MAD mission!

[-YgT- Kraze-NFo]

Is anyone else struggling with this mission? I've re-attempted it about 8 times now and each time I continue to fail. Not having an issue with money, or anything, I just run out of time. I am doing each and every option to extend the deadline, but no matter what I do I fail.

Does anyone have any tips or suggestions?

[UniNamer]

i think i know the mission your talking about. it took me many retrys before the stars aligned and i was able to recover my economy enough to win the first election, then dump back into the economy and buy the 2nd election. saved mid way, then had to reload 2 more times before i figured out how to get enough oil and uranimum traded with the time i had left. Ultimately i think investing alot of money into observatorys and buying colledge workers for them would be faster. i had 2, but 4 would have been great.

[KenseiOmega]

This mission is either super easy or super hard depending on how good you've been at keeping up on your research. I had a Library and a College when I started the mission. I then built an Observatory in a spot where it would give me the most effectiveness. I happened to have some spare Inventors and I made them managers in all my reasearch buildings. I also bought the upgrade that makes them generate more research points.

Since I had done a lot of the groundwork in previous missions I only had to accept a couple of the mission tasks to delay the war and I still finished years ahead of schedule. If you're not as far along you'll have to do some of the more unpleasant ones.

[JohnDman]

do whatever you can to research points faster so you can build the nuclear program building, I made an extra library upgrading them both and had to build like 3 observatories with upgrades.
also make sure to use your edict that increases your research, and make sure to invite the allies in your embassy so the president will help you extend the time limit.

[UniNamer]

yeah it was hard for me becuase the previous time i used the island i bearly scraped by and won. the economy was in shambles so to get this time sensitive mission on top of a crippled island, it took many tries to balance all the needs, i couldnt focus on fixing 1 thing and expect to win.

Although frustrateing, i learned alot about why it was failing and my next missions went by very easy.

[MouseSpawn]

In this one i got a task "crippel your debt rating" does anyone offer an explanaion to what that means ? Can you borrow, or do you just have to overspend all the time ?

[Gecko]

Originally posted by tamijo:

In this one i got a task "crippel your debt rating" does anyone offer an explanaion to what that means ? Can you borrow, or do you just have to overspend all the time ?

Its an edict on the 2nd tab, don't know the exact name. It allows you to borrow money (or pay it off). Just borrow enough to get a bad credit rating :P

[Gecko]

@ the MAD thing: what difficulty do you play at?

[Caius]

I'm having the same problems, Technology is key. Build a Observatory and put there an Inventor,m and a copllege asap. YOu might want to research first Oil as you have some 3 oil fields around the Island and hopefully a free Oil Raffinery.

The Biggest threat is if you accept those 250+ desperate immigrant, chanches are you gonna loose the election because, they will be mostly unemployed or homeless. You need a lot of money to create those "illiterate" jobs. Cabaret are fantastic as they fill up to 8 illiterates, then farms and ranches where you can.

[velasquezt43]

I spammed libraries for this one, building a library whenver I could. Was playing at easy economic levels though. Even then you have to creep up slow and do any mission that will give you more time. Oh yeah, don't use that immigrants for time option. I left that one active the whole mission as my "last resort" but never had to use it. I knew it would scupper Tropico if I threw that one.

[-YgT- Kraze-NFo]

I appreciate the comments and tips. I am glad to say I was able to complete the mission.