BEST MAP SETTINGS For New Anno 1800 Players!

hey guys how's it going so anno is now just over two years old in that two years it has become one of the best selling anno games in the franchise ever and it shows we have a massive community for the game both on you know reddit discord facebook uh even my channel has grown and just exploded lately thanks to this game and you know i could not be happier this is a this game holds a very special place in my heart i played this game as a child and everything so i absolutely love this game and i love that i get to do this as a little side job to cover the game and make videos for you guys and get to see it be a part of this awesome awesome community but what's not always so cool is seeing so many people struggle a lot of newer and novice players that are still coming into the game to this day constantly having issues with you know starting a new game and just getting themselves absolutely steamrolled by the ai by the settings and not really knowing what they need to be doing so in this short video i just want to go over maybe some map settings and the best way i think you as a new or just a you know a learning player can get yourself uh off your feet get into a game that's going to give you the flexibility and freedom to do what you need to start learning the game and succeed so with that let's jump in and let's create a new game and let's go through the game settings what they all mean and what they mean for you as a new player alright so when you are first on the screen for now 1800 obviously the first thing you're going to go is to into the new game now you can either go campaign or sandbox all right the only difference between campaign and sandbox is the campaign has a short tutorial style quest that has a bit of a story to it essentially all the campaign is is a handholding lesson of this is how you build this is this is how you build that and this is how you do war this is how you follow ships it's kind of a tutorial i do recommend playing the campaign for the first time and we'll go through setups for both campaign and sandbox so let's do campaign first and let's show and let me show you how i think is the best way for you to start up the campaign here now i do recommend more guidance they have been revamping the guidance system so you're going to get a lot more information especially about how to expand to other islands things like that so definitely definitely want to choose more guidance we go through we can pick a portrait pick a portrait any portrait let's be margaret just for fun choose your logo and color now this right here is very important if you currently own any of the dlcs you can enable or disable them at will right here so say you want to play a game with no dlcs active that's fine unselect them however you will not be able to re-enable the dlcs later on once you're in game once you deactivate them here as this says it is a permanent choice for that saved game the only time that you can add dlc into an existing save game is if it is the first time you have purchased the dlc while you're playing that saved game or if it's a brand new dlc that has just come out so let's say that you own zero dlcs you only have the base game once you purchase a season pass season one two or three then those dlc's will then be able to be added into the save game when you load the game up and you get into your save a big pop-up window comes up fills up most of the screen and it will show any and all dlcs that you have now access to and it will ask you if you want to add them so that's only time you can add dlc in for the purposes of this video i recommend keeping all the dlc active go ahead and activate it all and i'll explain why later all right so from here you'll have a couple of options on this this stuff is just cosmetic and arbitrary now here is the part where a lot of people uh kind of run into some problems most of them click normal and they start the game and that is it they start on normal they hit start game boom done that's your first major mistake unfortunately normal difficulty can be very challenging for brand new players the reason being is this lovely lady right here in the middle that is barrel o'mara barrel o'mara is a medium difficulty ai she is also one of the more difficult medium difficulty ais she's extremely expansionist extremely aggressive and she can be quite difficult to um to keep happy when diplomacy um you know i see a lot of more veteran players like oh she's easy to keep happy just give her gifts and flatter her you're a brand new player you're a struggling player you're someone who's trying to learn the game you're not going to have a ton of money you're probably going to be broke half the time um you're not you're going to be so busy trying to understand how to juggle islands you're going to forget to go into the diplomacy screen then all of a sudden he or she is buying out shares from your islands declaring war on you and it's a disaster okay it's not fun what i recommend doing is going down here to custom okay people for some reason are scared of custom i don't know why it's not scary it's actually amazing i only do custom difficulty games so ignore these three right here create your own difficulty okay now from here let's go through these settings and we'll kind of describe what they are uh your difficulty preset is how you can set up just basic settings for your game i do recommend doing this set it to normal and then you can randomize your seed or if you want to you can go to the wiki and there are on the wiki there is a page called best map seeds and i will have a link to that in the description down below where you can find a list of various deeds that people have posted there as well as several videos from pablo 1713 where he goes over lots of different seeds the big thing about seas is to me they don't matter so much uh don't don't try to concern yourself with finding the perfect seed most of them are going to be relatively the same depending on your settings there's not a lot of difference so don't make a big fuss out of the seed set the seed number randomize it find one you might like from the internet it doesn't matter okay now since we're on campaign some things are going to be restricted we cannot change the world size we cannot change the map type okay the campaign has these locked in or the island side now if you're on sandbox you can change this to large medium or small and down here on the map type if you're again not on campaign you can change this to various different map types those map types again are listed over on the wiki please go check them out and you can see the layouts of them now island size is a bit of a misnomer and a lot of people get confused by island size island size simply means all of the islands other than the four starter islands every map is going to have four what i call starter islands they're typically they're always going to be larger islands that have the resources you need as a starting stuff they're gonna have like grain schnapps probably hops on there most likely um they might have fur they might have nighter as well they're going to have plenty of resources to get you started as well as some coal and iron and mostly most important to know that it's a starter island is it's going to have in anywhere from four to seven oil wells on it that's how you recognize a starter island as if it has oil on it in the old world those are starter islands all right the island size controls basically all the islands other than those four starting islands you're gonna have lots you can have a few more large islands you can have a few more medium islands or everything's going to be small now there's going to always be a mix you're going to always have a mix of large medium and small islands on the map it just depends how many of each okay so that's what the island size does island difficulty controls basically the rivers okay that's going to control the rivers on the island for the most part um the thing to know about islands in nano 1800 is that they are not procedurally generated okay all of the islands were hand drawn and hand crafted by the art team um at ubisoft maine's so islands are not procedurally generated the only thing that is randomized is there are two versions of an island one with rivers one without rivers island difficulty is basically going to determine how many rivers are on an island so how much building space you have so keep it on normal if you don't want a lot of rivers put on hard if you want less building space that's basically all that means fertility very self-explanatory depends it uh sets the number of fertilities on the island plenty is going to give you about four or five fertilities and sparrows is going to give you like two to three so uh plenty of re plenty of fertilities definitely what i recommend mineral deposits same exact thing keep it on plenty all right under characters this is the important screen right here as you can see normal difficulty starts us with princess ching willy and barrel omarra what you want to do here is right click them okay right click them and then go back in and add in benta and only bento if you want to you could add in princess ching she's a decent another decent one-star ai these are the um these are the two easiest ai's in the game easy ais will not expand without asking your permission first and they will never expand to another region before you go there so one star ais are awesome for that willie is another possibility you could add willie but he is slightly more uh a slightly more annoying than these two and he does have more negative traits and stuff that he does not like things you doing but for the most part these two right here are going to be easy fast friends you'll never have to deal with them going to war with you to making demands of you they will give you money left and right just because they can because they want to and they give you awesome quests that are super easy to complete so either choose one or two you can fill in the third with willy again if you want you don't have to have all three slots filled up this is what i recommend either just benta or been to inching for a brand new or a just a novice player okay under faction customization um we cannot change any of these three or the pirate well we can change the pirates but we cannot change these three traders in the campaign if you were not in the campaign you're in sandbox mode you could turn these off never ever turn the traders off unless you are going for a challenge okay the neutral traders are very very helpful don't ever disable them you know they don't expand they take up their own little islands and they never leave those islands and they provide lots of resources mata kahina supplies things like rum coffee chocolate cigars eli supplies lots of different oars like iron and coal and copper and zinc and gold isabelle supplies lots of agricultural goods in the new world and they all have certain things they buy eli bleakworth is especially popular for being um the soap king you know he likes to buy soap for an exorbitant amount and you can sell him as much as you want to and make a lot of early game cash madam kahina pays about 992 coins for a single fur coat so you could produce extra fur coats to sell them to her isabelle pays top notch for cannons and for fried plantains so you could sell those to her make a lot of extra money so always keep the traders on never turn them off the pirates are up to you you can turn them off if you want or leave them on average i don't recommend putting them on hard just either you know leave them on off leave them on average one of the two uh pirates are honestly not a big deal a lot of people are scared of pirates they're really not that big of a deal leave them on average be done with it okay under features this is another very important screen right here you basically don't want to change anything on this screen right here okay these are your basic normal settings high income no act no inactive upkeep full construction cost refunds building relocation you want turned on common trading post restocks easy city incidents and that that that's things like you know how often do fires and illnesses break out uh common quest frequency so how often the parties give you other quests and high influence so you don't want to touch any of these leave those the same starting conditions again we're under the sand we're under campaign right now so we can't change anything like our starting ships or our starting harbor but you could change things like your starting capital how much money you start with and if the map is revealed or not uh some people like to be to go and explore and find islands that's fine if you don't want to go explore turn the map on and then under victory conditions we cannot change this because again we're on the sandbox we're on the campaign this last thing right here is kind of nice because if you have some settings you like and you just want to use those settings over and over you can rename this right here to anything you uh want to name it to so say we wanted to name this um best campaign ever i can't spell best campaign sure best campaign and then we save those settings it is now saved in an xml file and if i want to i can load those settings and i type you have to type the name in and then click load settings and it would reload all of those settings okay so let's go back real quick i'm gonna get out of the campaign and we're gonna go back and do it under sandbox and kind of set those back up real quick again more guidance this is all fine that's all fine this is all fine so we're gonna go under custom right here again we're gonna set this under yes under normal we're going to leave all this as is we're going to change the map type to maybe corners under characters again we're going to do ching and binta we'll leave all this right here as is features all that as is starting conditions uh we'll let it give us a a harbor and a flagship we'll turn the revealed map on and then we'll leave the victory conditions off and that's it that this right here is what i would consider the perfect settings for a brand new game okay this what this right here does is it gives you the best options for going in and playing at your own pace all right you don't have to worry about ai expanding uh the biggest complaint to always see is oh my god barrel is literally everywhere this gets rid of barrel gets you a couple of easy simple ai's to play with and you don't have to worry about anything okay this also lets you give you a little bit of control like you know under over some other things that you might want to do like so you just want the pirates turned off you could just go turn the pirates off and be done with them again i don't think that you should pirates are really not that difficult to deal with you pay them off a little bit it's not that big of a deal but if you don't want to fool the pirates it's not a huge loss you can turn them off now the last thing i want to talk about real quick are those dlcs because we did disable we i did tell you that you can go ahead and enable all the dlcs and play them at your own pace and um that's a something that's something a lot of people struggle with is they think that oh my god the dlc is active i gotta go do it now you don't even in the campaign the dlc is completely separate from the campaign it has nothing to do with the camp the main story campaign at all do it at your own pace okay finish the campaign when you want to go do the dlcs when you want don't worry about you know just because you've unlocked a bunch of dlc content all of a sudden at the same time doesn't mean you have to go do it all at the same time you know go to the new world when you get the artisans go ahead and get your new world set up and going that's easy enough that's not a dlc of course but it's an expedition to go there once you get to uh 250 you start unlocking things like um in besa and you start unlocking at 750 artisans you get to you do the crown fall stuff you know you start unlocking all that but you don't have to go do it yet get your make sure you're comfortable with what you're doing before you start expanding out to other regions more regions means more things going on means more islands to manage so do it when you're ready having these two ai right here is going to make that very very easy to do because you don't have to feel pressured that you're going to lose out on islands to someone like barrel okay if you're curious about when the ai's other than the two the one star ai is of course but you're interested in when the ais do expand other regions i do have a video for that it should be showing up in the upper right of your screen right now under the little info card or it will be down in the description below about the ai expansions and stuff alright so with that guys that is just my little overview for how your game's settings uh your game settings should be set up if you're a newer player or if you're struggling to beat the game and you're having trouble with the ai and stuff like that that's what i reckon this is what i recommend doing this is how i would set up the game and what i would do i would do this for either campaign or sandbox make your choice it doesn't really matter there is a a misconception that like bright sands and ditch water are unique islands that you cannot get in anywhere anywhere else that is incorrect you can get those islands as randomized islands in your game just depends on the seed i've had some say hey what seed should i use to get you know those islands on i don't know i i randomly see them i don't i don't keep track of seed numbers uh you can go and watch some of pablo's videos he might point them out but ditch water and bright sands do show up as islands in sandbox games they're not tied to the campaign so if you really like bright sands uh you can go get that actually if you go and check out my season three anti-crown falls let's play series i do have a full rundown of the map settings i'm using on that one it's an island arc map and it does have bright sands as a buildable island on it so if you're interested in building on bright sands in something other than the campaign there's an option for you all right guys with that thank you so so much for watching i hope this video helped you out if it did be sure to leave a like down below leave a comment if you have questions or you're curious about anything like that or be sure to uh check out our discord server the link is also down in the description we would love to have you there and we would be happy to answer all sorts of questions you might have alright guys with that take care have a great day and i will see the next video you

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Length: 21min 3sec (1263 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 22 2021