Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 12 Performing their duties
That night, the two talked a lot.

Both sides consciously avoided some heavy topics, mainly Li Qing was asking and listening, and Fang Jie was answering some precautions when going to Bagua Country as a trainee.

Gradually, Li Qing finally felt that the plan proposed by Fang Jie was not just a fantasy, but a practical plan to go abroad.

When parting at Fang Jie downstairs, Li Qing said: "I'm not afraid of hardship or tiredness, and I can take care of myself. In art school, I wash clothes and cook by myself! In the past six months, I will help you make more money, and I have 10% of it. The commission is just used for my tuition and living expenses.”

Fang Jie chuckled: "You don't have to worry about money, and you don't have to think about debuting in a group. The key is to learn something and prepare for your return to China."

"Well!" Li Qing nodded obediently.

"Also," Fang Jie thought for a while, then added, "I have time to learn Korean with me in the past six months, at least to the level of barrier-free communication in daily life."

Li Qing was startled: "Do you speak Korean?"

Fang Jie: "I understand a little."

He really only understands it a little. In his previous life, in order to watch the variety shows of Bagua Kingdom, he studied Korean for a while, and then he learned it without a teacher.

When he watched foreign variety shows, that is, in the next few years, there were almost no decent variety shows in China, and even domestic ones who had always been very good at copycats couldn't "learn from it".

In order to catch up, he couldn't wait for the Sinicization team, so he could only learn Korean by himself and watch the original version.

For example, "Love Letter", "X-man", "Strong Heart" and "We Got Married", "Singer", "The Masked Singer" and so on after 07.

Later, a large number of copycat programs began in China, such as "Super Girl" imitating "Beautiful Puppet", "If Love" imitating "We Got Married", imitating "Restaurant" of "Yin Canteen", imitating "Limit" of "Infinite" , "Running Man", "101"... There are about fifty or sixty well-known variety shows, the list goes on, and he rarely watches foreign variety shows.

He is not necessarily a Korean expert, but he is definitely a Korean comprehensive expert, and basic Korean is not a problem.

Of course, this can only be regarded as one of his hobbies and hobbies, and it is not a professional skill, and it is not included in the skill table of the development outline.

Li Qing didn't know the inside story at all, but she didn't feel too puzzled. After all, Fang Jie was a scholar, so knowing some Korean didn't seem to be worth the fuss.

"Then... see you tomorrow?"

Li Qing looked at Fang Jie with some reluctance, her eyes were red, as if she was afraid that she would not see him tomorrow.

Fang Jie laughed dumbly and touched the other's head: "Go back. Wait for my signal tomorrow morning."

Li Qing was stunned: "What signal?"

"balcony."

Fang Jie only hinted at two words, then waved his hand and turned away.

Seeing Fang Jie's figure going upstairs, Li Qing bit her lip, stood there in a daze for a long time before moving her footsteps, and turned back three steps to leave.

Fang Jie went up to the sixth floor, knocked on the door of Li Yi's house, and called Li Yi out. The two chatted very seriously in front of the railing for a long time.

At the end of the chat, when Li Yi left, he patted Fang Jie's shoulder heavily, without saying anything.

The next morning, Fang Jie stood on the balcony with a bowl of rice wine glutinous rice balls in his hand, eating slowly while looking at the cheese building opposite.

It didn't take long for a familiar figure to sit by the window, looking here from time to time.

Fang Jie finished eating the rice wine dumplings in two mouthfuls, made a gesture to the opposite side, and turned around and entered the room.

"Where are you going this early in the morning?"

Seeing that Fang Jie was going to change his shoes, Yu Guifen was very surprised.

"Go to the Internet cafe."

Yu Guifen was about to say something, only to hear Fang Jie say again: "I made an appointment with Li Yi, we plan to develop a program together."

Hearing this, Yu Guifen was speechless.

In the whole tower building, Li Yi's university is the most powerful among the juniors, and he has become a "child in someone else's family", even in the eyes of Gui Fen.

Since the son went to some Internet cafes with Li Yi and developed some programs, there was nothing to worry about.

Well, if she knew this program was a game program, maybe it would change her mind.

After going out, he called Li Yi out on the sixth floor, and then went downstairs together. When they got to the door downstairs, Li Qing was already waiting there.

"Brother~"

Although Li Qing called out Li Yi, her eyes full of joy stayed on Fang Jie.

Li Yi rolled his eyes and took the lead: "Let's go."

Li Qing was about to follow, but Fang Jie grabbed her hand.

"My brother is here!"

Li Qing panicked and wanted to break free. Fang Jie glanced at Li Yi's back and smiled: "It's okay, he knows."

"How did you tell him?" Li Qing asked nervously.

"Why are you asking so many questions?" Fang Jie directly took the other party's hand into his down jacket pocket, "Let's go, it's alright."

As a result, Li Qing was dragged by Fang Jie like a mistaken elementary school student. During this period, Li Yi occasionally turned back to chat with Fang Jie, but turned a blind eye to the behavior of the two, which made Li Qing gradually let go. heart stone.

Went into the internet cafe and checked the server, everything was normal last night.

At present, the number of game registrations exceeds 300, and the number of online users exceeds 180. Among them, 120 people are offline and hanging up. In the morning, not many people are actually online.

Fang Jie explained the game development steps to Li Yi in detail last night. Today, Li Yi's task is to follow Fang Jie's work yesterday and come up with a fool-like client-side script.

To put it bluntly, this work is to make all the English operation instructions or batch instructions in the game into macro buttons embedded on the client, and change the operation mode of the player from tapping the English instructions to the button mode of clicking the mouse.

In this way, even if the player does not understand English or scripting, he can control the game character to perform most of the game operations through the mouse, forming a fool-like game mode, but in fact it is still just a macro operation, that is, batch processing more command to complete a task.

The purpose of this is to attract more novice players to adapt to MUD games. With the macro buttons, you don't need to memorize so many English commands. With the Flying Boots, you don't need to memorize maps and NPCs. Then the rest, It is to experience the fun of the game, which greatly reduces the threshold of the game.

Fang Jie also has a task today. He wants to develop a page game similar to "Idle Jianghu" in later generations.

"Idle Jianghu" is actually a simplified version of the MUD game. Although the gameplay is weak compared to the MUD client game, it has become popular in later generations because of its simple operation and fool-like operation.

The current network environment is not suitable for engaging in graphic online games, so this kind of "Place Jianghu", which is a text online game with a few gifs or flash pictures as the background, is very suitable for meeting players in advance.

In fact, "Three Kingdoms on the Internet", which was launched in September this year, is actually this type of MUD. It is nothing more than adding some picture backgrounds to each scene map, but it boasts that it is the first domestic graphic ORPG online game. It seems ridiculous.

As Fang Jie, who can independently develop MUD games, developing such a game can't be easier. The gameplay system and everything are ready-made. It's nothing more than replacing mobile games with web games.

Even his idea is not just to be a "Place Jianghu" page tour, but to build a large-scale interactive game community website, similar to "Ninetowns".

Speaking of Ninetowns, uh... once represented "Miracle MU" and "World of Warcraft" and became famous for a while, but before Fang Jie's rebirth, this company actually went to speculate on Bitcoin without doing business, which is really confusing.

Developing a web game MUD is easy to say, but it is not easy, because the programming languages, servers, databases, etc. of the two are different and need to be rewritten.

MUD games are based on the independent LCP language, and page games currently have to use basic programming languages, such as C language, C++, JAVA, etc. Currently, there is no game engine open platform such as Unity.

While Fang Jie and Li Yi were busy, Li Qing was also very busy.

Busy collecting money, issuing game coins, and handling transfers.

Before the opening of online banking, Fang Jie decided to let Li Qing do this for the time being. When she can check the accounts directly through the computer, Li Qing's "spare time" will have to be used to learn Korean.

In an all-night time, there were many new players transferring money, especially the launch of Shuanger's gameplay, which stimulated a lot of game consumption.

In addition, the offline on-hook system developed yesterday afternoon also stimulated consumption.

Because it is offline to hang up, it is necessary to consume game currency.

Not much, 10 taels of gold/hour, converted into RMB equivalent to 1 cents/hour of hosting fees.

This is quite conscientious in the eyes of the players, and there is no complaint.

You must know that in the past, players who played MUD, hung up to do tasks or practiced, all had to be online, and the Internet access fee was at least 4 yuan/hour. Now offline hosting, the cost is [-]/[-] of the previous one, there is no reason to disapprove ?

But if you think about it from the perspective of game operators, this money is really easy to come by.

If a computer is managed at full capacity, it can host 400 players, and 1 taels of gold game coins can be recovered in 4000 hour, which is equivalent to earning 40 yuan, and the theoretical income in one day is 960 yuan!
This is to pick up money, and it does not require any labor, does not occupy server bandwidth, and will not arouse the disgust of players.

Even this move has been supported by the players. According to their thinking, the server helps them host the account, which is to occupy the resources of the server. Naturally, there is a certain fee, and the fee is only game currency, not real money, no real money. What.

Well, in a word, the routine is very deep, but at present players don't understand the principle at all. Even if a few smart people see through this routine, they feel that game operators are still conscientious and can understand and accept it.

In fact, MUD game stations in later generations also thought of this offline hosting system, but Fang Jie developed it in advance and became the first person to eat crabs.

He knows that such a system is easy to develop and easy to imitate, so three things are most important right now:

1. Develop web games as soon as possible and put them on the website, so as to avoid plagiarism by most MUD game stations. After all, the current web games are really not something that ordinary people can do. This is Fang Jie's current work task.

2. Improve the client-side macro button script, lower the game threshold, retain more novice players, and speed up the development of various gameplay systems, so that old players who upgrade too quickly will not be bored and can continue the game. This is A task for Li Yi.

3. Increase publicity efforts to attract more players into the game, increase the base of gamers, and improve the game flow. This task is left to Li Qing to complete.

So Fang Jie said to Li Qing: "You send a notice in the game and in the player group: the game has been holding the old and new activities for a long time. Every time a player is introduced into the game, as long as the player recharges, the introducer will rebate 10% of the game currency! "

After the explanation, Fang Jie quickly added a piece of code to the relevant file on the server side. When a new player registers an account, there is an additional information option "introducer", and the introducer can also query the information of his introduced person through the LIST command accordingly. Account recharge records.

Get the job done.

Fang Jie is now trying every means to make more money as soon as possible. Whether it is future career development plans, Xia Hao's investment in Internet cafes, or Li Qing's going abroad, they all need money. .

At 10:[-] in the morning, Xia Hao came to the Internet cafe.

When he found Fang Jie, Xia Hao said a series of swear words: "Nimabi, go to your house, your mother said that you came to the Internet cafe, which made me search a lot! Internet access is so expensive here, why do you keep surfing here?"

Fang Jie was speechless, pushed Xia Hao out of the Internet cafe, and when there was no one around the corner of the Internet cafe, he said: "You really need to change your swear words, the house is different from the outside, if you continue like this, I don't want to. play with you."

Xia Hao was silent for a moment: "Old... I'll try my best, okay."

Fang Jie said, "What's the matter? Or is it about opening an Internet cafe?"

"Yeah!" Xia Hao rubbed his hands together and said, "I went back last night to discuss with my family for a long time. They heard that you were willing to participate and invested 10. They agreed to help me borrow money from relatives on the spot!"

In the eyes of Fang Jie's classmates and their parents, he is just like Li Yi in the eyes of his neighbors, a "child from someone else's family".

Coupled with his father Fang Wanxing's extensive network and social status, his words or actions are often more effective than the teacher's words. This is an invisible trust.

Fang Jie asked, "How much can you invest? Where do you plan to open an Internet cafe?"

Xia Hao said: "Didn't I come here to discuss with you? How big do you think it will be? How much money do you need? Where else?"

Fang Jie thought for a while and said: "In the first phase, we will get 15-20 computers, each computer with high configuration is calculated at 8000, and then the rent, Internet fees, etc., 20. The location... Go directly to the provincial capital. Open an internet cafe!"

"Really going to the provincial capital?" Xia Hao couldn't help but stay dumbfounded for half a second, then gritted his teeth and said very ambitiously: "It's not impossible! If that's the case, I'll take 10 from here? I'm just worried about the province. Over there in the city..."

Fang Jie looked at Xia Hao seriously: "Do you want to live like this after opening an Internet cafe, or do you want to make a career out of it? If it's the former, open an Internet cafe here in Tongcheng, and you will have nothing to worry about in your life. No problem, if it's the latter, then listen to me and keep you alive and prosperous!"

Seeing that Fang Jie was extremely serious, Xia Hao also thought and weighed it for a long time, then suddenly raised his eyes and smiled: "Listen to you!"

Fang Jie nodded, pressing down on Xia Hao's shoulders and said, "Go back and get your money ready. After the New Year, I will go to the provincial capital to buy a computer and rent a house. As for the police academy, you can decide for yourself. I don't think there's any point in continuing to mix..."

Feeling the strength on his shoulders, Xia Hao nodded heavily: "Okay! I understand!"

(End of this chapter)