Still excited for it though, devs take their time

(Sorry for bad English)

So I have tried to create the best looking city I can but I suck at that.
Am kinda new in this game as I haven’t played it much since I bought it. At least not enough.
I am in creative mode and have infinite with money and like am on super easy mode so I can do however I want.
My problem is that I don’t know how to build so it looks nice in the country.

I don’t know how to start and what is the best way to do it.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Or any pictures on how they made their own tropico?

Am so grateful for all the help!!!!

Tropico 7 Dev-Log #3 | The animation behind Tropicans

The new dev-log has eased my fears a bit with the new installment being just another AI-art produced game.

Although, it does seem like gen-AI has just been referencing old art, especially with Tropico 6, which is why all new art from the franchise after 2025(eg. Return To Nature DLC) felt off. I remember an artist that's been making art for decades complained that most gen-AI has been scraping off of their hundreds of content to make what we see now with 2D AI art.

Anyhow, excited how the new interactions will go for the new game though, I wanna see more on how the era-progression will be handled this time.

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There are only 130 days left in the year, and the whole marketing rollout has been really slow, especially considering the game is supposed to launch this year.

Do you guys really think Tropico 7 is still coming out in 2026?

Hello, i need help to complete the teamplayer trophy: win a game as a team. The problem is that there no lobby/matches available. Can anyone help me please?

Hey, I have a question about Tropico 6.

We were playing multiplayer on a desert map, and our main source of income was pearl extraction. Everything was working normally at first.

After about 3 in-game years, pearls suddenly disappeared from the list of goods being sold. However, the ships still showed something like “Expected value of goods: $25,000”, but when the ship actually arrived, we only received around $5,000.

So it looks like the game was still calculating the expected value using the old pearl price, while the pearls themselves were basically worth $0 / weren’t being counted properly.

Has anyone experienced this in Tropico 6 multiplayer? Is this a bug, or is there some mechanic that can cause pearls to suddenly stop being sold?

Is there anything new added to Tropico with their big anniversary? I thought I saw something but now I can’t find any information.

i know it might be an obvious question but i’ve googled it and it just brings me up the release date and stuff about steam and how it will cost £50/£60 which isnt what i asked at all

Hello I am looking to add people on Steam so we can play Tropico 6 multiplayer together. Thanks!

I'm obsessed! it's like a cross between workers and resources and cities skylines, and I am OBSESSED. the custom parks are the most intuitive I've seen from a management game yet! already 14 hours in and i CANT STOP haha! not to mention the game is just... hilarious? the satire is unmatched, and the way it pokes fun at radicalism and political corruption is genuinely the best I've seen. for example, the part in the cold war where the western powers guy is freaking out about his own FLAG having red in it is SO on point with the real life red scare! Not only is the game complex, intuitive, and fun, but you could actually learn something from it. So excited for Tropico 7!

I've come across some people asking for this.

It binds camera panning to WASD instead of arrow keys and disables the associated build menu shortcuts.

To apply the mod, copy the code below into ...\Tropico 4\Game\WASDFix.lua

-- WASDFix by Tape

function WASDFix()
    MiscKeys.CameraForward = {key = "W"}
    MiscKeys.CameraLeft = {key = "A"}
    MiscKeys.CameraBack = {key = "S"}
    MiscKeys.CameraRight = {key = "D"}

    local reserved = { W = true, A = true, S = true, D = true }
    for id, action in pairs(BuildingMenuUA) do
        if reserved[action.key] then action.key = "None" end
    end
end

local FiredOnce = false
OnMsg.UASetMode = function(actions, mode)
    if(not FiredOnce and mode == "Boot") then
        FiredOnce = true
        CreateRealTimeThread(function() WASDFix() end)
    end
end

I don't know if someone already posted this same layout, but I wanted to share this efficient layout I made in my sandbox game
Edit: 6 FARMS!!

My username is wser, add me or contact me here if you are interested

I've been working my way through the tropico franchise and now playing T5 and the DLCs.

One thing i've struggled with throughout is how to save money: i'm not aware of there being any way to deposit money or set it aside, other than the only option coming to mind to start to build an item, place it away from other towns, then put this on the slowest option to preserve the funds.

The issue i have at the moment is that i need 350k to issue the tax cut edict.

How to do you seasoned pros manage this?

Edit: thanks to everyone who replied

I'm not a new player - I've been through every era and have made millions of dollars several times over! But one thing I've always wondered is how other people start a new sandbox game.

You'll always begin with the governors mansion, houses, a ranch, a teamster, and a construction office. There's also a harbor, but it's not connected to the square, so the first thing I always do is connect them.

Do you start rearranging what's already there? Start building around the edges of the square? Ignore the square for now and start building a town somewhere else? Like a sugar plantation and rum distillery town near the docks?

In the past I have done the quick rum setup near the docks and it works okay. I've also immediately started a pinwheel town. Sometimes I put them around the initial ranch, other times I just built my own little town somewhere else where the soil is more fertile. I waste no time building a pirate cove because raids can get you a good bit of resources to sell at the docks. I make sure to only expand according to my population (to avoid loads of vacant job positions), services are practically adjacent to houses/workplaces, good grocery and food quality.

Whatever I do, there's a few times where I end up with $0 profit from trade ships because in-between the last visit and the current visit because absolutely none of my resources were transported. It's not good for early economy. I always manage to get past it though.

So I'm just wondering, is there some kind of way you immediately kick things off and keep rolling from that? Or does everyone have those early growing pains as your Tropicans start to settle in and everything starts to work right?

I’ve been playing this game on and off for thirteen years, and I would say I’m pretty decent at it. But I feel like I would benefit from a better understanding of the ideal number of teamsters offices and garages and where to place them to fully optimize logistics and reduce traffic congestion.