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- Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35you can grow opium
- jeffness, on 10/12/2007, -4/+37impossible to win what?
http://jeffness.googlepages.com/farmer.gif
i probably just got lucky is all, but still... im moving to africa and starting a farm! - MrDarkSim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I prefer coffee and ho-hos but to each their own.
- Plik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23heh, am i the only one that finds it supriseing how productive a field of peanuts is when it's so close to a heard of Elephants
- Portwineboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24The game really picks up after you get your kids OLPCs.
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Being a 3rd world farmer sucks.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+159 out of 10 third world farmers prefer Clean™ Water
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Can you die of dysentery?
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1421 diggs rapidly do. Plus it makes it easier for stories to get to the front when peak hours are over and the graveyard shift begins.
- Portwineboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14One Laptop Per Child
http://www.laptop.org/
/guess it wasn't funny as I had to explain it. - twalker294, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I don't see the option to let Angelina Jolie adopt one of your kids. Surely that would make your crops last longer. One less mouth for you to feed and Angie gets on the front of People yet again -- EVERYONE WINS!!!
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Where's the option for "Recruit NGO Lobbyist to Market Your Plight"?
This game isn't very realistic. - DaNKBuDZ, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18This is not a good representation of 3rd world farming. Where is the option to grow cocaine or marijuana?
- sanman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I tried to sell my daughter, but the game wouldn't let me.
This isn't very realistic. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -21/+28wtf? "there's a random airstrike on your fields"???
Could this game get any stupider? - Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm with Jeffness I won in 13th turns (built all the infrastructure) 3rd world farming is the industry for me! I was actually glad when the robbers stole my shovels and scythes so that I could replace them with superior farming equipment... it's too bad I couldn't fund my own private army.
- defy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Apparently the key to success in any third world country is to raise an army of elephants and harvest tons of peanuts. It was right under our noses the entire time!
- disparue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I won on turn 17. You can win if you build all the projects on the last section of the menu.
I just tried to be as diverse as possible since the disasters usually only affect one crop type at a time.
Wells and medicine are a must, and remember to send your kids to school and have a lot of babies to work the fields. It may sound bad, but I really started getting ahead once I could sell my kids off at marriage. - bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can if you leave your burger on the desk for too long while you play...
- disparue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Okay, this game probably worked because now I want to give money to build a school and a clininc. Seriously.
- inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5insufficient grass
- Neoanarchist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This game is soo easy! Just plant peanuts until you get a high yield harvest and then concentrate on tools, then move to a well and a barn then go straight for cows. Upgrade your tools and buildings, keep planting peanuts. Add more cows, then when you have enough money go for an elephant or two. After that invest heavily in barns and then go for harvesters. Also dont forget to medicate your stupid ass family.
- SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The trick is to click on the people and make sure they stay medicated. Otherwise they die....and when you click on your wife you get the option to have more kids. Once you do that it's pretty easy. After I had 6 kids and racked up 115k in savings (I was making about 10-15k a turn) I ended it... Once your nest egg is big enough you can ride through all the disasters without any trouble.....too back there's not an option to auto plant the fields and invest your earnings.... :)
- FushBuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The only way I could win at this game was to resort to constant new marriages, pregnancies, and opium production. :/
- InSeverance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ DaNKBuDZ
well...you do get the option to grow opiates as the game goes on... - Verdanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The raiders came and.. took my sheds? Were they driving 18 wheelers? I get it not.
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, I think I pretty much "won" the game, at least I could get my score as high as I want.
I have a fleet of 4 harvesters, 2 barns + a well, and 8 elephants.
My family still only makes about $15k a year... but they spend $32 a year on living. Now that's a profit!
Somehow I don't think this is how it was supposed to go as intended by the creators.
Well, i decided to finish it out.
21 turns, 1170 score. In retrospect, I could have sent the kids to school every year instead of making them wait. - bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4give me a source
- luchid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4iM in ur FaRm...5tEaLiN' uR eLePhAntZ...
- Fireinthedisco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It felt like I was playing wheel of fortune.
except for all but one of the slots were bankrupt.
I thought i was the wise one when I did 5 opium 8 corn and 2 wheat and 10 chickens (you know spread your eggs).... and then the raiders came.
...
this game seriously need cheats - betterth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I did 57 turns before I quit. Clinic is super important, so you can heal the whole family each turn. Don't send the kids to school until you can afford it.
Diversify crops, I usually mixed corn and peanuts in the beginning, straight peanuts in the end. Get tools early on! They're cheap and they help a lot! Hoes and scythes for the win!
I ended the game with no agriculture, and just 8 elephants. I sort of engineered my family so that 7 members were 10 year educated, meaning they put out 113% work, and 1 was the spouse who had to be married in to have children, at 75%. (866% work production). The 8 elephants brought in, what 150/ea/turn, meaning $1200 per turn. Then turning all structures into barns was +200%, plus the 866%, plus having every structure but the crop protection meant I was making way over 10k a turn with no crops.
Then, after 20+ turns of no crops, the locals robbed me off all livestock, buildings, tools, etc, claiming I no longer needed them.
My highest was around 200,000$, but I got hit with civil wars a couple turns in a row, and an economy crash, putting me back down around 30k for a while. After the locals raped my farm for everything, I bought the last thing and finished the game. - robuk24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Elephants are cheaper than a PS3!
- freezervv, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I also won my first game. For me, it was too easy (crop/livestock diversity, understanding game mechanics, infrastructure investment, etc. etc.), and I intended to come back here and rant that it was 'Ann Rynd does Third World Farming'.
Apparently, though, either,
1) The game was made for Digg, so people would realize there's a low percentage of wins.
2) You suck at gaming. - kagelump, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4u win by building everything
it was rather interesting
i won after about 18 turns
and yes, they do stop you and go "you have won the game" - billtodd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+375 turns and bought the last item just to end the game, apparently no one can die of old age the oldest person was roughly 104 years old and all I had to do was keep giving him medicine.
- gamechic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Reminds me of Oregon Trail.
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well I was doing good. I had tons of crop and pigs and then raiders came and took everything...then it all went downhill and I only got a couple of crappy contributions.
- ccase2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hardships my ass, I did ***** amazing. I made a killing by the 10th round, and not one of those set backs really got me, heres my advice for real life african farmers. STOP HAVING SO MANY CHILDREN and THINK ABOUT *****.
- kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah, get rid of the shed, it's just wasted space. build another barn for an extra 30% yield on your elephants.
Diggtatorship, when you say "cycle out your baby machines" do you mean you send your 40-something wife off the farm and marry a new one? or do you make one of your sons head of the family and then find him a wife?
i had some trouble with the game at first, but once you get lucky enough to have a couple thousand dollars, buy the clinic, then the school, and you're basically homefree for the rest of the game...
money actually doesn't count in your final score, it's all marriages and number of children. I ended up with about 2100 points but started to lose my sanity from planting only peanuts and rebuying all my elephants and harvesters after every civil war.
the thing that bothered me the most (not that it mattered) was the glitch which took me down from ~$250,000 to $20,000.....and the plot that won't plant (looks like)
still, a good game with a very steep difficulty curve which immediately plateaus after you get your first lucky break. it was fun. - FoolishMortal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The game apparently only lets you make up to $99,999. If you make more, say $110k, the game only registers it as $10k for the next year.
- wintermute0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
- hobophobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This was a difficult game. Most of my money had to go to medicine. We have the technology, I hope we will use it.
- wintermute0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I won at about 12 turns, then kept playing for another 10 because work was slow. Also, I was holding out for the option to buy a Hummer and fund my own Guerilla army.
- Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hehe, thats exactly what it looked like for me, but no shed since its not needed for the elephants, buy another barn instead. And I always had 8 family members. Birth 'em, school 'em, get rid of 'em, dont forget to cycle out your baby machines every once in a while.
- Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3has anybody won? or is this going to be ultra-realistic?
- trubbleshute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The game isn't that tough guys, I beat it in 14 turns.
- Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And too bad the only charity that ever comes to third world countries are the Sally Struthers and Christian Children's Fund (handing out half as much food to compensate for the bible they just bought). How about some meaningful, long term reform? Half of the problems in that game would not be that bad if the proper steps were taken. Things such as irrigation and infrastructure to combat the prevalence of disease, forced (not 'forced') adherence to IMF and World Bank programs would go a long way. Unfortunately there are too many people with power that benefit too greatly from it and will never sacrifice their short term security and prosperity for long term benefits.
- Diggtatorship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I played for a few hours straight, when i finally decided to end it I was making 50,000 a year and had 500,000 in cash. The game gets really really boring at that point. I had to end it to preserve my own sanity. I made the top 100 scores, anyone could make 1st place. its really just a matter of how much time do you want to keep playing, since once you're making good money, you're unstopable
- tonybeak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I guess this is what it looks like after playing for a while:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v366/G00D/screen.jpg - lokee73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2106 turns later...
Your farmers won't friggin die of old age! Got my guy to 131 years old.before I gave up and bought the last project. -
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