Hey there all of you Tropico presidentes.

I challenge you all to some kind of best-tropico-island-to-live-in-challenge.

I am sure that my Tropico Island is the best one out there and I will therefore show you how it looks like as well.

By the way.. I have got some e-mails before about me using cheats or in some other way trying to manipulate the economic system but I do not use any cheat codes or such in Tropico 3. The money I have are purely earned from good decisions diferent kinds of factories and minerals.

Here you go:

Best Tropico Island Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwek2FCO-ms

Best Tropico Island Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4kjI4e9NVo

Best Tropico Island Infrastructure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_RdJHoaBhE

Try to beat this. Discuss what you like about this island or what can be done to improve it! Link to your own videos of your islands and try to challenge!

Great to see your video Robban7 - thanks for making it and linking it, I loved the tour along the roads.

(I'm going to have to learn how you make a film like that and how to put it on Youtube etc. Because my "best-tropico-island-to-live-in" would look very different to yours! )

Wow! Your wages are LOW!!! 2039 and you're paying HS eds $7. Impressive. Looks like you're well set up to deal with anyone who doesn't like it though.

Nice video. I like your island. Unfortunately my harddrive is too slow, I can't record it at such high settings, I get massive fps drops. Thus I can't really compete.

48% happiness ("citizens peacefully protest the government")? I think only 90%+ could qualify as "perfect." It was quite tough to exceed 70%.

FordGT90Concept Wrote:48% happiness ("citizens peacefully protest the government")? I think only 90%+ could qualify as "perfect." It was quite tough to exceed 70%.

There are different measures of perfect. By the looks of it, this island is "perfect"-ly under his thumb. Getting away with paying $7 for HS is epic. Makes the cheapskate in me proud.

My only stipulation would be: What did this island look like at the end of your term proper?

Any island can become massively epic given enough time, but if one can create an island this epic in, say, a 50 year term, you'd get my nod to perfection.

That's actually inspired me! Taking a brief look, I realise how much I'm still building like it's Tropico 1. But now they have cars, more thought can be put into the layout.

When I get the patch that allows me to play beyond the end of a scenario, I'll be having another crack at the layout.

Awesome, the first thing i see when the camera reach the beach is a filthy shack. Anyways, looks like A REAL CITY!

Generalissimo salary way of play:
I'm going to give you guys a little tip. I did this in Tropico 1 as well and this is the first thing I do before I even press the "Play"-button ingame.
I always put the farmers and other non-educated working areas to get a wage of $3, then the high-school on $7-8 and College $9-11.
This has worked everytime (except for when I achieved my Iron-fist achievement, lol) and the reason is because as long as the different classes have different but yet fairly big incomes, they are satisfied because those who are educated can afford everything. Also all housing is free, but there are only tenements to live in except for the luxury mansions I built late in the game on their own street with their own hospital. (These are only for soldiers to afford with).

Communistic way of play:
To play in a fairly communistic way you should first of all get more people to live in your island than there are jobs open. This will make people willing to work for any salary possible. Then at this stage you could put all salaries, no mather what job to $5. Those who are college educated still are going to work at a job that requires that education because of the job quality.
- The only thing here is that the soldiers and generals will let you know that they don´t really like having the same salary as all the others, if you can come by this, then you are good to play as a communistic leader!

My Future Experiment:
As it has been a while since I last player Tropico and not been able to play it as much as I would like to, I have not been able to start on my next project.
As this is hard to obtain I will let you guys know so some of you can try it.
My plan is to build some kind of "Berlin-Wall" by making tons of Guarding Stations around the main city so that rebels are not able to get in there so easy.
This requires tons of people and you will have to cut down some working force to make everyone want to become a soldier. The hardest thing here I think would be to get all these people to your island and feed them all.

That is BS.

People are not supposed to have equal wages in socialist countries. Just equal wages for equal work. The more you work the more you get, unlike under capitalism where those who own, and don't work earn most.

The more you pay them, the more you can charge them for other services like rent and entertainment; moreover, the higher their wage, the happier they are about their job.

Well my way of play isn´t to have a high quality. Im trying to push all the limits in the game (Not with cheats or glitches). I put all the tenements rent down to $0 so that everyone has a house and only by that their housing quality raises.. but of course I don´t want to make them all live totally in a dream world just because the state has a lot of money, after all.. I am El Presidente.
By the way.. it will go on around in a circle.. low pay = higher housing quality / high pay = lower housing quality.. You get 0 from this.

By the way Fidel Astro, you are right about the socialistic ideology, but I meant just to have that as a tip for how to have at least about the same salaries

Robban7 Wrote:I put all the tenements rent down to $0 so that everyone has a house and only by that their housing quality raises..

That's a good idea. It keeps the unemployed out of the shacks which create major crime problems. You'll be taking a financial hit on those buildings though.

Nice job Rabban7. The tour was awesome! As with Pinstar's, & CityBuilders,and otheres suggestions, I will have too implement some of your strategies, and see if it pans out with me too. Overall, a great presentation. I'd like to see more from others out there.

People still protesting? Job satisfactions of 3,1,...0??? I'm playing my first game, it's 1972, and while I may not have a huge swiss account, I have a respect of nearly 90, won the last election without fraud with over 90% of the vote and average $50K in exports per freighter. I'm building a high-class tourist area near my new airport.

Felix_Quintana Wrote:People still protesting? Job satisfactions of 3,1,...0??? I'm playing my first game, it's 1972, and while I may not have a huge swiss account, I have a respect of nearly 90, won the last election without fraud with over 90% of the vote and average $50K in exports per freighter. I'm building a high-class tourist area near my new airport.

I remember that year well. I was a freshman in high school....... Oops! We're talking about the game aren't we. Good job, keep me posted.

Fidel Astro Wrote:That is BS.

People are not supposed to have equal wages in socialist countries. Just equal wages for equal work. The more you work the more you get, unlike under capitalism where those who own, and don't work earn most.

Can you manage a multi-million dollar company successfully? It's harder than it sounds. Those who own took plenty of risks to create that company that is now employing people.

But I digress, what program do you use to record your cities?

Mr.Eastwood Wrote:But I digress, what program do you use to record your cities?

I just use fraps and then edit in Windows Movie Maker. Pretty simple