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Tropico Cheats

By mschol

Cheats for Tropico

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mschol
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Category: Secrets

Languages: English

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19 Aug, 2013 @ 6:14am

19 Aug, 2013 @ 12:21pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Cheats

Comments

Introduction

General

Underlined text will denote text that needs to be typed
Italic text denotes a key press, if combined with underlined text you must hold the key until everything has been typed in.

Most of the cheats have been tested by me, i will update the guide according to more testresults.
This guide is still a work in progress!

Notes

The cheats in this guide will change you game experience. When i tested the cheats, i noticed that the "happiness" value became zero in the books, and thus effected goals, see the following screenshot:

Also, some cheats (especially the Add Units cheat) might force you to quit.
Use the cheats wisely presidente.

Cheats

Editor Mode

Hold down ctrl and type editor
Now you can use one of the following hotkeys:

I - Shows the grid coordinates of your mouse
Ctrl + Left Mouse Button - Paint shallower water
Shift + Left Mouse Button - Paint deeper water
U - Add Units (Spawn people, boats, planes etc.)
Left Shift + Left Mouse Button - Place female unit
Right Shift + Left Mouse Button - Place male unit
P - Paint Tool, paint the ground in different terrain choices. (Hold shift to create deeper sea)
V - Vegetation Tool (plant and/or remove tree's)
F - Fill Terrain
R - Raise/lower ground tool
Shift + Left Mouse Button - Creates plateau
Z - Bulldozer Tool
M - Paint Minerals
Shift + O - Add builings more then one time (for example, the Immigration office)

Cheats

Ctrl + ratedifficulty
Ctrl + economicdifficulty
Ctrl + politicaldifficulty
Ctrl + muerte
Ctrl + rapido
Ctrl + removepeople
Ctrl + exacto
Ctrl + pesos
Ctrl + contento
Ctrl + importmap - Allows you to import map geography from an external image
Ctrl + onemonth - Advance one month
Ctrl + sixmonths - Advance six months
Ctrl + oneyear - Advance one year
Ctrl + fiveyears - Advance five years
Ctrl + tenyears - Advance ten years
Ctrl + twentyyears - Advance twenty years
Ctrl + thirtyyears - Advance thirty years

4 Comments

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aMiyafuji 3 Aug, 2024 @ 9:20pm

For the mineral painting, it's Shift + M, not just M

KusanagiASK 8 Jan, 2015 @ 9:19pm

Gracias

twentesmurf 27 Dec, 2014 @ 8:42am

thanks

sethwbcl91 5 Jan, 2014 @ 7:26am

Great guide here, and I think you've covered pretty much all the shortcuts and cheats for the game!

If I could add to your note, I've noticed that the game "resets" itself and regenerates the map (such as all grass turns lush green again in high traffic areas) to let everything be zero when the editor is left on. This typically is triggered by a year end or even just clicking a button such as the edict tool and then clicking it again to leave the edict list. To prevent this, I usually use the editor before the end of the game year to make changes and then promptly turn it back off.

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