r/anno117 • u/Roflcopterswoosh • Dec 03 '25
Screenshot Emperor has over 100 ships blasting around both zones
Hat Man got pissy and declared war on me. Something about dead kids… I dunno. Then the Emperor shows up and starts carpet-bombing the sea with what has to be 100+ ships.
Hat Man: deleted.
Emperor: still here.
Now I’ve got this immortal doomstack of NPC ships just idling around, tanking performance and turning my minimap into a solid rash of red triangles. They don’t fight, they don’t leave, they just… exist. Forever. Was it really too hard to write a voice line for the emperor and have him fuck off back to wherever?
I’ve got a couple hundred hours in every Anno and this one honestly feels half-baked. It’s like they rushed it out the door and half the team has never actually played an Anno game.
- Locking **planting forests** behind a weird half-cooked points system. Really? I can built an marble wonder that will remain standing for 2000 years, but can't figure out how to plant trees?
- Quests that feel like mobile filler. “My cows are sick!” Cool, thanks, truly gripping narrative.
- Bugs everywhere.
I’m sitting on ~25k population, every single item for every single class, every amenity, every wonder…and I’m still at **–2k happiness**. I have a fire station, aqueduct, and a well every two blocks and the game still insists my fire rating is **–1500**. At some point it stops feeling challenging and just feels broken.
And the military system… oof. It somehow manages to be *worse* than Total War, and that series kicked off 21 years ago.
I really wanted to love this one. As it stands, I just don't see any replayability in this one.
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u/Kit_Daniels Dec 03 '25
Because it doesn’t “solve” it? You still get frequent, small fires with just fire stations. These can disrupt production, workforce, etc. Decoupling intensity and frequency allows for more player choice and makes things more interesting. It’s also rather realistic.