Tropico

[The Mass Leader]

For the people who play Tropico.
You are the new ruler of a smal island country in the Caribbean, and your mission is to make your country develop, your people happy and your pockets full.
El Presidenté, it´s time to talk about Tropico!

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Um, we could use one of the other Tropico threads...or that wonderful Tropico forum at Cafe Tropico: http://www.strategyplanet.com/tropico/

I find this thread amusing as it is exactly what is wrong with thread starters:

1. Do I have something to say - here no.
2. Has this been discussed before - er, yes, another thread.
3. Bugger it, I'll open it anyway!

 

[Specialist290]

I've played it before, but couldn't really get "hooked" on it. Only played a couple of games, and even then I didn't quite understand everything.

It is a good game, though.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I played a game that might be similar called SimIsle. I never played Tropico.

 

[Thrawn]

I only ever played the demo, it was great.

 

[Bacon King]

It's a good game. I own both Tropico and the expansion pack.

 

[spycatcher34]

Ive got tropico but not teh xpac. To me it was.. too..I dunno diffcult while easy at the same time. It didnt have enough variety for me.

 

[Gnarfflinger]

I liked it but that was a sacrifice I had to make when I needed hard drive space...

 

[Lord Draegon]

Yeah i started a thread on this before, but whatever. Yeah i have Tropico, the expansion an Tropico 2, with the pirates. It's really great, but yeah it seeemed to easy and to hard at te same time, weird.

 

[The Mass Leader]

Well, I started this thread.
There was a guy there who did not like it... well, I don´t care about it.

I´ve started this thread for the people who play Tropico to exchange some stories and tales, and some strategies.

I have just finished a game in which I decided to build an agricultural island with hundreds of farmers but no educated worker. It was a giant corn and pineapple plantation with 600 farmer in it. I had no soldiers, no shopkeepers, no nothing. Only farmers, a cheap hotel, a pool, a beach site and lots of corn fields. 6 docks (so i could sell all the exceeding corn and pineapple), and some 10 Teamsters´ offices.

It was a small island. I took office in 1950. In 1978, the USA sent a gunboat because I was a communist-like ruler. In 1980, I finally got rid of the gunboat when I decided to act with a pro-american diplomatic policy (I had a diplomatic ministry and an immigration office - the 2 only places for educated workers). Well... in 1987, the gunboat returned. I called an alliance with the USSR. In 1990, I retired.

It was nice to play this giant farm. It is simpler to adinistrate than the usual tourism-industry paradise people usually want to play. Anyway, I had a poor island. But uneducated people would not be rebel easily. It was hard to manage poverty and happiness in the same island.