- Anno 117
- Contest
Contest announcement: Put your horse race sponsor in the trailer
Hey Anno Community,
Have you always wanted to channel your inner Anno 117: Pax Romana entrepreneur and launch your own product line? This contest is your chance!
Design a logo and name for a product or brand inside the Anno 117: Pax Romana universe and win prizes! We offer you the best advertisement space in the entire empire: The famous Hippodrome!
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That’s right, the winning sponsors will be featured in the final trailer for our second DLC in August.
Soooo… are you opening a wine company with the slogan “Less whining more wine-ing!” or are you releasing a new type of soap called “Dorian’s Favourite” and advertise it with “True Roman soap for true Romans”? It’s up to you!
How to participate
To participate you will need to follow these steps:
- Imagine your own brand or product within the Anno 117: Pax Romana universe and create:
- a brand/product logo (at least 512×512 pixel) in PNG format
- a brand/product name (max 27 characters)*
- Send it all via email to AnnoCommunityContests@ubisoft.com using the subject “Community Contest: Hippodrome Sponsor”
- The deadline for entries is the 8th of July, 10 PM UTC.
*name can be submitted in: English, French, Italian, German. We may translate them into English when featured in the trailer, however.
Find an example below – we’re sure you can do much better than that, however!
Rules
You can use any images, icons, artworks, etc. from the game in the creation, or create everything from scratch. You will need to edit whatever official Anno material you’re using and you’re not allowed to incorporate any copyrighted images, icons, fonts, etc. from other companies or products. We may ask for working files of digital entries afterwards.
You may submit only one entry.
You can also submit (optionally) a slogan for your product. It won’t be featured in the trailer but can give your submission more “flavour” and will be featured on our Anno Union article.
The full rules can be found here. Please make sure you review them before participating in the contest.
Winners & Prizes
A jury comprised of members of the dev team will judge the entries based on creativity, style & originality, and consistency with the Anno 117: Pax Romana universe.
We will select four (4) winners who will each win:
- One Anno 117: Pax Romana mug
- One Anno 117: Pax Romana trireme builder kit
Additionally, their creation will be featured in the trailer for the upcoming “The Hippodrome” DLC.
The winners will be announced on the 17th of July, the trailer with the sponsors created by the winners will go live in August on release day.
We’re also planning to spotlight the winners as “official sponsors” in a livestream in August.
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Amazing trailer — the game looks fantastic!
What I personally miss the most in Anno 117 is a deeper system of internal politics. Something at least loosely inspired by Rome II: Total War would add a lot of strategic depth.
In short, alongside the existing tabs like technology, religion, diplomacy, and trade, there could be an additional tab called “Politics.” This section would give us an overview of the Senate’s composition, divided into factions representing Rome’s most powerful and influential families.
Gaining the support of specific senatorial factions could unlock or enable mechanics such as:
Passing laws that provide bonuses or penalties to various attributes.
For example, a particular agricultural reform could grant +X% to production and +X% to the population growth of freedmen and plebeians, but at the cost of reduced happiness and income from equites and patricians.
Appointing consuls, praetors, aediles, etc. from among available characters.
(The current office system feels very simplified and not particularly engaging.)
Appointing officials aligned with certain political factions would increase your influence in the Senate and help push beneficial laws through.
Of course, adding such a “Politics” system would require significant adjustments to technologies and diplomacy to keep everything coherent.
I also think the current Tier 4 — Patricians is quite underwhelming and doesn’t really reward the player. Aside from unlocking certain buildings, having a large patrician population — and upgrading their residences further — doesn’t serve much purpose. In practice, plebeians and freedmen are far more important, which feels counterintuitive.
In my opinion, this tier needs improvements and a stronger sense of progression. Upgrading homes to the highest tier should feel meaningful.
Perhaps instead of recruiting specialists in AI-controlled ports, high‑ranking patrician specialists could be recruited in special villas? The larger your patrician population, the more prominent families appear, increasing the number of available villas.
I like the challence 🙂
I have so more ideas for the upcoming time:
German:
Die Änderungen, dass auf den Agrarflächen wirklich Leute rumlaufen bzw. arbeiten wäre wirklich enorm hilfreich, um diese immersive Erfahrung zu verbessern.
Möglicherweise könnte man doch auch einen Zyklus in den Farmen einbauen, dass die Felder gesäht und geentert werden (obwohl ich mir auch dabei die Kritik von anderen Spielern vorstellen könnte, dass diese Simulation nicht zum allgemeinen Spiel passt, weil ein Tag ja in Anno 177 ziemlich lange dauert (und es impliziert, dass Saisons ja echt lange dauern würde..)
Ich habe noch weitere Ideen für DLCs bzw cosmetic packs:
-Eine neue Region könnte China sein, weil die Römer 117 viel Handel mit den Chinesen betreibten. Das könnte dann so ähnlich aussehen wie in Anno 1800 New Horizon.
-Neue Technologie-Möglichkeiten, wie das Wasser durch Druckpumpen auch Berg-Hoch zu transportieren. (Wie bei der Domus Augustana).
-Als Ornament könne man Flaggen platzieren und Märkte, die man auch auf dem Kai platzieren könnte sowie einen Leuchturm und vorallem Wasserkanäle in Städten wie in Venedig!!!!!! ^^
—Wie wäre es mit einer riesigen großen öffentliche Latrine, in der Größe eines Badehauses und der Organisation von Abwasser in der Stadt (die man an Flussmodulen ableiten kann)?
-Im Allgemeinen könnte man auch ein DLC entwickeln, bei denen die Häuser in Latium noch größer werden, wie es früher in Rom üblich war (mehrere Stockwerke)
-Zum Schluss finde ich es schade, dass es in Albion nicht auch Straßen wie Marmorstraßen gibt, die Prestige bringen. Marmorstraßen sehen insbesondere in keltischen Großstädten in Anno irgendwie Fehl an Platz aus.
English:
The changes, people work on the fields is very helpful to fulfill the experience in Anno 117.
Ultimately, you could add a cycle to farming fields (but I could understand the critic that it would fall out of the typical Anno 177 focus).
Besides this, I have some more ideas:
-A new region could be China because the Romans traded a lot with the Han-Chinese.
-Additionally, new technology would underline the technological advance Rome had. For example: water pumps could move water vertically (just like in Domus Augustana
-How would it be to have latrines as big as the bathhouse in Latium? Or to manage the seewage through tunnels that have to end in a river modul?
-In general, there could be a DLC that adds new levels to the houses because in Ancient Rome it was ususal to have even more layers (streets were nearly whole covered in shadows in some districs of Ancient Rome).
Last but not least, it‘s a pite the are no fitting streets in Albion which give Prestige.
And more ornaments like a lighttower or marketplaces on the quays…
Flags and canals through the city.
Perhaps you could develop a new light source with mirrors that we can align to very important buildings in our city (similar to headlights [even they didn‘t exist in Ancient Rome except the Lightfire from Alexandria].
Thank you for your attention and let me know (community or devs) what you think of my ideas. ^^
The Hippodrome looks amazing!! Great job guys, looking forward to it! :))
Thank you, Hannover8!