I’m quitting Campaign Mode now, though, because I went and made Kardinal Lucius mad, and he’s promised to hunt me down with a fleet of ships and wreck my bottom. I’ve been playing Campaign Mode, and it was most fun for me when I got to grow my little town and make my little peasants and nomads happy without worrying too much about the threat of war. The dialog can be seriously cheesy sometimes, but that just adds to the medieval mood. I’m probably closer to 15 hours and I’ve barely gotten started. I know I’ve played well over 10 hoursof this game by now, because I got the achievement for 10 hours of gameplay a while back. I spent so much time on it that I’m limiting myself to no more than 10 hours of gameplay a week for the rest of April. This just does not make sense.I had a blast playing Anno 1404 (a.k.a. I honestly do not understand why the devs keep us limited to 50 Units throughout the entire game. This would drastically reduce the amount of ships needed and therefore also reduce the end game complexity (which is already pretty high) by a fair bit. Of course research costs should increase quickly, so your maximum Cargo size would be limited by the number of your scholar population. One way could be for example the option to increase the cargo size limit by 5 through research.

As you further progress through the game, you should also have some way to increase the cargo limit as well. But your Cargo Limit stays at 50 constantly. You unlock new items, you unlock tractors, you unlock electricity. The game requires you to constantly improve and rethink your layouts and production. I got like 5 Ships on Coffee Route, 5 Ships on Rum Route, 3 Ships on Chocolate Route, 3 Ships on Cigar Route. For example I am 'only' at 30k Investors and 30k Scholars (which really isn't THAT much) but I already need so many Ships on my routes just to fulfill their enormous needs. With a growing population (speaking of 'Endgame'), I noticed the high amount of ships I need for my trade routes. There are no Items for Ships that increase it. What really bothers me in Anno 1800 is that the Cargo Size of all Ships is limited to 50 Units max.

Anno 1404 stop building ships