Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 386 New version: The red moon rises
After all, Iceland Game Company is only a small company at present, and "EVE" is only their first product that is not very mature. Facing an international rich man like Fang Jie, the mentality is actually very complicated and swayed by considerations of gain and loss.

I am very happy and honored that the richest man in Huaguo came to play their game, but I am also worried that Fang Jie will ruin their game.

At the same time, I also wondered whether the richest man in China, who started out as a game player, had his eye on their game and company. In fact, he had an ulterior purpose in trading in the game. Think of some countermeasures.

But on the other hand, the production team of the game company feels that if the game can really sell for a good price, it is actually a good choice, but their self-esteem does not allow them to do so, and they are not sure if they really have the willingness to acquire it. What does the richest man in China mean?

In short, the appearance of Fang Jie made the Icelandic game company go crazy. His words made the game company's executives turn over and analyze word by word for a long time. .

Things in the game are solved in the game.

What do these words mean?

After studying this sentence and even the punctuation marks for a long time, the Swedish sinologist said with an unfathomable face: "The Chinese nation is an ancient nation with a long history and a profound heritage. Hidden and tucked away, the listener must comprehend it by himself, not just understand it literally. Therefore, it seems that this is just a short sentence, but it actually contains multiple meanings.”

The game executives nodded their heads, and said that they are indeed sinologists, and they really have research on Huaguo. No wonder we sent several long private messages to test it out. They answered all the questions in just a few words!

"First of all, this is literally what it says."

The Swedish sinologist said: "He just came to play the game, and he doesn't want factors other than the game to interfere with his normal game activities. Or, it can also be understood that he hopes that everything will be carried out within the framework of the game rules."

"You said that you want to transfer data to him, or invite him to visit the company. These are all outside the framework of the game, or things outside the game. Therefore, he also politely refused."

"Oh, by the way, I heard that you have also warned him about his game behavior, so this sentence also contains the meaning of protest. His behavior within the framework of the game rules is reasonable and legal, which is the so-called 'in-game behavior. Things', so I hope that your company can only solve it in the game, and not go beyond the framework of the game and do something that violates the rules of the game."

Hearing this, an executive of the game company said with a dark face: "But he used some financial means to earn a lot of wealth in the game, which destroyed the economic system of the "EVE" universe to a certain extent. I don't think this is the case. Reasonable behavior, but taking advantage of the loopholes in the game!"

The Swedish Sinologist shrugged and said: "Perhaps as you said, he did take advantage of some loopholes in the game, but the game is your company's product, and there are loopholes in the product, don't you want to repent, but to make your mistakes It comes down to a player who didn't violate any rules of the game? Isn't this your responsibility?"

The top executives of the game company couldn't help but looked at each other in blank dismay, speechless.

The sinologist smiled slightly: "Have you noticed that there is no subject and object in his sentence. Well, there is actually another meaning: this sentence is also applicable to your company. You can also take some necessary actions , it is reasonable to solve the current problems encountered in the game, as long as it is done within the framework of the game rules.”

Everyone's eyes lit up immediately, only to hear the sinologist say again: "I heard that the richest man in Huaguo started his career as a gamer. I believe he understands games better than you and respects games more. So as long as you solve problems in games, even if it's for him He actually has no objection to creating a little bit of difficulty."

That's it!

At this moment, the top executives of the game company finally realized that the richest man in Huaguo was not so ruthless, and he still left a way out for everyone.

"There is a third meaning."

The Swedish sinologist looked around and said meaningfully: "The other way around, it means: things outside the game should be resolved outside the game. It means that if your company dares to break the rules of the game and use some dirty tricks outside the game , then I’m sorry, he will also activate the network resources outside the game, so that your company can’t afford to go around, and he doesn’t even rule out using some more despicable means to deal with you. Therefore, these words also have the meaning of a strong threat and warning.”

The senior executives of the game company holding small notebooks to record, looked at each other to confirm their eyes: uh, ok... this must be carefully written down, and two red lines will be drawn below, always reminding ourselves not to cross the line matter.

"Is there any other meaning?"

Seeing that the sinologists had been silent for a long time, the high-level officials couldn't help asking questions.

After racking his brains for a long time, the Sinologist shook his head and sighed: "The Chinese language is extensive and profound, and there must be other deeper meanings, but I have only learned a little about Sinology, so I can't guess more information. Sorry, Everyone."

Well, no matter how you say it, this analysis seminar is described in Chinese as "listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books". Everyone has gained a lot and dare not have more extravagant expectations.

If Fang Jie were here, he would definitely have to admire the ability of this Sinologist. Although he exaggerated a little bit in some understandings, after all, he was eating this bowl of rice, and it was necessary to pretend to be forceful, but he did. The meaning is basically understood and conveyed in place.

After the analysis seminar, the top management of the game company held another game planning meeting, focusing on discussing how to solve some loopholes or design problems of the game within the framework of the game without angering the richest man in China and without disrupting the balance of the game. determined, modified and adjusted.

At the beginning, someone suggested that the financial means of the richest man in Huaguo were all based on market transactions. As long as the number, frequency, and amount of transactions in the game market were limited, the financial means would inevitably fail.

However, this proposal was quickly rejected.

"EVE" focuses on a free world for development, and free trade is one of the cores. If restrictions are imposed, it will violate the core gameplay and original intention of the game, and it will be more destructive to the game.

Some people also suggested that since free trade is necessary, we can think of ways to increase transaction taxes and increase the cost of financial operations.

However, this was still rejected.

Fang Jie's financial operations did involve a huge amount of money, and raising the game tax rate would indeed increase transaction costs, but compared to the total transaction volume of other players in the game, his transaction volume can only be regarded as insignificant. The bigger losses are actually other players.

Moreover, after the transaction cost increases, everyone increases, but it does not solve any practical problems.

Then other people also made various proposals, and then they were all rejected.

As a last resort, someone made a good indirect suggestion: "Since we have invited sinologists to analyze his words, why don't we invite an economist or financier to analyze his financial operations and find out What is the solution? Our country has nothing but a lot of financiers!"

This makes sense!

So the Iceland game company really invited a well-known domestic financier to help as a consultant.

When the financier heard that the person he was going to deal with was Fang Jie, the richest man in Huaguo, after a long silence, he asked, "Have you heard of his name in the financial world?"

When everyone shook their heads in bewilderment, the financier said with a stern face: "He is on Wall Street, and is regarded as the "Nasdaq savior" by the industry!Since he declared to rescue the market, the Nasdaq index has risen from the lowest point to the current 2000 points, yes, it just broke through 2000 points today!doubled! "

"His charitable foundation in Citigroup has an annual return rate of more than 100%! Before that, he personally traded in the futures market with a return rate of more than 10000%! He is called the "Wolf of Wall Street" by investors, and his status in the international industry is only [-]%. Second to Soros and Buffett! "

"Are you asking me to fight him, are you making an international joke?"

"Besides, this is just a game. People just come in to play tickets. Does he care about the money? Don't underestimate his pattern. If he really likes this game, he will definitely not use financial means to ruin the game. If you don't like it, there's no use worrying about it..."

Emmmmmmm…

Although this sounds reasonable, why does it feel so annoying?
Is there no way at all?

A group of game company executives suddenly became depressed.

"Actually, it's not impossible."

The so-called using people's money to eliminate disasters for others, the financier dialed a sentence before leaving: "You only need to recognize one essence: finance itself does not create value, and what has value is commodities. This is the fundamental. As long as you understand his The financial means are based on what subject matter, and then thinking of some countermeasures on this subject matter, should be able to solve the problem.”

"Okay, I don't understand the game, so that's all I can say, and you can figure out the rest yourself."

After the financier left, the game company executives stayed and continued the meeting.

This time, with the guidance of the financier, everyone's goals are much clearer.

What are Fang Jie's series of financial targets?
Obviously, they are minerals, game coins, and recharge points.

Further analysis, among them, in the entire financial trading process, the earliest and largest target, which is enough to cause violent fluctuations in the market, is minerals.

500 accounts, 1000 Huaguo miners working in two shifts, mining in the game 24 hours a day, is the most direct evidence!
Therefore, according to financiers, as long as minerals, a commodity with real value, are regulated, the fundamental problem can actually be solved.

Everyone thought about it carefully, and couldn't help but slapped their thighs: It's really like this!
The capital for Fang Jie to get rich is the massive minerals produced by these miners. In the first round of financial trading, he used some theoretical knowledge of futures and stocks. !

Then, as long as the output of minerals is adjusted, his behavior can be restricted.

So someone suggested that it is possible to consider reducing the output of minerals, or change the refreshment of minerals from once a day to every two days, so that the output of minerals will be greatly reduced, and Fang Jie will have fewer resources to use for trading. .

However, some people immediately objected, thinking that it should be reversed: increase the production of minerals and speed up the refresh rate of minerals!

What is the advantage of Huaguo miners, that is, they dominate the mines!
The reduction in production will only expand their advantage, and intensify Fang Jie's monopoly on game resources.

Only by increasing production, so that miners in Huaguo can't finish mining, and other players can dig mines casually, then the minerals are worthless, and there is little room for manipulation.

If you dare to sweep the goods, others will dare to ship, and it is the kind of unlimited supply. It depends on how you are still in charge!

It makes sense and makes sense!

When most people nodded in agreement, a game planner objected: "This is not acceptable. After increasing the production of minerals, or even unlimited supply, it will cause the price of minerals to plummet, which will then be transmitted to the price of upstream commodities. The price of game resources Unlimited over-release, if the game recycling speed does not hurt, it will cause serious game economic inflation.”

Everyone thought about it, and felt that this was very reasonable. If inflation was severe, Fang Jie would not need to fiddle with the game, and he would collapse!

Oh, this won't work, that won't work, what should I do?
"Then make the high-security area no longer safe! Any player can sneak attack each other! In this way, Huaguo miners will not be able to mine, and will definitely be hunted down by other players! You must know that most players hate these farmers! "

Someone got ruthless and made a suggestion that almost destroyed the original framework of the game.

Immediately, someone strongly objected: "NONONO, this is not advisable! This is tantamount to canceling the PVE environment settings. There are few players in our game. At present, 70% of the players live in the PVE area. Once the version is revised, peace-loving pensioners Players will be greatly reduced."

But this is indeed an idea, so someone said: "Everyone, see if this works, let's make a game story setting: Although the artificial intelligence drone forces cannot invade the high-security area on a large scale under the resistance of human forces, there will still be Some small-scale drone squads, with the purpose of harassing and destroying human logistics supplies, fortunately avoided human monitoring, interspersed into the asteroid belt mining area in the high-security area, and killed human miners."

"That is to say, let NPC take the responsibility of guarding the mine. NPC drones will occasionally spawn in the asteroid belt mining area and attack their mines. The mines driven by the miners have no self-protection ability, and even the lowest level frigate There is no need to show up, even two or three unmanned fighter jets can blow them up."

"In this way, miners in Huaguo will have no way to mine with peace of mind, unless they arrange a security fleet to guard the mining area, but this will inevitably increase their mining costs. And this is a setting change within the framework of the game rules , it’s not against the rules, we’re just making up a story and updating a gameplay.”

This idea is good, but some people still raised objections: "But this is no different for other players, and the difficulty of mining has also increased."

There is a planner: "No, no, there is a big difference. I heard that those miners in Huaguo know very little English, and only know the basic process of mining. It is a little more difficult, and it has little effect on ordinary players. You can bring your own. Human-machine self-defense, but for those farmers, the difficulty has increased many times, and new operating procedures need to be mastered.”

"This method can be used, but it is not a cure for the symptoms, so it can be tried first."

After opening up the mind, someone said: "Since the adjustment of mineral output is difficult, why not adjust the supply and demand relationship of the upstream industry?"

"For example, we can reduce the low-level minerals needed to manufacture a battleship, and need more medium and high-level minerals. These minerals can only be obtained in low-security areas and 00 areas. Those Chinese miners are only active in high-security areas. They can only dig low-level mines such as phoenix, and if the demand decreases, the minerals they collect will be worthless."

"If they dare to mine in dangerous areas, they are in danger of being exploded. I heard that other players in the game have reached a certain agreement. Anyone who encounters Huaguo farmers in non-high-security areas will be killed. Obligation. They even set up a special hunting army to find and hunt Huaguo farmers in these areas."

After listening to these words, everyone couldn't help giving a thumbs up to the game planner who spoke, and some even whistled happily, thinking that this proposal was really good, it was within the scope of the game, and it did not Destroying the balance of the game can also effectively combat Huaguo farmers' behavior of dominating mines.

This is the so-called "things in the game, solved in the game", it is a perfect solution!
However, the setting of the drone attack in the Gaoan mining area also needs to be adjusted.

It has to be said that the Iceland game company has gone to great lengths to deal with Fang Jie within the scope of the rules.

For this update and revision of the game settings, the game company also specially released it as an information article, but it did not declare on the surface that it was to deal with Fang Jie, but very cleverly expressed that it was against Asians, especially The friendliness of Chinese people.

The name of the new version "EVE" is: "The Red Moon Rises".

It's a metaphor.

Red, of course, alludes to the Chinese red, and the red moon refers to non-mainstream Chinese players in the international server.

Of course, if you think about it, the rising of the red moon also represents the coming of some kind of darkness at night, and the dark forces are beginning to rise. It can be said that the NPC drone force invaded the Gao'an area, or it could refer to the bullying of a certain big devil... ...Well, it depends on how one understands it.

At the same time, in addition to adding a lot of new spaceships and skills to this version of the game, the most exciting thing is the addition of four new characters of Asian descent. The version is obviously aimed at Asians.

This makes the Chinese people very excited. It seems that the foreigner game company has paid attention to the influence of the Chinese people. Some people are complacent: Look, the foreigner game company is very familiar with it. In order to earn money from our Chinese players, they will not hesitate to kneel and lick!

Only Fang Jie, who carefully analyzed the content of the revision, really realized what the revision was for. It was obviously aimed at him and the Chinese miners, but it was coated with sugar on the surface!
However, he did not expose the game company's tricks. After all, they made adjustments within the scope of the rules, which was reasonable and legal.

What should I do if I am targeted?
It doesn't matter.

Soldiers come to block the water and cover them with soil, afraid of wool!

As long as it is within the scope of the rules, Fang Jie is confident that he can deal with it completely, and even kill the opponent.

Anyway, he only entered the game to play, and the previous financial operations were just for a wave of primitive accumulation. At present, the money can't be spent, and he doesn't need to collect money for a while, and he doesn't want to ruin the game. The worry of the game company In fact, it is a bit redundant.

The way to deal with the invasion of NPC drones in high-security areas is too simple. Just divide the miners into groups, choose a team leader to lead the team, and the others will mine, and the team leader will drive a frigate to protect them.

Although the mining efficiency has decreased a bit, it has decreased by 10% at most. In fact, the impact is negligible.

As for the adjustment of the proportion of mineral materials required for starship manufacturing, it is actually nothing.

Now that the capital is available, the skills of the fighters under the Chinese Legion are almost ready, and the flag can be officially planted. It may be more risky to go to the 00 area where you can PK at will, but first go to the low-security area to enclose a block of land to protect the miners from digging For medium and high-end mines, it is not a big problem to find passing players to collect tolls or something.

Even if there are foreign players or legions to harass, it is nothing more than fighting for consumption.

Now he has plenty of money, and the miners are still sending it in a steady stream. As long as the players in the whole server are not constantly coming to consume it, it is estimated that no one can consume his Chinese army.

It is also impossible for the players of the entire server and the legion to cause trouble. They are not monolithic. Before the Huaguo Legion offended everyone, other legion players met. Wake up, how can I find trouble with him.

Of course, then again, the impact of this version upgrade is still there, and it's quite big.

At least the Chinese players and miners in the game, from the low-key development in the past, now have to go to the front of the stage, so that other foreign players realize that this wave of Chinese players has formed a force that cannot be ignored .

For foreigners, compared with other foreigner legions, even the Lao Maozi legion, the Chinese legion is an absolute outsider, so it is more targeted and hostile.

When they have conflicts with other player legions, they may quarrel first and reason, but when they encounter the Chinese legion, there is no reason to speak, and they just hold the idea of ​​killing people, stealing goods and exploding ships. If there is a chance to make a fortune, they will definitely not Miss it, without even explaining and communicating.

Because of the language barrier, there is no way to reason, so it is the most worry-free, the most trouble-free, the most straightforward, and the most straightforward to explode the Chinese people's boat!

Why so much nonsense, just do it!

The Chinese Legion was not used to this kind of hostility at first. At the beginning, everyone still had kind thoughts in their hearts, and they emphasized that peace is the most important thing, with a touch of luck. Insulting and ridiculing caused heavy losses, and then slowly changed.

At first, Fang Jie would give a few warnings in advance, but later he simply didn't explain it. There are some things that can only be learned through experience.

In the game "EVE", the novice teaching, novice guidance, and novice quiz are just the basics. They just teach you some basic operations. Only when the ship is blown up is the best teacher.

For example, when Fang Jie first started learning the game of "digging graves" in his previous life, 12 ships were blown up in a single day, and all his underpants were gone. Various accidents, unexpected possibilities, unnoticed details, and various luck , resulting in different ways of dying each time, without the accumulation of these experiences and lessons, it is impossible to become a master of the "EVE" game.

So let’s explode, anyway, the current skills of the Chinese Legion players are not high, and they can’t drive expensive ships. The number of starships lost is quite a lot, but the quality is not high. Besides, now that the Legion has money, it’s not that they can’t afford it. As long as the same mistake or mistake is not made a second time.

And there is a saying: If you lose your horse, you will know it is not a blessing.

Always being targeted and killed by foreign players is actually not bad in the long run.

Because the number of times the players under the Chinese Legion are destroyed is much higher than that of other foreign players, over time, everyone's game operations have become very rigorous, paying great attention to details, and having a very calm mind. The average player's game has excellent technology and tough psychology.

As a result, the balance of victory and defeat gradually shifted to the Chinese Legion players with a small number of players. Often, in a small-scale battle, facing an enemy starship with a larger number than yourself, you can either win the weak with the strong, or take advantage of it. After that, he left the battlefield smoothly.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Chinese Legion has a boiling voice tactical command system. Foreigners can only type to communicate, or sit together to chat, while the Chinese players have no obstacles to communication, which is naturally more organized and tactically efficient.

Shortly after Boiling Voice was developed and used in the game, the development and production of "Meteor Butterfly Sword ONLINE" was finally completed, and it was officially released on January 2004, 1, the New Year's Day.

Needless to say, as the boss of the company, Fang Jie's game live broadcast content was of course temporarily switched to "Meteor Butterfly Sword", and the promotion was secondary. The game itself was actually very attractive to him.

(End of this chapter)