I am pretty sure a thread like this already should exist but I couldnt find one.

Go to options and bind a quick key to a building, for example choose t for airport, powerplant, condeminium, power substation or something.

Then click ok and return to the game, now click your qiuck build key and voila.

Some textures are messed up like for the airport, cinema etc but powerplant looks 100% ok.

Some buildings doesnt work like hotels, to bad since I get messages that masses of tourists are sleeping at the airport cause the lack of hotels.

Nice find I haven't seen this before on here.

Why don't you just callm down, all of you, and wait for the release of the original game insted of making weird experiments which results in buildings with no textures like this? You won't have the 100 % of the game by cheating. You have mass of tourits but you can't see them. You have cinema, but it looks like shit

The only one here being un-calm is you.
And how is finding a glitch in the demo cheating?
They're not editting files.
They're experimenting with the tools that are supplied to them in the demo itself.

Razael Wrote:Why don't you just callm down, all of you, and wait for the release of the original game insted of making weird experiments which results in buildings with no textures like this? You won't have the 100 % of the game by cheating. You have mass of tourits but you can't see them. You have cinema, but it looks like shit

chill out dude.

Razael, who put that stick up your ass? I can't see any reason why you are so pissed off that someone found a way to get a few extra buildings in the demo? Its not exactly affecting you in any negative way is it I for one applaud Subliminal's initiative for finding this little gem in the demo!

@BlackXcalibur

did you play Gangsters (Hothouse) way back when?

Mack the Knife Wrote:@BlackXcalibur

did you play Gangsters (Hothouse) way back when?

Did I play what?

EDIT: Just looked it up on wikipedia, no I didn't play that game.

hmm he seems calm as hell to me... lol

Quote:no I didn't play that game

ok, just curious. was the best, most fun, full of a bunch of crazy smart guys (and a couple of wild ladies) forum i've ever been on. a guy named XCaliber was there (wasn't black back then ) and you sound just like him...

Nice find, but do they function?

Personally I couldn't get any of them to even show up on my mouse cursor, for example binding the Airport to the t key, but when I press t, nothing happens for me. Maybe I don't have enough gold to build so the hotkeys don't function to even bring up the building on the mouse cursor if there isn't enough to pay for it. Yup, that was it, I didn't have enough cash to buy those buildings.

Still, an interesting find.

Mack the Knife Wrote:

Quote:no I didn't play that game

ok, just curious. was the best, most fun, full of a bunch of crazy smart guys (and a couple of wild ladies) forum i've ever been on. a guy named XCaliber was there (wasn't black back then ) and you sound just like him...

Hmm maybe it was me then, I used to play a lot of mafia-type games a long time ago, I can't even remember most of them.....

if the freaking color doesn't tip you off to some extent he stated the hotel didn't work. it's a nice find sure, albert einstein probably got started this way, but it looks to me like it will more likely interfere with the game than enhance it.

Yes, but I wonder if it's only certain buildings that don't work or all of them don't function completely. I suppose maybe I'll give it more consideration if I wish to play an island long enough to get up a large budget to plop some more of the buildings and see if they do anything at all other than look f-ugly in my city.

After a little testing you can actually access a lot of the buildings. I'm still waiting for them to be built to test the functionality but a majority can be built, some missing a few textures.

Quote:to test the functionality

we only care if you figure it out before october 16th

Awesome.

Though it makes me feel bad. And I will still buy the game!!!!

Both the Hotel and Motel are functional.

The powerplant supplies power to the island, (once a collegiate worker starts working there) as I could then activate the options for the mines that require electricity. So apparently atleast one building that I know of actually functions, though if theres going to be a downside, I'll have to wait and see what it is.

I went through every building and you can build almost every building except most tourism buildings. Also either the higher-end entertainment is either messed up textures or can't be built at all. The Sports Complex CAN be built and is only missing a few small textures. The higher-end residences can be built..but again messed up textures. The Radio and TV stations seem to be completely there..but I didn't build them.
All factories are there to be built. I only built the cigar factory, it is 100% functional. I also built the power plant, substation (extends power range), and hospital.
All 3 of those are 100% functional.

Hmmm, no pulling back the demo now I don't think. I would imagine the missing textures coule probably be replaced in the hpk files or maybe even just out in the open in some way. But for me anyway, not really worth the trouble. That release date can't get here soon enough, Im bored with my current games and looking for something new and complete.

Ok, i know i probably gonna get banned for this but if you open up the demo exe in a hexeditor and search for "Demo" and go to the one that says like
goldmaster..retail..demo
and edit "Demo" to something else and start up the game it will ask for a serial

BlackXcalibur Wrote:Razael, who put that stick up your ass? I can't see any reason why you are so pissed off that someone found a way to get a few extra buildings in the demo? Its not exactly affecting you in any negative way is it I for one applaud Subliminal's initiative for finding this little gem in the demo!

It looks ugly and ripped off. NO true Tropico fan will play this

Mushr00m Wrote:Ok, i know i probably gonna get banned for this but if you open up the demo exe in a hexeditor and search for "Demo" and go to the one that says like
goldmaster..retail..demo
and edit "Demo" to something else and start up the game it will ask for a serial

And??

Yeah, probably not best to announce on the publishers forum that you decided to hexedit the games exe I would think. [laugh]

I wouldn't start hex editing and the like because it's not really going to be worth the effort. The textures are most likely not appearing because they where not included at all in the demo, modifying the exe won't change this.

I agree, but if someone was bored enough, I imagine (I don't really know, Im just talking off the top of my head at 4:30AM after the 3rd day without sleep), they could open up the hpk file (I have read there are tools to do that) and if they could figure out the name of the textures they could actually create their own textures and insert them where necessary in the folder structure inside of the hpk file to make them work maybe.

Still, that would be a whole lot of work (if it were even possible), and not something I would bother with *unless* for some reason the game suddenly went boffo up and got itself cancelled at the last moment (which isn't going to happen so...).

True you probably could access the textures and possibly be able to add some but as you say it's a hell of a lot of work and effort just for a demo.

Anyway this is what I've been able to access:

* Airport (Missing textures)
* Hotel (some missing textures and reported missing functionality...but tourists will arrive on the island, tourists produce the taxi and a orange 'tour' jeep for transport on the island)
* Power Plant (Full textures)
* Zoo (Some missing textures but the animals are all there)
* Cigar Factory (Full textures + Fully functional. You can export cigars)
* Motel (Some missing textures + Fully functional)
* Ethnic Enclave
* Oil Well (No oil on the map haha)
* Tour Office (Missing textures)
* Rum Distillery
* Spa (Some missing textures)
* Bungalow (Missing textures)
* Furniture Factory
* Scenic Outlook (Missing textures)
* Botanical Gardens (Missing textures)
* Souvenir Shop (Fully textured + Fully functional)
* Beach Site
* Pool (Missing textures)

Update: I actually think all of the buildings are accessible, for example only after building a power plant was I able to access the casino, nightclub, hospital, TV station, Radio etc. So if you can't get the tourist building try building a tourist dock first.

From the post above i'd use only the working buildings to recreate a good city in the demo. That will be cigar factory, rum distillery, F, Factory, Power Plant

Razael Wrote:From the post above i'd use only the working buildings to recreate a good city in the demo. That will be cigar factory, rum distillery, F, Factory, Power Plant

Yeah those are the only building which don't ruin the feel of the game with the missing textures. A few others which I believe are fully textured are the TV station, radio station, the hospital and the sports complex.

Can't wait for the retail game, rly. The demo,with all of the tricks to be expanded is not satisf enougt