Tropico 6 News

One of my favourite city-building games of the past decade has to be Tropico. As the newly 'elected' despot of an insignificant banana republic, it's your job to secure your island's (and your own) fortune by any means necessary. It's quite compact versus something like Cities: Skylines, but it also has oodles of atmosphere and a banging soundtrack to boot.

The series celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and to kick off the celebrations publisher Kalypso is offering the entire series - including current iteration Tropico 6 - at some respectable discounts. There's a special event running for the sixth game where you can earn free cosmetic prizes, such as a 'golden palace' skin for the capitol building.

The first Tropico game was released in 2001, developed by PopTop Software. It wasn't until Kalypso acquired the license and recruited Haemimont Games that the series really fell into its stride with Tropico 3 and Tropico 4. Haemimont would work on one final entry in Tropico 5 before moving on to create Surviving Mars with Paradox Interactive. Tropico 5 is notable because it was the first time the series was able to break away from its traditional formula and try out new ideas.

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• [PS4/PS5] Fixed stuttering issue when building roads
  
• Prevent Flophouse to be buildable in mission Shacklands as intended by the mission’s design
  
• Fixed an issue which prevented enabling DLC content in regular missions when using a controller
  
• [Carribbean Skies] Fixed missing Battery Plant research
  
• Fixed a couple issues that resulted in crashes

• Added new building “Manure Spreader” (Counters soil degradation for ranches and plantations in the proximity)
  
  
• Ranches can now produce manure for the manure spreader
  
  
• Added new residential building "Flophouse" to provide housing for the poor
  (available in the World War Era)
  
  
• Added 3 new multiplayer maps:
  
  • Archipiélago Rucio (4-Player)
    
    
  • Islas De Goma De Mascar (3-Player)
    
    
  • Islas Rocosas (2-Player)

• Multiplayer games now support autosaves
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Once selected, the Cargo Airport now displays all configured routes.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] The Cargo Airport now displays a warning when a transportation loop has been configured.

• Gaining achievements for completed maps has been improved and is more reliable now.
  
  
• Fixed an issue that led to corrupted save games if the player destroyed a pharmaceutical company in the work mode “powerful placebos”.
  
  
• Fixed an issue where banks would not generate the calculated income in the work mode "private banking".
  
  
• Fixed an issue where the market manipulation raid in the cyber operations center was not working correctly if the player had built a pirate cove as well.
  
  
• Fixed an issue where fish farms would display "fish" as their produced good after loading a save game, even though they were producing "shellfish".
  
  
• Fixed an issue where destroyed tunnels could not be rebuilt – tunnels can no longer be damaged, but they can still be destroyed.
  
  
• Fixed a misleading rescindable date in the almanac after winning an election.
  
  
• After issuing the Martial Law edict, an incorrect election date was shown in the almanac. The election date has been fixed.
  
  
• Fixed effects of last election speech being applied for subsequent elections when explicitly choosing to hold early elections.
  
  
• Fixed a palace configuration that prevented roads to be built near the palace
  
  
• Fixed roads that could not be demolished in pause mode if built on top of previously demolished buildings.
  
  
• [Multiplayer] Fixed an issue in which players were unable to delete tunnels.
  
  
• [Multiplayer] After relocating buildings within multiplayer sessions, the in-game UI will now stay in its correct position.
  
  
• [Multiplayer] [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue where Cargo Airports could be used to steal goods from other players.
  
  
• [Multiplayer] [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue where Cargo Airports changed names after loading a save game.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue where the Fertilizer bomb could not be used when the player is in debt.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Fixed several graphical and placement glitches.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Drone to Home Delivery Zeppelins now offer more time to load goods before leaving the station.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue where modernizing ranches set drone routes to inactive.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue where the visual S.P.E.A.K.E.R. progress could be lost.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Mission: Preventing Armageddon: To prevent blockers in the quest “Needle in a Haystack,” players are now asked if they already have a Cyber Operations Center or other building before one gets built.
  
  
• [Caribbean Skies] The quest "Asteroid Defence" can now be replayed, allowing the player to increase the time before the asteroid arrives.
  
  
• Fixed several crashes.
  
  
• Fixed a couple of localization & text display issues.

• Fixed an issue where teamsters would occasionally stop to support buildings
  
• [Caribbean Skies] [Multiplayer] Fixed an issue where the add-on content wasn’t functioning properly for all players if it wasn’t owned by all players
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue where teamsters would transport goods in an infinite loop between the Dock and Cargo Airport
  
• [Caribbean Skies] Fixed an issue wherein the Cargo Airport catching fire then being extinguished would render the building inoperable
  
• [Caribbean Skies] [Mission 3] Scientists’ houses now indicate the need for a road connection
  
• Fixed an issue where the X button could no longer be used to construct multiple buildings after any changes were applied in the Options menu
  
• Increased the range of Middle East demands to match the respective area of influence
  
• Added ability for Snorkel Bays to be duplicated
  
• Fixed an issue with Mine relocation
  
• Fixed a couple of crashes
  
• Fixed floating objects and unbuildable ramps in the Sandbox maps ‘Lirio Dorado’ and ‘Dos Viejos Amigos’