Tropico 6 News

Fellow Tropicans!
Today, the glorious leader of our proud nation declared the MacOS version of the game to be officially released.

To celebrate the launch, Tropico 6 is available to purchase at its lowest price to date, with a 20% discount available until 9th July.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/492720/Tropico_6/

The Tropican Ministry of Accurate Information would like to inform everyone that no Llamas were harmed in the process.
Viva El Presidente! Viva Tropico!

Changelog

• The Mac version of Tropico 6 has been officially released.
  
  • MacOS Beta-Branch players simply opt-out of the branch to get the full version.

Fellow Tropicans!
The update we are releasing today for Tropico 6 features many bug fixes, improvements and much more. We’re addressing a lot of issues raised by community feedback – so much so, that we have received that we gave it the name “El Gigante"

Over 300 changes were made to the game, covering balancing adjustments and many bug and crash fixes.

We hope you enjoy the update. Thank you for your continued support.


Vote El Presidente! Viva Tropico!

• Tourist accommodations will now generate profits in a similar way like residential buildings. This will overall increase profits generated from having tourists on Tropico.
  
• Meteor Shower disaster: Reduced the negative effect when chosing the option to deny refugees.
  
• Reduced efficiency from the “Pollination Parcel” upgrade of Hydroponic Plantations.
  
• Made the Ancient Ruins cheaper and buffed all work modes to make it a more efficient and desirable building.
  
• Reduced the upkeep of TV Stations.
  
• Adjusted the income generated by media buildings set to special work modes.
  
• “Lose Load Limit” work mode in the Teamster’s Office can now lose up to 10% of the cargo.
  
• Made balancing changes to the work modes of the Childhood Museum:
  
  • Reduced the impact on faction standing and superpower relations.
    
  • Reduced impact on the efficiency of other buildings.
    
  • Increased impact on the efficiency of High Schools and Colleges.
    
• Raised the adult age threshold for Tropicans in World Wars to 18 years.
  
• Pollution now reduces the beauty of an area slightly less.
  
• Increased radius of the Teleferic Upgrade “Audio Tour Guide”.
  
• If residential buildings are located in areas with high pollution levels, Tropicans resting there will now get a penalty to their healthcare happiness.
  
• Expelling a superpower from an Embassy will not have an effect on the superpower standing.
  
• Inviting/Expelling a superpower now has a cooldown.
  

• Electric Substations will now display their effect radius.
  
• Added a missing effect radius for Hydroponic Plantations with the “Pollination Parcel” upgrade.
  
• The Fun Quality overlay shows correct values for tourist accommodations now.
  
• The vicinity radius for an Embassy will now be shown to the player, when clicking on the building. This should make demands easier that ask players to construct a specific building near an Embassy.
  
• The Palace, Aircraft Carrier, Guard Tower and Watch Tower now display a value for their military strength.
  
• Looped raids now properly appear in the raid queue.
  

• Fixed the average happiness of Tropicans not getting updated correctly after loading a savegame. This caused differences in the Approval/Support ratings after loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed a demand by the Conservatives that required players to research “Contraception Ban” and level up “Good old Days”.
  
• Fixed a bug that lead to Offshore Offices still producing a profit even if the superpower had been expelled.
  
• The pirate outfit for El Presidente will get unlocked correctly now.
  
• The “Multi Culture” work mode of plantations now also gets correctly applied to pre-built plantations.
  
• “Advanced Boat Services” now also correctly influences the speed of freighters.
  
• Fixed a rare issue that caused quests to appear twice.
  
• Fixed protests disappearing too quickly.
  
• Residential buildings now properly show the budget modifier for housing quality on the efficiency tab.
  
• The “Light Bulb Ban” Edict now correctly displays its activation cost.
  
• Fixed the housing quality of Conventillos getting reset after loading a savegame.
  
• Upgrading Guard Towers now counts towards quests progress for a Militarists demand asking to have a certain number of Watch Towers.
  
• Fixed Tropicans and Tourists getting stuck at an Airport with a Metro upgrade.
  
• Fixed Tropicans getting stuck at a Metro.
  
• Tropicans will no longer wait at a Bus Stop if the Bus Garage was destroyed.
  
• Soil degradation will now correctly affect the efficiency of Ranches.
  
• Soil degradation will now correctly reduce the efficiency of Plantations over time.
  
• The “Way of the Red Pill” work mode of the Asylum works correctly now.
  
• The crime safety bonus for religious buildings gained by the “Theocracy” constitution option now works correctly.
  
• Fixed pathfinding issues that were caused by the Teleferic Station.
  
• Fixed Tropicans getting stuck after loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed empty shacks popping up.
  
• Freighters will no longer arrive at Docks without workers.
  
• Almanac: Home slots are now counted correctly as the number of available households and not only as available buildings.
  
• Almanac: Fixed Tropicans that have a home being listed as “homeless”.
  
• Almanac: Fixed prisoners being listed as “homeless”.
  
• Almanac: Tourist Rating modifiers are now displayed correctly.
  
• Oil deposits on the sea will now only be shown on the overlay from Cold War onwards.
  
• Fixed the “Fracking Posts” upgrade from Oil Wells.
  
• Fixed construction worker walking on water.
  
• Workers of Coconuts Harvesters and Logging Camps will not continue to work and waste resources if the building’s outstock is full.
  
• Fixed the collision boxes for the Airport and the Factory Ranch.
  
• Fixed the constitution option “Energy Efficiency” not applying the correct decrease in energy consumption.
  
• The propaganda effects of multiple media buildings of the same type will no longer accumulate.
  
• Fixed issues with the Waste Treatment Plant and the Garbage Dump.
  
• Fixed building not getting highlighted correctly when they are inside of another building’s vicinity radius.
  
• Fixed the constitution option “State Controlled Media” not working correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue that caused the game to not apply the correct fullscreen resolution.
  
• Fixed visual artefacts on the ocean that could appear when loading a savegame from a drought or an active Nuclear Testing edict.
  
• Fixed Tropicans getting stuck after a bridge was demolished.
  
• Fixed issues with the achievement “Knight to Little Duck”.
  
• Fixed an issue in Battle Royal mission that caused newsfeed messages of destroyed building to be displayed repeatedly.
  
• Military units will no longer be shown as “idle” during warfare.
  
• The budget of military buildings will now correctly affect the military strength of units.
  
• Fixed a potential progress blocker in the Bureaucrazy mission that prevented the “Electrify All” quest to get completed.
  
• Fixed a potential progress blocker in the Speakeasy mission that prevented Prisoners getting counted towards quest progress.
  
• Right-clicking on a completed task will no longer cause players to miss out on a reward.
  
• Repairing a World Wonder will no longer spawn the radio message.
  
• Fixed the “Urban Development” edict not expiring after loading a savegame.
  
• Fixed several visual issues for military units.
  
• Fixed several animation issues.
  
• Fixed several crashing issues.
  

• Added new variations for Parks and Squares.
  
• Added a new decoration object: Space Memorial.
  
• Added 4 new traits for El Presidente.
  
• Made improvements to the gamepad controls.
  
• The game now pauses gameplay and audio playback when minimized (except during multiplayer matches).
  
• Improved RMG landscape generation.
  

Fellow Tropicans!

We are happy to announce that the eagerly-anticipated save game function is here in the latest update for Tropico 6! Thank you for your patience and continued support.

We will continue working on Tropico 6 and further improve it with future updates, which will include more balancing, fixes and overall improvements.

We hope you enjoy Tropico 6!

• Implemented the functionality to create and load savegames in multiplayer.

Viva Tropico! Viva El Presidente!

Tropico for iPhone out now alongside updates for iPad version

Strategy gaming specialists Kalypso Media and developers Feral Interactive have today announced that Tropico, a full-featured premium port for iOS devices based on the classic PC release of Tropico 3, is available now on iPhone from the App Store.

Fully optimised for iPhone, Tropico features intuitive touch controls and an easy-to-navigate user interface that make it smooth and simple for players to lead their proud island nation into a glorious future, one tap at a time. It is also a universal app, meaning that players who have previously purchased the game on iPad will be able to install it on their iPhone at no additional cost, and transfer their save file.

A launch trailer for Tropico on iPhone is available to view below:
https://youtu.be/Mg2zKSkRjTk


The iPad version, released in December 2018, has also been updated today with numerous improvements and new features:

• El Presidente’s Watchlist: All citizens can now be tracked.
  
• UI Minimizing: Allows a clearer view of the island.
  
• Screenshot mode: UI can be hidden completely.
  
• New illustrations: Critical intel messages, including assassination attempts, feature new illustrations.

Information
Title: Tropico
Platform(s): iOS (iPhone, iPad)
Developer: Feral Interactive
Genre: City builder / dictator simulator
Release: Out now
Hashtag(s): #Tropico

Fellow Tropicans!

We are releasing a small update this week that is mostly intended to solve some crashing issues. However, the Tropican Department of Adequate Generosity also managed to add in a few gameplay fixes and improvements to round out the update and guarantee citizens’ satisfaction (or else).

Rest assured that we are still focused on working on the multiplayer savegames feature. In the past weeks since launch we have made good progress on it, but we will require a bit more time to have it ready to share with you. Thank you for your patience.

We hope you enjoy this update and have a very Tropican Easter holiday. Thank you for your ongoing support!

Viva Tropico! Viva El Presidente!

• Fixed Market Manipulation raids not spawning the intended trade routes.
  
• Fixed issues that caused the “Modernize” action for buildings to fail.
  
• Fixed invisible enemy units that could lead to neverending attacks.

• Removed the “Modernize All” button from upgrade tabs of some buildings, as it became redundant after we introduced the “Crtl+LMB” keybinding for the same action.
  
• Players can now also hold the Shift key to apply upgrades, budgets and workmodes to all buildings of the same type.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when signing the constitution.
  
• Fixed some rare gameplay-related crashes.
  
• Fixed several technical crashes.
  
• Fixed crashes for Multiplayer games.

Technical Issues:

• We are aware that some users who have Asus Aura drivers installed experience crashes either on startup or during gameplay.
  
  • We are working on tracking down what is causing these crashes and to offer a solution as soon as possible.
    
  • In the meantime, if you are experiencing crashes, please check if you have Asus Aura drivers installed and if uninstalling them solves the issues for you.
• The game can crash if players attempt to resize their window during a loading screen
  
• Linux: Random crashes on startup can occur
  
  • The achievement “Terraformer” does not unlock correctly
    
  • The achievement “Been there, Done That” does not unlock correctly

Presentation Issues:

• El Presidente can be shown walking sideways and there can be issues with election speeches, e.g. El Presidente facing in the wrong direction.
  
• Empty shacks can quickly appear and disappear on the map.

Gameplay Issues:

• RMG: Entering invalid Seeds or Share Codes can lead to flawed RMG maps.
  
• The pathfinding and spawning of rebels during Guerilla attacks can be flawed.
  
• Loading a savegame can lead to a change in the player’s support rating.
  
• Market Manipulation trade routes for import are more efficient than intended. This will be adjusted in a future patch.
  
• The metro upgrade for the airport causes Tropicans and tourists to get stuck.
  
  • Loading a savegame will solve the problem shortly. Therefore, we recommend to not purchase the upgrade and build a regular Metro Station instead.

Multiplayer:

• Raids are displayed in the overview tab for clients, even if they are completed.
  
• Clients can see the host’s palace construction info.
  
• 4-player matches are sometimes not as stable/well-performing as 2- and 3-player matches.