Masterpiece!!! A late thank you, thank you, thank you ... for this storied, gigantic and beautiful map :)

Shame to see you go back to a job after spending your time off so creatively! I'm sure everyone will miss you and your great maps.

That's it now. I've got only one thing left to do with Tropico 5. See if I can beat mwyeoh in his scenario. Til Tropico 6, so long!

@Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
I don't own the rights to the recordings (and none of them are in public domain yet). They are available on iTunes and such, but that didn't make my list very helpful. So I've replaced it with a link to a free streaming service. Best I know, with almost no talk. Hope this might be something you hadn't know about yet!

I've posted a few screenshots from my last full test game to the Screenshot section of the Workshop, if you are curious how this island can look developed, but don't want to play through it yourself. Search by L'île de L'Empereur Oublié.

To continue in the tradition of adding one random thought about the map that I started over at Buccaneer Bay: when you start out on L'île de L'Empereur Oublié, men had no earth-moving equipment. One was limited to what mother nature gave us. Farmers farmed fallow fields or gentle slopes. People traveled on nature trails they turned into roads over time. The map tries to simulate this. Study the topography very closely to determine what land is useful. Go underneath the thick tree canopy to find where the land falls off, or where to best tread your dirt trails. At the beginning, you are at the mercy of the landscape, just as 19th Century settlers were. Later, as you gain technologies and move inland, the map will - intentionally - feel flatter, and you will start to gain the upper hand in what the land looks like after you colonized it.

Very sorry to the early subscribers: I got sloppy with my build control, and uploaded a final test version of the map that had the final "Little Prince" win sequence disabled. The final, final version is now current as of May 20, 10:30pm Pacific. If you uploaded prior, refresh to make sure you get the chance to end the game on a high note. Literally. ;)

Also: CAUTION! There's an "Endless Combat" bug in the vanilla script, where you eliminate all rebel squads but the state of conflict continues forever. That prevents you from completing any additional military buildings, and prevents your squads from getting reinforced (so future rebel attacks will gradually wear them down until your Palace falls). That bug happens on huge Sandbox maps, and since this map is very, very huge, it has an increased chance of happening here at some point. It occured in 2 of my 5 full length test games. The ONLY remedy (I know of) is to go back to a prior save, restart, and provoke the rebels before they can initiate combat on their own. That way the random target selection of the vanilla script is likely to pick another set of targets than the ones that caused the glitch. So: SAVE OFTEN!

Could you please add links to the songs in your playlist? I was unable to find a few of them but the ones I could were great, nice to see someone else with a taste for contemporary classical. :)

Your contributions will be missed! You were a master craftsman and your islands were often beautiful

Looks intriguing - very nice map once again!

It's been fun. Map Number Nine is my last. Take your time with this one. Have a good game.