There are some scenarios I haven't actually played through. Please let me know if you spot any errors or if you have a bugfix for Taiwan!

"scenario ends year..." means that the scenario can't be completed any earlier than the specified date making them not very interesting to speedrun.

There are several scenarios that could be split into multiple categories naturally. An ideal example is Another Fish in the Sea. I can make a separate post about this and other scenarios that could have multiple categories if desired.

The manual for Tropico 1 in PDF format can be found easily and it's worth reading.

If you're struggling with any mechanic you can review what the manual has to say about it.

Change these settings to improve your speedrun:

• disable annual almanac
• disable setup videos
• disable clouds

Game Modfiers can have a big impact on the way that scenarios play out, if you want to speedrun a scenario you should check the modifiers.

ALMANAC (Hotkey "A") > POLITICS TAB > View Character

All Mine

• $400 000 mining profits

Another Fish in the Sea

• export 600 units of fish
• OR
• $45 000 in tourism revenue

Back to the Skies

• build 1 airport

Born Again

• 300 population
• 60 average happiness rating

Club Tropico

• $750 000 tourism revenue

Comrades in Arms

• $30 000 swiss bank account

Doowder Island

• $135 000 industry revenue
• build 3 furnature factories

Ecotrop

• 60 eco tourists
• $100 000 swiss bank account
• 80 environment rating

El Presidente's First Day

• build power plant
• build all 7 housing structures
• 60 average housing quality

El Presidente's Second Day

• $1 000 000 national treasury (this is the only requirement, other objectives can be ignored)

El Presidente's Third Day

• build bank and cheap hotel
• 5 workers in the bank
• scenario ends 5 years after the other objectives are completed

Fished Out

• 60 tourism rating
• 100 tourists

Fruitas

• export 100 units of pineapple
• export 100 units of banana
• export 100 units of papaya

Gold Rush

• 40 people working as miners
• 55 average happiness rating

Green Island

• $500 000 tourism revenue

I've Got a Secret

• 80 or more US relationship rating
• 50 or less Russia relationship rating
• $20 000 swiss bank account

Isla De Foresta

• scenario ends year 2000

It's My Island

• 80 military supporters

Jailhouse Rock

• 35 prisoners
• $250 000 tourism ?dollars? (not sure if this means revenue or profit)

Las Tropicas

• $500 000 combined tourist revenues (I'm not sure how this works)
• $50 000 swiss bank account

Los Exconvictos

• 200 population
• $50 000 national treasury

Marooned!

• $7000 swiss bank account

Mi Corazon

• scenario ends year 1980

Mt. Sucio

• $500 000 farming revenue
• $200 000 mining revenue
• $250 000 logging revenue
• $250 000 tourism revenue
• $500 000 industry revenue

Mucho Macho

• scenario ends year 1980

New Havana

• $100 000 swiss bank account

No Problem Atoll

• $500 000 tourism revenue
• $75 000 swiss bank account

Peg Leg's Cove

• $50 000 swiss bank account

Plantation Paradise

• scenario ends year 2000

Presidente For Life

• scenario ends year 2000

Rebels On Parade

• scenario ends year 1960

Ride'em Caballero!

• scenario ends year 1980

Soldier

• follow the instructions

Space Race

• 80 or more Russia relationship rating
• 50 or less US relationship rating
• 15 college educated tropicans
• 30 high school educated tropicans

Spring Breakdown

• $150 000 tourism profit
• 40 spring break tourists

Summer Games

• scenario ends year 1972

Taiwan

(bugged, game will crash if you enter building mode after 1972. you can still achieve all win conditions with careful planning if you don't enter building mode after 1972)

• industry profits $600 000
• tourism profits $150 000

The Good Earth

• $500 000 farming revenue
• 5 or less educated tropicans

The Mother Of All Cigars

• $2 000 000 cigar revenue

Triassic Park

• 100 or less population
• $100 000 national treasury

Tropicolegio

• 25 college educated tropicans
• 50 high school educated tropicans

Tropmina

• $300 000 mining profits
• 50 tourists
• 50 average happiness

Turista Paradiso

• scenario ends year 2000

Yes We Have No Bananas

• export 700 units of bananas

The "explanation" part of this post begins with your questions about any scenario objectives you need explained.

I ran into this by accident trying to find a new way to optimize my run for Back to the Skies. I have no idea if this was known before. I also don't know of any other bugs/exploits/glitches that might be relevant to speedrunning.

If you bulldoze the logging camp in this scenario while paused and then cancel that bulldoze you will gain $5

If you can execute this 50 times and fast enough you can build a Hotel ($4750) instead of a Cheap Hotel ($3000) as your starter and potentially save time over the Cheap Hotel strategy.

Here is some advice for optimizing the process:

• hotkey the logging camp (shift+(0-9) to set a hotkey and the number itself to use the hotkey)
• zoom the camera in fully, this prevents you from accidentally clicking on "La Plata" and reduces the amount of mouse movement required

The loop you want to run is as follows:

• build mode (select bulldoze the first time, only need to do this once)
• bulldoze the logging camp
• press logging camp hotkey
• cancel bulldoze order
• repeat

build mode, bulldoze, hotkey, cancel and repeat.

I struggled to do this in under 60s but I believe it's humanly possible to get it down under 30s. I don't know if it's actually fast enough to save time vs the Cheap Hotel strategy.

*in case this matters, the game version I use is "Tropico Reloaded" installed from a disc. I don't use Steam so I don't know if that version is different.