Friday 20 November 2009

No 12: Friday Fun

SORRY I realise the last couple of posts have asked you poor students to do some academic style work, so time to relax and have a try at this game, where you use your knowledge to run a farm:

http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/vla/farm/index.htm

If you play it, post your best score and next Friday I'll put up a high-score table on the blog.

Hopefully you will do better than I did here:





It appears I should remain a teacher.
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  1. Anton20 November 2009 at 23:06

    "Your final management rating was 95/100.

    Our comments: You are destined for the world of agriculture."

    >>> Oh that is a bit scary!

    "You can't take it with you but you made £19026.72 during your time as a farm manager."

    >>> And I was just growing potatoes from year to year

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  2. spottygao22 November 2009 at 02:17

    Yes Anton, just accept that your future will be as a potato farmer.......

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  3. Simon Chiu22 November 2009 at 15:08

    I don't understand the effect of Government introduces minimum wages on my farm, do I hire any workers?

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  4. Simon Chiu22 November 2009 at 16:06

    Potatoes seems to make lots of profit for most of the time unless there is a redution in subsides.(Is it because the game is set for UK economy?) Barleys and Oats can make lots of profit when their previous price is low(<40). Peas which is a mostly export gd in the game heavily depend on exchange rate.However, I don't understand why I can make lots of profit when the exchange rate is rising by selling peas(Contradicted with I've learnt about exchange rate...Maybe Inelastic demand) . Sugar never earn lots (No idea...) Fallow never happen on my farm!!!

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  5. Simon Chiu22 November 2009 at 16:07

    Your final management rating was 95/100.

    Our comments: You are destined for the world of agriculture.

    http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/images/vla/farm/rate1258904038-1641.gif

    You can't take it with you but you made £18798.22 during your time as a farm manager.

    http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/images/vla/farm/1258904038-1641.gif

    Fun and interesting game which I've addicted for my Sunday holiday

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  6. spottygao22 November 2009 at 19:53

    I hope it hasn't taken too much of your Sunday. Giving a link to your score is very honest behaviour!

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  7. Anton22 November 2009 at 22:13

    Thinking while playing led to higher result!
    But I still don't understand, how exchange rate works there. I guess, there are some factors I haven't noticed?

    http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/346/farmer100.jpg

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