An update patching Tropico 4 to version 1.05 is now available for boxed retail and select download client owners. Steam users will get their update via the Steam client shortly.

Gameplay Fixes:
- Buffed hotel profits and tourism
- Edicts with monthly/yearly upkeep are no longer free
- Fixed favored trade partner foreign relations bonus
- Private investment offers will not appear for disabled buildings
- Foreign aid given now matches the amount displayed in the notification
- Fixed some cases where citizes walk to their destination instead of taking a car
- Oil cost increase depends on the map's start year
- Weather Station chance of success depends on the workers' skill
- Weather Station properly displays and charges operation costs
- Fire Station area of effect on the Cat-In-Tree work mode increased
- Fixed Mine upgrades
- Radar Dishes on Clear the Airwaves work mode block subversive activities more efficiently
- Fixed housing quality boost of Climate Control upgrade

User Interface Fixes:
- Added option to open the almanac from a choice dialog
- Added setting for controlling scroll speed
- Mouse rollover of people in the Almanac displays their names
- Correctly display resources under embargo in the almanac
- Food-producing buildings now display exports in the info panel
- More information added to some building info panels
- Added controls for navigation to the top and bottom of the highscore list
- Fixed incorrect display of army count in some cases
- Fixed some wrong texts in respect and relation modifiers in the Almanac
- Fixed work mode names text sometimes being cut off
- Fixed a bug preventing users from removing certain building shortcuts
- Various other user interface fixes and improvements

Other Fixes:
- Fixed a rare issue causing the game to freeze shortly after loading a saved game
- Fixed performance problems in some rare circumstances
- Fixed hotkeys that didn't always work for some buildings
- Fixed battleships moving backwards
- Fixed ship sounds
- Game is no longer paused when visiting user-submitted islands
- Challenge Editor: multiple fixes and improvements
- Tropicans now enjoy even longer walks on the beach

(See the previous Update 1.03 Changelog here)

(26-03-2012 12:33 PM)Timo Wrote:  - Challenge Editor: multiple fixes and improvements

It's great to see the Challenge Editor getting some updates. Can't wait to see these. Any tips as to some of the changes?

Thanks!

(26-03-2012 12:33 PM)Timo Wrote:  User Interface Fixes:
- Added option to open the almanac from a choice dialog
- Added setting for controlling scroll speed
- Mouse rollover of people in the Almanac displays their names
- Food-producing buildings now display exports in the info panel
- More information added to some building info panels
- Added controls for navigation to the top and bottom of the highscore list
- Fixed incorrect display of army count in some cases
- Various other user interface fixes and improvements


- Tropicans now enjoy even longer walks on the beach

every single of one of these were forum posts i saw people talk about... that is a ton of improvement directly due to forum feedback. great job doing the little things that make the game so much more polished.

Is this update also released to the XBOX?

(27-03-2012 02:45 PM)DrAtomic1 Wrote:  Is this update also released to the XBOX?

I am curious as well since I did have to do an update when I launched my game yesterday.

(26-03-2012 06:34 PM)jtracy Wrote:  

(26-03-2012 12:33 PM)Timo Wrote:  - Challenge Editor: multiple fixes and improvements

It's great to see the Challenge Editor getting some updates. Can't wait to see these. Any tips as to some of the changes?

Thanks!

Agree, I would like to know some details as well - is for example the function "Building parameters" (or "building properties") fixed; e.g. can I change now the upkeep of buildings or alter the number of persons they can have as inhabitants, customers or workers?

Thank you!

Any news on when this is going to be out on Steam? My version's still on 1.04.322... I have auto-update on as ever, and I have pre-ordered Modern Times, if that makes a difference.

I keep hitting refresh or reload on Steam too waiting for the patch to come through. Knowing Steam it will be a couple of days.

According to Steam, I still have 2 days 14 minutes to wait for Modern Times so I guess the wait for the patch will be just as long.

BRAVO ! Kalypsomedia !

My freezing problems are GONE!
Even my old crashed game`s can i load without problem!
This i call a PATCH!
By the way what about the population limit?
Is there still a maximum?
Thanx anyway!

P.s. Now it change everything ,,,now i will buy the Modern Times!

Hello guys (and girls?), I'll go ahead and answer some of your questions.

The update will go live on Steam in a couple of days, probably at the same time with Modern Times.

There's still a population limit, removing it is not technically possible.

Here are the Challenge Editor changes:
- the Place Deposit action always works
- labeling citizens by education works properly
- setting Max Workers, Upkeep, Housing Quality (and possibly other parameters I can't remember right now) in Building Parameters action fixed
- the Give Money per Object action now reports the proper amount of money given in the on-screen notification that appears
- added a Save button in the Mission Properties editor

I wish I had some more time to work on the Challenge Editor, but unfortunately we had more urgent issues to deal with.

However, in Modern Times there are quite a few new things to play with in the Challenge Editor. It has several new actions and supports fiddling with the exclusive Timeline feature of Modern Times. You can also include the new buildings in your challenges. Challenges made with Modern Times will be visible only to other users who have the DLC though.

1.05 is now up on Steam

Steam Update is now live: http://store.steampowered.com/news/7657

(28-03-2012 10:52 AM)Ivko Wrote:  Hello guys (and girls?), I'll go ahead and answer some of your questions.

Please don't misunderstand me but i still have a question about the population limit.

My experience says that if i reach the pop. limit my game gona crash!???
Can be made some patch that (Dictator will say!) Now! you cant have more people on your island and send all secret police agent's to kill all pensioners?
(for example?) in stand of let the game crash?

Ok one more, i still don't see a point to earn money for suisse bank account!
There should be a possibility to spend it!

(28-03-2012 10:52 AM)Ivko Wrote:  There's still a population limit, removing it is not technically possible.

If i read between the lines here... It is not techically possible, as many machines could run into problems with an increased population limit. You can how ever Mod it and be unsupported by kaylpso..

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(28-03-2012 10:52 AM)Ivko Wrote:  Here are the Challenge Editor changes:
- the Place Deposit action always works
- labeling citizens by education works properly
- setting Max Workers, Upkeep, Housing Quality (and possibly other parameters I can't remember right now) in Building Parameters action fixed
- the Give Money per Object action now reports the proper amount of money given in the on-screen notification that appears
- added a Save button in the Mission Properties editor

I wish I had some more time to work on the Challenge Editor, but unfortunately we had more urgent issues to deal with.

Well some are better than none.. Heres hoping that there are more updates to it in the future..

I still don't understand language of your people!

(28-03-2012 07:36 PM)cccp72 Wrote:  I still don't understand language of your people!

It's not supported, but, here: http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=12080

(28-03-2012 08:20 PM)Swixel Wrote:  

(28-03-2012 07:36 PM)cccp72 Wrote:  I still don't understand language of your people!

It's not supported, but, here: http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=12080

OK Thanx Swixel!

Bravo Kalypso! I must say I was skeptical, but delighted that you've delivered and added the scroll speed option, making the game playable again for me. I'm one very happy camper and have just purchased Modern Times and all the DLC. Keep up the great work!

(28-03-2012 07:36 PM)cccp72 Wrote:  I still don't understand language of your people!

Perhaps that is because they don't either. Or maybe they rush to answer without thinking about the questions.

My experience says that if I reach the population limit, my game gona [immediately without any warning has to] crash!

Update (patch) to version 1.03 contained this change - Population limit raised to 1500 (can your machine handle it?). Update (patch) to version 1.05 does not change that limit.

I think it is not a language barrier to know that you, the player, have to be responsible to look at the clues the game gives you about the current population and to take steps to limit population growth when you approach the limit in order to avoid a crash.

Of course, that is not important now that you can understand the language which tells you how to use Swixel's modification to remove any effective population limit.

Ok one more, I still don't see a point to earn [in earning] money for Suisse Bank Account! There should be a possibility to spend it!

It is a game artificality related to obtaining a big score. If you have to relate it somehow to the real world, consider that such secret bank accounts are to conceal fraud, theft and other kinds of corruption. If the holder open spends out of them, they reveal their crimes in having obtained the money. Such money is for personal, private\secret use. They are not simple investment accounts; the Nazis used them to hide their WWII loot. Think about it.

Still no fix for the colonial forts not appearing at all in user-generated sandbox maps?

CORRECTION: Colonial forts now DO appear in Sandbox maps. THANKS KALYPSO & HAEMIMONT!

My mine separator/crusher buyable upgrades are giving me a 0% bonus for iron production with patch 1.05. Will this be fixed soon? I posted this also in the 1.05 thread.

Thanks.

Can someone give us a time frame on how long these fixes for mines and the various issues from the 1.05change will be fixed???

Signed
(A loving Tropico Fan)

(19-04-2012 07:55 AM)SSRCP Wrote:  Can someone give us a time frame on how long these fixes for mines and the various issues from the 1.05change will be fixed???

Signed
(A loving Tropico Fan)

Yes, a time frame for the next patch would be nice. It is very frustrating to play when important bonuses are not working correctly. It causes gameplay to be less enjoyable. Not to mention it decreases the positive reputation I have for Kalypso.

Hi,

Any news on the next patch?