TROPICO! You too can run a banana "republic"!

it was... ok. i didn't find it THAT fun.

i'm gonna tig out Tropico and give it another go sometime soon. or at least buy the soundtrack.

According to the PopTop site, the sales for the game(along with Railroad Tycoon 2 & 3) sold like 3 million.

Tropikos: a Mediterrean-based mod.

website for the guys who did the soundtrack.

http://www.strategyplanet.com/tropico/images/Tourist4.jpg

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3428611

i have trouble being a SCUMBAG in this game. i played through a whole game, determined to oppress the locals. all i managed was to pay the farmers a shitty wage. even though it was a total police state and corrupt soldiers pretty much did as they pleased with their HUGE wage packets, the people were pretty much content. i totally walked the last few elections. even though they were poor as fuck, they had all their needs fulfilled, so they didn't give a shit.
i finished with a faily decent score.

So, i'm trying again. i've played 20 years so far. Elections? PAH. GO FISH. first assassination in the bag. he was protesting! another protester in prison. housing is CRAP and EXPENSIVE. lots of protestors this time. hopefully i'll build up my military before it all kicks off (and i really do think it will, this time).

fucking great game.

TENNEMENTS

i just wish i could get the voice to call me "Don homer" instead of "el presidente"

Tycoon-like, yeah

try it out = http://videogames.yahoo.com/predownload?eid=327959

You know how to play Sim City! The only thing I ever managed to do on one of those games was load up a preset city and set a monster loose on it.

WAHT. OI.

it's summer! time to play again!

YES!!!

I played like 10 games of this last month. This is the only game I've bought TWICE and installed like 4 times. Can't get enough of this.
I'm getting a bit too good at it now.

i just re-read this thread and ppl really be hating on this game! savages.

1>>>>>>2

<i>I play this game every summer religiously, when the weather's too hot to do anything else.</i>

We were talking about this in the pub the other day, as 'tis well and truly the season again. Let's have some hot weather!

Oh fuck you, simple BBcode button. why 2 be so hard 2 remember :(

When you click on and see the thoughts of your random Tropican, he always leaves work saying something like "I'm free! I'm free! Time to drink!"

i still say this, like, daily

there's some TV ad on at the moment with similar music to one of the Tropico tunes, and every time it comes on, i bellow "PRESIDENTE! U DO NOT HAEV ENUF ELECTRACERTY 2 POWER ALL TEH BUILDINGS ON TEH ISLAND!!11", or "YOUR PPL STARVE! GRO MORE FOOD, QUICKLY!!!!111", much to my girlfriend's dismay.

I was trying the dome out of this today. Gad. it's hard! (and slow). Fun though. Can't figure out how to grow properly. Most frustrating.

crops take a good few years to grow and end up at the docks. pretty much every farm/industry you build will run at a defecit while you're waiting for shit to be grown/processed/collected/loaded onto ship, so make sure you've got the funds to suck up the suckage before you start building your next project. also, make sure you grow on fertile land (duh), grow a variety of produce as land condition changes over time, make sure you grow enough foodstuff and not just sugar/coffee.
as for being slow, well, i usually play the whole game on Very Fast, which is over in a few hours.
don't forget to build new construction/teamsters offices when you expand!
as soon as you get the knack for setting up a fairly decent economy at the start of the game, you can pretty much forget about cash flow troubles and focus on keeping the people happy/oppressed (depending on how you're playing, obv)

I love this game so much. HAY GUYS WE SHD HAVE A TROPICO TOURNEY!!! (one that actually happens)

i found the soundtrack on slsk - this makes work much easier

"Your island is disgusting!"

One of sad things is that I didn't realise I had to grow the crops for the factories. No wonder I was bleeding so much cash!

that's quite a considerable nooberror.

i am srs about Tourney btw. register your interest here. if it's more than just me and meltang, it may actually happen. in fact, it'll probably happen even if it's just me and melton.

I need to get the full game first! I might be interested as soon as I stop making such bad mistakes.

Wai 2 +1 confidence teh_kit LOL ;_;

sorry. i kinda assume that anybody that tries this game will immediately buy it.

I've been hung up on PS2 for yonks. Will check tomorrow on ebay for a copy.

yeah, i got my copy from ebay. remember to hunt for the Mucho Macho edition.

what is the soundtrack listed under? I get nothing but fucking black heart procession when i hunt on slsk

Thanks for advice. Bought it with Stronghold as a bonus game (or something). If I get addicted and lose +1 I blame you both! Especially you Kit.

i slskd for Daniel Indart. I've been looking for DAYS and finally struck gold yesterday. Good luck!

Arrived today. Looking forwards to getting home and installing it.

Will totally be on for tourny obv cos after a week I'll be totally l33t and shit.

I've also tried playing Anno 1701, another "build an island town"/god game. It's not nearly as amusing.

Have you played Stronghold?

Teh_kit should post his walkthrough here. It is brilliant!

Oh yeah, I remember Stronghold from my unemployed days sitting in my parents darkened basement in mid/late 2001, avoiding looking for a job by d/ling stuff offa Kazaa, watching repeats of Buffy on FX and drinking 20oz of Mt. Dew all day. Not my proudest moment.

"WOOD needed!"

Hmm I don't think I'll be playing it so. Sounds like it's laden with bad karma!

i gained like 20-odd pounds that way, and finally heard _Loveless_, which I'd listen to on repeat while staying up til sunrise playing NOLF/Stronghold/AOEII/CIV3 or whatever i could get ahold of.

What had you there in the first place? Post-college decision blues?

I really haven't given Loveless a chance. Must try it again sometime.

Actually that is very nosy and probably not something you would want to discuss. Problem is the Inquisition Edict runs deep in me!

What the FUCK!?!?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=Tropico+3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BkM3sT6ITo

http://www.tropico3.com/?p=downloads

the concept of this game is really gross. a breezy take on latin american political violence, muy divertido. eh but so is civ i guess.

it kind of sucks anyway! everything takes too fkn long. like, ooh i wanna build a hotel! then you finally finish the thing and it's like 25 years later.

Finally got a machine that can run the new Tropico. I miss the more dulcet tones of the older Advisor.

Looks pretty so far.

And its currently going for $7.50 on Steam

I played the (apparently highly inferior) 360 version to death recently.

So, uh, I may have played this for like 8 hours today...

And they've already come out with an expansion pack. Not sure if it's worth the $20, tho. The game is fun to watch the folks wandering around, tho. Needs the soundtrack from the first game added on to it, tho.

Anyone play this yet? I'll probably pick it up this weekend at some point. Not many reviews out there, but
seems fun.

I have it in my Gamefly queue. It is supposedly not too different than 3 so I can't see paying full price for it.

Lotsa playing Tropico 4 lately. New modern era DLC pack coming in March, apparently. Still wish they had the original advisor voiceactor.

I have only played a few levels so far. It's very similar to 3, but since I only had 3 on 360 it's nice having the PC version of 4.

They've bumped up a few things, but it's not exactly the leap that 2 -> 3 was, for sure.

http://store.steampowered.com/

Tropico 4 is free-to-play all weekend and all the DLC is heavily discounted.

Tropico 5 is out. They improved some things, and stripped out some things, but having El Presidente be given upgradable stats and the ability to wander about the island in a purple astronaut suit, cowboy hat, and new wave visor is a great step.

Tried Tropico 3. Gave up because of roads. Looks great though. I'm very behind the loop.

What was your issue with roads?

They just wouldn't follow a natural route i.e. fit in gaps between cliffs that were clearly meant for roads. They kept bending everywhere and it was impossible to build small stretches. Very annoying.

never played this - 3, 4 and 5 are available on the mac app store - T3 costing half of the others. Is that a good one to dig in?

Tropico 3, 4, and 5 are all pretty similar. Obviously the newer ones are a little deeper with more options, but graphically they're basically the same. Tropico 3 was my first one and I played it to death.

hyggeligt, I hear you on the roads thing. At some point I got the hang of them and it wasn't an issue anymore, but early on I struggled with it. The key for me was getting a hang of the camera, but the auto-curvature can definitely be finicky.

I uninstalled in frustration. Might go back. Camera controls a bit frustrating as well.

Essentially this is a game that rewards patience. I have none so no rewards!

4 is better than 3. 5 is still developing.