maybe i am just a bad multi tasker. any advise?

[endoric]

i am playing the campaign with all the expansions on advanced dificulty.

my income is over 3.5K my balance is over a milllion i have a population of 11k and no problems. i have 1 main island in the old world and two smaller ones for resources. I have a large fleet of 16 ships in the new world made up of ships of the line and frigates and I have no threats to worry about. I run any expeditions i have available successfully for the most part

I am working through The new World while keeping my old world empire up and running.

i just opened The artic, cape trelawney and Enbesa and i feel defeated lol....

How do people manage so many separate islands no less separate maps? This is Crazy.

is the only way to deal with this to basically forget about your established stuff and leave it on auto pilot? I hate that idea.

[clif9710]

Now you realize the beauty of automation and the computer that does that so very well in RL.

I think of this game as machine design. Each world is a machine. I get one running smoothly and then move to another. To my mind, getting everything to run smoothly with me acting as an occasional fireman means I have won the game. For me a big part of the enjoyment is watching the stats to see that all is well or to jump on what isn't

[endoric]

Originally posted by clif9710:

Now you realize the beauty of automation and the computer that does that so very well in RL.

let me know if you want to see my save file. I am so centralized and such a micro manager i never leave the slowest speed.

[vkobe]

ignore africa and artic

go to queen map and new world and go to north you will find continent

use hacienda in new world when you are confortable with your village or town in new world, they are huge boost, especially if you begin to miss space to build more resident

use flametrower turret, they only cost 20 canon, very effective against opponant ship, only battleship is real threat against them and yet it is pyrhic victory for battleship agaist flametrower turret if the battleship is not micro managed

try to get electricity boost for your corp building, help a lot if it is hard for you to manage your oil power plant and gas station

use silo, they are cheap and will boost animal

[Wuik]

Hello,
I have unlocked this one on May 2019 , so only with the old and new world..
But the conditions are totally changed at this day .. it was possible before to play with 2 AI one star and one AI two stars on the most difficult game ...
Anyway follow the advices given more hight.

[Eekhoorn]

Two thing to help you out:

The production screen (learn how to use/read it) and the % of production.

The green bar = current production, the blue bar = current demand, shaded means anticipated.
Use CTRL+lmb to make any selection of 2 or more islands and use the % to fine tune the production.

The beauty is you can create an equilibrium real easy. Something that was so much work (and could be so fragile) in all other Anno games.

The production screen is gold and makes keeping track of you empire that much easier.