Anno 117: Pax Romana – Highlights of Update 3.0 - Changes and Improvements

Summary

Hey Anno Community!
We’re taking a break from DevBlogs focused on the content of the upcoming “Dawn of the Delta” expansion and instead talk about the update that’s accompanying this release. With patch 3.0 we’re adding some new quality-of-life features, improve on some existing systems, change the consumption balancing and fix a variety of bugs.
The fixes will get their own article next week, when we publish the full patch notes. Today, we want to give you an overview of some the changes coming with the update.

Stamps

Update 3.0 adds the reworked Stamp Feature veterans already know from Anno 1800.
For this, we’re expanding the functionality of the copy tool which gets a small visual change: the icon now looks like a stamp. The copying-functionality remains, however!
What’s difference is that when you have selected an area for copying, you can now decide to save this selection by creating a stamp from the menu on the right, by either directly creating it or selecting to edit it first, which allows you also to directly add it to a specific Stamp folder. Watch a brief demonstration in the video below:

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All your created Stamps can be found in the construction menu. Here you can also edit their names, the icon and move them into folders.
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