[King9072]

Yay! Alright I finally got in again. I simply loaded it into virtual drive (for the millionth time), told vc to execute autorun and started the game. I have done this sooooo many times... and this is now the second time it worked, so really folks until a proper exe for nocd is released to remove the protection completely it will be a hit or miss science, no stupid little gimmicks and tricks will work like. ... to get it to work mount image into physical drive, stand up from your chair blow one kiss north, spin around 4 times, click your mouse 4 times wait 10 seconds and then run the game... no none of this shit will work you must just keep restarting your computer on freeze and try and try and try again. ONCE ITS OPEN DO NOT CLOSE IT OR YOU WILL HAVE TO DO THIS WHOLE PROCESS OVER AGAIN!

Edit: If you are keeping it open but you have a semi-public computer where other family members or in my case my girlfriend uses the computer. You can download a very small program called WinMizer its freeware and easily found on a google search. This program just lets you hide open windows, so you can hide your anno 1701, people can use the computer without accidently closing it so you don't have to go through the hassle. Hope this has been some help to others, this game is a bunch of fun. If anyone expresses interest, ill post pictures with translated names by now I have figured out what almost every german term in the game means haha... anyways good luck guys