Tropico 6 - El Presidente Returns

Tropico 6 is the latest game in the rather delightful Tropico franchise, but this time I'm horrifically mismanaging an entire archipelago...
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[@JackSpackProductions]

El Presidente: *makes speech denouncing Axis* Axis: You’re talking mad smack for someone in Blitzkrieg distance.

[@Vokabre]

The Axis did later lose to mostly the unarmed police whose power i suppose was preaching to the enemy how bad their behaviour is.

[@maledwarfwarrior]

@@Vokabre We have more men than the enemy has bullets! CHARGE! -Tropico police department captain during the battle of the banana field.

[@Vokabre]

They clearly learned Soviet tactics well.

[@maximumfun1078]

Oh, I know where this will go in the Cold War now ...

[@jayceonjudson3038]

You all prolly dont give a damn but does someone know a tool to log back into an Instagram account..? I was dumb lost the account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me

[@TheRealPentigan]

Yeah uh Jon, I think the reason you were going so easily is because you set Base Happiness to 'Strong' rather than 'Weak' so everyone's just more happy by default and more likely to vote for you.

[@LiliumPetal]

That's reassuring tbh, I was thinking about trying the game out, but got worried about the difficulty after seeing this

[@BlackViperMWG]

Yeah, he was talking about Carribean difficulty, but it was Carribean happiness xD

[@98dizzard]

Jon's infamous perception strikes again.

[@miccha9342]

That would actually be wrong. In the game Caribbean happiness is a mechanic by which your own citizens compare themselves to see if they approve of you. When you check your citizens happiness, you will see two values, "Citizen Happiness" and "Caribbean Happiness", the comparison between these two will define the support your people have for you. The caribbean happiness value increases over time, thus making you have to increase your citizen happiness to compensate and make them support you. Thats why during the WW era theres a mission that decreases the overall caribbean happiness, it helps you gain support by contrast.

[@wheresmymuffins]

'Two militarists, two communists, and some guy who slipped me money under the table' yeah, thats def how you wanna build an empire lmao

[@5Andysalive]

Well there might just be a bug or glitch with the difficulty setting. I prefer that as a working theory over "Jon is a genius at Tropico".

[@MrAgLi]

LOL.

[@shadowingyou]

He also set the happiness of Tropicans to Strong, meaning they support him no matter what he does xD

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

I just prefer to see him as the 'Rain Man' of Tropico. Instead of palm trees and tenement buildings he sees numbers and equations.

[@GreatValueOprah]

There’s not really a bug he just misunderstood what a lot of the settings meant and made life much easier instead of harder lol

[@5Andysalive]

@@GreatValueOprah That kinda proves part of my point abut doubting his geniousness. But there were no natural disasters.

[@bdk336]

John if *your* position is strong that means that it's very easy to maintain power.

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

The real meaning of power is the ability to set flame to one in every twenty buildings one visits with impunity

[@DaBigWilliG1995]

In from the stream waiting patiently for more tropico

[@BattleUnit3]

Britain: ships all of their malcontent people to the colonies Colonies: Rebels because they dont like the British Britain: Surprised Pikachu

[@pabond008]

If there's one thing we learn from Jon's city-building videos, it's that he should not be hired to design road layouts.

[@Orvieta]

Yeah the whole square roads block-by-block seems to be an alien concept to him.

[@CoffeeFuelledGaming]

I am absolutely loving Tropico 6, so glad I was sent it to review. By far a return to the greatness the series is and the music just makes me want to go on holiday to get drunk in the sun and have fun with no kids 😂

[@nikbol43below]

Is it really a pirate cove if it's a government sponsored pirate cove?

[@dan-el6015]

privateer cove?

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@dan-el6015 That just sounds like a gay night club tbh

[@maxoti6843]

what about corsair then ?

[@razagan1343]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 Government sponsored pirate themed gay night clubs

[@maxerd]

Also, Jon, you can now quick build AND finish during battles!

[@Conra.]

That was quite fun Jon, you should keep uploading this game!

[@shadushio9682]

Would I love or hate living in a town/city Jon made? My heart would want to, my head would tell me to run.

[@alexanderhetzel8271]

At least keep some emergency funds for when they invent one way streets.

[@shadushio9682]

@@alexanderhetzel8271 Nice one. ;)

[@shneancy220]

Lovely! More Jon tonight! Wonderful stream, thank you Jon :) Say hi to Claire and Tabby!

[@charlesbeavers9771]

Just a tip, the Taj Mahal and lots of buildings that make rich people (bank) end up in tons of free money ... Also don't forget the toll booths..

[@epicurius1]

I think you got it backwards. In election speeches, if you acknowledge an issue, that issue doesn't contribute to happiness when the voters are trying to figure out who to vote for...you're saying, "I know this is an issue, but please ignore it and vote for me anyway". So you want to acknowledge the lowest rated issue.

[@MrGhosta5]

fun fact you can unlock the golden laurels for el presidente if you cancel elections for 20 years.

[@Jon_the_Wizard]

Some of that stuff seems like stuff imported from Tropico 4 (the speech-crafting definitely). Conversely, Tropico 4 does have a lot of "insert money, increase productivity." I'm really tempted to get T6, just because running a banana republic is something only that series does, and it looks like it hasn't been better.

[@nickh4354]

Theres some oddities here and there but overall its a huge improvement from tropico 5 in subtle ways, they kind of add up over time little by little. I absolutely love it!

[@DZ-1987]

Y'know... i do wonder how long it'll take before Rico Rodriguez shows up.

[@acewolfgang276]

i've been playing JC3 recently (don't buy JC4 trust me) and I've been thinking the same thing.

[@DZ-1987]

What's wrong with Just Cause 4? Dan likes it and that gives me no reason to think that its shit.

[@DZ-1987]

Ya know, i just thought of a joke. What do you call the textures used in buildings? Architexture

[@K12-h7r]

Carribean happiness was set to "Strong"...that's why it was easier than expected. and please, for the love of god...make better roads

[@tinchosabala]

-Plays Trópico 5. Likes it. -Plays the sequel literally the next game. Seems Jon enough, yes.

[@MW-pb2gf]

@Tincho Sabala he prefaced his first tropico 5 video by pointing out 6 was just about to come out, and that’s why he was playing 5. he was always planning to immediately play 6 next regardless.

[@Lanka0Kera]

"That doesn't seem right.." rolled a map with similar settings, and I was swimming in dollah.. So guess the random map difficulty settings don't work properly, because it was significantly easier than any premade map.. :F

[@frontofthesoapless5445]

Many of the new things (like die-hards and blueprints) did just return from Tropico 4

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

The newspaper options were in Tropico 4, glad they brought that back

[@StudlySoldier]

New rule for the MATN drinking game. Take a drink every time Jon says "spot on"

[@andrewmorrison1724]

That's dangerous, people could die

[@soulsearcher9620]

"sorry about that if you're australian by the way" that one broke me and I laughed for five minutes straight. well played sir.

[@oisinmoore2129]

Lads when Matn said “so isn’t it perfect that tropico 6” the captains picked it up as “so isn’t it perfect for tropico sex” 😂😂😂😂

[@Kitsula]

Where in the World is Many A True Sandiego?

[@MusicVideoTrioS1]

*Godzilla relaxing on a sofa smoking weed with King Kong going to town on a bag of crisps* King Kong: "Wow bro, weren't you like supposed to terrorise that island?" Godzilla: "Oh shit yeah man I forgot" King Kong: "Don't worry bro I got you, we'll take my ride"

[@JugglerRK]

KEEP PLAYING!!!! I love this game!!!

[@ellaguy-vogel8765]

This looks interesting I’ve played tropico 4 and 5 but not 6, and a lot of these “new” features are actually returning from tropico 4 (e.g. blueprints, variable strength of faction loyalty for individual citizens, citizens having actual money) Personally I preferred 4 to 5 in a lot of ways but 6 looks like it’s brought back the things I liked about 4 so I’ll definitely give it a look when the price comes down

[@sithalo]

Tropico 6 looks to continue the trend that all games tend to do sadly. Couple steps forward in some way and a bunch of smaller steps back in others.

[@malcolmscally1533]

i said no to going to the pub tonight so i could watch the tropico 5 stream, well worth it :)

[@mudcrab3420]

Waits for Jon to utter, "maybe we are not the good guys"

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Are we the baddies?

[@districtjank6965]

John should play long live the queen

[@ryancouchman-sawyer2355]

Jon you missed a Bauxite Mine. If you go down the road a bit you can find a source of Bauxite.

[@Jasper-Holland]

"Rescue" means kidnapping you genius...

[@nicancelin3714]

Jon, I think I love you

[@agrainofrice9274]

Jon please yes do a LIVESTREAM!!!

[@Vokabre]

Jon for European Union El Presidente!

[@soulsearcher9620]

Jon could run Britain. As well as fix traffic all over the place. he could design bridges and chair lifts with pyramids of strength and bridge ballast.

[@soulsearcher9620]

@@TheHuffmanator America EU. It's a tie

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@TheHuffmanator Go live in a real banana republic, see if your lilly-white privileged ass will enjoy paying bribes every time you go to the fucking post office to assure your parcel gets where it needs to be and doesn't end up sitting in some warehouse full of 'contraband' - among many other wonderful little 'tropical flourishes'. You'll be begging for the 'oppression' of the EU.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@TheHuffmanator It wouldn't be any sense of superiority at all if you didn't believe in it, now would it? Please, tell of all the ways you're superior to the stranger you've interacted with a total of three times in the comments of a youtube video.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@TheHuffmanator You brought it up, Huff... why bring up something that doesn't matter? Did you want to talk about something more 'important'? I already did that with my first reply to your bellyaching about the eu, but you turned it into a dick-measuring contest. I know you like talking about the EU because you've posted at least three replies in these comments talking about the EU when the OP literally had nothing to do with it, so why did you change the subject? I get the feeling you're being disingenuous about you ability to communicate with people.

[@Killix_Games]

Good thing us criminal don't have a superpower like Jon here being a genius and praying for shit weather. Good video man but I have to go back to my shackles to work in the lumber mill prison camp.

[@kevint1929]

I wouldn't mind this continuing

[@JoelStephens87]

Carribean *difficulty* cuuuute work around

[@Glaswalker1001]

Nice to be back

[@MrHamsall]

Series!!!

[@Streptovarius]

20:00 He stole an entire building, do you need to ask how he got a blimp?

[@Zioas]

Love the video jon 👍

[@timeforvintagepancakes9751]

Pirate Penultimo has +10 charisma

[@dagunner5814]

PLEASE KEEP PLAYING

[@dalvcthulhu]

i love how tropico 6 depicts everyone as assholes, more realistic than usual history/propaganda

[@CommissarMitch]

Question to Jon. Now that you have played both Tropico 5 and 6, which would you recommend for someone who can not have both due to economic restraint?

[@laterkater4213]

Mike Fluff I got Tropico 5 for $18AUD yesterday, so that’s definitely bang for your buck.

[@charlesbeavers9771]

5 is cheaper and almost as good. I'd go 5 for now.

[@nuhuh4564]

Agree with above, 5 is on sale right now at green man gaming.

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Agreed with the others. I have both 5 and 6. 6 is definitely fun to play. But if money is tight, you should be able to get 5 for less money. And 5 is a very good game

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Just checked steam. Here in the EU T6 is 50 euros. But you can pick up T5 for only 20 euro. That's a steal.

[@sweepingtime]

I glossed over Tropicos 4 and 5 because 4 was basically a copy of 3. Let's see if 6 will bring back the El Presidente in me again.

[@SarahAndreaRoycesChannel]

Even if you see 4 as DLC for 3 it is just more of an excellent game. 5 reduced the complexity and added stupid combat. 6 seems to merge the favored aspects of 3/4 and 5.

[@rainfitchett2985]

18:31 Ha! If only!

[@chriscalvin5083]

look forward to part 2

[@thatguy8570]

You are still finishing out tropico 5 right?

[@subatomicseal7789]

"For those of you who have been around a bit longer, you might know I really like Excel" Jon are you *sure* you're not a dad? Because every word that comes out of your mouth has Big Dad Energy

[@o0Wardreamer0o]

The Axis invaded from an unexpected direction? I guess you could say... *puts on sunglasses* ...Jon did Nazi that coming.

[@zacharytjohn8084]

o0Wardreamer0o off to the dungeon with you

[@patricker113]

series pls? :3

[@mralberosie3987]

El presidente will return in Avengers: Endgame

[@iain.sm.c]

Seems far easuer to understand whats going on in this one than in 5

[@lordrynogaming1553]

yay more Tropico, stream was awesome

[@tanku4995]

hedge maze !! total win

[@Myas662]

Where's part 2

[@octodionis]

Will Jon ever play Space Engineers?

[@justcallmelime5758]

If there aren't any one-way roads in this playthrough I see no reason why I should watch.

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Jon - you can customise your Palace. One of the options is to put a hedge maze in the front garden.

[@DavidKing-ph8or]

Never mind - I see you just found it.

[@RCN2820]

Why are we not a spanish colony?

[@casswedson2892]

ofrescan sangre para el presidente

[@epicaza]

tempted to buy this but i’m scared that my poor gtx 1050 with 8gb ram won’t be able to handle it

[@nuhuh4564]

I can't tell if you're joking or not.

[@epicaza]

Ben Scott originally i thought those specs were quite good but it can’t even run minecraft at constant 60, i think it’s faulty

[@circle67]

Part 2 pls

[@Freekymoho]

Feels like Jon is cutting a fair deal of relevant footage out here; like theres a whole sequence that happens when you rebel against the crown, but he's just sort jumping from the colonial age into the world wars age from one frame to the next.

[@tylerufen]

I see what you did there.. -_-

[@tylerufen]

Fishscale siding, maybe? Plywood battlements!!

[@tylerufen]

It is nice though...

[@wyllowgrayson8531]

Series pls

[@maxerd]

It's funny how only the communists and militarists give ministers that actually benefit the thing they're assigned to. Are these devs by any chance stalinists? xD

[@din3rvids331]

As we all know Godzilla is from japan 🇯🇵. Japan is in the Pacific Ocean and tropico in the Atlantic. The Amaricans only just built the Panama channel so next time Godzilla will definitely come for a visit 😅

[@DZ-1987]

But... 2014.

[@MW-pb2gf]

...I’ve never had to offer this spelling correction before but: *Americans

[@variousnumber891]

Ha, I mentioned the stealing the Brandenburg Gate in the Stream earlier. Almost like I called it. Or at least, it would be if you'd stolen the Brandenburg Gate.

[@thepebbleinstitute7702]

Viva Tropico!

[@wyllowgrayson8531]

Series plox

[@applecoreeater]

Have they fixed the immigration issue from 5? I loved 5 but it irritated me to no end how ineffective the "no immigration" option was. Made it unplayable for me.

[@bestblooperbuddies]

Mmmmooooaaaaarrrrrr... Pwease

[@s1nb4d59]

Put some foam up on your walls,your voice is very tinny sounding bro.

[@amdadonkey2951]

Dude, your screaming in the mic. Good gameplay tho

[@Ikcatcher]

Jon needs to play more Dictatorship simulators

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@@TheHuffmanator Why can't you not be fucking political in a comment? What is your compulsion? Are you venting because May's deal shit the bed or something?

[@MST3Killa]

Lol... Please, if there's a God...let Claire be the one to pick the color schemes IRL.

[@louisalex98]

Hum... I hate being annoying but please...no livestreams?

[@MW-pb2gf]

@Louisalex 98 ambiguity at its finest, where it’s impossible to tell if you’re (1) asking someone who makes money for his job off of livestreams to not make livestreams and therefore not make money, or (2) if you’re complaining mere hours after a livestream that there aren’t enough livestreams, or (3) you realize there was a tropico 5 livestream but don’t realize livestreams frequently go unlisted on KZbin after completion until YT finishes processing them the moral of the story being: don’t leave cryptic ambiguous statements, because there’s no way to figure out what you meant

[@dannyseda58]

plz come to console already!!!!!! ;( i can buy it on steam if i wanted to but i wanna collect the ps4 trophies for it

[@MW-pb2gf]

Vodka this doesn’t seem like the sort of game that would ever be on a console