Influence Area

[Rufus71]

Is there any way possible to increase the influence area of things like city centres and academies. Even laboratories?
It would be nice to be able to start with many houses in one area instead of adding so many city centres to overlap the influence area.
Thank you!

[Jonas]

Do you know the basics of modding Anno 2070? If no, learn them first.

Then: go to the folder "maindata" in your Anno-folder. Open patch8.rda in RDA-Explorer. Navigate to "Data\config\game\" and open the assets.xml. There you see the Information about every building in the game. Search for the ID of the building you want to change. Change line "<InfluenceRadius>X</InfluenceRadius>" to the amount of radius you like. Save back to the patch8.rda and copy them to your maindata-folder.

[Rufus71]

Thanks! I will try it and let you know how I went!

[FadeToBlack]

Or, if you don't want to modify the game files / don't know how, there are also the items that you can socket into your warehouse that increase the radius of all activity / information / participation type buildings on an island. If you have a save file with an academy and ark storage enabled, you might want to take them over to a new savegame and socket them.

in case you don't need the sockets otherwise that is.

For more information about those items see this link. All of those items should be researchable in the academy, at least the radius increasing items are.

[Rufus71]

I was successful thank you for your help.

[hawkera_prime]

Do you know the basics of modding Anno 2070? If no, learn them first.

Then: go to the folder "maindata" in your Anno-folder. Open patch8.rda in RDA-Explorer. Navigate to "Data\config\game\" and open the assets.xml. There you see the Information about every building in the game. Search for the ID of the building you want to change. Change line "<InfluenceRadius>X</InfluenceRadius>" to the amount of radius you like. Save back to the patch8.rda and copy them to your maindata-folder.

I tried doing as you said but nothing happened.

I am trying to make the radius of my Hospitals, Police and Fire station basically be unlimited, so it covers the entire island. But after saving and starting my game, nothing has changed, the buildings still have the same radiuses of 22(28 for the fire station). Tried a new game/map, didn't work, tried destroying all buildings and replacing them with new ones, didn't work. Any tips ?

UPDATE : I got it to work, somehow, except for the Hospital, the radius on it still stays 22
Update 2 : Police stations broke, the radius on them went back to 22, fire station works fine with 120 radius...