Cartel Tycoon is TOO EASY?! / Q&A Stream Highlights

On Tuesday, 10/10/23, we answered questions live on our Cartel Tycoon Discord! This is a recap of that Livestream! Unfortunately, the video of the event was glitched, so we had to improvise!

Cartel Tycoon is a survival business sim inspired by the ‘80s and '90s narco trade. Expand and conquer, fight off rival cartels, and evade the authorities. Earn people's loyalty and strive to overcome the doomed fate of a power-hungry drug lord.

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - San Rafaela development?
01:48 - Charlie Pryor?
02:25 - Is Andrey a programmer?
02:54 - Can you teach me the game?
04:29 - Working with tinyBuild?
06:43 - How is the art for the game made?
08:44 - The future of Cartel Tycoon?
13:29 - Nadya joins the stream!
14:00 - Spoiler Alert
15:18 - Can you make the game harder?
16:36 - Outro
16:58 - Dog

[Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

my honest opinion:
game is great and has potential but missing some vital things like:
- living breathing world, that develops itself, with or without the player, so AI factions buildings things, interacting with each other, waging war, making trade, ..etc
- AI factions economy is currently non existent it seems. If they construct cocain fields, processors, warehouses, all inputs are zero.. Basically its just decoration/esthetics.
Game needs a real AI economy, where we can spy on them, then see how they are doing. We could then target a specific warehouse containing tons of drugs, raid it, steal it, then sell it to a rival cartel or something.
This opens MANY opportunities.
- combat is a vital aspect. Victoria 3 developers learnt from their mistake, initially they had similar combat where we dont see any combattant on the screen, just numbers and a struggle bar. They finally listened to the players and implemented a beautiful visual representation of the battle with soldiers, canons, weapons..etc
This game needs the same, the battles should be appealing to look at, where we see two sides shooting at each other, taking cover..etc

- AI factions dont interact with each other at the moment
-AI factions dont have henchmen like we do, they have unlimited grunts, maybe let them have similar amount of named lieutenants, where they can recruit them, send them on missions..etc just like the player. Adds so much realism.

[turloughfreeman]

If you developers see this comment, i want to know this: Can we help the Guerrillas get a bigger plane? Some of us could use more weapons, you know.

[ChonkyChonker]

do you guys still plan adding multiplayer ?
im playing cartel tycoon since 2021 and i think multiplayer would be awesome

[turloughfreeman]

I know what this game is missing: Trains. Think about it, a new smuggling point involving trains: Freight station.

[incosto]

I think its funny that almost nobody had builded charity founds with dirty money not knowing that it is important to the story 😊

[Golgo]

This game is overly complex for no reason in some aspects..I know I know skill issue..whatever. It’s basically Tropico but as a dealer (And this is what I was wanting it to be. But it’s just too much unnecessary things going on. I was so disappointed

[dclikemultivers]

Hi. Good job! One thing that would make all the difference is being able to personalize. Like the Paradox studio does. Create your own character, personnalize your OPS (Style/Name). Cartel Tycoon is well known on the internet, it is the type of game that has its audience, but the fact of not being able to customize leads the player to abandon the game rather than make it their own

[turloughfreeman]

Question for the developers: Have you ever consider adding Crack Cocaine to the game in the future? If so, what is required to produce it?

[fardown]

The only feature I want would be a way to move multiple lieutenants at the same time as a console player

[gokhanyesilyurt]

I was thinking that new resources would be added to the San Rafaela map (diamonds, oil, people, etc.).
However, no sources have been added, including legal sources.
I'm disappointed about this issue.
But this is not a big deal for me, because I love Cartel Tycoon. ❤

[tiamat_]

Too easy? Yeah that’s not my experience

[Thomas_AAnderson]

How to unlock character by rescue him in the "lambs to the slaughter" arc?
I am afraid there is a BUG!