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3rd world farmer simulation

arcadetown.com — you have a farm spouse and 2 kids you need to face the difficulties of being a 3rd world farmer. buy crops and eventually animals too and try to send your kids to school so they can get married.

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  • JimmyDushku, on 10/12/2007, -28/+15www.maketradefair.org
    • Monolith2, on 10/12/2007, -21/+28wtf? "there's a random airstrike on your fields"???

      Could this game get any stupider?
    • Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -24/+19Save yourself some time. No matter what you do, you lose everything. Heavy-handed preaching FTL!
    • slushpuppie, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4 @chompy--

      i won the first time through.

      ... that means i might be the one in a million that is able to escape the cycle of poverty.

      when just plain old regular preaching doesn't work-- we rely on heavy handed preaching, FTW!!!!!!!!1111111oneoneeleven111
    • bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -17/+12Yeah I'm guessing this is a game you can't win...
      It's not heavy handed preaching, so much as communicating with a complicit entertainment nation in the only way possible.

      We can all definitely do more to help (at the very least we can all definitely do more to stop causing harm)
    • 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!
    • 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.
    • coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Yeah I was doing well the first 10 turns. I built a hospital, a school, communication, and a whole field of livestock then as soon as I hit that mark every single time something went wrong. Two turns in a row the main crop that I planted failed and the rest guerrillas stole everything. Frustrating as hell.
    • derekschaefer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2@Monolith2

      Only stupider than the word stupider, which is not actually a word ;)
    • 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.
    • 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.... :)
    • sanman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Where's the option for "Recruit NGO Lobbyist to Market Your Plight"?

      This game isn't very realistic.
    • 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. :/
    • XZanatos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I played twice and I won twice, I don't see what the problem is. Just keep diversity up and you should do well. The only thing missing is when the militants come in and kill your entire family after raping your wife and children.
    • prelude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I thought I was going for a highscore but it turns out your money isn't your score.

      http://i14.tinypic.com/447fj8j.png

      Anyone else noticed you can't have a poppy crop even though it shows up on the screen? Or can you?
  • Wailord, on 10/12/2007, -16/+021 diggs to make the front page?
    • 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.
  • 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?
    • Yashar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35you can grow opium
    • sanman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I tried to sell my daughter, but the game wouldn't let me.

      This isn't very realistic.
  • InSeverance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@ DaNKBuDZ
    well...you do get the option to grow opiates as the game goes on...
    • syngates123, on 12/09/2007, -0/+0I ended up getting 28 turns with 620 points....... I don't know how you're suppose to make money when everyone keeps dying. Anyway I just always bought peanuts and had my spouse give birth so there's always a healthy kid that I can send away to work! :) If you have any disscusions on this I won't be checking this if you reply to this comment, but if you send me a message on myspace, I'll definately respond! :) my myspace page is www.myspace.com/longlivemusic123 just add me! :*)
  • xinetd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Where's the option for grammar in the headline?
  • Portwineboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24The game really picks up after you get your kids OLPCs.
  • elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Can you die of dysentery?
    • inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5insufficient grass
    • bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can if you leave your burger on the desk for too long while you play...
  • campstriker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5this is retarded, no offense. not all of the 3rd world countries are like this!
    • bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2no... some of them are 2nd world countries....
  • campstriker, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1prove me wrong.
  • HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Being a 3rd world farmer sucks.
  • amerhadiazmi, on 10/12/2007, -7/+03rd world... hurm...
  • Sp0rAdiC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3has anybody won? or is this going to be ultra-realistic?
    • 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.
    • 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"
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Damn, I keep dying. Anybody get futher than 10 turns in the game?

    What do you mean I'm missing the point? =P
    • zaid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+114 here. looks like bergur1 up there did way better than us though. I really wanted to see the high scores for this game...
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • 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!!!
  • nyyg, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I somehow got 25 turns. I love how you can build a radio antenna on top of a grass hut. This game really sucks, probably one of the worst I've ever played.

    My score was 320
  • nexah3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I got about 41 turns.

    - Killed about 30 people.
    - Always check for marriage.
    - Peanuts.

    It was like a 650 score.
  • 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.
    • UCFMark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I did the same thing, a few times. I thought it was really funny that I managed to make an affluent, really profitable family farm in a third world country. After a little while, it didn't really matter whether I planted crops or not- I just did it when I felt like it. But I stopped planting for a long time and a mob of villagers stole all of my equipment. Fortunately, I had more than enough saved to replace everything and resume the same.
  • tomsteele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I won in 24 turns. All you have to do is buy all the projects. Once you get the crop insurance (or whatever else you haven't bought yet), the game ends.
  • jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I beat it in about 10 minutes. Here is what it looks like when you win:

    http://www.freeinfosociety.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0
    • kingfelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1no way, dude... where're your elephants??
      you didn't win
      ^^ jk
  • hisjap2010, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow... and i thought $10,000 was a lot (I was a successful 3rd world farmer too ^_^). also, i won in 20 turns (could have ended earlier), but i didn't check my score.
  • Hegemony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Great, a game I can't possible win at. It's kind of depressing.
  • jonesyhahaha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I won (you win after purchasing all the improvements - infrastructure, communication, clinic, school, et cetera). I think my surplus money at the end of the game was somewhere like 80,000, and I survived for something like 25-30 turns.

    Had 8 elephants, 4 harvesters, 7 barns and a well, and 5 family members.
  • ellisgl, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2digg down - wrong story
  • inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, 1st turn, Civil war.
  • Kurando, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You can actually win at this game...this game fails to show the hardships that a majority 3rd world famers face. What this game has taught me is that through hard work and a diversity of crops and livestock they can all be happy, we don't need to do anything at all to help them. I'm pretty sure that's not what the game designers wanted...
    • nyyg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can't tell if you're joking.
    • farkdog, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1I agree. I won in 27 turns. What this tells me is that in a mere 27 years - one working career, these folks can work themselves out of sustinance farming and don't need help.
    • prelude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A more realistic version of the game.

      http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=452rn6v

      I made it but I must admit it's not as fun.
  • jcapogna, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2My family has tons of money and nobody has died. What a bad simulation.
  • easyone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Got a score of 1670. Stupid game.
  • 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
  • yauhin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+121 turns.
  • 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
    • wintermute0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
  • Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Clearly this game tells us that third world farmers who know how to play civilization-type games can build more harvesters.
  • 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!
  • trubbleshute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The game isn't that tough guys, I beat it in 14 turns.
  • Verdanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The raiders came and.. took my sheds? Were they driving 18 wheelers? I get it not.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • gamechic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Reminds me of Oregon Trail.
  • ciproxr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/5306/untitledxd0.png
  • kaptainKraken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1was i the only one to notice that right under the peanut crop in the report they had opium, i didn't get to plant any of that in my fields!!!
  • jsdratm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2I, for one, welcome our new 3rd world farmer overlords
  • richiestang78, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Game would be good if it wasn't for the exaggerated events that happen every damn turn.
  • tuxidomasx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1angry mob event of the year:

    "you loose all tools, crops, livestock, and buildings."


    lmfao

    thats lame

    how realistic
  • inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Okay, I did it, 1500something score after 37 turns. Here's the trick:

    - Keep restarting the game over and over until you have a lucky first few turns.
    - Diversify your crops
    - Chicken, fast!
    - Shovels and Scythes, quick.
    - Keep the health up.
    - If you can't afford Medicine, and the health is low, have them leave or get married and leave.
    - Try to have more sons than daughters.
    - A year of school is okay, but no more until you have the school.
    - Deny negative sources of money if you can. Dancing is fine. Toxic waste is bad.
    - Invest in buildings
    - Sell what you don't need.

    Once your good luck starts in, then run with it.
  • luchid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4iM in ur FaRm...5tEaLiN' uR eLePhAntZ...
  • 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
    • farkdog, on 05/20/2008, -0/+0>once you make real money you are unstoppable

      Just like real life! :O
  • 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
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • barius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Woohoo, after my 4th try I won with a score of 1605 (26 turns, plus all the best equipment, plus > 100k cash).

    It's a great game, although after you manage to get all the special items (phone, road, representative etc) it gets pretty boring. Also, it's annoying that it ends after you get all the special items. The scoring is very dependent on the number of turns played...oh well I had to give up sometime.
  • suprememilo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i think this was posted a LONG time ago
  • 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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