Suggested Updates

[SweaterPuppies]

Blue Byte has made some pretty amazing improvements to game play. Combining our items in the star menu. How awesome is it never having to click the star menu over and over as you blow through buffs? Remember what life was like before you could type in troop numbers into the generals? Or when you had to click over and over to make multiple batches of troops or buffs? Or what life was like before you could choose to send your adventure loot to the star menu or straight to your storehouses? And I am sure plenty of other things I am forgetting or have blocked out of my memory due to the trauma it caused. Thank you so much for all of this it is appreciated more than we can show.

But I shall be greedy and throw a few more ideas out there to update some existing features. Sorry that most of these focus on the specialists.

Settlers from Adventures

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With our star menus stacking I have been sending all adventure loot to the star menu, but my preference might change at some point so I will throw this out there again. I wish the Settlers that most adventures give you as loot would be treated like deposit refills and always go to the star menu no matter which option you picked. It made me sad every time I was not paying enough attention and I sent the loot to my storehouse in turn maxing out my population and shutting off my beloved Village Schools.

Adventure Box

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Has the mysterious adventure box ever been updated? There are fifty or so adventures now and the box only contains about a dozen. I would like to see it have a chance of everything but the follow-ups. You can raise the price a bit too to make up for the shiny new toys we can get from it.

Adventure Collectibles

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Why do the newer adventures not have a chance to drop these?

Epic Woodyard

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With level six buildings the usefulness of the epic woodyard is coming even more into question. Why not another horribly expensive chain of quests to upgrade the production some? Also with the addition of mahogany and exotic tree foresters it would make sense to add those as production chians too.

Combat Armory Pop-ups

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I really could care less when my combat armory finishes producing a stack of weapons. Preferably these pop ups could disappear entirely. At the very least may I ask you change the sound that accompanies it to the same sound as the provisions house buffs, or something new entirely. I hear that chime and I think one of my offers in the Trade Office has sold and I wander back to my computer only to be die a little on the inside every 30 minutes or so.

TO Offer and Cost

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There are plenty of ways the Trade Office interface should be updated. Short of a complete overhaul my two most desired things would be the ability to ignore specific player’s trades as there is no chance I will ever buy their one sided “deals” and the addition of a second set of filters for “cost” so that I can hide items/resources that I am unwilling to trade for anything.

Build Level “X” Building

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I do not know how feasible this is, but have an option when you go to build a new building or mine to select what level you want it to be. At the top of the building menu for have a set of tabs where you select level 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.



The building would only hang around in the queue for its initial build time, let us say 5 minutes for an iron mine and once it does that it would auto upgrade to whatever level you chose. The building menu would show the cost including all of the updates.

Perhaps it would be simpler that after a building is build you click the upgrade arrow and it asks you what level you would like to upgrade it to like such…

Customizable Top Bar

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I am sure you are tired of seeing this phrase but… "Anno lets you" change what is displayed up there… well some of it.

Rarity Search

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I have said this before, but star coins would make an excellent addition to the rarity search. A lot of people complain about the coal and the iron, I could care less but they are not rare items. How about we replace those with a chance of collectibles instead? You can still give people trash by the explorer coming back with 10 barrels instead of 200 coal. I do not think anyone will complain about the occasional banners brought back from the search.

Artifact Search

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There are a lot of buffs out there, why not add a few more to the possible loot? You could add some of the buffs that are not in the merchant like Nash Williams, Christmas Feast, Weapons Boost, or Krampus. Perhaps some of the more coveted ones that are in the merchant with a .0001% chance or something equally insanely low of getting Hide Glue, Elixers/Machine Oil, Barazek/Chocolate Rabbits/Chocolate pralines as well.

Bonus Adventure Skill

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There is already a thread about this but if an explorer can find the adventure, I believe there should be a bonus quest for it. The only ones that have the bonus quests are the ones that were around and findable by explorers when the skill was introduced. Since then the adventures you can find has changed so might as well update this as well. Also I said before instead of the “X” amount of experience you get from doing the bonus quest it can be star coins instead.

Bonus Treasure Skill

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Probably the most underwhelming of the top tier of skills, I am willing to bet that with the new resources you will not get a bonus quest to find mahogany, grout, gold bars, or platinum. I have not and most likely will not train my explorers with this, but some people do and you might as well update it to include the new stuff.

Decline Explorer Loot

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Why do I have to accept everything my explorers bring back? If my explorer brings back Wild Mary I am just going to delete it or see if someone is foolish enough to buy it. Why not hide a little icon far away from the “add to storage” and “add to star menu” buttons that just deletes the item and saves me that one step? You already have a decline trade button so I would think this would not be too difficult to implement.

Explorer and Geo Skill Trees

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I will start with my petty wish first, how about we streamline the tab some. Right now it is kind of a jumble; perhaps group the skills by what they do or what resource they target.





My second request is a big one. I loathe more than most things in this world the book requirements to open up a new skill level. Nothing makes me sadder than trying to specialize a geologist only to be forced to put manuscripts into the “Hidden Stone Stash” skill or any of the bottom tier treasure skills when I am trying to train an explorer for adventure searches. Instead of forcing you to throw manuscripts into them how about just place a limit on the individual types of books you can put into them. Perhaps something like this.



The top tier would keep its limit of picking one. You will of course still be bound by the maximum of 21 books for an explorer, but each section could have limits so you do not overpower your specialist. For an explorer you could sneak one more codex in allowing you to get the full shorten time and keep a top tier skill. Or if you want with the vast choices you can fill up the explorer with tomes. You can already max out manuscripts so that will not be a change. This way our specialists can actually be specialists. Right now the system makes as much since as the school I went to requiring me to take a liberal arts class so I could be certified to turn a wrench for a living.

Okay, I am done being greedy for now. If any one of these thoughts become a reality I would be happier than... hmm, I am not allowed to say any of the versions of this that I am thinking of so maybe go here and pick one you like.

[SweaterPuppies]

I will beg for a couple more things.

PVP and General Nitpicks

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Both of these are because I am a clumsy quick clicker.

Can we please move the rankings button somewhere it belongs? Maybe in the PVP overview menu thing?

Also the "current mission" is an outdated feature since we have those huge {annoying} pop ups covering our troops while they do something can we move the switch troops button down there. I did not mind so much at first because if you did not confirm your changes it would not dump your troops... but for some reason that was too nice and had to be changed.

[NeoOne]

Somebody must have an extreme amount of time on their hands. I do say, however, the author is not discriminatory: complains and/or berates all, without hesitation! Many of these have already been requested, some in more than one thread.

[Schnurrburt]

lol - no. Some just know, or think they know everything and are always right.

[SweaterPuppies]

Well duh, I am awesome.

[Raubhautz]

Well duh, I am awesome.

lol - Sure! Just ask yourself!

Nice wish list, btw.

[Fuscus]

I would slightly change the "Decline Explorer loot" request. Right now the Explorers are bringing back map fragments or adventure(s). Maybe they could bring back both and allow the player to chose either one...so instead of Wild Mary, you will accept the 10 fragments..or whatever qty is

[Raubhautz]

I would slightly change the "Decline Explorer loot" request. Right now the Explorers are bringing back map fragments or adventure(s). Maybe they could bring back both and allow the player to chose either one...so instead of Wild Mary, you will accept the 10 fragments..or whatever qty is

+1 - Interesting; I like it.

[Ceruhe]

So. Many. Legit. Points.

[Aurboth]

I always wanted a paper-shredder option - something to turn maps into map fragments. It would clear a lot of unused adventures from the star menu. It would be better to have it as an option after getting the map, as longer-term players already have a great number of maps they will never run.