
20+ point swings in your favor are definitely possible. With some combination of these, it should be possible to salvage all but the most desperate of elections without recourse to Martial Law, even if you only have a couple of months until the election. If you're lucky(?) enough to get protests during an election year, maybe they'll give you an easily-completed mission for bonus approval. Well targeted bribes can also be much cheaper than a Tax Cut, especially on larger islands.Ĥ) Missions. Bribing Faction leaders of the larger factions gives a 10 point boost in approval with that faction, which may make a difference. In my experience, it can give you about a 10 point boost in the polls.ģ) Bribery. Also, particular edicts can provide a quick boost to various happiness scores (Extra Rations / GMO Crops / Sensitivity Training / etc.) Of course, Tax Cut is the big one here, especially if only Wealthy Citizens have suffrage. Hard to get as much mileage out of these, but if you're targeting a particular faction, it can help.
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The most powerful/dangerous one is Voting Rights restricting the suffrage may help you, while extending it may make your problem even worse even if some factions like it.įor you min-maxers, see for a full list of modifiers.Ģ) Edicts. Switching to Workers Paradise will boost most factions' approval and give a massive boost to Job Happiness at the same time. Plutocracy is almost universally bad for your approval. Ditching Theocracy in Modern Times is almost always a good idea (unless you're relying on it as ersatz police, which you shouldn't be at that point). Furthermore, additional policies aren't zero-sum. Obviously, a lot of decisions are going to please one faction and piss off another, so favor your larger factions (and remember there's no benefit in going over 100% approval and no additional harm in going below 0%). So, what can be done in a short timespan?Īmend your Constitution. Obviously improving your island as a whole will help, but if there's an imminent election there's only so much you can do in a year. This also involves executing goals.but if you do too many for one side.you might be facing an invasion.Faction approval plays a huge role in this, so whatever you can do on that front can reap huge rewards. The game was developed by Haemimont Games and published by Kalypso Media.Like the first and third games in the series, it centers on a customizable main character titled 'El Presidente' the ruler who runs the island banana republic.


If that is not enough, you will have to deal with the fluctuating international community (depending on the era-axis and allies during the world wars, USSR and USA in the Cold War era, etc.). Tropico 4 is a city management and political manipulation game. And you better hope you kept your military happy, or that rebellion could get ugly for your character really fast. I mean sure, you could rig the election.but then you might have to deal with protests, strikes, or outright rebellion. Generally this means that you will occasionally get little 'goals' in game to build a building, or export a certain amount of something.do not please enough people? You might lose that election and it becomes game over. You are running a democracy? Get ready for elections, and having to worry about keeping Industrialists, Capitalists, Communists, Militarists, Environmentalists etc.

Politics, both local and international, matterĪs Presidente (because really, mayor is for cities, you are the leader of a banana republic afterall), you have to deal with factions within the population of your country, which will change over time. Plus, if there's one thing to know about Tropicans, it is that they are really much happier if they are building something close to their office.ĭo not have enough housing? Shanty-towns of shacks start showing up in clusters.and those Tropicans are not going to like you very much come election time. What I have always liked about Tropico city building is the fact that you never completely control everything that is going on you need construction workers, and those construction workers build everything on your island (unless you want to pay double), so you have to prioritize. Which is dictated by their education level, which you can affect (in a small way) by building educational buildings like colleges.

Choosing between a 'country house' and 'house' has a real difference, rather than just aesthetics-there is a class/wealth system in the game and what a little islander can afford is dictated by what they earn at their job. While you are never building a booming mega-city like you could in the older Sim City titles, the city building in Tropico 5 remains strong while you will never have the most diverse looking city, you are given clear and different choices on what kinds of buildings to build.
