Almost Finishing Tropico 3 and Searching the City at the Wrong Time
I finally got around to starting the final scenario from the Absolute Power campaign yesterday and found it noticeably easier than at least a few of those that were unlocked before it, so kept playing until I won it. In truth, the listed difficulty is a mere 129%, which puts it below those unlocked in the previous batch, one of which went as high as 171%, not to mention that, if I remember correctly, seven of the 15 from the original campaign had a listed difficulty of at least 200%, the last one going all the way to 300%.
That said, now I still need to play two sandbox games to say that I truly finished Tropico 3. One will be the “God mode” one, which will be a walk in the park, but the other will be hard, because I mean to activate both “rebel yell” and “free elections”, making for a very difficult start despite otherwise aiming for a listed difficulty of only 100%. Actually tried it once before, but failed, so now I’m hoping that I learned a few more things and will manage it, so I’ll be able to finish and also review the game by the end of the year, despite keeping myself rather busy with something else these days.
What I’m keeping myself busy with is an insane idea I came up with about a week ago. It’s insane because pulling it off requires meeting four conditions that are next to impossible to meet, and even then the most probable outcome would be the opposite of what I’m hoping for. But I can’t just sit here like this, so I have to at least try. If the first two of those conditions still won’t be met a week from now, I’ll get back to curling up in a ball and whimpering, adding yet another failure to the list, but I already spent a couple of days looking for things this week and plan to really do all I can next week.
Looking for things did involve some on-line searching, but that didn’t result in finding what I’m looking for, so I wandered around the city on Thursday and Friday and that’s the plan for next week as well. I’ll be going out again tomorrow and if that’ll just turn out to be another failure I’ll keep at it at least until Thursday, unless of course I’ll meet the first two conditions before then. The weekend, particularly at this time of year, seems like a very bad time to look for things, however, so I guess I’ll have to give up if I won’t have it by then…
I’ve had months to think of this, but it never even crossed my mind until about a week ago, and now it’s such a wrong time to be looking for things, both because everyone else is doing the same, so it’s very crowded, and because prices tend to increase, particularly for such things. Then again, it’s also perhaps more likely for something like this to be in stock and on display somewhere. So far that doesn’t seem to be the case, but what do I have left but hope?
