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Tropico 4: Megalopolis DLC Best Crack

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About This Content Build the largest city in the Caribbean on an island with constant influx of immigrants. Deal with problems such as unemployment, over-population and food shortages. Use the Conventillo, a cheap residential building that houses many residents using little space. Wear an old-fashioned suit with a monocle, mayoral necklace and use the bureaucrat trait for cheaper residential buildings and more profits from the “building permit” edict.Key Features:New building: Conventillo (housing quality degrades over time, has to be renovated frequently)New trait: Bureaucrat (cheaper residential buildings, more profits from “building permit” edict)New outfit: Mayor (male avatar)New mission: Megalopolis 7aa9394dea Title: Tropico 4: Megalopolis DLCGenre: Simulation, StrategyDeveloper:Haemimont Games, Feral Interactive (Mac)Publisher:Kalypso Media Digital, Feral Interactive (Mac)Franchise:TropicoRelease Date: 15 Nov, 2012 Tropico 4: Megalopolis DLC Best Crack tropico 4 megalopolis dlc Another bite-sized bit of content for Tropico 4, the Megalopolis DLC doesn't even give you new scenery items; just a building, a trait, a mission that I'll get back to you on, and a fancy outfit.This time around, the building and trait aren't entirely stupid. The Conventillo, based off a kind of lower class residence in Argentinian cities, is basically a costlier Tenement that takes up more space. It has a higher housing quality than even Apartments, but it degrades over time and must be repaired for $3,500 a pop to raise its quality back up.It has an interesting look and is a decent way of ensuring high housing quality, but you don't want to build too many of these or else you'll either spend more on upkeep than you should - or the micromanagement will slip your mind and your citizens will start grumbling. They cost more than Apartments and the USSR won't give you subsidies for them, either.Meanwhile, the trait just provides bonuses in areas where it's nice to have them: lower housing costs and higher Building Permit bonuses for your nascent kleptocracy. It's kind of a no-brainer if you plan to focus on your Swiss bank account or have a high population.The best summary I can give is that it's not bad if you're a fan of this particular entry in the series. A $3 MSRP is the upper limit of how much this ought to cost in the first place, so you should pick this up on sale if you want it.. Its a $0.50 DLC accidentally marked as $5.00.. Megalopolis is the 5th tiny stuff DLC and this time it allows content from Modern Times expansion pack into mission. The only tiny DLC that does it, if I remember correctly.The missions seemed to be fun. You are given points for every working person with home, which means that you will have to deal with mass immigration or you can also get more points by "bribe" (costs money) or doing small side-quests, all under time pressure. At first I thought that it will be a better version of Dry Cement DLC mission, making you build a huge city. As you can expect, my attempt at beating this mission that way failed and I just decided to build your usual strong economy and then just bribe your way to victory.So nope, still not going to challenge you in a new way.As for new building, it's Conventillo. A house made of garbage stuff, that was painted to make it look awesome. It has as many slots as Temenents, but it starts with awesome 80+ service quality and then slowly lowers down to be just a bit worse than Temenents. You can repay full price to fix it back. Sadly it costs more than Tenements or Apartament and USSR Development Aid edict doesn't cut down price of this DLC building, making it less of a good choice.. Got it with the Collector's bundle. It's a building an a trait.10\/10. Actually a helpful, useful building with a neat concept (quality degradation over time, so much so that they added it to the Tenements in Tropico 5). It's expensive at first, but houses a huge number of citoyens. Very useful for sudden mass migrant events or in concert with the Chinese Immigration edict from Modern Times. The repair costs aren't too high and usually they don't need to be repaired more than once per mission unless you're in a sandbox. Apartments are still preferable but when it's 1951 and you need housing for 20 new immigrants, the Coventillo is a worthwhile investment that starts with very high housing quality, taking many years to reach Tenement levels.Another one where the price is its downfall, but it's in-game use is good. YAY! ONLY REVIEW!It was mah. A few extra features, traits and campaign, not something to jump up about, it\u2019s nice but not worth full price, if you like Tropico 4 then get on sale or as bundle as will give some chuckles, thumbs hmm!. I think this DLC was good, but not great. The new trait and avatar are useful, the Conventillo I do not like using at all. The recurring maintenance costs are a pain. The new mission was ok, but could have been a lot better. I felt a real building and time crunch at the start, but quickly ran out of missions to do for points and was forced to use the bribe option several times to win it. Also I had the Modern Times DLC on which I think made the mission much easier since all of the modern buildings are so good.. This DLC comes with a new mission, Megalopolis and a new building, Conventillo. The mission is fun to play but not the new building. The quality of this building degrades over time and makes the game slightly more challenging.

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