3rd world farmer

3rd World Farmer- about game and strategies
3rd world farmer is a realistic game showing the hardship of poor farmers in 3rd world. You will start with $50 and plant seeds on your land. You have choice of corn, wheat, cotton, and peanuts. If you use your money and do whot you want to do, you will be able to go to next year. Some events will take place. You could have splendis havest, some harvests might fail, one of your family member could fall ill, a corrupt official could came and rip you off, an angry mop may rise and take everything you have, a well that you spent $120 on might be gone, refugees could come and take all your livestocks, a civil war could break out and break down some of your properties, a fire could burn down all your barns and sheds, and so on.

If you have a brain and at least a single eyeball, you whould have realised that only two of these many events are posetive. To live through these life treatening events, there are some parts of the game that you must know. First is information about importence in medical treatment. To get your family healthy, you need to pay for your medicin. Some people might think this an unneccecary spending, but it is not, for how much you earn in a year has direct relationship with your family's health. If people are unhealthy, their work capacity goes down. This, in this game, makes your income lower.

The second thing you must know is that the balance and stableness is the most importent. If you invest all money on a single crop and it fails, you will die. If you don't have an insurence of a well and a dry season comes to visit, death will visit you too, soon enough. If you invest all your money on elephants and elephant poachers comes to visit, you will loose everything.

The third thing you must realise is that if you take offers from people, it could lead to great disadvantage. If you take the offer of the drug plantation of millitary camp, a gerilla force will come make a visit. If you sell your children, your work capacity will fall and you won't be able to make the best out of the money you got by sacrifising your shild. If you let people use some of your land to keep chemical wast, your family will get sick and you will need to pour more money than you got payed to make your family healthy.

In this game, the beginning is the most importent. If you do something wrong or if some horrible event takes place, you will be just about dead. To survive, you will need to plant wheat and corn, the same amount each that you could afford . This is nessecary, because sometimes, a single type of crops fail. Since these two have the lowest possebilyty to do so, you will probably be fine. Also, If one fail, the other won't. After that you will have to keep planting corn and wheat together. If you earn more than $200, you must buy a well, since the most deadlyest event that could happen in the beggining is the dry season. If you don't have a well, you won't get any income at all from crops. But if you do have a well, your crops will earn you enough money to live. After making a well, buy some tools, such as a Scythe of a plow to make your income increase. Earn money and support a trustworthy representative, who will block gerilla and corrupt officials from taking your property. Then, buy the crop insurence and plan all of your fields with peanuts. Although peanuts have high chance of failing, it is sold at a high price and will bring you wealth, especially with the crop insuence, wich will let the worries of crop failure and dry seaon dissapear. If you do these things, you will earn alot of money soon. If you have enough money, sell any tools you have, and buy four harvesters, with will increase your yeild per crop increase by alot. After that, buy 6 barns (leave your well) and buy 8 elephants. If you do this, you will earn thousends, even tens of thousends every year. After this, buy all things under the light bulb section, and win the game!

I think the theme of this is game is to keep your self out of the downward spiral, by thinking creativly about what an event could lead to. If you don't and take offers, you will loose money. If you don't give medicin to your family without thinking about the consequences, you will loose. If you are able to think about concequences of yoour actions, you will be able to survive the third world farming.