currently on hold....

Click a house for one population class (peasant, citizen, noble etc.), you can move the sliders right or left.

Dark Green: people will pay the less taxes but will move inside the house to fill it it and upgrade their buildings to the next class if allowed to
Light Green: pay a bit more taxe, will fill the house in, won't upgrade houses to next level
Orange: more tax, won't move in, won't move out, won't upgrade house
Red: more tax, will with time move out of the house and/or rebel.

Taxes is actually the purpose to having population in the first place 

Basically put it in Light Green to make sure the houses get filled up, once they are filled up and you do not want to upgrade to next houses (or can't) then put it in Orange, more money, no drawbacks
Once you want to upgrade your houses, put it back to Dark Green.

You can specify this for each population class

   
thx man...
i never thought those meters meant anything except moods lol

nice. is this campaign or freeform?

Any chances that I can run this on a laptop? I don't mind setting everything to low / extremely low or even turning the extra graphic stuff off, I just want to play the game only.

Bout my laptop specs, 2GB RAM, Vista, average graphic card, and I can only run L4D on Low/Medium settings.

crap. Stuck at campaign #5. I've got the key from the SE island(with the desert storm) but not the strongbox.

I read that the strongbox is on the SW island, where Guy Forcas and his men are. But everytime I click on the shipwreck and the boxes on the island, nothing happen.

Anyone had the same problem?

i think you have to destroy guy forcas's fleet first

tell u what, anno campaign sometimes a bit buggy, look at previous page. i've had a problem with task b4 that, (where u have to defend Ibn Al Hakim from da slut marie.) be advised that u saved after every task completed.

and yeah, i think u should destroy Guy Forcas's fleet first. usually what i did to prevent the buggy is, complete the quest based on the order. which means don't skip any. if they ask u to destroy forcas 1st, do that b4 doing next task...

This game seriously graphic hunger...

HD4890 ran at MAX settings 1920x1080 8xAA 8xAF .... FPS only 40-50+ .... [on building area]... when set none AA and 4xAF.... it stables at 60FPS..... which is good as V-sync is at 60FPS only ...

And it heats up my graphic like mad... the activity always shows 99%!!!!! ... even prototype at maximum settings at 1920x1080 reso also wont go up to 99% active.. most also 70+%...

Engage war with him?

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Added on July 25, 2009, 3:08 pm

that one i can do. I engage war with marie to let the ship come. anyway, i'll try to engage war with forcas if it's the way to do so. thanks.

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Added on July 25, 2009, 3:09 pm

i use Geforce 8800GT, all on max. smooth.

mebe it's the proc. i'm on quad.

been playing it for 3 hrs. the game even reminded me it's time for coffee. 

zzzz... u run all max?? with 8xAA 8xAF and 1920x1080 reso???? 8800GT??? OMG!!!
mine max at 8xAA 8xAF and 1920x1080 reso also smooth[FPS 40-50]... but my card seems to run too hot and loud when i set it at that settings...
Btw... im using PhenomIIx4 955 Black edition ... similar to Quad Core Q9550...

zzzz... u run all max?? with 8xAA 8xAF and 1920x1080 reso???? 8800GT??? OMG!!!
mine max at 8xAA 8xAF and 1920x1080 reso also smooth[FPS 40-50]... but my card seems to run too hot and loud when i set it at that settings...
Btw... im using PhenomIIx4 955 Black edition ... similar to Quad Core Q9550...

zzzz... u run all max?? with 8xAA 8xAF and 1920x1080 reso???? 8800GT??? OMG!!!
mine max at 8xAA 8xAF and 1920x1080 reso also smooth[FPS 40-50]... but my card seems to run too hot and loud when i set it at that settings...
Btw... im using PhenomIIx4 955 Black edition ... similar to Quad Core Q9550...

by the way, the lag is continuous or certain time? For me, during naval battle, it will lag for a while, and as if it "load" the hourglass will appear for 4 to 8 secs before it resume the battle. it will only happen when you jump in to the scene of battle. Meaning you see on your minimap, you saw a battle, u click to that and the main window showed the battle.

this blardy game is cursed
Played at midnight
And just realised its 9 in the morning yesterday

Just did a quick test run with the game with Q6600 @ 3.24 GHz, HD 4890 @ 940/1135, 4GB DDR2 1066 TEAM-XtremeDark (5-5-5-12) at 1680 x 1050 resolution, 4x AA, 8x AF with all other settings set to max yields me 60fps most of the time (due to Vsync). The only thing it drops (slightly) is when it loads some of the textures while scrolling through the map but thats pretty fast (usually less than 1 secs) so that doesnt really bother me.

Another thing I would like to add is the GPU activity is always at 99.97% usage during game time and core temperature is at 75 celcius full load. Reference fan speed is around 1.7k - 1.8k RPM.