Hey PopTop...Fire Your Proofreader !

[TurnNBurn]

While reading through the Tropico manual I have come across several mistakes. Not just the occasional typo either. On page 49 we have a table with housing types and at the very bottom We have the $4000 dollar Tenement with a picture of a country house instead.

Next, go to page 51 and go down to the ranch...it seems this doubles as a cannery  

Is this just another example of a companies haste to release their product? Or maybe they just need to hire a new proofreader  

[SamLJer]

its corporate greed/haste to release a product, thats why the game itself is also loaded with errors, real the yearly book closly you will find some as well as the gameplay bugs ;/ its disapointing but i guess thats why they have patches....

[Captain_Morgan]

I bought the game at lunch one day and read most of the manual on my commute home.  I was wondering if the game had as many bugs as the book.  

Lots of errors in the appendices.  

One of the best, on page 64:

CHILD - TOO OLD TO WORK, will wander map enjoying retirement until passing away

The night club looks just like the cheap hotel.

They also omitted other basic info, such as the website URL for the developers/distributor/official game site?

[SamLJer]

yeah this game has more bugs then most users can handle

more bugs in tropico then there is cheaters in diablo1 LOL

[cheese (Guest)]

:)lol , willya looky those letters.... what is poptop doing!!!!!!

[Rich ¥Weeds¥ Nagel]

Hola mi Amigos,

I'd like to point out that Poptop has stated that the original manual was A-OK when it was sent to the printer (typesetter?). Unfortunately it was the final printed product that contained the errors. BTW, the HTML and PDF format versions of the manual on the CD (I think they are installed to your hard drive when you install the game?) do not contain these errors. These were the original versions of the manual, hence no errors.

Also as far as bugs, I personally haven't seen all that many bugs in the game, short of the problems associated with that blasted infernal copy protection.


El Presidente Ricardo

[CRYSTALWIZARD]

I find it funny that so many people posted to complaine about typos and
incorrect information but didn't bother to spell check and proof-read their
own posts on this forum.
Could this be a case of  'Do as I say but not as I do?'

[Captain_Morgan]

I kin reed reel wel.  Jus askk mi grammer teecher.

I'd never bother to use a spell-checker for a message board.  

<STATEMENT OF THE OBVIOUS>
This isn't official correspondence.  

This isn't the user guide being shipped to hundreds of thousands of customers.
</STATEMENT OF THE OBVIOUS>

[Captain_Morgan]

Besides, I didn't complaine I thought it was rather funny, but the manual is full of typos and incorrect information.

[SamLJer]

lol you prolly havnt noticed this is a public forum
however when a software company releases a game
they way they did, uh huh its embarasing


but if u wanna compare this text to a full blown commercial product be my guest

btw, your grammer sux as bad as mine, your spelling seems ok though heh ;P

[jerri]

LOL Those errors are really funny... If there werent enough bugs IN the game!  

[Kat]

My manual is nice 'n' correct, I guess they must have corrected them as soon as they saw the errors in it

[General PinochetNut]

Pg. 50 cannery. Income From: Refinement of fish, pineapple, coffee into canned fish... LOL