Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery patch v1.02
Ubisoft has released an update for their critically acclaimed civilisation builder Anno 1404. The patch brings the game up to v1.02, and fixes a number of bugs and brings tweaks and improvements to the game.
The patch requires 112 MB of international bandwidth, and can be downloaded and installed via the game's automatic updater.
Patch log
An overview of the most important changes:
- The Golden Ship is now available after accomplishing all the Achievements (the corresponding affected Achievements have been corrected and can now be completed).
- The cooldown period between individual Quests for the Emperor and the Sultan has been reduced.
- Sultan Quests are now available even if players do not have Noblemen in their City.
- Players can no longer see the routes taken by opposing Transport ships.
- Buildings and fields may now be rotated by pressing the middle mouse button.
- Construction time for the Large Oriental Trading Ship has been doubled.
- Players can now also connect to the Gateway to the World under Windows 7.
Other changes:
- Savegames in user-content scenarios are no longer corrupted when a fellow player is vanquished in that scenario.
- In some cases uploads to the Gateway to the World failed. This bug has been fixed and uploads to the Gateway to the World should now be much more stable.
- Fixed a bug in mission 7 in which, under certain conditions, a black pearl necessary for completion of the mission was not given to the player.
- Fixed a bug which allowed the player to multiply the Goods on a Ship through skillful movement between the Ship’s cargo slots.
- The title "World Traveler" is now correctly displayed in the title selection.
- Purchasing the second or third stage “Occidental Shipbuilding” Attainment sometimes led to all the Goods over 40 tons being thrown overboard by the Ships involved. This error has been corrected.
- Ships in the „Historic Battle“ Quest can now shoot back!
- The cost in Gold shown in the Caravanserai delivery notification was displayed incorrectly. This error has been corrected.
- Envoys whose Needs are now all met and who pay very few Taxes are now "euphoric" instead of "angry".
- The Experts Customs goods Items are now somewhat more powerful.
- A number of small improvements have been made.
- Several spelling errors were corrected.


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Subscribe to comments feedThe game has been sitting there collecting dust after I switched to Windows 7 - because it couldn't and I stripped myself for the stance of the developer and/or publisher. I might just give it chance, even if it is LONG overdue.