TropicoHead — Credits

👑 Shannon — La Presidenta

Project Namer · Reason This Exists · Co-El-Presidente

She named TropicoHead. She is the reason this site exists. Every page header carries the dedication: Made for Shannon with love from Stefan. She gets the easter egg (try searching her name). She is La Presidenta. She is El Presidenta. She is whichever title she wants.

🐈‍⬛ Ike Eisenhower

Special Advisor for Naps and Foreign Policy · Mascot · CIA Director (citation needed)

Black cat. Foreign policy by tuna. Inspects the palace cigar factory by sniffing it disapprovingly. Has not raised his approval rating in years and refuses to be voted out. Try searching his name.

🛠️ Stefan Ayala

Builder · Researcher · Banana-Republic Concierge

Compiled the master docs for all 6 mainline Tropico games (T1–T6, ~96 documents, ~864 building data points, ~294 edicts). Wrote the build pipeline, the search engine, the strategy block system, the community-edit loop, the achievement engine, and this credits page. Operates the self-hosted infrastructure at stefan.xxx.

📚 Source Material

TropicoHead consolidates data from: the official manuals (T1–T4), Brady Games strategy guides, Wikipedia (T5, T6), gamepressure.com (T5, T6), the Tropico Wiki, GameFAQs, Steam Community guides, Cafe Tropico archive (recovered from Archive.org), GOG forums, Reddit r/tropico, PC Gamer + GameRant reviews, ModDB, dev postmortems, and 200+ web searches across the project lifetime. Every claim is tagged with a confidence badge so readers know what's verified vs speculation.

🌴 Community Contributors

This is a fan project. Community contributions are how the guide gets better over time. Two paths to contribute:

• Propose an edit — sign in via "🗝️ Show your papers" on any page, click "✏️ Propose an edit" on any section, paste your improved markdown. Other signed-in users vote 👍 / 👎, and Stefan applies approved edits to the next deploy.
• Citizen Plaza — "📢 Talk to the plaza" chat on every game page. Drop tips, jokes, or corrections.

Once accepted edits accumulate, names will be listed here.

Looking for the highest-impact gaps to fix? Check the 🔍 content audit dashboard — surfaces every [LOW] and [MISSING] tag across all 6 games, worst gaps first. Or browse the 📖 Tropican Almanac for a meta-view of every TropicoHead stat at a glance. New to the site? Start with ❓ Quick Questions or pick a curated scenario from the 🏝️ Sandbox. Curious about hidden features? Browse the 🥚 Easter Eggs index.

🏛️ Phase Log

13+ shipping phases between 2026-03 and 2026-06. Highlights:

• Phases 1–3 — research + 6-game content (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 all live)
• Phases 4–5 — community features: voting, comments, magic-link auth, live chat
• Phases 6–7 — engagement loop: search v3, leaderboard, PWA, 19-badge achievement system, Hall of Fame
• Phases 8–9 — cloud sync identity, crowdsourced edit loop, a11y + Lighthouse
• Phases 10–13 — build planner, /compare, /me dashboard, T5, T6, strategy blocks
• Phase 14 — polish sweep (this page, ROADMAP refresh, mobile nav, Ike easter eggs)

See ROADMAP.md for the full phase-by-phase log.