[Patriot]

Can i go back to being that guy that makes our glorious tanks? And i'm the Commi leader too, that's good news yes?

[Alex Heartnet]

Can i go back to being that guy that makes our glorious tanks? And i'm the Commi leader too, that's good news yes?

Citizens will often decide to switch jobs if there is a open position for a higher-quality job available.  Job quality is determined by wages, the job in question (some jobs are inherently cushier then others), and sometimes other things such as factory upgrades or building work mode.

Considering that I have been monkeying around with wages, I am not surprised that the labor pool got shuffled around.  As you are a faction leader, I can't just rename someone else to be you either.

[Mongoose]

Throw me back into the grinder as whatever, I guess.  I'd be fine with a palace guard again, provided I don't go all stupid and join the rebels for a second time.

[CommanderDJ]

Feel free to use me for whatever as well. I don't mind where I end up.

[Alex Heartnet]

A preview of next episode:

[z64555]

Hmm, looks like El Presidente is making a new red-light district.

[Alex Heartnet]

”The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.”
- Art Spander


Behold!  The newest additions to my army.





Oh no!  Global news!  The world is going to end!  Ahhhhh~!



We need more people in my workforce.  Time to actively attract immigrants and upset the Nationalists again.



Construction on our new Reeducated Faculty for the Mentally Ill begins, right on the heels of the know-it-alls in the college declaring nonconformity and civil disobedience to be mental illnesses.



Tired of the local politicians?  Go to the movies!



Behold!  My instrument of financial tyranny.  The social oppression of the future!  Through fancy financial schemes such as derivatives and libor rigging, I shall become filthy rich at the expense of everyone else!

Or maybe I will just use it for my swiss banking needs.



Be like this guy!  Join up with the Wall Street Mafia!  Become a bankster!  Rob the capitalists of all of the hard-earned cash they swindled from other people!  Top hat sold separately.



RUDO!  The capital is covered in graffiti – you clearly aren’t doing your job!





Uppity commoners think they can make demands of me.  This is not how socialism is supposed to work!



Whoa, that’s a lotta immigrants.



Patriot, you wanted to be a tank factory worker?



No, the TV station is not a mind control device.  It doesn’t utilize flashing lights and sounds in order to shape people’s personal beliefs and thoughts. That’s just an insane conspiracy theory.  Go back to sleep.





The citizens of Tropico wake up one morning to find me staring at them through the TV screen, chomping on a big fat Cuban cigar.







Guns and oil.  I would love to see how the folks at the TV station manage to spin this.

I could have had a sensible industry based off the export of canned food or something, but nooooooo…



And thus ends the year, with yet another threat to El Presidente’s reign.  The military is still making idle threats against me and my family.  And now I have to deal with this as well.

Okay, fine.  In the spirit of democracy I say:  “Bring it.”

[Rodo]

graffiti you say?, I thought they were some kind of ultra-modern art.

[NGTM-1R]

Rebel Command will of course boycott the obviously rigged elections, thus losing their real chance of having won them.

[z64555]

Hmm... so this time the election is REAL?

What to do... what to do...

[Dragon]

I wonder, why didn't you gave a speech? It's a good way to bump some relations, either foreign or local. And you don't have to promise anything if you don't want to.

[Alex Heartnet]

I wonder, why didn't you gave a speech? It's a good way to bump some relations, either foreign or local. And you don't have to promise anything if you don't want to.

The game won't let me give one!  This particular map seems slightly bugged.

[Dragon]

Ah, right. I've encountered this a few times, too. It's not just that map, a few campaign ones also have this issue, and I suspect it happens randomly in the whole game.

[Alex Heartnet]

”To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail.”
- Che Guevara

Instead of obeying my wishes, the people have forced me to compete with the rebel leader for the title of dictator.  There must be a conspiracy against me.  Once again, I can trust no one, it seems.





The brainiacs over at the college campus have looked into the island’s food problem using something called a ‘computer simulation’.  They claim that the island’s food problems are due to the food rations being too large, resulting in there not being enough food to go around.

As I have been struggling with food problems for a while now, I decide to listen to my advisors.



The construction workers can be seen working on a large construction taller then the palace itself.  Whatever could it be?



The farmers tell me that the food rations should be doubled, which got us in this food crisis to begin with.  In keeping with my policy of never shooting the messenger, I choose to just ignore his suggestion.



I want to expand my road network, but the dock is blocking my road placement.  But I have lots of money and docks are cheap to build, so I will just move the dock.



Of course!  The communists are the ones conspiring against me!  I openly make fun of them on my personal TV show.  They overreacted to that.

And I wanted to finish reading Babylonian Slave Driving Techniques later today.  Oh well.





I respond to this genuine threat to my rule the way any sensible government would – by the threat of violence to ensure compliance and conformity among the population.

Since I can’t outlaw a second political faction, I will have to do this the hard way.  Let’s start by arresting the leader of the Communist party, Patriot.  Regardless of guilt or innocence, he is still a good target to make an example out of, especially since he is the only die-hard Communist party leader that is also an HLPer and not a generic citizen.



In fact, let’s arrest ALL of the prominent Communist party members!  They will learn the true meaning of ‘Die-Hard Supporter’!

[Dragon]

Good thing I'm not leading those guys anymore.

[NGTM-1R]

I wonder who's exporting me troops.

[Rodo]

I was having a blast at the station...

suddenly a wild arrest order appears!

and then another.

and then another.

...

tough day.

[Alex Heartnet]

I was having a blast at the station...

suddenly a wild arrest order appears!

and then another.

and then another.

...

tough day.

Be glad this isn't the forth game, where unemployed people will choose 'criminal' as their career path, and you have to put out the arrest order to stop them from mugging capitalists at gunpoint and get them back in the workforce.

You would be much busier if this was Tropico 4.  Here, arrests are only ever done for political reasons.

[Scourge of Ages]

Whew, finally caught up with the game...

Wow. I thought I was a loyal palace guard or something, and suddenly I'm taking up arms in the first rebellion? Weird.

Ah well, so it goes. Sign me up for a second round. I'll do anything.

[crizza]

So, am I still a loyal radar dish operator spying on the super powers?