How to Make Money Fast in Anno 117 Pax Romana – Money-Making Guide
Why fight when you can buy the enemy?
Money, or Denarii, plays a massive role in Anno 117: Pax Romana. They are used to construct buildings, finish certain trades, buy ships, used for diplomatic purposes, and more.
If you run out of money, you can even lose the game, so you never want to be at an income deficit. Here are some of the best ways to make money or Denarii in Anno 117: Pax Romana.
The Best Ways to Make Money Fast in Anno 117 Pax Romana
There are several ways to increase your income, and you’ll want to take advantage of all these methods to really catapult your economic power to the top.
Pay attention to the area effects of production buildings
When you hover over buildings (end products) like a Bakery, you’ll see something like “Area Effect – Income +2 and Fire Safety -2.” This is separate from the needs attributes of residences, so this effect is all additional income when the requirements are met.
Positioning your Bakery or other production buildings with income area effects near your residences should give a significant income boost, especially when your population is already substantial. The only downside to this is that you’ll need to work more on your space management since you’ll also be adding a Warehouse to accommodate these production buildings, and maybe even some Vigiles to counteract the negative Fire Safety.
Utilizing this strategy is very difficult, but it gets easier when you unlock the Paved Roads research, so buildings have more range to access needs like Public Service buildings.
Meeting the needs of your residents
As vaguely mentioned before, meeting the needs of your residents also gives you income. In fact, it is the main way of generating income. Since your goal is to meet all the needs of these residents anyway, you’re most likely maximizing this method already.
It is worth pointing out that some needs don’t generate income directly if you look at them one by one. For example, Porridge doesn’t provide bonus income, but it does increase population by meeting that need. Now, if you do increase the population and have income-generating effects, you gain even more income indirectly through the increased population.
Using a Specialist’s income buffs
Specialists with income area effects can be a massive income boost when used and positioned correctly. It does use up a limited Officium or Governor Villa, but that’s one of the main points of having those buildings anyway.
Look out for specialists who increase income by consistently checking NPCs like Diana or Valeria for their active trades in the Item tab menu. Their stock refreshes, and there’s a timer there for when it will refresh. This also makes it a good idea to always have money or Denarii available at all times, so you can buy important specialists when they become available.
Minimize costs everywhere
Almost everything in the game has maintenance costs. Maximizing efficiency everywhere will indirectly help with your income by reducing expenses.
If you have a warehouse placement that can reach more production chains, you can minimize expanding warehouses to lessen maintenance costs. The same goes for maximizing City Watch and Public Service buildings.
Apart from these expenses, land troops and naval ships also have maintenance costs. Try not to overproduce your army size – it will also drain your workforce.
Put up your oversupplied goods for sale or trade
When you go to your trading post, you’ll have access to all the available goods for that specific island. If you select a good and open the Harbour Trade, you can set buy and sell orders for the good.
In the same Harbour Trade menu, you’ll see the “All Goods” tab. You can set a sell order for all your goods by selecting this tab and setting a stock limit. Once you go over this stock limit, this specific island will constantly sell goods over the stock limit, and you’ll have random NPCs trade at your port. AI-controlled nations won’t trade at your port unless you have a trade treaty, so it is also good to work on your diplomatic relations to maximize trades.
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