The peasants don’t have to be revolting in Anno 117: Pax Romana, not all the time anyway. As long as they have everything they need, the people of your island are happy to work hard and keep your economy thriving.
There are many small ways to ensure each resident is living the best life possible, from basic needs like food and shelter to entertainment and social areas to visit. Here is everything you need to know to create an island full of happy and healthy residents willing to live and work in your growing city.
How To Increase Happiness
If you haven’t been keeping an eye on the happiness of your island residents, they may start to rebel and revolt, destroying property and going on strike. If this situation escalates, it can become very costly due to repairs and the resulting reduction in workforce.
If unrest increases too much, you can find yourself in an endless loop of not having enough resources to build more houses to replace the revolting workers, who you need to gain more resources.
Your residents’ basic needs are the first aspects of Happiness that you have control over. When their basic needs are met, they can start to thrive and work with no issue. You can find all the information you need on each of their individual needs by clicking on their home. The various types of residents have different needs, and as they level up, they will start to require more complicated items. Many residents share basic types of needs, more of which are added as they tier up:
- Food
- Public Service
- Fashion
- Household
- Marvels
As long as you can provide the residents with what they need, through trade or production on your own land, they will be satisfied. When their satisfaction increases and their needs are fulfilled completely, you can upgrade them to the next tier.
Upgrading residents increases the attributes of the island, but you will lose that workforce and may need to replace them by upgrading lower-tier residents or building more housing.
It is easy to get swept up in the fun of building a new town and forget to check the finer details, such as how each building affects the residents. Oversights like this can cause an underlying unrest for your people, which can lead to unhappy workers. The layout of your city is key to keeping this all in check.
Residential areas should be built around Public Service buildings that increase Happiness, such as a Bardic Hearth or a Theater. These are places where the community can come together to relax and have fun. Residents also like to feel safe and secure, so building Custodes and Watchtowers throughout the city is helpful.
Just like a city planner would nowadays, it is best to keep industrial and residential areas separate to reduce noxious smells and waste polluting the environment near the population. When building areas to produce resources and items, check the information on each one to see how they affect the people in the surrounding area (usually a specific radius).
Foul-smelling resources, such as Lard, being produced at a Renderer have a negative ‘Area Effect’ on Happiness and Fire Safety. Both of these things impact the overall Happiness Rating of your town or city. Move any factory or production building away from houses to see the immediate positive impact on those homes.
Any buildings that have negative Area Effects on Health also impact Happiness because, after all, who can be happy when they keep getting sick from the nearby Pig Farm or Charcoal Burner?
How To Increase Health
With a lot of residents crammed into a busy city or town, disease can easily run rampant. To prevent disease and to reduce the frequency and severity of any epidemics, you need to keep your Island Health high.
Don’t underestimate the effect some basic needs have on Health, too. Many residents don’t just require Reed Shoes, Olive Oil, and Soap to be happy, but it also helps them improve their health. Check the Health stats on your top bar using the heart icon to see what is positively and negatively affecting your island.
The easiest way to achieve a good health rating is to keep production of resources away from the residential areas. As you now know, Health and Happiness ratings are linked in Anno 117, and they can both be altered similarly by ensuring buildings with a negative effect on the attribute are built away from homes.
Charcoal Burners have a high negative impact on health, as do other buildings that produce noxious or unsavoury resources like meat productions. When building new processing plants, check what effect they will have on the surrounding buildings.
To boost the Health rating of residential areas, build places such as the Medici to help fight illness, Latrines to increase the general health of the neighborhood, and Shrines dedicated to your god.
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