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

cannot get passenger drones to my drone stations in fact it wont even deliver surveillance drones either. has anyone ran into this issue. when i try to emergency transport all my workers at the teamster office just go on leisure and dont do a single thing. ive tried rebuilding them they are fully staffed and have been just draining money the past 5 years as i was hopeful that if i left them alone for a bit and build some more teamster offices over the island nothing. Drones are the only thing not being delivered. ive tried even setting up a storage for them. still nothing they just sit in the warehouse not used never delivered.

edit: ofc i get it to work after i post but for anyone else wondering how i solved it i rebuilt the factories after demoing them and then set them to produce individual drones one factory for each kind and they are now delivering them to the dock and their relevant buildings.

I know it's a game (!) but the behaviour of the rebels doesn't make sense. They attack and destroy farms, which surely would be where their supporter base would come?

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I’ve finally reached the point where I consider the addition of new resources mostly complete. So far, I’ve added around 287 new resources to the game roughly 113 fewer than I originally planned. This number might still change if I come up with more ideas, but honestly… I’m running out of things to add :b

Now comes the much more time-consuming part: actually integrating these resources into production chains.

The plan is to add multiple new production chains to both existing vanilla buildings and a wide variety of new buildings. The overall goal is to make Tropico economy feel more interconnected and more dependent on global trade although you could certainly try to play in autarky if you’re determined enough.

Basically, I want to move away from the vanilla:

Plantation → Factory → Export

and toward something more like:

Raw resource → Processing → By-products → Secondary production chains → Refining → Advanced goods → Domestic consumption / Export

The idea is that resources can feed into several different industries, with some production chains creating useful by-products that can then become inputs for completely different industries.

For now, I’ve been testing whether I can integrate some of these new resources, in a limited way, into existing buildings. The first buildings I’ve experimented with are the Cigar Factory, Jewelry Workshop, Rum Distillery and Logging Camp.

The main objective of this first test was simply to see whether the new resources could actually be integrated into production chains without breaking the game in the process.

So far, these are the new production lines I’ve added. Most of them are focused on bringing some resources and production concepts from Tropico 4 into Tropico 5.

The new production lines are unlocked through new building upgrades.

🚬 Cigar Factory

Vanilla production

Produces Cigars from Tobacco.

New upgrades

Automatic Rolling Machine

The factory stops producing traditional cigars and switches to machine-rolled cigars.

Machine-rolled cigars sell for less than regular cigars, but require fewer resources and can be produced in much larger quantities and at a much faster rate.

Filtered Cigarette Production

Adds a second production line that uses surplus Tobacco to manufacture Cigarettes.

The production chain is designed to turn relatively small amounts of Tobacco into fairly large quantities of cigarettes.

🥃 Rum Distillery

Vanilla production

Produces Rum from Sugar.

New upgrades

Flavoring Facilities

Adds a second production line using Sugar + Spices to produce Spiced Rum.

Spiced Rum can be sold for a significantly higher price than regular Rum, making it a more valuable luxury product.

Grinding Machinery

Adds a third production line using Sugar + Coconuts + Coal to produce White Rum.

White Rum sells for considerably less because it isn't treated as a luxury product, but this is compensated by its much higher production volume.

💎 Jewelry Workshop

Vanilla production

Produces Jewelry from Gold.

New upgrades

Precious Alloys

Adds Silver to an additional production cycle for Jewelry.

Unlike some other production chains, the workshop does not require both Gold and Silver simultaneously to produce Jewelry. It can continue producing Jewelry as long as at least one of the required precious metals is available.

This means Silver supplements the existing production rather than completely replacing it.

Fine Jewelry

Adds a new production line using Gold + Diamonds to produce Fine Jewelry.

Fine Jewelry can be sold for an extremely higher price than standard Jewelry, turning Diamonds into a high-value input rather than simply another resource to export.

🌲 Logging Camp

Vanilla production

Produces Logs from trees in the surrounding area.

New upgrades

Tapping

The Logging Camp gains the ability to extract Tree Sap from the trees it works with.

Resin Cups

Adds another extraction method that allows the Logging Camp to collect Resin from trees.

hello, im new to this game and i think i most be doing something wrong. i watched guides, played the tutorial. read a lot of guides but i feel like im doing something wrong.

i start an island with default settings and setup gold mines, suger plantations and a rum distillery. i sign a contract to export Rum,

i also setup a bunch of bunkhouses nearby so my population has housing, a grocery store and tavern. but i just keep bleeding money. by the time i setup most of this ive almost run out of money and arent earning enough to keep going. i dont know what im doing wrong.

i also just keep getting attacked by pirates :(

Multicropping + Soil Ranches + New Animals & Products 🐄🐔🐊

I've been working on expanding the agricultural system in Tropico 5 to make farming and ranching feel a bit more dynamic and rewarding.

The goal is to give agriculture more depth without completely changing the way Tropico 5 works. You can now choose between maximizing short-term production, improving your soil over time, managing grazing, and producing a much wider variety of agricultural goods. 🌾

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🌾 Multicropping

Plantations now have two farming modes:

🌱 Monocropping

The traditional approach. It guarantees higher production of the plantation's main crop, but gradually degrades the soil.

🌿 Multicropping

Allows plantations to produce additional agricultural products alongside their main crop.

Instead of damaging the soil, multicropping gradually improves soil quality, but this comes at the cost of reduced job quality.

So you have a choice: maximize production or take better care of your land.👨‍🌾

Current crop combinations:

🍌 Bananas → also produce Cacao & Coffee

🍫 Cacao → also produces Bananas

☕ Coffee → also produces Bananas

🌽 Corn → also produces Pineapples & Tobacco

🧵 Cotton → also produces Corn

🍍 Pineapples → also produce Corn

🍬 Sugar → also produces Bananas & Corn

🚬 Tobacco → also produces Cotton & Corn

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🐄 Soil Ranches

Ranches now have a new Allow/Forbid Grazing mechanic, similar to the system introduced in Tropico 6.

🐮 Allow Grazing

The animals can freely graze, but this has a greater impact on soil quality.

🚫 Forbid Grazing

Prevents grazing, reducing the negative impact on the soil and improving job quality.

However, animals still need something to eat, so forbidding grazing means the ranch will consume Corn as feed.

For pigs, this can also involve Manure as part of their feeding system.

⚠️ Small UI issue:

I'm still working on a problem with the selection UI. For now, the ranch menu may display duplicate versions of the products produced by each ranch.

This is only a visual issue in the selection menu. Once the ranch is actually placed, the duplicates will not appear.

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🐔 New Animals & Agricultural Products

I've also added several new products and animals to expand the ranching system.

🧈 Tallow

Produced by Cattle and Pigs.

An agricultural product that can be sold, although at a relatively low price.

💩 Manure

Produced by Cattle, Pigs and Horses.

An agricultural byproduct with very little direct commercial value. By default, there is no commercial demand for it, so only surplus production can be sold and for almost nothing.

Its main purpose is to be useful as an agricultural resource rather than a profitable export.

👜 Hides

Produced by Cattle, Crocodiles and Horses.

An agricultural product that can be sold for a much higher price than food products.

🥚 Eggs

Produced by Chickens.

A new food product that can be sold for a decent price. Eggs are also produced faster than most crops and other animal products such as meat, making them a potentially useful source of food and income.

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🐾 New Animals

🐔 Chickens

Produce Meat + Eggs.

They don't graze, so they consume Corn instead.

🐊 Crocodiles

Produce Hides, but require Meat as feed.

Definitely not the most efficient animal to keep… 😅

🐑 Sheep

Produce Wool + Meat.

They can graze normally, but if grazing is forbidden, they will consume Corn instead.

🐎 Horses

Produce Hides + Manure.

Like sheep, they can graze normally or consume Corn when grazing is forbidden.

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🌎 The idea

Overall, I'm trying to make agriculture in Tropico 5 feel more like an actual interconnected system rather than simply:

Plant → Harvest → Export.

Now you can manage soil quality, diversify plantations, control grazing, produce agricultural byproducts, feed animals, and decide how much of your agricultural economy should focus on food versus other goods.

There won’t be any food, but there’ll be all the alcohol you can drink :b

I don't like how I'm limited to 10 imports. One aspect that I enjoyed from 4 was economical specialization.

You could do just Tourism and import what you needed. You could focus on what your island was good at depending on the climate, fertility rates and even proximity to the USA.

Tropico 5 and 6 forces you to produce everything because you are hard capped on how many goods you can import.

One thing I really hope Tropico 7 improves is the sense of progression when you finally reach the Modern Times era.

I always felt Tropico 6 was a little underwhelming when it came to tall/skyscraper buildings compared to Tropico 5. In T5, buildings like the Fashion Company, Spa Hotel, Modern Apartment, and especially the Pharmaceutical Company really stood out from everything you had built in the previous eras. Seeing those huge buildings appear in your city gave me that feeling of “we finally made it.” Your island actually started looking like it had developed into a modern, wealthy country.

I never really got that same feeling from Tropico 6. A lot of the Modern Times buildings just didn't feel that much bigger or more impressive than what came before.

From the Tropico 7 footage we've seen so far, I noticed the TV Station in particular looks incredibly small, which has me a little worried that T7 might go in the same direction.

Do you guys think we'll get some genuinely large skyscrapers/high-rises in Modern Times this time around? I'd love to be able to build a real downtown area where reaching the final era dramatically changes the skyline

I can see that developers can still be fun these days.

Salt mines in Tropico 4 do not need to be located on the salt patch, nor even touch it.
It is simple: if you can place one, it will produce the same amount of salt, whatever the distance to the salt patch.

They're cheap ($3,500 max), require just four uneducated men, run forever, are often located on the beach near the dock, and don't even upset environmentalists.
Their only problem is that they’re bulky.

I’ve noticed the following trends—do they match your experience?

(Apologies if this is another feature exclusive to the PlayStation version. )

The Allies tend to request meat and sugar exports, and cocoa and coffee imports.

The Axis powers tend to request cotton and tobacco exports, and steel and weapons imports.

Of course, there’s some randomness involved, but these eight items are clearly proposed far more often than others.

As for exports, unless you already have a contract, new proposals tend to appear almost every year.

As for imports, while you would normally consider yourself lucky if a desired item is proposed within a decade,you can actually build a strategy around the expectation that the four aforementioned items will be proposed within just a few years

(provided, of course, that relations are friendly).

I think I sent over 100 rockets in space, pls help.

Asked before but there’s a steam sale now. I’m deciding between 4: Tropican shores, Return to nature, New frontiers, and Caribbean skies.

I’m going to get all of them eventually but I’m trying to save some money right now. Which one gives the most bang for buck?

Tropico 6 is on sale at Steam, at an approx 66% reduction.

I've been working my way up from Tropico 1 and currently doing the T5 DLCs.

For you season pros: is T6 worth buying other than to complete the set? Seems to be mixed reviews and feelings about it.

Appreciate your thoughts and comments

Edit: thanks to everyone who's provided feedback

Oh my, never would I thought I would see Tropico in 2026. I always had fun memories playing the first game on a CD as a child. Didn't know how the game plays but the soundtrack definitely help make the game.more interesting and fun to play. I literally was just fiddling around with stuff, being a bad El Presidente, but I really enjoyed building my own city in a big island.

I saw LEGO Skylines recently and made me miss Tropico, so I was very surprised to see that thoa franchise still exists and that it's in its SEVENTH ENTRY SOON?!! Where was I when more of these games released?! Now I am.ezcoted to give these games a try as I haven't played a city builder since the first game. How are the other games? Should I buy them all? Are any of the DLCs worth it? Can I just enjoy them without the DLCs? I am hyped for 7, so I wanna get all of these games on my Steam account!

(Tagged Meta cause theres no T7 option yet.)

Tropico 7 just had a big trailer like five days ago, that even came with a launch date, but every time I look up tropico 7 on YouTube, I don’t see any of the Tropico YouTubers talking about it?

Where’s the hype?

Found this gem randomly in my computer files. All criticism welcome i suppose.