Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 15
"It's here!"

Fang Jie pointed to the row of dilapidated bungalows that were about to collapse on the right side of the street, and said to Xia Hao.

Xia Hao looked at these "houses" and then at Fang Jie, with a confused expression: "Are you sure?"

"Ok, here it is!"

Fang Jie's eyes flashed with excitement: "It seems that the budget is going to be increased. This row of shacks must be demolished and rebuilt."

Xia Hao, who has always used Fang Jie as the backbone, raised his objection for the first time: "How much will it cost? Why don't we just find a ready-made store on the left side of the street to get it?"

"No no no." Fang Jie waved his hands again and again, "We have to look at the problem from the perspective of development."

"This……"

Xia Hao couldn't understand Fang Jie's thoughts at all. If he didn't give him a reasonable explanation for such a big matter, he would definitely back off.

Fang Jie said with a smile: "Although the storefronts on the left are ready-made, they have little value-added potential. The one on the right, behind an urban village, is all wasteland, and the cost of acquiring land is low. After the merger of the three schools of Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology, the future is inevitable. If you want to expand the campus, then this is the first choice.”

Xia Hao felt inexplicable: "What does that have to do with our Internet cafe?"

"You are stupid!"

Fang Jie said: "The storefront on the right is equivalent to the partition wall of the future campus. In the future, whether it is to open an Internet cafe, do business, demolition compensation, or transfer, you can make a lot of money. The side facing the street can do business externally, but also internally. You can open the store to the school!"

After Xia Hao understood, he couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Damn, you're thinking too far! But we're here to open an Internet cafe, not to buy land and build a house! Besides, we don't have enough money to do this. ."

Is it not enough?
Fang Jie glanced at the bungalow on the right again. If the entire street is renovated as a whole, according to the current price level, 50 will be sky-high.

As for the right to use the land, this piece of land looks like the collective land in the village behind, and most of the matters can be handled directly by the village committee. As long as the transfer fee is high enough, there is no fear that others will not give in.

Besides, there is no need to build a large piece of land from the beginning. In a short period of time, a piece of land of about 200 square meters will be built to build an Internet cafe, and it will not cost too much money.

Thinking of this, Fang Jie walked forward for a while, and reached the middle of the road. He found 5 or 6 connected dilapidated bungalows. If they were opened up, the estimated area should be almost 200 square meters.

"Just this one."

Fang Jie made up his mind and said to Xia Hao, "Let's build an Internet cafe, and there will always be shops. Rather than renting shops, it's better to lease land to build your own shops."

Xia Hao didn't understand at all: "Why?"

Fang Jie said: "It doesn't matter if it is in other industries, but the Internet cafes have low threshold and high investment, and the shops are best owned by their own property rights. Otherwise, the landlord sees your Internet cafe business is very popular, and greatly increases the rent under the jealousy, or simply drives you away. Open an Internet cafe by yourself, you have nowhere to cry."

Xia Hao was stunned: "Can we sign an agreement?"

"Childish!" Fang Jie rolled his eyes at the other party, "If the landlord is really thinking about it, there are countless ways to drive you away, just occasionally cut off the electricity and water for you, or find some connections to check here and there every day. , you can't stand it."

Having said that, Fang Jie patted Xia Hao on the shoulder: "Since you want to come out to do things, you should always be more careful, think twice about everything, and think about the long-term. If you really don't understand, then you can just listen to me... But , I still hope you can be on your own."

Seeing Xia Hao nodding heavily, Fang Jie said again: "This time you are in the provincial capital, you will stay for a few more days, go and talk to the person in charge of the village in the back, take down these stores, and just Think of it as exercising yourself.”

Although Xia Hao's academic performance is not good, but the police academy is not free. In this regard, he is quite confident in his abilities.

"Not enough money wow!"

Xia Hao is only worried about money. If Fang Jie's plan is followed, renting a house of 1 to 20 yuan to open an Internet cafe is fine. Buying land and building an Internet cafe by himself is definitely not enough.

"Let's talk first." Fang Jie's least worry is the money issue. "Let's talk about the intention first, let the village offer a price or come up with a plan, and I'll come over and make a final decision. I will keep the money for opening an Internet cafe, and I will provide the funds for the shops.”

Hearing this, Xia Hao suddenly lost his thoughts.

His family's money didn't come from the wind. It's okay to open an Internet cafe in a serious way. He doesn't have the courage to open a shop. If Fang Jie can pay for the land and shops, it will only benefit his Internet cafe.

"So it's settled then?"

After Xia Hao confirmed one sentence, he turned to ask, "What shall we do next?"

"It's not us." Fang Jie smiled, "I and Li Qing went to the computer city to buy a computer. You can go to the villagers to talk about the land storefront. If you encounter any problems, find an Internet cafe to surf the Internet at night, and use QQ to communicate with you. I contact."

"Uh?"

Xia Hao was sluggish for half a second: "No. You went to pick up girls and just left me in the provincial capital?"

"Then what else do you want?" Fang Jie smiled and said, "I have already put 1 preparatory funds on your card, and if I take my money, I have to help me with errands. Food and lodging will come from public funds, but The accounts need to be sorted out.”

"All right……"

Fang Jie is now the father of the gold master, and Xia Hao can only accept his fate.

Leaving Xia Hao behind, Fang Jie led Li Qing to take a taxi to the computer city.

Computer City is actually very close. If you start from the main entrance of Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology, it will take you 5-10 minutes to walk there. However, Fang Jie is too lazy to walk. If it is not too shocking, he even plans to buy a car directly.

However, before that, you have to get a driver's license.

It's easy to get a driver's license now, just stuff the examiner with two packs of cigarettes or a 200-dollar red envelope, basically you can get it straight away...

In 2000, Computer City was very large and business was very good. After all, the era of home computers and the Internet had just begun, and it was located in the center of many universities, unlike later generations, which gradually became depressed due to the advent of the mobile era.

This time, Fang Jie came to the provincial capital mainly to buy a server. He was going to build two servers. In fact, everything else was incidental.

Xia Hao opened the Internet cafe, if the development of the shop is included, it would not be possible to open without a few months of preparation, but after a few months, Fang Jie already had enough funds to run the matter, so it was not bad.

Of course, the premise is that the game server must be fixed. This is the fundamental and the core of the future business, and it must be done as a top priority.

There is nothing to say about the server configuration. Except for the keyboard and mouse, all other accessories are the best and most expensive to buy. Just two 17-inch LCD monitors cost 24000!

Nowadays, the monitors used by everyone are generally still 15-inch spherical monitors, and even flat-panel right-angle monitors are rarely used, not to mention LCD monitors.

Liquid crystal displays will not gradually become popular until at least 2005. Now the price is extremely expensive, which is simply sky-high, and most people cannot afford it. The reason why tablet computers are expensive these days is because of the display, but it is good for eye health.

Fang Jie didn't want to break his eyes in order to save money. For him, as long as it was a problem that money could solve, it was not a problem.

As for the host, not to mention, the hard drives with the largest capacity are all full, the memory slots are all full, and the performance is maximized!
Two top-performance servers were built, and finally spent more than 6 yuan, and the money in the card was only a fraction of the time.

Although a lot of money was spent, taking back such a server is equivalent to changing a shotgun for a cannon, operating a text online game such as MUD, and each server guarantees that 2000 people are online without any problem.

Local tyrants like Fang Jie are rarely seen in computer towns. Naturally, they shocked the merchants. Unfortunately, he still dislikes such server performance, and he has no pleasure in pretending to be forced, so I don't need to mention the process. .

It is only said that many parts of the server belong to the cutting-edge goods, and the ordinary merchants in the computer city have no stock at all. The boss called around to find the hardware agent to find the goods and deliver the goods. It took a long time to get the parts of the two servers.

Fang Jie didn't wait stupidly either. He took Li Qing to eat, drink, and stroll around the streets for a long time. He didn't return to Computer City until 2 or 3 pm. After picking up the goods, he chartered a car and returned to Tongcheng.

Directly to the telecommunications Internet cafe, and moved the server directly into a small room on the side of the Internet cafe.

This small room was originally a utility room with some messy things piled up. Yesterday, Fang Jie talked with the manager of the business hall for a long time, rented this utility room as a computer room, and installed the door lock.

Free rent, free water and electricity bills.

but!

This computer room alone leads a 10M Internet cafe telecommunications line, and the cost is 3000 yuan!
Every month!
Not every year!

For this, Fang Jie also thanked the manager of the business hall very much.

Because strictly speaking, this practice is illegal. If it is not for Fang Wanxing's face, even if he is rich, the manager of the business hall cannot open a dedicated Internet cafe line to Fang Jie alone.

Of course, it is relatively hidden in the business hall, which is one of the reasons why the manager of the business hall is willing to open the back door, which is convenient for monitoring and management, so I am not too worried about any problems.

Quickly assemble and debug the server group in the computer room, connect the Internet cable, test and operate it, and then the conclusion is one word: cool!

So cool!
Performance is second.

The main thing is the speed of the internet, and it feels a bit like 20 years later.

Since the rebirth, Fang Jie has been suffocated. Usually, he has to wait for a long time to open a webpage online. Every time he looks at the network progress bar on the browser's status bar, he slowly moves forward, and he wants to. The urge to smash the computer.

Now that he has spent so much money, he has finally returned to the same level as before his rebirth.

It is indeed only the same, or even a little bit worse. After 20 years, the computer performance and network speed are the same, and the estimated cost is less than 3000 yuan, but now it costs more than 3 yuan.

It can only be said that being rich is so capricious.

Incidentally, Li Qing also experienced the feeling of surfing the Internet 20 years later.

However, Li Qing didn't think there was anything wrong with this, or she didn't realize the epoch-making significance of this. She thought that such network speed and performance were normal. If her brother Li Yi was here, I'm afraid she would have to hug her. Computer crazy kiss for a long time.

The next step is to transfer the game server.

This is a little troublesome.

Fang Jie's internet speed is fast, but the players' internet speed is still scum.

It is impossible for everyone to let them take a long time to download an independent client with more than 200 M.

But there is no way, this is something that must be implemented, even if some players will be lost, it will be at all costs.

In order to give players a buffer time, three days ago, an announcement was repeated every half hour in the game.

The notice requires players to download the independent client as soon as possible. The game will relocate the server and change the server version after three days. Players who do not log in to the game with the independent client will not be able to experience the game normally.

Every time a player enters the game, there will also be such a notice, and the client download link address and method are also listed.

According to Li Qing's investigation in the game player recharge group, most players are not very interested in this, and many people still have not downloaded the independent client to this day.

To put it bluntly, it is lazy and afraid of trouble.

Sitting in front of the new hypothetical server, Li Qing couldn't help but be a little worried: "These people are really, they have been announced in the game for so many days, but they refuse to move. If they change the server, what if they can't enter the game?"

Fang Jie fell into reflection.

You can't blame the players for this.

People are lazy. As a game service provider, they should guide the customers they serve and provide better services for players, instead of forcing players to adapt to themselves.

The independent client is indeed something I take for granted.

Fang Jie still remembered that he had waited an hour to download the server. This was still downloaded from a relatively fast Internet cafe such as a telecom Internet cafe. If it was an ordinary Internet cafe, it would have taken longer.

If players surf the Internet in Internet cafes, in order to play games, do they have to delay for an hour or two to download again every time they change the machine?
Isn't this nonsense!
"I don't blame them, we didn't do it ourselves, but you don't have to worry too much..."

Fang Jie smiled, and after comforting Li Qing, he opened the independent client file and thought about it while browsing the program files inside.

In fact... it's not that there is no better way.

It's just that he was lazy before and felt that it was unnecessary. Now it seems that the player is more lazy than him, so he still has to put some effort into getting things right.

Looks like it's time to show the real technology!

With this in mind, Fang Jie slightly modified some key files of the original client, added a few systemic files, classified and split the independent client files, and packaged them into hundreds of small files.

Immediately afterwards, some configuration and optimization were performed on another newly purchased server computer to make it an independent download server, and the modified independent client was added as a download file.

At this time, the independent client was shrunk to 6M by Fang Jie, which is almost no different from the ZMUD file size of the original client.

After completing this, Fang Jie put the new download link address in the notification and gave three brief explanations:

1. The independent client program is only 6.5M, which is easy to download and will not take much time.

2. The independent client program comes with a full-featured script macro button, which is easier and more efficient to operate.

3. Focus - through the independent client game, other more than 200 M client files will be automatically downloaded and updated during the game!That is, players can download the complete client while playing the game. After the update is complete, the game will run smoothly without lag!

Seeing the description of this independent client, Li Yi, who just arrived in the capital at night and was surfing the Internet in an Internet cafe after ten hours of train ride, immediately sent a row of question marks over: "?????? There is such a technology??? Is it black technology?”

(End of this chapter)