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I like the idea. Sometimes I have no idea what to do after leaving a save for a month in the middle of developing cities. Windows Notepad is also an option, as is a word processor, but having it in the game might be neater, especially if you can put links to islands and ships. A mini planner.

It is possible to set a buy order in the trading post in Cape Trelawny for scrap and Old Nate will slowly sell you some. I would like this to be possible in the Arctic. When you buy it, he doesn't immediately ruin the game by giving you hundreds of scrap, but it is an aid if it is left alone for a while. I've spent the last two game sessions mostly on fast-forward searching for scrap. It's kind of a chore.

Russia and Belarus are now worse than the nazis, fascists and racists combined

You serious?
EA is already removing their digital Russian football players from FIFA. I wonder if that removed game functionality like the Spetznas have in Siege.
Is it possible to cancel an entire country?

I had the same problem. Updated ~500MB, then loaded to see High Life disabled and latest saves gone.
There was a poster on this forum that provided a temporary solution.
Restart Uplay/Ubisoft Connect until a larger ~2GB patch downloads. Then you will be on the latest version and able to play. Your saves are still on your disk, only now the game recognizes them.
Set in the Uplay settings (Anno 1800 > Properties) not to automatically update. This prevents the ~500MB patch from striking again.
This has been working for me, although there are some minor bugs. The help tips from Goode appear, some early game quests reappear (I just bin them), and the controls have reset.

So as not to spoil the surprises for the new players, all blueprints could be toggled visible in the options menu after reaching investors on that Ubi account. This would allow people playing the game repeatedly to more easily design cities in advance.

Airship drifting! Inspiration for Fast and Furious 20!

This is big wow. Amazing layouts and photos. I like the park area near the Iron Tower and the canals near the palace the most. Good job. I have made some pretty nice areas at times, but an entire island like this is hard to plan.

I have a powerful Hacienda Sugar Cane Farm boosted with tractors and fertilizer. The production statistics screen shows it can provide the island's needs and generate a surplus. It fails to reach full productivity because its 'outbox' fills to 4/4 quickly and is not unloaded fast enough by the wagons. The wagons choose to take a long road to some breweries that require a little bit of sugar cane at a time instead of transporting loads of sugar cane to a nearby warehouse. Since the farm outputs much less than its potential due to the slow offloading of sugar cane, buildings other than the brewery begin to operate intermittently such as the sugar refinery and a chemical plant relying on refined sugar.
I would like the breweries to access their own warehouse to get the sugar cane that is in island storage.
I would like the sugar cane to be transported directly to the warehouse, or at least have one cart doing that instead of all of them going to the breweries.
I have a save game I can share of the problem.

This is big wow. Amazing layouts and photos. I like the park area near the Iron Tower and the canals near the palace the most. Good job. I have made some pretty nice areas at times, but an entire island like this is hard to plan.

@aorus2017 I don't need to imagine since it is already implemented in Cape Trelawney. Maybe you misunderstood my suggestion. I don't want to go to the NPC trader and buy scrap from him. As in the cape, I want to set a buy order in one of my islands trading posts and Nate fulfills it. The current rate is something like 10 special scrap an hour. My suggestion is if that could work the same way in the Arctic for lost expedition scrap.

It is possible to set a buy order in the trading post in Cape Trelawny for scrap and Old Nate will slowly sell you some. I would like this to be possible in the Arctic. When you buy it, he doesn't immediately ruin the game by giving you hundreds of scrap, but it is an aid if it is left alone for a while. I've spent the last two game sessions mostly on fast-forward searching for scrap. It's kind of a chore.

For Anno you should get 32GB RAM.
Happy birthday!

@ubi-wheelyduck Hi,
I started a new game to test, and the bug does occur in that too.

@ubi-theberry Hi, thanks for the response. I have tested again and the problem presents itself with no outside factors. No invites, alt-tabbing, or bringing up an overlay.
After verifying files the problem still occurs. It also happens when I press Alt F4.

Here you can see that when I press Save and Exit the game unpauses itself despite the dialogue box being a component of the pause menu.

The settings you mentioned would work well in Anno. Personally, I would either like a continuation i.e. Anno 1900 or a medieval castle builder Anno.

I clicked on the King William Island island name and I cannot reset it to its original. In the video below I am attempting to retype the name.

@ubi-viral Thanks, I can confirm it is fixed on my end.