I’m finding myself visiting Anno Union less and less but still with the hope that there might be one last big surprise announcement for a Season 5, and then being totally disappointed with only cosmetic DLC announcements instead. The game has provided countless hours of enjoyment, and it would be amazing to see the developers continue to flesh out late game content a little more, especially where steam carriages, trains and the missing Asian continent are concerned.

Season 5 wish list :

DLC 1 – Trains :

– A big Grand Central Station could be an epic multi staged project like other DLCs

– Train stations could supplement or replace warehouses, receiving and distributing goods in a similar fashion

– Train stations could have a higher/faster loading ramp capacity than warehouses, but at the cost of needing space for rails to connect them to the Grand Central Station or some sort of dock harbour station.

– Train stations could also have a nice residential variant

– Residential stations could act as repeaters, making all services within the radius of a station available to all residents within the radius of all other connected stations

– Train stations would thus help reduce the number of repeated service buildings on an island to a more centralised location but at the cost of requiring more space for rails and stations to balance it out

DLC 2 – Steam Carriages:

– So many Steam Carriages get produced in our factories, but they dont really have any interesting gameplay mechanics involving them after being created

– A Grand Shopping Plaza could be another epic multi staged project, perhaps with modular shops and parking garages, similar to the palace module mechanics, but for the purpose of having somewhere for the Steam Carriages and Scooters to actually drive to

– Regular cosmetic shops, rides and ornaments could also be utiliszed here when connected to a Grand Shopping Plaza, making cosmetic content a little more useful and giving the plaza more varying details (the more cosmetically varied a plaza is the bigger the boost it could provide?)

– Steam Carriages could require 2 lane streets (highways), essentially single lane roads built side by side or with a lane of grass/trees in between, where the usual cosmetic foot traffic of single lane roads doesnt get in the way

– Highways connected to a Grand Shopping Plaza could boost the circular radius of connected trade unions, town halls, emergency services, bus stations and even train stations, requiring less buildings to service more people (and potentially help reduce the amount of painfully slow late game item grinding?)

– Perhaps a connected highway could even boost scholar item generation speed a little more? (especially helpful on large worlds during coop without access to simulation speed controls)

– Single or double lane tunnels could also be interesting, especially if they can act as small shortcuts under buildings, which might otherwise block a road range from reaching a destination, opening up some new and interesting layout optimization possibilities

– Highways could also have a certain max length they can reach from a Grand Shopping Plaza before requiring a connected fuel station to continue reaching further

– Optional intersections, bypasses or tunnel modules could also be cool to give overlapping highway sections some flair

DLC 3 – Asian Region :

– The last big obvious missing region, with lots of new industries and goods

– Could have an awesome dedicated suspension bridge as an infrastructure project similar to the hydro dam in the new world

– Could also introduce some magic underwater tunnel wormholes, which could connect an island to its nearest neighbouring island via rail or road and act as another interesting transport means for local goods between islands

Just some food for thought. I’m sure a new Anno title would be cool too but for now all I really want is more Anno 1800