Unfortunately, this blew up in my face, as a unit of revolutionary soldiers - who were supposed to take up arms against the King - instead took up arms against me. After that Real Estate Tax, I desperately wanted to however, I decided that risking retaliation from him wasn't wise, and refused.

Ī further setback came when my citizens demanded that I insult the King. This was pretty painful - and, in the end, it took a bribe of $1,000 (from my personal Swiss bank account) to get them to stop charging me for my buildings every year. They began to levy a Real Estate tax: first at $50 per building, and then at $100 per building. Unfortunately, the Crown wasn't making it easy for me. Simple enough: there was plenty of good-quality land available to the north of my palace, which was prime territory for cattle ranches. At this point, I was up to the second one, where I had to make $10,000 in profit from exporting cattle. What I needed to do was to win three 'wagers' with him, receiving a reward for each one upon completion (and then, winning all three would trigger victory in the scenario). I'll need to sort that out!Ī few Country Houses later, and the shacks problem was solved :īy this point, the POTUS had visited my island, and I was aiming to win him over. Plenty of housing there - but most of it is very poor-quality. Unfortunately, this requirement for resource buildings, coupled with the large starting population, meant a large number of families had to make do with living in shacks : Since my starting goals were oriented towards export profits, I needed to harvest all the resources I could. Once I had set up my Library and some Llama Ranches (to produce Wool for my starting trade route), I had plenty of money left over for miscellaneous other plantations and ranches: Here's what I had after spending my starting cash. I also had a rather healthy $20,000 in starting cash: more than enough to get my colony off to a solid start. More immediately, I had 100 citizens to start with (a considerable improvement over the 70 that I had in the first scenario). First of all, I had two Iron resources (although I'd need to research Mining before I could use those). I'm still administering an island colony, owned by some king from a far-off country however, in this case, my main goal will be to win the friendship of the President of the United States of America.įortunately, I started with quite a bit more to work with than I had in the previous scenario. So, the second scenario is a little different from the first.

Tropico 5 insult the king