Well, maybe this is kind of an interim competition: up to now nobody managed to win this scenario.

Maybe YOU are the first one?

Please   post your comments, as a fanatic creator of senarios I need your suggestions to improve the following scenarios.

Hi Dave, hi Tropicans,
to be fair I would like to give some hints. If you want to get crazy about the scenario, don't read them. If you want to have a chance to survive the flood, read.  

After the Flood is a scenario with many scripted events which are evaluated by random. Tourism rating, collapsing of mines and last but not least the rebel activities are based on random numbers.

1) Tourism rating
It's not that important, because most of you will use Egg's rich presidente trick anyway  
If you don't use it, the income of hotels will differ each year, but the tourism rating will never drop that serious.

2) Collapsing of mines
Is also evaluated each year. The chance that a mine is destroyed is 1 to 4 (or 25%). If you have more than one mine, only one will collapse.

3) Rebels
Each year zero (70%), one (15%) or two (15%) rebel(s) start their evil deeds. So save your game often. If rebels appear, re-load it. Maybe you're more lucky with the new random number and no rebels are evaluated.

Now you have read these hints, don't think it's easy to win. It's still very hard, but depending on the randomly appearing rebels it can become unplayable hard, and that's not what I wanted to script. In all of my testing games it was possible to deal with the rebels, but theoretically you could have 6 rebels on your island within 3 years. In that case I would recommend a re-load (or many, many soldiers!).

And now, have a nice rule on Isla Carrera!
Greetings, Che

Yipee! I am so glad to see this one "out".
Except I got row boated 3 times last night. It's a challenge allright. I do like the "Mortgage" offer on accommodation. That's about as far as I've got so far.
Is it?
I feel a poll is in order. I'll put one up in the Tropicana.

Hi Coconut Kid!
What we mean is the following (and I hope my English is good enough to explain it):

Assume, there is a random event that adds zero, one or two rebels per year, each year at November, 1st. You can now play until October, and save the game. If one or two rebels appear on November, 1st, you reload the October and go on playing. Since the rebels appear randomly, you might be lucky and no rebel appears this time (when the game date switches from October to November).
You can use the same method to avoid hurricanes, red tide or any other random event.
In RRT it was the trick to avoid train crashes or economic depression.

Well, I think one can understand what I wrote. If not, some native speaker has to explain it.
Greetings, Che

To say it clear: I do not use this trick in Tropico games (just one time, in a ridiculously hard Breakaway scenario in which one of these random events happened every month). In Railroad Tycoon II I used it all the time, because without it the game was unplayable IMO. I found it boring to have a train crash every minute. I don't build tracks to see how trains stand on them. In fact I had two alternatives: use the reload method or trashing the game (or, maybe, to get a hard attack as #3). So I decided to take the reloading as part of the game, because I love the music and the cute little steam trains.
Choochoo, Che (yeah, I know this is a Tropico site...)

Dave,
I hope you don't quit our cooperation on the October / November competition . You know I need you, and I didn't want to wreck your nerves with the Flood.  
I admire your persistence. I just created the map, send it to PeeWee, Cam and Coffeebean and let them play it, knowing, that I had never ever the spark of a chance to win it.
Keep may fingers crossed for you!

Did you give them a raise? That piddly 5 they start with is way too low.

Yes I raised some wages (builders) but perhaps not enough, but didn't sem to affect job happiness, nor did building surgery and Marketplace (all you've time for)!  Anyway I'll have another bash.

I also read all info before downloading scenario.  Using search for both "Flood" and "After the Flood" didn't find anything and I was lucky to trace it again (if it had been an old one I wouldn't have made it - life is too short!!)

Anyway thanks Che and brf I'll just keep trying cause it looks interesting.

I usually found it enough to raise uneducated pay to 7 and set teamsters and laborers to Easy Does It.  That works for a few years anyways.

Thanks guys. I put builders up to 8 and others 7 (and opened 2 places at factory and upped to 10) plus easy does it all round. This got me a start of over 50 but no-one worked!  Found that going back to slave labour only lost one point so builders got that and I got stuff built.
Unfortunately it sent me bankrupt!  And I'd tons of fish everywhere, them dadgumeded teamsters worked for Marlon Brando.
Look I've got to get to the November competition and I'm still nowhere with Cheerio. Bye.

This is the reply to one of my posts which I deleted in cranky old man snit.

I think the point I am trying to capture for jezekiahuk2 is that this scriptwriter is suggesting that this map/game can not be won by ordinary play. The player has to engage in a slimy almost cheat to avoid every adverse event.

Perhaps that is not the problem at hand, but I thought I should clear up that point.

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Seven Several years into the game:

• No one works
• No immigration
• No money

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We have to work on that don't we? Someday.