Chapter 88: The Debate on Balance

  Chapter 88 The Debate on Balance

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  [It snowed heavily today, and the surface temperature dropped to 0 degrees. The “Winter is Coming” expansion is coming to an end, and an additional 10 closed beta qualifications are being released to give back to the players who have been waiting for a long time and insisting on checking in on the official website. ]

  [In addition, the temperature is getting colder, so remember to put on more clothes. ]

  Today’s version number is still Alpha0.4. The

  official website’s announcement still did not mention any news about the Alpha0.5 version, only an announcement about the testing of the “weather system”.

  However, the content discussed by netizens on the forum today, rarely, has anything to do with the announcement of the planning team.

  Almost all topics and complaints are focused on the in-game enhancements of life profession players.

  Teng Teng: “It’s too outrageous! First it was 2,000 silver, and then 5,000 silver! The planner, please come out and take care of your NPC! QAQ”

  There are really mosquitoes in WC: “I don’t care, shady deal! Unless you give me money too! The goblin industry needs subsidies! (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻”

  Midnight Killer: “The strength system needs to be strengthened! It’s unreasonable that the axe can’t chop the crab shell! ┬─┬ノ(‘-‘ノ)”

  Debt Big Eyes: “Intelligence system players protest! Strongly request the weapon store to add drones and floating guns! (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻”

  Makabazi: “Farming! I want to farm!”

  Stop bullshitting: “No one cares about the fisherman? 500 contribution points are too painful! QAQ”

  Crow: “Hahahaha, loser! You can die from fishing, weakling! {*≧≦}”

  The players on the official website have a lot of opinions, and they are about to quarrel.

  Actually, think about it, the most important thing in the game is to be a fisherman.

What do you want?

  Balance, of course!

  In reality, you can selectively ignore the gap between the rich and the poor, but not in the game! We all work the same, so why are you so happy?

  It’s unreasonable.

  This is too unreasonable!

  Especially since the outpost is less than the size of two playgrounds, and it may not even be 20 acres, and a brick factory is 15 acres, which is equivalent to another sub-base.

  Even if the player only has 20% control, it will affect the balance a bit.

  It should be less than 5% to be more reasonable! Of

  course, there are also players who pursue another level of rationality, such as the Canyon Fleeing Mole who has been clamoring to develop a “free trade” system.

  This guy specially opened a post to rationally analyze the rationality of this.

  ”It’s not as exaggerated as you think. A good economic circulation system is a must for a game that pursues details. Have you heard of “Albion”? Although it is an MMORPG, the economic system in it is very well done. All the equipment in the game is produced by players. Basically, your profession is determined by what you wear.”

  ”The design that impressed me most is that the economies of the cities in the game are independent of each other. Although there are auction houses for trading, they are not actively circulated. Players can buy stores, open workshops, make equipment themselves, or rent them to players for a fee. The produced equipment can not only be auctioned to players, but also sold to the black market.”

  ”The most eye-catching one is the black market. The equipment sold to the black market will be bought by “monsters” and become the spoils of players who kill monsters. If no one sells a piece of equipment, the black market will increase its price within a certain limit to induce players to produce it.”

  ”Obviously Wasteland OL is also building a similar economic system, but based on my observation, Wasteland OL’s economic system will be closer to reality. I don’t know if you have noticed that different NPC strongholds actually use different currencies! So most of the trade is barter!”

  ”There may be an exchange rate setting in the later stage, but this will make the system very complicated, even close to a ‘chaotic system’, making the changes in the economic values ​​in the game tend to be unpredictable, and I don’t know if the server’s CPU can handle it!”

  ”Anyway, it’s a good thing to be innovative. I give a thumbs up to the production team’s courage!”

  Chu Guang actually read his post to the end. He still took notes on the places that should be learned from. If he took more notes, wouldn’t Alpha0.5 come out?

  However, I don’t know if the server can handle it. It’s only been a few minutes since this post was posted, and a little steel bar has already come to argue.

  Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: “Haha, I haven’t played the game you mentioned, but my point of view is still the same. Letting players interfere too much in things that should be done by NPCs is a failure! Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. You can never guess where the bottom line of the players is! If I were the director of that brick factory, I would not sell to the NPC warehouse, and then raise the price of bricks. You can buy them or not! ”

  Yes.

  This is indeed a problem, but this problem may only appear in future versions, not now.

  This cloud player may have forgotten that once he accepts the hidden task, it means giving up 80% of the control to the “NPC”.

  It’s fine to run it well, but if you want to raise prices and engage in hunger sales?

  You can see whether the NPC will do it or not. There

  are many more methods to choose in the game than in reality.

  However, the idea of ​​this little player can be regarded as a reminder to Chu Guang that you can believe in the abilities of the players, but you can never overestimate their bottom line, and you can’t give up using the rules to constrain them. Even if

  I increase the shareholding ratio of the players in the future, I will not let them exceed 50%.

  At the same time, you have to set the inventory Liquidation warning line.

  Once the inventory reaches the liquidation warning line, the balancing mechanism is automatically triggered. Even if you don’t want to sell it, you have to sell it at a discount.

  What, you want to stop production? Limit production? Learn from the Boston people and throw bricks into the water?

  Haha, the orders for the NPC warehouse are endless. You can try to stop production. The punishment is to reduce the equity [limited time task]. Do it or not. There

  is always a way to deal with these clever tricks.

  Professor Yang didn’t know that his theory had caused an NPC to write two more entries in the little notebook, but normal people probably wouldn’t think that the NPC in the game can actually browse the official website forum.

  At this time, the people from the Niu Ma team came out.

  Fang Chang: “Ahem, to clarify the question raised by Professor Yang, first of all, you can’t regard the player group as a whole. Just like eating chicken, some people cheat, and some people insist on maintaining the game environment, right? I can’t control others, but our Niu Ma team still has integrity and will not do things like driving up prices in the game. Not now, not in the future, please rest assured. ”

  “In addition, we are actually workers too. 80% of the shares of the brick factory belong to the shelter collectively, and we only have 20%. To be honest, this is a bit like a hot potato. The reward for the effort is not proportional to the income. It’s not as good as you think.”

  He didn’t want to clarify, but seeing how heated the discussion on the official website was, he was afraid that the planners would interfere with the game and directly cut the income of making bricks.

  20% of the shares are already low enough. If the income from burning bricks is cut again, we will have to eat dirt.

  Anyway, let’s sell it miserably first!

  Canyon Fleeing Mole: “That’s enough! Give it to me! If you don’t want to do it, do it for me! (Going crazy)”

  Fang Chang: “Ahem.”

  Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: “Haha, you say you can’t do it? And what’s wrong with 20% of the shares? In fact, it is still the players who are running it, right? I still say that you can never underestimate the moral bottom line of a player, and there will always be people who find ways to take advantage of loopholes!”

  ”For example, I can deliberately throw away part of the inventory and say that the burning failed, but in fact I can sell it to players in need at a price lower than the market price through third-party players. This not only bypasses the NPC warehouse, but also bypasses the restrictions of corporate accounts! You know what I mean, even if there is a loss on the books, players can still make a steady profit! And it’s money that goes directly into their pockets! (Proud)”

  Chu Guang was shocked when he saw this post.

  Damn.

  This guy really learned the criminal law!

  There really is a mosquito in the WC: “Good fellow, if it happened in real life, he would be shot to death.”

  Scrambled eggs with tomatoes: “I think it’s more punishable than a mosquito! (grin)”

  There is really a mosquito in WC: “? What does it have to do with me.”

  Irena: “Brother, you are so stupid. (Funny)”

  Fang Chang: “Pattern, pattern, do you think you are the only smart one? Only you can think of it? If you are smart, think about it again, why don’t I do it this way, and come here to post a statement that I don’t do it this way. (Squint eyes)”

  Ye Shi: “Will you come to our factory to move bricks after the internal test? I will appoint you as the workshop director. (Funny)”

  Lao Bai: “Hahahaha, let’s do the public test! I think the public test should be okay.”

  Guang: “(Applause)”

  Teng Teng: “Great planner!”

  Professor Yang, the King of Thunder and Lightning: “…Uh, it’s all theory, don’t take it seriously, I just said it casually, cough cough. (Sweating soybeans)”

  Ye Ao Nai Wo He: “Laughing, what you said is the same as the truth. Keep pretending, I wonder how long you can pretend. (Picking nose)” Quit

  smoking: “Dad! Please, give me a chance. TT”

  After closing the post and browsing the official website, Chu Guang found that the number of reservations had increased from 888 to 996.

  Although the method of attracting people willing to take the bait is a bit inefficient, the advantage is that it can screen out a large number of non-target groups.

  What is a non-target group?

  Professor Yang is a fish that slipped through the net and was not screened out, at least not the target group in the closed beta stage.

  Thinking about how to cheat every day, using game bugs to fight wits and courage with planners, is it worthy of the game that others have worked hard to make?

  Can’t you just work hard for NPCs?

  It’s said that the game will not be deleted, and you will be T1 and T0!

  ”We have to find a way to open the B2 floor… There are so many young players waiting to go online to work hard.”

  I don’t know how many cultivation cabins there are on the B2 floor.

  But there is still a problem here. There are less than a hundred players now, and the elevator capacity is already a bit tight. What if the number of players exceeds a thousand or ten thousand in the future?

  Breaking a million or even tens of millions?

  Of course, Chu Guang thinks that the designer of this shelter should consider these issues, such as the existence of exits on other floors that can directly reach the surface.

  After all, it doesn’t make sense for such a large shelter to have only one exit to the outside world, and if the “technology for communicating with parallel worlds” was completed in this shelter, then the first-generation manager should have left him the technology to produce this kind of incubator.

  When we can send a large number of “players” from the shelter to the surface, it will naturally be time for internal testing.

  When we can break away from the spatial limitations of the shelter itself and mass-produce “players” on the surface, it will naturally be time for public testing.

  ”Xia Yan.”

  Hearing Chu Guang suddenly call her name, the weapon shop owner who was sitting in the corner reciting books until she felt dizzy was stunned, and looked up at him blankly.

  ”What?”

  ”Do you know how to contact the slave trader?”

  Hearing the word slave trader, the girl’s face turned pale, her hands tightly grasped the notebook, and her body seemed to shrink.

  ”You, what do you want to do?”

  ”……?”

  Although he knew that she was probably overthinking, but how far did her imagination go, Chu Guang could draw a tree diagram of the possibilities.

  Tsk, annoying.

  He hated guessing the most.

  Seeing Chu Guang didn’t say anything, Xia Yan’s face turned red, and then blue. The misunderstanding became deeper and deeper, and she said with trembling teeth.

  ”I, I, if I didn’t do anything well, tell me and I will definitely change it. Don’t, don’t sell me… please.”

  ”…What nonsense are you talking about? Don’t you still have one leg left? Why should I sell you?” Chu Guang rolled his eyes and urged, “I plan to buy some labor. I want to ask if you are familiar with people who do this business. If there is anyone, please hurry up.”

  This guy is really too idle.

  Generally speaking, when you hear that a company is going to lay off employees, the one who is most afraid of is definitely the one who often slacks off. If you didn’t slack off, what are you afraid of?

  Huh?

  Although I always feel that Chu Guang’s answer is a bit problematic, it’s not that he is going to sell himself.

  Xia Yan breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense shoulders relaxed.

  Slowly leaning back against the wall, she raised her eyebrows and glanced at Chu Guang, muttering.

  ”I, how could I know that kind of merchant? Do you think I’m someone who can afford to buy slaves?”

  ”Tsk, you’ve never sold any?”

  ”Who do you think I am? I’m at least a proper mercenary, not a looter.” Xia Yan argued with a red face.

  Chu Guang shrugged and didn’t comment.

  Is there a big difference between mercenaries and looters?

  Even merchants occasionally play the role of looters, let alone mercenaries who originally make a living with guns? But asking about the past is a very boring thing, and it doesn’t matter to him.

  ”I really didn’t!!”

  ”Oh, that’s a pity, I was hoping to buy some labor back to help my people reduce some of the burden.”

  Xia Yan glanced at him, tactically afraid, shrank his shoulders and didn’t say anything.

  I remember that last time this guy used the word “residents” to refer to those blue coats who couldn’t speak, but this time he has started to use “people”.

  Will he become a servant directly next time?

  It’s so scary…

  This guy must have been a demon in his previous life!

  No, he is in this life!

  (End of this chapter)