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Brf · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:49 am Post subject: March/April Contest

This one I call String of Pearls has some real space problems.... Be ready to scrap your idea and start over...

It is a save-game, rather than a scenerio.... so put the Pearls.GM2 in your Tropico\Games folder and load it from the Saved Games button in Tropico.

broomdalf · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 258 Location: Midwest, again

Wait, what is the political difficulty? There is virtually no way to have any services on this island, and still have an economy.

CooJoe · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject:

I think I'm gonna try my hand in this contest.

'though I'll have to build up my rowing strength.

Brf · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

broomdalf wrote: Wait, what is the political difficulty? There is virtually no way to have any services on this island, and still have an economy.

I am thinking I set the political and economic both to 2nd hardest.... It is possible to get through it. I posted a finishing score in the Fun thread a week or so ago.

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7391 Location: Texas

Just grabbed the zip. 8)

broomdalf · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 258 Location: Midwest, again

Finished with a score of 923, only cheating in 2 or 3 elections.

Brf · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

dammit dammit dammit..... My last game I was voted out in 1969, even with the cheating. :cry:

estio · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:04 am Post subject:

I'm ready for something different...

Downloading and signing off to play. :D

Brf · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

Hmmm.... I ended up with a positive score.... but it wasnt pretty....

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7391 Location: Texas

You can't make a buck on this sand pit!

I've tried farming. The place has trouble growing corn!

I've tried fishing. Plenty of fish, but it any profit is nailed by general island maintenance and the gambling binge.

Speaking of the gambling, it's like a coffin nail when you are squeezing every penny.

Even the foreign subsidies get squashed soon as you have to go directlly to a diplomatic office set on US relations on an agrarian island. If you don't you get the gunboat even before the first election. Then Russia quits giving and the US is stingy because they see no industry.

Only thing I haven't tried is tourism. But do I remember that the island is set to Faraway place?

Give me a cash flow and I can conquer anything. But this place is a dry well. :?

I'm currently in talks with China to lease the island for artillery testing while I retire to Aruba. :lol:

Brf · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:41 am Post subject:

I had the gunboat show up a few times too.... but if you can get the economy going well, you dont have to worry about it.

I was originally setting it up for farming -- you see your origin is Farmer -- but, as you discovered, it is terrible for farming.... Probably without the Farmer trait your people would starve right away.

I tried a fish economy too early on, but discovered it didnt work either. No, it is not far-away, so tourism works...

broomdalf · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 258 Location: Midwest, again

I did tourism, and fed my people with fish almost the whole game...

Brf · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:41 am Post subject:

That is what I was trying too.... Tourism and fish for food... My elections were quite nasty though, after the first one.

s_stabeler · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2296

i wish to announce that soon i will be able to participate in tropico contests, as i have located a copy of paradise island and it will be arriving on monday! £4.95, only 4p cheaper than the original game!

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7391 Location: Texas

Good for you! We expect to have a contest running at all times here.

As for the scenario, I guess I'm to try tourism next as nothing else brings in the money.

No handy gold mine near the palace, eh?

Actually, on this island that would be a cruel curse as the palace mini-island has no room for building. A gold pit there would simply mock you. :lol:

But I still didn't get an answer on my "Faraway Place" question.

What type of special conditions are on this scenario?

Brf · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:36 pm Post subject:

Brf wrote: No, it is not far-away, so tourism works...

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7391 Location: Texas

:oops:

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7391 Location: Texas

We have a cash flow!

Ok, I'm dumping my current island for a revised plan.

But the plan is basically 4 fishing piers, the pineapple farm, 3 mid class hotels, one clinic, one church, one highschool, and housing in either bunk houses or blue houses. Forget those tennements and apartments. They are land pigs given that the terrain isn't smooth.

Brf, I found that the mid game elections are the hardest. Until you get those social services up and running a while everything is touch and go.

You still have to throw everything at every election, however. Pay raises, tax break, Mardi Gras, and Food edict. Once I had those four piers up then I could leave the food edict on permanently. And I got a clinic up as fast as I could too on the first island. Doing it early and giving the doc a blue house kept him on the job for the whole game and I didn't need to ever import another. With under 100 folks for almost the entire game, he kept everyone covered nicely.

But by doing all that I only had to cheat on the mid 70's election.

Then my church and school got finished and I was home free.

Spend the first money on a hotel and your first fishing pier to get that money going and you will survive with a sizeable treasury by the end. I estimate my next game will have me sitting on 100k in the bank by the end.

Brf · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:23 am Post subject:

Yup. Bunkhouses and Blues are the way to go. I had the early clinic on the first island too.... and a second one later in the game. I had a pub on the first island, that I am convinced is a mistake. Pubs raise the crime rate too high and the doctor leaves unless you also build a police station. I also destroyed my game by building a second pub next to the first hotel.... I will have to try this one without pubs and see what happens.

JuntaJoe · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 7391 Location: Texas

No pub? That's risky too with no entertainment. The island is way too small for anything powered or the cabaret. That leaves only the restaurant.

Hey wait a minute! I almost forgot about El Presidente's home.

Hmmm.....