While your citizens want beauty, your industry wants speed. The worst mistake players make is trying to make their factories look pretty.

This is where Anno 1404 shines. Once you unlock Patricians, you need to abandon the "sprawl" and start thinking in .

This allows your wagons to pick up goods from three markets simultaneously, drastically reducing the time it takes to move resources to your ships.

The is not a single shape—it’s a modular 2x3 block repeated around a central service hub. Use the 9x9 mega block for Occident cities and the Oasis module for Orient cities.

Place this directly adjacent to a road on one or two sides.