Thoughts on game balance (please add your own)

[jip24]

***please feel free to add your own lists to the below***

Many of these have been mentioned elsewhere, but have not appeared on 'known issue' lists yet AFAIK, and tend to be scattered around the forum. I've been playing Tropico since #1, and so thought I'd add a short list of things I'm currently finding frustrating. Devs: I have every faith in you, and thank you for all you've done so far :)

(I'm ignoring outright 'bugs' for the purposes of this thread)

- Tourism is still essentially unplayable
- Requests/demands are terrible. Irritating, repetitive and irrelevant - but ignoring them = doom. Sometimes they even demand things I've already done (e.g. "level 2 free wheels").
- Industry profitability feels quite unbalanced (e.g. cigars vs cotton)
- Housing isn't working well (dead 'homeless', choice of housing too strongly tied to location etc)
- Multi-culture: radius currently infinite (bug?); I fear the current blue circle - once implemented - will just be too small
- Tropican life balance overall feels a bit off still; I imagine this is tricky to get right given the full simulation now used, but travel distances/time are too critical compared with length of work shifts. I would like to build residential districts, but end up building tenements, churches and restaurants across my farmland. Teamster inefficiency likely stems from this too in part
- Path finding feels problematic, particularly regarding decision on venues & 'reserving' visitor slots before arrival. I appreciate getting this right from a 'full simulation' modelling perspective is really quite tricky!
- Typos in some of the loading screen quotes/tips
- Raids feel in need of some work: Can we have separate queues for each building?
- Dock: expected revenue currently includes items 'in storage' but not due for export. Can we either split these out in the dock info screen, or even have a stand-alone storage building?
- Radio & TV station, built after Eiffel Tower, still only show blue buildings within their circle, not across the whole map
- Messages indicating power shortage appear periodically, despite power evidently being sufficient (according to power station info screens & overlays)