I wish they'd included a Tropicopedia in game for a complete description of the buildings, because you can't know about upgrades, different working modes, parameters that affect efficiency and quality of service until after you've built the building. Great guide btw.
Long time Tropico 6 player here and I think you did an amazing job covering the Beginners guides in part 1 and part 2. I've been attempting to have my father play for a few years now and you've done a great job at summarizing what I was unable to.
That would be something! There is still some stuff that I have learned since making this! You can stop your island from exporting goods is something that I learned in a comment a few months ago. It's in the trade menu. It can be useful if you don't want to sell scarce resources or if you don't want to export something that you are importing to process.
Tip for warehouses : You can stack materials inside like lets Gold on all 3 levels then you just pause warehouse so you don't pay upkeep of warehouse ! So when you need that gold you just unpause warehouse and voila Gold is still there !
Excellent content on an underrated game. Your guides and play-throughs have been great for reintroducing myself to the game. I had not played it in years.
Yeah, Tropico is the most open-ended city builder in my opinion. There is a very crazy amount of freedom when it comes to setting up islands to do different things. Check out the final few videos for each of my playthroughs on my channel; I put them all into playlists. I've made utopias, dystopias, and dictatorships. Lots of fun to be had and I'm probably going to do a final few videos on Tropico in the coming weeks. I want to finish the current project I'm working on then I'll have the time to record some Tropico!
@@stackingmodifiers2465 funny enough I was watching your series on the criminal island. Not too far into it as work has been busy, but I plan on finishing it! You should have more subscribers for this quality guide.
@@jericho5253 Yeah, honestly, I was going to record and upload a video where I beat all of the missions in Tropico soon. It was the next thing I wanted to do after my next Ark video, but this one will be quick, I will try to have it done by Friday. I schedule videos to upload through the night, so around Saturday morning I will have the video up unless it takes a while to finish.
Great advice on the teamsters not needing to have maxed wages! I used to set the teamsters, construction and dock workers to the highest wages because I thought that… a) they might otherwise not be fully staffed which can cripple your economy severely and b) the workers will get better at their job if the longer they stay in it. Is that something from an older version of the franchise or does it still - at least partly - apply?
No, people will not get better at their jobs as time goes on. Increasing budgets will increase the building's efficiency. The dock will bring the freighters in more often. Increasing a teamsters office budget will allow the workers to carry more. Increasing a construction office's budget will let workers complete their jobs quicker. I would really never increase the budget of all of your teamsters' offices. If you have 10+ teamsters offices, then that is probably over 100 Tropicans and if you pay them all $17 a month, then you will be spending a lot of money The wages paid will also determine the class that your Tropicans will make it into. If you want everyone to be well off, then make sure to give them more than $10, if you don't care about them being poor, then you can let their wages go below that, if you want them to be rich, then give them wages above $20. Check out the statistics on literally every building that you have, you'll get an idea of how much the building has been costing you. I will often imagine having that much more money. Like if the building has cost me 15k and I'm 10k in debt and the building hasn't done anything, I will demolish it on the spot. Edit: Holy cow I must've been really tired when I wrote this response! I reread it and realized that it was barely readable. 😅
you should do DLCs guide and tips of each building like you did here. i'm strugling hard with the Deaseases, to the point i'm almost deativating it, only keeping for the Giga hospital.
23:25 ff I thought the effect wages have vary depending on some factors? Do other Caribbean economies’ living standards and wages not influence my island(s)?
Carribean happiness will go up over time and you can affect it with various actions that you can do on your island. Your population will compare their own happiness to the Caribbean happiness, so you want to always stay above the Caribbean happiness. The wages will only affect what people can afford. If you set the entire island up so that poor Tropicans can have a good life, then you can have the entire island be poor and you can maintain a high support. I have a series on the island called communist utopia, in it, I create an island that has almost the entire population in the poor class, even the doctors, and manage to keep the entire population pretty happy. It's definitely one of my favorite builds. I put all of my playthroughs into playlists on the channel. 😄
@@stackingmodifiers2465 wow, impressive. Thanks for the quick and precise answer. The game is so complex. I have played a fair bit but still think I know nothing at all. It’s changing thanks to your helpful videos…
@@al_wombat I really like games like this, managing and building up a working society, I think that not a single other city builder allows you as much freedom as Tropico. That's why I love sharing all of the tips that I learn.
@@stackingmodifiers2465 I tried Anno 1800 on console and left soon because Tropico is so much better at simulating an economy based on goods. What put me off most is that you don’t have to consider where your primary goods are being produced. They will simply teleport to the industrial building or then to the dock.
@@stackingmodifiers2465 I only have one dlc so far - tropican shores or how its called, with the pearl divers and house boats (for 2 days by now 😆)... But maybe it could be part of the Wallstreet dlc I'd say? Boosting trade sounds like it could be the Lama of Wallstreet dlc. 🤔 Some part of me hopes that Im right, since I really dont care about the movie, influencer, or space dlc for now 😂✌️.
@@ololadin91 I just tested it and yes Made in Tropico is a part of the Llama of WallStreet DLC. The DLC also comes with the Trade Institute, Toy Workshop and Smart Furniture Studio buildings. And the last major thing is that it introduces price fluctuations. Goods will change over time either becoming cheaper or more expensive. Thanks for the comments 😄
A customs office and having a high relation with a superpower will get you much better export deals and better import deals. A custom office and the Carribean Trade Pact Association edict will get you some of the best import deals in the game. The deals that you get from the market manipulation raid are mid at best. They are really only good for one purpose, if you can't find a deal for something specific that you want, I can't remember if the deals will upset superpowers, but you can cancel them anytime without upsetting anyone. Another downside is that if you take an export deal on a good, it will usually stop more deals of that good from spawning. I would avoid the market manipulation trades and look to get good Carribean Trade Pact Association imports and good deals with superpowers exporting expensive goods. It will take a bit more work, but you'll make a lot more money over the decades.
Destrozado is the island that I built the largest city on. It's the one with all of the skyscrapers. I built out onto the island that is out on its own. It was actually the first set of videos that I uploaded. The one about capitalism.
best tip video ive seen so far for tips quality but you really should have put all the only poor tropicans content into its own video about how to do that, the constant mentions of it felt unrelated and weird
I talk about it so much because they are the class that is right on the edge. Broke tropicans can't afford anything and well-off, rich, and filthy rich tropicans can all afford pretty much the same stuff. Poor tropicans must have special care offered to them. They have their own set of buildings that must be provided. Their own grocery, their own entertainment buildings, their own medical buildings, their own housing options. On pretty much every island you want to have 0 broke tropicans. Every class above poor can share the same buildings. Poor tropicans need an entire subset of buildings and if you don't construct these buildings for them, they will start to rebel without you noticing why they are.
bro knows more about the game than the developers themselves
I wish they'd included a Tropicopedia in game for a complete description of the buildings, because you can't know about upgrades, different working modes, parameters that affect efficiency and quality of service until after you've built the building.
Great guide btw.
Long time Tropico 6 player here and I think you did an amazing job covering the Beginners guides in part 1 and part 2. I've been attempting to have my father play for a few years now and you've done a great job at summarizing what I was unable to.
happy I could help! 😄
amazing video, 100+ hours in the game and i still learned so much
Thank you! 😄
This two-part incredibly dense set of information should be linked ingame.
That would be something! There is still some stuff that I have learned since making this! You can stop your island from exporting goods is something that I learned in a comment a few months ago. It's in the trade menu. It can be useful if you don't want to sell scarce resources or if you don't want to export something that you are importing to process.
@@stackingmodifiers2465 haha even I knew that bit… ;)
…still a great reminder…
Tip for warehouses : You can stack materials inside like lets Gold on all 3 levels then you just pause warehouse so you don't pay upkeep of warehouse ! So when you need that gold you just unpause warehouse and voila Gold is still there !
THAT'S the tips I want to read! TY for your service! 😄 Already getting some ideas with that.
George Orwell's 1984. Other than that, great vid, very comprehensive. You deserve way more subscribers.
Great guide, thank you. Even after 300+ hours I'm learning!
Thank you for the comment! Glad I could help out a fellow gamer! 😄
Excellent content on an underrated game. Your guides and play-throughs have been great for reintroducing myself to the game. I had not played it in years.
Glad I could be of some assistance, thanks for the comments!
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Amazing guide!
Really good guide mate! Super informative and interesting. Hadn't played in years but you make me want to get back into it.
Yeah, Tropico is the most open-ended city builder in my opinion. There is a very crazy amount of freedom when it comes to setting up islands to do different things. Check out the final few videos for each of my playthroughs on my channel; I put them all into playlists. I've made utopias, dystopias, and dictatorships. Lots of fun to be had and I'm probably going to do a final few videos on Tropico in the coming weeks. I want to finish the current project I'm working on then I'll have the time to record some Tropico!
@@stackingmodifiers2465 funny enough I was watching your series on the criminal island. Not too far into it as work has been busy, but I plan on finishing it! You should have more subscribers for this quality guide.
@@stackingmodifiers2465hey bud, would you be willing to do a guide for the mission Better Red than Dead? I think you’d be effective at teaching it.
@@jericho5253 Yeah, honestly, I was going to record and upload a video where I beat all of the missions in Tropico soon. It was the next thing I wanted to do after my next Ark video, but this one will be quick, I will try to have it done by Friday. I schedule videos to upload through the night, so around Saturday morning I will have the video up unless it takes a while to finish.
Awesome thank you!
Great advice on the teamsters not needing to have maxed wages! I used to set the teamsters, construction and dock workers to the highest wages because I thought that…
a) they might otherwise not be fully staffed which can cripple your economy severely and b) the workers will get better at their job if the longer they stay in it.
Is that something from an older version of the franchise or does it still - at least partly - apply?
No, people will not get better at their jobs as time goes on. Increasing budgets will increase the building's efficiency. The dock will bring the freighters in more often. Increasing a teamsters office budget will allow the workers to carry more. Increasing a construction office's budget will let workers complete their jobs quicker. I would really never increase the budget of all of your teamsters' offices. If you have 10+ teamsters offices, then that is probably over 100 Tropicans and if you pay them all $17 a month, then you will be spending a lot of money The wages paid will also determine the class that your Tropicans will make it into. If you want everyone to be well off, then make sure to give them more than $10, if you don't care about them being poor, then you can let their wages go below that, if you want them to be rich, then give them wages above $20. Check out the statistics on literally every building that you have, you'll get an idea of how much the building has been costing you. I will often imagine having that much more money. Like if the building has cost me 15k and I'm 10k in debt and the building hasn't done anything, I will demolish it on the spot.
Edit: Holy cow I must've been really tired when I wrote this response! I reread it and realized that it was barely readable. 😅
@@stackingmodifiers2465 no not at all! It‘s great advice and easy to follow, thanks a lot!
Thank you - very helpful. George Orwell's book is 1984, not 1948 (tiny error). But the overall guide was amazing.
Yeah, I actually found my copy of the book recently and I realized that I probably made that mistake a dozen times on the channel 😅
This is the best guide!
Thanks! It means a lot. I put a lot of effort into making this video as well as possible.
you should do DLCs guide and tips of each building like you did here. i'm strugling hard with the Deaseases, to the point i'm almost deativating it, only keeping for the Giga hospital.
Potentially I will in the near future! 😃
There are two things I think the game is missing. An alert when the trade routes refresh and hot keys for citizen actions.
Wow, great
Awesome tips. Thank.
welc. 😄
23:25 ff I thought the effect wages have vary depending on some factors? Do other Caribbean economies’ living standards and wages not influence my island(s)?
Carribean happiness will go up over time and you can affect it with various actions that you can do on your island. Your population will compare their own happiness to the Caribbean happiness, so you want to always stay above the Caribbean happiness. The wages will only affect what people can afford. If you set the entire island up so that poor Tropicans can have a good life, then you can have the entire island be poor and you can maintain a high support. I have a series on the island called communist utopia, in it, I create an island that has almost the entire population in the poor class, even the doctors, and manage to keep the entire population pretty happy. It's definitely one of my favorite builds. I put all of my playthroughs into playlists on the channel. 😄
@@stackingmodifiers2465 wow, impressive. Thanks for the quick and precise answer.
The game is so complex. I have played a fair bit but still think I know nothing at all.
It’s changing thanks to your helpful videos…
@@al_wombat I really like games like this, managing and building up a working society, I think that not a single other city builder allows you as much freedom as Tropico. That's why I love sharing all of the tips that I learn.
@@stackingmodifiers2465 I tried Anno 1800 on console and left soon because Tropico is so much better at simulating an economy based on goods. What put me off most is that you don’t have to consider where your primary goods are being produced. They will simply teleport to the industrial building or then to the dock.
Nice video, but is it possible that some of the things you use are tied to dlc? Like made in tropico?
Oh wow, I 100% thought that "Made in Tropico" was a part of the base game. 😅
I did my best to only use and talk about the base game, I should have really turned off all my dlc to make this guide.
@@stackingmodifiers2465 I only have one dlc so far - tropican shores or how its called, with the pearl divers and house boats (for 2 days by now 😆)...
But maybe it could be part of the Wallstreet dlc I'd say? Boosting trade sounds like it could be the Lama of Wallstreet dlc. 🤔
Some part of me hopes that Im right, since I really dont care about the movie, influencer, or space dlc for now 😂✌️.
@@ololadin91 I just tested it and yes Made in Tropico is a part of the Llama of WallStreet DLC. The DLC also comes with the Trade Institute, Toy Workshop and Smart Furniture Studio buildings. And the last major thing is that it introduces price fluctuations. Goods will change over time either becoming cheaper or more expensive. Thanks for the comments 😄
How come you wouldn't recommend taking the deals made from the market manipulation raids?
A customs office and having a high relation with a superpower will get you much better export deals and better import deals. A custom office and the Carribean Trade Pact Association edict will get you some of the best import deals in the game. The deals that you get from the market manipulation raid are mid at best. They are really only good for one purpose, if you can't find a deal for something specific that you want, I can't remember if the deals will upset superpowers, but you can cancel them anytime without upsetting anyone. Another downside is that if you take an export deal on a good, it will usually stop more deals of that good from spawning. I would avoid the market manipulation trades and look to get good Carribean Trade Pact Association imports and good deals with superpowers exporting expensive goods. It will take a bit more work, but you'll make a lot more money over the decades.
@@stackingmodifiers2465 I see, thank you for your perspective. 😀
Nice tips❤
Thank you!
Which island is this done on
I shot the B-Roll on many different islands. Any shot in particular? I only remember a few..😅
Destrozado is the island that I built the largest city on. It's the one with all of the skyscrapers. I built out onto the island that is out on its own. It was actually the first set of videos that I uploaded. The one about capitalism.
best tip video ive seen so far for tips quality but you really should have put all the only poor tropicans content into its own video about how to do that, the constant mentions of it felt unrelated and weird
I talk about it so much because they are the class that is right on the edge. Broke tropicans can't afford anything and well-off, rich, and filthy rich tropicans can all afford pretty much the same stuff. Poor tropicans must have special care offered to them. They have their own set of buildings that must be provided. Their own grocery, their own entertainment buildings, their own medical buildings, their own housing options. On pretty much every island you want to have 0 broke tropicans. Every class above poor can share the same buildings. Poor tropicans need an entire subset of buildings and if you don't construct these buildings for them, they will start to rebel without you noticing why they are.
George Orwells 1984 not 1948 my G
yes, I will probably never hear the end of that lmao. I called it that like 10 times on the channel 😅
Great guide!
Glad it was helpful!