
It takes a bit but eventually you'll have wood/tools/stone at all your islands which is perfect for when you want to start up bread/beer/whatever, you don't have to send a ship.

You might want to have stop 4 or 5 to go back to your construction island for more goods. Once you're stabilized and ready to expand to new islands (this should be when you are looking at the orient) you should create a trade route called resupply which pulls tools, wood, stone from your construction island and dumps them at every island you own. With everything separate, it prevents storehouses from filling up and production to stop, since all your routes end with the NPC, any overspill gets sold directly for profit. In later games (where you are having to deal with nobleman) having a 'production' island separate from your population island is an absolute must, both for construction space and management reasons. Small = 3 cargo, 2 item slots and only cost 10 upkeep. Switch to an all orient fleet when you can to keep costs low. They're harder to make (shipyards require mosiacs, the orient glass equivalent). Oriental boats are cheaper and better than Occidental counterparts. here's a few off the top of my head.Īll trade routes should go from Supply->Main Island->NPC so that any overflow will be automatically sold off. I should come up with a list of things you should know or that will save you time.
ANNO 1404 ASCENSION UPGRADE
This is better than denying ascension rights because all houses will upgrade until they are citizens and then stop. I have never messed with tax rates, but it occurs to me that I can tax citizens as "happy" and they will never advance to the next level (you need euphoric to jump to the next level). If you want, you can easily game the system by creating goods and a trade route solely to sell them - Carpets, Rope, War machines all sell very well and a few factories churning out goods that go straight to the NPCs will pay for quite a lot of tax shortfall. Citizens are a great balance of annoyance and profit. In general, I block ascension rights and manually upgrade houses to citizen and then keep them there. The solution to this is to (obviously) build more housing (and the proper infrastructure/goods)Ī good indicator of issues like this is when costs get out of hand when you leave auto-ascension on and they bump themselves up to the next level before you have any infrastructure/goods ready for them - you get less cash than you did having a fully satisfied lesser house in it's place, and you have twice as many people living in the same housing square, making it worse - they're eating twice your resources and bitching at you for it. Not having a high enough population is just when you've got more auxiliary structures than your population can support - too many extra harbors or small warehouses or ships. If you're in the hole, you either don't have a high enough population or they aren't being satisfied. One quest is launched from you clicking on their church. Random buildings that you own, that they own, even if there isn't an arrow. To find quests, you have to click on EVERYTHING.
ANNO 1404 ASCENSION TRIAL
I figured stuff out by reading threads and trial and error. Give me a fucking chance to lay a road out before you start with the "NO RAODS? HOW ARE TEH PEAZENTS GOING TO." Blah. My only gripe is the text is tiny and tough to read from across the room. Actually seeing the little green line(s) that tell you a structure is connected to a road is such a nice change. Only had time to run the first part of the campaign, last one I played was the second in the series, so there's some nice upgrades.

I go next door to walmart and buy Anno 1404, and hey there's Sacred 2 for $20.

"I know, and it's fucking pathetic" They of course don't have Anno 1404, but I had to try since I still have that $10 or whatever worth of console tradeins that's been sitting on a card for over a year, since they never have anything I actually want to buy. He actually apologized and said "That rack is all we have".
ANNO 1404 ASCENSION PC
I gave my normal "I highly doubt it, I'm a pc gamer" answer. Walked into EB Gamestop and the doofus working there asked if he could help me before he saw it was me.
