DevBlog: Entering the Hall of Fame

Your deeds as governors do not go unnoticed! The fame you earn with your achievements, big and small, will make you known across the Empire. Accordingly, successful governors will be able to enter the Hall of Fame!

What they can find there… well, let’s take a look in today’s DevBlog.

A famous tradition

The Hall of Fame in Anno 117: Pax Romana follows in the footsteps and combines the best aspects of similar features of past Anno games: the rewards you receive in Anno 1404 for fulfilling achievements, the Ark of Anno 2070 and the Grand Gallery with its Golden Tickets in Anno 1800.

In brief, the Hall of Fame is a place where you spend “Fame” to unlock additional ornaments, player logos and more to use in your game. It’s a way to reward you for your achievements in your current game, and it all carries forward into all your future savegames. This means more ways to customize your player profile for your savegames – but also more ways to shape your gameplay experience with Anno 117: Pax Romana.

In the following paragraphs we’ll talk about how to gain “Fame”, how the Hall of Fame works and what kind of content you can find there.

Earning Fame

In your role as governor, you’ll surely achieve great things: monuments built, alliances negotiated and wars won. With every milestone reached, every achievement, you fame will increase.

This fame, these “Fame Points” are the currency you use to unlock content in the Hall of Fame.

Each in-game achievement (called “accolade”) for Anno 117: Pax Romana provides a certain number of Fame Points. All platform achievements (e.g. from Ubisoft Connect or PlayStation) have an in-game equivalent but to give you more ways to gain Fame, we’ve added a whole bunch of additional achievements only in-game.

If you complete an “achievement set”, you gain a bonus. A set is always made up of 9 (hah!) achievements on a specific topic, e.g. “Insightful Sage” with a variety of achievements around both the research and the religion features.

You can look up these information at any point directly in the game.

Exploring the Hall of Fame

Time to take a look at the Hall of Fame itself:

It’s split into (currently) two large categories – one for Latium and one for Albion. Both categories are further split into multiple “tiers”, each containing various things to unlock. Unlocking any of the items will ultimately lead you to unlocking additional tiers and even more content.

As you can see on the screenshot below, a tier can contain all kinds of different unlocks:

• Ornaments and skins (e.g. for a ship or a residence)
• Customization options (e.g. sigils and colours for your profile or variants of music tracks )
• Gameplay shortcuts (e.g. items/specialists)

Shortcuts allow you to speed up the early game, especially if you’re an Anno expert already – and thereby increase replayability, since it gets you going much faster. It’s another way for you to customize your game the way you want.

These unlocks are available account-wide and not tied to a specific savegame. This means, an unlocked ship skin can be used in every single one of your savegames without limit. The unlocks from the Hall of Fame can be disabled in the game settings if you don’t want to make use of them for a specific savegame.

Three proud ships flying the Moss-Bedecked, standard and Syrah’s Vassal skins.

Q&A

Finally, let us give you some answers to questions you might be asking yourself after reading this blog.

Q: Can the unlocked Hall of Fame content be used in multiplayer?

A: Yes, if enabled by the host. Cosmetics, however, are always available.

Q: Is the early unlock of discoveries and specialists not impacting the gameplay balancing?

A: Yes, it is impacting the gameplay by speeding up some parts of the early game and allowing new strategies for experts to start a new game run. As mentioned earlier in this blog, making use of these unlocks is optional and can be disabled in the settings for each save.

Q: Are you planning to monetize the Hall of Fame and offer “Fame” points for money?

A: We’re following the Grand Gallery approach from Anno 1800 here. All content will always remain unlockable for Fame, and Fame will always remain a currency you gain exclusively via playing.

Q: Are you planning to expand the Hall of Fame with more content in postlaunch?

A: Yes, the Hall of Fame will be expanded upon after release.

Q: Can I unlock everything in the Hall of Fame with the achievements included at release?

A: While more sources to gain Fame are planned to be added to Anno 117: Pax Romana in postlaunch, the game currently already provides you with enough Fame to unlock everything in the Hall of Fame.