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Contents

  • Essentials
    • Buildings
      • Housing
      • Welfare and Economy
      • Entertainment
      • Government
      • Education and Media
      • Food and Resources
      • Industry
      • Infrastructure
      • Tourism
      • Attractions
      • Luxuary Attractions
      • Landmarks and Beauty
    • Economics
      • The Economy
    • Politics
      • El Presidente
      • Foreign Relations
      • Political Factions
      • People
    • Gameplay
      • Game Modes
      • Achievements
  • Walkthrough
    • Chapters 1-10
      • Rise to Power
      • It's All Mine
      • Into the Spotlight
      • IMPORTant Business
      • Tropico Above All
      • Bickering Factions
      • Crysis
      • Survival
      • No-one Left Behind
      • Independence Day
    • Chapters 11-20
      • Fruity Business
      • The Olympic Heist
      • The Blind Revolution
      • To Bait Fish Withal
      • Best Served Cold
      • Operation Endgame
      • Forgiveness
      • The Clandestine War
      • Perestroika
      • Tropican Utopia

Tropico 4 Guide › Walkthrough › Chapters 1-10

No-one Left Behind

Nueva Esperanza is El Presidente’s next stop for vengeance. There are few people living there, but your plan is to attract as many citizens as possible to help drive the machine you need for vengeance money.

Caution

In El Presidente’s thirst for vengeance, he/she ignored the fact that you’re right next to a Volcano at the start. Don’t get caught blindsided, and have funds set aside for a rainy day (of fire and ash).

You start with only 30 citizens, so you will want to attract workers fairly quick, but things will improve fairly swiftly.

This Chapter will throw immigrants at you, so you’ll need to be prepared to keep a steady economy flowing, while also accomplishing the objectives AND providing housing for everyrone.

Tip

An Immigration Office is perfect to help stem the flow of immigrants that are not mission related.

Penultimo tells you that a group of mimes needs a Cabaret to practice in. For every year this is not done, one citizen will die. Yeaaaaaah, that’s not good.

You’ll get a whole load of arrivals on the island: All the mimes. There’s a nice boost to your workforce! This is unfortunately accompanied by a dip in the overall happiness on the island.

You simply don’t have all the housing available right away.

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Tip

Early cash crops you can start are Tobacco and Coffee. The best places for them are a way away from your starting location by the shore, so remember to get roads out to them.

Tip

There is a Iron mining location very close to where you start. Exploit this ASAP.

Lawyers are the next threat to the island, and they threaten to turn citizens into rebels. You can stave this off with a Grade School.

With that, your next task is to get a Llama Ranch running to export 500 units of Wool.

Once the Wool is delivered, you get word that Canada will be sending 30 undesirables your way. Their shoddy workmanship will ruin your commodity prices, so Penultimo suggests that a pair of Shopping Malls could help offset that.

While you are getting set to build your Shopping Malls, you’re asked by Penultimo if you want to boost your prices by sticking ‘Made in China’ on them. You can either upset your workers, or China with your decision.

A Llama Flu epidemic hits the island, which also prevents you from getting any more new immigrants (unless they are foreign specialists). The quarantine is eventually lifted.

With the Malls up and running, you get word that 50 starving artists are coming to the island. This upsets the military, and will continue to do so until you construct a Museum of Modern Art.

With the hipster trash of Tropico satisfied, now you have to contend with 50 dirty pirates. This objective is expensive to set up: You need a Tourist Dock, a Hotel, then you can call in the Luxury Liner.

With the Liner complete, Penultimo says you need to hire 10 doctors to pretty up the 40 disfigured circus rejects that are headed your way. By now, you should have a power grid, so two Hospitals and a Clinic can deal with this mission:

And now the final challenge: Have $1,000,000 in your treasury. At this stage of the game you might be hurting on the production side of your economy.

There are ample resources to mine across the island, but fortunately the money doesn’t need to come entirely from your own economy. Help from your immigrant friends also becomes available as Tasks.

The mimes want a Zoo to practice a play in. Don’t ask too many question.

After the play is practiced in the completed Zoo, you need to build an Airport to get the mimes to Broadway.

Once ‘Silence of the Llamas’ (there’s a theme I’m sensing here) is a smash hit in Broadway, you get $300,000!

The pirates you took in need 1000 Lumber to build a new ship and search for a new treasure. Another $300,000 in the bank!

The UN will finally ask you to have 15 Professors on the island. If you’ve been keeping up with your other responsibilities as a leader, this can be completed the moment you accept the Task. Another $300,000 is awarded to you.

Your economy should be strong enough at this point to more than provide the rest of the cash. If not, there is yet another opportunity to gain $200,000 for suing a foreign nation.

With these four opportunities, you should be more than capable of meeting the goal and closing out the chapter.

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