

More affluent classes of the society will generate greater income through taxation however, the goods and services they demand can be fairly expensive.

The two major means of income in the game are taxation and commerce. To ensure that you have a thriving and sustainable colony, it is important to keep a keen eye on your coffers. Moving up the ranks of diplomatic relationship gives the player access to more advanced Oriental technology that eventually helps in advancing the English colonies up-north. Honour is earned by completing quests that vary from simple fetching missions to engaging in battle with enemy ships or exploration of unknown regions. To measure the level of diplomatic relationship, the game employs an honour system. Some of these resources are exclusively available on the southern islands of the Orient, so establishing diplomatic ties with the Sultanate becomes essential early on in a campaign. As your settlements grow, the inhabitants rise in social stature and along with that grows the demand for more goods and services. Along with developing a thriving English colony, you are also tasked with establishing settlements in the Orient through diplomatic relation with the Sultan’s Grand Vizier.Įstablishing a colony starts with locating a suitable island and providing the colonists with access to basic things like food, culture and religion. The player takes on the role of one such settler under the command of His Majesty, the King of England. The Anno series is my favorite series of all time and I would hate to see it die.The game takes place during the period when European settlers first encountered post-Islamic Arabia.

I love Ubisoft games but I know that these issues are pushing a lot of people away from them. That means they should still be supporting it. They are still selling this game, and making money off of it. Ubisoft needs to release a patch that will allow this game to take full advantage of a systems RAM. This game uses more memory than any game I have every played. The problem, I believe, is that the game is designed for a 32 bit system and as such can only utilize 2GB or memory. This usually works pretty well but is an unacceptable fix in my opinion.

What helped was turning the graphics to medium or low and creating a MASSIVE page file (50GB) with equal minimum and maximum values to force the system to create a set file size. Ubisoft is at fault here, I love this game and have been playing it for a couple years now and had to work around all these issues when I first got it. From what I understand there is no "fix".
