QUOTE(ssiapf @ Aug 5 2009, 12:21 AM)
how do u guys solve Chapter 8, i either running negative income and couldn't keep up the demand for the goods my population need, sometimes even riot come out. i try to plant the bread on other island but running negative income. build more homes , not enough foods and etc.
I followed a walkthru and played easy mode. Basically at start just stop my patrician's consumption of bread and beer. Then raise all taxes to yellow level. Next demolish all unused buildings. Since bread and beer are turned off, yep, I demolished all my bread and beer production buildings.
Make sure cathedral construction is halted until you complete those 2 quests that gives you the oriental worker and that thing from Marie that reduces your cathedral maintenance costs. After each phase of cathedral construction it will be halted automatically and a new form of oriental worker will be available. Make sure you obtain this new oriental worker first before resuming the cathedral construction.
When your economy gets stable, build more fishing huts/cider/hemp/spice farms etc then build more houses. Slide taxes back to green for people to move in. You'll go back to negative income at first, but once more people move in and houses get upgraded you'll be back to positive income in not time! When your population is maxed and no houses can advance anymore, slide taxes back to yellow.
At second phase of the cathedral construction you will need 20 bread for a quest. So it is imperative you turn off the consumption of bread at the beginning and don't sell them.
So yea I fail to complete that 200 noblemen optional quest since I have no source of bread and beer but this strategy will finish the main quest.

@rhliau
You can try the Collector's Edition
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anno-1404-Collecto...D/dp/B002DWAZQ2 but I haven't seen any locally. But boy oh boy those extras are sure yummy.