How To Make Money in Tropico 5 (Economy Tips)

[@Jerutastic]

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[@youlywolfcommand3613]

This game is kicking my ass I'm in $700,000 debt and my city burning itself to the ground there's no possible way of running a communist tropico I've tried lol

[@thegameruprising9787]

Just like real life

[@Ricky_Spanishh]

@@thegameruprising9787 lmao

[@hammy_bottoms]

Jesus Christ Bro Lmaooo. $700,000 in debt. That's insane 😂😂

[@tvojamater3130]

Wait you can go in debt

[@hammy_bottoms]

@@tvojamater3130 yes

[@Weolson]

"You want to have the best economy in tropico 5? Heres what you do, just have the best economy"

[@youlywolfcommand3613]

Weolson my problem is not my economy I'm good at that it's the freaking up risings I kill my civilians witch crippled the economy. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@the_rover1]

sounds like a classic penultimo pro tip to me 😁

[@jucalebre7540]

Lmao

[@sweeety969]

My main struggle is overexpanding. I get a little bit of money in the bank and go off and start planning and building too much stuff and it's not sustainable and the cost of building that stuff cripples my economy. Then that drags my approval down and I get my ass handed to me at the polls.

[@InterpolBulliedMe]

You have polls?

[@guelspace]

​@@InterpolBulliedMelol

[@Jerutastic]

Whoa, I just came to see how this video was doing and we are at 63 THOUSAND views? Wow, Tropico fans are legit the best, I can't wait until I do Tropico 6 Gameplay and guides for you guys!

[@cheekibreeki2electricbooga582]

Jerutastic what’s sad is a fortnight channel gets at least 300k per video, and they barley put any work or time into their video and they don’t actually help anyone.

[@hammy_bottoms]

Broo I just clicked on this video for the first time because I'm still in the learning process of this game and OMG your city kicks Hella Ass! It's so giant 😅. I'm learning a little as I go so thanks a billion for your video.

[@magicobrunelly]

180k mate, still helpful thanks

[@thecasualhitman9838]

Thanks for the great advice. You have no idea how many times I started over cause either a foreign power kicked my ass, or nobody was working. Sometimes both.

[@laszlobandi9965]

wood industry is very bad overall, it creates pollution, bad relations later on with environmentalists, the trade prices are bad,etc. farms are okay but it sends you toward communism. for a good trading economy you need to have high relations with everyone so they offer you good trades. i liked axis better than allies, but still you need to keep good relations with other side, they tend to compete with each other so sometimes you need to sell meat or pineapple just to dont screw up the relations. each foreign country has their own preference. axis/Russians like communism, steal, rum, cars later on. allies/usa likes oil, meat, cash crops, electronics, capitalism, eu likes furniture, fruits, high single houses, pubs , middle east likes chocolate, good tourism , high cost entertainment. china likes if you accept emigrants, they like to sell food, very cheap materials, back them up against foreign powers. you need to increase foreign relations with china until they give you a nice offer, then it doesnt matter cause the contract goes on even if you piss them on. trade contracts are tricky. its not a good idea to sell raw materials, try to sell processed materials. if you need for quest go on, do it, but then switch it back to something you need. sell processed materials like steal or rum, never sell fish or pineapples if you dont need the relationship points. swinging between china and usa is good, you can get a very low import price with china, then increase usa relations and sell them directly. best profits are when you simply buy and sell the same thing on different prices. the other thing is high salaries, seems counter intuitive but having high wages, and high entertainment costs are better in the long run than paying low salaries and giving minimum fun value. citizens pay maximally 1/3 of salary on housing, married couple 1/3 of combined salary (tropico 4 was simple, salary should be 3, 6, 9 , 12, etc) also high entertainment increases chances of meeting the other gender, so they get married faster, you spare on housing, its a lot of micromanagement but you need mansions based on college educated couples, houses based on high school/mixed couples, apartments based on single persons. housing and entertainment revenues should cover the edicts and other costs, industry should cover the building costs and some profit. tourism is a long term solution, where you use the extra spaces of entertainment slots. the other things are placements of housing, beautiful areas separated by education and factions. better housing increases number of children, better jobs increase the need for education, better homes and jobs. so quality over quantity. each era has new industry. you can make profits from farming but at the new era you need to switch over better industries and demolish the old ones if needed. and try to keep an emergency fund of at least 10000. and never ever take out loans, dont print money, only in special cases of making a profitable industry and pay it back before end of the year so relations wont get hurt. the cost of regaining high relations are higher than the profit gained by careless spending.all good offers come from high relations so try to befriend anyone who has no good trading offer and then you can go against them

[@sauce773]

I wanted to read this until i scrolled down

[@RicardoBubel]

ist an complex game thats it

[@majorfin3040]

What I do is build sugar or tobacco and if your in the ww2 era I build rum diliestries and cigar factory's.

[@HellRazor_PK]

@Hammerin' Hank I didnt know you can shut down a building and send the workers to another factory. How do I do this? Im new to the game and Im enjoying it

[@stephenhutton7103]

It's like listening to DJ Khaled give gaming advice

[@Ethan_and_Astra]

No matter how good my game is going I will always end with a coup. Everything is great but unrest is high...

[@youlywolfcommand3613]

Your so right about that I give them liberty good food and religion and I have a $400,000 surplus somehow I get a uprising and I end up killing most of my workers. 🤦🏾‍♂️ how do I prevent that now my economy is going negative due to 500 plus jobs and no one too fill them.

[@grzegorzlisiecki5033]

Happy and Loyal are not same thingy here. Deep dive to individual brothers and sisters to bribe them. You are smart one after all

[@bakurawthesupersaiyanhair937]

I got so excited once my revenue became higher than my expenses.

[@sweeety969]

Yet somehow I was still broke..

[@alexkasema3575]

Subscribed for this outstanding work, really lays out the basics yet goes far enough to sustain tropico.

[@Jerutastic]

Thank you so much, this means a lot to me and pushes me to continue with my videos!

[@alexkasema3575]

Wow, so this was my first intelligent comment, with my punctuation and all. I guess good videos make good people.

[@bruce412]

Alex Kasema I felt this

[@AbdoZaInsert]

I felt this

[@Jerutastic]

Please LIKE this comment if you want me to start a Tropico island from scratch. Make sure you let me know, and I'll start a 'Lets Play Tropico 5' from the start.

[@kristenborrowman5774]

plz do

[@Jerutastic]

Im kind of late, but I am on episode 16 of Tropico 5 Lets Plau :)

[@Godfather9814]

How’d you get your foreign relations so high? Most times I try to keep others happy the others get pissed

[@Godfather9814]

@PJ_Playz yeah I miss the ability to have 1-2 cargo ships available for contracts per port/dock was easy to set up imports and exports with the foreign powers as much as you wanted

[@EfeTrkmn]

very useful, i also hate cheating and i kinda rushed factory at start and i just cant get good econoym this video should fix my problems, thanks alot!

[@Jerutastic]

+Efe Trkmn I'm glad it helped man, that's why I do these videos, there is a whole playlist I've made just for Tropico 5 Guide and tips and tricks, check it out for more tips.

[@kadenaldrich48]

Thanks this vid really helped me out with Tropico 5 i used to really suck but now I'm way better thanks again

[@Jerutastic]

Oh I am very glad to hear that. It feels good knowing I helped people enjoy this game! Thanks man

[@powerfulshammy]

You can go planks and logs like forever it makes a lot of money too. and if your Island has Iron and coal at the same time make steel

[@Jerutastic]

+Jonathan Laig the issue I've faced with that is two things, they make a lot of pollution which decreases housing quality in the area and as far trade wise they don't always have the best deal. Though to be honest I've never focused on them much for making money

[@laszlobandi9965]

they do worth a lot of money, because its not a raw material, also is part of the car making process but usually you run out of iron or coal s you need to import it

[@lucky-lu6tc]

ok im five years too late, BUT what is the dreamy song playing in the backround? love your Tropico series :)

[@lucky-lu6tc]

hope you could tell us even five years late xD music finding software cant find it since you are talking over it

[@jonny5777]

That was really helpful thanks and great looking Island

[@Jerutastic]

+jonny5777 you're welcome buddy, got more how to videos for tropico 5 coming.

[@trevorveillette7416]

What island is that? I'm on ps4 and can't find it. I would also like to know in your opinion what is the best island for having an abundance or should I say a good means to make money (like good farmland and good deposits) but also a lot of room for building a beautiful city. Because if I do custom map and put rich or abundant resources then its put in areas for good farmland that puts holes in the farms and is right in the middle of my towns and settlements which looks and feels terrible

[@danielhicks4826]

I been playing 6 and just got 5, I like it so far but man docks so so much more confusing, I dont understand the whole 1 ship or 2 per dock thing and how to change import/export much at all yet so confusing.

[@dirtbikeryzz]

Usually every game i play ends due to traffic jams killing my economy. Its been like that for every tropico, and every new release they don't add better options.

[@luckymeoy]

i don't bother with ranches, cause i don't want to keep moving them around. it messes up my city planning

[@xViolentDeathx]

I have a problem with the input of goods from plantation & farms, for example, I built a Cannery industry & i built two corn plantations besides it to ensure the ranch in between have good amount of corn to get good amount of output of meat to be use for the Cannery, but the ranch shows 0 corn input & can’t produce meat. I need help man, i even build multiple teamsters building

[@Jerutastic]

Hmm okay few things, 1. Are you talking about regular ranch or factory ranch? If regular ranch then you dont need corn for it. 2. Is the ranch build in a good spot for cattle? Make sure the grid is green. 3. Even though they are next to each other, Tropico 5 system of transportation sucks, so make sure you have enough teamsters. Also in the edicts make sure you have argiculture subsidies enabled that helps with it. If you have Discord and want to send me a few screen shots of your almanac for more help you can find my Discord here ►discord.gg/EuGqq4E 👈

[@xViolentDeathx]

Jerutastic thank you for the reply man! Huge fan of your Tropico 5 series, one more problem, how do i get more citizens & how to have students in college & high school since my college & high school always 0 or low

[@matthewn609]

Turn off the option to allow local consumption. Then the corn will go directly to factories or to export dock.

[@imnotyourbuddyguy9713]

This should be a resume for a city planner in real life. I can guarantee you probably would do a better job than some college grad.

[@ryanheller7534]

Drydocks, bud. And the upgrades.$$$

[@Jerutastic]

Drydocks yeah, but thats for trade, there are many ways to make money in Tropico 5. Drydocks is one of them for sure.

[@ShacolateClown]

if you have the waterborne DLC place those pearl collecters. ( also have 2 sugar and cocao farms. ( if you can place green cacao farms )

[@gameskeepeerprogaming8449]

If some of you don´t know a good and cheap starting way (for dumbasses) then there´s a way that I did: Colonial Era: 0. Buy the trade license to increase Revolutionary support (it doesn´t say it but it allows you to trade with pirates who work with revolutionaries) 1. Build one Sugar and one Tobacco plantation. 2. Try to fulfill every royal task and request only the money (or the prolonged mandate if it´s ending in 1 year) 3. Try to fulfill every revolutionary task and request educated immigrants (these would help you with getting managers) 3.25 Never build a library before the "Technological advantages" task comes in. 3.5 Build few more docs if you have enough money to unlock more trade routes and increase the profit. 3.75 Never build a catholic mission before the new dynasty member baby task or something comes in. In that case you should choose the "Arrange quick wedding" or how is it called and then build the catholic mission. 4. Don´t declare independence until you´ll research everything or if your mandate is ending. 5. Before declaring independence try to have 10,000 - 20,000 money so you could build new buildings. 6. Declare independence the * buying * way by paying 10,000 World Wars: 1. Try not to update every home. (that thing once bankrupted me) 2. Doesn´t matter if you ally the Allies or Axis. Allies want more food and plantation things. The Axis wants more Ores and food too. (I allied Allies but as the first trade task I made Axis pay 20% more for coal) 3. Build a few military buildings. I suggest 3 Barracks, 1-2 Military bases and upgrade your elite troops in the palace into commandos. (You need those buildings and upgrades to progress into another era and to stop rebellions) 4. Build the Power plant, High school and College. Power plant creates electricity from coal and gas. High school and College allows everyone to study and to fit into more working positions. 5. Use those earned 10,000 to buy Cigar factory or Rum distillery (I suggest Cigar factory because that doesn´t need electricity) 6. For the negotiations send one member of your dynasty. Never send Pablito or how is the guy called. (he failed and I got invaded again) These things should help you start a bit. I didn´t put Cold War or Modern Era tips here because I completely destroyed my economy by buying a lot of new military buildings and because of electricity shortage I bankrupted.

[@josephkempinger]

I’ve gotten up to the millions but only a couple times. It was due to my own entertainment and commerce and shit not even exports. By the time I did all that I was exporting some things but them opera houses were goin crazy Edit: I’m now seeing he has 3,500 people holy shit. I had that much with like 500-600. I’m not sure if that’s less or more impressive

[@imnotyourbuddyguy9713]

What's your likability amongst the population? Because his seems REALLY stable. After all you can have an area that makes insane amounts of money yet the quality of life for the majority of the population is horrible, see California.

[@josephkempinger]

@@imnotyourbuddyguy9713 it was chipping at somewhere around 80-90 for the majority of the time

[@korrilaape2756]

Yo thanks for the info, it helped a lot. Liked and subscribed💪

[@CarlosFlores-ng1fi]

Mine started bad but ita pretty easy to get the hag of. Especially coming to it it after attempting a harder more conplex game that was just too much. This one is fairly causual

[@Rockcroc2000Rm1wE3erWmNfkL]

And I had once thought I was a pro for keeping the balance above 10,000 for a long while, and then I come here, I see this man with a balance of nearly 2 million, and any confidence I had vanished. An outstanding player, wonder if it could translate to the real world? Probably better than any government man or woman we got as well, heh. I'll follow the advice, thank you.

[@benitorodriguez1051]

Thanks man really helps

[@Jerutastic]

+Benito Rodriguez you're welcome buddy, I'm glad it helped.

[@benitorodriguez1051]

I couldn't get past it till now

[@Darkgoth1992]

what's the background music you use?

[@lucky-lu6tc]

would like to know too!

[@danielarmstrong1570]

What map is it that your using

[@REECE187Dp]

man i cant even make it past the election hahahah

[@franciswong8578]

hi, what is this construction and other expenses in economy ? can they be reduce ?

[@Jerutastic]

hard to tell exactly what you are talking about without seeing a screenshot, BUT consturction is jsut basically when you build something it shows up in expenses for a little bit of time.

[@MrBobbyjoe5]

What's the music?

[@lucky-lu6tc]

want to know too!!

[@jessicanegrete6898]

What song is playing in the background?

[@lucky-lu6tc]

would like to know too!

[@bjorndevlieger8565]

so thats why my economy sucks i don't have enough farms and ranches!

[@Jerutastic]

lol easiest way to make money specially at the start of the game.

[@stewartfosterc]

Just discovered this game on ps now, should I play it or just skip to 6?

[@Hitithardify]

Play this one first, 6 introduces a bunch more stuff you have to keep track of.

[@JackNick1]

I’m in 350k debt lol

[@lemonxx4916]

do you have to have tabaco or no

[@Jerutastic]

+Mattheu- Dupont tobacco plantations? Of course, I make a lot of money from my cigar factory

[@matf6661]

How do you deal with the fact that ranches and stuff lose effectiveness over time, especially if they are too close together?

[@sweeety969]

I think I heard something about corn farms and ranches having good synergy, with the ranch fertilising your crops.

[@Viland-is8rn]

I have a lot of corn farming, but when I build factory farms always just do not produce because shows 0 corn input honestly I do not understand the function of teamster so I put it in any location i need help!!!! sorry my english is bad because i use google translation.

[@Jerutastic]

Are you using regular corn farm or corn hydroponic farm? Also are people working in it? And did you build the corn farm in a green suited area for farming?

[@Viland-is8rn]

im using regular corn farm and my corn production is at most compared to the others because i build 8 regular corn farm,But when I build more than 10 factory farms, some of which can not produce.

[@Viland-is8rn]

I have got the solution of this problem but after that I got a new problem again read here "output strorage is full" do you have a solution for that ? please answer

[@emrecanarduc4378]

Just build teamsters they transport your corn goods

[@nightcruiser8852]

What's the song called in the background?

[@lucky-lu6tc]

I wanna know too!!

[@chrissalas7669]

Love the game but in cold war era the game starts lagging real bad I don't know why and how to fix it.

[@Jerutastic]

Hmm never heard of that before, just in the cold war? After that it goes back to normal?

[@chrissalas7669]

No it gets so bad I can't play and I start to lose tons of money so I quit

[@Jerutastic]

Oh that sucks man, it sounds like the specs are too much for your machine maybe lower down the graphics settings.

[@alitroncoso4856]

What difficulties do you play? Including disasters

[@Jerutastic]

It depends, I showed about 3 islands of mine on my channel, first was regular, and disasters I always put to rare because they make no sense sometimes, the last Tropico 5 series I did on my channel everything was MAX including politics and economy.

[@ainiusmgecas5854]

what are the best farm food type ?

[@Jerutastic]

+Ainiusm Gecas as far as money wise cocoa and tobacco, pineapples too, also build a lot of sugars in order to run your run factories since rum factories will make you A LOT of money.

[@ainiusmgecas5854]

thanks i also heard that cotton i very profitable is that true

[@Jerutastic]

+Ainiusm Gecas as far exporting it, it's not bad, but where it's very profitable is where you make your own clothing company, then we're talking a lot of money 😎

[@ainiusmgecas5854]

thanks for the help ☺

[@flipflop3880]

The game doesn't come out till the 28th of September here. What's the game like

[@djepitie8157]

Very Good

[@dedeferreira98]

What if i star the game in the modern era? How can i start my economy?

[@Godfather9814]

I can never get my farms and ranches with workers after WW era-modern so I got my factories losing money since the farms aren’t supplying them!?

[@Jerutastic]

Plantations and farms don't become as effective as times goes on. Make sure you issue the agriculture subsidies eddict and also start looking for suitable areas to replace the ranches and farms

[@Godfather9814]

Jerutastic thanks! Most times they stay in good areas, but seems like my uneducated workers begin to get smarter or have smarter kids so end up demolishing them and start importing all my resources for factories and food

[@theonlyjoe_]

What do I do if I’m minus 100,000?

[@HazyPolitics]

Restart

[@warjones7399]

What are the cheat codes

[@0744401]

You say you're playing without cheats, but you have more than 2000 people.

[@Jerutastic]

Lol you know you can have a population of 10,000 on PC right?

[@majorfin3040]

Can you do a video about trade?

[@Jerutastic]

Will do, on Trade and how to get your military loyalty high too.

[@majorfin3040]

Also I agree with the What I want in tropico 6. But in tropico 4 did you like ministry as how to access edicts?

[@Jerutastic]

To be honest with you i liked tropico 4 much more than tropico 5 lol

[@majorfin3040]

I actually agree the thing is HIGHLY dislike is that you need to bulid the ministry to issue the edicts.

[@majorfin3040]

It gets annoying when you forget your player tropico 4 xD.

[@ezpzlmnsqzy6708]

Usefull vid

[@Jerutastic]

Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed it. Cant wait to start getting some Tropico 6 content for you guys.

[@karekristoffersen4832]

Nice vid

[@Jerutastic]

Thank you.

[@milospopovic162]

how do i use cheat codes in tropico?

[@Jerutastic]

There are no cheat codes

[@blackfield1355]

Cotton and cloth is best economy

[@Mullurice]

I thought the population cap was 2000?

[@Jerutastic]

+Mullurice you can now increase it, it's in the options menu before you start the game, just make it's updated to the latest version and that your computer can handle it.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Highest cap is 10 000. BUT 2000 is the default for pcs that cant handle more.

[@tbracerx]

aren't you playing on the XBOX? how do you increase the cap over 2000 on that platform?

[@horiadragoiu]

nice

[@miniaturejayhawk8702]

Step 1: ignore the peasants! My economy always dies because I build too many commieblocks for my people when I could instead be building more plantations and factories. At this point I ragequitted the game twice already.

[@lemonxx4916]

damn 2072

[@bigchungas747]

My city make all of its money from exporting rum 😂

[@chancenverspielt9142]

Somehow I always end up producing masses of cigars to get a great economy hahaha

[@aaMINECRAFTURUGUAYaa]

who told u u know spanish

[@francescobonadies5955]

Big armies!

[@Jerutastic]

+Francesco Bonadies are you talking about my tropico 5 military video?

[@sauce773]

It would havd been better if you would made a new game

[@Jerutastic]

How am I gonna have a successful economy on a brand new island? This is just a faster version, I do have a series if u wanna see how it done step by step

[@ordu73]

music is too loud.. and not nice

[@Jerutastic]

lol okay bro

[@lucky-lu6tc]

@@Jerutastic please tell us the song! even it is 5 years later lol

[@sauce773]

I need a computer again. Ps4 controller sucks for this game

[@Jerutastic]

I cant even imagine playing Tropico or any other strategy game on a console lol

[@sauce773]

Jerutastic it took me a while to get use to the control instead of a mouse but its a fun game once you figure how to get your economy going. I just cant figure out how to make my grocery store clinics and fishing wharfs to make a profit. Those 3 are always making me lose money

[@jorxgta]

El titular en espanyol i ell, parlant amb angles. Aixo es molt fals.

[@simonefritz4687]

It's KZbin setting

[@jorxgta]

@@simonefritz4687 vale

[@Jerutastic]

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[@Jerutastic]

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[@majorfin3040]

First and first like.

[@Jerutastic]

Hey man I haven't seen you around my channel in a while, hope everything is fine with you.

[@woodstock6792]

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