I have just bought a couple of extensions for Tropico 4, but I don't understand how to switch from one to another. It seems I am stuck in Modern times. How can start Tropico 4 with El Plantador instead?
How to switch DLC in Tropico 4
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Making money from tourism is a real pain in the game. You are better of making industry, however if you really want to do it (for an achievement or the campaign or perhaps just a bit of fun?) there are a few tips I could give you.
IMPORTANT, before starting up any tourism, make sure you citizens are happy and you are earning a bit of money from industry or such. Without happy citizens, they can't be happy while serving tourists.
Focus on ONE or TWO types of tourists, do not try to please all of them, it will only ruin everything (from my own experience).
Make sure you place everything near each other, once you get an airport you do not want it to be on the other side of the island (I assume this would make sense?)
It helps to have your workers not to far off, or if they are a bit off always have garages so they can get to their work in the hotels fast.
Try to mess around with the costs of your hotels/entertainment structures. Are there no tourists there? Either they can't get there easy enough (garages, or lack of airport(s)/dock(s)), or it might simply be to expensive.
Make sure you have fully staffed buildings, no staff means that they tourists can't stay there!
Do not cut on costs for maintenance.
Only build new hotels/attractions if those you have right now are pretty much filled up, you do not want to waste money on something that's not required!
In the end, it's still a bad idea to do tourism if you really want to earn a lot of money in the game. Industry simply beats everything else.
Something to note you might not know about: the entertainment buildings that help both the tropico's and you have a rather strange system. The tourists will actually pay 3x more then the price it would cost your tropican's.
I did some research in my game, and it seems that the garbage dump removes garbage evenly throughout the entire blue area covered by the dump.
You can figure this out by comparing pollution vs coverage area vs predicted pollution.
First note my city's pollution, and the newly constructed garbage dump circled in green.
Now see the dump's coverage:
Now finally if you compare predicted pollution, you can see that the area covered by the dump gets its garbage reduced pretty much uniformly throughout the area. If the effectiveness of the dump fell off with distance, then around the edges of the coverage there would be almost no noticable effect, however you see a very stark difference between the areas just inside the coverage versus those outside.
So it would seem the best strategy would be to put the dump as far out as possible, while still overlapping the worst parts of your city. By counting the squares it looks like it has an effective radius of about 35.
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Best Answer
El Plantador is always enabled
El Plantador is a very small DLC; it only adds a new building, a new avatar, a few decorations, and a new mission (which is separate from the main campaign and the Modern Times campaign). The building, avatar, and decorations are available in all games, whether they're Modern Times or not. It should already be enabled if you've bought it; if you can build a Plantation (in the Food/Resources section), then it's enabled.
I've bought both Modern Times and El Plantador, and I'm currently playing the Modern Times campaign while building Plantations, so the two DLCs work together just fine.
Turning Modern Times on and off: only in sandbox games.
The Modern Times DLC adds two things:
If you don't like Modern Times, you can turn it off in sandbox games. For scenarios, you're stuck with whatever the scenario creator chose. If you don't want to play with Modern Times, play scenarios that don't use it.
The "Challenges" (scenarios created by random internet people) are broken into two groups: Modern Times and Not-Modern-Times. There's a selector at the top of the screen when you're looking at the challenges.
Almost all of the scenarios under "Extra Missions" are non-Modern-Times.
(There are a couple of minor bugs when playing non-Modern-Times games, mostly around random reputation-raising missions from some character that request a Modern Times building or edict, like the Telecom building. Just dismiss those missions instead of accepting them; you can't fulfill them. This might be fixed by now.)