Questions tagged [tropico-3]
Tropico 3 is a city-building game set in the Caribbean during the second half of the 20th century, with a heavy politcial and semi-historical component.
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How do bonuses such as "+20% production" affect factories?
When upgrading buildings or customizing El Presidente, you are offered a couple of options that affect production by a certain percentage, for example +20% Production. You know that you will somehow ...
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How do I remove elections?
In Tropico 3, how do I remove elections? A major demand for the Loyalists is to remove elections to get them to vote for me.
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What's the lifecycle of a Tropico citizen?
Here's a simple question that I just have not been able to eyeball - What's the life-cycle of a citizen in Tropico? As in:
At what age are they babies?
At what age are they children (and does a grade ...
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Is there something weird about the Cannery?
The Cannery building is unique in Tropico 3 in that it can take several different kinds of raw material - fish, coffee and pineapple. I've always assumed that it accepts all of those, all of the time, ...
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Is all raw product always moved to an industry building?
In Tropico, let's say I have a number of tobacco farms, happily exporting tobacco. Then I build a cigar factory. At this point my teamsters start moving tobacco to the cigar factory, instead of the ...
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What is special about the "Steam Special Edition" of Tropico 3 and 4?
The latest Humble Weekly sale features games from Kalypso Media, amongst them Tropico 3 and 4, marked as "Steam Special Edition" on the sales page
What's so special about the Steam Special Edition ...
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How can one tell if more teamsters are needed?
How does one know if one's island is being sufficiently serviced by teamsters?
Right now, I typically build a new one when developing a new area, or when I see some obvious problem like lower than ...
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How do restaurants and markets differ in their functions and benefits?
It seems that both the restaurant and the market are used by Tropicans to satisfy their "food" needs. Since the restaurant has the added convenience of also satisfying the "...
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Will educated Tropicans take jobs requiring lower or no educational qualifications?
In Tropico 1, I remember that educated Tropicans will occasionally take jobs requiring lower qualifications if they either can't find a job that needs their educational qualifications, or if the job ...
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Why are some happiness motives starred?
When watching at people happiness motives I can see that some of them are starred. At first I thought they just had an higher weight when calculating the overall happiness but it seems it's not the ...
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What is a good general avatar build for Tropico 3? [closed]
What is a good build for most situations in Tropico 3? I don't want to tweak my avatar for every map.
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Tropico 3 starting build order?
What's a good starting build order for a Tropico 3 Sandbox game?
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Strategy to ensure educated workers in Tropico 3?
In Tropico 3 its important to have a workforce of high school and sometime college educated workers. How can I build up my educated workforce, and ensure that I have a steady stream of new ones to ...
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What is the money bag icon in Tropico 3?
What does the black money bag icon that rotates over buildings in Tropico 3 mean?
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Tropico 3 on Steam - need a activation code?
I just bought and downloaded Tropico 3 on Steam. It's now asking me for an activation code. Is this a bug? If not where can I find my code?
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