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I bought Tropico 1 and its expansion from Gog. I'm really liking it so far. After doing the tutorial I decided to have a practice run with the game on the easiest random map settings I could make. As you can imagine, everything went pretty well, however, I've hit upon something that's really putting a stumbling block into the otherwise virtually perfect experience...
The school system seems to be refusing to educate people for certain professions & its driving me nuts.
When I was looking through all the buildings the game lets me build I noticed a lot require an education, including my personal bodyguard which was already in requirement. So one of the first buildings I built was a High School. I built a Police Station almost concurrently to accompany it. Maybe before the first 5 years were through. It did an amazing job of teaching girls to be teachers and fairly soon I had a school full of teachers. It trained a couple of Policemen and then just stopped. I have empty slots for my policemen, priests, bodyguards and it does nothing. No-one goes to school. I check it three or four times a year and the school is either empty or it's teaching a couple more women to become teachers. Basically, it refuses to be self-sufficient. I looked up some hints on-line and people just said "it fills up when you have places available for graduates to work at", but for my game this seems to be bollocks. I'll drop from three priests to one and it does nothing, just sits there empty. I drop from 8 policemen to six and it just sits there empty. I build a guard-post, and it just sits there empty.
Later on in the game the Intellectual faction started demanding I build a College. And many of the better buildings, including electricity, require college grads. So I build a college. After importing the usual couple of starter teachers, I sit and wait for the High School to fill up so as to feed my college. But nothing happens, my high school just sits there empty. I have gaps at my clinic, my cathedral, my armoury, the nature reserve, and just nothing happens, year after year. However, as soon as I build the Electric Plant, it fills up... with women. And it perfectly fills up my plant with workers through the education system. Then goes dead again.
I tried changing the educational focus in the school itself. Nothing. I tried the decree for people to learn their ABCs, which filled it up once before it went dead again. It seems to work ok for any positions where the game demands you employ women. But for any position which requires educated men it does nothing, absolutely nothing. I have to import literally all my male educated workers.
Also, and supplemental, from that one-time binge from the ABCs decree, my police station filled up but my church remained virtually empty, so I fired some policemen, expecting them to simply revert to the church, as happened when I fired a college prof and he went immediately to the clinic, but the policemen didn't revert to another educated trade, they just left the police station. I never even looked at their names so I've no idea where they went, but it wasn't to any educated trade as, at that time, I'd already imported people to fill all the other male educated positions.
Do you know of any bug which is effecting males in the education system in this game or if there's something I'm not noticing that will get this production line to actually function? I'm capable of playing around it, but I'd rather the game actually worked because, as it is, it's a big enough rage-generator to make me consider quitting, which I really don't want to do, as the game has so much going for it.
Thanks in advance for any experience or assistance.
This thread on the Gog forum is similar in nature, also with no solutions:
https://af.gog.com/forum/tropico_series/is_there_a_doctor_in_the_house?as=1649904300