Apr 14, 2023

Modding Workshop - El Presidente announces Modding Edict!

Tropico 6 - Freeky

El Presidente announces Modding Edict! - News for a select group of Tropicans

Dear Tropicans,

The Tropican Ministry of World Domination and Garden Plots (short: The TM of WoDoGaP) is spilling the beans for you, our Community.

The Ministry of Development and Binary Magic is working closely with the new TM of WoDoGaP and are looking for Tropicans who feel capable of assisting El Presidente in making Tropico the greatest nation there has ever been.

El Presidente has decided to approve official modding support and YOU can be one of the first to actually create an El Presidente approved Tropico 6 Mod and let your imagination run wild.

Our Tropico 6 Team is currently planning to start an exclusive workshop with the ‘Operation Garden Gnome' Modding Workshop. For this, we want to recruit a small group of Binary Magicians who have some previous experience with modding, programming or asset creation, to participate in our workshop and try the ‘Operation Garden Gnome' Tools firsthand.
Please keep in mind, that you would be working with the actual developer tools and not an editor. In this test run, you will receive access to our in-development toolkit prior to its official launch, as well as an exclusive closed section of our Discord hub with videos and direct support from our dev and our CM team.

When is all of this happening and how do I participate?

If you would like to participate, please apply via email to modding@kalypsomedia.com with a link to 1-3 examples of your previous modding work along with your Discord tag, so we can invite you to the server and grant you access to the exclusive area for the workshop as well as the toolkit.

Applications will close on the 18th of April, so if you want to take part in this next step for Tropico 6, please make sure to drop us an email before that day.

The workshop will officially kick off on April 26th.

We know that modding is something the community really wishes for, and we see how much value it adds to a game; be that by allowing the community to express themselves creatively or feel involved in expanding the games they love.

We want to support the community with our ‘Operation Garden Gnome’ in taking the first steps with our modding tools, and to provide the opportunity to create the Tropico you want. To honor the Binary Magicians who put a lot of time and effort into creating mods for the community, we will be spotlighting your awesome mods on our channels and giving the modders special discord roles as badges of honor for their hard work.

Sincerely yours,
The Tropican Ministry of Development and Binary Magic and The Tropican Ministry of World Domination and Garden Plots

Apr 12, 2023

Update 20 - Hotfix #1

Tropico 6 - Freeky

Update 20 – Hotfix #1

With Hotfix 1 on Steam, Microsoft Store (and other PC platforms), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, we have now fixed some issues occurring with Update 20 in Tropico 6, such as all Tropicans turning male when loading a savegame after Update 20.
We are also still working on the other reported issues.

Please stay tuned.

Fixed an issue, where all citizens became male after loading the game.
(Please note: Savegames which are affected by this issue cannot be restored to their original state and will start with an all-male population. However, women will be able to immigrate to Tropico again. Newly created savegames as well as older ones from before Update 20 are not affected, so please use an old savegame or start a new one.)
Fixed an issue, where special citizens disappeared in the Almanac and criminal roles became hidden after loading the game.
Added sound when selecting the Eternal Flame.
[Festival] Fixed the “Customer Service” edict sometimes not being applied correctly.
[Lobbyistico] Fixed a quest that did not accept the Eternal Flame as objective.

Apr 4, 2023

Tropico 6 Update 20 – Tropico Arde Eternamente

Tropico 6 - Freeky

Tropico 6 Update 20 – Tropico Arde Eternamente

Fellow Tropicans,

Tropico 6 Update 20 – Tropico Arde Eternamente has just been released for Steam,Xbox series X/S,
Xbox One and PlayStation 4 | 5.

With update 20, we have added a true Tropican Easter wonder, a new, free landmark: The Eternal Flame, for the Modern Times era. In addition, we have, among other changes, made it clearer that tourists are needed to complete mission 3 of the New Frontiers DLC.

Furthermore, we have fixed an issue, where selecting celebrities no longer disables the happiness and thoughts tabs of regular tourists. We have also implemented a change which leads to bus stations shutting down if the driver is stuck in traffic for too long, so passengers can take other routes to their destinations.

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

Viva Tropico!

Changelog Update 20

New Features

A new landmark has been added to the Modern Times era: The Eternal Flame. While providing fun for visiting Tropicans and tourists, it can also influence visiting citizens politically, grant permanent personal experience or help in foreign aid finances.

Changes

If a bus driver is completely stuck in traffic and cannot reach the destination stop in a reasonable amount of time, the bus stop will be closed after 20 days so that waiting passengers can take other routes to their destination.
Building driveways will now update their road access correctly if a road building (like a Checkpoint) in front of them has been demolished.
Selecting a celebrity no longer disables the tabs for happiness and thoughts of normal tourists.
Fixed an issue where teamsters would only transport small amounts of manure.
The manure stockpile for the Agriculture Tower is now visualized.
Fixed an issue that prevented the Offshore Wind Turbine from being repaired after it was damaged.
Fixed an issue where Tropicans could walk directly through some buildings on some maps.
Fixed an issue where the status-icon when moving the Aircraft Carrier or Cruise Ship, was not adjusted properly to the new location.
Fixed an issue where continuing a heist after it was cancelled caused problems with the individual tasks that needed to be completed in the heist.
Fixed an issue where prisoners did not disappear from the list of detention if they were killed on the way to the prison.
Fixed an issue where the player was unable to progress, if the Cristo Rendentor landmark was obtained through a heist during the ‘Battle Royal’ map.
[Festival DLC] Fixed an issue where the mission ‘A party for the ages!’ couldn’t be completed when choosing to heist the Great Wall landmark.
[Lobbyistico DLC] Fixed an issue, where demolishing an El Presidente Club after a conservative has been invited within the ‘Once And Forever’ mission would corrupt the save file.
[New Frontiers DLC] Fixed an issue in the ‘Too Smart for Her Own Good’ mission where the construction of the required buildings next to the Research Lab was sometimes not counted towards mission progress correctly.
[New Frontiers DLC] Fixed the cheese produced in the ‘Harvest Cheese’ option, available upon completion of a successful moon mission, not being delivered to warehouses.
[New Frontiers DLC] In mission ‘Stack 'em high’ a hint was added, indicating that the capsule hotel needs to have rich tourists to complete the mission.
[New Frontiers DLC] In mission 3 it is now clearly stated that tourists are needed to complete the space mission task.
[New Frontiers DLC] Adjusted the ending sequence of mission 4 so that the Spaceport Complex is now displayed correctly in the ending cutscene.
[New Frontiers DLC] Fixed the Radio Broadcast of El Prez repeating itself when visiting the Spaceport Complex.
[New Frontiers DLC] Removed the ‘hidden’ modifications that the Mars-workmode in the Spaceport Complex gave.
[Multiplayer] Fixed an issue where Tropocoin value was displayed with the value zero.
[Localization] Implemented several text and menu fixes.
[Localization] The character ‘Patch’ now has the appropriate voice modifier to sound like a robot in French and Spanish.

Hotfix:

Fixed an issue that led to trade routes not working as intended.

Feb 21, 2023

El Prez in class? - Tropico as a case study at university

Tropico 6 - Kaarl

El Prez in class? - Tropico as a case study at university

Find out how the University of Warsaw incorporated Tropico 5 in their classes in the field of Political Science and International Studies

Jacek Ziółkowski, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Theory and Political Thought from the Faculty of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Warsaw and Piotr Rutkowski, MA, have been conducting innovative classes for students of Political Science, Internal Security and other departments (e.g., part of general university classes) and have included computer games and gamification mechanisms in education since 2013. This semester, the software used included our city building and political simulation game, Tropico 5! For which, we at Kalypso Media were thrilled to provide some keys for educational use. Of course, it’s known worldwide that El Presidente has a PhD in AwesomenessTM!

The research team at University Warsaw kindly took some time to answer our questions about the classes and incorporating Tropico 5 into them:

You successfully included Tropico 5 in your political science lectures. What makes Tropico 5 a useful tool for teaching in your field, in your opinion?

Piotr Rutkowski: “Tropico 5 in my view is a strategy game and very interesting social reality simulator with a slightly humorous tone, which engages the players all the more and develops all their competences. It is an ideal game for our classes, as it allows students to develop something that Professor Ziółkowski and I call political imagination.”

How do you define ‘political imagination’ and how does this manifest in Tropico 5?

Piotr Rutkowski: “It is the awareness of multidimensionality, multilevelness of social reality, realizing that decisions in one aspect affect all others, that dilemmas do not have a perfect solution. In Tropico 5 we find all the features that allow us to achieve this – we have economic, political and international elements that the student must deal with at the same time while playing the game, and each decision has consequences for what will happen next.

Decision-making is a key issue here, and in the entire course, one of the goals is to improve the optimization of decisions (as competencies) from the perspective of goals assumed by students. Tropico 5 also offers many possibilities here. The idea behind the classes is that the students, having familiarized themselves with the game, play a multiplayer session, where they will be able to specify what is important to them and what attitude they will adopt - will they help each other, or will they be competitive? Each of these approaches will require different priorities while dealing with day-to-day management.

In addition to purely practical values, our classes and Tropico 5 have a self-reflection function. They enable students to get to know themselves and their approach to tasks and problems. Choosing a cooperative or competitive approach, with no predetermined goals from our instructors, tells us a lot about ourselves and our societies.”

So, what can students take away and learn from Tropico 5?

Professor Jacek Ziółkowski: “Thanks to Tropico 5, students acquire competencies and skills that are very much needed on today's labor market. It is a very good complement to traditional forms of teaching. I especially notice this as the head of Internal Security studies. All this is maintained in a young people-friendly environment of computer hardware and computer software, as well as using role-playing, which strengthens learning outcomes and makes students enjoy classes. Tropico 5 has a lot of mechanics that enable the acquisition of competences necessary on the labour market.

The basis here is the optimization of the decision-making process from the perspective of the player's goals, but also those proposed by the game. Secondly, these decisions are subject to the functioning of the player with a deficit of resources and a deficit of time. Thirdly, we have elements of crisis management in the form of unexpected events, cataclysms. Most importantly, players cannot forget about any of the aspects, because the game can remind us at the least expected moment and teach us from mistakes (rebellion, superpower attack or lost elections).”

How does this translate into reality?

Professor Jacek Ziółkowski: “Tropico 5 adequately reflects the realities of the social world and what students will have to deal with in everyday life as managers, employees in private economy or political institutions and even politicians. I would like to mention that after each game we discuss the players' feelings, their approaches, strategies, decision-making processes, doubts, problems they encountered, which makes them reflect on their decision-making processes in front of themselves and their colleagues, which further strengthens competences they acquire by playing games such as Tropico 5. We are very excited about cooperation with Kalypso Media and using Tropico 5 in our classes.”

We’d like to thank Professor Jacek Ziółkowski and Piotr Rutkowski for taking the time to explain their approach and to provide us with some images of the practical implementation of Tropico 5 into their classes! If you want to read more, head over to their Facebook post.