As the first residential tier, farmers serve as a throwback to old times, you could even say to the other historical titles of the series. When you draw a picture of the industrial revolution, the rural population is probably not the first thing that comes to your mind. And yet, while they are just the foundation on which the vainer elements of your society stack, you will achieve nothing without their love. Problems are to be expected – heaven forbids a farmer telling you how things ought to be run. This business of yours, vast and sprawling as it is, goes far beyond their powers of cognition.
Speaking their mind comes ‘natural’, and honesty is important, when you need to gauge feeling. They don’t have a lot – or need a lot – and quick as hare, they’ll tell you so. After a long day in the fields, a farmer wants to sit by the fire with family, and speak of their strange neighbours in hushed tones. To work the soil, tend the animals, and breathe fresh air away from the burgeoning smog. In Anno 1800, farmers epitomise rustic life. Though the new yields were huge, life and work were no less hard. But the new century brought iron ploughs, fertiliser, seed drills, and threshing machines. After all, they endured the century that arguably saw most change.Ī typical farmer in 1800 had similar tools at their disposal, as two-hundred years previous.
If we are here in 10,000 years, there will still be farmers. We think of rice terraces, cereals and livestock, of Nile irrigation, cabbages and beekeeping. We have been farmers for more than 10,000 years.
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