Hidden Agenda? Nope, never played it.
Got
Tropico and started my first real game. Set everything to default except victory condition, which is "open-ended."
Won my first election fair and square as a Communist leader, not bad for a newbie
I found that:
1. The first thing you want to build is probably a construction office. You will need lots of construction workers early on in the game.
2. Structures far away from construction offices will be built, eventually. Just that the workers take a long time travelling to and fro.
3. The manual is filled with errors, at least in the reference section, where it matters
Question:
What good are roads?