Tropico 5 happiness9/19/2023 ![]() ![]() On top of that there’s a variety of factions at work within the game, your construction choices and other decisions altering their feelings toward you throughout the course of your term as ruthless/benevolent dictator. Balancing out the various needs of your people lies at the very heart of the game, and is engrossing as it has ever been, constantly keeping you on your toes while also never damaging the relatively relaxed pace that Tropico is known for. Likewise building several new, huge modern apartment blocks seems like a great way to solve a lack of housing, but if a large chunk of the population are still in poverty or have very little money to their name then they won’t be able to afford the rent, thus you might need to consider ramping up how much they get paid, which in turn drains your cash reserves faster, or building cheaper housing. This then feeds into other systems it may be tempting to lay down a few more factories that produces expensive electronic goods in order to provide more jobs, but if the majority if your people are still illeterate then they won’t be able to fill those positions. The people’s total happiness is dependent on quite a few things, ranging from basic housing, food and job needs to entertainment, religion, liberty, crime safety and healthcare. The Tropico series has always made it delightfully easy to slowly slip into the role of a dictator, one that may have started with the best of intention but along the way found themselves assassinating a potential malcontent for “the greater good.” Of course, you could always fudge the numbers a little, or even refuse to hold an election and maintain power through military might, crushing rebellions and laughing maniacally at the screen. Regardless if your economical focus, ensuring the happiness of your people is of top priority, as allowing them to become unhappy can result in a coup or people simply choosing not to vote for you when elections come around. Island plentiful in gold deposits? Jewelry and electronics may be the best to focus on, but be aware that deposits do eventually dry up. Have plenty of sugar? Build some rum production factories or switch your plantation’s crops to something else entirely. There’s a solid selection of buildings on offer that ensures you can always move forward, regardless of the resources you’ve got at hand, but the total is notably less than Tropico 4. Vast hotels, beach resorts, cruise liners, opera houses, stadiums and circus’ can be built to attract visitors with large wallets and considerably smaller IQs to your picturesque little island and separate them from their cash. Should going down the industrialised, pollution creating route not be to your liking then tourism is a great money earner as well. ![]() As you progress you can create a more industrialised island if you wish, exporting a variety of things by turning your harvested food into tinned goods, creating steel, constructing jewelry production factories and even eventually moving into pharmaceuticals and electronics. Plantations can be placed on the map to produce a variety of different agricultural goods like sugar, corn and bananas, while logging camps, mines and ranches can also be also constructed. To do this you need to start out by producing basic goods and exporting them in order to build up the economy while supporting your people by providing housing, jobs, entertainment and food. Once again you take on the role of El Presidente and are placed in charge of small Caribbean islands, your ultimate goal being to raise them from impoverished messes to global superpowers. In comparison Tropico 5 brings quiet a few new things to table, but sadly most of them fail to change the gameplay very much. Indeed, Tropico 4 was heavily criticised for introducing little that was new to the franchise. But with so many sequels keeping things feeling fresh and new becomes an increasingly difficult challenge. It does my heart good to know that a series like Tropico can not only exist but thrive, having now managed to reach its fifth entry. Click here for details on that, the Radeon HD 7790 and the test system used for all PC games.ĭisclaimer this game was provided free of charge by the publisher for review. This game was tested using an AMD Radeon HD 7790 graphics card kindly supplied by AMD. ![]()
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