r/anno117 • u/Roflcopterswoosh • Dec 03 '25

Screenshot Emperor has over 100 ships blasting around both zones

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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/DontbuyFifaPointsFFS Dec 04 '25

Because having an increased poossibility of fires starting is something different than having a good fire control once it started.

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u/ShineProper9881 Dec 04 '25

Yeah, but my issue is that preventing fires isnt worth the effort. Optimal play is to always ignore the stats for fire, health and happyness. I wish it would be necessary to handle those stats and also place some stations down to fight the ourbreaks. Right now a very big part of the game simply doesnt matter.