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Hardcore Farmville: Farming IRL

More Hardcore Farmville: Farming IRL in the "Third World"

Actual Hardcore Farmville

Heh, that's what I was thinking of when I made that post, then I was like "Nah, not hardcore enough"

I got tired of that game after the sixth consecutive time I saved for several years to get a well only to have it collapse immediately in a rainstorm. Seriously, you'd expect a person to learn how to build a proper well after a while. And if children died as often as they do in the game, then there would be no population growth in the third world.

[WillowLuman]

The infant mortality rate in large swathes of Africa is somewhere around 40%, and yet the population is skyrocketing.

[SealyStar]

The infant mortality rate in large swathes of Africa is somewhere around 40%, and yet the population is skyrocketing.

That's because contraception is too expensive, which means that statistically every few... goes will make a baby with nothing to stop it. And with a nine, ten, or eleven month period or so in between, that means that one woman can feasibly bear a good 15 kids during her lifetime, so even if 40% of them die, there'll be nine little guys left.

[Aseaheru]

Its mostly to deal with the death rates. And the fact that farming is still done by hand instead of excessively wasteful tanks of tractors.

[OREOSOME]

It was pretty easy for me. Mostly because I did mostly Corn. Then got lots of tractors and stuff, then upgraded all the different area upgrades.

[SealyStar]

And who can forget the supremely overpowered opium poppy random event?

[wer6]

The trick is to heal your entire family every turn, so that way you get max bonus, the day I forgot I almost got all fo them killed, no money and hten the opium amrket cake, I survived and won the game

[MaximumZero]

The trick is to heal your entire family every turn, so that way you get max bonus, the day I forgot I almost got all fo them killed, no money and hten the opium amrket cake, I survived and won the game

...you can win the game?

[Aseaheru]

Thats what I said.

[Mesa]

Hardcore Game Dev Tycoon
You have to code the games you make.

[Sonlirain]

The trick is to heal your entire family every turn, so that way you get max bonus, the day I forgot I almost got all fo them killed, no money and hten the opium amrket cake, I survived and won the game

...you can win the game?

You i even won it on my first go.
To win you have to buy all the upgrades availble.
By the end i had a maximum number of elephants and stopped farming altogether (only to have all of my elephants and farming equipement stolen by a angry mob... that didn't stop me in the slightest because i had thousands of $ stashed away).

There are events that screw you over but they're not all that common and you can get by by planting cotton/peanuts most of the game.

[MaximumZero]

The trick is to heal your entire family every turn, so that way you get max bonus, the day I forgot I almost got all fo them killed, no money and hten the opium amrket cake, I survived and won the game

...you can win the game?

Apparently this is possible. I just beat it in 11 turns.

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[wer6]

Psh, seven

[MaximumZero]

Psh, seven

Good for you.

[Fniff]

Bay12: we win at poverty.