THE IMPORTANCE OF WELLNESS

Wellness is by far the most important element in the game. It affects everything: your productivity, your income, even your bonuses. As long as your wellness is close to 100%, you get great income and bonuses and you are more effective in battles.

Raising your wellness and keeping its percentage as high as possible is rather difficult, especially for beginners, but there are many ways to do so:

1. Food consumption. you can buy food by clicking Goods on the left side of your screen. Food restores up to 5 units of wellness, depending on its quality. If your food's quality is 2 (that's food with 2 stars), you will restore 2 wellness units, if it is 3 (3 stars), you will restore three wellness units and so on. You may eat once every 6 hours.

2. Wine consumption. By clicking Goods, you may also buy wine. Its quality depends on its age and it can restore up to 25% of your wellness. You can only consume one bottle of wine per day.

3. Buying clothes and footware. You can buy clothes the same way as wine or food. You may have up to ten different kind of clothes in your possession and that will restore 1 to 50% wellness per day (that depends on both their quantity and quality). Clothes only last for a specific amount of time, according to their quality.

4. Living in a house. Of all goods, a house is the only one that lasts indefinately. Depending on its quality, it may restore from 5 to up to 25 units of wellness per day for ever. In case you cannot afford a house, you can rent one. In all cases, you can access all available houses by clicking Real Estate.

 5. Reading newspapers. Every time you read an article for the first time, you get from 0.2 to 1 unit of wellness. The highest amount of wellness you can get this way is 10.

Almost everything you do in ANNO1777 will decrease your wellness. In duels, you lose 1% of your wellness' percentage. So, if you get into a duel with 50% wellness, you'll come out of it with 49.5%. For every working hour, you lose 1%, so working costs you 8% wellness daily. Travelling on foot costs you 1% wellness for every 10 km, but if you use a carriage or a balloon, you lose no wellness at all. But even if you remain idle, your wellness decreases by 0,05% of your wellness percentage (WellnessX0,05). For example, if your wellnes is 50%, you lose 50 X 0.05 = 2.5 per hour.

To conclude: as long as you dress nicely, read your daily paper, eat the best there is, drink the oldest wine and live in a 5-star villa, you may gain more than 100 wellness per day. Bear in mind, though, that having 100% wellness is not profitable in all cases. Your ideal wellness percentage depends on the way you choose to play the game but that will be discussed in upcoming posts.