Which Tropico is best? I've played 3 and 5 only.

Either 4, which is essentially 3 with more gameplay, or 2 if you're into the idea of building a pirate island and being a pirate king.

>>2053933 (OP)
4 definitely. While it is very similar to 3, it has a full fledged story mode/campaign which is really well written and fun. It's like 5's except the structure is much better and you build a new island each mission which keeps you playing the fun initial part of the game.

While 4 is objectively the best in the series, I enjoy playing 1 the most.

>>2053972
respectable

>>2053972
Same, based take. Also the soundtrack is perfect for it. Intro in 1 was never topped.
https://youtu.be/EJ2rw1bDZBs

>>2053933 (OP)
1 is the best, two has the best soundtrack, 3 has the best radios, 4 is better 3 but too much modern shit, 5 is weird and you either love it or hate it and 6 is 4.2 with some very questionable mechanics and (even more) forced memes.

Pirate cove is low key extremely based.

>>2055092
Besides the obvious porn games, I don't remember any other game letting you to force women into sex slavery.

4 is literally 3 with like 50% more content, 5 had neat ideas but it was too streamlined for my tastes and I can only imagine it's gotten worse since then

4 is best, but I'm ashamed to admit I also like 6.

Speaking of Tropico 6, are any of the DLC worth it when they go on sale. I enjoy 6 but never really looked into the DLC.

>>2053936
I agree that 4 is an improvement over 3 but I kinda think that 4 graphics is a downgrade to 3.

Speaking of Tropico, how the fuck do I get a stable economy on 6? I tried to use same tactics from the previous three titles (creating mines and farms with raw export goods for early game funding before building factories) but my earning is always on negative

>>2055611
for me, it's the Caribbean Skies

>>2055611
I like all of the dlcs but they're all overpriced. Llama is required for unlocking the full market gameplay. If you want to make the game harder pirate going viral or lobbyistico are it. Otherwise the 2 latest dlcs are just good and add a lot of new mechanics that integrate well into the base game. The rest are one-off gimmicks and a bunch of buildings.

I played hundreds, maybe even thousands, of hours in both 4 and 5, but I still struggle to achieve a working and consistent ecomomy in 6.
I don't know what I do wrong, I already know that workers should have houses, services and food as close to their workplaces as possible, free public transportation and all that stuff.

2

>>2055661
>how the fuck do I get a stable economy on 6?
By building a fuck ton of offices and banks

>>2053933 (OP)
4 is literally fully patched 3 with bunch of QoL improvements.
Original with pathfinding mod is also good. You see, the reason why the game was "hard" wasn't actual difficulty, it came right down from absolutely fucking dogshit pathfinding of your citizens, who can't pick the best routes, because the code is half-finished

>>2055212
Only thing I didn't like about it was the lack of a late game challenge

>>2056111
2 would be good if you could kidnap more than one specialist at a time. Otherwise, the game is a fucking chore.

>>2056334
The game is a chore anyway
All the downsides of T1
None of its advantages
Virtually zero integration of the new mechanics into a game
Fucking urban sprawl over tropical pirate haven

>>2055661
>my earning is always on negative
>in 6
First you should visit the nearest medical facility and ask for a full CAT and MRE scan. This level of incompetence is likely indicative of severe brain damage. You can sustain your entire economy with goddamn car toll gates or jails if nothing else. Literally everything prints money even on "hard" economy you dumbass.

Tropico 4 is the best.

Also, how is Captains of Industry? Been looking for a good economy tycoon game for a while.

>>2056706
Keep looking bro. COI starts alright but the fun you're expecting never comes. Have you played Capitalism (with labs)?

>>2055661
Agriculture isn't profitable in T6, mostly due to soil erosion effects. Have some plantations to diversify your economy/food availablity, but you want raw resources: Logging/Timber/boats
>all available by World Wars
>employs uneducated/high school in factory (only a handfull, can import if needed)
>doesn't require power
>relatively low polluting, wont offend hippies in cold war as much as mining
>trees regrow as long as you keep enough space between camps/buy the replanting upgrades/stay on the default workmode, meaning your only limit is land
>can branch off into furniture, or use aluminum inputs as well
It's only complication is that it's a 3 step production line and you need water access to build the factory, but, if you get 3 of them with the half-cost Industiralization edict, they'll pay for themselves within 3 years

>>2055611
Going Viral makes it impossible to play a comfy long Colonial era game, since you can't get rid of the virus and will eventually hit a malthusian limit of teamsters being too sick to transport anything

>>2057125
>Agriculture isn't profitable in T6
That's garbage. You don't have to run with the mode that kills fertility and depending on the map you can make a shit ton of money from cashcrops either raw with a good trade deal or with their refinement like rum, cigars or cans. As long as you make gorillion + 1 teamster to handle the output that is.

Is Tropico2 still hated for daring to be different?

>>2062862
Tropico2 is older than most zoom zooms browsing this shithole

>>2053936
>>2053938
>>2053972
same. 4 is the best, its like 3 with a bit more polish. 3 is still really good.

>>2063191
I really don't think your going to get a better Tropico game than Tropico 4, there just isn't much room for improvement unless you scrap the whole design and do something completely different.

>>2063203
>>2063191
4 has way too much modern shit

>>2063325
It really doesn't.
You just installed "Modern Times" DLC.

>>2062862
It is hated for being bad, not different.
It's 20 years and I still have love-hate relationship with that game. I absolutely love its concept and certain mechanics. I absolutely hate how the game actually plays, what sort of retarded logic is behind most of its mechanics, how said mechanics work in practice and don't get me started on how underwhelming it is in the end of the day as a pirate game.
It is still the closest thing to the bit that majority of pirate-themed games lack and that's pirate haven management. I'm actually surprised people from Akella didn't try to copy Tropico 2 into their pirate games
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>>2057125
>Agriculture isn't profitable in T6, mostly due to soil erosion effects
Soil erosion was a thing in every single fucking Tropico game. And 6 is absolutely casual to the shitfest that was original, where you had also rainfall to account for, which was EVER-changing. And in original, planting coffee and pineapple was still the winning strategy, even without procesing buildings to turn them into uber-selling goods.

>>2056706
>how is Captains of Industry
All the worst aspects of Tropico 1 (yes, the first one), Factorio and Industry Giant 2 without any advantages or good aspects of either of those game. It's like a wishlist of all the bad, tedious and boring elements from those three. On top of that, it runs like ass due to being written in spaghetti.

>>2063340
>close your eyes and pretend it doesn't exist
Interesting. But I do like 6 more than 4 if only because buses exist.

>>2063346
>tropico 1
>farmer + moscow u
Oh yeah

>>2063353
>Optional DLC is optional
>REEEEEEEEE!
Nigger, you literally don't have to install it. Unless you are brain-damaged by PDX games, there is no reason to insist all DLCs should be installed at all time

>>2063343
>Akella games having management aspect
Stop it, I can only get this hard

>>2063356
What's with the edgefaggotry? Someone built a shack in your tourist area or something?

>make housing and healthcare free
>pay high salaries
>make entertainment expensive enough to recoup your losses
>hire foreigners into your military
Wa la, banana republic of choice

>>2063354
Smoked beef is back on the menu lads!

>>2063346
Tropico 6 also has not one but two separate ways to boost specific goods price and that's in addition to certain edits and trade deals. I had basic ass corn go for 50k base price units at one point.

Today I randomly learned that Tropico 7 is being worked on since at least a few years, apparently

>>2053933 (OP)
3.
You've played the best one already. Nothing else to see here.

>>2063203
There is a lot you could improve on. They could actually improve the city management and traffic parts instead of what they are doing now trying to make it some RTS game.

>>2063353
>But I do like 6 more than 4 if only because buses exist.
Buses in 6 are garbage. Who thought a single pickup and dropoff spot was a good idea?

>>2073988
How so? They're great for tourists, mines or farm clusters. Help avoid that traffic congestion and take a lot of pressure from your metros, if those are even available at that point.

>>2074037
Because your housing blocks are usually bigger and Tropicans have diverse work so you pretty much have to make multiple giant bus stations for everything.

>>2074037
--->this. >>2074200

>>2074200
Don't know what to tell you anon. I don't build super housing blocks and these really do help to decongest main roads. Alternative with mass garages and god forbid free wheels means they both fuck off half way across the island for some 5 points higher service and LA rush-hour traffic jams. Second use is definitely for isolated mines you don't want to build a whole city for or mass tourist transit.

Which do you think is better. Return to Nature or Tropican shores.

>>2074349
It's just not as fleshed out as it should be. Tropico is really more of a tycoon game than a city builder and because of that certain things like transportation has always been ass as to not go to hard on the city management part.

>>2055212
DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE FORGOTTEN, SUBCREATURE?

>>2078581
You could make a soVLjak out of this

>>2053933 (OP)
Tropico 4 with merged music from Tropico 3, that's how i used to play it

>>2078581
Damn, I had these laying around all this time

>>2081112
T6 music is really good. I wish it had more lyrics in the songs.

>>2082722
Say what you want but I played more games with t2 ost in the back than actual t2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-LHNtWeoi4

What's your favorite industry to go with? I love the cannery. Shits so fucking versatile and basic but the money you can make is insane.