Ultimate Variety Theatre guide: the Variety Theatre in Anno 1800

This is the Variety Theatre in Anno 1800, and it serves as an important Public Service building for both Artisans and Engineers. Moreover, it plays a key role in keeping your growing population satisfied as you advance through the mid game.

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Description

This is the Variety Theatre in Anno 1800. The Variety Theatre is a Public Service building that satisfies the needs of both Artisans and Engineers. When Artisans fall within its full range, they gain +6 happiness and begin generating additional income. Likewise, when Engineers are fully covered by the Theatre, they also receive +6 happiness and produce even more income than Artisans. Moreover, this makes the Variety Theatre an important mid‑game service building that boosts both happiness and your overall economy.

The income generated by Engineers is higher than what you earn from Artisans, and this difference becomes more noticeable as your city grows. Furthermore, the exact income provided by the Variety Theatre depends on two key factors: the class of citizens within its range and the economic settings you selected at the start of the game. In addition, each population tier contributes a different amount of money when their needs are fully satisfied. For Artisans, the income is—

• Low income : +6 credits per minute per residence.
• Medium income : +6.75 credits per minute per residence.
• High income : +7 credits per minute per residence

For Engineers the income is as follows –

• Low income : +8 credits per minute per residence.
• Medium income : +9 credits per minute per residence.
• High income : +10 credits per minute per residence

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Improvements

Here we will look at the improvements that we can add to the Variety Theatre in Anno 1800. Firstly, you can ensure that the placement is correct. We can also set items into the Town Hall to improve the Varity Theatre. Secondly, we will look at the benefit of using paved roads instead of dirt roads.

Placement

The correct placement for the Variety Theatre in Anno 1800, is to place it down in the centre of your Artisan and Engineer residences. This will give the best coverage that you can get.

This is a layout for the Variety Theatre in Anno 1800. This is the correct width and you can move other residences above and below in a diamond shape. When you place a Variety Theatre, remember that upgrading to paved roads significantly increases its reach. Moreover, improving the surrounding road network ensures that more Artisans and Engineers benefit from its full range.

Town Hall

The next thing that we will look at when dealing with the Variety Theatre is we can add items to the Town Hall. The Town Hall is similar to the Trade Union in the sense that it will give benefits to buildings in its influence. Lets take a look at some of these items now.

Item name	Effects	Rarity/Notes
Comedian	Maintenance Cost: -75%	Uncommon, Expedition bonus – +20 Diplomacy
Midnight curfew	Maintenance Cost: -10%, Range: -5%	Uncommon,
The Lords blessing	Maintenance Cost: +5%, Range: +15%	Uncommon,
Evening curfew	Maintenance Cost: -25%, Range: -10%	Rare,
Sabbath repeal law	Maintenance Cost: +10%, Range: +25%	Rare,
Archbishop Stipwick’s Stiff-Lipped Curfew	Maintenance Cost: -50%, Range: -15%	Epic,
La Condesa Del Amor’s Majestic Dance Billboard	Maintenance Cost: +15%, Attractiveness: +10	Epic,
Sarah Bartok, The Golden Voice	Maintenance Cost: -50%, Range: +25%, Attractiveness: +7	Legendary, Expedition bonus – +40 Diplomacy, +40 Faith

These are some of the best items that you can get for the Variety Theatre.

Paved roads

Lets have a look at the benefit of using paved streets over dirt roads. One of the major benefits that you can give to buildings that use roads to carry influence is that you can upgrade the roads. Using paved roads gives you a clear advantage because more buildings fall within the Theatre’s influence. Moreover, this increased reach means you can cover a larger area with fewer Variety Theatres, allowing you to save both space and maintenance costs.

Type of road	Full range	Maximum range
Dirt roads	38	78
Paved Streets	56	116
	47.47% increase	48.72% increase

As we can see from these figures this is a large increase in buildings that can be covered by the Variety Theatre by simply upgrading the roads.

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