The fact that building a thriving economy is hard, is not a knock or slight on Tropico but rather, an insight into how hard it really is to build a functioning economy. Many countries are unable to build stable economies so it is really not that easy. I think the game is trying to demonstrate this fact to the player and it does a good job of that.
Tropico 6 economy is actually cake. Just remember the rule of 4/2/1. 4 Resource sources, 2 factory preparation, 1 final factory. A good example is to make four logging camps and then two lumber mills. Then finally one ship yard. So if you are working with a factory that handles raw resources then you need 2/1. Two gold mines and one jewelry factory. Most all of your export should NOT be raw resources. Factory resources like Rum, Cigars, plastic. Not sugar, tobacco, or oil. Be sure you have several docks well paid and have your teamsters on loose load work mode. If you do not do this you will be exporting all of your precious resources intended for factory processing. If you ever see the low resource or resource needs to be picked up icon above a building you have a big problem that will only get worse. This is caused by too few teamsters or teamsters that can not move around efficiently. Lastly, strengthen and balance all foreign relations. Ignore the advice in this video as it is completely possible to keep them all maxed out at 100 and then you can take advantage of the +20% export prices. Try to buy out all of the licenses and make the largest bulk trade deals. Then you have to maintain them or you will have a twenty percent decrease in revenue. You will want to sell off the positions of power to the broker within your cabinet/ministry. Also set several of your banks to slush fund work mode. You should now have about six hundred dollars per month s$. You can use this money to buy convincing talk from the broker menu and keep all parties "including the silly hippies" happy. I stay between 90 to 100 percent approval on easy approval setting without any struggle. I keep three or four convincing talks ready at all times and just shut down their ridiculous ideas and they thank me for it. The only one I ever suffer with is the environmentalist but you can do the dirty then appease them by placing many waste treatment facilities after your industrial expansion. ;)
@@Ultrajamz not sure if you got it already, but assuming you probably did, it an alright game for people who are new to tropico but the PVP is pretty basic nothing really special but its nice to have two cities Growing on an island
why don't socialist like AOC and bermie sanders read history and play this game???? They would se that they radical and losers...'The New Green Deal' LOLOLOLOL we are screwed in USA if Biden wins
I think Tropico is a fantastic economics and politics sim that really captures well the difficulty of appeasing all the conflicting requirements of building an empire. I would go as far to say it should be included in secondary school sylabus - it is that good an education tool when trying to explain or teach somebody how a country or economy works.
Really? Out of all of the points in this video "or the lack thereof" you are truly touched by the one that had nothing to do with game play or mechanics but someones ability to pronounce things in the way you are most accustomed too? Is this a new safe space?
After all the confusing mixed opinions I've heard about this game, this video is what finally convinced me to Wishlist it. Your points were very genuine and explained very well. Knowing myself, I think I'd enjoy the good parts you mentioned more than I'd be troubled by the negatives.
Not sure how adversarial you and Matthew *actually* are, but regardless, it makes for quite a fun vibe and some good jokes. Long live this RPS video team! :)
I never thought of "rescue: educated" as kidnapping... I thought they rescued them while brushing the idiots off the side like barnacles when they try to climb aboard
They need to tone down the frequency of faction demands and how many can be made at once. Also, something is buggy in public opinion especially if you have undecided voters. Where it the option to send the army and beat some sense into them when your city is stable and they should have no reason to complain?
I wonder how many viewers got the Private Eye joke? As a Brit (and fellow West Country-dweller who most certainly understands Stonehenge frustrations: build the tunnel!), I appreciated it! Game looks good. I've played the death out of Cities: Skylines, Frostpunk and Banished now and it's either trying out the Tropico or Anno series next.
Great fun commentary you have here. Love the sarcasm❤️🌶❤️ Personally, I’d love to watch you play in sandbox just to see how you’d solve many of the little bothersome stuff that comes up through the different times. Keep up the good work.
Why did you move near Salsbury if you didn't want to be near Stonehenge then thats the whole point of being there to keep visiting those rocks for the rest of your life!
Probably the worst thing about Tropico 6 is the massive lag issues. Playing on a 1080 Ti with a population of ~4k, I don't appreciate the stutter or freezes for seconds at a time. I've not seen this on any other game (although I don't play many).
Well the high population is dependent on your CPU, not your GPU. If you have a 1080 Ti and an old ass i5 you can play Counter Strike, but good luck with any calculation heavy game like a city builder or grand strategy.
I still play trópico 4 I found the best build is oil tycoon, you have a slow start but by the fifth year you rake in millions. Once you have enough funds and oil refinares you have customs drop import prices add it up with lowered commodities prices or oil price drops. Hold products wait until low is over put customs to increase prices and use promote tropical products edict and you’ll have between 5 million to 20 million easily from your holds. This could take just a year between drop and rise.
Its a shame this game is so annoying with all the popups every 20 seconds, tried hard to like it, 4 was great, lets hope if they make a 7 it will be better =)
Being a small island nation with strategic resources more or less always results in having very agressive neighbours communicating in a passive agressive way.
I tried to go for a super industrial Dictator with a military police force.. Little did I know you can just BUY reputation..Now everyone loves me, even though I tried to be evil and made millions..
Hmm.. Environmentalist and in debt.. This review is too realistic! But to be serious, the political aspect of managing not only population and economy, but also outside forces and internal pressure, is exactly why many like Tropico, it offers something the rest of the building/management genre does not.
@@TheJester39 I guess your the only fool who supports microtransactions. Guess your the reason that model continues. But wait, theres more: your lack of Tropico knowledge shows that u r a newb who rather spend his wage on a single building created in 30 minutes by a Kalypso intern...
You can do it in 4 and 5 so I think you could in this as well. When built, them superpowers actually stop sending army as long as your Nuke base is powered and functional.
It's disappointing to hear that the same nonsense issues from 5 are in 6.... If you like to be consistently frustrated when gaming then that's fine, but i don't and many RTS games are plagued with these "bugs" that stop me from investing time and money into them, which is a huge bummer because RTS is my favorite genre.
Honestly that's also the picture that I'm getting. Loved the 5th Tropico, but I've been holing off on this one cause it seems to be working on a much smaller scale, which is a step in the totally wrong direction if you ask me.
@@RichterBelmont2235 nothing really... a great comparison would be civilisation. Tropico 5 is civilisation 5. And tropico 6 feels like civilisation revolution. Its dull and ruins the series.
@@nicknic28292490 biggest waste of my money. So disappointed this is where an amazing series has ended up. But they all die eventually. Tropico... You've been amazing. R.I.P
DON'T BUY IT, it doesn't let you delete a single tile of road, you have to delete the whole line of road, and after that, it doesn't let you re-lay the road on the same line!
The fact that building a thriving economy is hard, is not a knock or slight on Tropico but rather, an insight into how hard it really is to build a functioning economy. Many countries are unable to build stable economies so it is really not that easy. I think the game is trying to demonstrate this fact to the player and it does a good job of that.
>reelection
*laughs in martial law*
Tropico 6 economy is actually cake. Just remember the rule of 4/2/1. 4 Resource sources, 2 factory preparation, 1 final factory.
A good example is to make four logging camps and then two lumber mills. Then finally one ship yard. So if you are working with a factory that handles raw resources then you need 2/1. Two gold mines and one jewelry factory. Most all of your export should NOT be raw resources. Factory resources like Rum, Cigars, plastic. Not sugar, tobacco, or oil. Be sure you have several docks well paid and have your teamsters on loose load work mode. If you do not do this you will be exporting all of your precious resources intended for factory processing. If you ever see the low resource or resource needs to be picked up icon above a building you have a big problem that will only get worse. This is caused by too few teamsters or teamsters that can not move around efficiently. Lastly, strengthen and balance all foreign relations. Ignore the advice in this video as it is completely possible to keep them all maxed out at 100 and then you can take advantage of the +20% export prices. Try to buy out all of the licenses and make the largest bulk trade deals. Then you have to maintain them or you will have a twenty percent decrease in revenue. You will want to sell off the positions of power to the broker within your cabinet/ministry. Also set several of your banks to slush fund work mode. You should now have about six hundred dollars per month s$. You can use this money to buy convincing talk from the broker menu and keep all parties "including the silly hippies" happy. I stay between 90 to 100 percent approval on easy approval setting without any struggle. I keep three or four convincing talks ready at all times and just shut down their ridiculous ideas and they thank me for it. The only one I ever suffer with is the environmentalist but you can do the dirty then appease them by placing many waste treatment facilities after your industrial expansion. ;)
Is silly talk OP? Never knew about this one from 4 an 5
Now, what’s the 4/2/1 effect for car factories?
@@therubbercop4590 I think you need two steel mills and two rubber plantations. I am not sure though. Try it and see how it works.
In the Lord's Army ...
I have PS4 and can’t get Tropico on PC so how would it work for Tropico 5 is what I meant...
@@therubbercop4590 I love Tropico 5. I think it is exactly the same ratio. 4/2/1 or 2/1. I hope this helps.
Really upset that they removed the nuclear sub... guess I can no longer indirectly hurt my friends in multiplayer with a "miss fire"
Were you a "Strong and Stable" Presidente?
She was indeed a "very stable genius" of a Presidente, at least it would seem...
How’s pvp in this game? May pick it up with a friend
@@Ultrajamz not sure if you got it already, but assuming you probably did, it an alright game for people who are new to tropico but the PVP is pretty basic nothing really special but its nice to have two cities Growing on an island
That's why you were 55,000 in debt for being a environmentalist
They all are in debt in the end lol
Industrialist or environmentalist
they all have the same faith lol
why don't socialist like AOC and bermie sanders read history and play this game???? They would se that they radical and losers...'The New Green Deal' LOLOLOLOL we are screwed in USA if Biden wins
@@ajaxslamgoody9736 how's that working out for you dickhead 🤣
@@adamcomito You don't know who your messing with clown...to attack a US soldier....we will meet in about 2 weeks..I'll call when I'm in town
I think Tropico is a fantastic economics and politics sim that really captures well the difficulty of appeasing all the conflicting requirements of building an empire. I would go as far to say it should be included in secondary school sylabus - it is that good an education tool when trying to explain or teach somebody how a country or economy works.
Oppress without depressing is a fantastic line and will definitely be my campaign slogan
I'm naming this lass 'the queen of satire'. Can we just have her do all the channel reviews please? She's bloody brill.
I owe it all to my leader. That's what El Presidente wants us to say, right?
I gave you a like for pronouncing 'archipelago' correctly. I do not think I have seen even one other Tropico 6 video where the words was not mangled.
Well, you obviously haven't watched our previous video on Tropico 6 (and thank you).
Really? Out of all of the points in this video "or the lack thereof" you are truly touched by the one that had nothing to do with game play or mechanics but someones ability to pronounce things in the way you are most accustomed too? Is this a new safe space?
In the Lord's Army my god, get off it
After all the confusing mixed opinions I've heard about this game, this video is what finally convinced me to Wishlist it. Your points were very genuine and explained very well. Knowing myself, I think I'd enjoy the good parts you mentioned more than I'd be troubled by the negatives.
"We're even made up of mutiple islands"
Laughs in Filipino
laugh in Indonesia
*Laughs in 17 thousand islands*
We could've been 7108 islands if it wasn't for China
Jude Papina still 10000 less compared to Indonesia.
Derry Darmawan who cares hahahah
Not sure how adversarial you and Matthew *actually* are, but regardless, it makes for quite a fun vibe and some good jokes. Long live this RPS video team! :)
I never thought of "rescue: educated" as kidnapping... I thought they rescued them while brushing the idiots off the side like barnacles when they try to climb aboard
They need to tone down the frequency of faction demands and how many can be made at once. Also, something is buggy in public opinion especially if you have undecided voters. Where it the option to send the army and beat some sense into them when your city is stable and they should have no reason to complain?
Great review, and Alice I will totally support you in your upcoming coup....bloodless or otherwise.
Great to have you on board.
Ooh can I be a minion in the new regime? I could the ambassador to Canada...easier commute.
You were getting my like anyway, but your tangent about Stonehenge had be rolling. Subscribe, earned.
I hope they get more house skins as it was boring in T5 to see the same houses over and over again.
I love the game and I love how they actually brought politics into it
Really good job on this review.
I wonder how many viewers got the Private Eye joke? As a Brit (and fellow West Country-dweller who most certainly understands Stonehenge frustrations: build the tunnel!), I appreciated it! Game looks good. I've played the death out of Cities: Skylines, Frostpunk and Banished now and it's either trying out the Tropico or Anno series next.
This video really made me chuckle. Top British comedy. More please!
I am England, didn't find this funny.
Great fun commentary you have here. Love the sarcasm❤️🌶❤️
Personally, I’d love to watch you play in sandbox just to see how you’d solve many of the little bothersome stuff that comes up through the different times. Keep up the good work.
this game is awesome but where is my campaign mode like Tropico 4
Why did you move near Salsbury if you didn't want to be near Stonehenge then thats the whole point of being there to keep visiting those rocks for the rest of your life!
I was surprised but happy to hear a woman reviewer on UA-cam. And I found the review very informative and also fun at times. Great work! 😃
when you have a lot of money in tropico 6 here come the rebellion
I'm not even a gamer, but this video was very entertaining. Cheers.
LFE.
The review content and script are great, but if there's any way to make it sound less like you're reading it, it would really help IMO.
Much better than IGN's review.
Probably the worst thing about Tropico 6 is the massive lag issues. Playing on a 1080 Ti with a population of ~4k, I don't appreciate the stutter or freezes for seconds at a time. I've not seen this on any other game (although I don't play many).
Well the high population is dependent on your CPU, not your GPU. If you have a 1080 Ti and an old ass i5 you can play Counter Strike, but good luck with any calculation heavy game like a city builder or grand strategy.
@@TheSpecialJ11I play on a 6950X. It may be old but... It's just a badly optimised game and overpriced.
I'm Senator Richard Nixon and I'm not a crook. I always love Alice reviews she's always sell me every games she review.
Better review than IGN
I still play trópico 4 I found the best build is oil tycoon, you have a slow start but by the fifth year you rake in millions. Once you have enough funds and oil refinares you have customs drop import prices add it up with lowered commodities prices or oil price drops. Hold products wait until low is over put customs to increase prices and use promote tropical products edict and you’ll have between 5 million to 20 million easily from your holds. This could take just a year between drop and rise.
Love the British accent haha
Love the review, way to go!
Call Apple, you should definitely be the new Siri.
as a big tropico 5 fan deciding, best reviews out of all i’ve watch. little nit bits all necessary for me to made my decisions
your voice pierces like a thousand swords
Britain: "The things we do to impress the bigger kids eh?"
Nobody:
Nice commentary ✌🏻
Yeah it suffers from the exact same problem as the last, apart from that it's pretty great.
Its a shame this game is so annoying with all the popups every 20 seconds, tried hard to like it, 4 was great, lets hope if they make a 7 it will be better =)
Luis Guzman cameo @5:30
Sarcasm in review, awesome
I wouldn’t complain too much about RPS, you could be forced to called some weird dude Papa Castle
😭 Still getting over it.
i wasnt really gonna watch the whole video but you are strangely enternaining......also i blame the accent.
Being a small island nation with strategic resources more or less always results in having very agressive neighbours communicating in a passive agressive way.
i got tropico 6 and cities skyline but , i know its different meta game to compare but i must say enjoy skyline more
"... there's little sense of the world beyond your little corner of the ocean."
Yeah, it's not like you're an island or something 🙄
I tried to go for a super industrial Dictator with a military police force.. Little did I know you can just BUY reputation..Now everyone loves me, even though I tried to be evil and made millions..
Hmm.. Environmentalist and in debt.. This review is too realistic!
But to be serious, the political aspect of managing not only population and economy, but also outside forces and internal pressure, is exactly why many like Tropico, it offers something the rest of the building/management genre does not.
I don’t know how to expand to other islands in tropico 6 multiplayer please help me and tell me
Might wait to buy, seems like they're release DLC then charge 2.99 for 1 building
@@TheJester39 they have, look it up. Tropico 4 and tropico 5 have dlc where theres 1 new building and a mission
@@TheJester39 I guess your the only fool who supports microtransactions. Guess your the reason that model continues. But wait, theres more: your lack of Tropico knowledge shows that u r a newb who rather spend his wage on a single building created in 30 minutes by a Kalypso intern...
Squirrel woman
This is actually a well informed video, you've got a new subscriber!
Great Review
Police station in the middle of nowhere and no unlocked trade routes... it's no wonder you're doing bad! :p
The United kingdoms of Tropico!
Only edict....
Wealth tax
That’s why you had debt.
Tropico 1 is still my favorite
So this vs tropico 5? Which sould I get?
Didn't rly enjoy the 6... but the 1 and 5th kept me busy for a looooong time!
Can I build nukes and get the western world to fear me?
Hungry Guy I think you can actually build nukes
I think it’s just to scare the Caribbean neighbors but you might be able to get the western world too
You can do it in 4 and 5 so I think you could in this as well. When built, them superpowers actually stop sending army as long as your Nuke base is powered and functional.
This game only has sandbox. It only has one difficulty above normal and that is still a walk in the park. :(
Tropico 6 is one of the most frustrating games I've ever played.
You live in Salisbury? .... Are you a druid?
I love this game it’s very fun but the road system sucks
It's disappointing to hear that the same nonsense issues from 5 are in 6.... If you like to be consistently frustrated when gaming then that's fine, but i don't and many RTS games are plagued with these "bugs" that stop me from investing time and money into them, which is a huge bummer because RTS is my favorite genre.
old town road lil nas x lyrics
Literally no one everybody loves environmentalist literally everyone comrade communism is good we even allowed cake
Salisbury is boring though Haha
It´s not an old rock. It´s an alien beacon. Everyone knows that....come on
Yeah. There's tooo much to keep up with
R.I.P Generals and factions. This game BLOOOOWS.
fokin tropico 5 remaster
Had to drop playback speed to .75 - @ reg speed I couldn't understand what this broad was yappin' on about.
Please do a video on Workers and Resources: Soviet Republics.
That series desperately need moding capabilitys...
Who do you think your audience is? We're not tweens..
Can’t wait for this to come to Xbox one, I’m gonna side with the Nazis in the World Wars ahHahaha
DO NOT BUY IT IS BUGGY AS HELL
No comment on the Ireland map? Whack bro
Dude why are you talking so fast? Take a breath once in a while.
13 mins of stating the bloody obvious
Really cool to here a female reviewing a computer game for a change. Yes can't do worse than British Politics at this point in time. :)
Lol this game is laughable compared to tropico 5. Pathetic.
My potato can runs 4 and 5 fine but I got ctd with 6. What features am I missing from it?
Honestly that's also the picture that I'm getting. Loved the 5th Tropico, but I've been holing off on this one cause it seems to be working on a much smaller scale, which is a step in the totally wrong direction if you ask me.
@@RichterBelmont2235 nothing really... a great comparison would be civilisation. Tropico 5 is civilisation 5. And tropico 6 feels like civilisation revolution. Its dull and ruins the series.
@@nicknic28292490 biggest waste of my money. So disappointed this is where an amazing series has ended up. But they all die eventually. Tropico... You've been amazing. R.I.P
@@acca9169 :( .. Well at least we did get Tropico 5 out of the whole deal. Thanks for the info btw.
I wanna see what she looks like. Lol.
I played this game for 60 hours and then get bored and never touch it again,
Every map? Did you really mastered the game? Huh
that is true for all games .. after 60 hrs the boredom sets in
@@CrossriderBankai23 i played when it was beta, only 2-4 map atm,
DON'T BUY IT, it doesn't let you delete a single tile of road, you have
to delete the whole line of road, and after that, it doesn't let you
re-lay the road on the same line!
First
It's not a race.
To the Gulag
Congratulations, your certificate is in the post.
Woohoo, certificate! Today is great indeed.
@@MMc1992 The package has been franked. If you understand, say and do nothing whatsoever. (One of the lines from the game.)