Hey everyone! Happy Sunday, and I wish you the best, may this week be bright. How are you today? It has been rough for me due to me getting extremely angry with my socialist family members, that otherwise are very close to me. It is a double edged sword, they have an awful collectivist approach to things, at the edge of relativism, but I do love my mom, for example. It is complicated… I just don’t like to spend much time with them at the end of the day. I hate hearing their conversations with one another. If I can’t control the topics of discussion, and make sure they’re out of my danger zone, that makes me so sad and angry to the point of tears, I prefer not even to be close to them. If I am, my earbuds are on the max volume.
Not all is doom and gloom, I got new shoes, they should be arriving next week I hope. I finished the book I was reading by Sir Roger Scruton on the Aesthetic of Architecture, and I got new ones, already starting on my next read, a three volume biography on Margaret Thatcher, one of my role models, a personality I absolutely adore. So… yea, you have the bad moments, but also the good ones, too… Another good thing is finally being able to write a blog post today, even if through the phone. It is clunky to write here, but it works…
So, the AI in Anno 1800, for me, is really lackluster, as in comparison to the one in Anno 1404. And why is that? Because the last mentioned is way more dynamic than the one in 1800, which is static and just a nuisance, they feel like zombies. The one star AI are passive zombies, and the 3 star AI are very aggressive ones. I say zombies because they don’t move their ships around, they don’t engage with you much… They just feel dead. Yes, they can add some flavor, but really, in comparison to 1404, their role in adding the said flavor is very poor in performance. In the game I was playing, I had Lady Qing and Bente Jorgensen, one star AIs, and Admiral Silva, a three star AI. Admiral basically kicked Bente and Qing out of the game, and did not seem interested in engaging in trade with anyone, just expanding mindlessly, because most of his islands were either empty and/or being developed at a turtle pace. Expansion was fast, but the engagement with its new domains, gelid. I knew something was wrong with the characters in 1800, but I couldn’t pinpoint what exactly until this playthrough now. I am sorta frustrated to have to restart my run, doing my stuff all over again. I do appreciate the game, I love building my cities, I have my gripes, though, the AI is one of them, the other is, after you expanded your cities and stabilized them? Not much more to do, there is a point where the missions run short and you get bored staring at your big skyscrapers. I am saying this specially based on my last save of 2022. I grew so absolutely tired of it I deleted it altogether. It has happened with many of those before. So, yea, that was what I had to say on Anno this late morning before lunchtime.
I saw this Britain inspired Teapot on my pinterest feed and I loved it so much! Hence, sharing it here…
I think this is a good point to wrap things around on today’s post! I wrote everything I wanted. I don’t know the absolute size of it, because I am on the phone, but well… quality over quantity, or at least I strive for it. January has been a bit sterile on blog posts, I hope I can write some more the next week, another one would be awesome, two would be a dream! We shall see. Thank you for being here, friend, I appreciate you a lot. See you again real real real soon!!!
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