At publisher request. Anyone know the story?

It's been a long time since I played 1404 / dawn of Discovery Venice (DODV) I played last night, sure the graphics aren't brand new and shiny but they feel to me quite comparable to playing 1800 and the interface isn't terrible (at least its not terrible on a 1080p display) and the actual game play features are a nice set of fun features. So, why did the public give up on it? Is it because problems with Ubisoft selling it on Steam no longer or what? I can no longer sign into multiplayer and I imagine ther...

I'm doing a bit of an overhaul to both AI and mapgen for the purpose of making islands more habitable/equitable for the AI as the default Mapgen sucks quite bad. -Too many small useless islands that hinder the AI. I have the islands unpacked but can't load them up in any editor. I created a custom scenario as a test-bench to load islands into. Annoyingly, you have no control over Fertilities or anything meaningful. Best you can do is toggle random resources. So is there another tool that can read and...

Playing this game in single player, it is making a lot of DNS requests to "uts.ubi.com" and posting some kind of stats/session information to a third party server. That sure sounds like spyware ...

Hi. I'm having problem with Venice - it says that my username and/or password are wrong. But I'm 100% sure they are right, since they are the same as Uplay account plus the game authorized me in the first place, allowing Online-account. But I can't enter MP section still. Are the servers down or something?...