Let Them Trade

This is just a broken version of any anno game. The economy and logistics don't make sense. I highly recommend if you are interested to get it on a steep discount sale, its very repetitive and boring through the campaign where it makes you start over each level because it knows it lacks depth to drop you in the next level to continue where you left off to achieve the next stage. You could probably get 18 hours out of it, however already seeing the gameplay loop killed it for me. There is next to no challenge and the UI is fairly misleading making you believe its a very micro managed game however its very, very simple.

So, I just finished the achievements for the game after however many hours it says I've got. 87 hours on record, with the majority of it spread out over 2 weeks, and most of that time itself just having the game run while afk because some supplies take a lot of time for transporters to deliver. My personal feedback is that the game is overall enjoyable and fun for people who like city building and city management. Overall being the keyword. Pros: The game has a smooth graphical flow, the UI is simple enough for the grand majority of things, the story of the campaign is straight to the point in terms of teaching you during the first few scenarios, and it can feel satisfying to get a fully functioning map full of stuff being traded from city to city. Cons (or just my personal gripes that I think they could adjust to make it feel/look/play better): 1. The biggest pain is the inability to control or adjust the market prices. I think there's some vague market fluctuation you can control by having 1 specific town for each specific set of items, which triggers the supply and demand pricing, but at times the pricing makes no sense despite the sheer volume of items available in the whole region. I think it'd be useful to be able to go into a specific town's UI and adjust the prices manually, or leave it automatic via some sort've secondary menu. 2. This review comes right after the new mountains/water tile "reclaiming" option has become available. I LOVE that they added this in, but I think it's too expensive. Also, you can't build bridges of land or flatten a path through mountains, the tiles NEED to be against the town's main border, and you can only do this 1 tile at a time per city. I'd highly recommend lowering the material cost by at minimum 50% of the update's release patch rate and allowing this to be done via the castle's units, rather than a town's (if possible). Meaning, it's currently restricted to towns that have the resources, and to that town's adjacent tiles. Open up the map a bit for play. 3. There is definitely an issue with the gameplay if most of my time is just afking. So, my suggestion is to add an even faster time speed if it won't conflict with the game's memory or processing. If not that, then adjust the speed that "jobs" can produce what they produce. I only play the game on x3 speed because I need the wood for the carpenter's to cut wood so that I can upgrade buildings so that I can have more peasants and workers and such so that I can build the next stuff and do the next research. It takes a long time, and that part can be cleaned up. But, again, OVERALL I enjoy the game. I do also think the "needs" of the citizens is too high, and it actually bottlenecks a lot of the gameplay. Otherwise, adjust some stuff and far more players will come to check out the game!