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
I'd love to see you do a peaceful playthru where you actually engage in some historical city-building and evolution of cities as industries evolve and change
@@manareyoucereals how? This game is jam packed with feature and there is a LOT of things to do, you are not only building cities and industries but also manage trade routes, settle on other island and other completely different region/map, trade with or go on war with npc, build defensive structure and war ships, etc. DLC also adds tons of features like brand new region of africa and artic, skyscrapper, tourism, airships, and many other things.
@@dimasdwiki6146 I don't think it's a boring game, but it's not a city builder: Anno is a logistics game that put in city decoration, partially because the late game wasn't well thought out initially. Not sure what they've done with updates the last year or so, but personally, I'd rather see more Verde beach and stuff on the new CCPs from this channel than Anno grinding...
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!
@@general_wcj9438 same idk how to beautify my cities so i love seeing him to do it. But cmon he should've known that industries should be as close to their resource
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.
@@CityPlannerPlays glad I can help! The stats screen also includes population details, finances, even trade route times indirectly, for each island you have. Ive played since Land of Lions DLC and I can tell you this game has been absolutely amazing, especially if you have all the DLC.
@@CityPlannerPlays here is some tips that i think it well help you : 1-DON'T produce steel it is so expensive and you can just buy from sir archibald and it's much cheaper than making the steel production chane 2- the best thing you can sell is selling soup to elli he buys soup at a very high price 3- higher level homes pay more money for your products 4- you can make your self at first person view if hit ctrl+shift+R 5- you can open the statsitcs meneu if you hit ctrl+Q it is very important and will help you know what you are over producing and under producing 6-make sure all services are covering all homes 7-there is a copying tool you will found it in the left corner with other tools like the relocate tool , the copy tool is very handy and you can copy more than one thing by draging just like in move it mod in cities skylines and that's it
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.
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.
And you can use ctrl+q to see if you produce enough / are using the right building ratios. Also Tradunions and all other boosting buildings should only be used in conjunction with Items
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.
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 :)
well, yeah, at the start you have to be efficient, that allows you to become fancy later. I saw some pretty amazing, well decorated cities in Anno. And built some too.
If you're looking for another series that's super long but is also mainly focused on beautification, check out What Darren Plays (Iirc) he has an insane number of videos where he throws efficiency to the wind and makes some gorgeous cities.
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!
Thank you so much for this comment, I spent hours exploring my cities yesterday :D. You can actually ride the bicycles, cars etc as well, though not ships as far as I can tell.
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!
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!
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.
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.
I discovered your channel only a few days ago, and literally the first thing i searched is have you have played Anno 1800, and you did not had any videos from it. And yet here it comes. Awesome!
YES.... FINALLY!!!!! Can't wait to watch this!!! You'll love it! Btw you should really group your industries together, the further away your saw mill is to your lumber yard for example, the longer it will take to produce that product. PLEASE FINISH THIS LETS PLAY!!!
I'd love to see more of this! I would suggest slowing down a bit and focusing more on the aesthetics since making nice-looking cities is my favorite thing about your channel!
Please please continue this as a series! Love anno. I am more of a hyper efficiency builder, so love to see your approach on things, in these types of games!
I just got this game last week! And I thought to myself, I wonder if City Planner Plays would get his hand on this one. I would also love to see you try Farthest Frontier!
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.
I really loved this video and I'm glad to see the Anno devs went with an old-style Ceasar method of determining availability of a resource to the houses. This video was also refreshing because you weren't trying to cram as much as possible into as little space as possible like a lot of the other Anno 1800 LPs I've checked out.
I really hope this video is successful because I want to see more of this even though this isn't a game that I see myself playing. I can't wait to see what you do with this city!
Have had this game in my library for so long that I can't even remember when I bought it. LOL Was a huge fan of the original Anno and played it for hours. Then they went futuristic and I lost touch. Excited to get back to this one. But CPP, you're literally the best preview-master-guru-gamecityplanner on YT. I love that you do rehearse things before you jump into providing a preview of the game literally down to how to say Schnapps. LOL Thank you for the awesome videos.
I watch your videos because I do like them, and also your voice is crazy soothing and stops all the random thoughts I have constantly and helps me sleep.
Hey! Love to see you playing things and especially happy to see you with Anno, which I absolutely love. Your village is beautiful, as they always are, however your strategy is not quite ideal. With production chains, you should really have the production building positioned between the resource and the warehouse/harbour - this is to shorten the distance that the horse carts have to move, because there is a limited number of them. Your sawmill being so far away from the lumberjack is just making the horse cart spend longer in collecting the resource - it should be midway between the lumberjack and the harbor or the nearest warehouse. Additionally, population will not be angry about not having a product until you actually unlock it - ie, when you had 100 population, they were perfectly happy without fish because they did not even know it was a thing in their little universe (I know, doesn't make much sense, but true story). So, be careful of growing the population too fast, past a specific unlock milestone before you actually have enough money to buy and maintain those production buildings. Once the need is unlocked, you want a significant part of your population to have their needs 100% satisfied so that they may upgrade - the houses will never fill unless all needs are full. Finally, be careful of building so near the coast - coastal real estate is precious and as time goes by, you will really need it to expand your harbor. Those can become truly humongous especially when you have shipyards as loads of fishing harbors, etc. With that said, your settlement is SO much prettier than all the ones I ever tried. When you reach the point of the game when there are tourists, it's going to be a hit for sure. Just maybe consult some of the production chain strategies - once your population is huge, those become very hard to balance, so better get it right from the start. Source: soooooo many hours playing this game it's not even funny.
The joke around 15 minutes in about people in Madison liking the bar reminded me of a great Charlie Berens joke in his last special. He's setting up a joke about how nobody other than people in Wisconsin say bubbler instead of drinking fountain, and he starts off by asking "When you're thirsty, where do you go?" and the whole crowd yells "the bar!". Charlie replies "oh cripes I forgot I was in Wisconsin". Anyway, great video! The game looks pretty fun.
😁😁😁 I literally started playing anno 1800 2 days ago, and now see you put up a video on it🥳 It would be awesome to keep this series going. Just a few tips (if I may) Use ctrl+Q to see statistics of your production line, this helps a lot with balancing the budget. Every anno start has to start with a huge population, so try less decorating(I know it's nice, but not effecient), and it saves on the budget early on. You don't need to set your ship on a patrol rout to send it somewhere, you can rather just click the right mouse button at the spot you want to send it. Combine shift and RMB to chain your ships locations (this helps a lot with exploring) Talking about exploring, you can just right mouse click on any point on the minimap, and your ship will go there. Lastly, do as many quests as you can in the early game for this is an easy way of getting quick cash, and sometimes valuable items/people that you can use in your ships/buildings. If someone don't give you a quest, you can click on any ship with a starbon it, or sometimes citizens in your city gives a quest, just look for the star and click on it. Sorry for all this, but it's just some basics of anno I wish I knew when I started the game. Good luck and keep up the great work
Oh wow!!! When I saw this I was so glad this morning!!! Because of the console edition that just went out last week on PS5 I was a little sad to put aside a little bit my Verde Beach watch to get some Anno 1800 elsewhere but now that Phil is doing a series (I hope), it's just great! Thx I will enjoy for sure!
i literally subbed your channel for 2 things: 1: to learn better ways to build in City Skylines. 2: in the hopes you'd one day play this game!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Hoping you continue this as a series! I love your content in CS, but I'd love to see you starting to tackle other games. That way, you don't get burnt out (and the community doesn't either) with the same game.
Excited to see you play this game Phil. Note, the more citizens that are not working the more money you make as long as their needs are met. It's a weird mechanic imo. You'll see it when you click on your income in the top left tab, it'll show the citizens as a plus and your maintenance as a negative. Each citizen type also gives you higher income. Hope this helps. Cheers!
This is one of my favourite games and I love to see you playing it! This makes me so happy. :) I also really enjoy your building style. This game is perfect for building beautiful little worlds.
I saw another youtuber I follow start playing this and immediately wondered if you'd be interested in a game like this. So imagine my surprise when you released a video! I would definitely enjoy more of this game from your perspective, that's for sure!
Oh! I commented you should try this months ago, as I'd be curious to see what kind of city you'd build. I'm so glad you tried it! Thanks for this Phil!
Evidently The Phantom of the Opera originally had a full face mask like that, that's why all of the promotional art also has the full face (they changed it after and weren't about reprint everything), but they ended up deciding on half face because it was harder to see emotion the other way. Of course, V for Vendetta came in later and showed everyone that you don't have to see a face at all to convey emotion, but that was their thinking with the Phantom
This pleases me greatly! I’ve played the other Anno games and have been eyeing this one with hunger. Now I know I definitely want it. I’m glad you seem to like it!
I only just realized U did this Ann1800 video a while back. It may feel overwhelming at first, but everything is well explained within game and U pick up things over time. Your building style is by no means optimal in terms of efficiency, but it's beautiful and unique and I think Ur audience would love to see some other games added to Ur "portfolio". Settings can be adjusted in sandbox mode so it becomes a story driven city builder with side missions and such without real danger from competitors or pirates (easy/creative mode). Please consider making more videos in Anno1800 or even small series.... pretty please ... please ;D
After finishing the game (erudits, skyscrapers, all continents,...) I went into creative mode and I had no ideas for creating a beautiful city You just gave me part of the solution, many thanks for your creativity
This reminds me of Zeus:Master of Olympus and I love it! Just downloaded the game from steam and after I figure out how to alleviate my traffic jams in cities skylines, I'm here baby
This is amazing! I’ve watched a lot of anno gameplay from different creaters but it can be very overwhelming with all the content this game has to offer. I really enjoy your simple style (just as in CS)and that you are focusing a lot on decorating and cosmetics. I hope to see more anno from you.
Really loved this! I hope you can make a series for this, too. I really love that you take the time to decorate. I've seen so many plays that just uses dirt roads all around. Dirt roads are not decor! lol
I've never heard of this game and I may go download it now haha. I'd love to watch you keep playing this - but next time please don't forget to include the brief city tour (to take inventory of the things we've done)!
What’s the likelihood that we get an Anno series? I really enjoyed this video when it came out and have been hoping for more! Also, just love all of your content… so good!
Yes! Please stream this. I love that you’re trying new things out and keep doing what you like doing. I’ve also love to see you play civ on a stream or actually anything. Keep up the good work.
I actually started off my passion with urban planning as a pretty young kid with ANNO 1503. I was something like 3 or 4 when my dad introduced me to the game, and although I was not good at all (stayed that way for many years 😂) I never lost interest in planning. Thank you for playing my favorite childhood series!!
I love me some Anno! I've been playing since Anno 1602! I realize this is a sponsored video but if you're open to trying out new games I feel obligated to mention Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. It's still in Early Access but it has you designing everything from housing blocks down to sewer and waste removal and all the industry connections in between. I'd really like to see you give that a go!
Amazing, never played this game but watched more people play it in RUclips. Please more , more more of this. Plus I want to compliment on your voice, it sounds relaxing. Makes it easy to Watch.
My first idea starting out into the video: finaly a beautiful realistic city, not a min-maxed megahub. Your approach is so wastly different to the other yt'ers which i watch Anno at... they all maximized efficency over their game experience... you go for realism, beauty... a slow approach. Love it. :) I mean... in Anno 1800 at the end every city looks beautiful anyways. But you know what i mean.
I recognize how late I am, but I kinda hope you continue this playthrough. You got me excited about Cities again, and this is my favorite city builder of all time - maybe only eclipsed by Anno 2205 (Just because I'm a sucker for the scifi aesthetic)
While I live for the City Planning in other games, this came close to giving me a heart attack lol Interesting play! Much love from a fellow Wisconsin player!
I would love to see you stream this game sometime! Unfortunately missed the Steam sale and its back to $59.99 :( but with my passion for city building sims I added it to my Steam Wishlist and will scoop it up when it goes on sale again, or when i have the excess funds to "treat myself"; thank you for introducing me to yet another amazing looking city builder Phil! (Greetings from Wisconsin:))
This was great ! Phil, how does it feel to be a beginner player again ? Lots of new game mechanics to learn and master. That's fun to watch ! I hope this becomes a series, i'd love to see you play this game more, i like it so far and now i want to play it too 😏
I see other have already given you good tips like the Ctrl+Q menu, but as you enjoy ornaments and making pretty neighborhoods etc, here's a shortcut I'm sure you'll appreciate: Ctrl+Shift+R puts you in FPS mode on your island so you can walk around and admire your village.
PLEASE tell me you're going to do a full series on this game... This video clearly got a lot of attention, and I would love to see your perspective in a game with a wider objective range than Cities Skylines. Hope to see more soon! Cheers!
Anno is a really great game, I'm glad you played it a bit. But the name of the game at the start is efficience. Later you can pretty it up however you like, you have tons of options for that. But First make the necessary supply chains, with the shortest possible travel time from the producing buildings and warehouses. ps: the campaign is really helpfully made to familiarize players with the mechanics.
It wouldn't be your city without the occasional fire. 😂 I really like that you can see the wind blowing across the wheat fields. Such a little thing that adds so much. That was a lot of fun! I wonder if I have any more funds on Steam. 🤔 Thank you!
you should 100% do episode 2! AND 3 AND 4 tip: always place the market as close to your homes as possible. this means more happiness and money. also, build a lumber production chain first to get plenty of it. It's the most essential resource. leave plenty of space for buildings that produce happiness for civilians. you want to place these as close to the homes as possible, that's why it's best to place them in the center of neighborhoods. when you unlock a new level of the residence. You unlock a new building resource and build that chain as soon as possible. Also place emergency Servies as close to homes as possible
This video got me to buy Anno 1800 and I'm really glad I did. It's a good mix of city building, RTS, and management-sim, with some nice QoL features (i.e. warehouses accessible anywhere on the island and residents don't have to travel for work). The game looks really good, too
Thats something i didnt know i would need, but now, i need all of it. Anno is a Masterpiece and with all the seasons includet a garantie for thousands of hours of fun. I love the game because it feels so german, so detailed and precise.
Man this is such a good game please do a series on it… maybe start a new city though because this one is what can I say a loss leader! I have a couple tips for you that I spotted that would be an improvement. This is so important to succeed don’t build like you build you need a compact city for your main city especially as this will make your city look 10000% times better in the late game as the buildings become more like town houses and with help with the range of service buildings! Also service buildings need to be placed by your buildings remember that there is less upkeep cost for them especially at low tier then goods so it’ll make more profit You keep putting ships on patrol routes but you can just right click on the sea with your ship you want to move and it’ll move there you can also do the same thing with the mini map. Don’t build loads of steel works as they just drain your money so buy them at the crown NPC. Remember to use shift q for production overview and you don’t have to make it one to one for things like bricks for example one clay one brick as you don’t need the full production at the beginning I’d love to see the continuation of the series and would 100 percent watch every video. Also shift ctrl R for a little Easter egg which is pretty neat. Hope this helps 😊
I think you misunderstood some concepts: - the Bread supply chain is not 1-2-1 it's 2-1-2 - the trade union only gives you bonuses if you add specialists
God, i have had countless of hours in this game, perfecting supply chains and building huge cities. It will be awesome to see what you can make out of this game, as it is a beautiful game with so much detail and possibilities!
Nice to see Anno get some attention! As someone who's more into the sociopolitical aspects of city building, having an option with a historical focus is so refreshing.
i’ve never seen someone playing anno 1800 so inefficiently… and it’s so refreshing ✌🏼
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Yeah not even Taka´s beauty building citys are that inefficient.
I thought you were exagerating and then I saw him place the first houses and had to pause the video from shock. You weren't lying and I'm here for it.
You haven’t seen me play it yet😂 I’ve went bankrupt 7 times in a row and can’t figure it out😂😂
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
I'd love to see you do a peaceful playthru where you actually engage in some historical city-building and evolution of cities as industries evolve and change
SAME REACTION. V hype for a new series!!
it is also super boring!
@@manareyoucereals how? This game is jam packed with feature and there is a LOT of things to do, you are not only building cities and industries but also manage trade routes, settle on other island and other completely different region/map, trade with or go on war with npc, build defensive structure and war ships, etc. DLC also adds tons of features like brand new region of africa and artic, skyscrapper, tourism, airships, and many other things.
@@dimasdwiki6146 I don't think it's a boring game, but it's not a city builder: Anno is a logistics game that put in city decoration, partially because the late game wasn't well thought out initially. Not sure what they've done with updates the last year or so, but personally, I'd rather see more Verde beach and stuff on the new CCPs from this channel than Anno grinding...
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!
Can confirm. My eye is twitching
Right! It's so refreshing and makes me wanna play it like that too :3
Part of my brain triggered very hard
The focusing on ornaments and spreading out the city was nice, but man, those production chains really are something else
@@general_wcj9438 same idk how to beautify my cities so i love seeing him to do it. But cmon he should've known that industries should be as close to their resource
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.
Oh, I didn't know this! Now I want to jump in and play right now, lol!
@@CityPlannerPlays glad I can help! The stats screen also includes population details, finances, even trade route times indirectly, for each island you have. Ive played since Land of Lions DLC and I can tell you this game has been absolutely amazing, especially if you have all the DLC.
@@CityPlannerPlaysif you like Anno, would love to see you play transport fever 2.
@@CityPlannerPlays you can enter first person view by pressing Ctrl+shift+R and admire your city in all its glory :)
@@CityPlannerPlays here is some tips that i think it well help you :
1-DON'T produce steel it is so expensive and you can just buy from sir archibald and it's much cheaper than making the steel production chane
2- the best thing you can sell is selling soup to elli he buys soup at a very high price
3- higher level homes pay more money for your products
4- you can make your self at first person view if hit ctrl+shift+R
5- you can open the statsitcs meneu if you hit ctrl+Q it is very important and will help you know what you are over producing and under producing
6-make sure all services are covering all homes
7-there is a copying tool you will found it in the left corner with other tools like the relocate tool , the copy tool is very handy and you can copy more than one thing by draging just like in move it mod in cities skylines
and that's it
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.
Lets go Phil
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.
And you can use ctrl+q to see if you produce enough / are using the right building ratios. Also Tradunions and all other boosting buildings should only be used in conjunction with Items
Boy I wish I saw your advice earlier. LOL
Nice tips
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.
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 :)
well, yeah, at the start you have to be efficient, that allows you to become fancy later. I saw some pretty amazing, well decorated cities in Anno. And built some too.
If you're looking for another series that's super long but is also mainly focused on beautification, check out What Darren Plays (Iirc) he has an insane number of videos where he throws efficiency to the wind and makes some gorgeous cities.
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!
Thank you so much for this comment, I spent hours exploring my cities yesterday :D. You can actually ride the bicycles, cars etc as well, though not ships as far as I can tell.
This is the most insane approach to Anno I've ever witnessed. I am simultaneously impressed and infuriated.
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!
Doesn’t matter what game Phil plays, Myrtle always finds him 🔥
lol
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!
Oh I love Anno 1800! Super happy to see you discover all it has to offer and beyond! Soundtrack is also sublime!
Completely agree! I was going to replace the music, but it's just so good!
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.
I was thrilled when I saw this come up. Please keep playing Phil, Id love this to be a series!
I loveeee this! The way you handled the newspaper is definitely the start of a new CPP persona lol! Really enjoyed this so much!
This should be awesome, I can't wait. I hope this becomes a series.
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.
I discovered your channel only a few days ago, and literally the first thing i searched is have you have played Anno 1800, and you did not had any videos from it. And yet here it comes. Awesome!
One of my favorite game series of all time. Been playing since 1602. Please do more of this series!! There is SO MUCH to this game. Love it!
YES.... FINALLY!!!!! Can't wait to watch this!!! You'll love it! Btw you should really group your industries together, the further away your saw mill is to your lumber yard for example, the longer it will take to produce that product. PLEASE FINISH THIS LETS PLAY!!!
Watching your build fences and evaporate your money was hilarious haha
I'd love to see more of this! I would suggest slowing down a bit and focusing more on the aesthetics since making nice-looking cities is my favorite thing about your channel!
Please please continue this as a series! Love anno. I am more of a hyper efficiency builder, so love to see your approach on things, in these types of games!
I just got this game last week! And I thought to myself, I wonder if City Planner Plays would get his hand on this one. I would also love to see you try Farthest Frontier!
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.
I really loved this video and I'm glad to see the Anno devs went with an old-style Ceasar method of determining availability of a resource to the houses. This video was also refreshing because you weren't trying to cram as much as possible into as little space as possible like a lot of the other Anno 1800 LPs I've checked out.
I wished he crammed as much as possible for his starting village then make a proper town while slowly upgrading the starting village
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.
Just finished clocking 300 hours after picking this up during the winter sale last year. Super looking forward to an Anno Series
Yay! I love that you're playing Anno! You should try 2077 sometime!
i have hundreds of hours in anno 1800 on the PC. i LOVE it!!!!! i was SOOO excited when this video popped up! thank you Phil, you will love this game!
Well deserved that you got that sponsoring. Would be really cool to see you getting more into Anno, you do have a unique approach to these games.
I really hope this video is successful because I want to see more of this even though this isn't a game that I see myself playing. I can't wait to see what you do with this city!
You are Gorgeous.
@@StanHowse Hello, thank you! You're very kind ☺
Have had this game in my library for so long that I can't even remember when I bought it. LOL
Was a huge fan of the original Anno and played it for hours. Then they went futuristic and I lost touch. Excited to get back to this one.
But CPP, you're literally the best preview-master-guru-gamecityplanner on YT. I love that you do rehearse things before you jump into providing a preview of the game literally down to how to say Schnapps. LOL
Thank you for the awesome videos.
I watch your videos because I do like them, and also your voice is crazy soothing and stops all the random thoughts I have constantly and helps me sleep.
Hey! Love to see you playing things and especially happy to see you with Anno, which I absolutely love.
Your village is beautiful, as they always are, however your strategy is not quite ideal.
With production chains, you should really have the production building positioned between the resource and the warehouse/harbour - this is to shorten the distance that the horse carts have to move, because there is a limited number of them. Your sawmill being so far away from the lumberjack is just making the horse cart spend longer in collecting the resource - it should be midway between the lumberjack and the harbor or the nearest warehouse.
Additionally, population will not be angry about not having a product until you actually unlock it - ie, when you had 100 population, they were perfectly happy without fish because they did not even know it was a thing in their little universe (I know, doesn't make much sense, but true story). So, be careful of growing the population too fast, past a specific unlock milestone before you actually have enough money to buy and maintain those production buildings. Once the need is unlocked, you want a significant part of your population to have their needs 100% satisfied so that they may upgrade - the houses will never fill unless all needs are full.
Finally, be careful of building so near the coast - coastal real estate is precious and as time goes by, you will really need it to expand your harbor. Those can become truly humongous especially when you have shipyards as loads of fishing harbors, etc.
With that said, your settlement is SO much prettier than all the ones I ever tried. When you reach the point of the game when there are tourists, it's going to be a hit for sure. Just maybe consult some of the production chain strategies - once your population is huge, those become very hard to balance, so better get it right from the start.
Source: soooooo many hours playing this game it's not even funny.
I’m so happy you’re playing this game. I love this game and your gameplays so. Perfect combination
God I love the Anno games. And seeing you play them is even better
The joke around 15 minutes in about people in Madison liking the bar reminded me of a great Charlie Berens joke in his last special. He's setting up a joke about how nobody other than people in Wisconsin say bubbler instead of drinking fountain, and he starts off by asking "When you're thirsty, where do you go?" and the whole crowd yells "the bar!". Charlie replies "oh cripes I forgot I was in Wisconsin". Anyway, great video! The game looks pretty fun.
😁😁😁
I literally started playing anno 1800 2 days ago, and now see you put up a video on it🥳
It would be awesome to keep this series going.
Just a few tips (if I may)
Use ctrl+Q to see statistics of your production line, this helps a lot with balancing the budget.
Every anno start has to start with a huge population, so try less decorating(I know it's nice, but not effecient), and it saves on the budget early on.
You don't need to set your ship on a patrol rout to send it somewhere, you can rather just click the right mouse button at the spot you want to send it. Combine shift and RMB to chain your ships locations (this helps a lot with exploring) Talking about exploring, you can just right mouse click on any point on the minimap, and your ship will go there.
Lastly, do as many quests as you can in the early game for this is an easy way of getting quick cash, and sometimes valuable items/people that you can use in your ships/buildings. If someone don't give you a quest, you can click on any ship with a starbon it, or sometimes citizens in your city gives a quest, just look for the star and click on it.
Sorry for all this, but it's just some basics of anno I wish I knew when I started the game.
Good luck and keep up the great work
Oh wow!!! When I saw this I was so glad this morning!!! Because of the console edition that just went out last week on PS5 I was a little sad to put aside a little bit my Verde Beach watch to get some Anno 1800 elsewhere but now that Phil is doing a series (I hope), it's just great! Thx I will enjoy for sure!
i literally subbed your channel for 2 things:
1: to learn better ways to build in City Skylines.
2: in the hopes you'd one day play this game!!!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH
I love how creative you play! Most people play more focused on effiency.
Please continue with Anno, you are only scratching the surface of even the basics of the game. Really fun video to watch!
Hoping you continue this as a series! I love your content in CS, but I'd love to see you starting to tackle other games. That way, you don't get burnt out (and the community doesn't either) with the same game.
Play this more. Make it I to a series. This was super fun to watch!
Excited to see you play this game Phil. Note, the more citizens that are not working the more money you make as long as their needs are met. It's a weird mechanic imo. You'll see it when you click on your income in the top left tab, it'll show the citizens as a plus and your maintenance as a negative. Each citizen type also gives you higher income. Hope this helps. Cheers!
This is one of my favourite games and I love to see you playing it! This makes me so happy. :)
I also really enjoy your building style. This game is perfect for building beautiful little worlds.
I hope this will be the start of a series. An Anno 1800 version of Verde Beach.
Much love from Germany
I saw another youtuber I follow start playing this and immediately wondered if you'd be interested in a game like this. So imagine my surprise when you released a video! I would definitely enjoy more of this game from your perspective, that's for sure!
Oh! I commented you should try this months ago, as I'd be curious to see what kind of city you'd build. I'm so glad you tried it! Thanks for this Phil!
Evidently The Phantom of the Opera originally had a full face mask like that, that's why all of the promotional art also has the full face (they changed it after and weren't about reprint everything), but they ended up deciding on half face because it was harder to see emotion the other way. Of course, V for Vendetta came in later and showed everyone that you don't have to see a face at all to convey emotion, but that was their thinking with the Phantom
This pleases me greatly! I’ve played the other Anno games and have been eyeing this one with hunger. Now I know I definitely want it. I’m glad you seem to like it!
I only just realized U did this Ann1800 video a while back. It may feel overwhelming at first, but everything is well explained within game and U pick up things over time. Your building style is by no means optimal in terms of efficiency, but it's beautiful and unique and I think Ur audience would love to see some other games added to Ur "portfolio". Settings can be adjusted in sandbox mode so it becomes a story driven city builder with side missions and such without real danger from competitors or pirates (easy/creative mode). Please consider making more videos in Anno1800 or even small series.... pretty please ... please ;D
Hoping to very, very soon!
I think you'd enjoy the ctrl+shift+R hidden feature that lets you walk around your town
Are you aware there are quests in the first person mode, you can only complete them in first person mode
@@jeeleal5084 those quests a cool, after you complete them you can pee everywhere you want to do firework! Only in first person mode sadly
After finishing the game (erudits, skyscrapers, all continents,...) I went into creative mode and I had no ideas for creating a beautiful city
You just gave me part of the solution, many thanks for your creativity
youve done this beautiful game justice with the video! please dont stop with this series!!
This reminds me of Zeus:Master of Olympus and I love it! Just downloaded the game from steam and after I figure out how to alleviate my traffic jams in cities skylines, I'm here baby
This is amazing! I'd LOVE to see a series with this and things like Transport Fever!
as a fellow Philip (Not to be confused with the creepy old guy named Phillip), I appreciate the lover of horses reference
This is amazing! I’ve watched a lot of anno gameplay from different creaters but it can be very overwhelming with all the content this game has to offer. I really enjoy your simple style (just as in CS)and that you are focusing a lot on decorating and cosmetics. I hope to see more anno from you.
Olbrich Beer Garden?? That place is my favorite! Love all your videos! As a Madison resident myself, always enjoy your tidbits about home 🙂
I didn’t know I needed this!!! Thank you for playing Anno! This brought back so many memories!
Really loved this! I hope you can make a series for this, too. I really love that you take the time to decorate. I've seen so many plays that just uses dirt roads all around. Dirt roads are not decor! lol
Yes, please keep building in Anno. I just bought it after watching you.
I've never heard of this game and I may go download it now haha. I'd love to watch you keep playing this - but next time please don't forget to include the brief city tour (to take inventory of the things we've done)!
What’s the likelihood that we get an Anno series? I really enjoyed this video when it came out and have been hoping for more!
Also, just love all of your content… so good!
Yes! Please stream this. I love that you’re trying new things out and keep doing what you like doing. I’ve also love to see you play civ on a stream or actually anything. Keep up the good work.
My prayers has been listened! Thanks for making this video!!!!!! Please make a huge series like verde beach.
so glad to seeing you playing this game! i have been an Anno 1800 addict for the past few weeks LOL
I actually started off my passion with urban planning as a pretty young kid with ANNO 1503. I was something like 3 or 4 when my dad introduced me to the game, and although I was not good at all (stayed that way for many years 😂) I never lost interest in planning. Thank you for playing my favorite childhood series!!
I love me some Anno! I've been playing since Anno 1602!
I realize this is a sponsored video but if you're open to trying out new games I feel obligated to mention Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. It's still in Early Access but it has you designing everything from housing blocks down to sewer and waste removal and all the industry connections in between. I'd really like to see you give that a go!
Amazing, never played this game but watched more people play it in RUclips. Please more , more more of this. Plus I want to compliment on your voice, it sounds relaxing. Makes it easy to Watch.
My first idea starting out into the video: finaly a beautiful realistic city, not a min-maxed megahub. Your approach is so wastly different to the other yt'ers which i watch Anno at... they all maximized efficency over their game experience... you go for realism, beauty... a slow approach. Love it. :)
I mean... in Anno 1800 at the end every city looks beautiful anyways. But you know what i mean.
I recognize how late I am, but I kinda hope you continue this playthrough. You got me excited about Cities again, and this is my favorite city builder of all time - maybe only eclipsed by Anno 2205 (Just because I'm a sucker for the scifi aesthetic)
While I live for the City Planning in other games, this came close to giving me a heart attack lol
Interesting play!
Much love from a fellow Wisconsin player!
I would love to see you stream this game sometime! Unfortunately missed the Steam sale and its back to $59.99 :( but with my passion for city building sims I added it to my Steam Wishlist and will scoop it up when it goes on sale again, or when i have the excess funds to "treat myself"; thank you for introducing me to yet another amazing looking city builder Phil! (Greetings from Wisconsin:))
Love Anno 1800, one of my favorite games. Excited to see where you go with it!
This is absurd. I saw this on sale and went to youtube for a let's play, and my FAVORITE city planner gaming youtube channel uploaded this yesterday!
This was great !
Phil, how does it feel to be a beginner player again ? Lots of new game mechanics to learn and master. That's fun to watch !
I hope this becomes a series, i'd love to see you play this game more, i like it so far and now i want to play it too 😏
Honestly, very refreshing!
Keep building! I had this game on my wish list for a while and immediately bought it after this. Would definitely love to see a little mini series!
I see other have already given you good tips like the Ctrl+Q menu, but as you enjoy ornaments and making pretty neighborhoods etc, here's a shortcut I'm sure you'll appreciate: Ctrl+Shift+R puts you in FPS mode on your island so you can walk around and admire your village.
Perfect timing, I am seriously looking at this. Have often wondered what it is like so thanks for this
BTW greeting from Australia
Hello!!
Aaaaa Anno!!! I'm so happy you picked this up!
PLEASE tell me you're going to do a full series on this game... This video clearly got a lot of attention, and I would love to see your perspective in a game with a wider objective range than Cities Skylines. Hope to see more soon! Cheers!
Anno is a really great game, I'm glad you played it a bit. But the name of the game at the start is efficience. Later you can pretty it up however you like, you have tons of options for that. But First make the necessary supply chains, with the shortest possible travel time from the producing buildings and warehouses.
ps: the campaign is really helpfully made to familiarize players with the mechanics.
Yaaaaassss!! Finally!!! I’ve been waiting for this!! I really love Anno 1800. Thanks Phil
It wouldn't be your city without the occasional fire. 😂 I really like that you can see the wind blowing across the wheat fields. Such a little thing that adds so much. That was a lot of fun! I wonder if I have any more funds on Steam. 🤔 Thank you!
you should 100% do episode 2! AND 3 AND 4 tip: always place the market as close to your homes as possible. this means more happiness and money. also, build a lumber production chain first to get plenty of it. It's the most essential resource. leave plenty of space for buildings that produce happiness for civilians. you want to place these as close to the homes as possible, that's why it's best to place them in the center of neighborhoods. when you unlock a new level of the residence. You unlock a new building resource and build that chain as soon as possible. Also place emergency Servies as close to homes as possible
This video got me to buy Anno 1800 and I'm really glad I did. It's a good mix of city building, RTS, and management-sim, with some nice QoL features (i.e. warehouses accessible anywhere on the island and residents don't have to travel for work). The game looks really good, too
I'm so happy to see you dip into Anno! Take a look at Anno 1404 as well, amazing game!
Love that you're playing this!!! Btw, ctrl+shift+r will let you walk around the city in first person!
Thats something i didnt know i would need, but now, i need all of it.
Anno is a Masterpiece and with all the seasons includet a garantie for thousands of hours of fun. I love the game because it feels so german, so detailed and precise.
Bro instantly made an american suburbian nightmare
Man this is such a good game please do a series on it… maybe start a new city though because this one is what can I say a loss leader! I have a couple tips for you that I spotted that would be an improvement.
This is so important to succeed don’t build like you build you need a compact city for your main city especially as this will make your city look 10000% times better in the late game as the buildings become more like town houses and with help with the range of service buildings!
Also service buildings need to be placed by your buildings remember that there is less upkeep cost for them especially at low tier then goods so it’ll make more profit
You keep putting ships on patrol routes but you can just right click on the sea with your ship you want to move and it’ll move there you can also do the same thing with the mini map.
Don’t build loads of steel works as they just drain your money so buy them at the crown NPC. Remember to use shift q for production overview and you don’t have to make it one to one for things like bricks for example one clay one brick as you don’t need the full production at the beginning
I’d love to see the continuation of the series and would 100 percent watch every video. Also shift ctrl R for a little Easter egg which is pretty neat. Hope this helps 😊
Incredible video!! I’m about to go and buy Anno 1880 now, this game play looks absolutely breathtakingly and addicting!!
I think you misunderstood some concepts:
- the Bread supply chain is not 1-2-1 it's 2-1-2
- the trade union only gives you bonuses if you add specialists
God, i have had countless of hours in this game, perfecting supply chains and building huge cities.
It will be awesome to see what you can make out of this game, as it is a beautiful game with so much detail and possibilities!
Nice to see Anno get some attention! As someone who's more into the sociopolitical aspects of city building, having an option with a historical focus is so refreshing.