Fellow Tropicans,

Tropico 6 Update v.17 ‘Una Magnífica Memoria’ has just been released for Steam, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

RAM consumption is reduced by up to a GB and should be especially noticeable for players with weaker hardware. We are also working on another optimization update to prepare Tropico for its brilliant and bright future!

Of course, Update 17 also contains further bug fixes, like the Metro Station upgrade for the Airport that now works as intended. Also, the efficiency of media buildings now affects their liberty value.

For more details, please check out the full changelog below.

Viva Tropico!

• Memory Optimization
  Reduces Tropico's RAM consumption by up to 1 GB under certain setups. Players with older or weaker machines should benefit from this update.
  
• [Festival-DLC] Increased the time limits on the easy difficulty level for the “Between a Rock and a boring Place” mission to make it easier.

• Fixed an issue with the “Metro Station” upgrade for the Airport.
  
• Fixed an issue where the faction standing effect of the “Social Security” edict did not work properly when the edict was leveled up.
  
• Fixed an issue where the efficiency of media buildings did not affect their freedom value.
  
• Fixed an issue where the efficiency of the Modern Villa and the Super Villa was not affected by the local beauty value.
  
• Fixed an issue with the preview for the palace during relocation, which now adjusts to the actual layout.
  
• Fixed an issue where mines sometimes failed to recognize new mineral deposits after an era change.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with the “Dignitaries only” work mode of the Gourmet Restaurant in the Almanac’s modifier list for superpower standings.
  
• Fixed an issue with the upgraded Waste Treatment Facility which now generates uranium as the description states.
  
• Adjusted the education level description of the Mausoleum’s upgrade.
  
• Fixed issues with certain edicts not being highlighted when focused while active.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where the broker request for the Middle East Alliance was not triggering correctly.
  
• Fixed an issue where Ancient Ruins lost the "Preferred By" information after reloading.
  
• Fixed issues with the placement for Ancients Ruins on the Lirio Dorado map.
  
• Fixed an issue with Ancient Ruins’ placement on the “Islas de Goma de Mascar” map.
  
• Fixed an issue with the relocation of Dance Schools on certain maps.
  
• Fixed an issue with controller navigation in building UI when the constitution is set to Pacifist State.
  
• [Caribbean Skies-DLC] Fixed issues with alternative work modes for the Central Intelligence building.
  
• [Festival-DLC] Fixed an issue that caused special work modes to disappear after demolishing a Festival Grod on the map “The Final Party!”.
  
• [Lobbyistico-DLC] Fixed an issue where the “Get the Diary” quest was not showing up when continuing the game after bankruptcy.

Tropicans,

El Prez invites you to join Patrick and the Llama on their way to make big bucks on Wall Street!

Tropico 6 - The Llama of Wall Street live stream on Wednesday
March 16th, 7pm CEST / 10 am PDT

You can either watch it directly on Steam or via Kalypso_live on YouTube! 👀



Tropico 6 – The Llama of Wall Street adds an array of new in-game features to Tropico 6 such as stock market manipulation. Using the Trade Institute building, players can directly influence the in-game economy by altering the value of goods such as shellfish, tourist fees, or even a dictator’s favourite, uranium. The DLC also adds random economic events. Greased with Arabian Oil sees a hefty tariff added to goods traded with the Middle East and USA, whilst The Brink of Chaos event inflates the value of weapons, canned goods, steel, and other items instrumental to surviving an apocalypse.

The Llama of Wall Street also expands on Tropico 6’s existing content. Alongside the Trade Institute building, the DLC adds the industry-boosting Toy Workshop, and the Smart Furniture Studio. Check out the full feature list below for a run-down of the DLC and the Seguridad Social update.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1100250/Tropico_6__The_Llama_of_Wall_Street/

We're happy to announce that Tropico 6 and all DLCs are featured in Steam's Games from Germany Sale!

The sale is running from now until Thursday - don't miss the discounts and check it out:
Games From Germany Sale

Your Kalypso Media Team

The holidays are close and we already found some festive bundles under our Christmas tree, we'd like to share with you. 🎄

Santa's little helpers have put together a very special package for you...

The Best of Kalypso Bundle including Tropico 6, Dungeons 3, Railway Empire & Sudden Strike 4 - bringing you our strategy and simulation classics in one handy package that’ll keep you busy throughout the holidays and beyond!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23874/Best_of_Kalypso_Bundle/

The industrious Kalypso Elves helpers have also wrapped many a motley bunch of gifts that are perfect for newcomers - the Starter Bundles!

So if you are interested in one of the games offered in a Starter Bundle, you get meaty package containing the main game, a DLC and the official soundtrack. 🎁

All bundles are available during Steam Winter Sale - hurry up before the Grinch snatches all those presents on January 5th!


We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Stay healthy!

Your Kalypso Media Team


https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/22458/Tropico_6__Starter_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23872/Dungeons_3__Starter_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23871/Railway_Empire__Starter_Bundle/

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23873/Sudden_Strike_4__Starter_Bundle/

Fellow Tropicans,

Tropico 6 Update v. 16 ‘Vigilancia y seguridad’ has now been released on Steam. This update adds new content, such as a new Cold War building, the “Secure Mansion“ and a new modern military building, the “Overwatchtower ”. The Overwatchtower offers the ability to uncover hidden roles of passing Tropicans: nothing escapes the eyes of El Presidente!

Of course, Update v. 16 also contains some improvements and bug fixes. For example, we’ve addressed a bug that prevented the special “Make Party not war” festival from disappearing in the mission “The Final Party”. Similarly, a bug that meant the festival areas do not show the festival cooldown for the client has also been fixed.

Viva Tropico!

• A new Cold War building, the “Secure Mansion”, has been added.
  The Secure Mansion provides a new living space for rich and filthy rich Tropicans (including its own bunker). The Mansion can be modernized to the Secure Mansion and the Secure Mansion can be modernized to the Modern Mansion. Also, you can improve the Secure Mansion with the “Increase Surveillance” upgrade. This gives the building a chance to uncover hidden roles of passing Tropicans.
  No Tropican is safe from the watchful eyes of their rich neighbor anymore.
  
  
• A new Modern military building, the “Overwatchtower”, is now available.
  The Overwatchtower is an improved and modernized version of the World War Watchtower. The buildings new work modes offer the ability to uncover hidden roles of specific agents with a high chance or all hidden roles of passing Tropicans with a lower chance.
  Those pesky Tropicans will no longer have a chance to hide in the plain sight of El Presidente.
  
  
• Improved the display and calculation of Military strength for buildings and squads.

• Prevented the special “Make Party not war” Festival in “The Final Party” Mission from vanishing when it hasn’t been held in all Areas at the same time.
  
• Fixed a bug that meant the festival areas do not show the festival cooldown for the client.
  
• Fixed the “Real Machine Gun” Upgrade for the Watchtower.
  
• Fixed the “Military Police” Edict not correctly changing the Crime Safety values for Military buildings.
  
• Towers now open the Military Strength-Overlay during placement, instead of the Crime Safety-Overlay, which is usually not affected by them.
  
• Fixed the “Right to Arms” Edict not changing affected values correctly.
  
• Fixed the Cathedral upgrade being overwritten by the Theocracy Constitution option.
  
• Fixed the manure production not getting cloned when copying a Ranch.
  
• Fixed the “Bigger Tanks” upgrade not getting cloned when copying a Fishfarm.
  
• Corrected an issue where the Camera didn’t move correctly to the Palace at the start of election speeches.
  
• Fixed flickering of a certain type of Stone after reloading a savegame on the Map “Between a Rock and a boring Place”.
  
• Fixed trees spawned by Stonehenge not being visible for the client in multiplayer.
  
• Fixed an issue where renamed Palaces being visible to other players’ almanacs in multiplayer.

Tropicans!

El Presidente is thrilled to be in the running for this year’s Steam Awards, and demands nothing less than absolute success for Tropico.

Unfortunately, it seems that El Presidente’s infamous ‘guaranteed win’ strategy doesn’t work so well outside of Tropico, so we need your help to wrangle the vote for our lovable leader.

So vote for Tropico 6 as 'Labor of Love'…or else!

Vote El Prez!
Or else...

Tropicans,

El Presidente brings you a gift you cannot refuse.
After discovering his love for festivals, El Presidente has hired Penultimo to take care of his annual Halloween party.
Eerie gardens and palace decorations await you from October 24 to November 7.

In the gameplay options of Tropico 6 you can toggle the box to celebrate Halloween with El Presidente.



Halloween event

• Halloween-themed Main Menu
  
• Autumn style foliage
  
• Flowers in parks/ on buildings got replaced by pumpkins
  
• Halloween palace customization (Garden) is available. (The Halloween palace customization is available via “garden” option in the palace customization menu during the Halloween event)
  
• The palace customization will be removed when the event is over!

Fellow Tropicans,

Tropico 6 Update 15 Hotfix 2 was just released for Windows, Linux, Mac and Xbox One. This update mostly addresses feedback to the Festival DLC – balancing the difficulty so that you can ease up during El Presidente’s big party. He gave every citizen a “free” ticket as well so that boredom gets vaporized into fireworks.

It also includes some bug fixes, for example, some 2x2 park variations not being able to be built and more remedies against party mood killers. The bug where the busker caught on fire has also been fixed – even if such incidents would have annihilated the boredom as well.
Thanks for your feedback and now get the Festival Party started with even more boredom killers!

Viva Tropico!



Festival DLC

• Buildings under the effect of boredom can now be relocated
  
• The overall boredom area growth rate has been reduced
  
• Balanced balloon trade prices and production rate to make it a more viable commodity
  
• Map 2: The last delivery quest is optional and a hint was added to suggest that this mission is not supposed to be done.
  
• The Festival campaign has been balanced to decrease overall difficulty
  
• Map 2 & 5: Increased time limits for timed missions
  
• Map 3 & 5: Reduced spawn rate of new boredom areas
  
• Map 4 & 5: Reduced global boredom increase

Bug fixes

• [Multiplayer] Fixed an issue where DLC settings were reset when the victory conditions get changed inside the lobby
  
• Fixed an issue where market manipulation for import routes also affected export routes
  
• Fixed busker visitors clipping into the gift box
  
• Fixed broken option menu tabs when switching between Arabic languages
  
• Fixed logging camp and coconut harvester not using nearby trees when relocating their buildings
  
• Fixed the busker being able to catch fire
  
• Fixed several graphical glitches and crashes
  
• Fixed a couple of text localization and display issues
  
• Several stability improvements

Festival

• Festival Map 2: Fixed an issue where attacks from axis sometimes don’t happen
  
• Festival Map 2: Removed random superpower demands for building a pirate cove
  
• Fixed some 2x2 park variations not being able to be built
  
• Fixed radius display for Festival ranges under some circumstances (relocation, multiplayer)
  
• Fixed festival effects not getting removed properly in some multiplayer occasions (multiplayer, solving multiple quests simultaneously)
  
• Fixed several visual glitches in festival maps 2 & 4

Carribbean Skies

• Fixed issue where mandate time didn’t decrease after winning the game (Caribbean Skies Map 2 and Festival Map 1)
  
• Caribbean Skies Mission 2: Fixed Wydham support money triggering even if player had enough money

Declare war on boredom – join Patrick in a livestream for our new "Festival" DLC on Wednesday, September 1 at 7pm (CET).

Save the date and stop by:
https://www.youtube.com/c/Kalypsolive/


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631380/Tropico_6__Festival/?curator_clanid=29151223

We have today thrown open the doors for Tropico 6’s preeminent presidential party – the brand-new Festival DLC. Starting today, PC players (Windows, Linux, and Mac) are invited to host the biggest bonanza the archipelago has ever seen, presiding over its planning and working closely with El Presidente to fight for their right to party.



Tropico 6 – Festival challenges players to channel their creativity by planning and managing a series of celebrations, while combating ‘The Boredom’ – an evil, fun-fighting force that threatens to thwart all festivities on the sun-soaked isles of Tropico.

Empowering players to serve up the best soirees possible, Tropico 6 – Festival also adds a unique party planning mechanic to Tropico 6, allowing players to host 20+ types of festivals. Four distinctive, themed areas will be included for players to throw spectacular shindigs, as well as new buildings such as the Dance School, Balloon and Fireworks factory to get the party started. Players will also be able to enjoy a host of new musical additions, alongside a snazzy party outfit for El Prez and a paint job for the presidential palace.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1631380/Tropico_6__Festival/