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Offline Gortef

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I just got a new batch of cheap Brandy.

At least that's what the foreigner who sold it to me said it was.


But it that's not your thing then there's always the good home made El Presidente Beer. Straight from our very own backyard brewery.
Habeeb it...

 

Offline Alex Heartnet

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How can it be “mutually beneficial” to sell at world market prices the raw
materials that cost the underdeveloped countries immeasurable sweat and
suffering.
- Che Guevara



I want new things, but as always, I never have enough money.  I settle for being able to finish my military base,



We have another three-headed llama sighting.



Construction of the base continues until March, when it is finally finished.



The freighter arrives, along with more immigrants and a general to command our forces.  First day on the job, and Firespawn already has the palace guards doing push-ups.



El Presidente himself pays a visit to the bar, demonstrating his terrible limo parking skills in the process!



Our new museum is all set for its grand opening!  The local pirate radio station weighs in on it.






Whatever it is I plan on doing, I will need money.  So, I order the construction of another mine, extracting the iron deposit right next to town.  Just like those Soviet mining towns.  Sinkhole problems in town included.



And, here’s our solution to the housing problem.



I want to upgrade my mine so I can get even more money.  But I need electricity to do so.




Now, I could build a powerplant that is big, expensive, generates lots of pollution, and requires college educated workers as well as development aid from the US.  Or, I could instead build a wind turbine, which has none of those problems!

Wind turbines do not require workers and generate power based on how high up they are.  As it happens, I know the perfect spot...



At the end of the year, my work desk is flooded with complaints.  Guess I know what I will be doing next year…





All things considered, this has been a surprisingly quiet year.  I would of expected to see protestors.  I guess people are too afraid of El Presidente.  Good.  I like having an obedient, conformist population.

Oh, and the Loyalists are much happier now that my museum is built.



I'll get around to taking a close look at every citizen before we move onto year 4.  Maybe.  Probably.

 

Offline Gortef

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I hope the El Presidente was satisfied what my Bar had to offer.

And if he felt a bit odd in the next morning... I bet that was just the heat... yeah...
Habeeb it...

 

Offline FireSpawn

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Ah, it's good to see someone with great taste when it comes to hiring overseas mercenary commanders.  Just remember El Presidente as long as the pay is good and my soldiers happy, we'll keep the masses suppressed with bullet and bludgeoning.
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Offline Alex Heartnet

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Ah, it's good to see someone with great taste when it comes to hiring overseas mercenary commanders.  Just remember El Presidente as long as the pay is good and my soldiers happy, we'll keep the masses suppressed with bullet and bludgeoning.

I have no plans at present to enforce martial law, sorry.  I got the police to do that job.  (At least when I get a police station built.)

Instead your job will be dealing with rebels that have machine guns and actively fight back.

 

Offline TrashMan

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Have I managed to become a palace guard?
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Offline Dragon

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Hmm, tenements. Great housing for the common man, the working people will be very happy with these.[goes back to his mansion fancy house] :)

 

Offline Alex Heartnet

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Have I managed to become a palace guard?

Sadly, no, but not for lack of trying.

However, I can build a guard outpost cheap now that I have a general, so we may find room for you in the army yet.

Hmm, tenements. Great housing for the common man, the working people will be very happy with these.[goes back to his mansion] :)

Sorry, we in fact don't have any mansions on the island, for a few good reasons.  (Yes, the game lets you build mansions)

Mansions cost twice as much as tenements and apartments do (with USSR Development Aid), Mansions actually require electricity that could go for other things, like factory upgrades or a TV station, and the Communist Faction complains if there is a large disparity in housing quality.

But you will be happy to learn that you are a resident in one of the two western-style homes on the island!  Housing quality for these houses is 70 out of 100 because it's a large house that you don't have to share with anyone except your immediate family.

Unfortunately for you, the best housing quality to be had on the island is the military base, and that housing is going to get even better if I choose to bring in more generals to operate it, or I modernize our military.  If you want to live in the military base, try and get a family member in the military.

 

Offline Dragon

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Well, fixed. Military base does indeed provide the best overall housing quality on the island (if well staffed and modernized, on par with actual mansions), but I found that sometimes, soldiers refuse to move into it (I usually build it much later though). Oh, and I'll indeed be forced to complain if too many people get better houses than me. :)

 

Offline Alex Heartnet

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Well, fixed. Military base does indeed provide the best overall housing quality on the island (if well staffed and modernized, on par with actual mansions), but I found that sometimes, soldiers refuse to move into it (I usually build it much later though). Oh, and I'll indeed be forced to complain if too many people get better houses than me. :)

Citizens tend to prefer housing close to where they work.  If the island's housing is too far away, then you will start seeing shacks on one end of the island, and empty housing on the other side.

 

Offline Dragon

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How about living in a tenement right next to the base in question? After being evicted from it multiple times in a row? Also, I have a habit of building extensive road networks, so it's not like he's got a long drive to work.

 

Offline z64555

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How about living in a tenement right next to the base in question? After being evicted from it multiple times in a row? Also, I have a habit of building extensive road networks, so it's not like he's got a long drive to work.

Apparently, the tenement had a better view.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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PEOPLE OF TROPICO!

El Presidente's three-headed llama corps hovers about his new museum, attempting to intimidate and entice the citizenry into showing appreciation for it. Do not be fooled! It is filled with lines and deceit, twisting the view of Tropico's glorious history and teaching only unswerving loyalty to a tyrant!

Even now El Presidente brings in foreigners to run his newly-created jackboot of oppression for native Tropico citizens! Soldiers induced to serve with lies of glory are instead indoctrinated in foreign ways of oppression and unleashed upon the unsuspecting populace!

Do not allow it, people of Tropico!
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Offline Alex Heartnet

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Attention People of Tropico:

There seems to be those that cry out against the government.  People who would like to see nothing more then our lawfully elected leader replaced by complete anarchy where every man and woman has to live in constant fear of petty criminals emboldened by the absence of law and unafraid of being shot at by one of the many assault rifles on the island.

Do not fall for their repressive lies!  That path only leads to suffering and death.  Instead, support our lawfully elected government in fighting tyranny and oppression!  Tropico shall not fall!

 

Offline Alex Heartnet

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Our communist government rations our limited supplies and makes sure everyone receives the same amount, be it food, consumer goods, or a number of other things.

Until the island can be developed further, everybody receives the following:
A generous supply of free food.  They are many problems on the island, but food has never been one of them.
Free clothing (but there isn't enough to go around)
Free houses (but there isn't enough to go around!)
Free health care, but the doctors tend to be kept busy.
Free drinks at the bar (and pretty much everything else at the bar free)
Free access to the cars at the garages.
Free tools, as needed to perform their assigned job.  Most of the foreman don't mind if a given tool is brought home, so long as it is brought back to the workplace eventually.
One radio, bulky, with only one channel and no on/off button.  Sometimes a wire gets loose and you have to hit it a few times to make it work.
One bulky, black and white Soviet-made TV that only works intermettantly, because we do not yet have a steady electricity supply on the island.
One chicken (which is often traded to other people).
Two pesos per month, for use as a medium of exchange or for buying luxuries.

Miners, construction workers, and those working in jobs that require an education get paid just slightly above normal wage.   This is meant as an incentive to keep our most important workers where they are at, without having a significant income disparity as seen in capitalist nations.

(It's a well-kept secret that the military gets paid ten pesos a month.)  Palace guards seem to always have pesos to spend, but no one has yet to figure out why...

In other news, the local resistance has set up a small black market to provide things that El Presidente does not.

 

Offline BritishShivans

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So.....am I a barmaid yet, El Presidente?

 

Offline Alex Heartnet

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Time to keep tabs on my citizens before we move into year 4!

Note that citizens occasionally decide on their own that they want to go off and do a different job that is at their current education level.  Perhaps a certain building lacks workers, or the pay/job quality is better, or they just want to try something new.

Instead of taking screenshots of the stats of each and every citizen, I will just tell you what your stats are in writing. 

Active Citizens:

Faction Leaders:
Capitalists: SpardaSon21
Communists: Dragon
Intellectuals: CommanderDJ
Militarists: Trashman
Loyalists: Scotty
US Ambassador:  Dilmah G
Juanito: Turambar

Uneducated:
Palace Guards: Scourge of Ages, Mongoose.
Barmaids: Gortef, BritishShivans
Builders: Starslayer
Farmers: Headdie

High School Educated:
Diplomats: Pred the Penguin, Ckad

College Educated:
Doctors: Z64555, Herra Tohtori
Generals: Firespawn

Non-Active Citizens (the job they want hasn’t been created yet, but will soon!)

Police Officer: Rodo
Rebel: NGTM-1R

Killed By Big Government: (and other causes)
No deaths of HLPers…yet!



SpardaSon21, you are currently working as a teamster moving stuff to the docks until we can get a high school built.  You are still the leader of the Capitalist Faction, and you are not particularly happy or unhappy.  Your intelligence, courage, and leadership skills are all above average – if I anger the Capitalist Faction, you will likely be the first protestor or rebel to come from that.

Communist Party Leader Dragon is in the same situation that SpardaSon21 is, except he is currently a builder and his anti-government leadership skills are exceptional.

CommanderDJ, the Intellectual Party leader who works as a palace guard, has only a grade school education, and support the local Communist Faction.  Looking at your character sheet, the only thing keeping you from being very happy is the entertainment quality on the island (or lack thereof)

Trashman, apparently your ingame avatar does not actually wish to become a soldier.  I tried firing him and making all job positions on the island except for palace guard unavailable.  Trashman became unemployed even when there was an open spot for a palace guard.

Maybe he wants to wait until I can get a college and become a general instead…

Your main complaints on the island are the lack of entertainment, and poor job quality.

Loyalist Leader Scotty.  Looking at your character sheet, you are perfectly set up to become a not-so-loyal rebel – high courage and leadership, and your main complaint about the island is job quality.  I do not plan on boosting job quality anytime soon, at least until my coffers get fuller.

On the plus side, I did build a mansion dedicated to myself, which was the Loyalist’s main demand.

Dilmah G, you do not actually have an ingame avatar.  But as the ambassador the US sent to my nation, you do get to safely complain to El Presidente about stuff like the country’s debt problems, our tendency towards communism, and the rumored KGB presence on the island.  However, this particular island is in a far away place, and as such the US isn’t particularly interested in it either way.  The odds of the US actually launching an invasion is unlikely regardless of what I do.

Turambar, you get to be the radio announcer that squawks every so often!  As we do not actually have a radio station on the island but you can broadcast regardless, I am assuming that you work out of El Presidente’s Palace – safest place in Tropico.

Scourge of Ages!  You got lucky and landed a job as a palace guard!  But you are not happy about having to live in a shanty, when you could be living in the military base intead.  You are also a strong supporter of the local religious faction – which does not like El Presidente at all (and the feeling is mutual)

Gortef, you look like one of those Americano citizens.  You support our local military, yet your number one complaint is El Presidente, whom you are too sheep-like to stand up against.  You are also concerned about the environment, which are being trashed by big industry.

Hello, Starslayer the builder.  Happy about the quality of your job?  How about your housing arrangement?  No?  Maybe you should actually take an interest in the local politics and support one of the political factions, or at least put that courage skill to use and start a protest.

Mongoose is exactly the type of minion I want as a palace guard.  Too scared to shoot El Presidente in the back regardless of how much of the island’s liberties I take away, and not a strong supporter of any particular political faction.

Z64555, as one of the few college educated workers on the island, I should be glad that you aren’t dissatisfied enough to consider opposing El Presidente.  I need you where you are at.

I didn’t realize the game told me exactly what country foreign specialists or immigrants come from.  At least, until now.
At the moment you are both extremely tired and extremely hungry – too much time working at the clinic?  Good thing you got lots of food at home, just like everyone else on the island does.



Herra Tohtori, your immigration papers say you come from Puerto Rico, which is of course part of the US.  Like most of the island, you have minor complaints with job quality and major complaints about housing.   You are a strong supporter of the local intellectuals, and the biggest contributing factor to your happiness is the healthy amount of respect you have for El Presidente.

Poor Ckad is one of the most unhappy workers on the island.  The island completely lacks any kind of liberties whatsoever, there are no good jobs to be had, and housing is terrible.

Pred the Penguin got married to someone named David Mareno!  Rather amusingly, the game decided to change Pred’s name from “Pred the Penguin” to “Pred Marino”, just like what happens with real-life marriages.

I will have to keep an eye out for this, and change it back whenever I see this sort of thing happen.  Good thing I figured this out now, before married citizens become more common.



Pred the Penguin, you are an exceptionally intelligent diplomat that supports the militarists, is not particularly happy or unhappy, and completely lack the necessary leadership or courage to go against the government.

Headdie, you are in basically the same situation as Ckad, only your courage is much higher, and you lack an education.  So, in other words, El Presidente doesn’t care much about you – far too unimportant.

Poor Firespawn is going to be making some major complaints about the complete lack of churches soon, but like Mongoose you are too obedient to ever instigate a military coup.

And last but not least, I seem to of missed your application, BritishShivans.  My apologies.  Here you are.



Oh dear. I think I identified a problem with my export business.  See these farms?  Apparently none of the surplus food ever makes it to the dock for some reason.  El Presidente needs YOUR help in solving this mystery!



Next episode, El Presidente builds a high school, intimidates the population with buildings that scare people into compliance, provides decent housing, considers distracting the population with mindless entertainment, and sends the country spiraling into debt!
« Last Edit: July 02, 2012, 10:27:32 pm by Alex Heartnet »

 

Offline z64555

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Hey, let's just say I've learned from the past. That is all.  :nervous:
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Offline TrashMan

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Why is my avatar so unmotivated? Must be a game bug... Frak it, once you make a college, make me a general. If it's the only way....

Either way, how am I looking stats-wise?
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Offline Alex Heartnet

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Why is my avatar so unmotivated? Must be a game bug... Frak it, once you make a college, make me a general. If it's the only way....

Either way, how am I looking stats-wise?

The poor pay and lack of entertainment are the main reasons you are unhappy.  Your intelligence is below average, which slows down the rate at which you earn job experience.  However, your courage is above-average, and your leadership skills are exceptional.  Your avatar is no doubt plotting against the government as we speak.

Currently you are in the bar with Pred and Penguin and Spardason.