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MadKraut Apr 17, 2019 @ 5:19pm
Transferring Goods from Shore to Ship
Is there a way to tell your ship to "pick up as many of item A as you can, but leave X amount in storage on the island"? I know you can sell/buy at/up to a certain limit, yet I have found no way to tell your ships on trade routes to leave a specific amount on an island.

There are so many other interesting things to do in this game, constantly having to micro-manage your storage levels gets a bit old.

Thanks.
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Nenne. Apr 17, 2019 @ 6:13pm 
yes on trade route meny when you create the route you can tell the ship that.
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Chompman Apr 17, 2019 @ 6:18pm 
Right now there is no way to keep a reserve on the island the ship is taking form so you will need to pay attention or over produce a lot to prevent it from happening.
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MadKraut Apr 17, 2019 @ 8:03pm 
Originally posted by Chompman:
Right now there is no way to keep a reserve on the island the ship is taking form so you will need to pay attention or over produce a lot to prevent it from happening.

I figured as much. Would be a nice feature, since it's more annoying than fun to manage the inventory of "supply islands". As I mentioned, there are so many other things to do in this game, it would be nice to have a bit more voluntary automation tools.
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Davy Crockett Apr 18, 2019 @ 11:28am 
It's especially bad considering Anno 2070 had this.
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Druppi Apr 18, 2019 @ 11:46am 
Originally posted by MadKraut:
Is there a way to tell your ship to "pick up as many of item A as you can, but leave X amount in storage on the island"? I know you can sell/buy at/up to a certain limit, yet I have found no way to tell your ships on trade routes to leave a specific amount on an island.

There are so many other interesting things to do in this game, constantly having to micro-manage your storage levels gets a bit old.

Thanks.
I also want to know how to do that!

*PUSH*
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MadKraut Apr 18, 2019 @ 2:24pm 
Originally posted by Davy Crockett:
It's especially bad considering Anno 2070 had this.

Really? Strange they didn't keep it ... seems like a natural thing to have in a game with a billion resources to ship around two maps.
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Ardshael Apr 19, 2019 @ 10:55pm 
This is a BADLY need feature. Very frustrating.
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Druppi Apr 20, 2019 @ 5:20am 
Originally posted by Davy Crockett:
It's especially bad considering Anno 2070 had this.
Didn't even Anno 1404 have it? :D
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MadKraut Apr 20, 2019 @ 7:32am 
Originally posted by Druppi:
Originally posted by Davy Crockett:
It's especially bad considering Anno 2070 had this.
Didn't even Anno 1404 have it? :D

Best game, ever ... not sure it had it.

The more I play 1800, the more I think this is needed. Damn this game gets BUSY in late game, can hardly keep up with three AI's, two pirates and five or six islands.

I also want a warning system to tell me when stock of manufactured goods gets low, since even running out of wood late game will kill your income suddenly. It's like playing a game of wack-a-mole!
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sockknitter May 30, 2019 @ 10:36am 
I'm going through the exact same issue. The Devs really need to fix this issue
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Goofbal May 30, 2019 @ 1:36pm 
Unless I misunderstood the question, this is possible. In the Trade Route interface where you specify the quantity of the good to load, instead set it to the amount you want to leave behind in reserve. Then, hold shift while you press Accept. You should see a plus minus (+-) next to the number amount instead of the usual +.

From then on, you trade ship will load as much of that resource as it can each time, without causing the island's stock to drop below the reserve level.
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MadKraut May 30, 2019 @ 4:30pm 
Originally posted by Goofbal:
Unless I misunderstood the question, this is possible. In the Trade Route interface where you specify the quantity of the good to load, instead set it to the amount you want to leave behind in reserve. Then, hold shift while you press Accept. You should see a plus minus (+-) next to the number amount instead of the usual +.

From then on, you trade ship will load as much of that resource as it can each time, without causing the island's stock to drop below the reserve level.

That'll do it i guess!
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sockknitter May 31, 2019 @ 7:20am 
the (+-) function doe not work properly either. For example, I've set my sewing machines amount to +-20 and the ship still picks up 50...
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Nenne. May 31, 2019 @ 7:59am 
That doesnt work for me either. It doesnt matter how much i try i just cant get it to work.
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Goofbal Jun 8, 2019 @ 7:36pm 
Originally posted by sockknitter:
the (+-) function doe not work properly either. For example, I've set my sewing machines amount to +-20 and the ship still picks up 50...

Hey, maybe you misunderstood what it's supposed to do? I probably explained it poorly. Shift-click sets the minimum amount that should be kept in the warehouse. Anything over that amount will be transferred to the ship (up to a maximum of 50 for your ship's slot until the ship repeats it's cycle). Here's an example:

You have 90 bricks in Island A warehouse and shift click it at 20. Your trade ship comes along and removes 50 leaving 40 in the warehouse. When the tradeship returns again, it will pull 20 bricks from the warehouse leaving 20 because that's the level you set it. If the amount of bricks in the warehouse never increases again, the ship will never be able to pull anymore from it. However, it will never take any more if it would cause it to go below the shift-click reserved amount.

HTH
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