I'm new to the game, but played all of the Anno series. Is there some sort of conversion chart that tells how many beekeeper huts will support how many Taverns and how many hives are needed for a Tavern. Also how many taverns are needed to support a given number of settlers. I am sure someone has the entire economy charted out to number of resourses needed to support settlers. I hope to find this in English. The Anno forum has charts which are helpful and a lot of people in the Settlers forum play Anno.

Hey richb50,

From my own experience of playing the game Ive found that 1 of each building type seems to be sufficient with the exception of woodcutters and hunters.

I generally use this ratio 4:1:1 (4 bee hives to 1 beekeeper to 1 tavern) - seems to work fine. I upgrade my buildings all at once to level 3 if possible too.

I'm using 5 beehives for a level 3 Hut and also a level 3 hut will supply for 2 level 2 Taverns (or less). So, I guess, you've been wasting quite a bit of resources Galmo

Maybe not wasted though, when a player is wanting to get the rich buildings to upgrade the knight.

Well beehives only take 3 wood to make so they are kinda cheap... but stone is a limited resource that you never have enough of - who doesnt want to wall in ALL their lands in stone? Plus the enemy AI cant handle stone walls sometimes - ever noticed they just sit outside your walls? Maybe they are taking lunch - Id hell fire their arses if I was their King :P

Anyway, my problem is mainly building up the economy fast enough - its easy when you start from scratch but when the city is pre-established like in some quests I begin to think that the city planner must have been drunk.