Best with a high resolution monitor as you can zoom out far so have a good overview of a large area of the city. You may not be able to move the camera but you still can carefully examine what is on screen.

Nothing stops you from pausing while you search.

Additionally missing people can walk underneath archways which lead to these allyways which can obscure them from view.

Be aware that occidental housing forms a back allyway at higher levels when in large blocks.

This may help highlight the slightly glowing target character.

Select all marketplaces on the pinged island, making all the buildings nearby green.

Move around your city using the arrow keys, and you will find your wanted person much easier. You can see between all the houses in one instant now.

You can enter the post-card view (F1), then look straight down.

This increases the amount of time you have to find the missing person.

This is very important in occidental cities with highly developed housing as they are prone to obscuring streets in the normal view orientation and you are most likely to find the person on a street somewhere. Align your viewing area (X, Y) so you have clear views down whole streets.

This becomes less useful with large settlements due to the reduction in area covered. Especially on lower resolution displays it can be hard to make out wanted people from a distance. Although the ping is showed at the marketplace nearest to this person, this however does not guarantee this person is at that marketplace. Both the ping of a marketplace on the minimap and description of the quest will confirm on which island the person will be found. Mouse over the quest requiring the person(s).If you are having trouble finding the wanted person(s), try the following: In scenarios/continuous play, the player can usually choose whether to accept the quest.īelow are pictures of the wanted people. The wanted people are always located in residential areas (i.e. Some of these quests are very easy others are a genuine needle in a haystack. They are all 'Where's Wally/Waldo?'-style: the player needs to locate a particular person in a crowd. Anno 1404 has many quests requiring the player to find a particular person/particular people in their city and deliver them to the quest giver, both in campaign mode and in scenarios/continuous games.

Anno 1404 how to get a ship