Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery: growing hemp for fun and profit (NSF56K/H-scroll)

Drool

Oh shit this game is sitting in my mailbox right now. Stupid job all keeping me from building little towns.

Zen Vulgarity

Drool I feel you

Same here


FUCKKKKKKK

If by mailbox you mean steam

Drool

$30 is better than $50. I'm surprised it got here so quick, go USPS. Gogamer is fast becoming my favorite way to buy games if I don't download them off Steam.

ED!

I am running Windows XP, have the lastest drivers and a nVidia 9600 and this game runs, but the animations are all stuttering and jerky. The cutscenes are especially brutal. Anything I am doing wrong? As an aside, my screensaver (the 3d ones) are also incredibly jerky and off. However other games seem to run fun (Trine for example).

Drool

The opening sweep of the city in the demo was pretty terrible on my 8800 as well. But I can pan and zoom all I want in the game and maintain a solid framerate.

I'm guessing they're using some post processing effect that's slowing it down a bit in the cut scenes. Maybe the depth of field?

ED!

Drool wrote: »

The opening sweep of the city in the demo was pretty terrible on my 8800 as well. But I can pan and zoom all I want in the game and maintain a solid framerate.

I'm guessing they're using some post processing effect that's slowing it down a bit in the cut scenes. Maybe the depth of field?

No clue. I suck at the whole tech side of games. So I wouldn't even know where to look. The games fps is absolutely fine, its just the animation transitions that suck. For the people they dont move, they stutter like they are repeating frames of their animations.

Drool

Oh I didn't notice any problems with the people walking around. But then I didn't spend all that much time looking at them.

The Far Side

Hitting F1 turns it to postcard mode, which is where most people take their screenshots, and that as hella post-processing like depth of field and shit

Zen Vulgarity

Teeefs

I'm gonna play this after work

For the first timeeeeee

Should I expect anything when my cherry gets popped

The Far Side

just play through the campaign, since its the tutorial

tyrannus

placing lumberyards? use the demolish tool to remove all trees around it, and then place it. BAM - 100% productivity. works the same with coal burners.

Drool

What? Lumberyards have better productivity if they don't have trees around them?

edit: Wait I guess that's different then lumberjack huts?

ED!

Well I re-installed Windows Vista and the game runs fine now on Very High. One crash to desktop, but I'm sure there will be patches to fix that.

The Far Side

i'm guessing that they automatically cultivate trees and cap out production that way

it happens when you build one on noria-created grassland in the orient

tyrannus

yep. also I got a whole island filled with

Spoiler:

it's my first continuous game so don't be mean and I'm waiting for ornate streets.

The Far Side

there's something incredibly off about that wheat farm and I just can't place my finger on it

Drool

The maps in this game are so strange. If the world was covered with islands like that it would be crazy.

tyrannus

The Far Side wrote: »

there's something incredibly off about that wheat farm and I just can't place my finger on it

it goes - crop farm, mill, crop farm, bakery. it's a good way to save space

Drool

Do the roads just need to touch one of the fields on a farm, not the actual building?

BYToady

Drool wrote: »

Do the roads just need to touch one of the fields on a farm, not the actual building?

If a building that uses another building's production is within its area of influence, it'll send people out to pick the stuff up it needs itself, without need of roads.

ED!

So, where is all my fish going? I have two fish farms, and still only have 4 fish in the warehouse. Nevermind my wood is pitched to the roof!

The Far Side

Your people eat the fish, bro

Loomdun

wait so I dont need roads? I could just have a wheat farm, a flour farm, and a bakery all neatly tuck together and just connect the bakery with a road to a warehouse?

BYToady

Loomdun wrote: »

wait so I dont need roads? I could just have a wheat farm, a flour farm, and a bakery all neatly tuck together and just connect the bakery with a road to a warehouse?

Basically, you just need roads to get stuff to the warehouses. And in cities so your citizens can access the tavern/church/and such.

Please note I have yet to use the firehouses, so I have no clue if they need a road to get to a burning building.

Loomdun

sweeeet

The Far Side

Loomdun wrote: »

wait so I dont need roads? I could just have a wheat farm, a flour farm, and a bakery all neatly tuck together and just connect the bakery with a road to a warehouse?

if they're connected by a road to a Marketbuilding yeah

Drool

So I got the game went to install it and it doesn't read the dvd. It basically doesn't see that it's there. I think it has something to do with the DRM. It's going to be pretty ironic if I have to go looking for a downloadable version of this game to punch in my legal key.

Loomdun

poor drool

The Far Side

I think the key actually works if you use the 'add to steam' feature on steam

Loomdun

i'm so going to play the cuntinous game in like a hour from now

Drool

The Far Side wrote: »

I think the key actually works if you use the 'add to steam' feature on steam

I need to get the game on my harddive and steam won't let me do that unless i pay monies.

The Far Side

No, steam has this feature that if you have a certain sort of key, it'll add the game to your account and let it download from there

ED!

Trade routes. . .what the cheese. . .

The Far Side

Uh yeah, trade routes

they're simple to set up

'what the cheese' is probably the worst thing to post don't do that again tia

tyrannus

i am too lazy to use large trading ships so I just make the best use of triangle trade and doubling up on purchasing. one of these days I'll be able to figure out how to make it so I don't have to alter production on any factory: demand will meet supply and I will get a PhD in Economics

Loomdun

there will always be that one fatty peasant

BYToady

My supply usually outstrips demand so much that I end up with a trading ship filled to the brim with spice, endlessly sailing in circles.

Drool

I've never stolen a game in my life. Here I am looking for a download for a game I own because the DRM breaks it in my cd rom.

freakish light

for shits and giggles go to Games->Activate a Product on Steam and type in your cdkey. It might not work but it's better than torrents!

Drool

Nah that doesn't work. Only a few games can be activated that way.