Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 410 I Will Tell Stories Too
Fang Jie played "Reign" differently from others, even from his previous life.

If a normal player plays this ambitious game and is deeply attracted by it, it must be a liver day and night, wanting to achieve the goal early, but at the same time worrying about gains and losses, for fear that after reaching the goal, the fun of the game will be greatly reduced.

But he is a game planner, and he knows the upgrade process of the game's technology tree and material synthesis tree, so he builds and develops according to the optimal plan, with a very clear purpose, just to take care of the old one at a time, after all, he can't I have been staring at a game to play, and I don't have the time and energy.

The optimal solution, however, is very inefficient in the early stages of game development. The layout looks disorganized, and it feels like playing around with a hammer here and there, even for novices.

Novice players at least know that integration and scale are the only way to improve production efficiency, and they like to make the layout neat and tidy, which looks very imposing, as if they are doing big things.

But what about the game "Reign"... The main reason is that the entire production system is too grand, especially after Fang Jie's transformation, even if the entire surface of a planet is covered with factories, it may not be possible to produce a Dyson sphere .

That is to say, the thinking of playing this game should not be too narrow, like playing other strategic management games in the past, just focus on the development of a city or a country territory, that is too petty and not bold enough!

After all, the background of this game is the era of interstellar colonization. The player's base is a planet, no, to be precise, a galaxy. The birth planet is just the base of Novice Village. In the future, the main base and sub-bases will be established on other planets or even other galaxies.

So even if it is on a planet, it can only be said to be the most basic operation if there are 100 factories of a certain type and a large area is neatly stacked.

But this basic operation, in the eyes of other players, such as Slein, already feels quite magnificent and abnormal.

Anyway, Slein has been playing the game for a long time, and always feels that he is already very powerful. The number and area of ​​construction factories built in "Dominion" are much more terrifying than the wonders built in "Minecraft", but Still can only be regarded as a small fight.

Since the upper limit of the layout plan is so high that it has no margin, no matter how it is built on Novice Planet, it cannot be regarded as the optimal solution. It can only be said that the template construction is carried out in advance to make a sample and prepare for the medium-term development.

The so-called template construction is a convenient function in the game, which packs a dozen or even hundreds of factories with different functions but can form a self-circulating supply into a production base module, and then in other resource production places on the planet, or On other planets, if you paste this template directly, you can copy an identical production base.

Of course, for the copied production base, all construction materials and resources need to be prepared by yourself, otherwise the production base just stays on the blueprint and cannot actually exert its production capacity.

Of course, this function is set for the purpose of the game. Since it is the age of science fiction, and one person builds a Dyson ball, of course there is this batch copy function, otherwise the construction of one factory after another will take years of monkeys. Games are for playing, not for masturbation.

So when Fang Jie played this game, he was very different in the early stage. He only collected some necessary resources, and the scale of each factory area was not large. The only thing is to make a sample and make blueprints by category.

The reason why he said "different" is because when he played this game, he also broadcast live to the majority of netizens.

The game "Reign" does not have violent attributes, at least in version 1.0, so domestic mobile phones can also download the game. Many players who have bought Huawei mobile phones naturally like this game, but they ran to the teacher's live broadcast room to watch it , I found that the leader's gameplay is really chaotic and very petty.

Look at how we play: only need to build a mining farm, let's build two, only need to build a graphene processing plant of 5 units, then we must build 10 units, this is called rounding up, 5, listen Just very upset!

Anyway, a planet is so big and has so many resources, so it shouldn't be overweight!

This is rich and powerful!

What?waste?

It's not a waste at all, just in case you need it in the future, store more supplies now, this is called being prepared!

In short, when normal people play this game, they basically have this kind of thinking. They are still complacent in their hearts. They feel that their coordination and planning skills are not to mention strong, and they are far-sighted and proactive. Many things must have been thought of before the game planning. up...

Oh, by the way, isn't the planner of the game the leader?

But why is the leader playing so uninspired and disorganized?
Is it because he designed the game himself, so he plans to take a different path and challenge himself in a more difficult way?
"This is called sharpening a knife without cutting firewood!"

Fang Jie just explained this sentence to the players. After all, if the game is spoiled, it would be boring, not to mention that the game is too complicated, and there is no way to spoil it. One or two sentences can't be explained clearly.

So no one believed what he said, and everyone thought he was deliberately joking, or deliberately digging holes for everyone. After all, everyone has seen a lot of the leader’s routines. stand a little.

Anyway, seeing is believing, the current leader's game progress is far behind other players, many players have already connected two or more automated factory areas of resource points, at least covering at least one-twentieth of the entire planet's area, And the leader is still tossing slowly, and sometimes even stands in a daze in order to wait for the resources to be produced.

Other strategic management games and other resources are normal, but this game, as long as you think about it, the production capacity will increase exponentially. More often than not, everyone is in a hurry and cannot be busy at all. It is unimaginable to wait for resources.

So what is certain is that the leader's construction plan is very hip. Although he is the planner of this game, the performance of the game is not as good as that of ordinary novice players.

After Fang Jie explained it a few times, he simply didn't bother to explain.

As for the game, you can play as you like. Like him, the development is slow in the early stage, but the blueprint can be copied and pasted continuously in the middle and late stages, and the optimal layout plan of automatic hang-up in the end really loses the fun of the game. It is not as good as other Players are playing around like that.

However, the focus of his playing this game is not the game itself, but some considerations related to the development of reality, so he was in a daze for resources in the early stage, just to give him time to think about these issues.

Since his rebirth, the ultimate goal he has set for himself in this life is to play virtual reality online games.

To achieve this goal, the obvious prerequisite is to develop virtual reality technology.

In fact, before rebirth, there have been many breakthroughs in virtual reality technology, and there are already related technologies that can do "mind games".

That is, through the relevant brain-computer interface equipment to collect and recognize brain waves, human beings can play games only by looking and thinking.

There is no need to come up with any high-level theory to prove this point. As long as you have watched a certain episode of the variety show "Heartbeat OFFER: Medical Students", you will know that this technology is not just in the theoretical stage.

In the program, a volunteer with high paraplegia who cannot move below the neck participates in the clinical trial of brain-computer interface, and can use "ideas" to play computer mahjong games. Obviously, the domestic medical industry has made good progress in brain-computer interface technology.

Of course, compared with the ultimate perfect virtual reality technology, brain-computer interface technology alone is far from enough. It can only be said that this is one of the key technologies related to virtual reality. stage, there is still a long way to go.

But in any case, since these technologies have been worked out in the previous life, it shows that virtual reality is not just a science fiction, but a practical technology. As long as you are willing to research and develop vigorously, you will be able to achieve more results and play virtual reality games in your lifetime. , is not impossible.

To develop virtual reality technology, relevant scientific research funds and talents must be in place.

But Fang Jie knew very well that no matter how much money he had, no matter how charismatic he was, it was impossible for him alone to earn enough scientific research funding, nor could he cultivate enough scientific research talents.

If he can handle these things by himself, then he is not a human being, but a god.

The role he can play is, at most, to speed up and promote it, but the role is estimated to be very limited. Under normal circumstances, it will develop step by step. It is not bad if it can advance the development time of technology by 10 years compared with the previous life, but even if it is 2030 in the previous life At the age of 50, he may not be able to play virtual reality online games.

So to really speed up the realization of these things, we still have to rely on the efforts of the country, even if one country is not enough, we need the joint efforts of all human beings in the world.

In the final analysis, the core issue is actually to guide the entire human social environment so that everyone can work together.

But obviously, no matter in the previous life or in the present life, the world has always been not at peace, and they all go their own way.

Fang Jie asked himself that he didn't have the ability to unify the world, which was even more unreliable than YY novels, even if he was a reborn.

What's more, he is still in China, and the technology and talents are already backward. However, China has always been blocked by various technologies internationally, which makes it more difficult.

However, the richest people in the previous life gave Fang Jie some inspiration, and he felt that he could learn from their routines.

These rich people are Bill Gates, Musk, Zuckerberg, and those who are well-known in China as the richest man.

These people have one thing in common: rich.

Ah, this is crap.

Anyway, these people are either the richest man in the world, the richest man in China, or the richest man in the past.

Fang Jie is also the richest man now, so he more or less understands their thinking.

Don't think that after becoming the richest man, there will be no goals in life.

Of course there are!

For example, what humans are most afraid of is birth, old age, sickness and death, and the richest people are also afraid.

So the richest people began to study the origin of life.

There is the richest man in the Metaphysics School who founded the so-called Life Research Institute.

Spending money regardless of the cost, on the surface it is to study life sciences, but in fact it is to study the metaphysical problem of how to live forever.

The richest man is also radical, and he insists on my fate, such as Musk, who is engaged in the Mars project.

Anyway, if I want to die in the future, I hope to die on Mars, at least I can be regarded as a Martian who is more advanced than the people on Earth.

There are also escapists, such as Zuckerberg, who don’t want “FACE” but only “META” and propose the concept of metaverse.

Although the physical body is destroyed, the thoughts and ideas can last forever. You can store your own memory and consciousness in the chip to become a USB flash drive, and live happily in the virtual reality world forever.

Although these concepts are high-level, it is not impossible to achieve technological realization, but in essence, it is just that the richest people are afraid of death and want to struggle, or when it comes to their status, the only pursuits are those that are closer to metaphysics. target.

For some time in the previous life, the whole Internet was discussing whether to want the Mars project of "stars and seas" or the metaverse of "brain in a vat". In fact, to put it bluntly, it is rocket enthusiast Musk and virtual reality enthusiast Kerberg, an ideological dispute over attitudes towards life.

Since the richest people have such ideas, of course Fang Jie, who is also the richest man, also has his own ideas, and of course he must mention his own ideas.

He thinks that there is no conflict between the Mars project and the concept of metaverse, and they can be combined together, or they can be used to tell stories together, which I believe will be more beautiful than what Musk and Zuckerberg tell.

For example, we are worried about the explosion of the earth's population and the depletion of resources. We must realize the Mars colonization plan.

One is to resettle the population, and the other is to collect more resources.

But the premise of colonization is to first solve the problem of survival on Mars. The premise of survival is that a Mars base must be established in the early stage, and the construction materials of the Mars base can be obtained locally, but how to supply the energy for initial production and construction?

In terms of energy, it can only be solar energy at the beginning, because it is the most convenient, but it is impossible to carry too many solar panels in the flight lander that was launched at the beginning. The world couldn't make this thing at first.

If it is transported from the earth, the cost is too high, and the gain outweighs the loss.

Therefore, before the Mars project, we must first create a Dyson ball project that can infinitely regenerate resources.

Of course, this Dyson sphere project is not a Dyson sphere enveloping the sun. It may be just pieces of Dyson clouds orbiting Mars in outer space at first.

The earth directly uses rockets to launch countless solar panels into the orbit of Mars to automatically deploy, and then only needs to launch some Dyson receivers to the ground of Mars to automatically and continuously receive energy rays from the fixed-orbit Dyson cloud in space.

In this way, there will be enough energy on the ground of Mars to drive high-power equipment and machines.

Then there is the issue of base engineering construction.

There are two ways to build: either AI-operated equipment builds, or humans do it.

Artificial intelligence is too risky. At least Musk, who has been newly promoted to the world's richest man in his previous life, is firmly opposed to it. He believes that compared with the various problems and inferiorities in real human beings, AI technology will be more important to human civilization. pose the most fundamental threat.

If Fang Jie hadn't been reborn, it didn't matter if he thought about AI or something. Anyway, he shouldn't see the catastrophe caused by AI to human beings in his lifetime.

Now that he is the richest man in China in this life, and may become the richest man in the world in the future, if he pushes himself, he is still very hopeful that he will enter the era of Mars colonization and virtual reality ahead of schedule.

In this way, he is naturally opposed to artificial intelligence. He hopes that the so-called artificial intelligence is a controllable semi-artificial intelligence without autonomous consciousness.

Because the reason is very simple, human beings are killing each other, if a robot with humanity and self-awareness comes out, it must be like that, and it needs to be debated?
Program to limit?

shit!

Since humans can use programs to limit AI, they can naturally modify programs to let AI free itself.

AI can have morals, but if humans have no morals, AI can also have no morals.

When there is no war, no bullying, no intrigue, no ambition and desire for human beings on the earth, then consider engaging in that kind of fully intelligent AI, otherwise it will definitely be a deadly act.

In short, the story Fang Jie wants to tell must not allow AI to build a Mars base, only humans can build it.

But before the formation of the Mars base, it is impossible for human beings to go to work on Mars from the very beginning. That is too dangerous.

Therefore, we can only command and operate remotely, and carry out preliminary infrastructure construction on the Mars base.

But in this way, a new problem was encountered: the problem of communication delay.

Because the distance is too far and the signal transmission distance is too long, there will be a great delay in human remote control command.

Therefore, before the Dyson cloud project, the delay-free quantum communication technology must be done first.

This is not a big problem. Good progress has been made in this area in the previous life. In this life, we will focus on promoting it. Maybe quantum communication will be realized within 10 years.

Now, we have the Mars project, the Dyson cloud project, and the quantum communication project. What seems to be missing?
By the way, the virtual reality project!
Through quantum communication technology, although humans can control machinery and equipment and even spaceships in real time, the premise is that they must have a pair of "eyes" that can at least see the situation in front of them and around them. Otherwise, if they work?

Especially for those fine-grained operations, it is even more necessary to observe and control at the same time, otherwise a small operation error may cause huge losses.

Therefore, this requires the development of virtual reality technology.

With virtual reality technology, everyone can easily operate those construction machinery on Mars just like on Earth!

The story has gone around in such a big circle, and finally talked about virtual reality technology.

The purpose of Fang Jie telling this story is ultimately to accelerate the realization of the "small goal" of virtual reality technology.

The Mars project, the Dyson cloud project, and quantum communication are all nonsense. He feels that he may not see these plans come true in his lifetime, but virtual reality technology is still very promising.

There is no need for advanced virtual reality technology, as long as you can use this technology to play games in a virtual world.

Anyway, before virtual reality technology can actually operate machines and equipment in outer space or on alien planets, at least it needs to go through a long period of simulation testing, right?
After all, using virtual imaging technology to actually operate a machine and simulate it are two completely different things, right?

In actual operation, a single mistake can cause the machine to be destroyed, and the loss is irreparable, but the simulated operation can be repeated!
In reality, don't astronauts also practice various simulations before they go into space?

So, before the Mars colonization project, before the Dyson cloud project, before the quantum communication, before the virtual reality engineering project, should we first play games in virtual reality?
But this real purpose cannot be revealed, as long as you know it yourself.

Otherwise, how can you fool people, routine people?
Since Musk's "Mars One" project launched registration worldwide, more than 8 volunteers from hundreds of countries around the world have applied. There are more than 1 applicants from China, and the registration fee alone has exceeded 100 million. Dollar.

But the story of Musk's Mars project is not well told. At least Fang Jie sneered at it as a joke.

In fact, this plan was later revealed to be a scam, and some people also hoped to get back the fame fee, but they were all rejected.

But even so, Musk is still living a good life. Not only has he been derailed in marriage, he has achieved 3 marriages and 6 romances. His wife and girlfriend are either supermodels or stars, and they have become the richest man in the world, and the idol and spiritual leader of countless people. Even if he made a lot of money later on in the Bitcoin market, it still didn't affect his reputation at all.

What does it mean to laugh at the poor but not at the prostitute?That's typical.

Fang Jie felt that if he told this story by himself, it would be better, more convincing, and more convincing. Every step has a plan and the technology that needs to be realized.

The previous Mars project and the concept of the metaverse can attract so many people to participate in it, and even many rich people have also participated in the investment, and my story is a combination of multiple concepts, which must be more attractive!

In this way, it will attract Xiaobai from all over the world to actively send money to develop technology, and even some technical masters can be fooled into becoming loyal believers.
A lot of money, talent, and fans have joined this plan, which is naturally much easier than going it alone, and you may not be able to play virtual reality games in your lifetime.

As for fooling people or something, in fact, there is no such thing, right?

He just doesn't look forward to the follow-up plans and technologies in the story, after all, it may not be realized in his lifetime.

But if the earth's resources are really close to exhaustion in the future, or the population explosion is already overwhelmed, then this project may be the "Noah's Ark" of mankind. This is also a contribution to all mankind, is it the accumulation of early technology?

In short, while planning and experiencing the game "Reign", Fang Jie was inspired and thought a lot about what he didn't have.

It is the foundation to start a business, but the story must also be told, and the global resources must be pooled to form a joint force, otherwise he doubts whether he can achieve his wish in this life.

And it's too late to tell the story now.

Musk, one of the founders of PAYPAL today, like the top ten, established SpaceX in 2002, the US space transportation company, and proposed the Mars program.

In January 2005 of this year, this guy spent another US$1 million to acquire a 1% stake in Surrey Satellite Technology Company, which was obviously achieved step by step according to the established goal.

But at the moment, Fang Jie is much richer than others, but he is still engaged in mobile games on his one-acre three-point land. It feels very LOW, doesn't it?

If the story is not told again, the resources of those brainless fans in the world will be snatched up by Musk, which is impossible!
But Fang Jie knew that he was best at games, so if he wanted to tell a story, of course he had to start with the game, which was called making use of his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses.

So while experiencing the game "Reign", what he thought about was another game plan related to realistic goals and industrial layout.

The name has been decided, let's call it "Project Ark"!

(End of this chapter)