Hello. I've, after a short break from the original Tropico 3, have just started playing Tropico 3 Absolute Power. So far everything looks fantastic, but unfortunately I've run into either a bug or simple stupidity from my side. I was making roads for my new city, everything was fine until the game suddenly started to create dirt roads instead of paved ones. How do I go about switching back to paved roads?

I would really appreciate some help. Thanks!

(28-05-2010 04:28 PM)Falklol Wrote:  Hello. I've, after a short break from the original Tropico 3, have just started playing Tropico 3 Absolute Power. So far everything looks fantastic, but unfortunately I've run into either a bug or simple stupidity from my side. I was making roads for my new city, everything was fine until the game suddenly started to create dirt roads instead of paved ones. How do I go about switching back to paved roads?

I would really appreciate some help. Thanks!

That's not a bug, its the way AP works. In Tropico 3 you had roads with sidewalks when you had buildings nearby, and roads without sidewalks when you didn't have buildings nearby. In AP the system is the same, only instead of roads with no sidewalk you get dirt roads.

The roads seem to decide for themselves if they want to be dirt ot tarmac - the tarmac appears as soon as a building [not a farm or ranch though] is placed/built by the dirt roads... it is a feature of AP

Ah alright. I always sit down and plan everything before I actually play, so right now I'm doing the roads, I want the city to look fantastic, and I'm sure it will.

(28-05-2010 04:34 PM)Falklol Wrote:  Ah alright. I always sit down and plan everything before I actually play, so right now I'm doing the roads, I want the city to look fantastic, and I'm sure it will.

It mainly only looks weird when you're just laying them down. When things get completed, 'rural' areas with little more than farms and logging camps will have rural roads, while more sophisticated areas will have paved ones. The city always looks great in the end.