{"id":113,"date":"2005-05-09T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-08-19T20:35:42","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T00:35:42","slug":"sunflowers-keeps-on-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/09\/sunflowers-keeps-on-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers keeps on counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German game maker Sunflowers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunflowers.de\/english\/games\/anno1701.php\">has announced the third game<\/a> in their <i>Anno<\/i> trading\/building sim. Titled <i>Anno 1701<\/i>, it promises to bring a prettier version of the near identical gameplay we saw in <i>Anno 1602<\/i> and <i>Anno 1503<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Like <i>Cossacks<\/i>, this is another European game thing that I just don&#8217;t get. The economies in the <i>Anno<\/i> games are incredibly hard to balance and shortages happen very quickly. Even more than the Impressions city builders, the <i>Anno<\/i> games are complicated math problems that require nearly perfect planning for a city to be viable and self-sufficient in the long run. Like <i>Settlers<\/i>, there is a long chain of production from one good to the next and satisfaction of the upper classes means meeting all their needs. I always found it easier to just take someone else&#8217;s city than to make my own viable.<\/p>\n<p>Target release date is late 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German game maker Sunflowers has announced the third game in their Anno trading\/building sim. Titled Anno 1701, it promises to bring a prettier version of the near identical gameplay we saw in Anno 1602 and Anno 1503. Like Cossacks, this is another European game thing that I just don&#8217;t get. The economies in the Anno [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-1P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}