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The Loop (Games)
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A quick overview over the need calculators floating around on the web. See also Needs.
Recommended for |
Advanced players - strategic planning |
Advanced players - fine grained planning |
Beginners - apply basic modifications |
Beginners - simple and limited |
Advanced players - orverview for many islands |
Beginners - good transfer between two islands |
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Language | All | de, en | All | en | en | de, en |
DLC | All | No Palace or Bright Harvest (work in progress) | All | No Palace or Bright Harvest | No Palace | No Palace or Bright Harvest |
Chains Overview | Yes (required buildings) | No (just highlights on mouse over) | Yes (full chains, construction cost) | Yes (full chains, construction cost) | Yes (required buildings) | Yes (required buildings, utilized capacity) |
Construction Material | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Boosts | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Silos, tractor barns | Yes | No (WIP) | No | No | Yes | No |
Filter/Grouping | Product Category | Product Category, manual | Custom Categories | Luxury Goods | Island, Population Level | Luxury Goods |
Multi Islands | Yes | Yes (mandatory) | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Export | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Lock Needs | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Consumption Reduction | Newspaper, Sets, Items | Sets, Items (WIP: Newspaper) | Newspaper | - | - | - |
Replace Inputs | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Select Producer | Yes | Yes | No | Coal and Veneers | No | No |
Extra Goods | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
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Outdated Calculators
Calculator | Input | Output | Platform | Boosts | Construction
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Glkwhr |
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Web | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Robert Linsener |
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Mobile App | Only Electricity | No | Until Arctic | No | No |
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Unbyte |
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Mobile App | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Deathwings |
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Web + Desktop | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
Beesbeesbeesbees |
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Web | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
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DudeLvl1 |
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Spreadsheet | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
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Almighty |
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Spreadsheet | Only Electricity | No | No | No | Yes |
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Legend
- Extract Statistics: Download and run AnnoCalculatorServer → open the statistics menu in Anno → the calculator automatically updates population, boosts, and existing buildings when the statistics menu is open
- Boosts: Productivity of factories can be modified (e.g. to reflect working conditions, items, ...).
- Construction Materials: Production chains for construction materials included.
- DLC: Effects from the specified DLCs can be incorporated.
- Multi islands: Create individual islands with separate production chains and population.
- Export: Save and switch between multiple savegames.
- Pop.: Population, i.e. enter number of inhabitants.
- Chains: Display number of chains and (optionally) number of buildings within each chain.
- Buildings: Display total number of buildings per factory.
- t/min: Display production in tons per minute.
- Workforce: Display required workforce of each tier.
- Replace Inputs: Apply items that change the input of a factory (e.g grain instead of flour).
- Consumption Reduction: Consider effects that reduce the consumption (e.g. newspaper, zoo sets, ...).
- Locked Needs: Set the consumption of some good to zero or apply items that have the same effect.
- Extra goods: Apply items that generate goods other than the normal factory output.
- Select Producer: In case several factories produce the same good, select which one should be used for calculation.
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