Start date of his new era of dictatorship. Later in the text. Maybe.

Thank you for noticing my clickbait title.

Tropico needs a hardcore mode that actually incentivizes the player to play like a dictator, or at least have to sometimes fight for their preferred playstyle. Obviously this should be optional.

As a long time fan of the series, you get to a point where you can just keep 80% of the population aligned with your policies and everyone is happy. There is no real benefit to imprisoning dissidents, assassinating people, or being corrupt except for the heck of it.

But what if sometimes the people had a mind of their own? They decided “we think communism is better” or “we think capitalism is better” or ”el presidente is ruining our religious morals!” and decide to act on it? What if they were so firm in their convictions that you *can’t* make them happy without either caving to their demands or repressing them? What if the superpowers and resources were balanced so that there was a real danger sometimes to just giving people what they want?

I think it would add to the replayability of Tropico if every playthrough you had to problem solve and react to emergent political situations, rather than use the same methods you’ve used 100 times before.

I wanted to give this review some thought after the demo has closed.
I played about 6 hours of the campaign on both a gaming laptop and gaming computer. My only tropico experience is from about 200 hours with Tropico 4. My favorite things about Tropico 4 were the music, the bold humor, the casual challenge, and being a zen city builder similar to roller coaster tycoon 2. I don't have much time for videogames these days and Tropico is one of the only ones I am looking forward to.

Performance: 4k 60fps was possible with my 3080 rig, but I struggled to get 2k 50fps on my gaming laptop with a 1660ti.

The good:
Everything I liked about Tropico 4 is here. Great music, bold humor (EX: Sawmill description: Tropican wood is prized for its blood red color), and a good casual challenge. The demo was a bit easy to make money, which I've heard others mention as well. Hopefully the economy is a bit more challenging than the demo, or we have difficulty settings. One of the better features of Tropico 4 was choosing presidente's traits and background skills which could really make the game a lot harder. Similar to choosing skulls in a Halo game.
The game is beautiful. However the pace of the demo felt really fast. Maybe it is because I haven't played the era system before this, but I always felt pressure to keep extending the mandate or doing stuff. In Tropico 4 the clock went so slowly and I would take breaks to peruse the village and watch the people in the town do their thing. I did not feel like I got this opportunity as much with the demo. Less zen.

Traffic was a challenge in Tropico 4 and the T7 demo addressed it in two great ways. The direct transfer of goods is a cool realistic way to reduce traffic. Also that teamsters don't leave until 1500 goods reduces their presence. I never mess with public transportation as I find it too clumsy in city builders.

Other:

Yes the animated characters are a bit uncanny. However if you just watch it out of the corner of your eye, it's fine. I think this is the last place I would want devs spending time chasing value. I do prefer the old caricatures because they're both funny and also because it makes the game feel LESS real and immersive.

The pirate landmark thing doesn't bother me too much. Just don't do it? I'd rather have pirate interactions and maybe battles similar to fighting revolutionaries, as a minigame...

Ideas:
Upgrades should be on first screen. Too many screens is cumbersome. Tropico 4 did this very well.
More fun options at Theater, newspaper, school, etc... for operating modes
Description should be front and center. Move most things to the overview page.
Little icons and tooltips from tropico4 worked great to keep it clean and in one place
Put this game on GOG just like all the other tropicos so I don't need a connection to play.

Bugs likely to be fixed (likely just missing from demo because it is a work in progress):
Show fertility overlay when placing additional fields at plantation
Free rotation near other buildings is cumbersome. There should be a different key or way to engage it. I never place by grid, let me disable it in settings forever.
Economy way too easy. Should be punishing.
Does not show citizen happiness on main screen
No more hotkeys to open dock, almanac, etc..
Can't kill people
People can't starve
Negatively affected buildings marked red out of range of sphere. (i.e. there were red down arrows within the spehere, other buildings outside sphere still red.)
No tropico day edict with fireworks (maybe not in demo?).

All in all a great demo. I wish I had more time to play it. I will be pre ordering.

Bonus: I found a couple cuban stations with a similar playlist in my hunt for more Tropico music. https://onlineradiobox.com/cu/salsa/?cs=cu.salsa and https://www.radio.net/s/habanasoncuba

Pedro Pascal would need to play Penultimo, there is no better choice I can think of

https://www.reddit.com/r/tropico/s/2XysUNgV47

Hi, I’m just looking for advice for PS5 population settings. What would everybody recommend? From what I have read 4000 seems like a good number, any recommendations?

A bit of a side question, what maps would people recommend for a long term sandbox playthrough? I have all the DLC I’d like room for multi-culture crops. Thanks.

The main appeal of the games to me ever since T3 was to make an island paradise. Yes, I'm aware that it's more of a society/people simulator than a city simulator, but it's so frustrating to me that in order to make my island function they always end up looking like an ugly sh*thole with no structure to it.

Why can't I have a farming community on one end of the island, with a city or large town they can travel to in another area, a tourist section in a more secluded and scenic area etc? Each time I try, job positions don't get filled, happiness levels plummet, exports bring in less and less income, and mines...omg the placement of mines can ruin everything. Fisheries as well.

Has anyone got any tips on how to get around this or am I playing the game with the wrong mindset?

Why cant i build those roads?

About 10 hours played in the demo I’m encountering endless game breaking bugs. Goods not being transported, roads not working, building placement. Trying to fight mandate time to test long term gameplay even with lots of money stashed (mandates then change to completing exports)

I am hoping this game can be saved as the terraforming system is a huge game changing upgrade but so far the bugs are overwhelming

I have a wide variety of vacancies, but unemployed Tropicans are not taking them. I did think that maybe jobs have to be closer to where they live, but how do I manage all that? Can’t they move to another habitation closer to a vacant job opportunity?

There must be a secret to getting out of the colonial era that I'm missing. I played for hours until there seemed to be nothing left to do but I never made it to World Wars. I've looked in the meager documentation but couldn't find anything. I've never played Tropico of any kind before so I'm at a loss.

Any help?

Haven’t had a chance to play yet, but curious how the new service radius system works for housing. Does it also apply to industry and workplaces?

I’ve also read about production chains benefiting from placing buildings next to each other, which sounds like a great qol improvement.

Anything else you’ve noticed that’s new or improved?

Can’t wait to give the demo a go!

Through Steam (now at 7$) you can download it through CrossOver.

Disable DLSS, M-Sync and High Resolution Mode for the bottle.

I played through the first campaign mission without any issues.

If T5 and T6 were to combine this would be the best city building game ever. Even better than city skylines. It would combine both amateur and realistic details of the game. Tropico 7 demo isnt the full game yet, but their's potential, if not, im sure the developers would come out with more DLC, like they usually 🙄, to make the game great again.

I did not enjoy the demo.

The character animations in the lower left are downright creepy.

The UI is poorly designed and confusing.

There is too little visual differentiation between buildings which makes its hard to see where anything is.

The domestic policy window with the animated characters was all choppy and made my PC fan go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Not good.

Most importantly, it did not feel like the next iteration of Tropico. The gameplay is very unoriginal. It feels like a remade Tropico 6. Lord Wyndham, heists, world wonders... Been there, done that.

They have been working on this for years, the release is in a couple of months, and this is where the game is?

Disappointing.

I am finally falling in love with T6 after all these years being a T4 loyalist. One problem I am having is that I have a hard time understanding when my transport network is running inefficiently, it feels like my citizens aren't spending very much time at their jobs compared to the earlier eras and production is slowing down a bit.

Traffic isn't a problem as I have basically skipped doing any parking garages whatsoever as my last game failed due to too much traffic on the roads.

I just don't understand how far is too far to walk, how far apart bus stops should be, and when/where I should be putting metro stations. Any advice?

The same old humour and setting is still great but, my impressions from playing the demo -

• The gameplay is still functionally the same from 4/5/6

• The look is still the same

• Frustrations I've had playing the other editions of this game are still present:

  • It still takes ages to do anything (eg export 1000 planks or whatever - they've been at my sawmill for ages waiting to be exported!) and its not clear how to fix it other than pay more money or build more buildings
  • Hovels and slums still appear randomly, so it still leaves me confused whether I'm meant to build hubs or a big city

• Heists of World Wonders takes the game from silly to absurd

I feel like I'm still left with a game that's still not entirely clear what it's trying to be. It's like it's in between a serious mangement/building sim (Workers and Resources) and something that's fun and silly (Evil Genius).

I know it's verboten to criticise anything on a subreddit, but thoughts?

We spoke with artist David Deen about PopTop Software and the making of the first Tropico.

The DLC introduced "floating neighborhoods."

They’re fantastic buildings they help with space constraints, provide stat boosts, and can even be stacked.

Ideally, you should group them into clusters to maximize their effect.

These clusters are incredibly useful, especially when combined with "drone-to-home" delivery.

There’s even a building to handle pollution.

To meet other needs, you can group all your service buildings along the coast hospitals, cathedrals, TV stations, and various entertainment venues.

This covers everything:

- Liberty: The TV station has a wide radius.

- Employment: This depends on a building used, so that’s not an issue.

- Entertainment, religion, and healthcare: Same thing just place a building for citizens to visit.

- Housing: No problem there, either.

However...

What am I supposed to do about crime and security?

There’s no marine-based building for this nothing like a coastal guard post or a floating police station.

And unlike other needs, security depends on a specific radius around the residences.

Is there a solution I’ve missed?

Hello fellow Presidentes
Anyone got Tropico 6 on PS5? Willing to do the multiplayer trophy?
Reason, I just need this for that sweet sweet plat

Hey, folks. I downloaded the Tropico 7 Demo from Steam, but it won't launch. I get a welcome page that asks me to subscribe to the newsletter (which I don't want), and pre-order Tropico 7 (which I don't want to do until I try the demo first).

So I click in the bottom left to launch the game, and it never does. Anyone have a solution?

This is the error message I get.

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UPDATE

Never mind. It works now. I looked at the error message and realized the game was looking for the T7 Demo in my Documents folder. But the T7 Demo folder wasn't there. Steam put it in my Steamapps / Common folder.

So I just copied the whole T7 Demo folder from Steamapps / Common and pasted it into my Documents / My Games folder. Now it works.

I'll leave this post here in case others have the same issue.

I tried to notify Steam about it being downloaded to the wrong folder. But messages to Steam Support are not going through at the moment.

UPDATE 2

Well that was a dud. The demo launches. I click on New Game, and it shuts down.

SOLVED

It's a Ransomware Protection block. Go to Windows Start Menu > Ransomware Protection > Allow an app through controlled folder access > Add an allowed app > Recently blocked apps > Select Tropico7.exe from the list, or search for it if it isn't in the list.

See comments below. Thanks to GVP!

The menu suggests that rb and right thumb stick tilts the view. This doesn’t work for me and the view only tilts when I zoom right in. Does this happen for anyone else or am I missing something? Got an old Xbox elite controller and all the buttons and sticks work ok for everything else