Chapter 296 People’s hearts are no longer the same as they used to be!
Chapter 296 People’s hearts are not the same as they used to be!
Cow and horse group.
Today is more lively than usual.
Although many players in this group made reservations early, in fact, less than one-fifth of them actually entered the game. Most people just clicked on the reservation and watched the fun.
”Hahaha! I just saw a fool hanging 5 silver coins for 1 yuan, and it was gone in an instant.”
”Fuck! I didn’t pick it up!”
”Awesome! Just now I saw a big guy hanging 800 silver coins! 40,000 yuan was sold!”
”Fuck!”
”@狗管理, did you do it!”
The newbies definitely can’t come up with so much money.
Although they have never entered the game, they often see the dog managers bragging, so they are relatively familiar with the situation in the game.
No one came out to claim the transaction.
The chat was quickly wiped out.
But as they chatted, the manager still popped up.
Ye Shi: “Brothers.”
Quitting: “What’s wrong?”
Ye Shi: “I want to play professionally.”
Quitting: “?”
Lao Bai: “…”
Kuang Feng: “…”
Fang Chang: “Squint.”
Ye Shi: “Fuck! How do you react? I am… the highest level perception system in the server. Is it weird to play professionally?”
Fang Chang: “No, I just want to ask, which ‘amateur player’ is online for an average of twelve hours a day. (Squint)”
Quitting: “Hahaha, I want to complain too. If this isn’t considered professional, then what is?”
WC is really a mosquito: “Very good! Very energetic! Come and fly a plane with me, it’s so cool! (Grinning teeth)”
Ye Shi: “Get out!”
④Who knows: “Hey, I’m so excited… Earning 100 silver coins a day means 5,000 a day, right? Damn! I should have filled out the form with you guys!”
Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes: “This price fluctuation is really a bit outrageous. Do you think someone will use this to launder money?”
Fang Chang: “Emmm… I don’t know if it can be laundered with a keyboard, but in reality, money laundering requires three conditions to be met ‘simultaneously’ – difficult to track, large trading volume, and high control by the banker. Obviously, “Wasteland OL” does not meet these three conditions.”
The platform itself does not provide payment tools. Money laundering is not about exchanging US dollars for Zimbabwean dollars, but about turning illegal income into legal income. The anonymity of “Wasteland OL” is for players. A uses the bank system to transfer money to B to buy game equipment. This is anonymous for banks. As for
the trading volume, let alone, the total trading volume of less than a few million silver coins is nearly 200%. Not to mention how much can be laundered, even if the facts are put aside, which fool would use someone else’s plate to launder money?
Before the Fed releases money, it has to wait and see. The operator’s “smashing the market” is just a matter of moving a finger to adjust the data. Give you 100 million silver coins, and then use “abnormal transactions” to lock your account, and you can play single-player games with numbers.
Washing and washing really turns into washing dishes.
Using game equipment to launder money is more magical than using US stocks to launder money. After all, the transaction volume is large enough, and the overseas investment income can really be made legal through certain operations.
Game coins are the medium of transaction in the game, but outside the game they are “game equipment”. The issuance of this thing is adjustable in the hands of the operator. Today you exchange one million US dollars for one million silver coins or a game equipment, and tomorrow this one million US dollars may only be worth one hundred US dollars.
Unless the operator cooperates with you.
But use your brain cells to think about it. Why should they cooperate with you to wash dishes when they are guarding a gold mine with more than one million reservations for the B round?
Obviously, the helmet can be delivered to the players and the official website can be accessed normally until now. Even if there is no written permission from the official organization, it has at least been tacitly approved to a certain extent.
But Brother Chaodan is a chef after all, so it’s normal that his thinking is a bit narrow. Most people only know how to write the word “money laundering”, but who really wants to understand the specific operation process of this thing.
Fang Chang: “This Beta0.2 is actually very interesting. The official did not directly set the price of silver coins, but allowed players to consign freely, and even the handling fee was charged in silver coins. It is obvious that the operator of “Wasteland OL” has no intention of making money from this platform. Many of you must have taken advantage of it, but I don’t know if you have ever thought about the official’s motivation for doing so.”
Ye Wei blushed while holding the phone.
To be honest, he really hadn’t thought about these things.
”What is it…”
Fang Chang: “The original intention of the establishment of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange was to regulate the chaotic over-the-counter market in the United States and provide financing channels for small businesses. Offline transactions of silver coins have always existed, but the scale is small and no one has made it public. When the number of players increases, someone will definitely set up a trading platform like IGXE outside the forum. Now it is equivalent to the official itself to build this platform. It is safer for players, the price is more transparent, and it is beneficial for the official to supervise.”
”In addition to regulating the market, it allows round A players to cash in part of the game revenue. Although it sounds a bit strange, it is indeed the game company that is giving us red envelopes.”
And the amount of the red envelope is not small.
As long as you don’t have a problem with your brain and hang up 100 silver coins for 10 cents, everyone made a little money when the trading platform was first launched.
Especially that Ya Ya.
One silver coin was exchanged for one bitcoin, and I don’t know which idiot was the one who was taken advantage of.
Ya Ya took the initiative to express that he would pay it back, but I didn’t see that person come out to claim it.
It can only be said to be charity.
WC really has mosquitoes: “Do you think there will be fools who sell their equipment for silver coins? (funny)”
Fang Chang: “Fools exist at all times, but here is a common sense, whether it is selling your own equipment or taking more conservative actions in the game, it will cause you to fall down from the original echelon.”
”Make a prediction, there will be two trends in the future. One is that the assets in the game will be more transparent. Cloud players will pay more attention to the land prices, equipment prices, and economic trends of the new alliance. They will even write guides based on the clues we provide, and indirectly invest in the industry in the game through other players holding game assets on their behalf.”
Not everyone in the Age of Exploration has actually been to the colonies. Most people may have only read a few lines in the newspaper, but it does not prevent a physics professor and mint director in London from holding shares in a colonial company.
The silver coin trading platform sets any form of assets.
In addition to real-life assets, of course, it also supports trading in-game assets. At the same time, the way to invest in the game world is not just silver coins, but also other things.
For example, technology.
Although the game is full of black technology, and the batteries on the exoskeleton are all solid hydrogen, the most basic railway and communication facilities are still at the level of World War II.
”Wasteland OL”, which is still in the B round, still has unlimited potential, and these are all potential markets.
Fang Chang: “The second trend is that it will be more difficult to maintain a level advantage than in the Alpha version. Casual players can play as they please no matter what, but those who are willing to work hard will invest more silver coins in upgrading their levels and combat power, especially the latest merchant system and legion system! These two systems will burn a lot of money, but the returns will also be huge!”
”The B round test will be a reshuffle. Players in the A round will cash in part of their earnings based on their efforts in the A round. By the same token, when the B round players see the earnings of the A round players, they will work harder to upgrade before the dividends in the C round.”
”In a word, everyone can sell some idle silver coins to give newcomers some opportunities and gaming experience, and improve their lives by the way.”
”But remember not to sell too much. After all, silver coins are one of your ‘shares’ in this game in addition to contribution points and sequence levels. Excessive overdraft will lead to elimination in the B round, and your position will be replaced by new shareholders, and you will have nothing to do with the dividends in the C round.”
”Also, be a little careful when trading. Although there are many game equipment trading platforms, there is no law that stipulates that reselling game equipment is illegal, and no one will pay attention to you for small private transfers, but if the amount is too large, it is best to consider the payment method.”
”Also, don’t forget to pay taxes.”
Fang Chang said a lot of things earnestly, and Ye Wei always felt that half of them were said to him, especially the last sentence.
But he felt that this brother was a little too concerned.
He was not stupid, so how could he exchange all the silver coins on his body for money.
Even farmers know to save seeds for spring plowing, not to mention that he has been playing games for so many years. His understanding of equipment trading rules and real cases is much higher than that of some newbies who don’t understand anything and just analyze randomly.
Just when Ye Wei took out a pen and paper to calculate how many silver coins to put on consignment, he suddenly noticed that someone in the small group had tagged him.
There were only four people in the small group. Fang Chang, who had just posted a lot in the big group, came here to tag everyone.
Ye Wei was about to ask what he was doing, but Fang Chang typed a message in the group chat, which made him hold his breath involuntarily.
Fang Chang: “I discussed with Lao Bai. The Niuma Brick Factory has been in operation for nearly half a year, and we have never distributed dividends. Taking advantage of the launch of the trading platform, we can distribute dividends.”
Dividends!
Ye Wei almost forgot about it.
Lao Bai is the director of the Niuma Brick Factory, but the four people hold shares equally, with each holding 5% of the shares, which adds up to 20%.
Since the shelter holds 80% of the shares, dividends are actually a very unprofitable thing. If they use the silver coins earned to buy equipment and land, they can hire more labor to expand production. They can make the cake bigger and bigger. Therefore, from the early version of the A round test to now, they have never distributed silver coins.
Thinking of the rewards given by the brick factory for completing the exclusive tasks, Ye Wei was instantly excited.
Fang Chang: “… Silver coins should be credited to your account within two hours. Although I am optimistic about the long-term value of Wasteland OL, and the value of Second Life cannot be measured by secular money, the price of silver coins will definitely fall in the short term.”
”There are many people in the group, so I didn’t say it too directly. It would be bad if I uploaded the screenshots to the forum, so I’ll just say a few more words here.”
”Set aside funds for the development of the Burning Corps.”
”Sell the rest.”
…
The second day after the Beta0.2 version was launched. After
a busy day, Zhang Hai found that the game had changed as soon as he put on his helmet and lay down at night.
Originally, everyone came to his place to eat noodles as soon as they came online, but today they all went to buy the Didiwei nutritional paste and the green wheat cakes made by the residents of Bet Street.
A long queue formed at the door of the NPC store, and the head and tail of the queue could not be seen.
It was easy to guess what the reason was. Looking at the steaming pot and the empty tables and chairs, Zhang Hai couldn’t help but sigh.
”People’s hearts are no longer the same as they used to be!”
”These stingy people! Is it that serious? Don’t they have anything else in their eyes except money?”
An old customer who happened to pass by heard this complaint and couldn’t help but spit.
Ye Shi: “MMP! Are you ashamed?”
Irena: “You’re the most expensive one, okay!”
Elf King Fugui: “6 silver coins for a bowl of ramen! Why don’t you go and grab it!”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “That’s right! Crow Boss has big breasts after all! And she speaks nicely! What do you have?”
Zhang Hai has a bad temper and a poisonous mouth. He said something back on the spot.
”How do you know I’m not big? Want to try?”
Ye Shi: “Get lost!”
Quit smoking: “Ugh ugh ugh!”
The nutritional cream in his hand instantly lost its fragrance.
Seeing that the customers were disgusted and left.
Zhang Hai began to regret it. Customers are God, and he shouldn’t be quick-witted in the game.
”This is not a solution.”
Seeing that no one came to buy, and watching the white foam in the pot churning, Zhang Hai had no choice but to secretly change the price on the wooden board to 5 silver coins.
”Someone should buy it this time, right?”
However, things went against his will and there was no effect.
Zhang Hai could only frown, erase the 5 he had just written, and write a 4.
100% profit! What
a huge loss!
Zhang Hai’s heart was bleeding.
However, perhaps thanks to the price reduction, or perhaps because the bad planner felt sorry for him, there were more NPC customers today.
Some came to try the new products after seeing the price reduction, and some came to have dinner with their children and wives. Finally, there were more faces other than players at his stall.
Looking at the curious and young face next to his parents, Boss Zhang finally did not have the heart to cut corners.
Because the price was a bit more affordable than before, there were more customers in the evening, and in the end he was so busy that he didn’t even have time to rest.
But the NPC never urged him, after all, he couldn’t understand.
He was busy until half an hour after dinner time, and then Zhang Hai had time to rest.
Although he was exhausted, Zhang Hai couldn’t help but smile as he watched the NPCs wolfing down the noodles he made and the hard-earned silver coins in the drawer.
Maybe…
I should hire a helper.
Open two more branches at the farm.
The version is changing.
He also had to make some changes.
Just as Zhang Hai was thinking about the future, there was a loud shout at the door of the store.
”Old Zhang! Give me a bowl of noodles!”
”Go away, I’m not old at all!” Zhang Hai didn’t even look at him, but stared at him, “Look at my face, I’m at most 20 years old!” Sisi, who
was standing next to him, pulled Wei.
”Awei, this is rude, and how do you know how old he is? What if he is your younger brother?”
Wei replied in a condescending manner.
”Si, you don’t understand this. Which young person would use his real name as an online name? Which young person would be anxious when being called old man?”
”I’m your father.”
Zhang Hai laughed and placed two bowls of noodles on the table. Wei, who
paid at the speed of light, sat down on the chair in a flash, and couldn’t wait to pull out the chopsticks from the wooden barrel. However, just as he was about to start eating, he shouted.
”Giao! Why is there one less piece today!”
Zhang Hai said with a straight face.
”The price has been reduced, is it strange that the quantity is less?”
Wei said pitifully.
”But, but, why is Sisi’s bowl bigger than mine!”
”My hand slipped.”
”Damn it! This evil capitalist!” With his expression restrained, Wei Ba sighed and shook his head, muttering, “Well, since this is the last bowl of noodles, Wei Ba won’t bother with you.”
Zhang Hai stopped cutting meat and glanced at the lively little girl.
”The last bowl? You don’t want to play anymore?”
”How is that possible! It’s only Beta 0.2!” Wei Ba smiled and said, “This game is getting more and more interesting, okay?”
Zhang Hai asked in confusion, “Then the last bowl of noodles is…”
”Wei Ba wants to open a mercenary guild! The mercenary guild needs funds, so Wei Ba decided to travel with Si Si!” Wei Ba said with sparkling eyes, “There are also sesame paste and meat! We have an appointment to set off tomorrow!”
”Don’t say unnecessary words.”
Si Si gently taught Wei Ba a lesson with her little fist holding the chopsticks, cleared her throat at the latter’s “Ah” cry, and explained calmly.
”Anyway, it’s the merchant system… This prodigal woman spent money to buy a bunch of useless numbers, I have to help her earn it back.”
Zhang Hai sighed earnestly, “You guys, you should be moderate… What’s the point of spending money? Isn’t it better to enjoy the fun of the game normally?”
Tail said unhappily.
”Retired old man, don’t talk!”
”Which eye of yours saw that I retired!”
Zhang Hai rolled his eyes and threw two slices of freshly cut cooked beef into her bowl.
”Eat and get out!”
…
Three days have passed since the Beta0.2 version was launched, and it’s not just the Niu Ma team that is selling silver coins.
How to sell?
Of course, everyone has their own way of selling.
Although there is no candlestick chart for silver coin consignment, the historical transaction orders are open and transparent. Just adjust them up and down according to other people’s prices. This is no different from the jewelry trading in CSgo.
If you don’t like the trouble, you can directly mark a silver coin as one dollar and throw 10,000 or 20,000 silver coins on it.
If you don’t mind the trouble, you can also split it into several or even dozens of small orders of 100 silver coins, and place them at 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000… and wait for people to buy. How many transactions can be completed depends on luck.
Although this will be slower, it can maximize the profit.
With the emergence of a large number of sell orders, the price of silver coins finally began to gradually fall after the transaction volume hit a new high.
And all this happened under someone’s nose.
”Haha, smart little rascal.”
Looking at the transaction records in the background and the surge in the number of reservations, Chu Guang, who was drinking Nuka-Cola and watching the show, smiled.
Brother Fang Chang probably played the US stock market and was a master at buying high and selling low during the day.
The big order fell to the single digits and then secretly placed a small order to pick it up. After a few fluctuations, even the silver coins of his good brothers helped to sell out. Now he is probably counting money.
Some people sent private messages to inquire about his background and wanted to talk to him directly.
Talk?
Talk about a hammer.
What can be discussed between the “Fallen Empire” and the “Interstellar Natives”?
The shelter is the last stubbornness of the Human Alliance. Chu Guang must have a problem with his brain to use such a helpless means as “showdown” to ask for cooperation when the other party can easily misunderstand him as an extraterrestrial civilization or other advanced existence.
What does dimensionality reduction attack in the information field mean?
Power outage? Internet disconnection?
That’s child’s play.
Xiaoqi can upgrade the version of the Earth in the parallel world with a sneeze. The “Second World” has become the “Only Paradise”, and the way to save the world is hidden in the game of advanced civilization. If these settings are physically added to the official website of the game, will you play such a game?
The five good people will rush to play it.
Not clicking on the “cross-border bill” does not mean that this option does not exist, but that there is a more suitable option that is more in line with his moral code.
If you work hard, you will naturally get what you deserve. Chu Guang is a reasonable person. If you work for him, you can get a reward from him.
This reward can be real money today, real status tomorrow, and even rise to the height of civilization in the future.
It is a legacy from a higher civilization.
The beneficiaries are more than just individuals.
So if you want to enter the game, just fill out the form honestly, apply for a “work visa” according to the rules he set, and abide by the local “laws and regulations”.
The New Alliance is at least one of the successors of the Human Alliance. Does this manager have no face?
As for the fluctuations in the silver coin market, what does Chu Guang think?
Of course, he sits and watches.
Some people are willing to spend hundreds of thousands to buy a silver coin, and some people are willing to exchange hundreds of thousands of silver coins for one dollar. This has nothing to do with him. Which of these two things is not paper to him?
As long as the players are willing, of course, they can also put 10,000 silver coins on 1 dollar for charity, and everyone makes money within their own cognition. What’s more, silver coins are not a currency that can be used to eat in the real world, but a game prop. As for whether
it is worth it?
Is it worth exchanging a +999 dragon-slaying sword for a house? Is hundreds of thousands of dollars of Metaverse real estate worth it?
Talking about it in a radical way, which virtual thing is not waste paper?
At least silver coins can really buy land that can be freely built in Wasteland OL, rather than paper models that deceive people.
If you think it is expensive, it means you are a rational person.
If you think it is impossible, it only means that you have seen too little.
The development of the New Alliance from a wilderness to its current scale is inseparable from the efforts of generations of players. Now that “Wasteland OL” has successfully operated to the Beta stage, Chu Guang will of course give some benefits to those who have helped him.
And this is also the reward they deserve for their hard work.
However, Fang Chang only guessed half of this.
Chu Guang’s original intention of developing this platform was indeed not to make money from the waste paper of the other world, but it was not just to distribute dividends to closed beta players and regulate over-the-counter transactions. There are two other deeper purposes.
One is to assign value to the pie drawn by “Wasteland OL”, and the other is to redistribute the wealth in the game.
The former will make players more motivated to complete tasks and more actively participate in the legion system and merchant system he planned.
The latter will make the economic cycle in the game more reasonable.
A bowl of ramen that costs less than 2 silver coins can be sold for 6 silver coins a bowl under extremely low taxes and land rents.
Nothing else has such a high profit!
The reason why it can be sold at such a high price is because of the high-income players.
As the level increases, high-level players have too many silver coins, and they can’t spend them all by buying equipment. It is difficult for ordinary natives with a daily income of just over 10 silver coins to consume the products “set by themselves” by players. After all, no matter how much their income grows, they can never outperform the “undead” players.
The players themselves have formed a closed economic cycle. In fact, they are the nobles or knights of the new alliance. If there is no administrative intervention, the risk of exporting inflation to the NPC market of their own country will continue to accumulate.
How to release the risk?
Establishing an official silver coin trading channel and assigning value to silver coins is just the first card Chu Guang played.
The liquidity rolling in the closed loop will release part of it outside the game, while the other part of the liquidity will be bought by players who are eager to become stronger in the new version, and invested in equipment, business or other places, entering a virtuous cycle.
Those players who are joking and shouting “It’s too expensive, I’ll have two more bowls” will also consider the weight of currency more seriously, whether the things they buy with silver coins are worth it, and whether the prices they set for products are reasonable.
If the citizens of a country have no respect for their own currency, and the nobles have unimaginable wealth but do not use it where it should be used, the risks generated are far more than just inflation.
The new alliance already has more than a thousand players, and more people will be eligible for closed beta testing in the future.
The sooner these problems are solved, the better.
”…The Niuma Brick Factory, which had never paid dividends, finally paid dividends. The No. 81 Steel Plant also paid dividends. Part of the silver coins deposited on the books flowed outside the game, part went to other players, but the vast majority went into the treasury of the new alliance. The problems of inflation and fiscal deficit were solved together.”
”New players can also get a better gaming experience. In addition to spending time on equipment, they can also take shortcuts by spending money when the price of silver coins drops. Players with high ranks have solved their life problems and can devote more energy to the game.”
”Although cloud players still do not have the qualification for closed beta testing, they have also been given the opportunity to participate in the game indirectly.”
”This time it should be considered… Forget it, forget it.” Chu Guang counted on his fingers for a while, and finally gave up. I
can’t count how many times I have won.
Anyway, it’s a win-win situation.
”But master… why would those people who obviously can’t enter the game buy game coins?” Xiao Qi was confused.
This confusion was the same as when it faced those snails who “are obviously weak but insist on coming over to test it with their tentacles.”
Chu Guang, sitting on the sofa, sipped a cold drink and replied casually.
”Everyone has their own reasons. Some people spend money to learn lessons, and some people spend money to buy dreams. What we need to do is not to control which leg the players take when running or which hand they use to wipe their buttocks, but to ensure that the vast majority of athletes run on the track and remove the offending contestants from the track.” Those who
can get the game qualifications are adults, and adults should be responsible for their own behavior. He is a manager, not a nanny.
A small player spent 200,000 to scan 20,000 silver coins. The largest transaction order was 40,000 yuan to buy 800 silver coins.
If she used all of it to buy ramen, it would definitely be a blood loss.
But what if she bought nutritional paste and shipped it to the plantation in the south, or exchanged it for weapons and shipped it to Honghe Town?
20,000 silver coins are far more than 20,000.
”The price of silver coins seems to have fallen.”
”Normal, it means that the New Year’s red envelopes are almost gone, and they should go online to move bricks properly.” Chu Guang stretched and stood up from the sofa.
Xiao Qi asked curiously: “But if the price of silver coins keeps falling, will anyone still buy it?”
Chu Guang said easily.
”Prices will converge in divergence and diverge in convergence. The increase in trading volume is the beginning of a reversal, and the decrease is the end of a trend. Whether 1 silver coin is exchanged for 100 yuan, or 100 silver coins are exchanged for 1 yuan, they are just numbers to us.”
”If it really comes to the point where the market needs to be rescued, it will be too easy to make it go up. I will directly put up a full set of solid hydrogen technology on the official website, with ten places for ‘study abroad’, and guaranteed teaching and mastery, priced at 100 million silver coins. Guess how much the silver coins are worth?”
”Think about how much garbage we picked up and how many buns we steamed for the Pioneer in order to make the ‘magnetic confinement plasma cutting machine’. Now look back and see if this deal is worth it.”
”Don’t just look at the surface when looking at a problem.”
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(Thanks to the leader reward of “E Curry”!!)
(End of this chapter)
