This will remove 99% of the cars on your map, leaving only teamsters. If you have the economic set up, you could just use money to instant build metros every 2 blocks. The money ends up in your swiss account anyway, with the edict. Use Police State to completely remove crime. Set up multiple fire stations to reduce upkeep. Once up hit 1000+ pop, use business centers and banks to exploit the economy. Cluster the entire population into the center of the island.Between these two are teamsters and up to 20 or 30 organic ranches. I base my entire economy on organic ranches and a "single road system" where one road leads across the island and connects to two docks.Hope it helps some of you would-be dictators :) Of course I may make slight adaptions depending on the map and mission, but this has really brought me through the vast majority of the game with ease. In vanilla, clinics are earlier in the build order. If Modern Times, I build a solar plant and go straight for hospitals. I may keep a few around on zero rent for homeless people to stay in.
I build tenements as needed until I get a real economy online, at which point I tend to spam apartments and condos and eventually go back and remove the tenements. Now the long, slow process of getting more cement factories on line.Īfter at least three cement factories, I'll add a church. Then save up for a high school and hire one or two teachers to start it up. After that I'll try to get an immigration office set on skilled workers mode. I am not afraid of going into debt but generally try to avoid it ie stop spending while I'm still in the black.Īt some point I'll have gotten a very basic income source as well - usually about a total of any three of the following, depending on map: tobacco farms / salt mines / fisherman's wharves / ranchesĪt this point, I'll save up and build a cement factory. You crawl before you can walk, eh? I generally am relying 100% on foreign aid and any map bonuses at this point. (If modern times and I can't build a restaurant, then just a pub and museum works fine.)ĭoing all of that is a long, slow process. I usually build a restaurant, pub, and childhood mansion early on as well - this helps keep loyalists happy and adds to overall island entertainment. Then build a tenement or two, depending on need. Get a ministry and hire a foreign minister to get USSR dev aid, which equals cheap tenements. Depending on map, possible a ranch or salt mine too. If there's not two farms I'll build a second one. Having minimum three different food types goes a long way towards food happiness. Create your own piece of paradise, gain the trust of citizens and rise to the top in the table of all powers.I start off every map virtually the same:ĪSAP - start social security, food for the people, and foreign aid edicts.īuild a fisherman's wharf / fish farm if I don't have one, typically the map starts with two corn farms so I'll look at whichever is best for another type of crop and switch one.
Keep control over the global market and take advantage of all its shortcomings. Stock exchanges, parks, shopping and entertainment centers, roads, residential buildings and skyscrapers are a small part of the buildings available to players.
Hurricane, storm, strong wind, volcano or earthquake will destroy most of the city or even force you to replay the mission. A natural disaster can happen by chance on every island. Collect useful materials and recycle them in factories to sell and increase your bank account. Keep a balance between the amount of work and the rest of your charges, since the trust and attitude of your citizens towards you is an important aspect of the gameplay. In case of failure, the player will start over. New opportunities include recruiting ministers to negotiate, more superpowers, international trade, and natural disasters.Ĭreated 20 missions in 10 different locations, where you have to complete the main and secondary tasks. Gradually, build more buildings: industrial, urban and entertainment. You have to build buildings, increase the population, conduct diplomatic missions and improve the quality of life in your own city. El Presidente returned to Tropico 4, a game in which players act as the ruler of their own state.