Tropico 4 is a city-building game set in the Caribbean during the second half of the 20th century, with a heavy political and semi-historical component and a healthy dose of Cold War stereotypes played for humor.
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How can I place the same building repeatedly?
I would like to place the same building multiple times. For apartments, this is enabled by default, but for other buildings, I have to go through the build menu again.
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What happens to resources stored in a building that I demolish?
When demolishing a building, what happens to the resources (input/output storage) inside? Are they lost? If not, are they transported to the docks? Further, do they somehow count towards export tasks?
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Does manually arresting criminals cause a drop in respect of their family?
I know that if I feel like arresting a random citizen just because I can, I will lose the respect of their family. This is fair enough.
However, if I manually issue an arrest action on a citizen ...
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Why are there four workers in a Supermarket, and what changes if I fire some of them?
In the Tropico 4 DLC Modern Times, you get a Supermarket: it's like a Marketplace in that it serves as a food-distribution point (so people don't have to hike out to the farms), but can store more ...
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How much more productive are Plantations than Farms?
The El Plantador DLC for Tropico 4 introduces a new building, the Plantation, that acts as a larger farm, for cash crops only. How much more productive is it? Does it produce more crops-per-worker, or ...
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Is the Bio Farm more productive than a regular farm, for a particular crop?
In the Modern Times DLC for Tropico 4, your regular Farms get replaced by Bio Farms. These Bio Farms have three work modes: corn, food crops, and cash crops. The latter two modes will grow multiple ...
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How to switch DLC in Tropico 4
I have just bought a couple of extensions for Tropico 4, but I don't understand how to switch from one to another. It seems I am stuck in Modern times. How can start Tropico 4 with El Plantador ...
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Is there any benefit to having a second commercial port?
I constructed a second commercial port to avoid traffic. Both ports are full of employees well paid. However, since the construction of the second port the merchant boats are getting no service any ...
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China aid to development edict
Señorita Piña is asking me to proclaim this edict to "get more men", but I can't find it. Only USSR and US development aid edicts are in the international relations pane. Any one know how to ...
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Can you still build the older buildings once you unlock the newer ones?
I'm playing sandbox mode in Tropico 4 with the modern times buildings enabled, and as time goes on I keep unlocking more of then.
My questions is once I unlock a certain building, such as the solar ...
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Does the size of a Garden make any difference to beauty?
When placing gardens, by using the [ or ] keys we can cycle through many different styles of gardens. Some are really tiny (about 1x1 tile or smaller), and other are large walled in parks that take up ...
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Positioning the garbage dump
When I select the garbage dump from the building menu, there's an overlay that shows the different levels of pollution in my city, but I'm not sure how far away from that I can place the dump and ...
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In the third mission of Modern Times I ran out of gold and have to export
In the third mission of the Modern Times campaign, I get the objective to export gold, yet, since my strategy always is start with boat loads of mines, I already mined ALL the gold on the island, so I ...
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How long does a criminal need to be detained before reforming?
In Tropico 4 I have arrested a number of criminals and my prison is full but there are still criminals on the lose. I'm wondering how long they have to stay in prison before becoming reformed members ...
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What distance counts as “nearby”?
Certain buildings are described as having a positive effect on certain types of "nearby" buildings -- such as a Fire Station in "Cat-in-tree" mode improving housing quality, or the Salt Mine improving ...
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How to find buildings damaged by disaster?
Playing Tropico 4 I experienced a tornado and four of my buildings were damaged. I found three just by hunting around, but could not find a fourth. Is there some way to list all damaged buildings, or ...
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What is the easiest way to find a Juanito in Tropico 4?
I would like to find a Juanito (someone named Juanito) in Tropico 4, what is the easiest way to do so?
I am trying to go through the list of all tropico born citizens, but it is just takes too long, ...
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How to speed up construction in Tropico 4?
It seems due to some logistic issues construction is very slow in tropico 4 (most of the time builders are idle with a long list of jobs). Is there any tips how to improve their productivity?
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Does the Minister of Defence participate in armed conflict?
When hiring a Minister of Defence, the chosen citizen retains the skin of a soldier/general including their gun. During armed conflict (uprising, coup or rebel attack) does the Defence Minister ...
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How to make tourism profitable in Tropico 4?
I'm trying to make a living off of tourism (I just want to try it) yet every time I do, the same thing happens. I start off small with 1 tourist dock, about 4 hotels and several attractions. I scale ...
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Tropico 4 : are garages as huge/unwieldy as they were in Tropico 3?
Despite doing my best with garage and traffic layout in Tropico 3, I very often hit the problem of insufficient space to place a garage in a place where it would have been useful. The garages were ...
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Which buildings utilize mined resources?
Can someone give a brief overview which resources can be processed into by which industry building?
I know for example that you can make jewels out of gold in the jewel factory, but what can you do ...
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Road blocked by stone arc?
In Tropico 4, Mission 5 there is a stone arc that leads to two mines (gold and iron).
Unfortunately I am unable to get there, because said arc seems to prevent any roads from being built underneath ...
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Placing mines and farms
In Tropico 4, when I select to construct a mine I get an overlay showing the location and density of ressources.
Do I build the mine right on top of that or rather beneath the ressource field?
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How do I find specific buildings in Tropico 4?
How can I find specific building on the map? For example I need to find all clinics. Is there better way than clicking on each doctor and looking up where he works?
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Environmentalists are annoying me, how can I silence them?
I haven't been very environment-friendly and now the environmentalists are on my heels. My reputation with them is very low, especially because I cut some trees and dug for gold.
What's the best way ...
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In Tropico 4, is there a way to tell a citizen where to live?
One occasionally irritating problem in Tropico 4 (and 3, looking back on it) is that there seems to be no way to control who goes to live in which home; more often than not it's first-come-first serve ...
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How do I identify criminals?
The "War on Crime" achievement in Tropico 4 instructs the player to arrest 10 criminals in a single mission. I figured there would be a list of criminals in the almanac, but no such luck. How do I ...
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What is a private building?
I've received an offer to purchase all of the private buildings on my island. Unfortunately, I have no idea what constitutes a private building, and just accepting the offer didn't seem to net me ...
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How do I upgrade my palace?
I have the "Palace Magnifique" task which requires me to purchase all palace upgrades. When I click on my palace, however, I see no upgrade button. How do I complete this task?
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How do I earn the Tornado Valley achievement in Tropico 4?
What is the easiest way to unlock the achievement Tornado Valley (Survive a tornado outbreak with no human causalities)? I always seem to have multiple buildings destroyed along with numerous citizen ...
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Is there a time limit to campaign levels?
So far I've always managed to complete the objectives for the campaign levels, and I know there are various conditions that trigger a loss (losing an election, coup, having your palace destroyed). ...
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How should I build my road network?
From what I understand, roads are only used between garages or buildings that have a parking entrance. Is there a benefit to connecting other buildings with roads? Can citizens get "dropped off" at ...
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What constitutes luxury goods?
I just received an objective stating to export 500 luxury goods. However, it didn't say which of the many things I'm exporting are luxury goods (apparently none).
What constitutes luxury goods?
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Where can I find the manual for a Steam install of Tropico 4? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where do I download the manuals for games I buy on Steam?
I'm one of those weird people that likes to read the manual for games to see if there are features that I'm ...
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Is it effective to have my opponent arrested?
Some pesky citizens have started talking about elections, and many of them have already declared their intent to vote for a specific citizen rather than me. Luckily, my prison still has some space ...
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How can I get rid of the mission voice-overs?
Since I read faster than the mission voice-overs can speak, I find my my eyes competing with my ears and end up getting annoyed as the game tries to read me my mission objectives.
I see that I can ...
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What happens when I connect Tropico 4 with my Facebook and Twitter accounts?
There's a setting in the options panel that allows me to connect my Facebook and Twitter accounts with the game. I assume this will allow you to post about your achievements in-game. Is this correct? ...
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Tropico 4: How do you level up character traits?
How are traits leveled up for the Competent, Specialist, and Expert achievements?
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Where do I mine salt?
I just told CEO Keith Preston that I would export salt to him. One problem though, there don't seem to be any salt deposits. Iron, Bauxite, Gold, but no salt. Do I just mine salt anywhere?
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What difference does it make who my ministers are?
After building a ministry, I'm allowed to pick who I want to take the various ministry positions. Each candidate has three attributes listed, with a ranking from terrible to excellent (or something ...
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How do I export goods if there's a factory consuming them?
I have a few missions that need me to export pineapples and fish, but I have a cannery that takes them in to produced canned food. How do I fulfill those requests?
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Do multiple construction offices speed up building time?
In Tropico 4, does having multiple construction offices improve building time?
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How do I control exports?
In the first scenario, I accepted an assignment from one of the factions to export some Tobacco. Everything I find and click gives me an option to import stuff, but how do I export? Is that managed ...
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What do these faction modifiers do?
I understand that depending on how satisfied a faction is with your rule, they will grant special benefits or penalties. However, I don't understand these:
What do these modifiers mean?
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What's the white grid thing in the upper-left?
I've only noticed it over my logging camp and police station, but it could be over others. I can't figure out what it means.
I haven't noticed it changing any, but I haven't paid much attention to ...
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What happens if I blame The Powers That Be?
Near the end of second scenario, "It's All Mine!", I tried to rescue those trapped by the earthquake with the Chinese drill, but the faulty drill blew up. Then I had to choose someone to blame for it. ...
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Why is there a sun above my building?
While playing Tropico 4, I'm noticing that my buildings will occassionally have a "sunburst" appear above them. I'm guessing this is a good thing, but what does it mean?
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Difference between the restaurant and the market
It seems that both the restaurant and the market are used by Tropicans to satisfy their 'food' desires. Since the restaurant has the added convenience of also satisfying the 'entertainment' desire, I ...
