also monitored discussions like this to hopefully find a solution that addresses some of the feedback.

To be honest, I don't fully understand what your idea is.

Do you want to allow players to decide what the needs are that need to be fulfilled? To replace e.g. fish with canned food for Farmers? Or give investors some beer instead of chocolate?

Or is it about categories, i.e. "they want food, but I can give them whatever I want as long as it's a food item"?

In both situations, there's a big balance question, since the efforts to create specific products of course greatly varies (i.e. champagne vs fish), which is currently reflected in the way these products are assigned to specific population tiers and the effects they have for the respective population tier.

That would require a very flexible system that has different values for each product for each population tier - and there are many open questions like: do Investors even get any bonus from fish, considering its super low production effort?

Sorry for that, and I'm not sure we can do something about this anymore now, but here's the Anno Union page in question in case you haven't found it:

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I'm gonna do a pro move and quote from our blog from December 2022:
"While we do not have anything concrete to announce at this point, given the popularity of Anno 1800 it should not be a surprise that we are working on the future of Anno."

This statement is still true.

No idea where you read that, but there are no such plans. We (and other Ubisoft games) only returned to Steam in late 2022.

There are absolutely no plans to remove Anno 1800 from Steam.

And regarding the subscription topic: This comment was solely related to subscription models (Ubisoft+ specifically, Ubisoft's subscription service) and has absolutely nothing to do with games that were purchased "normally".

Thank you!

Expecting at least weekly updates on your city

Anno 1800 was far too successful to be the last Anno ever ;)

Not really, or at least it's not something that I remember us receiving reports about in recent times, sorry :/