The People's Democratic Thread of Tropico 3.

Demiurge

I fell into debt a few times but my massive investment into early agriculture made me a mint with every freighter making off with 15-20k every time it left. You just need to make sure you have enough teamsters and a few garages around to move the stuff efficiently. I didn't play around with factories but getting a school up early is a wise investment as well as a church. Anything but tenements doesn't seem to have any decent space though so I just built those and the communists got off my back about people living in shacks.

Its pretty fun though, definately a buy.

Raneados

really wish my computer was better at running these games

everything set to low and it's still kinda choppy

MrMonroe

Sal wrote: »

Fuck that it is a huge demo and it is already 3 AM

The Revolution will have to start tomorrow


How does this game compare to Tropico 1?

better

less sudden, arbitrary, inexplicable debt & revolutionary foment explosions

also it's real purdy

Seriously

Are the loading screens ridiculously long?

Because I figure after three or four minutes it's just not going to happen.

MrMonroe

n... no?

about 25 seconds to start a map for the first time and then maybe five once in a while during an autosave

Seriously

It's a hard life I lead.

Sal

This is the fastest download I've ever seen

It started out as 2.5 mb/s and it's still zooming along at 1.5

Sara Lynn

I never played these either, sounds really fun though. Downloadin'.

Charles Kinbote

so this game is totally awesome and we should keep talking about it

it's the first game that has actually gotten me to kinda-roleplay in a while

MrMonroe

Oh definitely.

Especially if you choose to play as a militarist, so you can personally execute your citizens in the streets. That's learn 'em.

I'm sad the full version won't drop until October 20th, though, since I'll likely be up to my dick in homework by that point.

Sal

Man I need to upgrade my computer

Even on the lowest settings this game barely crawls along

Fandyien

Downloaded the demo, played for ten seconds this morning, gonna play through it now

It's beautiful, I love the concept, and I think this might be one of those games that I discover and then it eats my life. I love running it on ultra settings and zooming in on my citizenry. So much detail.

Fandyien

I love this game already

Time to build a beautiful communist nation-state

then, after that, a fat, corrupt, drunk union leader will create a hive for obese turistas and wallow in his own filth

sarukun

HOLY SHIT YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Raneados

Sal wrote: »

Man I need to upgrade my computer

Even on the lowest settings this game barely crawls along

this is raneados' life since 2002

sarukun

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I always saw the first two Tropico games on the shelf and they looked interesting but I never picked them up

Gonna play this demo though

You don't really need to purchase Tropico 1,


Tropic 2 however, I still play from time to time, because it is fucking awesome.

Peter Ebel

Can I, can I put down uprisings?

Can I deport people who don't share the values of the common man?

sarukun

MrMonroe wrote: »

then those motherfuckers from a rival company showed up and incited a strike in all of my farms, demanding a raise from $3/day to $10!

the nerve!

Spoiler:

I caved, but I just raised rents at the same time

:whistle:you load sixteen tons, what do you get:whistle:

also the music in this is totally boss

It is my absolute favorite feature of these games.

Vivixenne

I have always wanted to play a Tropico game, but every time I think of picking one up I get told how super hard it is and then I'm all well I'll never be good at it then and don't bother buying it

that said I'd make a fuckawesome dictator

sarukun

That is horse shit, Tropico 2 wasn't all that difficult.

Play the demo.

Edit: If there is one thing I will miss about Tropico 2, it will be sending pirates out into the Caribbean to do my nefarious bidding.

Moriveth

Man I'm getting some weird graphical mumbo-jumbo on this game

I think it's probably some weird DirectX features that my card doesn't support, since I had similar things happen with Crysis

(finally, an excuse to get a new video card)

(not that I can afford one)

MrMonroe

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Can I, can I put down uprisings?

Can I deport people who don't share the values of the common man?

yes

no, but you can stuff them in prison for the rest of their miserable lives

also

you can have the 5-0 cold blast a motherfucker in broad daylight just for complaining too much

do this while you are giving a speech to the people for maximum effect

Fandyien

MrMonroe wrote: »

Peter Ebel wrote: »

Can I, can I put down uprisings?

Can I deport people who don't share the values of the common man?

yes

no, but you can stuff them in prison for the rest of their miserable lives

also

you can have the 5-0 cold blast a motherfucker in broad daylight just for complaining too much

do this while you are giving a speech to the people for maximum effect

The immigration office can be set to "love it or leave it" and that makes anyone who is unhappy just straight get deported / dip

MrMonroe

fuck that

you come to my island

you die on my island

Fandyien

I'm awful at this game but I figured out the does and don'ts with two tries last night

how 2 stay out of debt

i am thinking go commie and pander to the ussr instead of this neutral pussy shit i've been doing

a5ehren

Fandyien wrote: »

I'm awful at this game but I figured out the does and don'ts with two tries last night

how 2 stay out of debt

i am thinking go commie and pander to the ussr instead of this neutral pussy shit i've been doing

If you pander too much, you'll get invaded by the US. Just saying.

Meissnerd

i am suddenly excited for this

Indie Winter

so I'm away from my computer for the week, hadn't had much of a chance to play the demo. Anyone figured out what the little garbage bag that shows up over the farms mean? And, do you need more than one garage to support the initital three farms?

FAQ

Muse Among Men wrote: »

This looks like a perfect way to brush up on my dictatorship skills.

There is an option for a female dictator, right!?

the problem with being a female dictator is: no beards

Indie Winter

FAQ wrote: »

Muse Among Men wrote: »

This looks like a perfect way to brush up on my dictatorship skills.

There is an option for a female dictator, right!?

the problem with being a female dictator is: no beards

Something the modding community will have to fix.

Fandyien

My most successful demo playthrough has been as Mariposa, the spoiled, cia-installed US-suck up lady

MrMonroe

I.H.N.I.W.T.R. wrote: »

so I'm away from my computer for the week, hadn't had much of a chance to play the demo. Anyone figured out what the little garbage bag that shows up over the farms mean? And, do you need more than one garage to support the initital three farms?

My suspicion is that the black sack meant "empty of product and not producing anything at the moment"

and technically, you do not need any garages to support the farms, but if you do want one your first should be next to the teamster's offices, it seems. They'll leave the office, grab a truck, drive it to the farm, then the dock, then back to the garage next to the teamster's offices. After that, put them next to your big residential areas, as apparently people would rather live in tin-roof shanties than nice residential apartments if it means they have to walk five minutes to work. :?

Indie Winter

ok, thanks. And when exactly are you supposed to stop losing money? Because it seemed like my farms were just about to start producing, errm, produce, when I had to stop playing.

MrMonroe

it takes a couple months for them to start shipping out, assuming you have some of them set to grow exportable products

no one wants your corn

Fandyien

I was at -10000 for a decade, especially since I declined Frutas's offer to lock export prices (don't do it it's not worth 10k)

I built a couple tabacco farms, a couple sugar farms, and then a ranch and enough corn/banana/papaya to feed the people

the food for the people edict is great, too

Fandyien

I began to make bank about a decade in when things grew and exported regularly

Indie Winter

MrMonroe wrote: »

it takes a couple months for them to start shipping out, assuming you have some of them set to grow exportable products

no one wants your corn

pfffft

corn

Sugar's the way to go

I understand it's quite valuable in the US right now

Fandyien

My biggest problem is that 10k is not really enough to get yourself off the ground and you can either have a negative balance or starvation and protests

also no tourist buildings in the demo

one tourist came to my island and then sent me a letter saying it was the worst place ever and had no accomadations and they hated me personally

Indie Winter

I think my problem was I pretty much waited for the game to tell me what to do, hold my hand a bit longer. I don't think I did anything the game didn't tell me to do. I'll take more initiative when I get back, maybe try to actually dictate stuff every once in a while.

Charles Kinbote

man nobody gives a shit if a few people protest, 10,000 is PLENTY to get things running

I had like 40,000 in a matter of years and was winning elections by a landslide

my secret is to never, ever use food for the people