You'll have to arm your pirates and their ships, too, since few buccaneers ever sank an enemy by reputation, alone. There are dozens of two and three-tiered product systems to build that satisfy these desires, like Tobacco Farm-Cigar Maker-Gambling Den. Pirates want food, drink, wenches, rest, hoards, gambling, well-defended islands and a feeling of anarchy, while prisoners thrive on food, rest, religion, fear, and a sense of order in their lives. The two aren't identical, and are frequently at odds. A lot hinges on pirate and prisoner satisfaction. Life isn't simply a matter of sending out pirates to grab money. As with other city-style construction sims, the primary pleasure lies in the choices you make, and the challenges of balancing micromanaged detail into a winning combination. At the same time, you take care of your prisoners, who do all the island labor, seeing to their basic needs while instilling them with a healthy dose of fear. Your goal is to make their lives more secure, offering them the comforts and luxuries that any seaborne sociopaths could reasonably expect. To give you some flavor of the work, just remember that Penzance was a Victorian Era seaside resort town.) Other pirate leaders work for you, raiding settlements for captives, and sailing the seas in search of loot. (However, developers Frog City probably chose the title Pirate King for your leader because it features prominently in that comic opera masterpiece, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. It's more appropriate, given your task: the construction of a Caribbean pirate island during the 17th century.

The Premise You're a Pirate King or rather, let's call you a Pirate CEO.

There's a more open-ended quality to your progress in any given scenario, and a quirky humor that lives far across town from the white picket fence of reality. Tropico 2 has no pretensions to design-your-own-Latino-culture. So why is the old fahrt going on about the original Tropico at the start of a review about a different game.? I'm glad you asked that, and so politely, too! It's because while Tropico 2 uses the same basic interface and provides a similar kind of island-building strategic simulation experience as its predecessor, I find myself better pleased with the results.