Is Anno 1800 better than Anno 1404?

Is Anno 1800 better than Anno 1404?

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What's the appeal of either? Is it just futuristic/historical Sim City?

It's 396 better

It's a trade focused city builder.

I prefer 1404

No.
Royal taxes in 1800 make the game really fucking shit. Their goal was to ensure that you can't do everything on a single island, by limiting the amount of population you can have on them with tax.
It's fucking garbage.

Royal taxes are almost completely irrelevant, by the time you get to investors, money will never be an issue again. Even before that, you can just make infinite soap and sell it to the prison guy
You'll be limited by influence much more than by money

They're the same game. They've all been the same game.

Which of the sci fi Annos is worth playing? 2205 or 2070?

This. Influence difficulty can even be customized in one of the newest updates

I dont like either but people say 2070

2205 has very little on, basically a clicker

2070, 2205 is streamlined garbage

2070. I really wanted to like 2205 but it's so streamlined and feels like a mobile game at times. Naval combat takes place on a separate map in its own instance which gets boring after a few of them. Not a terrible game though, get both while they're cheap.

I don't understand decorations.
Why would I waste space on building a park which only takes resources and produce nothing of value instead of placing down housing and production? I get making space for a zoo and stuff, but who the fuck wastes space on decorations instead of making a productive and wealthy city instead?

A wealthy city can afford to be beautiful

I prefer 1800, I love 1404 but the land combat sucked. Sea combat is also better in 1800

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Raising city attractiveness

Looks pretty.

Is that real? I thought that only applied to zoos, museums and botanical gardens.

1404 has passive trading so its better

pretty sad if they haven't gotten better with almost 400 more installments

Yup all those plus ornaments.

how can they make new games now that there's no more good numbers that add up to 9

0081 roman setting

It's a production chain game. Like the old Sierra ones such as Pharaoh or Caesar.

they could go BC and make games with pheonecians or egyptians

I prefer it, they're certainly the best annos but 1800 is like an improved version of 1404

kind of but way more focused on balancing production chains and trade routes, I like it more, it's never boring and you basically never have to stop and wait for things to happen because there is always new stuff for you to do and improve up to end game cities

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That'd be interesting to be honest

I would like these games better if the setting weren't so abstract.

a future bright and gay

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Uplay+ is free for a week if anyone is wanting to check out 1800

What do you mean by abstract?

1800 is 1404 with all the best ideas from 2205 that weren't casual shit