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Yeah, the grade school is kind of an unfortunate casualty of the walkers-on-schedules model of citizenry.
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Glazius posted:Yeah, the grade school is kind of an unfortunate casualty of the walkers-on-schedules model of citizenry. I'm still most annoyed by dock workers. The fuckers decide to sit in the docks right up until a ship starts sailing in, at which point they all decide that it's time to gently caress off to the pub, the hospital, the church, and then slowly start walking back to the dock just as the ship starts to leave with tens of thousands of dollars of exports still sitting on the docks.
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Independence Day Time to take over a worthless island. If we can make worthless people profitable clearly this mysterious island that no one cares about will be capable.  We have voted to appeal to the Loyalists this mission. Clearly we need to look like a megalomaniac.  Compulsive Liar gives a -5 relations with the Intellectuals and the Religious faction, also it makes your election promises have no effect. On the upside you get +10 respect with the Loyalists, and each rank gives additional respect.  Kleptomaniac gives a -10% factory production for getting $200 a year in the swiss account from selling your stolen goods. Each rank gives additional money.  PR Specialist, which requires the Propaganda DLC, gives +10 respect with the Loyalists and every journalist you have employed will make 2 citizens vote for you. Each rank gives additional Loyalists respect. Born in the Purple gives us extra Loyalist respect, Heir Apparent was the only background that really gave a bonus for Loyalists.  Welcome to... Wait we've been here before. This is where Van Hoof raised the prices of our buildings, also it has the annoying start up with the houses and shanties.  Trying out something different with road layouts. Going for a grid here. I wish you could place "ghost" blueprints to measure out distance. I mean you could place actual blueprints, but you'll need money and trying to measure out too big a space will not let you place anymore once you get so far into the red.  Garage and 2 logging camps. In the first Tropico game your construction workers had to chop down trees when building something. Though that doesn't happen in this one, as placing the blueprint will automatically deforest the area. Just a neat tidbit.  Penultimo we have already made this place notable, we had 7 world records here! We are internationally known for having the biggest mustache on a woman!  Honestly the reason I went with a grid layout is try and change things up a bit as this wont be the first time we'll be seeing an island we've already been in.  Easy enough of a mission, just place a bunch of expensive blueprints then cancel them after to get your money back.  Hiring a foreign affairs minister will also be a good way to use up some of our cash, on top of the required USSR blueprint edict.  Oh yeah, there is also this. Its funny just how late this pop up came out. This locks us off from a bunch of buildings, we can't do colleges, we can't build any industry (including the DLC cement factory), I'm sure there is a few more. So we'll want to be a colony as soon as possible so we wont be stuck making money only off agriculture.  Oh Penultimo, making spelling mistakes on a form? Why I never. Did you know that Penultimo spells his name with one, but three I's?   I just hired you, how are you already dead? It hasn't even been a year!  This pops up on the second year, every year we'll have to pay a thousand to the ship captain. Its such a small amount that you'll most likely promptly recoup from the foreign aid payouts at the start of the year. Also you assholes had no problem docking on the island several missions ago   Chip chip cheerio. The block this pub is on will be the slum block.  Just to note, these houses and the pub have to be NEW, if you built them before the mission calls for them they wont count. So the 5 prebuilt houses at the start don't qualify. We'll need to wait a bit for our money to build up to build the houses. Also, you know... have enough paying jobs for people to move into them.  Ugh, while I'm always up for angering the US I don't want to deal with more expensive buildings. A one time payment of 30k wont make up the increase in building prices.  Can you believe its barely been over a year? Finally getting the tenements up. Making sure to only build in the areas that were already cleared of trees, can't destroy our own profits now can we?  And then 2 years later I finally get the houses built. Of course, high end housing will be around the Palace.  Next up we need to turn some citizens into monarchists. With 10 houses we'll get half our monarchists quickly. And since the pub is the only entertainment building its not like our citizens have any other options for entertainment   Monarchists will have this green checkmark over their heads. Also funnily enough after getting sloshed at the pub our citizens will stumble around.  Alright so I lied, there is some competition for the pub. But hey it gives me more time to build up the island and get some money in. Also the Loyalists get angry if we don't have one of these so I got it up earlier then I normally do.  Progress of the island. The right most block will have our farms. I eventually destroy the 2 default farms cause I don't like them there.  Finally we can build some industry. Also we may have to do some bitch work for the crown. You know this is a lot like the colonial period in Tropico 5... could this mission be an inspiration for that system?  On the south of the island we have an iron and a gold deposit. I set the mine to only get iron ore, to save the gold ore for when I get the money for a jewelry factory. Hidden behind the building info window is another unique building..  Colonial Forts are like the Ancient Ruins. They're unique buildings that only some maps have. This map also has an Ancient Ruin by the by. There are 2 buildings we can make out of these: Dungeon is a more extreme prison. It can house 12 prisoners and employs 3 officers. It costs 3k to set it up. It has 3 work modes: Tropican Dungeon is the default mode. Prisoners who are let out will have their respect at 100 for a few years. But it does reduce their life span. Lease to the US or Lease to the USSR essentially turns the prison into a black site that allows whichever super power to do whatever they want. We are locked out of the building in this mode, the US pays the most at 4k while the USSR only pays 2k. Note that you still have to cover the maintenance costs. We can also turn it into a Museum for 2k. The Museum appeals to Eco tourists and has a base service of 95 with a whopping 60 tourist spending. It only requires a single college graduate to staff, its a really drat solid upgrade. This fort goes unupgraded, I don't really need the dungeon and we aren't doing tourism on this map.  And hey, becoming recognized got the fee removed. That completely pointless fee.  At this point I remembered that National Day also turns citizens into Loyalists, so I activate it.  Oh hey, Ambassador Crane. You finally got some air time in the story mode. I guess Richards wont bother talking to us. Wait, are we still in disguise? Some people still call us Presidente, do they call all leaders in the Caribbean Presidente?  I wonder who this mysterious agent is. What country is known for oppressed people, for being a colony and revolting?  Built up a second dock over on the south side of the island, so the teamsters wont have to travel so far to drop off the goods.  Oh hey, its Agent Sasha. I was thinking it would be the US who would help us revolt, after all they're all about independence, right? Anyways fun fact, I was going to show off the colonial fort here and do a tourist industry but since we need factory workers I benched that. Also its funny that she remarks "low intellect is not a problem" and yet high school is considered a higher intellect in Tropico.  Penultimo: Our hot topic today - environment. I believe you have something to say, Sunny. Sunny Flowers: Dear Tropicans, we are all criminals, criminals against Mother Nature. Take a look at our once beautiful beaches, now polluted. Take a look at the mounds of garbage, the toxic waste! This is our doing and we should do everything in our power to undo it! Penultimo: That's it for environment, next week - library subscription fees. Oh come on, its 2 logging camps and a single mine. Get over it.  Oh, looks like Tropico is going to be the next Australia. We got a pub so we're set on that, we just need to get a hilariously lethal ecosystem. I don't actually know anything about Australia, all my knowledge of it comes from that Land Down Under song.  Well we voted Loyalists, and Loyalists say no votes at all. Which is kind of funny... PR Specialist trait gives a Loyalist bonus, and it helps you in votes... but Loyalists don't want votes! Another funny thing is there is an edict that ensures all Loyalists will vote for you.. but again they don't want votes!  Sunny Flowers: The relations between Tropico and Europe have hit an all time low point. Penultimo: Perhaps we should consider presenting the King and Queen of Europe with a generous gift. Sunny Flowers: Our diplomats already tried this, but the European post returned the package. Penultimo: drat those meddling spies! Hey we are already on the way with revolution :iamafag:  Building up our industry. Got a weapons factory up and setting up a cement factory. Too bad we can't turn the fort into a labor prison and have the prisoners mine the iron ore directly below it.   Well that is going to be annoying. And I was set to start expanding the island. Time to wait for children to grow old, I bet El Diablo is happy.  Set up an Eternal Flame dedicated to Presidente to turn some visitors to Loyalists. Whats great is with the high service quality people will flock to it. And yes the garage offsetting the flame drives me crazy.  Hm.... I'll send some experts for your radio station, 2 high schoolers. For your building that staffs college graduates. Something was either overlooked or there is a typo here. Also am I the only one who thinks its a bit silly that TV stations and radio stations don't provide some passive entertainment for your citizens?  Meet the Radio Station, under Education and Media for 10k. It provides some liberty bonuses to the nearby area and has 5 work modes: Presidente, All Day increases respect of all nearby residents. Radio Free Tropico gives a further bonus to liberty to the nearby area. Bubblegum Pop pays money out depending on how many people under 20 live nearby. Baja Bachata pays money for everyone over 21 and is uneducated Opera pays money for everyone over 21 and has a college education Honestly I don't build radios. I don't know why, I should. They have a smaller footprint then tv stations, and I'm sure that option that pays out for children can be quite lucrative with how big Tropican families can get. And after all, children don't take up housing spaces so you could theoretically fit more of them in the area.  I knew it, El Diablo set it up the whole time! The fact he barely takes part in the storyline is suspicious enough!  Overview of downtown. Set up a garbage dump then a prison right next to it. Nothing can go wrong with putting prisoners near a garbage dump right? I mean what're the odds in the event of a prison break the prisoners will manage to scavange something lethal from the dump? I mean who throws away sharp things? Yes I am the guy who blunts their trash cause I don't want cats to cut themselves.  Hey haven't had one of these in a while, the option to take all the money to our swi... Wait what is that third option?  That option was too funny, I had to take it.  Well good thing I built this dump. Are useless citizens recyclable?  Jokes on him though, look at all those open job positions. I'll take them with open arms! Need to get some more houses up though...  On the north end of the island there is a little valley by the beach that is pretty fertile. Namely, its really good for coffee and pineapples. And since its next to the beach, set up some fisher wharves and you got an ideal spot to throw canneries.  Now at this point I realized something I failed to mention when talking about mines, they do have some upgrades that require electricity. Crusher costs 1.5k and needs 5mw of power and it increases bauxite mining by 15% and iron by 30% Separator costs 5k and requires 10mw of power. It increases iron production by 40% Screener costs 3k and requires 10mw of power. It increases bauxite and iron production by 10% and gold by 20% I don't usually get these as the power requirement is a bit much. If I wanted to maximize iron production it would nearly use up an entire wind turbine by itself. Also as ore are finite it can result in you draining a deposit really fast, also it can possibly lead to you producing more ore then a factory can use up meaning the ore is exported instead of being turned into a finished good.  More edicts! This one is under Education, it increases the respect of middling and below intelligence citizens but makes smarter citizens dislike you. It will turn 10 people into Loyalists. It takes 3 years, and after that you can use it again to convert another 10 people. Its nice in that we can directly make more loyalists instead of simply influencing the citizens. Penultimo: Presidente's upcoming bestseller is out today. It shows the romantic soul behind the harsh surface, touching on deep existential and philosophical themes. Sunny Flowers: Sounds wonderful. What's the book's title? Penultimo: How not to get caught. That was a good one, got a hearty chuckle out of me.  Cannery up and going. I'll need to build a few more to keep up with the pineapples, coffee and fish.  Why, why does this happen right after I build up the beach?  Except...  The waves completely ignored the beach and managed to travel through the gorge and into the inner city... and of course took out the hospital so now everyone is pissy that they can't be seen. They just need to be a little patient   Under general edicts we can set a TV station to be solely about El Presidente. Every year a random faction will have its respect for us increased. Also it should surely persuade more people to be Loyalists, after seeing our glorious visage!  Its looking like making side roads for the garage is working out pretty good in regards to traffic congestion. At 235 people I haven't seen backed up traffic yet.  Well then, time to build a power plant as getting enough wind turbines is going to get extremely expensive. I don't think I ever use 300mw of power before Modern Times rolls around.  Meet a new building, the last building until Modern Times and the only DLC house. Modern Times houses aren't DLC houses, its an expansion, its different. Conventillos are under Housing for 6k. It houses 12 people and costs 12 pesos a month in upkeep, with a housing quality of 80. "Wow, this building sounds great, so why don't you ever build it, Leal?" I hear you ask. Well... It houses as much as a tenement, but uses up more space, while costing more. That 80 housing quality? It goes down every month. Instead of the "maintain" and "don't maintain" that all houses have that effects the housing quality, Conventillos have a mode that increases the monthly maintenance to reduce the quality degradation. You have to pay 3.5k to renovate the house and restore it to the base housing quality. I don't like having to manually check up on the houses, also I've read about bugs where you pay the money but the housing quality doesn't restore, or it quickly degrades after a renovation. They look nice though.  Alright time to wait for our womenfolk to get educated!  And hey, our tenements are emptying out. With everyone getting married they can afford to move into apartments, and of course more higher paying jobs. Time to start deconstructing.  Oh well... it would be pretty bad for us to snub the USSR when they're the ones trying to help us revolt and become independent. In other news: Penultimo: Lots of interesting things happened today - a two headed lama was born, my nephew swallowed a coin... Oh, yes, and our leader just turned 20 years in office! Oh dear, might need to get that hospital rebuilt ASAP for your nephew, Penultimo.  Nearing 300 people and hey, there is the congestion I was looking for! Just 10 more missions and we'll be free of the T4 road problems....  Viva! I remember this pop up would make my heart sink cause all I would see is "Faction Disaster". Whats funny though is that while everyone else is at 100, the Environmentalists are at like 60.  Whoa, whats this. Country houses?! Yeah I decided in place of the 2 empty tenements to build up a bunch of country houses. Hey, they still pull a profit at 2 pesos a month while giving as much housing quality as an apartment. Guess I found a use after all! And with the money... Sunny Flowers: Tropico's balance books all in the green - We seem to have a lot of money in our vaults. Penultimo: The money is obviously having a jolly good time in our treasury - they just can't stop multiplying!  You power plant workers are useless. With a full staff you can only generate 144 power?! I build up some wind turbines to get the remaining power.  Wait the KGB has a secret base on the island? Dunno how I feel about that...  Completely unrelated, but holy hell look at the service quality on this cabaret. 108 service quality, sure the high class setting on it gives a 10% bonus but thats still almost 100 service quality without the dress code. It helps that the showgirls are fully skilled at their job, thanks to our Learning With Larry reruns. Experience is pretty bananas.  Like I said, our skills are bananas! Also how funny, bananas... Currently there is a banana shortage and I work the produce department at my job. Thank god I work the 2 am shift, and my job is to offload our truck but even then I still deal with people coming in at the rear end end of morning yelling at me through the receiving door about bananas. Life sucks!  Well I mean... we opted to not piss off the US earlier so like... I pretty much HAVE to take all the money into my swiss account, right? Also it is kinda funny that Crane goes "If you want to steal it, just don't steal it all". He knows whats up.  Alright its time for a revolution. Communists and Loyalists count as revolutionaries, and weirdly our pub will now suddenly turn people into revolutionaries now instead of monarchists.  We got 112 Loyalists, this is roughly a third of our population. I did a lot, though not all (didn't build one particular building, didn't keep up on publishing my ideology book), and this is actually a significantly higher number of Loyalists then I normally get. Given my last name maybe I should lean more into the Loyalists faction. Maybe when I become a big LPer I can do what the other guys do any name my viewers some pun name. Maybe the Lealists. Hm....  Now I didn't try to appeal to the Communists and didn't do anything to encourage people to convert to the faction, but still its so integrated in Tropican citizens that we have the same amount of Communists. Now provided, faction membership isn't restricted. There can be overlap, and I'm sure a bunch of our Loyalists are also Communists.   Oh god, did we not tell the population this was supposed to be staged?  And immediately a palace guard pops a monarchists who was attending the eternal flame. You were supposed to become a Loyalists and thus a revolutionary you dunce!  Imagine going to work one day at the factory and suddenly your coworker turns his lunchbox against you. Hm... maybe if it were a toolbox then you could pretend you were on a space station.  The map on the bottom left gives you a glancing view on who supports and who detracts and where they're located. Down south there is a bunch of monarchists, sadly this single loyalist is going to get beaned by all the miners, dockworkers and factory workers down there.  Here comes Presidente to open up at a loving cathedral. Jesus Christ.  As an aside, Customs Officers do have a pistol on their hip. Yet they don't use it during fights. Criminals, at least the female ones as they're always carrying a pistol in hand, do use it. Whats kinda sad is that his thought bubbles says "My spouse has died, should I follow my darling to the afterlife?"   Why, they even tagged the eternal flame! Those monsters!  Man, Tropicans have even taken a book from today's times and started using vehicles to run over the masses. No wait, thats just one of our self driving cars that parks itself after dropping off a person.  Now this is a funny, if morbid, picture. A bishop coming out of a cabaret and murdering a showgirl. In the name of the lord and all that.  What is kinda neat with the city being all compact like this is seeing actual crowds form as they march through the alleys to find people. You know, neat in a presentation way and not neat in a way "I like seeing civil unrest" way.  Everything is winding down and we have a few more traitors still on the south side of the island.  But you know... when do you just admit that your side lost?  We have won, but at what cost? The bullet holes pocketing the cathedral will be with us forever.  But I wasn't elected as a socialist   Our higher end of town  The "slum" quarter. And second cathedral. You look at cathedrals and think they should be these rare buildings cause they're so majestic, yet you have to throw them everywhere to deal with the religious satisfaction demands.  Our farm block, was building a few ranches to get goat cheese and beef in our citizen's bellies.  The southern industrial district.  Northern industrial district. Never got around to making a second cannery.  And our agriculture making pineapples and coffee that supply the cannery.  Victory! Next up, we get revenge against Preston!
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Two options, next mission we need to buy out stocks from Keith Preston's company. A  This option is pushing towards getting more factory production B  This option is more about getting our cash crops going, getting more money from those crops, and getting more boats in. Voting will end 12 noon on Wednesday!
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B Let's sell enough fruit to wipe scurvy off the map and make mad money by selling dentures to those who rot their teeth with our sugar and tobacco.
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B Fight fruit with fruit! Also sailor is a great quality for early game economy. Also the maps may start to repeat themselves from this point on, turning the world-record winning island into the most worthless colony is just the start.
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That was another fun mission. Just how amusingly dumb it all is.  Bs are good.
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A Make tropico a rum powerhouse.
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We Are of course, a good Booze Baron
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Industry is the A to go!
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A Make the world safe for pirates.
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Huh, odd Crane calls you Presidente in the one dialogue, usually he calls you 'President' because he's a jingoistic rear end in a top hat. someone probably didn't catch it in editing. I have cautious optimism for 6, as it seems like they really listened to about why 5 is badly received and are actually talking to the player base.
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A Let's drown the Caribbean in Tropican rum.
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B is the better way!
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A It's time the world witnessed the power of our armed and fully operational rum distillation.
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Robindaybird posted:I have cautious optimism for 6, as it seems like they really listened to about why 5 is badly received and are actually talking to the player base. They're making a 6?
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HannibalBarca posted:They're making a 6? Yeah, it was a surprise announcement, different team - suppose to be out in Q3 or Q4 of this year, barring delays
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I'm gonna go with B, because we've already seen some of the insanity you can get up to with rum.
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HannibalBarca posted:They're making a 6?
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Robindaybird posted:in the steam announcements, they mention bringing back more active/chatty faction leaders, and using the engine to make buildings more modular - so apartments in high crime areas will have broken windows and graffiti. So El Diablo in a "Make Tropico Great Again" hat?
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Voting is closed and it looks like we are going to drown the world in intoxicating Tropican nectarManic_Misanthrope posted:So El Diablo in a "Make Tropico Great Again" hat? Well the trailer does reference the wall
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Use your drunken feelings, Presidente. Let the rum flow through you.
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Leal posted:Voting is closed and it looks like we are going to drown the world in intoxicating Tropican nectar And that El Presidente's twitter account is realelpresidente.
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A Factories ftw
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Ah, revenge. It's been just long enough that it got cold.
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Fruity Business Today we get our revenge on Preston. And what better way then to buy out his company and fire him?  Presidente needs to look the part of some kind of prohibition era gangster.  Booze Baron gives a -5 relations with the Religious for doubling the price of rum and spiced rum. This is one of the most broken backgrounds in the game.  Elected as Capitalist gives +15 US relations, +5 respect with the Capitalists, +20% liberty and +20% factory production.  Corrupt gives +10 respect with the Capitalists but increases the price of all buildings by 10%. Each rank gives more respect with the Capitalists.  Financial Genius gives a +10 respect with the Capitalists, +2% factory production and reduces the costs of banks, marketplaces and souvenir shops by 25%. Each rank increases the factory production.  Welcome to Puerto Angelico, enjoy it cause this is the only time we will see this map. Whats neat about this map is that we get 3 garages, no need to set one up near our farms.  Time to build up some income before building this. Penultimo: This is Tropico News Today and I am your host Penultimo, bringing the most objective, pleasant and politically correct news. Stay with us to learn the truth, as approved by El Presidente himself.  Time to check out what can grow where. Corn is looking good, as is typical...  Hm... thats quite a lot of yellow for papaya. Thankfully there is some dark green south of town.  And sugar, that we really want, has some light green here. Yeeeah.. in hindsight growing our own sugar isn't the greatest idea  Weirdly enough, despite being a map used in a scenario all about fruit there is a LOT of ore deposits here. 6 iron, 4 bauxite and 3 gold deposits. Its on the higher end of ores compared to other maps.  Setting up an early tenement and a bar. Usually I want to wait to get a ministry, foreign affairs and the USSR edict but eh... A quick 4k to placate the people isn't a lot.  Meet some Tropican wildlife, an anteater. They are some neat window dressing, don't think they actually interact with anyone. I'm sure they start to vanish though if we were to bulldoze the trees and build high rises in its place.  I've also built an ore mine by the nearest cluster of deposits. Its set to only mine bauxite though, bauxite is worth more then iron raw and I'll save that iron for a weapons factory.  Uuuuuggghhh you guys are dicks. Not letting us get our money at the start of the year is horrible, I even built ghetto housing!  Ministry up, time to get the USSR edict. Gonna keep holding off on the immigration office.  Penultimo: And now, an exclusive interview with El Presidente's childhood bear - which is now on display at his Childhood Museum. Misha, how do you feel about being on display? "Misha": It's great. Come and see us all. Sunny Flowers: Aren't you a little bit old to be playing with dolls? Penultimo: Don't listen to the Snarky lady, Misha. Sunny Flowers: Snarky?!  Getting up 2 sugar plantations, gets us some good money off the cane and to supply our future distillery.  Uuuuuugggghhhhhh. ALL MY GARAGES     Since the story beats are coming in less often I'm gonna be showing off the various optional missions that pop up that I've been doing behind the scenes. Rodriguez, I share your resentment with the teenagers but we just need to wait a bit longer for the internet to get into full swing and the teenager problem will take care of itself. Why would you bite into a tide pod and instead of going through with your body's natural reaction to gag and spit it out, you opt to swallow it? loving Darwinism  Anyways... gonna put a hold on that. The only person we can make into a minister of defense is our only soldier.  The US version of the "give us money" quests. It was funny that they were asking for money and did the "Countries we are going to soon invade" thing when they actively had boats on our shores on No One Left Behind.  Uh oh, someone is prote- Wait its our loving palace guard!  Consider your rear end fired. Don't want the only other guy who has a gun on the island to pull a coup. I mean how embarrassing would it be to lose the game with one single soldier having a coup and overthrowing the island?  Got a high school up, have to get some graduates so we'll actually have a palace guard. Please don't become rebels guys   No that wasn't an invitation to come back, Ismael. Throwing you out the door again.  I SAID STAY THE gently caress OUT OF THE MILITARY  Yeah, be a priest. The only other high school job we got available. Don't come back.  This loving guy... if we had another palace guard I would order him shot.   Hopefully we'll get some high school graduates immigrating to get some palace guards. Hm... Don't think its actually the best idea to have military personnel be made up of foreign immigrants. Whatever, time to build a few fa  Oh god shut uppppppp  God dammit Ismael I will not order you shot, despite us having some soldiers. Tropico needs a heel.   With our 2 starting farms I built these 4 south of town. I use the cheap Tropican flag to help me with setting boundaries. Is it sad that the thing I'm looking forward to the most in Tropico 6 is the ability to change your flag? I look forward to all the edge lords putting swastika flags up while screaming about free speech.  I also built a single banana farm. I'll do a pineapple farm later so may as well have one of everything growing. Just 1 farm so I can experience the banana shortage both at work and in game.  At this point its been 9 years, yeah I may have dawdled a bit long on getting the immigration office up. I'm throwing up a bunch of apartments. Also what is cool is that the city center is considered to be at the 40mw elevation for wind turbines. Got one up to get a hospital powered.  Aaaw yeah, more private tutoring sessions with an unfortunate shaped head. Also her saying "less prudes telling us what to do" gives me a chuckle as I remember the time where people would call you that if you made fun of their fetishes.  Now after like 10 years I'm finally getting the Minister of Defence now that we have someone else as an option for it that isn't Ismael. You are never getting this comfy job. Besides the other guy's stats completely blows yours out of the water.  And now that we finally crashed the stocks with our exports, time to start buying the shares. 2.5k per share is chump change.  Egh, papayas. I don't like papayas, they always smell rather ripe to me and I don't like how they look. And they start making spots really easily. In fact I am explicitly forbidden from touching papaya at work as I apparently toss a bunch of perfectly "good" papayas. So if they need to be done I need to get a fellow produce employee to do it for me cause I raise the shrink  Showing off our 4 farms, 2 of them were set to pineapples and I wanted to show plant jank. The top right farm is a pineapple farm, and where do they plant their stuff? Across the street and around the other farm. Nowhere in the top right area where it is placed. Either that or they planed their crop around the farm to the top left, which isn't exactly any better.  Oh... thanks... you shouldn't have... no really... Also to cut down on length, if an announcement doesn't have anything written below the portrait I'll go ahead and cut out the empty space.  Oh god, FINE. She really bugged me twice in a row. And made a radio announcement.  There, right in front of the bananas. Maybe we can use the garbage pollution to help ripen our bananas faster. "Organically fermented"  Oh christ, time to set the office to "gently caress off we're full" mode.  Whenever Sasha has a request for us its generally about a top secret project against the US and Capitalism. I think I know how she plans to defeat Capitalism with sugar: Get them hooked, let them grow fat, and move in after they all die of diabetes.  Oh crap, busted. Funnily enough he drops the prices of industry goods... but we currently don't have any industry, so our income is untouched.  We can at least blunt the price drop by getting 3 factories up. One is gonna be a distillery of course, one weapon factory and hey, with all these farms making pineapples may as well get a cannery.   And hey, I don't like how many votes our opponent has. Time to hold a speech, typically I pick a hot issue that matches a promise and for who I praise its whoever is the highest that is below 90. As its a 10% respect increase, no real use in doing a 90+ faction, and if you do it for a faction with really low respect it'll be a piddly amount of respect.  Presidtente: My dear comrades... The importance of the upcoming elections has brought me before you. We are one step closer to our goals. Victory is almost upon us, but we must still push forward. There are long lines in front of confessionals. We shall not deny that. However, the reasons are as clear as day. The overzealous beliefs of the Religious faction are only holding us back ( )Through years of my presidency, I have received your gratitude, my companeros. Alas, I am nothing but a humble servant, and you are my masters, my employers. I must, in turn, pay my respect to you - the everyday workers, especially to the Communists. The development in the past years is obvious to all; still there are lots of things to be done. God is my witness, that during my next mandate we will build a cathedral worthy of our piety in Tropico. A new age of prosperity and freedom awaits after our victory!  A significantly higher crowd then last time we had a speech Also huh, turns out the military does use the trucks without serving executions. Or maybe I did order one and forgot about it. Also disregard that half the citizens in this shot are sick. It begins Penultimo: Today is a bright day for the Tropican democracy! The polls are out and its clear people voted overwhelmingly for El Presidente! The way things are going, the secret police will be out of work in a couple of years!  Hm... was kinda hoping we'd have more high school graduates to work here.  ... Well that is concerning...  Well time to build an academy of science and get our dummies to allowed to get high school degrees. Who cares if dummies work the distillery, we get double profits!  Sunny Flowers: How could they?! I cannot believe that El Presidente has built a garbage dump over my favorite meadow! So many natural treasures lost forever! 25 different plant types, 12 different reptile species and... one cute bunny... My dear Snuggles, you will be missed....  You know Sunny, sometimes I get conflicting signals from you.  Sunny Flowers: A minor political incident occurred today - The wife of an anonymous US ambassador was stopped at the customs office because her husband had declared her as useless baggage. The woman was later released when proper duties were paid for her. I like this bit of character development for Crane. This is touched up on again when building another building.  Ah there we go, go out and make shoddy goods you morons!  Just make sure you don't blow yourselves up making landmines, k? Sunny Flowers: What does the new factory produce, Penultimo? Penultimo: Sprockets. Huge demand for them in the US. Sunny Flowers: Such a big, well guarded factory to produce... sprockets? Penultimo: Also bulb-holders, paperweights, harmless stuff like that. Definitely not making weapons of any kind. Sunny Flowers: Not making weapons of any kind, got it.  I set the nearby mine from bauxite to iron for the factory.  Hm... don't know how I feel about doing this mission for you, Sallim.  Building up inner city. Got the cathedral built since people voted El Presidente. Guess where the high class housing is going?   I built a cement factory for our third industry. Gotta get that construction bonus.   Well hm... If we do a strike squad we'll need to train up a police force first. So screw it, just building a movie theater will be faster. And cheaper. And our citizens can go have fun.  Hey hey, good thing we are a booze baron! Getting a free factory for our top export is just gravy.  ... You know, if some certain assholes would do their jobs  Now our workers will be too busy to stage strikes. Why strike when the newest super hero movie just released? Maybe THIS time it'll actually be good!  Well, we got so much money from rum that I can justify buying a nuclear power plant. It'll also completely negate the penalty that Preston inflicted on us, and give us another 10% bonus.  And sweet, free factory. I'll take another distillery!  On top of that I start using the land near the original 2 farms to make some pineapple and coffee farms for a cannery.    drat you and your money Preston! You will learn that booze trumps money!  Comrade Vasquez: Congratulations, comrades, on the construction of the new Nuclear Power Plant! We will split the capitalistic atom with the spark of revolution! At this point I'm sure everyone has been on the radio, minus El Diablo. I don't think I've actually heard him on the radio, but maybe I'm just not building the right things.  Oh god why.  How funny that the city is celebrating Tropico Day...  .... And 3 god drat tornadoes pop up out of town.  You know my first time playing this game there was a big protest going on. And I got a multi tornado event as soon as that happened.  The tornadoes touched down on the protestors and loving murdered them all.  Presidente rules by divine right  Also jesus christ that damage. You know Penultimo you can be slightly less of a dick and not get on my case about this after 3 drat tornadoes blew up the town.  Of course there goes my cannery production. And since 2 marketplaces got blown up there goes food for the citizens.  Eeeh... I kinda warmed up to country houses. They aren't bad in getting good low income housing. As my maps wind down and tenements start emptying out I start replacing them with country houses. In Tropico 5 I use them a lot as the people living in them don't need to worry about food.   Of course, ninjas! We don't want to hire pirates. You remember the last time we had pirates? They didn't want to share the profits even though we provided lumber for their ungrateful asses. And a luxury liner!  Sunny Flowers: Several post men went missing when they delivered letters addressed to the secret police headquarters. Penultimo: For the last time people, it's a SECRET police. You can't go knocking on the door. heh  Oh hey, time to use that edict I never use. I hope the Chinese ninjas use better quality metal in their tools then I do in the furniture I buy from them. Every screw stripping, what is the world coming to....  As an aside, start of the year and our spice rum is making some good change by itself.  At this point I make a few more sugar plantations AND allow imports for sugar, as we are having some logistic problems. The teamsters will drop the sugar at the nearest distillery, and our workers are constantly producing rum so the distillery never caps, so the teamsters continue delivering to it... So I made sure to drop the additional plantations closer to the second distillery.   Penultimo: The Papal procession encountered a minor snafu as the Popemobile ran over Father Esteban while the latter was running towards the Pope, trying to hug him and pour him a glass of Tropican rum. Sunny Flowers: Reverend Esteban is currently recuperating under a strict diet, excluding more than 90% alcohol. He is expected to recover fully in a few days, if he survives the diet. Ahahaha, Esteban is awesome. Too bad his faction isn't.  Now here is something weird that I discovered. We still have free factories. In fact I think that rum to the USSR mission gave us one free factory for EVERY factory.  Got an oil spill and hell, got so much money coming in from rum I can just pay to clean it up instantly.  Doing this makes 4 helicopters (or well, 3 extra copters) show up and pour their stuff to clean the stuff immediately. When the oil spill is cleaned up the oil tanker just sinks to the bottom. The one that crashed, not the one that shows up to clean.  Finally got the airport up, time to send out for our ninjas.... Except that using the Pope visit counts as a foreign edict and we have to wait 2 years    Penultimo: I am proud to announce that Tropico has just reached 5 billion people! Sunny Flowers: Isn't that the population of the whole world? Penultimo: I'm sorry. Tropico has reached a population of 500 people. Oh gently caress, I don't know how I didn't notice the population boom   Quick, more jobs, more houses, more everything!  Now to use the trade mission edict. We send an envoy to the USSR (or US) and a few months after we get a perk of some sort. I think if relations are low they'll laugh you away and you wasted your time. I'm going off T1 cause honestly, I NEVER use this on T4 as I never build an airport, but I believe what you can get is a price increase, a free building, or educated workers.  100k is chump change with our rum profits. Seriously I never had any problems with money this entire mission, even after paying the 100k we had 488k left over. Rum and booze baron is BROKEN. Can be made even more so if I picked the trait that increased export prices, at rank 5.  Production to the south of the island. I eventually set up a second mine to get iron for the factory. Also built some ranches for variety and side missions.  A better look on the papaya farm and ranches. God I bet that smells like roses....  The lower class housing, education.  Higher income housing. And yes, this is now THREE cathedrals. Still not enough to not be constantly packed, even after having like 130 service quality which should keep the people from coming back.  Our default farms, pineapple and coffee with the cannery. More ranches, and our prison. Shoulda made it a labor camp instead.  Dock area with some industry. I was setting up a chemical plant.  Our sugar plantations and distilleries.  Victory! Bye bye Preston, enjoy being unemployed! ..... Though since you're a millionaire you can probably live the rest of your life comfortably without ever having to do real work. Life sucks. Leal fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Mar 6, 2018 |
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Next mission is kicking Preston while he is down, by getting first in the olympics! This mission has a tourist theme so as such... A  This option gets us some really, really nice nightclubs. We also get some cheaper buildings. We will also get a free hotel out of it. B  This option gets more swiss funds, and we'll be better at gambling with our yankee tourists. Voting will close on Wednesday at 12pm Pacific time!
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This island is used again later in the campaign, possibly the second to last mission.Leal posted:There are long lines in front of confessionals. We shall not deny that. However, the reasons are as clear as day. The overzealous beliefs of the Religious faction are only holding us back ( Also: B, let the dice to the talking. 
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B because that isa how Presidente rolls
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Leal posted:
Honestly I couldn't help but be reminded of this when ninjas got brought up: "Preston has intruded on Tropican affairs long enough. He must prepare to meet his demise at the hands of...EL PRESIDENTE'S NINJA!"
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And there's the tornado swarm, one of the few things that's ever forced me to restart a map. Getting slapped with five tornadoes in the first couple of years digs you into a very deep hole, to the point where it's faster to just throw up your hands and start over.
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Did... Did someone say extra Swiss Bank Account funds? B
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Swiss Bank account is our top priority.
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Good thing Penultimo doesn't play the stock market. B
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