"The Indian version of the game will be the toughest edition of the game mirroring the actual conditions of the Indian countryside." said Vish Makhijani, Senior Vice-President of Zynga's Mobility division.
In the Indian version, the players will start with six plots of lands which they will always be in danger of losing from known and unknown threats. The market will be controlled by unscrupulous middlemen who at every level will attempt to cheat the player of legitimate price for his crop. While buying seeds from the market, the player will be required to make an intelligent and informed choice from the range of seeds available to him, carefully avoiding seed companies trying to fleece him by making tall claims of increased crop productivity. If he makes a wrong choice, he will be royally screwed and left with damaged crops and mounting debts.
The player, instead of encountering lost, lonely animals will face water shortages due to deficient rains or lack of irrigation. He will frequently encounter power outages hampering proper cultivation of crops. He will also have the constant fear of the Govt taking over his land for an arbitrary sum and watch as a SEZ comes up with lots of young people playing Farmville on their lappies.
An interesting departure from the usual zynga games would be the concept of downward mobility in levels. Unlike most other games, where the players only move from first level to higher levels, the Indian version of the game will also allow descent from higher levels. Every time a player loses his land to land-sharks or suffers crop damage which leaves him deeper in debt he will fall back to a lesser level.
Below the zero level, the players struggle to prevent fall to negative levels will become almost insurmountable as his debts will increase rapidly while his ability to pay them off will decrease. Unless, due to chance, he is handed a lifeline in the form of loan waiver from government or encounters a benevolent SEZ developer or a promoter of an industrial project who is willing to pay him fair value of his land, the probability of his avoiding descent to lower levels will be negligible. At the lowest level where the player will lose all of his land or end up with unpayable debts, he will have the option to quit the game by choosing the 'SUICIDE' option.
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