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A time to put our elf hat. Made from actual wood elves.
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Alright looks like we're gonna take those hippies out with our flower filled ri- wait hippies won? Alright guys. Next update though will be the DLC map I held the previous vote for.
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How I Learned To Love The Bomb A ravaged world, rebuilt in Presidente's image. Might be the only way to handle the multitude of naysayers in the US and USSR is a nuclear holocaust.  War Hero, Communist Rebellion, Activist, Survivalist and Paranoid all seem like proper role play traits for a Presidente who is gonna bring the light of Communism, Environmentalistm, Religiousism and Intellectualism to the world.  Welcome to Isla de Extrano Amor, which comes with the Apocalypse DLC. The dock is pretty out there, compared to the city center. Also why are the farms so far away from the garage?  drat, who knew pulling out of the nuclear treaty would lead to such results so fast? I'm sorry for dating my LP, feel free to rag on me about it in the fallout shelter.  Well thats nice, we could go ahead and immediately buy the shelter but... How about we build an economy first?  This spot is pretty solid for tobacco, up the hill is great for all food crops and coffee.  There is also an iron mine and a gold mine up here. I throw down the iron mine to get some quick exports out.  I do run into a job shortage, and what is the point of a shelter if there is no one around to hide in it?   Oh, this is supposed to be kept on the down low? Well, Presidente's attire doesn't help with that...  Especially building it smack dab in the center of town, namely in front of the most notable building on the entire island   The thread has decided that Communists are who will fill our shelter! Capitalists would want us to export gold then have a bunch of bankers.  Communists will want miners of any flavor. And hey, we just so happy to have 5 miners from that one mine..  I throw down another mine to get the gold ore up here.  For simple variety I go for the bauxite mine a little bit east of town. I got plans for that other gold vein.  So I get where they're coming from here, canned food to eat. But what is the banker thing about for the Capitalists? Do we eat the bankers?  .............. wat I lost the screenshot but while they aren't at 0, canned goods are now <300 a pop.  And to top it off some rear end in a top hat decided to torch the garage where I'm throwing down pineapple farms   Thread voted Intellectuals, sorry Penultimo but we're gonna have to pretend this conversation never happened. The Loyalists requirement would've been choosing the Loyalists and they'll head on in   Uuuuggghhh radar dishes. God drat, radar dishes are in like half the missions in this game  Island shot, its sad that raw pineapple and coffee will make more money then canned right now.  Oh right, radar dishes. A whole 60k going down the drain here...  Combine the lower canned good payouts and its gonna be slow going to get these radar dishes up. I put down a customs office just to get some extra cash coming in from the canned goods.  Haven't seen one of these in a long time. Now watch as the next map will have a bunch of them!  But its all good, the main city is in the safe zone. All we lose is the single garage by the docks.  God this is painful to look out. Just barely breaking even in profits. Bloody Communism.  But hey we finally finished that, much like the first mission where we had to choose between factions, we get a disaster from the faction we didn't pick.  When I think of people with pick axes going underground for an undetermined amount of time I think of Dwarf Fortress. Man I'd be down for Tropican Fortress. Also you may have noticed there was a reward of "x amount of <faction> Tropicans enter the shelter". That isn't just a roleplay thing, those citizens do "leave" the map.  City coming along nicely. The ground above the town is also the 40 mw range for wind turbines, so I throw 2 down.  The thread has voted Religious, who needs guns when you can convert mutants in the post apocalypse? Militarists would want us to export weapons and kill some random citizens.  Oh jeeze, this expensive thing. I also like the handwave here about destroying it to rebuild it underground. There may be a reason for that...  Thankfully after the Communists went under the canned goods went back to default prices. We shall build Jesus with canned profits!  Also I got those stupid radar dishes up. Ugh, why radar dishes? I was too hard on the Stock Market, at least with those they can provide jobs for your citizens. These things just suck up college labor for minor bonuses.  The hill would've been a pretty solid part to put some logging camps as well. I haven't built logging camps in forever, maybe I'll put some up next map.  Oh man, no don't listen to this witch. She is probably some addict who claims she can see the future if she took some drugs.  And the thread voted Environmentalists and only Environmentalists. The lack of love for Tropican Nationalism does not bode well  Nationalists would've wanted a nuclear power plant.  Though it was clearly the correct choice, Toucan is the National bird of Tropico, as well as Presidente's alter ego.  Yeah, this is pretty much how any meeting with witches go. No I will not discount 50 pounds of garlic, I can't even do that I'm just the guy who offloads the truck!  Getting the six turbines up was no problem, more power for the industry that is paying for everything.  Everything is going perfectly, got a blueprint for the Christ statue down. Just gotta wait for the builders to get to it...  Oh come on, Presidente is tired of these mythological with their magic getting up in everything! Disregard that Presidente was a voodoo man in one of the DLC maps.  Pppppfffttt, thats all you can do? Ahahaahaha, might wanna get some extra eye of newt you quack!  Or maybe, just maybe, it was the loving gaze of our lord and savior who protected the island?  Remember, in an underground shelter there is no such thing as too a low a ceiling, simply too high a floor.  Oh no the witch struck Jesus down, can't believe Jesus Christ is loving dead!  Don't know if I should go with the "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW" reference or the "You blew it all up, drat you!" reference.  Oh, looks like Esteban was just digging a hole under the statue. Crazy.  ... Well that was a waste of time So whats this analysis computer thing about?  Wait, no...  They aren't...  Well thats just how it should be  Did the game just do a Fallout-esque ending reel for the choices you make? That is great   The final shot of the "providing hill", which provided food and ores for the town. Pre Jesus going boom, of course.  City center itself. I threw down that newspaper because everyone was complaining about being oppressed. Oppression would be the least of your worries once the bombs dropped! I also put down a weapons factory and a jewelry factory by the cannery to bring in extra cash, and use up the ores.  The bauxite and second gold ore deposit.  Victory! Tropico is clearly an indestructible nation. But... what if... we took heed of the witch?  2 years to get 15k, I accepted it immediately but I would honestly suggest holding it off until the last second.  Oh lookie here, an alternate win solution! Neat. This is why we would want to hold off, a 10 year limit. Now, its just a nuclear program, big deal right?  Except they multiplied the cost by 10! My lord... ok... just gotta get a ton of cash within 10 years.  I throw down a cigar factory to pair up with the nearby tobacco plantation. I keep Presidente around the factories and constantly buff them. I also put up the industry ad edict to give an extra 20% export price.  Oh yeah thats the good stuff   I also went and built 3 banks and got them to the 60% price reduction. I have a feeling the math is slightly off here. I'm assuming what is happening is that the game is taking 60% off the base price, and not the final price. Cause I know 36k isn't 60% of 600k  Finally get the money.. and oh god dammit. Hire any random dummy who is holding a rifle and lets get this built  42 months left and I throw it down, where else, but Presidente's house.  Time to become a God! Later nerds!  Oh, still for nothing. I can't believe Presidente went to space and loving died.
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That was amazing and I love it EDIT: I'd have expected a little more positivity regarding the Communists' survival though, Sasha 
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Oct 22, 2018 06:00
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Every option is the wrong one, right? Radar dishes!
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Plantador OoooOOOoooh, spooky happenings on the island with C'thulhu gibberish on the news. This map is gonna be spoopy  Presidente will be a humble pop singer who is used to the modern day convinces being stranded among the primitive natives. Can you imagine anything spookier then being on an island with no fast food or internet?  Ooo- wait where are the roads and why isn't there any garages  What do you mean literally EVERYTHING minus 3 buildings are locked and need to be researched what the fuc The Communist Propaganda Competition  Today we're gonna do something really spooky, make Communism real!  Its the only thing more horrifying then making anime real. Anyways Man of the People, Elected as Socialist, Hardworking, Populist and Alcoholic seem like good choices for a Communist propaganda leader.  Welcome to Isla de la Verdad. I.. think this is a vanilla map, the DLC page for Propaganda doesn't mention adding a new map and the wiki doesn't have an entry for it. Funnily enough, the wiki states that this mission takes place on Isla de Guerra, meanwhile another map that DOES take place on Guerra is shown as Verdad. No entries on the wiki for either island. None of this matters, just wanted to ramble.  The devs really seem to like Sasha, she is in the majority of the DLC missions. I was gonna make a remark about her being prominent in the default campaign but then I remember Nick Richards being the US stand in. Why haven't they brought Nick back for a DLC map   Sweet, this will cover 2 towers with some extra cash. But uh, how about we put that on ice and build an economy first.  The map does start with a single wind turbine right here, giving 11 mw of power. Just barely enough for the 2 towers.  Said I was gonna do some lumber mills last map, so here it is  Plopped down a propaganda tower right next to the main city garage, next to the housing, bar and the humanitarian aid camp. Every time I get protests its around housing blocks or the aid camp, they can't avoid the influence of the tower if they have to pass by it for their basic needs *taps forehead*  Something to note, social security and free housing edicts are locked. Annoying.  And the second tower right next to the church. You think Jesus has a bunch of loyal followers, just wait to see how many Loyalists Presidente will have with his speech blaring over Sunday mass!  You place waaaaay too much trust in Penultimo. I'd ask for the book myself but I can't read Russian.  Get ready to suck it down Bulgaria, there is only enough room for one underdog in this competition.  So we are given a handful of choices, and we wont know what it is until we pick it, and we are locked into it. Assuming we don't just reload.  Exporting something that grows is for bananas, which wont be a bad choice per se as you can feed your citizens with it but...  This is the darkest green part of the map, a lime green on inaccessible terrain, the patch of green on the northern side of the island on the minimap is also inaccessible terrain. So it'd be slow going.  Dig something up is building mines, a simple choice. There is some iron and bauxite deposits.  This is clearly the most communist choice, but really I was surprised as I was expecting it to be exporting fish.  But I go with this cause the thought of using canned food to feed your army then fill with gunpowder as makeshift grenades tickles me. Hi NSA!  I throw down 2 pineapple farms, the land for good coffee land is pretty far away so I ignore it.  Sunny Flowers: Tropico is running low on money, what is your take, Penultimo? Penultimo: I blame you, Sunny. By refusing to date me, you are blocking the economy. Sunny Flowers: Oh.... All right, then. Is eight o'clock tomorrow ok? Penultimo what the hell   Once the pineapple started getting exported I build the cannery. This central valley is a pretty solid area to grow most crops, sugar and the 4 food crops besides bananas.  Sack the capitalist pigs off the stage just like me during the Nutcracker play during elementary school   Having some job shortages, throwing up a papaya and corn farm up here to get some variety and to keep our citizens from eating our delicious canned food material.  Now the last options may have been a bit opaque, but these options are more clearly defined.  Freedom is to build a media building, anything from TV to a newspaper. Easy enough.  Something with crime is a police station... that is, a NEW police station. I already had one built and hell if I need a second one.  Power is simply 2 more power sources. This could be a nuclear power plant and a non nuclear power plant or 2 power plants if your head isn't screwed on correctly.  Annoyingly the island has no tall enough areas to get 40mw, this is the highest ground and it only gives 22 mw. I throw down 2 wind turbines for the mission.  You hear that guys, if you're on a computer or phone right now you have power. Maybe not THE power, but why be picky?  Also the area near the turbines looks pretty neat. This game has very good water, 9/10  Hey now, this is COMPLETE bullshit as I never give election speeches  Aw thanks Sallim, but if I know how Communism works I'm still gonna have to invade your country to ensure my puppet government stays in power. Assuming a one eyed devil with a rocket launching arm doesn't single handily take out my entire military during occupation. Or someone with a hosed up skin condition uses them as guinea pigs for some vocal parasite.  Oooh, something big and dangerous sounds good. Its clearly gonna be the nuclear progra  what the gently caress no gently caress that  This can be done easily enough, got the cannery already, could build a distillery and get a cement factory up.  This is basically an extension of the last choice, build more factories to get the workers...  But lets go with this option. As said in Metro 2033, a bullet for every Communist to be used against the Fascists!  Oh but of course ALL MY loving FACTORY WORKERS AREN'T AROUND :AAARRGGHH: There are 2 iron deposits nearby, I plop down a single mine for now.  City shot, for some reason this map has my citizens becoming criminals quite often. I throw 5 of them in prison and as soon as their terms are up another 5 appear.  While waiting for the guns to be exported we can take on another mission. I think these choices are obvious.  Simple, would be nice to have one around anyways.  Expensive but would be nice to have around.  Hmmmmmm...... This one costs no money!  WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW  That was simple. Though I'm sure the religious faction is gonna flip. Also our citizens will get all pissy....  Hah! No churches, but you didn't say anything about cathedrals  Checkmate atheists.  Finally got the weapon factory up. So it should be at this point I'll admit something: The reason the factories are here is because these are in the safe zone from tsunamis, without going up to the hills. Of course, on my first run I got hit by a bunch of tsunamis and on this run I got 0.  Money shot. Citizens were getting really upset about liberty so I threw down a TV station.  Aaaand another updated shot. Yeah the weapons exports are going slow. So slow I even put up a second hospital out of boredom.  Yeah, phrased as such its almost like you're saying...   I swear if "Something with guns" is exporting even more weapons...  Well err, I already have one...  I wont need one of these...  eeeehhhhh  So I give my prisoners a Presidente pardon and destroy the prison and rebuild it elsewhere.  Oh hey I didn't realize California was a communist haven.  A little too green to be California imho. The farms and tenements are pretty spot on though. Just needs a ton of brown grass that a single rear end in a top hat flicking his cig out his car window will set a wildfire that shuts down the highway for 12 hours.  You know what? I like this minister's spunk, I'm gonna let him keep his job. About drat time someone stopped giving kids the easy way out.  This is the second time now an apartment right across the street from the fire department has caught on fire. No worries, our brave men in yellow wi  Sanchez the gently caress are you doing quit spraying the kid he isn't even a fire that doesn't even make sense  Put the police station by the docks, now our prisoners can enjoy the smell of the Tropican dump and fish.   Fun fact: The Tropican zoo does not feature any monkeys!  Ugh, I already have 2 hospitals. Why would I need a third?  Already got a college...  Well by process of elimination guess which one I'm going with!  Who knew that prison was on primo real estate for a zoo?  I also build a nuclear power plant cause why not. The elevation problem makes turbines not optimal, and hey we're buddies with the USSR so why not import some totally safe metals?  Hasn't this whole map been nothing but slogans?  Currently I have 0 criminals for a change, so this should be really easy right?  Yeah... yeah. And I already burnt my one use of Off To Florida.  This is easy enough, but boring.  Oh hey, I can finally pop those edicts. Been wanting to do free housing for a while too.  And the zoo is open! Does it strain your eyes seeing this screenshots? Remember, full year drought which meant I played this entire time with that eye searing drought filter   Cheating bastards. Maybe I should rename Tropico to Utopia.  Pfffffffffft. I guess we do have monkeys in the Tropican zoo after all!  Hey now, the 5 year plan in 4 years is Presidente's go to for election speeches. These bastards can't steal that from us!  The last choice, let's see what we got  Easy and very boring. Also build a wall joke here. Next!  Well this is easy enough, I have labor shortages currently.  Hey hey hey, generate more swiss funds? Don't mind if I do~  I set up a bank to transfer to the slush fund.  Hmm... Well thats annoying, good thing I didn't pick the no unemployment option, eh?  Also more bullshit, as this map has zero gold deposits on it.  Er, wait why all the shacks?   dslafkjfdgfghklj  I change the customs office to transfer funds to the swiss bank account. I of course also have the building permit edict up.  Though... money really starts to get tight. There is so much overhead on the housing right now. And trying to build up jobs for the extra population is straining the coffers.  Oh my god so clooooose  Hey, gently caress it! I'll just not bother building anything and let the banks just change this heavily inflated, worthless money into wholesome, pure Swiss bucks!  The docks area, a rare case of the salt mines being near the shores so they can effect the fishing wharves.  The top of my little city square, with the industry and farms.  Southwestern shot of the main city.  Eastern shot. I had to start throwing up tenements for all the homeless because of the money problems.  Or devaluing your own country's currency. See ya later ya saps, I've off to my mansion in Switzerland!  Whoa, a fourth wall break? I like the cut of this guy's jib.  Victory! Leal fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Nov 4, 2018 |
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Sorry about the delay, I wanted to get 2 DLC maps inbetween the Modern Times maps as I wanted to end on the final Modern Times map and not have a DLC map left over. I really wanted to get Plantador for Halloween but... yeah. Its all research based and I can't find a tech tree online so I was having major issues getting what I needed available. Also I really wanted to get a backlog of my other LP, I want to finish both by Christmas
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Man, Plantador just looks punishing. I guess you spend a lot of time in fast-forward?
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To be fair, they way Tropico works, you never not want to be in speedmode, unless you need to do a bunch of placements, in which case, you pause. Also as i remember that mission, it is not that tough, as long as you abuse the DLC-related building heavily.
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pretty much, the game's normal pace is so sedate that max speed is the only way to make it bearable.
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The Earth Warriors I was gonna make a remark about how environmentalists would be brainwashed by the media considering media damages the environment but then I remembered <political faction here> using <thing they stand against here>.  Once again I'm going with the hipster look because there is no Steppenwolf DLC. Naturalist background, activist and green thumb traits are a given. Velvet revolution as the only pro environmentalist rise is the hotel corporate and I just didn't feel like taking it. Pompous because everyone is tired of El Presidente walking around and giving hot takes like "you know a person/animal was abused for you to enjoy that thing you're enjoying".  Welcome back to Isla de Pieta. Wow, this city is BUILT. Why are there still wharves here?  The gimmick of this map, Environmentalists will make demands and we must obey or they strike and protest. The thread voted that we shall obey so...  Here is the other side of the city. Basic farms? Landfills?! What rear end backwards island is this? Besides these we also have some end game entertainment buildings, a gourmet restaurant and a nightclub.  Thankfully we don't have to manually destroy the wharves, when we click accept they blow up sequentially. RIP the seagulls that fly around the wharves, I hope you're happy Sunny.  So whats neat is that 2 of the farms up here are automatically set to tobacco. I set another to coffee as this little corner is dark green for all the cash crops and we start with a cannery. All in all we start with a cannery, sawmill, tobacco, chemical plant and a weapon factory. We also have 2 logging camps, so minus the weapon factory we have materials that can all go into the factories. I enable imports of iron for the weapon factory.  This mission wont be difficult in the slightest, a single supermarket set to junk food will get us here. But we are actually gonna want to hold off on accomplishing this and let our coffers build up first.  We were in the negative for a bit, all the overhead for all these factories is gonna hurt between the freighter picking up what they make. Sunny Flowers: Tropico is short on cash, whats your take Penultimo? Penultimo: I blame global warming! Sunny Flowers: I knew it! Ha  Nearby there is a small deposit of iron ore. It is both small and not deeply colored, but it'll be better to mine the stuff up myself then to import it. I said I was gonna listen to Sunny's demands, not pursue the environmentalist agenda  Oh those poor bastards. They're getting wrecked by a man with a rocket arm. This is annoying though cause Russia is who we get our iron from.  Building up, I get a school down to educate more people for the factories and get up an office building to get some jobs for those who can't get educations. As I didn't have to pay for any of these factories and we started with entertainment, I didn't really have to buy much. So on the side I've been building...  Meet the tourist hangout I said this would be a good place for tourist buildings, lets do it! Appropriately I'm trying to appeal to eco tourists.  Alright time to get the food satisfaction up, throwing down a supermarket...  And I'm gonna blow up all the default farms. These are hilariously outdated.  And viola, 2 food farms, 1 cash crop farm and 2 ranches. Food is no longer an issue. Or money.  Oh dear, it finally took long enough for me to piss off the USSR.  Hm.... something doesn't seem right. They don't look like USSR boats...  Theeeere we go! Penultimo: Good morning Tropico. You might have been awoken this morning by the gun fire from the ships of our comrades of the USSR. Do not panic as our friends are just practicing for an elaborate parade. I assure you that the ships are not here to invade our island and Russian relations have not dropped to an all time low.  The city continues to build in defiance of USSR imperialism. Oh wait, they're communists, its called liberation instead of imperialism.  And this is why we want to hold off with the food thing, first thing they'll do is destroy the power plant. So all those entertainment buildings and the chemical plant? Bwoooooooo  And kaboom. Well at least most of the factories can continue to operate without power.  Though annoyingly this means the modern apartments I just built, along with the offices, are down.  Man I didn't think the island relied this much on power, why is it so dark?    ..... Thats it?! I feel ripped off! Whats up with all these tame disasters I've been having?  Oh hey, looks like the hurricane was our ally and it chased off the USSR invaders :razzie:  I challenge your definition of "cheapest" and "most meaningful". Regular power plants suck Side note: You could use a nuclear power plant here. If you wanted to waste more money.  Beautiful, Pretty much covers the entire town while getting some power on the higher part of the island, towards the tourist area.  I struggle to think of a reason anyone would want to decline this one, why use dumps when the much better water treatment plants are available?  So what happens to the trash in the dump when it blows up?  New building time! Meet the Aerodrome, under Tourism. It replaces the airport in 1983, costs 24k and requires both 20mw of power and a minister of economy. Besides bringing in more tourists this can also bring in immigrants, which is neat. I thought it was weird no one would use an airplane to migrant in in old games, and gives it a use if you aren't using tourism. It has the airports "coach" and "first class" work modes (more tourists or richer tourists) along with 3 upgrades: Charter Flights costs 10k and brings in more tourists and makes small planes use the airstrip. Second Terminal costs 20k and requires 10mw of power. This doubles the incoming traffic. Duty-Free Shop makes tourists bring 50% more cash on them. Really the duty free shop will really help in bringing tourists who would hit the upper end of tourist spending in buildings. Close down the docks when this is built. Sunny Flowers: This is Sunny with the Hour of Truth! Do you know what Chemtrails are? Have you wondered why the trails of the new jets stay in the air longer? Why do we need this new airport? Is the government trying to control you? Penultimo: Thank you for those wonderful questions, Sunny. The officially approved answers are: no, never, because Presidente says so, and no. Next Sunny will be talking about jet fuel melting steel beams.  Gotta wait for the water treatment plant to bring down the pollution on the island, so this will take a bit.  Whoa, hey now. Penultimo, I thought you liked El Presidente? Whats this calling him a hipster crap from?  ..... Oh  I like the cleaner right side of the island with the modern apartments and office buildings, then you get to the left side with all the polluting factories.  Sunny gives a few optional missions, no reason to not do them as we get some delicious swiss bucks out of it. Also I've been chomping at the bit to build these, note that it says "new", so building them beforehand would've done nothing. Also this proves that I don't NEED oyster farms in every map  Have a close up of the jets, they're pretty neat. No baby prop planes that the old airport had.  .... Oh right this island had a volcano.  And the aerodrome is right next to it  Oh, thats all, huh? Of course most of these buildings are power transformers but the modern times economy is in full swing so I just throw money at the problem.  Dirty banana bomb? Dear god, did the clown from Space Station 13 show up on the island? At this point the logging camps are basically useless as they've chopped everything nearby anyway so I pick the destruction option.  Tourist area getting some love. Remember that the MT banks are always on offshore bank mode so this guy is just funneling swiss money. The psych ward is set to rehab for the tourists, mainly so I can use the health reform edict.  Iron deposit ran out, blew it up. I also blew up a bunch of the crappy housing buildings that were around them and am building a diamond cathedral.  Another optional mission. Hey Sunny, you know what is cooler then seeing the Tropican sunset from a botanical garden?  Seeing a Tropican ruin from a botanical garden!  Oh no, this is revenge from sending SWAT to kill all the llamas last time we were on this island, isn't it?  .... Thats it?!  As the iron mine was depleted, I went ahead and blew up the weapons factory. I've also blown up the tenements near it. Man, tenements right next to a factory that produces weaponry. That is some SCARY poo poo.  It was a prelude of things to come, EVERY factory is destroyed, and we cannot rebuild them. I do decide to go along with it, but I wanted to show off what happens if you don't.... Except the arsons never happened. I reloaded and tried again and it wouldn't happen, so I'll just say it: If you say no but manage to save a few of the factories, Antonia shows up and gives you some swiss funds for protection Capitalism  I don't know if its because I destroyed the weapons factory first and that broke something, or if its because I had the next mission already completed and it just skipped over the arsons.  Supernatural unit you say? Anyways, I had a million in the bank at this point so...  Finally seeing the factories blowing up. Whats weird is that you can apparently rebuild them, as if they were destroyed by a natural disaster, but everything else has blown up without the option to click on it and rebuild.  David Pynch you say? What makes these earth warriors truly evil is that they're using toucans for their nefarious schemes. This will not stand.  With the entire center of the town clearing up from the factories going kaboom, I go ahead and destroy the last of our tenements and the night club.  This is weird because conspiracy theorists who are afraid of mind control are usually the ones with the most imagination, that is, imagining mass mind control being a thing.  No park on the island? You wound me Sunny, Tropico has a beautiful park!  Its right next to the spooky voodoo house. As a bonus you can get healthcare for way cheaper then seeing a professional!  But hey, what better way to use up all that newly opened space in front of the palace? Meet the City Park! Found under Landmark and Beauty for 8k, it is discovered in 1955. Imagine a park, now make it huger. And make it increase beauty more, also give it a monthly maintenance cost. It looks nice but with its huge size I would have to preplan my city around it, by the time I could entertain spending the money on it my city layout is already set. But it is pretty!  Alright lets get the other schools up. We don't need them staffed so I toss them somewhere with the intent on blowing them up immediately.  Stupid? I thought we were making them have no imagination? They were already stupid because they didn't have educations!  Oh trust me Sunny, being a bitter, overworked man has done wonders for my life. I stopped getting let down and disappointed in life cause I don't have high hopes in the first place anymore!  Alright time to get rid of these schools... though maybe I shoulda kept them to education more soldiers as I build up more military buildings.  Its neat seeing the island go from the smog spewing factories and tenements everywhere to having clean apartments, water treatment plants and a few skyscrapers.  The left side of town is now the designated entertainment zone. So of course a SWAT HQ is there to make sure people don't have TOO MUCH fun. And with the great invention that is metro stations, I don't have to worry about tourists driving all the way down here to hit something up.   Oh lord, that is a lot of rebels. Sadly amnesty isn't working.  Got that square fully filled in. 2 diamond cathedrals and I'm STILL not getting past 50% religious satisfaction, even though the cathedrals have like 120 satisfaction so the people shouldn't be coming back as fast. Religion is wack.  Rebel attack happens, and it would be this police station all the loving way up here.  drat these rebels are loving pros at hiding in plain sight. On a sandy beach right next to the army base! Stop camping the uncap you noobs!  Well Jose managed to fight off the first wave of the rebels, but can he last against the other 15?  gently caress   Er, ok that aint good.  Hold up, hold up. 20+8=28. The gently caress did these other 14 rebels show up from? And I'm sure I didn't miss an announcements. Hell, this is a net GAIN of 22 rebels, not counting replenishing any of the ones killed.  Yeah I don't think I can handle the next one if they're gonna loving separate and double their numbers after each fight through mitosis.  Looks like the rebels are getting caught up at the cathedral. Manage to chase off the remaining rebels... though its a problem that the survivors live to fight another day.  Man I thought we were done with the conclave. The good doctor gave his life to destroy them! If only Dr Steinschneider were here  As a precaution I set up a Mausoleum and booby trap it. Just in case.  OK I see where you are coming from Penultimo, but what if we summon the aid of Dark Toucan? Wait, gently caress I forgot to bring my glasses this map. How can I trick people into not knowing I'm Dark Toucan?  God drat, I forgot how tall Babel Tower was. So tall I have to go to a higher elevation and zoom out to get the camera out far enough to see the top. So meet the Babel Tower! Found under Welfare and Economy for 120k! I believe this makes it the most expensive building in the game! It requires 50mw of power and is discovered in 1996. Its like the business offices on steroids, hiring 50 uneducated citizens and paying an average wage that you can't control. It generates money based on your swiss funds, how so I can't really say. Penultimo: Now we're serious! Now they'll envy us! Now everyone from 3,000 miles around know what Tropican engineers can do! It's called "Babel Tower", and for a good reason - it touches the skies! Sunny Flowers: Ohh, that monstrosity! It's ugly! It's... concrete! Wait, we have a listener calling! Penultimo: No, it's Father Esteban, do not Reverend Esteban: This new building is the sign of our doom! God will not forgive us! Penultimo: Thank you, Father, but we are suddenly out of time. Esteban is the greatest  City shot, regret not putting the Babel Tower where the Telecom HQ is.  Farm area, I moved the prison here to get away from the main city. City had nearly 450 pop and these buildings still kept the populace fed.  Aerodome and the tourist area.  Another shot of the tourist area, I'm glad I was able to build around these ruins. Its great how much your building options are expanded when you can use metro stations.  The little tourist dock with a SWAT HQ I threw down to deal with the crime the dock was generating  And of course, a golden statue of Presidente welcoming new arrivals into his glorious city.  Victory! Can we still trust Pynch? Didn't we JUST got over him talking about how he was tricked and then he betrayed us?
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quote:Maybe I should rename Tropico to Utopia. I'm probably the only one who remembers "The Creation of a Nation". A nice, but troublesome game.
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I've generally found that the only reliable way to get Religious Satisfaction up is to build so many cathedrals that each and every last Tropican has their own personally reserved seat.
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Bloodly posted:I'm probably the only one who remembers "The Creation of a Nation". A nice, but troublesome game. Fun game, especially for its time, but yeah - it had some serious issues if you kept going too long.
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Yeah, the real problem with environmentalism in games is that the only actual reason everything sucks so hard is because rich people want more money. And Presidente can't get fossil fuel kickbacks to his swiss bank account so what's even the point of making people life lovely lives for no reason?
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Peace, Love and Understanding Playing as Penultimo huh? Well as my favorite platform mascot has said: What can pawsibly go wrong?  Well no we aren't actually being Penultimo. Being a more combat focused scenario I go with war hero as the background, elected as a fascist for the rise to power, patriot and of course East Point Graduate (this is the scenario with that DLC) and schmoozola as my negative trait.  Welcome to Isla de Guerra, NOT to be confused with Isla de Gerera. This map comes with the DLC and what the gently caress is up with that patch of forest?  Must be a radiation dumping grounds or something.  Imagine being a Tropican citizen and Penultimo, the lovable Presidente sycophant that he is, says that he is placed in charge. Emigration would be crazy if Tropicans weren't considered illegal cargo.  Man when is the last time I've actually built a clinic? Anyways, who would Presidente hire to be his body double? I think... Tim Curry    Weirdly like right where the grass and beach meet is where our most fertile land is, at least near where the city starts. Everywhere else is great for sugar however.  Imagine the end of the mission where we are supposed to pick 4 factions to put in a vault, and opted for the go on a rocket ship ending instead. And Tim Curry goes "SPAYCE" as Presidente ascends to godhood.  Isn't it weird to have a clinic right next to an aid camp?  A band of mercenaries sacked the clinic, killing everyone in sight.... But Presidente managed to make it out with the help of another patient. Presidente is now known as... Phantom Presidente.  4 star?! Hotel?! I said a Motel 6 you knob! I wish I paid you so I could deduct your pay!  Well... I got paid 5k to build the 3k clinic, rebuilding it will set me back 1k... And there is a perfectly fine aid camp right there...  Oh my god they actually send away one of your builders  Llamas are too pure to be dragged into smuggling, we must stop these rebels at all costs.  Here is the food extension of town, corn, papaya and pineapple with a sugar plantation. Bananas don't grow well down here.  Hit with a heat wave and god drat, there goes half the housing.  And a garage to set up another area caught on fire, annoying.  Oh what the gently caress, the fire jumped across the street apparently and set another apartment on fire.  And now its jumped to this garage. loving ok, I'll pay for a helicopter to extinguish the flames.  Now as to what I was building up, why a tourist area of course! Between the beaches and river. Come see Tropico, plagued by "terrorists"!  Throwing down a distillery next to the sugar plantation. Raking in the cash.  This is on the western most part of the island, the city is behind the hills on the right. Some ruins and the only place we can get around 25mw of power, annoyingly enough.  I had a pub where the clinic used to be, decided to make it my police HQ.  Hell yeah, time to get our troops in power suits. Did you think America invented power armor to fight China? Pft, Tropico invented it to fight the world.  Due to the fact that wind turbines will get maybe 10mw of power unless its all the way on that hill for maybe 25mw of power, I put down a power plant.  Of course these assholes don't want to work it  Checking the almanac to find our college educated women I see they took jobs as the secret police. So I fire them all  City coming along, I used to have a lumber camp where the church currently is. Was gonna let them clear cut the area but the city was expanding too quickly.  Academy built. I locked the job slots, I have a college already and I don't want to deal with the gender swap problems with the academy.  This is like faking homelessness and starting a gofundme.  Taking money to theorize how to fight terrorists? Man this is like the easiest job in the States.  We do get some offers from other characters, sadly its all through Penultimo however. We get money out of doing it, but we are given a warning that continuously doing this will piss off the rebels. Maybe Sallim will let us have that camel, someday.  Throwin it down by the docks.  Fantastic, the Hoof. But hey, our tourists would like to party on a boat and we basically get our money back building one so...  Yeah there we go, time to party.  Oh, of course she has ulterior motives. I'm gonna... not... do this. I dunno if it locks you out of building another, but I don't want to adhere to Hoof's demands  Finally throw down the science academy. Hoo boy look at all those other exclamations.  Convert hammers to beakers, still lose your black hawk to a spear man.  That first line just made me laugh, as its voiced and its just... ok. Though Chinese food is indeed magical. Makes me sad I have no good Chinese in town  Uuuuggghhh the church is blocking the perfect location for the tv station  This is a main mission, I'm gonna hold off on it so we can continue getting more money.  I blow up the church to put the tv station in its place. Technology really DOES kill religion!  We do get a few news articles like this. I know I missed a few, I'm sure there was one about the Middle East buying some Tropican land for building the armory for example.  Tapirs are loving ugly, I'd just like to state that. An attack Tapir would be a frightening thing to witness.  Gonna throw this on down at the Tourist area.  I didn't realize that Chuffney was actually R. Kelly this whole time. Seriously what is with that title.  .... Dear god, why are we piddling around with rebels? We can conquer entire nations with judo fighting tapirs.  Throwing this down by the zoo, why not.  Well isn't that just lewd. Future EU royalty will have a little Tropican blood in them   Is this a joke of the honest god proposed gay bomb? Well hey, why not. What can go wrong with te-    Well at least it wasn't Tropican hippies that died.  As an aside, got this vote. Apparently the love bomb works, only my opponent voted against me.  Hey now there is an idea. Why pay to hire Tropicans to enlist in the military when I can have civilians give a helping hand and save money on military expenditures?  Does Presidente know what makes super heroes so heroic? What a stupid question, little does Penultimo know that Presidente IS a super hero (also a god)!  There was an iron deposit at the end of the food street, perfect place to throw down the weapons factory.  Noooooo, not the symbol of Tropico! Also Presidente's alter ego. What terrible crime have we wrought?  Oh man its true, if everyone has guns then criminals will also get guns.  This is a good thing to do anyways, we need a good amount of troops for pissing off the rebels like we've been doing.  Plopping a tower right next to the nightclub in hopes of the muscular men will get jobs as soldiers.  This is a horrible plan, everyone will know exactly what is happening when room service has vodka and not rum.  Finally got the generals going, need them to get the watch towers up and running anyways.  This is the mission that will kick off the end game for this mission, so we'll hold off on it while doing the rest of the missions.  Money shot of the city, city is getting big.  On one hand, radar dishes. On the other, they aren't demanding a full set of 5. On the other, radar dishes.  I throw down a uranium plant as the power plant is just... ugh. Why are power plants so bad?  5 wharves is a bit much, I'll go ahead and destroy 3 of them.  Paradise hotel built, the tourist area is looking pretty nice.  Oh my, didn't realize I built a no tell hotel.  Wharves thrown down, 3 of the ones on the left will be getting blown up. I also built an airport, why not.  Good ol' traffic jams, its great seeing these again after playing Modern Times. Actually no it isn't, I want my metro stations   Lasers to blow rebel planes out of the sky, also to blow up any cruise missiles targeting out airstrip.  Covering your baking sheet with foil, now only restricted to the Tropican 1%  I start throwing down bunkers to get our 30 soldiers. I throw about 4 of them around the island.  Fantastic.  Is there a difference between a rebel and a terrorist? I think not The strength of the rebels is dependent on all the side missions you did during the map. How much I cannot say, but I went and did them all.  We get this one time offer, which makes it kinda butts that the result is random.  I imagine this is the best result, I can't think of anything higher then "killed the leaders and made a bunch of them leave". Unless "took out the entirety of the rebels" is an option.  Before we get to the main event, one last look at the city. 4 farms, 3 ranches, sugar plantation, distillery and weapon factory providing food and money.  The tourist area, bringing in cash and jobs.  One side of the city.  I had around 500 people at the end here, its crazy because with Modern Times I barely break 250. I'm really convinced that immigration is handled differently between vanilla and Modern Times.  It beings There is about 27 rebels vs our 40 troops. Wish I had some better numbers as to how many came because of the side missions and how many were eliminated by the CIA.  And of course the army base is on the side of the island that the rebels are coming in from.  One soldier already makes one rebel run off as a group from each side clash.  The general flees right into the construction office, shameful.  On the other block is a single soldier against a handful of charging rebels. Where is Presidente during all this?  ...... Oh. Annoyingly I can't make him walk near the fighting so he grabs a limo, then make him join the fight. Once he's in fighting mode he can't be taken back out.  That soldier who was alone gets some back up...  For nothing  Are you effin kidding me  COME ON  Oh drat, this guy over here seems to have things on lock down.  Nooooooo  Here is the last rebel...  I love the hauling rear end animations that soldiers have.  Victory! Remember guys, if your nation needs some cash, just pretend you're being attacked by terrorists!
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Pretty good try by the rebels. Is that the highest numbers they've managed so far?
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There are way too many images on this page, I can't get enough of them to load to read the latest update.
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Poil posted:There are way too many images on this page, I can't get enough of them to load to read the latest update. The solution to that is for the LPer to ask the thread to push to new page, and then posting it there.
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DmitriX posted:The solution to that is for the LPer to ask the thread to push to new page, and then posting it there.
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I know how to push for a new page, a vote! If there was a Tropican X Factor, who would host it? A: Sunny Flowers B: Penultimo C: Miss Pineapple And we may need to give lessons to the host, would we give them A: Public speaking lessons B: Singing lessons C: Dancing lessons Voting will end Friday. Also I may start naming Tropicans after goons for the last handful of maps, voting is required for Tropican citizenship.
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Nov 28, 2018 15:28
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C and C. You can use your imagination to fill out the blanks.
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B and B.
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B and C, because I want to believe that Penultimo's only talent is his ability to cut a rug
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C and A. Oratory that would define a generation.
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Nov 28, 2018 19:48
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C and A make the most sense.
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C&C. Thankfully I don't remember the correct combination(s) so I'll go with what seems to have the second greatest risk of disaster.
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There is a reason why I'm not saying what each option does
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To acquire more humorous results? It's not like tropicans can feel pain or anything. Less than two months left until Tropico 6 releases. I am cautiously optimistic. 
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Absolutely C & C. The show would be expecting ballroom or waltzing or something, and Pineapple will come out and do some kind of burlesque pole dance
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Nov 28, 2018 22:55
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B and A because of the previous map.
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C & C.
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mercenarynuker posted:Absolutely C & C. The show would be expecting ballroom or waltzing or something, and Pineapple will come out and do some kind of burlesque pole dance
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queserasera posted:B and A because the concept of public speaking penultimo is hilarious.
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As long as he doesn't sing. His interpretation of the Batman theme in Tropico 5 was just awkward.
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Looks like C & C, like my favorite music factory, has won.  Updates might be delayed....
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Tropico 6 looking good then.
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Looks like we're getting the C & C: Tiberian Sun version. Sorry Red Alertailures
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Its cool to walk around your ship while your pilot flies for you, automation is a lot easier then in X3, and its pretty. But it feels pretty unfinished, and this is as a fanboy of this kind of game. Its silly how peaceful everything is, I stopped equipping my traders with weapons as xenon and kha'ak rarely ever make incursions into civilized space, and if they do its never more then a scout who isn't instantly set upon 5 fighters. Pirates never seem to bug my ships, its only happened once when I was in the same sector as it. You get an HQ really quickly, and the plot for it abruptly ends. You can research stuff but it doesn't cost anything to research and everything finishes in 10 minutes. This is supposed to be a long game where you build an empire and you research the ability to teleport to any ship you own within 40 minutes. Needs some more time in the oven, and some mods.
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