Despite your earlier successes, the UN doesn’t think much of El Presidente’s Caribbean banana republic. The new plan for world recognition is to top the list in six categories.
Penultimo gives you the first three to choose from at the start of the mission:
The World’s Largest Papaya
The World’s Largest Mustache on a Woman
The World’s Smelliest Goat Cheese.
The World’s Largest Papaya:
Choosing Papaya is not a bad start. Papayas can feed the people, always a good thing.
You start off with two farms that can be switched immediately to Papaya production, leaving you with two more you need to build with your own money. This leaves some money available to get a Clinic and a Tenement built.
The starting Shanties aren’t very good housing for your people.
Nothing is ever easy for Tropico. As soon as the farms are done, Brunhild Van Hoof informs you that war and bloodshed had temporarily suspended the hunt for the Largest Papaya. At least you have food, right?
Penultimo is not dissuaded. Your next objective is to have a Horticulture Station near all four of your Papaya farms. This prompts Van Hoof to raise building material costs by 50 percent.
This is an easy objective to accomplish if all of your farms are relatively close to each other, you can have a single station cover them all.
The World’s Largest Mustache on a Woman:
To accomplish this, you need to get overall happiness up to 55 percent. This will require better housing, as well as the usual needs satisfied.
This is a tougher objective than the Goat Cheese or the Papaya, and can take a bit longer to accomplish. To boost happiness to 55 early on, you ‘ll find that you will need lots of money. Coffee farms can help solve that.
When you manage to hit 55 happiness, Van Hoof claims you can’t win this record, as her daughter deserves it more. At least your people love you more than the rest of the world loves Van Hoof!
Penultimo is not deterred, and decides that the best way to beat her daughter is to shave off her mustache. This complex and dangerous operation requires 7 soldiers to Oscar Mike to the LZ and engage the HVT from BVR.
An Armory with one General and a Guard Station can solve this easily. As with other paths, Van Hoof will try to make this difficult by making buildings cost 50 percent more, but if you have a good economy, you can more than take the heat.
The World’s Smelliest Goat Cheese:
Compared to the the Mustache choice, this path is much easier. You start off needing to build 6 goat Ranches.Van Hoof says you can’t get away with this cheesy nonsense.
Penultimo’s response is of course to forge ahead. You need to get a Garbage Dump built near six of your goat Ranches. If you do, the price of Goat Cheese goes up by 100 percent!
Fortunately, nobody likes Van Hoof regardless of whatever path you choose, and you get $20,000 for standing against her. Van Hoof returns the building prices back to normal, but threatens to taunt you a second time.
You now have to achieve five other world records over the course of the chapter, and they should start appearing on the map as Task icons. Use some of that money you got to get a Church and a High School running, if you already haven’t.
Task icons begin to show up over your island, and this begins the second phase of the chapter.
Each major Task is aimed at getting you to construct buildings for very specific purposes (and sometimes in specific ways) in order to achieve the 5 needed World Records.
Additional help comes when Penultimo reminds you that you can receive $5000 for every journalist that comes to the island.
Once you’ve taken five world records, a new Task will interrupt your ruling. Rebel leader Moreno wants to test your island’s army, and they are considered a rough opponent.
You can pay him $5000 and he will only send five soldiers. By now, you likely have an Armory and enough Generals to make short work of a mere five rebel scum. If not, use some cash to get Guard Stations up and running.
Penultimo will also chime in that you’ve achieved what few leaders can. To make sure your accomplishments go down in history, you need to construct a Mausoleum.
Once the Mausoleum is complete, the chapter is as well, and you are treated to a little montage of the rise of your island nation. Bask in your victory for now, Presidente, but it’s far from over.