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Anno 117: Pax Romana – 5 Essential Tips for Beginners
This guide provides five essential tips for beginner players of Anno 117: Pax Romana, covering wood production, road and warehouse construction, understanding resident needs, increasing income, and the importance of strategic building placement.
1. 🪵 Wood Production: The Crucial First Step in Anno 117
- ✅ Wood is a vital resource for construction in Anno 117.
- ✅ Build a woodcutter in a dense forest area (with a rating of at least 100%).
- ✅ You need a sawmill to transform wood into lumber.
- ✅ Make sure all buildings are connected by roads and within range of a trading post or warehouse.
- ⚠️ It is recommended to duplicate this production chain from the beginning due to the high demand for wood.
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1. 🪵 Wood Production: The Crucial First Step in Anno 117
- ✅ Wood is a vital resource for construction in Anno 117.
- ✅ Build a woodcutter in a dense forest area (with a rating of at least 100%).
- ✅ You need a sawmill to transform wood into lumber.
- ✅ Make sure all buildings are connected by roads and within range of a trading post or warehouse.
- ⚠️ It is recommended to duplicate this production chain from the beginning due to the high demand for wood.
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2. 🛣️ The Importance of Roads and Warehouses for a Prosperous City
- ✅ All constructions must be connected by roads leading to the trading post.
- ✅ Roads allow citizens to access production buildings and transport goods.
- ✅ Warehouses are essential for storing produced goods until they are used.
- ✅ All warehouses and trading posts are interconnected, functioning as a shared storage system.
- ✅ Make sure all production facilities have a nearby warehouse.
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3. 🏘️ Understanding Your Residents: The Key to Your City's Growth
- ✅ Residents are the foundation of your city, providing population, labor, and income.
- ✅ Build residences and meet their needs to grow your city and unlock new production chains.
- ✅ Level 1 residents (Libertos in Latium) have three basic needs: food, public services, and fashion.
- ✅ Meet these needs with fishing huts, porridge stalls, markets, taverns, and the production of tunics and pios.
- ✅ By meeting basic needs, you can promote libertos to plebeians (level 2), unlocking more advanced buildings and production chains.
- ⚠️ Promoting residents replaces libertos with plebeians, which can cause labor shortages if not managed carefully.
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4. 💰 Increasing Your Income: Keep Your Economy in the Black
- ✅ It's common to have a negative balance at some point in the game.
- ✅ The safest way to increase income is to build more residences and meet the needs of the population.
- ✅ Satisfied libertos generate income, and satisfied plebeians generate even more.
- ⚠️ Avoid building too many residences if you cannot meet everyone's needs.
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5. 🏗️ Strategic Building Placement: Maximizing Benefits and Minimizing Negative Impacts
- ✅ Monitor factors such as income, health, happiness, and fire safety in the information bar.
- ✅ Smart building placement is crucial to keeping these factors positive.
- ✅ Buildings can positively or negatively affect surrounding buildings.
- ✅ Use the green (positive effect) and red (negative effect) arrows as a guide when placing buildings.
- ✅ Example: A spinner increases the income of nearby buildings, while a coal burner reduces health and fire safety.
- ✅ City watch buildings improve fire safety, health, and happiness in their area of influence.
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6. 🌐 Mastering Additional Systems for Long-Term Success
- ✅ Master systems such as knowledge to research technologies, faith to unlock bonuses, trade to acquire new goods, expansion to new islands, and war to protect your territory.
- ✅ By following these five steps from the beginning, you'll be well on your way to building a great ancient city.