Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 409
Slein... is the little French architectural expert in "Minecraft", who has been in pain and happiness recently.

He hasn't finished filling in the big hole like "Minecraft", but when the game "Dominion" is released, he falls into another hole.

Ever since he became obsessed with "Minecraft" and built many world wonders in the game, and won the affirmation of the game official and many players around the world, Slein has become a loyal believer of Huaguo Game Company Boiling Games.

Since then, he not only recommended "My Game" to everyone, but also popularized everything about "My World" to people around him from time to time, including the company that produced this game, Huaguo Boiling Games.

He exaggeratedly declared that this is a great game company. Even if it is not now, it will definitely be in the future. He even knows more about the history of Boiling Games than overseas Chinese.

In this regard, the people around and friends in the game are very speechless and do not understand.

"Minecraft" and later "War of Mine" produced by Boiling Games are indeed games worth playing, and it is not an exaggeration to call them classics. It doesn't matter who you are a believer in, but there is only one thing: From everyone's point of view, everything related to Huaguo is very cheap and low, not to mention being a believer in Huaguo game company, is it just a matter of self-deprecation?

So out of politeness, the people around him didn't say anything in person, but they discussed it behind their backs, thinking that Slein was possessed by a demon and his nerves were abnormal.

For example, recently, Slein did not hesitate to pay nearly a thousand euros to buy a very expensive Huaguo mobile phone named "HUAWEI" on Amazon, which claims to be the most advanced mobile phone in the world.

In the eyes of everyone, this matter is a joke.

Isn't Huaguo's electronic products always known for their low quality and counterfeit products?
When did you claim to be the most advanced?How dare you sell it so expensive?
Anyway, whoever buys it is a fool. I am afraid that only Slein, who is already insane, will trust Huaguo and spend money to buy electronic products from their country.

The bigger joke is that this mobile phone has not yet obtained the EU network access license, nor does it support the GSM network. At present, the European CDMA network has only begun preliminary construction, and the progress is very slow.

In other words, this phone can neither make calls nor surf the Internet, and its basic functions cannot be used. The so-called mobile phone is in name only, at least for the time being.

So Slein bought a mobile phone just to play a mobile game produced by Boiling Games...

How stupid is this to do such a brain-dead behavior!

But there is a truth that also applies to foreigners: when you think others are idiots, you are actually the biggest idiot.

Slein got the phone and had a preliminary experience of the games on it, especially after playing "Reign", the people around him were also idiots in his eyes.

In his opinion, not to mention those games, just the performance of Huawei mobile phones and various disruptive innovative functions, such as touch screen operation, etc., it is already a Symbian antique mobile phone in the hands of other people.

So what if you can't make calls for a while?

It is because you can't make a phone call that the advantages of a smart phone are even more reflected.

If a Symbian mobile phone can’t make and receive calls, I’m afraid it can only be used as a big electronic watch, while a smart phone can’t make calls, but can also play games!

How many calls does the average person make every day?

Except for lovers, the total time spent on phone calls every day may be less than 10 minutes, but if it is a game on the mobile phone, it is not ruled out that they will play for a while.

If Slein had to choose between making calls and playing games, he would of course choose the latter. Besides, if he wanted to make calls, he could just use an old mobile phone, no problem!
So he originally bought the Huawei mobile phone as a game console, just to play the above games.

Downloading updates is not a problem. If the phone does not have internet access, players can log in to the official website of Boiling Games International or the official website of Huawei mobile phones, first use the computer to download the game installation program, and then connect the phone data cable to install the game on the phone. It is nothing more than a transfer. It doesn't cost anything.

The real problem that Slein is facing now is actually the trouble caused by the game.

In "My World", while continuing to create various world wonders in the endless mode, in order to gain praise from players around the world and satisfy his sense of accomplishment and pretentious needs, he also has to help himself in the online mode. Be in a team that builds a military fortress.

This was already busy enough, and even affected his real work. As a result, a new mobile game "Reign" came out that he couldn't put it down.

This is another deep pit, distracting most of his time and energy, causing his daily sleep time to be compressed to less than 5 hours.

It's not that he hasn't played single-player strategy games before, such as "Age of Empires" and "Civilization" are his favorites, but after getting familiar with the routines of such games, he is rarely obsessed with them.

But "Reign" once again brought him back to the feeling he used to play "Age of Empires".

He even just got the phone and only played for half an hour. After getting started, he didn't go back to the end game "Minecraft" for a week.

An obvious difference between this strategy game and other strategy games is that all resource storage and delivery needs to be transported by yourself.

In general strategy games, if you build a warehouse, the resources will be automatically stored in it. The function of the warehouse is only to increase the upper limit of resource storage. Whether it is output or resource consumption, there is no need to build material transportation roads yourself. The system will automatically deduct or Increase.

In this game, you need to design your own transportation routes. Coal mines collect minerals and must have roads to transport them to warehouses. Thermal power plants consume coal mines, and materials need to be transported out of warehouses by road.

Although the background of the game is already in the sci-fi era, the roads are full-automatic conveyor belts. After the route of the conveyor belt is specified, the materials will be automatically transferred and transported, but how to arrange the conveyor belt, how to set the direction, how to sort and transport various materials, and how to proceed The diversion and transfer of materials require careful and meticulous planning.

This is exactly what Slein likes!
Don't forget, he is an architect, and architectural design and urban planning and design are basically interlinked. Playing a game within the scope of his professional field will naturally give him more motivation and interest, as in "Minecraft", The same goes for Reign.

However, after he got to know this game in depth, he found that this game has little to do with urban planning and design, but a game involving logistics knowledge. Buildings, roads, etc. can be placed casually, and the focus is on improving logistics efficiency. , rather than design aesthetics.

Therefore, without the blessing of real professional skills, Slein failed to become a high-level player like in "Minecraft", but started the journey of restarting repeatedly like other ordinary players.

Even if he temporarily put down "Minecraft" and spent a whole week day and night, he still failed to achieve the primary goal of the game - to build a star Dyson sphere.

In fact, not to mention building a Dyson sphere, even a Dyson ring has not been built.

The so-called Dyson ring is equivalent to one latitude of the Dyson sphere. The Dyson rings of hundreds of latitudes intersect in the way of longitude and latitude to form nodes and form the framework of the Dyson sphere, and then build a piece of solar Dyson shell, and the "small pieces" composed of these nodes "The area is stitched up, and then a Dyson sphere that completely wraps the star is formed.

To put it more vividly, if the goal of the game is to create a three-dimensional hollow ball, then after playing for a week, Slein has not even drawn an equator line on the hollow ball, and is still in the state of "connecting dots into a line" The one-dimensional construction stage will be followed by the two-dimensional construction stage of "connecting lines to form a surface" and the three-dimensional construction stage of "connecting surfaces to form a body".

Even if this hollow sphere is built, it is only a Dyson sphere in one galaxy. The fourth stage is to build N Dyson spheres in N galaxies, and the fifth stage is to control the space war between the player forces of N Dyson galaxies!
If it was a long march before the game entered version 2.0, then he didn't even take the first step now!

A long way to go!
Fortunately, after a week of arduous infrastructure construction, or repeated reconstruction, he finally figured out the pre-construction process and summed up an efficient construction plan, such as a general understanding of how to plan and layout, how to sort logistics, and how to go to other galaxies to continue construction Collect resources at the base.

But then again, a week ago, after playing this game for a few hours, he also thought so before restarting the game, and after a week, he still thought so.

So now he can't guarantee whether the "best solution" he thinks is really the best solution. According to the experience and lessons of being slapped countless times before, he feels that his knowledge of this game and The degree of mastery is probably still halfway up the mountain.

It may even be like the current progress of the game, it is still only in the one-dimensional stage, and there will be more optimized construction plans waiting for him to dig out and summarize.

Anyway, one thing is certain: the game will definitely start again, even if the Dyson sphere can be built this time, it must be solved again in the future!
Not only was he very sure of this, but the more he played, the more Slein worried that there would be no next time.

The greatest joy of this game is to constantly summarize and restart the game. If you don’t restart the game, it means that the game is no longer challenging. In that case, the game will become very boring.

Just like other general strategy games, apart from mastering operations such as building bases and going out to attack cities at the beginning, there is actually nothing new in the end. The rest is nothing more than hanging on production resources, recruiting troops, fighting, and then consuming resources and continuing to wait for resources... …and so on and on.

The key is that the game planners of these strategy games don’t know if their heads are trapped by the door, and they have to set a physical value or energy value, and they can only do a limited number of operations within a period of time.

Although this is indeed to prevent the liver emperors from being too liver and destroying the balance of the game, it also makes it easier for those players who only have fragmented game time. Of course, you can also sell some game time acceleration items by the way.

But Fang Jie felt that this setting was completely putting the cart before the horse.

A game that does not focus on gameplay and gameplay, but is so competitive in controlling the player's normal game time, what is it if the head is caught by the door?
The purpose of playing games is to have fun, but it turned out to make us unhappy at the beginning, so what a fart it is!

When human beings engage in a favorite social activity, it must be impulsive, and their interest in it must be exposed every day, not every day for ten years.

It is not a hobby for ten years, but a job or responsibility, such as going to work, such as marriage.

The characteristics of human nature determine that this kind of game with limited physical strength is destined not to be accepted by players. What everyone thinks is how to fully experience the fun brought by this game within ten days and a half months, instead of going online for half a day every day. clock in hours.

In "World of Warcraft" and "Fantasy Westward Journey" in the previous life, there were indeed players who logged in every day in the later period, but at that time the game had become a kind of task, and some of them were for the players' guild to collect dungeons, so they had to go online to cooperate. Some of them go up every day to quickly handle the daily tasks of earning game currency in order to earn extra money in the game. The gameplay itself is no longer attractive to them.

How stupid the game plan must be to only look at the surface and think that this kind of physical strength setting can increase the player's stickiness?

Work and family are enough to toss people, but you still have to be tossed by your game every day?
Tired?
The high probability is that after being tossed for ten days and a half months, I accidentally forgot that I was still playing a game that was logged in every day. Since I forgot to check in today, then...forget it, I won’t bother to check in again in the future , it is time to abandon the pit.

Anyway, Fang Jie never played this kind of game with operation restrictions. As long as he found this kind of setting, he would uninstall and delete it immediately without thinking about it. It is a game that allows the game company to help him control the game time, and even use this to make money.

Just because of two words: Displeased!
Therefore, all the games he planned do not have such cheating settings.

The game "Reign", whether it is a 1.0 stand-alone game or a future 2.0 networked game, will not set any physical strength.

If the Dyson galaxy controlled by ordinary players is destroyed by the Liver Emperor player, then it will be destroyed. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Milky Way. If you restart the game and change the galaxies in the corner to develop again in a low-key way, maybe no one will find them for a year or so come here.

What's more, there are extragalactic galaxies. Compared with those extragalactic galaxies, the Milky Way is just a drop in the ocean, and it is even more impossible to be discovered. If you modify the game settings, set the Milky Way series as a public battlefield, and other extragalactic series as developmental galaxies, and the game balance will be fine. Get a great fix.

Taking a step back, if the game really loses its balance and dies, then there is no need to worry!
Well, there are a lot of games, this game is useless, and there are other new games. If possible, Fang Jie would like to release a new game every month, so that everyone can keep changing games to play. Anyway, players play useless games. The speed of the game is far from the speed of his game creation.

But Slein didn't understand these situations. He was afraid that he would be too stupid and ruin the game "Reign" prematurely.

After all, the game does not have any stamina limit, and even the speed of resource collection is very fast, the logistics and transportation are fully automated, and there are even automatic transport spacecraft between planets in the galaxy.

In this game, players don't need to wait idly like playing other strategy games.

Not only do you not have to wait, but the rich game content keeps players in a state of high concentration. There are thousands of things to do all the time. Building a base is only the most basic, as well as logistics, wiring, and resources. Reorganization and production capacity optimization, as long as players want to, there must be matters to further optimize construction efficiency.

This is also one of the biggest highlights of this game. It is far more interesting than other strategy games. Those garbage strategy game settings that build a base or upgrade a technology, and then wait for the countdown of 5 minutes or even half an hour, Fang Jie is annoyed watching it .

You know, the time of our players is also very precious, okay?
Every day I have to read and study, watch variety shows, eat and sleep, support my family, squeeze the subway during the day, and pay public food at night. I finally found some time to play games, but you let me operate for a few seconds and wait for half an hour. ?
Also euphemistically called: construction time, scientific research time?
Are you stupid, or am I stupid?

Don't I know that you are deliberately wasting my precious leisure time?
Roll as far as you can!

As for the game "Reign", although resource collection and scientific research upgrades also take time, this time is not constant, but directly related to the player's planning layout and exquisite coordination.

If you build indiscriminately, a certain technology may not be upgraded for a few days. If you plan reasonably, it may only take an hour. If you arrange it accurately, it may be done in a few minutes. Everything depends on the player's own planning and coordination ability up.

This is also the reason why Slein and other "Dominion" players always start repeatedly without any distress.

Even the more you play to the end, the more it will prompt everyone to start again. I don’t feel how boring this behavior of constantly repeating the game is. Instead, when I see the improvement of construction efficiency visible to the naked eye under my continuous summary and redesign, A sense of accomplishment and satisfaction filled my heart.

So this has also led to Slein's normal state for a long time to come, that is, no matter where he goes, he always holds Huawei mobile phones in his hands all day long, and he also carries chargers with him, and he will optimize some of the games when he has nothing to do. building layout. .

Going out to have a meeting with friends and have an afternoon tea, the game "Reign" on the mobile phone is the main topic. Unconsciously, it is used as a live advertisement for Huawei mobile phones.

You must know that a mobile phone is no better than a computer. The computer is so bulky that it is impossible to carry it when going out, but the mobile phone is so convenient. Take it out and swipe it twice, and you can start the game happily.

It is not that there were no handheld game consoles before, but that is also a mosaic game, how can it be compared with a smartphone?
The core concept of smartphones is handheld computers. Mobile games can have the same picture quality and sense of game substitution as end-games. Therefore, both their portability and game quality are very attractive.

In the past, when Slein recommended games to his friends and colleagues, he could only say that there was no basis for it. Now it’s better to just put the phone in front of them in front of them—come on, try this game, you can get started right away, highly recommended !

Of course, since the game "Reign" is too poisonous, and it can't be cleared in just one or two clicks, Slein usually plays it in person and introduces it while playing.

Want to borrow your phone and play Dominion for a while?
Sorry, no availability!
I am still researching and exploring myself, and I will borrow it from you after I have cleared the game!
As for when to pass the customs...

Emmmmmm…………

Have you heard of Dyson balls?
When I build the first Dyson sphere, I will pass the level!
What game progress have you reached so far?
Emmmmmmm…

Just made a Dyson line!

Awesome!

After hearing Slein's crazy answer, everyone was just curious about a game related to the Dyson ball, and it was a mobile game, but not to the point of being "foolish" and running to buy a Huawei mobile phone .

But ten days and a half months have passed, everyone saw that Slein was still playing mobile games with his head down all day long, he was still playing "Reign", and the so-called Dyson ball was still missing. There is a little more doubt.

Is this game really that fun?
Even Slein is addicted to playing games like Slein, and he hasn't cleared the level after such a long time?

What kind of game is this?
What's even more strange is that Slein, who always likes to share games with others, actually cherishes his broom this time, and refuses to lend that handheld game console to others to play.

How about buying one too?
Yes, it is very strange that so far, everyone around Slein thinks that he is holding a handheld game console, not a mobile phone.

At first, Slein would explain a few sentences, but then he explained lazily, because he couldn't prove that it was a mobile phone. Anyway, this thing really can't make calls now. It seems that there is nothing wrong with saying that it is a game console, so that's it. Bar.

Coincidentally, if Slein insists on explaining that this is a genuine mobile phone, other people may react a bit, thinking that Huaguo can make such a high-end, game-playing, and expensive mobile phone?

Unlikely, right?
However, if it is only used as a handheld treasure dedicated to playing games, it is much easier to accept whether it is its style, content, or price. Didn’t Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft all launch their own handheld game consoles, such as XBOX, the price of this thing is not cheap, so it is not a strange thing for Huaguo to copy it.

All in all, the misunderstanding happened just like this, but it was wrongly hit, which actually dispelled the doubts in the hearts of foreigners. In addition, Slein, a walking live advertisement, dangled his mobile phone in front of them all day long, and gradually bought Huawei mobile phones, and then Without exception, I was brought into the pit by the games on the mobile phone, especially the game "Reign", which is really endless.

The strange promotion situation like Slein's is not an exception in the world. Generally, those high-end gamers who are not short of money take the lead in entering the pit, and then rely on the blessing of these live advertisements and the word-of-mouth of the game itself, and gradually open up overseas games. The market, at least the player market.

Many foreign gamers buy Huawei mobile phones, really not for making calls. Even if Huawei mobile phones have been connected to the Internet in some countries and have mobile phone functions, they are still not valued by them. They just play those games that are no less than end-to-end games game.

Not necessarily Reign.

Reigns may be a favorite of perfectionist players, but it's not a favorite of those who seek the thrill of the game.

After all, version 1.0 of "Dominion" has no concept of war and is a peaceful game.

The tower defense game "Corpse Tide" is the favorite of this type of players.

This game is also different from traditional tower defense games. It is not the kind where NPCs line up and shoot according to a fixed route, but a large group of zombies swarm to besiege the player's refuge base.

It is more like an enhanced version of "Beach Rush" with the theme of zombies. In addition to building tower defenses, players can also control outpost weapons by themselves to massacre zombies!

So this game is very cool to defend and very cool to kill!

It's the kind of brainless coolness with corpses strewn all over the field and blood flowing like rivers!
But this kind of bloody game is destined not to be the favorite of novice players.

The biggest contributor to the sales of Huawei's mobile phones is not these two games, but Fang Jie's "Escape from Corpse City", which is actually not very popular.

Just because you don't catch a cold doesn't mean it's not a good game for all ages. In the previous life, "Temple Run" achieved such good results, so of course we have to use it in this life.

This may be some kind of trade-off between ideal and reality.

Fang Jie not only wants to make high-end brain-burning games, but also has to consider universal games for all ages. For example, "Legend" is universally applicable, while "Meteor Butterfly Sword" is high-end. Influence, one can build word of mouth to show its strength, and the same is true in overseas markets.

In 2005, there were so many game planning projects at home and abroad, not only mobile games, but also terminal games, adding up to more than a dozen games. To put them into practice, the annual work plan of Boiling Games was fully arranged Yes, it can be said that it is operating at full capacity.

On the other hand, it seems that there are so many games to be launched, but in fact, Fang Jie basically has nothing to do after finishing the planning. The rest of the things he has to do, besides laying out some emerging industries, are actually most of the time. Keep playing the game.

But although there are many games, for him, there are very few games that are really worth playing.

Shanzhai games such as "Zhu Xian" and "Magic World" are not fundamentally different from "World of Warcraft". He has already played "World of Warcraft" in his previous life, so he will not be interested in this life, let alone it is only a copycat version. Even less interested.

"Legend", "Wulin", and "A Chinese Journey to the West" are all too old, and I really don't have the motivation to continue.

"The Legend of Jin Yong", "War of Mine" and so on, the plot was planned by him, and the fun of the game was completely lost.

I have been playing "Meteor Butterfly Sword" for a while, and my current level is not at the same level, and I can't get excited for a while.

I am afraid that "EVE" can still play.

In fact, he has been hanging on "EVE" all the time, and wanders around in the game from time to time, but after operating two waves of futures in this game, there is an entire high-playing team below to help him manage it, and now it really has become It's time for the elderly care game, and he doesn't need to worry about and come forward for some trivial matters.

As a last resort, he had no choice but to play "Reign".

Although this game was planned by him, it does not affect the playability. When I think of building a Dyson sphere, I still can't help but have a strong motivation.

Moreover, during the planning of this project, he suddenly realized that the industrial development in the future reality can really work in this direction, or he can tell a good story and become the driving force of virtual reality and quantum communication technology.

After all, if human beings really want to build a Dyson sphere, or a small Dyson cloud, they must not drive a spaceship or a mecha in the first place. That is too dangerous and not feasible. The most likely way is to use virtual reality technology and quantum communication technology. Real-time remote command on the earth to carry out engineering construction.

Yes, then use the game to try to simulate it, maybe some more interesting inspirations can emerge.

(End of this chapter)