Edicts (Tropico 2)

For articles of the same name in other Tropico games, see Edicts.

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Individual Attention

Edict	Cost	Requirements	Effects
Explore	n/a	At least one ship.	Sends a ship to explore a region of the seas around your island, improving knowledge of a region much more than a normal cruise. Chances of finding trade routes and settlements are improved for the amount of sea rations used, and while no plunder can be gained, no risk is incurred by the ship or crew either.
Raid Settlement	n/a	At least one ship.	Sends a ship to raid a settlement for unskilled captives. No plunder is gained, no risk is incurred by the ship though some crew may perish, chance is mainly dependent on the type of settlement. As your pirate haven grows, so too will the need for working captives so you will likely need to raid settlement a lot in the game, especially when your run short on laborers and lacking a patron to deliver prisoners.
Kidnap Craftsman	250 gold	At least one ship.	Sends a ship to kidnap a particular craftsman. Nothing else is gained but the crew and the ships face no risk. Many craftsmen are required to be present on your island for you to build certain facilities.
Free Captive	n/a		Releases a Wealthy, Skilled, or Unskilled Captive for minor improvement in relations with its nation. Also good for those said removing captives who might incite rebellion or are just taking up resources and space without being productive.
Educate Pirate	100 gold		Requests a pirate to be educated at one of the schools to improve marksmanship, gunnery, swordsmanship, seamanship, or navigation. These 5 skills can also be improved while cruising, though at the risk of death.
Press Gang	n/a	n/a	Turns an unskilled captive into a pirate. Useful for bolstering low pirate numbers as well as removing high leadership/courage captives who might incite rebellion.
Ransom Captive	n/a		Releases a skilled or wealthy captive for financial gain. Skilled Captives have a set ransom amount depending on profession that never changes. Wealthy captives, on the other hand, have a ransom that increases as they visit entertainment buildings and hotels.
Donate Money	100 gold		Gives a particular pirate 100 gold. Useful for preventing discontent among poor pirates as this gives them spending money to satisfy entertainment needs.
Assassinate	100 gold	At least one guard employed at the pirate palace. Each guard can assassinate one person at a time.	Orders a palace guard to kill a particular captive or pirate. Useful in preventing them from inciting rebellion but it cannot be used on pirate captains or wealthy captives. Generally a waste on unskilled captives as you can press gang or release them for free, but it is the best method to stop an unhappy pirate from causing too much problems on your island or even becoming a threat to your rule.
Outfit Pirate	n/a	Carpenter, Hat Shop, or Parrot Aviary	Grants a particular pirate a peg-leg, a hat, or a parrot. Peg-legs are made at Carpenters and boost notoriety. Hats are made from Hat Shops and boost Leadership. Parrots are born from Parrot Aviaries and boost courage.

Pirate Policy

Edict	Cost	Requirements	Effects
Free Beer	1000 gold	Brewery	Distributes Beer to all Pirates, greatly increasing their Drinking Satisfaction.
Free Rum	1500 gold	Rum Distillery	Distributes Rum to all Pirates, greatly increasing their Drinking Satisfaction. More expensive than Free Beer but effect on satisfaction is greater as well.
Pirate Festival	1000 gold		Throws a big island party to increase pirate happiness. For a brief period, anarchy around the island increases and captive resignation decreases.
Rig Gambling Against	500 gold		Increases profits off of gambling facilities but reduces overall gambling satisfaction provided from those said facilities. Effective until cancelled.
Rig Gambling in Favor	500 gold		Increases gambling satisfaction provided at gambling facilities but reduces profits from those said facilities. Great in the late game when you got a strong economy and need to focus on maintaining pirate satisfaction. Effective until cancelled.
Pirate Curfew	750 gold		Increases order on the island at the cost of fear. Effective until cancelled.
Loose Lips	100 gold		Reduces the chance that escaped or released captives will provide information to their nation. Also increases order around the island. Effective until cancelled.
Betray Pirates	n/a		Permits a nation to hang all pirates of their nationality (including pirate captains). Issuing this edict will result in the immediate removal of all pirates and captains of the chosen nationality and dramatically improves relations with the nation.
Donate Money to Crew	500 gold		Grant money to the crew of a certain ship: 500 gold is dispersed among the captain, officers, and crew.

Cruise Orders

Edict	Cost	Requirements	Effects
Prohibit English Victims	n/a		Orders all ships to avoid preying on English ships during cruises. Best combined with a peace policy with England.
Prohibit French Victims	n/a		Orders all ships to avoid preying on French ships during cruises. Best combined with a peace policy with France.
Prohibit Spanish Victims	n/a		Orders all ships to avoid preying on Spanish ships during cruises. Best combined with a peace policy with Spain.
Walk the Plank	n/a		Orders all ships to not take any captives or new recruits from defeated ships during cruises. Best used if your pirate population is greater than your resources can support.
Foster War	n/a		Orders a ship to wear flags of a nation on their next cruise. The ship will attack foreign vessels in an attempt to provoke a war between two nations.
Recruit Captain	1500 gold1		Recruits a new Pirate Captain on the Island. Each ship requires a captain before it can go cruising.

1 - Certain Pirate King Backgrounds, Qualities, or Flaws can lower or raise the amount required. Also, some campaign missions have a different price to recruit a captain.

Captive Policy

Edict	Cost	Requirements	Effects
Pay for Informants	1000 gold
Free All of Nationality	n/a		Frees all captives of a particular nationality (English, French, or Spanish), resulting in a significant boost in relations depending on how many of those captives were freed. The downside is a potential worker shortage when issued.
Random Executions	500 gold		Permit all pirates to randomly kill captives they run into. It also increases anarchy and fear around the island but causes captives to be more inclined to escape. Effective until canceled.
Pirate Guard Patrols	500 gold		Increases order around the island with Pirates patrolling the roads. Pirates become less happy from the patrols Effective until canceled.
Raise Dead	100 gold1	Graveyard	Brings a pirate who died during your rule back as a skeleton. Skeletons only work as haulers, but do not require food, sleep, or prayer and are more skilled at hauling than unskilled captive haulers.

1 - Price rises an additional 20 gold each time a skeleton is raised. The Voodoo Adept quality lowers the initial cost to 50 gold.

International Diplomacy

Edict	Cost	Requirements	Effects
Raise Jolly Roger	n/a	Fort	Cuts all ties with the other nations, even your patrons.
Announce Peace Policy (England)	n/a	No Tortured by England	Promise England that you will not attack its ships during cruises. Best issued along with Prohibit English Victims to prevent a potentially serious diplomatic backlash.
Announce Peace Policy (France)	n/a	No Tortured by France	Promise France that you will not attack its ships during cruises. Best issued along with Prohibit French Victims to prevent a potentially serious diplomatic backlash.
Announce Peace Policy (Spain)	n/a	No Tortured by Spain	Promise Spain that you will not attack its ships during cruises. Best issued along with Prohibit Spanish Victims to prevent a potentially serious diplomatic backlash.
Open Smuggler's Cove	n/a	Smuggler's Cove	Allow the chosen nation (England, France, or Spain) to purchase goods from your smuggler's cove. This reveals the location of your pirate haven to that said nation so it is best done with your patron or a nation you intend to remain at peace with.
Letters of Marque	n/a
Declare Patron	n/a	Harmonious relations with chosen nation	Declare a certain nation (England, France, or Spain) as your patron. This protects you from invasion but this also reveals the location of your pirate haven to that said nation.