How do you create a General from a soldier?

[Ray]

Greetings,

I'm sure this is an easy thing to do, but I don't have the instruction manual. Haha. My friend gave my his Tropico but no booklet.

Can anyone assist?

Also, is there a link to download the instruction manual  online?
I have most of it figured out, just a thing or two here and there.

Cheers

[Coconut Kid]

Welcome to the source of info. We hope you enjoy the game and visit here often.

I can't remember the place to "download" the manual. It is not all so great anyway. There is more information here. But someone with a better recollection will come along and give link to you.

You did not tell us what edition your friend gave you. That is important because you may have the "manual" on the CD or you may need to download a patch.

To answer your question directly:

How do you create a General from a soldier?

You can not. That is not in the concept of the game.

Simply, you do not have that kind of control over "your people."

 

[Privateer0]

What CK means to tell you is that you don't NEED a soldier to make a general. Any Tropican with militarist leanings and a college education can work as a general, even those who never served as soldiers.

If you really want to, you can fire one of your soldiers (who you know already have military leanings) repeatedly until he goes to college. When he graduates he will be able to work as a general.

If you just need a general, open your almanach to the list of population sorted by education level, find a courageous college grad with militarist interests and fire him until he picks a job at the armory or base.

[Coconut Kid]

@ Ray,

Yes, I guess I was meaning to tell you,

Create a General (or any other occupation) is not a game concept. You can hire a General from outside Tropico through an employment agency (for a vacant job in an Armory or Army Base); or hoping for the best, you can simply open a job vacancy at an Armory or an Army Base - and whoever goes to work in the vacant General position will become a General.

You can NOT click on a Soldier and make sort of menu selection which will change the Soldier into a General. That is not the way the game works.

You can fuss around with some individual Soldier (who, with some exceptions, will already have an High School education) to try to make him go to College (if he needs to; he may already have a College Education and be "under-employed") so as to be qualifed to be a General. But he still has to decide on his own to go to work in a General's job in order to become a General.  Promotion from the ranks is not a big item in Tropico.

I guess I also meant to tell you that most of the common "routines" found in other games are not used in Tropico. Just because you did X - Y = whammo in your game Frammis on the Gizmo, is no guide to what you do, or can do, in Tropico.

It does help to put your questions in context, or as I requested, let us know what version you are playing.

 

[Ray]

I think it's version 1.07.

I did what was suggested by firing the soldier until he decided to go to college. I also increased the wages to make the job of general more likeable.

It worked.

Thanks a billion.

[Privateer0]

You're welcome, Ray.

[Coconut Kid]

I think it's version 1.07.

That's the finished version before the Paradise Island expansion pack. So it does not have the manual on the disk as some of the later issues do -- Mucho Macho and Tropico Reloaded.