Fruity Business

Now we strike at one of the traitors who dared to call El Presidente friend: CEO Keith Preston. The plan seems simple enough: Take over his fruit business.

Of course, the introduction screen mentions that the CIA is closing in on El Presidente. Perhaps you can be a second Castro and be unkillable for decades?

To compete with the Child Labor used by Fruitas LTD, you need a strong workforce quickly. Your first Task is to get an Immigration Office up and running.

Once built, make sure it is set to open doors, and start working on getting your fruit and food supply up and running. This next objective requires six working farms, and you already start with two Corn farms.

The starting area has land excellent for Papaya farming. Get four Papaya farms running, and leave the starting pair as Corn farms.

With the farms up, set up the local infrastructure to get the fruit to the docks as quick as possible. You need to export 1000 Agricultural products to become a thorn in Fruitas’ side.

With your exports up and running, you need to buy 5 percent of Fuitas LTD’s shares. You can buy them in 1 percent increments. Don’t rush! You have to maintain the rest of the island economy and happiness!

Preston isn’t fooled by your subtle trickery, and lowers the price of your commodities by 20 percent. If hardball is what he wants, hardball is what he gets.

You need three factories up and running for the next Task. Don’t stick with just fruits this time, use the Iron veins to fuel a weapons factory.

Convert some of the Papaya farms to Pineapples if they are in a good zone for it, then get at least one Cannery to help boost the money you get out of it.

With your Factories ready and producing, you need to now purchase 30 percent of Fruitas’ shares, 5 percent at a time. It will cost you $15,000 a hit, so your economy really needs to be up to snuff.

Preston isn’t going to take this lying down. Penultimo discovers he’s sent the Syndicate to deal with your industry decisively, through propaganda and misdirection, and maybe some violence.

You can respond with force yourself, or set up your own propaganda through the movies. There’s also the option to bribe them for $40,000, but that money could go towards buying shares.

Once you get to 30 percent, Preston flexes his money muscle, and you’re back down to twenty percent of the company. It will cost you $20,000 for 5 percent now. The goal is fifty percent.

Your economy should more or less be able to build up the money by itself, the trick to speeding the process up will be investing in more factories that can produce the goods that will sell the best.

With 1 percent left to go, you decide to send in ninjas to secure your victory. To contact them, you’ll need to set up a Secret Police station and have 3 Secret Agents on hand.

But proper Japanese ninjas are too awesome and expensive to afford, so you decide to hire Chinese ninjas. To avoid suspicion, you need to set up a USSR Trade Mission Edict. This will require an Airport.

Once you have the Airport, send the trade delegation to Moscow with the Edict. The cost to hire the ninjas to steal the last one percent of the shares is $100,000.

As always, keep an eye out for opportunities to boost the strength of your exports, and let the factories take care of this for you.

Hire the ninjas, and surprisingly they don’t manage to fail, and you own Fruitas LTD, and with that the chapter.