Ultimate public mooring guide: Visitors to your islands in Anno 1800

This is public mooring in Anno 1800. It enables the ability to have visitors to your islands. The amount of visitors that you get depends on the attractiveness of your island.

Pier in Anno 1800

To build

  • Credits -$25000
  • Timber 20
  • Bricks 20
  • Steel beams 10
  • Windows 8

Details

  • Unlocks at 250 Artisans
  • Area 8×25
  • Region Old World and New World
  • Maintenance -$400
  • Only one can be used per island.

Description

This is the Public mooring in Anno 1800. It is a harbour building that will have to be placed in the harbour area of your islands. The Public mooring facility will require coastline space to be placed down. You can only have one Public mooring facility per island. It is important to remember that the Public mooring does not require a road connection. This means that it can be placed anywhere in the harbour area. When you start looking at how many visitors the Public mooring will bring to your island you will have to start to increase the attractiveness of your islands. The more attractive the island is the more visitors that will arrive at it. The income that is generated is dictated by the amount of visitors that go to an island. You will also have the chance of a specialist arriving at an island depending on the attractiveness of the island


Visitors

The Public mooring facility will attract visitors depending on the attractiveness of the island that the Public mooring facility is on. The more the attractiveness of the island the more visitors will go. Income for the island is generated in credits per minute is equal to the number of current visitors multiplied by 3.6. This means that if you have 100 visitors we multiply this by 3.6 and this gives us 360 credits per minute. Your visitors will arrive on an island every 30 minutes. Each of your islands that have a Public mooring facility will have its own timer for when the next ship will arrive. With the ships arriving every 30 minutes their some interesting in game mechanics that will decide what income is generated from the visitors to your islands. If your islands attractiveness increases in between the ships coming you will not receive any extra income from visitors. This is because the visitor numbers can not increase to bring in more credits to your island. On the flip side of this when your attractiveness decreases the income generated will decrease immediately. When this happens we can take a look at the Public mooring facility and you will see people waiting their. This is because your visitors wish to leave your island and they are waiting for the ship to arrive.


Making your Public mooring profitable

In this section we will look at what can make your island profitable. The public mooring has a maintenance cost like all buildings attached to it. This means that you will have to ensure enough visitors to your island to cover the maintenance costs. Lets take a look at the level of attractiveness that will be needed to make it profitable for your Public mooring. In the Old World your mooring costs are 400 Credits per minute this means you will require that your islands have an attractiveness level of 112. In the New World the Public mooring costs on 250 credits per minute. This means that the attractiveness level should be a minimum of 70.


Specialists

When you have Public moorings their is a chance that you will receive a Specialist that will come to your islands when the ships arrive with the visitors. Depending on the attractiveness of your island will depend on what chance you have of having a Specialist arrive with your visitors. When the Specialists arrive you will have to accept them or they will go and you wont have a chance of accepting them again.

Attractiveness levelChance of Specialist
10015%
30018%
60021%
100024%
150027%
210030%
280033%
360036%
450039%
550042%

These are the attractiveness levels that will give you a chance of receiving a Specialist on your island.