Just installed this game yesterday. I don't like Caesar but I love Zeus/Emperor. And I'm glad this game is not as complicated as Caesar but yet as fun as Zeus/Emperor!

I'm using 8600GTS and can only run medium settings... Tried high settings and the visuals are really impressive (shaders/reflection on water) but too slow to play.

Just started Chapter 3 (or is it Chapter 4 can't remember lol) and seems to be having problem trying to get income. Built too many buildings at start I think and too little houses. Trying to expand to another island using orient buildings but zzz they want to eat dates instead of fishes.

And yea like someone mentioned earlier... How do you discover the secret quests? I waited for some time to see if any quest will turn up before completing my primary one... Yet none turn up and when I finish the chapter I still see I missed some quests. The only chapter which I 'fully' completed is chapter 1.

Oh, and a technical question. When I save a game, then load it after, I notice my minimap will be covered by the fog of war again. The game itself is fine, but the minimap will be covered. Can't even see my own island in the minimap. Anyone face this issue also?

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.