Welcome, guideoui.com visitors. Tropico 6 game guide focuses on Entertainment Buildings Guide. This guide mostly consists of the tables with entertainment buildings parameters. Some of the parameters are not visible until building gets built, so it’s useful to have all of them in one place. On side notes I focus on service quolity as most important parameter; depending on your playing style you may need something else, like maximised fee. While writing this instruction, we pick up many pieces of information from several sites for you. We hope that this guide will help you.
As you probably know that buildings have “work modes” and upgrades. Both change building stats, but upgrades cost money and are persistent while work modes may be changed. Also most additional work modes require research. Upgrades in the table below are marked with cursive.
Most buildings have base efficiency of 100%. But sometimes buiding (like Tavern or Cocktail bar) can receive location beauty bonus. In the table below it’s marked with (+loc) in “service quality” column.
In the tables below empty cell means that value is not changed with work mode or upgrade.
Some work modes or upgrades have a specific side effects, marked with (!) in the tables below.
Some buildings have complicated political work modes or upgrades. Marked by (!!) in the tables below.
Entertainment Buildings
List of Buildings
- Acient ruins
- Ancient ruins
- Aqua park
- Arcade
- Beach resort
- Bothanical Garden
- Bothanical Garden
- Cabaret
- Cabaret
- Casino
- Childhood museum
- Circus
- Cocktail bar
- Ethnic Enclave
- Fast Food Joint
- Funfair Pier
- Funfair Pier
- Golf course
- Gourmet restaurant
- Gourmet restaurant
- Hang Gliding
- Mausoleum
- Movie theater
- Museum of modern art
- Night club
- Opera
- Restaurant
- Restaurant
- Roller coaster
- Scenic outlook
- Snorkel bay
- Souvenir Shop
- Stadium
- Tavern
- Theater
- Tour office
- Yacht club
Colonial era
The Colonial Era is the first Era in Tropico 6, preceding the World Wars Era. Here main choise is “Tavern vs Circus”. Circus costs a lot ($4800 + $2400 for blueprint) but offers service quality 45. Tavern basic service quality is only 30, but it’s location dependent, so you can easily increase efficiency up to 150% and get almost same result as basic circus. Also you can build multiple taverns and avoid transportation problem.
Theater and Opera are too expensive to build. Note, blueprint cost for this buildings in the next era will be twice cheaper.
| Building | Mode/Upgrade | Building cost | Upkeep (Electricity) | Workers | Job quality (Wage) | Visitors | Service quality | Fee | Wealth level |
| Tavern | Liquid Melancholy | $1200 | 24 | 3* | 40 ($6) | 12 | 30 (+loc) | $8 | poor |
| – | All-You-Can-Drink | 30 (-10) | 37.5 (+25%) | ||||||
| Circus | Clowns And Popcorn | $4800 | $52 | 6* | 45 $7 | 36 | 45 | $7 | poor |
| Beasts and Blood | 6 | $9 | |||||||
| Wisards And Magic | 42 | 35 | |||||||
| Theater | Classical Staging | $5300 | $58 | 6** | 50 $8 | 24 | 60 | $15 | well-off |
| Opera | $9880 | $92 | 8 | 60 ($10) | 36 | 75 | $? | rich |
World wars
The World Wars is the second Era in Tropico 6 preceding the Cold War Era After Colonial Era.
Bothanical Garden is useless, nobody except broke people will visit it.
If there is electricity, Funfair Pier is best for poor people, otherwice they will have to use circus.
Restaurant and Cabaret are the choice for well-off. Theater from previous era also can be used, but it has lower service quality.
| Building | Mode/Upgrade | Building cost (Blueprint cost) | Upkeep (Electricity) | Workers | Job quality (Wage) | Visitors | Service quality | Fee | Wealth level, tourists |
| Bothanical Garden | Public garden | $4200 ($1050) | $28 | 2 | 45 $8 | 16 | 30 | $0 | broke |
| Private garden | $10 | well-off | |||||||
| Experimental garden (*) | 20 | ||||||||
| Funfair Pier | Fun for big and small | $7350 $1837 | $82 20MW | 6 | 45 ($7) | 24 | 60 | $15 | poor, child |
| Extra round | 20% | ||||||||
| Restaurant | Cloth napkins | $2600 | $44 | 4 | 45 ($9) | 12 | 65 | $15 | well-off |
| All-you-can-eat | -25% | 55 | +relaxation | ||||||
| Kids menu | 35 | 25% | +child | ||||||
| Cabaret | Dance acts | $5000 | $48 | 4** | 50 $10 | 16 | 65 | $16 | well-off, cultural |
| Burlesque acts | -10 | 15 | rich | ||||||
| Political acts (!) | -10 | ||||||||
Cold War
Cold War is the third era in Tropico 6, comes after World Wars and before Modern Times. This brings useful upgrades for older buildings and a lot of new ones.
Theater gets a upgrade making it available for poor people. Restaurant, Cabaret and Funfair Pier get upgrades improwing quality, so they still may be used in this era.
Movie theater is best for poor people; Funfair pier still can be used. Also poor people will visit Childhood museum and Mausoleum; this buildings have specific political options, but are actually entertainment.
Cocktail bar placed in good location is best for well-off. Restaurant and Cabaret still can be used; also Snorkel bay.
Fast Food Joint and Arcade are useless. Theater (with upgrade), Night club and Casino have rather bad parameters.
Another useful things:
- “National day” edict (Increase efficiency of all taverns and cocktail bars by 10%. Decrease crime safety by 8. Decrease standing with Religious faction by 10)
- Gourmet Restaurant has a special work mode when it’s not actually an enternainment building, but adds bonus to diplomacy
Cold war (updrades)
| Building | Mode/Upgrade | Building cost | Upkeep (Electricity) | Workers | Job quality (Wage) | Visitors | Service quality | Fee | Wealth level, tourists |
| Bothanical Garden | Butterflies | +$3000 | 5 | +child | |||||
| Bothanical Garden | Air-coditioned dome | +$5000 | +5MW | 10 | +relaxation | ||||
| Funfair Pier | More light | +$2000 | +40MW | 10 | |||||
| Theater | Improv theater | -20% | poor | ||||||
| Opera | Prima Donna | +$1500 | +$2 | +$4 | |||||
| Restaurant | Freezer | +$3000 | +10MW | 10 | |||||
| Cabaret | Playback Equipment | +$5000 +25MW | 10% | ||||||
Cold War (buildings)
| Building | Mode/Upgrade | Building cost | Upkeep (Electricity) | Workers | Job quality (Wage) | Visitors | Service quality | Fee | Wealth level, tourists |
| Arcade | Open all day | $2600 ($600) | $ 10MW | 3 | 50 $6 | 12 | 50 | $10 | well-off, child |
| Online(!) | 40 | 15 | +$1 | ||||||
| Penny arcade | 45 | -$1 | +poor | ||||||
| Fast Food Joint | Burger as usual | $2300 ($575) | $28 | 4 | 40 $5 | 20 | 45 | $6 | poor |
| Oil cleaning system | $3000 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Free refill | 50 | $5 | |||||||
| Movie theater | Block buster | $9440 ($2360) | $47 20MW | 4 | 60 $8 | 24 | 70 | $12 | poor |
| Political (!!) | 60 | ||||||||
| Casino | Fair play | $9200 | $74 25MW | 6 | 60 $9 | 24 | 70 | $12 | well-off, thrill seaking |
| Cocktail bar | Tropico libre | $3400 | $33 | 3 | 60 $7 | 12 | 70 (+loc) | $18 | well-off, relaxation |
| Upper class | +$6 | +$6 | rich | ||||||
| Happy hour | 5 | -$3 | |||||||
| Golf course | Beginner courses | $12000 | $104 | 4 | 45 $6 | 20 | 60 (+loc) | $30 | well-off, relaxation |
| Club Membership | 10 | +$10 | rich | ||||||
| No Green-Fee | -5 | -20 | -100% | broke | |||||
| Childhood museum(!!) | Nothing but the truth | $7500 | $__ | 4** | 55 $10 | 16 | 60 (+loc) | $0 | broke |
| Animatronics | +$25000 | +40MW | 20% | +child | |||||
| Mausoleum(!!) | <default mode> | $28000 | $90 20MW | 4** | 60 $10 | 20 | 60 (+loc) | $0 | broke, cultural |
| Gourmet restaurant | Golden Silverware | $16000 | $148 15MW | 6** | 65 $18 | 12 | 80 | $50 | rich, cultural |
| Wine Cellar | +$25000 | +$10 +15MW | 10 | ||||||
| Night club | No Dress Code | $9800 | $70 16MW | 4 | 50 $10 | 20 | 65 | $32 | well-off, thrill seaking |
| High Roller Club | 100% | 5 | 50% | rich | |||||
| Snorkel bay | Preserve the reef | $3000 | $56 | 4** | 60 $10 | 12 | 65 (+loc) | $18 | well-off, thrill seaking |
| Allow wild catches (!) | 10 | +$8 |
Cold War (tourism)
Note, this buildings are “tourists only”
| Building | Mode/Upgrade | Building cost | Upkeep (Electricity) | Workers | Job quality (Wage) | Visitors | Service quality | Fee | Wealth level, tourists |
| Scenic outlook | $500 | $4 | 0 | 4 | 45 (+loc) | $0 | well-off | ||
| Coin slots | +$3 | ||||||||
| Ethnic Enclave | Theme park | $6600 | $24 | 4 | 55 $6 | 16 | 60 (+loc) | $16 | well-off |
| Folklore festival | -10 | 33% | +cultural | ||||||
| Souvenir Shop | Meager Mementos | $1320 | $19 | 2 | 45 $7 | 12 | 55 | $6 | well-off |
| Pretentious Kitsch | 10 | 300% | filthy-rich | ||||||
| Tacky Toys | -5 | 50% | +children | ||||||
| Tour office | Tourist Information | $2400 | $22 | 3 | 45 $8 | 16 | 60 | $8 | well-off |
| Acient ruins | $2400 | $22 | 3 | 45 $8 | 16 | 60 | $8 | well-off | |
| Ancient ruins | Almost pristine | $2500 | $32 | 4 | 50 $10 | 12 | 75 +loc | $15 | well-off |
| Theme park exploit | 1 | 5 | 10% | +relax, + thrill seaking, +child | |||||
| Archeological digging site(!) | wage +$5 | 300% | filthy-rich | ||||||
Modern Times
Modern Times is the last Era in Tropico 6, comes after Cold War.
Roller coaster is the best for poor people, but Movie theater and even upgraded Funfair Pier have similar service quality.
For well-off people Stadium, Hand Gliding, Yach club (with work mode) and Night club (with upgrade) all give basic service quality 80. So it may reach 100 if budget is increased.
Hang Gliding building has a special work mode that makes spy operations better
Museum of modern art is useless. However, it has a special work mode that increases efficiency of local schools and colleges.
| Building | Mode/Upgrade | Building cost (Blueprint cost) | Upkeep (Electricity) | Workers | Job quality (Wage) | Visitors | Service quality | Fee | Wealth level, tourists |
| Arcade | IHRS | +$3000 | +$1 | ||||||
| Golf course | GDS | +$5000 | +25MW | 10 | 5 | ||||
| Gourmet restaurant | Haute Cousine | $150% | 10 | 20% | |||||
| Gourmet restaurant | Sushi Mastery (!) | $150% | wage +150% | 10% | +cultural | ||||
| Night club | Laser show | +$___ | +24MW | 15 | |||||
| Aqua park | Fresh and clean | $9000 ($4500) | $50 15MW | 3 | 50 $6 | 18 | 70 | $14 | well-off, relaxation |
| HPWJ | $3000 | 55 | +$1 | ||||||
| No children | 80 | no children allowed | |||||||
| Roller coaster | gFactor 1 | $9400 ($4700) | $93 35MW | 3 | 50 $6 | 18 | 70 | $24 | poor |
| Special momentum | $3000 | 5 | +$3 | ||||||
| gFactor 2 (!) | +$5 | +$1 | |||||||
| Best G ever (!) | +$15 | 75 | +$3 | ||||||
| Stadium | May the best win | $21000 ($10500) | $304 60MW | 12 | 50 $12 | 60 | 80 | $48 | well-off |
| VIP Tribune | $3000 | 5 | 5 | +$2 | |||||
| May we all win(!) | +$10 | +$3 | 25% | ||||||
| Beach resort | Open door | $5000 | $___ | 4 | 55 $8 | 20 | 65 +loc | $12 | well-off, relaxation |
| Cocktail time | 50% | 10 | 50% | no children | |||||
| Auto beach cleaner | +$1500 | 10 | no children | ||||||
| Hang Gliding | Fly like the wind | $4000 | $36 | 2 | 50 $8 | 12 | 75 +loc | $20 | well-off, thrill seeking |
| Extra tour (!) | +$10 | 2 | wage +$2 | 12 | 100% | ||||
| High Power Engine | +$3000 | 5 | +$1 | ||||||
| Museum of modern art | Recent | $17500 | $125 | 4*** | 75 $15 | 20 | 70 | $36 | well-off, cultural |
| Modern master pieces | +$10 | +$4 | no children | ||||||
| Yacht club | Easy sunset | $11800 | $96 | 4 | 75 $8 | 8 | 95 | $160 | rich |
| Mucho importante | 25% | 4 | wage +50% | 10 | 100% | filthy-rich | |||
| Look but do not touch | -50% | 4 | -15 | -10 | -50% | well-off | |||
This is the ending of Tropico 6 Entertainment Buildings Guide guide. Hope it will help you. If there is wrong or you have suggestions, please let’s know and comment us. Have fun.