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53 - 18 July 2002 ------------------------MISCELLANEOUS FIXES * Cancelling out on bulldozing a building now refunds your money (pro-rated if laborers have already started working) * Clouds are now always displayed during a hurricane, even if you normally have them disabled. After the storm is over, clouds revert to the display mode you had them in before (show/no show clouds) * Scenario names are now preserved in hi-score list even if you've saved the gam e to an alternate name * If you loaded a new game or returned to the main menu during a hurricane, the sound was not stopped - now it is fixed. * Fixed service quality labels for banks in 'building detail' view * Resolved a bug with the 'Marooned!' scenario caused by the low population on t hat map * Minor fixes to the 'Another Fish in the Sea' and 'Summer Games' scenarios. ------------------------Version 1.52 ------------------------* This was released only with the European release of Tropico Gold and included some of the bug fixes listed in patch 1.52 above. ------------------------Version 1.51 - 2 June 2002 ------------------------CRASHES * Fixed crash in wrapper screens when player had won the game. This bug sometime s caused crashes when the screen display was trying to switch to the win/lose (balcony/rowboat) animation. * Fixed crash related to cloud removal. * Fixed crash caused by destruction of marina while its boat was out sailing around. Now the boat will eventually exit the map. * Fixed crash caused by selecting (in order) the Building Mode button, Landscape tab, Large Fountain, Info Mode button, Building Mode button again, then moving

the cursor over the map. BUILDINGS * Added hover-help to rubble generated during play, to indicate what type of building it was (so that buildings destroyed by storms can be identified and rebuilt.) To see this, place the cursor over rubble created during the game, a nd the building's name will appear at the bottom of the screen. This will not wor k with rubble created in the editor, nor with games last saved prior to applying this patch. * Can now bulldoze ranches. (The animals disappear when the building does.) * Increased rate of grass growth in order to make ranches more profitable. * Ranches no longer show meals being sent to a marketplace when no marketplace exists. * Power plant no longer generates electricity for a month when first built, desp ite having no engineers. * Power plant no longer supplies electricity to buildings when all existing powe r plant engineers have quit/died. * Fixed bug with TV Station, Radio Station, Newspaper and Movie Theater that enabled multiples of the same building to use the same Option if the buildings were facing different directions. * Fixed missing line in central control panel which displays average number of readers/listeners/viewers for newspaper, radio & TV stations. * Moved colonial fort closer to beach in random games. * Fixed bug that made the colonial fort appear more often than the archaeologica l site in random games. * Fixed units walking through walls of, and visits by women to, cabarets. * Fixed bug that let player select the presidential-retirement-fund option of El Prez' Childhood Home or the private auction of the Fort's artifact-dig option when "Incorruptible" was one of the dictator's character traits. * Changed tennis court from Relaxation to Sporting Event site. UNITS * Added Spring-Break-Tourist (SBT) riots. If there are at least ten SBTs on the island and their average Overall Tourism Rating is 37 or lower, a warning abou t

their unhappiness will appear. If conditions do not improve, a riot may follow . In a riot, some/all SBTs will target a particular building and cause damage to or in some cases even destroy - it in a manner similar to an uprising. (Note: police/soldiers cannot shoot or arrest tourists.) * Fixed bug that sometimes caused laborers to stop working when the player tried to build atop rubble. * Added code to help keep workers on the job they're initially assigned via the editor. * Added code to remove corpses in a timely manner. (Same code as was in the 1.07 patch.) * Cattle and goats are no longer shown as homeless in the Job & Housing panel. RANDOM EVENTS * Decreased damage probabilities for all storms (i.e., they're now less destruct ive). * Limited the occurrence of storms to no more than one every four years. * Made changes to influence overall happiness immediately following a storm, to help insulate El Presidente from voter backlash when a storm hits right before an election. * A storm will no longer destroy the only dock if the player's current treasury plus the post-storm aid will be < $3500. * When a storm destroys a ranch, its animals now die. * Strikes now last 12-24 months. * A maritime strike forces ships to leave the map as soon as possible. Ships (un)loading at a dock will leave as soon as they have finished that activity. SCENARIOS * Fixed bug in Win event in Mt. Sucio (LTDGSProTourism to LTDGSRevTourism). * Added missing period in EcoTrop intro. (It was only the final period, but it g ave the appearance that more text was missing.) * Fixed bad grammar in EcoTrop drill.evt message. * Added extra text to Presidente For Life intro to explain presence of elections . * In Tropicolegio, fixed name of dictator and corrected initial calculation of # of grads on island at start.

* Fixed typo in PegLeg's Cove intro. MISCELLANEOUS * Added TPI buildings to hover-help text for tourist attractions. To see this text, select a tourist unit, click on the Preferred Attractions tab in the central control panel, then place the cursor over the names of the attraction categories. * Added missing "skill" hover-help text for Attendant, General and Journalist: T o see this text, select one of these units, click on the Skills tab in the centr al control panel, then place the cursor over the name of the unit's job. * Removed phantom hotspot in circle window when in Info mode. Special Thanks go out to CafeDave, Cam, Coffeebean, Eddy, El Malo, Jim the Bald, MadamPresident, Mr.P, Railnut, The Chairman, Timmy the Tyrant -- and Scott Vail & the other testers at Talonsoft ------------------------Version 1.5 - 15 March 2002 ------------------------Tropico: Paradise Island expansion pack ------------------------Version 1.07 - 9 January 2002 ------------------------*** NOTE *** If you have already installed the Tropico: Paradise Island expansion pack, do NOT install this patch. If you do this accidentally, then uninstall the expansion and re-install it. If you install this patch and install the expansion pack afterwards, that's completely fine. ************ * Fixed a problem introduced in version 1.06, whereby the date-stamp on the patched TROPICO.EXE confused the installer for the Paradise Island expansion a nd would prevent Paradise Island from installing correctly. For version 1.07 (and any future Tropico patches we may release), the date on the patched TROPICO.EXE will artificially be set back to 11/01/01, to avoid this problem. * Resolved a minor bug that was largely cosmetic whereby dead bodies would occasionally stay on the map forever (they should now always disappear within a few months) * One component of Tropico's internal event system (GroupVariables) was not being saved correctly if you saved a scenario which used them (2 or 3 of the original Tropico scenarios used these, plus some user scenarios). Worst case, this would have caused some event related behaviour to reset itself when you

loaded a scenario already in progress. This bug has now been fixed. ------------------------Version 1.06 - 31 December 2001 ------------------------* Fixed a rare crash bug in software mode. (The bug would manifest itself in several ways, including an occasional crash when the game would end and switch to the final win or lose video.) ------------------------Version 1.05 - 30 October 2001 ------------------------* Fixed a problem where some graphics would have thin lines or cracks in them in hardware mode on NVidia cards (especially GeForce cards). This had been a minor issue before but had gotten worse under Windows XP. It is now resolved. ------------------------Version 1.04 - 3 August 2001 ------------------------* A very minor patch - fixes a problem inadvertantly introduced in version 1.03 whereby in hardware mode, with the game paused, there was a memory leak. * Also fixes one other very obscure crash bug that would only appear in software mode. ------------------------Version 1.03 - 17 July 2001 ------------------------* Greatly enhanced the capabilities of the editor (and made the game able to use those enhancements). All new maps put out by PopTop will require the 1.03 version of Tropico to run or even be visible in the map load screen. Look for news of new map releases on www.poptop.com - we hope to release several new maps over the next few weeks. The 1.03 version of Tropico can load all saved games and maps created with earlier versions of Tropico. However, saved games and maps created with the 1.03 version of Tropico CAN NOT be loaded by earlier versions. For further information on the 1.03 editor changes, please get the latest version of the Tropico editor files (tedit103) * Fixed a clipping problem with the 'Reduced Graphics Shifting' option (which is primarily intended for Voodoo 3 and PowerVR based video cards.) * Fixed city renaming - you should now be able to consistently click on a city to rename it. ------------------------Version 1.02B - 4 June 2001 ------------------------* Cleaned up the french translation of the game.

* Fixed one very rare crash bug ------------------------Version 1.02 - 9 May 2001 ------------------------* Enabled editor (for full instructions, as well as two necessary utilities, please check out out the tropico editor file, which should be available on-line as tedit102.exe) * Added programmable hot keys for quick jumps to map locations, people, and almanac pages, as follows... The number keys on the keyboard (0 through 9) can be programmed. If viewing an almanac page, hold down <CTRL> 3 to set the number 3 as a hot key for that page. Then, to return to that almanac page, press 3 (without <CTRL> or <SHIFT>) at any time. To set a hotkey to a unit or building, select that unit or building, then program the key by holding down <SHIFT> and pressing the number (i.e. 3). To set a map location hot key, do the same thing without any unit or building selected. In all of these cases, press the same number (without <CTRL> or <SHIFT>) at any time to jump back to them. * Airports should now be built about 35% faster (including ground clearing, etc.) Other large buildings should now be built about 10% faster... * If the world bank forces low wages on you, the prior wages will now be remembered and restored, if and when the wage restrictions are lifted, PROVIDED that you haven't changed the building's wages yourself in the meantime. * Fishing wharfs can no longer be placed in such a way as to trap the resulting fishing boats. * Cleaned up a few obscure crash bugs Troubleshooting notes (supplemental to those in the original readme file): If you have a Voodoo 3 based card - please make sure you have the latest/final version of the 3DFX drivers - early driver versions can cause various artifacts in hardware mode. 3DFX drivers can be found at www.3dfx.com If you have stability problems - all of the following can be possible solutions: 1) Try not to run any other programs in the background - close all other programs before starting Tropico. Avoid task-switching (ALT-TAB) out of Tropico. 2) Make sure you have up to date video and sound card drivers

3) Certain sound cards (Soundblaster Live) have hardware acceleration. It has been reported that this sometimes causes instability or can increase sound related problems. If your sound stutters or you experience instability, try disabling hardware acceleration on your sound card (if you have it). Remember, there are a wide variety of graphics options available in the settings menu (press <F2> in the game world), including the ability to change resolutions, enable hardware acceleration, change the amount of graphic detail etc. If performance is slow on your machine, consider running at a lower resolution, turning down the level of graphics detail, and/or otherwise adjusting these settings.

------------------------Version 1.01 - 1 May 2001 ------------------------MAJOR CHANGES * Replaced original copy protection system with simpler system that should resolve all issues relating to copy protection errors at game startup (Unable to find CD-ROM messages, blue-screen Windows errors, long startup times). * Fixed two bugs that could in rare instances corrupt saved games saved games from 1.00 version that were unstable should be stable now. MINOR CHANGES * Added 'O' hotkey to jump to your election opponent (only if election is underway, of course...) * Added one more character to the credits animation (drunken teamster) * Fixed bug where roads could be laid in oceans * Disabled 'F' hotkey (an artifact of the editor)