MisterFrey
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« Reply #50 on: 02/01/03 at 06:56 PM » |
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Hello folks, The zipped game file is 560kb in size and I don't know how to make a spanned zip file of size 500k so I can post it? Any hints.(cafe dave could post the file for me if he still has it.  ) My strategy was to initially fire all the non productive males close up the south port and slash wages to 3/9/15, set up some ranches in the flat region on the west coast and lay the foundations for some tobacco farms and another coffee plantation in the east. once these were built a couple of logging camps in the south after opening up the port down there. once my cash built up I opened the fort as an entertainment venue and built a newspaper in the middle of the island. the original paper i switched between soldata and word of god regularly once the new one was built and set to coupons(it was the stabilising force for my economy) the southern region I had to militarise as the rebels regularly attempted to attack the logging camps many soldiers and rebels died in those woody glades. Playing with random events on I only suffered a major plague, a long maritime strike and a couple of airline strikes over the 40 years |
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Brf
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« Reply #51 on: 02/01/03 at 06:57 PM » |
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Hmmm...I never used the special building permit at all....The intellectuals hated the low liberty enough, without adding the SBP on top of it.
Personally I thought the scenerio was a real downer....I like the ones where everyone is happy...I played a random today where I ended with 75 happiness. I could have done better, but I used a smaller map and ran out of room for farms.
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MisterFrey
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« Reply #52 on: 02/01/03 at 07:32 PM » |
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Brf's comment about intellectuals reminded me NGOA at the immigration office was essential for most of my reign if one of the immigration officers retired I immediately had to move a diplomat there or all my essential personell ran for the docks
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« Reply #53 on: 02/01/03 at 11:17 PM » |
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MisterFrey, welcome to the forum! Glad we finally got you to post! Congrats on your win, even more amazing with random events on.  I am uploading MisterFrey's saved game with this post (and a temporarily higher allowance).  |
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Coffeebean
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« Reply #54 on: 02/02/03 at 08:02 AM » |
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Yes, welcome Mister Frey.  Random events on!?! WOW! Thanks for uploading the save game Dave. |
-Skepticism is the order of the day. It is the only way to be unsure. -Indulge the puppies and kittens of your soul! (Eddy) -You are not a god. You are a human. That means having to cooporate with other humans. (Mr Cb) |
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« Reply #55 on: 02/02/03 at 12:51 PM » |
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Hi to all! And congratulations to the winners - well done! Sorry that I didn't play this competition, I had some trouble the last few weeks. So I was not in the mood to play Tropico. I tried this scenario only once and my score was really bad - but good enough for the fifth place, I think... But times are better now and I'm looking forward to playing competitions with you again, when Tropico 2 is released... And perhaps I'll try Junta_Joe's new "High-score-island". I never played Tropico that way - time to learn the editor? Greetings PeeWee |
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Brf
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« Reply #56 on: 02/02/03 at 02:23 PM » |
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I just got around to reading Misterfrey's post about his strategy...and it was totally different from mine....For instance, I never had a single rebel in my 2nd-place entry....Here is what I did:
Before taking the game off pause in day-one, I demolished both of the far-flung docks. In early attempts I noticed it took immigrants too long to walk from them, so they were more trouble than good. I also demolished the construction offices near those docks within the first 5 years. Also in day-1, I built five tobacco farms near the T-intersection by the coffee farm, and a construction office and teamster near there. I built 3 cigar factories near that intersection, with the first going up near 1955 when a flood of farm goods reaches the dock. On day-1, I X-d out the spare police slots and fired all 3 generals and 2 of the 4 soldiers. I wasnt as ruthless as Misterfrey, and set wages at 6/10/20, and raised them to 8/11/22 by 1955.
Then I worked on liberty... I held several early elections in the mid-to-late 50's until I had to "adjust" one in 1961 and my liberty dropped from 40-something to about 25. My population now was 198, so I hired a general for my 3 soldiers and my liberty immediately dropped 2 points. I said The-heck-with-it, checked to see that there were no rebels, and fired all 3 soldiers and the new general. I operated with no soldiers until mid-1989 when I quickly hired back all 7 slots.
The newspaper I set to "Financial times" to get me in good with the capitalists. Built one bank set to Slush Fund.
By the early 80s, my economy was roaring, and I had 100k in my treasury. If I was smart, I would have built a couple more slush banks, but I was too amazed at having my economy in the black.
In the early 80's my people were so happy that I won an election outright and my liberty shot up to 51. I did Praise US to raise my US over 80% and then alliance in the 80s to peg it at 100%.
There seemed to a great difference in the happiness level and economy, depending on exactly when I built things....This winning game I think the difference was that I built a tenement along the road near the farms just before I built the first cigar factory and a couple apartments were pending. I always built the factory, then the highschool, then the church in the mid-50s.
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belbincolne
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« Reply #57 on: 02/02/03 at 02:50 PM » |
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World record holder ascent Mt Sucio (8848m) - 3 days 7 hrs 12 mins.
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CafeDave
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« Reply #58 on: 02/02/03 at 03:06 PM » |
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Well belbincolne, I do have a little surprise coming but can't tell you about it yet. Only Robbo and PopTop Phil know. It's not a scenario or competition though, so you will have to be content with Junta_Joe's high score competition for now. Besides, the demo will be out in February sometime. That should be enough to keep us going for a month or so anyway. |
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Brf
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« Reply #59 on: 02/02/03 at 11:11 PM » |
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I think the beta was supposed to be in St Louis, Missouri , wasnt it? Thats only like 300 miles (480 km)from me....I wonder if my wife and kids will miss me for a week or so..... |
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belbincolne
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« Reply #60 on: 02/03/03 at 02:24 AM » |
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I had a look at the scenario last night. Unfortunately as it isn’t paused within seconds it had finished and Mr Frey’s score is now nearly top of my scorecard!!!! So a word of advise to anyone else looking at it – hit the pause button pronto or even double quick.
Anyway brilliant. Don’t know how you did it especially as you didn’t seem to get a very fast start. With all that cash in hand at the end you could have built lots of extra buildings putting money into your Swiss account and taking your score up to 2336. Try it – but don’t let go of the Pause button or you’ll have yet another undeserved high score on record!! Actually, I suppose, apart from me, most of you have so many high scores way above 2,000 that they wont have appeared anyway.
And thanks Dave - hope we will get your little surprise soon. Otherwise waiting for PC may take forever - looking at the posts there I got the impression we wouldn't be able to download a demo (and how long would this take to do anyway?) - mind you I've always wanted to go to St Louis and see if they've still got the blues.
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World record holder ascent Mt Sucio (8848m) - 3 days 7 hrs 12 mins.
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LindaPlaya
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« Reply #61 on: 02/03/03 at 06:31 PM » |
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I think we should have one more competition before the pirates come (that would be, then, the last competition for Linda  ). I did try to participate in the Nicaragua Challenge. I sent my entry on January 31, but I just realized today that my entry wasn't sent by the mail server. I post my map here just in case anyone is curious (it wasn't a winner). Thanks for the scenario, Dave. |
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« Reply #62 on: 02/03/03 at 08:43 PM » |
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belbincolne, why wouldn't we be able to download a demo??? It would be a very limited demo if there was no downloadable version. I used to try to get mine in the magazine cd versions but now I have high-speed so hope to be able to download it!
Sorry you missed the comp. LindaPlaya. Did you miss attaching the file?
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belbincolne
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« Reply #63 on: 02/04/03 at 05:37 AM » |
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I'm writing this on line not like last one where I pasted it in - it was fine when I pressed the Post button but now every ' has become ’ - No wonder I dont understand computers - maybe that's why I never win Competitions!!
Must have misunderstood the PC site info - my server isn't very fast and tried to download another demo (Trailer Park or something like that) and it gave something like 5 hours so it's simpler to wait for it to come into the shops. I suppose I could run it overnight but my phone line would probably get cut off half way through it!
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World record holder ascent Mt Sucio (8848m) - 3 days 7 hrs 12 mins.
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