Tropico 5 Strategy & Tactics 2: Colonial Housing Block

[@MrAlienCaracas]

Hello Sir. Your video is extremely valuable 8 years later. And you upbeat voice makes it sound like you enjoy what you do. TY for your great simplified work. Greetings from Dominican Republic.

[@CesarGarcia-ru8hr]

10 years later

[@TeamJella]

Best option for that 1x1 spot build a garden, wait until modern era, destroy it, build a metro station.

[@sued_]

I believe in metro supremacy

[@Z200a]

This is exactly the quality of Tropico 5 information I was looking for! Thanks, Pinstar!!

[@chriswyrick7007]

Pinstar, Just bought Tropico 5 and played through a sandbox game to "learn the game", and now trying to improve my game. Your videos Kick Ass! Very enlightening for people like myself just starting out. Great work and Thank You! Brilliant.

[@666rim8]

That joke about the tavern and the church was funny🤣 subscribing lol my gf plays sims and when I got this game on game pass she tried to tell me I wasn’t playing right and when she told me how to do something and she was actually right I realized I need some help🤣 ur the best amazing video 🤣

[@octopilovesu]

to this helped a lot thanks, I feel stupid putting all my business next to the road

[@TeamJella]

20% of comments: "thanks for the guide" 80% of comments: "You sound like this character from some game"

[@qwandonto6397]

The fact you dont say anything about liking and subcribing until the end actually made me sub The screenshot in the description is awesome even though i didnt use it

[@nickgirard9018]

but the colonial house provides its own food.. You can knock out buildings later to add a grocery. Instead of parks you could plop a tavern.

[@ollydavis2495]

I can't help but think he sounds like Winnie the Pooh

[@rolandaustria7926]

Actually he sounds like Edward Burns.

[@Joker170490]

I was thinking of Snot in american dad

[@PianoXfan1]

First Last Yes!

[@Brojman]

No he sounds like Charlie Day from Sunny.

[@yampithegamer106]

You got me dying 😂💀

[@kickassv8]

I know this is late, but thanks for the help. You made it very easy to build.

[@meloukos0965]

Very good job mate....after all this time i finally find a way to build my houses and keep happiness high!!!!! Thank you!

[@tsunamio7750]

Man, I love the way you analyse. It makes me happy to see that we have some interesting guys messing around with this game. ;)

[@Th3Whit3Stripes]

You did a great job dude! You put a lot of time into this, great

[@garoumaster]

im from Brazil and love your short vídeos about trópico... Can u produce more? The shorts ones

[@Ruimas28]

If you would like, check my lets play :) Its in english but at least you will know its someone else who is a natural portuguese speaker :p

[@christof1498]

Are you the voice from JIMMY in GTA 5

[@Pinstar]

+Vengine C.C. Nope. Haven't done any professional voice acting gigs. Wouldn't say 'no' if I were asked.

[@bj22488]

Lmao

[@wizkid91us]

So what do you do with this housing block once you move on to the next era? I noticed you have a different setup for the WW era.

[@AlastorDarkAngel]

This is going to help in a major way. Thanks friend

[@CrewChiefa0227]

Really god stuff. This should definitely help me. I was playing like it was still tropico 4. They added a lot more to this game than I think people realize. What is a tough guesstimation of how much each one of the "blocks" cost colonia and WW era. I will continue to look over the rest of your videos hopefully you answer more of my questions with them. Thanks again.

[@gravygames5945]

Where I come from we call '2 and 1 more' three

[@JLaw1]

fu*kin goofball lol

[@nsholmberg]

Nice vid! I like your housing project but the one critique is I don't see any parks. Does anyone else add lots of parks to their housing communities?

[@uitmcj]

thanks man! quite confuse before this because of road connection to building issue... I understand now bcoz of your explanation.. keep it up ;)

[@girlbuu9403]

Since our feed back is always welcome... ... it does not shock me that the underwear quest is your favorite.

[@havan56]

Great little tutorial/tip video! I'm definitely gonna try it. Until the 13 minute mark I was saying "Great ...But Since Country homes grow their own food do they benefit much from the grocery?" Glad you added that explanation.

[@theanonimo26able]

Thanks for this guide. It's Really helpful now that epic games gave this game!

[@hatshades1314]

(Sam) This looks extremely helpful as i shall use your layouts when i'm on tropico 5.

[@lukey666lukey]

amazing, would love to see some tropico 6 tips

[@Ultimatum878]

You are a Godsend. Thank you sm.

[@wxedsanddokx]

Love this idea, Im going to try this and variations of!

[@TeeVeesGreatest]

LOve it buddy, thanks heaps!!

[@SirMetalizer]

Thanks a lot for the Layout .. Really great work .. Making my work on Tropico 5 much easier :)

[@guldhans]

Really usefull tips! On to the next video!

[@gmansas2894]

thank you very much, your strategy helped me alot

[@vayahoo]

thx for the vid! i try building the house all together in one group. No wonder they people unwilling to move in, it was far away from their work place

[@kevinzki21]

omgoodness ty i used to play aoe but this one is alot of thought provoking which i like

[@lorenzors3751]

You should put some trees to increase the beauty , increasing the beauty is a nice way to improve the house condition and tavern efficiency

[@CryseTech]

Cool thank you very much! :) It was well explained and will help me alot

[@RIOT_IROAM]

Wow 😲 this is the best informative video on the colonial era ever thank u very much

[@Czesnek]

I am always trying to build a fine looking city, but it always end up like a mess. I could not be a mayor for sure. Next game I am gonna try for maximum score and efficiency and I am gonna so use these tips.

[@TheGhostOperative]

yea i have the same problem. especially around "change", like advancing to next era. i wish there's like a blueprint of a good self containing city.

[@SomeRenegade]

been trying to figure out how to beat my friend at tropico and came across your videos. now I see how he does it because he's completely copied your stategies. Great vids though man!

[@AirIsTotal]

Good video, I really enjoyed the content. A bit of constructive criticism though. I would highly recommend a pop-filter for your mic. It will help with those really hard p's and will increase the perceived quality of your recording. If you cant get a pop-filter a thin sock works aswell. Cheers

[@peacemaster8117]

This helped me, thank you.

[@Fallaron]

Great video, very informative! Got a question though, this has been confusing me since I started playing Tropico. You say there will be 88 families in the houses and your facilities can service up to 100 people. Does that mean a family equals 1 person? Because if it doesn't wouldn't that mean your facilities would be overcrowded quite quickly? Thanks in advance if you get around to explaining that to me!

[@Pinstar]

How many families a facility can handle effectively is a number that I don't have a hard and fast number on. The 1 max capacity = 1 family is a very rough estimation. The idea is that a tropican doesn't occupy that building's slot year-round. It only reserves the spot while the tropican is traveling to the building. So a single slot can handle more than one person per year. A "Family" can potentially be 1, 2 or more if you count young children. Given the average family size, I estimated that the average family has 2 people. Given variations for traffic and distance, I estimated that a single service building slot can handle 2 people per year. Thus that boils down to my estimation of 1 family = 1 slot. I may very well revise that estimation in the future as I get more data, but so far that ratio is holding up pretty well in practice. My facilities are heavily used, but rarely at 100% max capacity.

[@Fallaron]

Pinstar Perfect, thanks a lot for that explanation. I've started a new game using the colonial housing block and been trying to do the sugar farm setup. I think I might have to re-learn some Tropico reflexes, they seem to be "not perfect" :)

[@napalmphantom]

Fantastically informative, thank you

[@MrXbox78]

very helpful, great video!

[@My2CentsYall]

HI I also have tropico 5. Like the concept of what you've done but what must not be left out is location. You can have a million homes and not one of them move into the home, if the location is not right. the home has to be beside work and entertainment the only thing that your configuration is missing are places of work. unless you have that square surrounded by factories and places of work.

[@lkdgamingchannel5219]

Alehia klorian He said that towards the start of the video.

[@c0baltron]

Still useful in 2024, after a certain noob bought a bunch of heavily discounted oldies (but goodies!) from a certain Summer Sale :)

[@sankaracharyadutta9408]

hOW MUCH WORK DID U PUT IN THIS GAME... ITS AMAZING

[@SKAmut]

I think this will be better if you build this block with an extra square spaces, because after the colonial area you could easily convert it to your "World War Era" block.

[@CHACK70]

Hey Pinstar, interesting vid!, very curious to know the actual ROI for setting the block out like that though.

[@jigme5]

Please excuse me for asking but what does ROI stand for ?

[@Cryptic_Chris]

Return on Investment. Essentially, are you benefitting more than what was spent?

[@thunderlord2200]

my question is how far can u place the main points aaway from the houses? i only ask because i like to keep things looking nice and neat. (not cluttered as much as passable. i find mt self made because i cant move the "main" house that we the player live in. i would like to move it to a mountain for more defiance agest attacks . (im playing as the warlord/ do things my way or i kill u. (i killed protest groups many times. xD)

[@docrock3234]

Do you metal with the housing budgets?

[@christophermakhtany2871]

amazing video.I learned alot

[@AmjadKhan-jp3fk]

do service/entertainment buildings have to be next to housing? I was thinking of having separate blocks just for cathedrals, churches, supermarkets, police, etc and connecting all those service blocks to all my housing blocks. Maybe have a metro and parking garage in each block. Haven't tried it yet as am still new to the game.

[@PedroAkaki]

Nice work

[@mikebaron294]

amazing help dude! thanks

[@christianrupprechter3645]

Should I uprage the houses in this block as soon as I can? (In the era of the World Wars)

[@semihbozkurt1037]

İ thought every building must be near the roads

[@ghjkldss8421]

thanks this helped me a lot

[@chaffee_og]

you recon this still works on TP6?

[@bradsweeney140]

So roads don't matter for the newspaper and church?

[@bob_the_soviet8347]

what's the island you're playing on

[@Alexander-James]

You have posted allot strategies on games. Pinestar I have to ask, what is your top 3 favorite games (in oder)

[@Pinstar]

+Alexander Nichols Man, that is tough. That list would change constantly based on my mood, theme and if you consider retro games on the list. Tropico would certainly appear on that list frequently.

[@Alexander-James]

That makes sense it's a really good game. Have you ever played Capitalism lab? It's allot of fun

[@Indyk12pl]

Cool video

[@kemioldaccount1325]

Why is the housing block so cramped? For example, the way you arranged the grocery and the Catholic Mission. With the tavern being in the middle of them, can the tropicans even get in to it? I always thought you needed more space for them to move around.

[@Pinstar]

+Daryl Joplin They can walk to the buildings. Why so cramped? Space is valuable and a small footprint makes this layout easy to duplicate.

[@Shagnarsty]

just curious, would the urban dev cancel out the planning permit edict?

[@Kasilyn_S]

no it doesn't, thee permit still makes the buildings more expensive, and using the urban dev will cut this price in half

[@khalidwarsaw]

instead of the small garden or guard tower u may think of metro station

[@palleterran9413]

Are u sure u dont need to build a few houses to keep things quiet? I never had a rebell attack in the colonial era and I build few houses in the beginning.

[@CalebSmith-hx7pq]

does anyone know what island he's using

[@Pinstar]

+Littlesmith05 I played exclusively on randomly generated sandbox games.

[@CalebSmith-hx7pq]

+Pinstar thanks

[@PierreWah]

Charlie! is that you playing Trop5? Not only making It's always sunny in phili, you are playing computer games too.

[@Dave_E_Jones]

if i have like 40 houses in a later era and i just unlocked electricity how would i upgrade all houses at once? is it possible?

[@tomjackledon1]

Nope, unfortunately not

[@RawGamingWorld]

Yes up rage them in the upgrade panel

[@anonimo2932]

rebels and enemy army doesn't attack house or residence, they attack military and economics buildings and of course the palace, so the tower in a residential block is needless, unless that is near a plantation or a factory

[@cameronmcallister7606]

+El Presidente Looks cool, paint go faster stripes on it, got a speedy tower.

[@drunknmunkyzz]

+El Presidente Rebels/uprisings originate from residential blocks (tenements, apartments, large groups of houses etc) so that's not a bad idea.... Guard towers are also good near the coast because that's where enemy invasions originate from

[@dockeryz]

Is it really necessary to say that you're back when it's only been less than a second since we've heard from you? It's not just you either, I see this done all the time, especially on Netflix tv shows.

[@CryptbloomRS]

drama queen...

[@MhmD-TH]

look you cant put infinte amounts of newspaper buildings so put a police station instead and sacrafice the second tavern to make a way if you want

[@cwjakesteel]

What about environmental beauty? Gardens help to counteract pollution like the garbage dump from Tropico 4.

[@Shangas0]

1 newspaper for each residencial block? that is not too much? (edit: very nice videos btw.. many thanks :))

[@Pinstar]

If they are close together, you can sub out more housing units if you have several blocks together. In my 2nd livestream (Tropico 5 Strategy & Tactics Livestream2: World War era part 1) I build one of my WW era housing blocks next to my original colonial block and swap out the newspaper since I don't need two so close.

[@devontedansler9866]

nice

[@trippasnippa119]

You sound like that angel on supernatural that tried to be God

[@sharnbungard5722]

lmao Metatron

[@joecena6393]

Is this Charlie from Always Sunny?

[@riloken328]

If Charlie day and Winnie the Pooh had a kid it’d sound just like this

[@starbucks2101]

SUbd! thank you

[@yo6p5050]

ur good

[@lorddraylon]

your voice reminds me of doctor demento

[@sauce773]

My groceries and clinics are always making no profit

[@casperrutte3339]

You don't need grocery stores if you're building country houses. So yeah.

[@akosjonas7950]

wow

[@dave7989]

Are you Charlie day? Bird Law expert

[@hassanane]

Man, this guy sounds exactly like Charlie Day

[@rolandaustria7926]

Actually he sounds like Edward Burns.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Never thought of myself as someone who cares how things look. But this just looks overly crowded. it looks like u took anything and everything and just threw it in a pile. I bet its super effective but it looks too packed.

[@thepurplepanda4]

So is this what Mickey mouse does after Disney shoots? Smokes half a truck if cigarettes and plays tropico?

[@Jolly123123123]

Veri nise. (Sorry am stil illitrate. Mi El Presidente no hie skool make)

[@AngiAnconda08]

Somehow 5 looks more natural then 6

[@1bireylem]

HELLOOOW YUUUTUUUB I AM GAYSTAR

[@Malakaiii.u]

You sound like pinstar

[@xXiibusterXx]

Seriously, not hating but the constant mic popping made it unbearable to watch. Way too close to the mic in the video.

[@Pinstar]

+xXiibusterXx This video was made really early in my KZbin career. I've since upgraded my gear and editing skills. Comments like this inspired me to improve :)

[@xXiibusterXx]

+Pinstar I'm glad you got better, it was really helpful commentary I just couldn't make it through. Certain sounds make me tic and that was one of them, really wish I knew how to keep these colonial era peasants happy. They stay unhappy no matter how hard I try. I'll build a thousand taverns, groceries, and gardens around them but they just ask for more and more. R.I.P my mandate time

[@MaZe741]

terrible build, houses gain efficiency for the beauty area. you built 1 park, this isnt going to be profitable...

[@Plague_Doc22]

Never thought a person could sound overweight, but you clearly do. lol. Completetly irrelevant I know. Anyway thank you for the tip.

[@Shagnarsty]

just curious, would the urban dev cancel out the planning permit edict?