SimCity

Once you figure out the Tropico pattern in first 2-3 maps, it becomes entirely trivial. I got bored of it after 3 days and there isn't a single expansion or DLC that will make it better from what I can tell.

I always made my money from spiced rum. Its the biggest money maker in the game

All city simulations are a complex puzzle that generally once you figure out the puzzle it's more or less beaten. The thing is, tropico (and simcity5) are so imbalanced that once you figure out the puzzle it's completely trivial. In simcity4, for example, it's not trivial to get skyscrapers nor is it trivial to support a large city.

I was never been able to consistently beat SimCity, even knowing all the tricks.

Once you build 4-5 sugar farms and a rum distillery in Tropico, its pretty much game over.

And I think virtually any factory is capable of accomplishing that. I always went weapon factories but I had no reason to believe they were better than rum, chemical, furniture etc.

One thing that blows is tourism.

Any factory is capable, in theory, but none give returns as massive as sugar + rum. And you can build those up in the first few turns literally, so its not like there is some massive tech tree if you have to climb before you get to them. Also, sugar is a renewable resource thus the distillery can operate in perpetuity, but something like weapons factories is dependent on how much iron ore you have left, which is a finite resource.

Tourism can give decent returns but it requires a humongous investment and very good planning. I tried going all tourism after building my rum empire since I had so much cash, but for the amount of money spent, the best gain I got is that my island just looked a lot more festive.

P.S. The game constantly reminded me of this




P.P.S. Reading the last few pages of this thread was super lulzy. I had no idea that SC sucked so hard.

Araysar_sl said:

Any factory is capable, in theory, but none give returns as massive as sugar + rum. And you can build those up in the first few turns literally, so its not like there is some massive tech tree if you have to climb before you get to them. Also, sugar is a renewable resource thus the distillery can operate in perpetuity, but something like weapons factories is dependent on how much iron ore you have left, which is a finite resource.

Tourism can give decent returns but it requires a humongous investment and very good planning. I tried going all tourism after building my rum empire since I had so much cash, but for the amount of money spent, the best gain I got is that my island just looked a lot more festive.

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The thing is, the most important resource you have is your population and you have to wisely choose what to do with them. If you've got 30 workers I'm pretty confident it's more profitable to import X resource and export Y product than have half of them mine/farm X resource and the other half export Y product. Which product is most profitable I have no idea.

Yeah, I'd agree with that

Ignatius_sl said:

I keep seeing this thread with new posts and come hoping it's news that the game is fixed

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It'll never be fixed. At the rate they're going they'll shut the servers down by the time they have a chance to look at the ways the core of the game is broken.

tbh I doubt there will ever be a simcity released that's worthy of the name unless it's like ten years from now and made by a group that has very little relation to the current Maxis.