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[The13thRonin]

Tropico needs to have the option for more difficulty. The elections are easy as pie to win and if money was that easy to earn in real life I'd be wiping my ass with it.

[Jackrabbit]

If you were a dictator you would be, surely.

[Siquo]

Well, cranking up the mission generator's difficulty levels works for me, usually.

I can't find how to gift stuff I didn't already have. Ohwell.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Whelp, guess we'll just have to be secret rivals, then. Enjoy your tyrannical rule while it lasts, "El Presidente".

[forsaken1111]

Tropico needs to have the option for more difficulty. The elections are easy as pie to win and if money was that easy to earn in real life I'd be wiping my ass with it.

There are difficulty options in Tropico.. try playing it in politically unstable maps.

[Thexor]

Tropico needs to have the option for more difficulty. The elections are easy as pie to win and if money was that easy to earn in real life I'd be wiping my ass with it.

There are difficulty options in Tropico.. try playing it in politically unstable maps.

Rebel Yell, anyone? 

No, really, campaign maps tend to be pretty easy. It's when you load up a custom map and crank up the difficulty modifiers that, suddenly, staying in power for the next 50 years starts looking pretty darn tough. If you're talking about T4's demo mission, then yeah, it's the developers making sure everybody gets through the demo; most missions don't throw $100,000 at you with no strings attached when an election starts. 

[Fikes]

Oh and two awesome things happened as I played through the demo. A tornado struck and started ripping up trees, cars and houses and carrying them into the sky. That was awesome. Plus they added a rebuild button above the rubble of destroyed buildings so you don't have to guess to figure out what was destroyed

That rebuild button is the sort of common sense adjustments that will make the game so much better. I remember it took like 8 clicks to locate and ransom your captives in Tropico 2.

On the difficulty side, I decided I'd play rebel yell on do a full agriculture socitey and not allow immigrants. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. 20 years into my 30 year rule I had something like $40,000. Everyone lived in apartments and several people lived in cottages. Then everything went bad. I think my population of educated people hit critical mass and people just stopped working in the fields. I was just starting to recover when there was the "bad economey" random event. In the end I think my little nation was 8k in debt.

[forsaken1111]

Oh yes, the rebuild option is fantastic!

[Thexor]

Oh yes, the rebuild option is fantastic!

It would be, if you didn't have to wait for the disaster to end before it became available.

And if said disaster didn't continue to count as 'active' despite wandering off into a forest and tossing about trees for 4 months. 

[forsaken1111]

Oh yes, the rebuild option is fantastic!

It would be, if you didn't have to wait for the disaster to end before it became available.

And if said disaster didn't continue to count as 'active' despite wandering off into a forest and tossing about trees for 4 months. 

That is understandable to a point. They probably said internally "Hey who would rebuild in the middle of a tornado?

Probably less of an issue during other 'island-wide' disasters like a hurricane.

[forsaken1111]

Incidentally, this game is pretty good. It showed up way before release on several sites, so I grabbed it even though I have it preordered on steam. If you have questions, let me know

[lordcooper]

Are there any (significant) differences to number 3 that weren't shown on the demo?

[forsaken1111]

Are there any (significant) differences to number 3 that weren't shown on the demo?

The campaign missions are much more structured and interesting. The 2nd campaign mission should have been the one they showed in the demo as it was much more fun. You are hired by a texas iron monger to mine a tropical island and throughout the mission you get feedback and choices on what to do, as well as opposition in the form of competitors, the environment (earthquakes), etc. There is even an amusing throwback to the chilean miners who were trapped in a hole a while back. It's a lot better designed than the campaign missions in T3.

As well there are a few minor additions I enjoyed, like if you connect your crappy old tenements to power grid you can at least give the residents A/C to improve their housing quality a little. Also your offshore account is persistent between campaign missions with the same presidente, and each time you win a campaign mission you 'level up' the traits of your presidente so they get more effective.

[Zangi]

Are there any (significant) differences to number 3 that weren't shown on the demo?

The campaign missions are much more structured and interesting. The 2nd campaign mission should have been the one they showed in the demo as it was much more fun. You are hired by a texas iron monger to mine a tropical island and throughout the mission you get feedback and choices on what to do, as well as opposition in the form of competitors, the environment (earthquakes), etc. There is even an amusing throwback to the chilean miners who were trapped in a hole a while back. It's a lot better designed than the campaign missions in T3.

As well there are a few minor additions I enjoyed, like if you connect your crappy old tenements to power grid you can at least give the residents A/C to improve their housing quality a little. Also your offshore account is persistent between campaign missions with the same presidente, and each time you win a campaign mission you 'level up' the traits of your presidente so they get more effective.

I've always made random islands, never did bother to do campaign missions.  I think this would change that.

[forsaken1111]

I have no idea if it works for the random islands, I have only spent about an hour with it so far. When I get home I'll test that out and see if the random islands act differently.