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City Builder has Anno 1800

Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:22pm

Is there a way to follow a ship?

I'm doing an escort quest (sandbox mode) and I wish to just follow my ship, how do I do that?

I know there is that button in the ships upper left panel that jumps me to the view of the ship, but I want it to continue following until I click away.

Is this not possible? I know it's possible in a lot of railroad games of yesteryear so would think this would be a given in 2019.

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Originally posted by Nenne.:

Originally posted by City Builder:
I'm doing an escort quest (sandbox mode) and I wish to just follow my ship, how do I do that?

I know there is that button in the ships upper left panel that jumps me to the view of the ship, but I want it to continue following until I click away.

Is this not possible? I know it's possible in a lot of railroad games of yesteryear so would think this would be a given in 2019.

I understand what you mean. You want to follow YOUR ship not follow A ship.
No its not possible that i know off.

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neutrino Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:24pm

Just right-click on the ship to follow it. (Only works on friendlies, of course. Right-clicking on enemy will attack.

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City Builder has Anno 1800

Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:25pm

Thanks but did not work.

Last edited by City Builder; Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:28pm

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Nenne. Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:27pm

Originally posted by City Builder:
I'm doing an escort quest (sandbox mode) and I wish to just follow my ship, how do I do that?

I know there is that button in the ships upper left panel that jumps me to the view of the ship, but I want it to continue following until I click away.

Is this not possible? I know it's possible in a lot of railroad games of yesteryear so would think this would be a given in 2019.

I understand what you mean. You want to follow YOUR ship not follow A ship.
No its not possible that i know off.

Hanstroya

Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:45pm

Originally posted by City Builder:
I'm doing an escort quest (sandbox mode) and I wish to just follow my ship, how do I do that?

I know there is that button in the ships upper left panel that jumps me to the view of the ship, but I want it to continue following until I click away.

Is this not possible? I know it's possible in a lot of railroad games of yesteryear so would think this would be a given in 2019.

What most people do during escort quests is to have multiple ships follow the escort target. This is an automated way to succeed where you don't have to watch.
I don't quite understand what you mean. If you want to alternatively have manual control over a bunch of ships, you can click-drag the square on the screen around your ships and have them in group mode. You know it is group mode when it says "individual mode" on the button on the bottom right corner setting--it's meant to switch to individual mode. Another way to control your ships is to press ctrl or shift in selecting ship boxes in the current ships/building tab.

Last edited by Hanstroya; Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:46pm

City Builder has Anno 1800

Apr 19, 2019 @ 5:50pm

Originally posted by The Team Player:
Originally posted by City Builder:
I'm doing an escort quest (sandbox mode) and I wish to just follow my ship, how do I do that?

I know there is that button in the ships upper left panel that jumps me to the view of the ship, but I want it to continue following until I click away.

Is this not possible? I know it's possible in a lot of railroad games of yesteryear so would think this would be a given in 2019.

I don't quite understand what you mean. .

I simply wanted to follow my ship during the quest and watch or for that matter anytime that I like, such as when I have a trade route, sometimes I want to simply watch it sail from one island to the other without having to keep clicking that button to close in on it.

neutrino Apr 19, 2019 @ 10:44pm

Originally posted by Nenne.:
Originally posted by City Builder:
I'm doing an escort quest (sandbox mode) and I wish to just follow my ship, how do I do that?

I know there is that button in the ships upper left panel that jumps me to the view of the ship, but I want it to continue following until I click away.

Is this not possible? I know it's possible in a lot of railroad games of yesteryear so would think this would be a given in 2019.

I understand what you mean. You want to follow YOUR ship not follow A ship.
No its not possible that i know off.

How do you figure?

In the campaign you can anyway. I have my newly built Frigate following my primary ship all over the place. The only downside is that my frigate is slower than my primary ship, so by the time my Frigate catches up, various random pirate ship battles are usually nearly over.