Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 437 I'm not here to do things
(I'm not in the mood, write as much as you want)
When "Ark: Nautical Century" was launched, Fang Jie, of course, entered the game with excitement and experienced it.

The reason why I am excited is that unlike the online games he planned in the past, this game, the gameplay and the specific content are more derived from the ideas of a group of hard-core foreign planners. In addition to the initial project meeting and the basic framework of the game, He did not participate in the other content, including the specific work of the game title animation and the internal test of the game.

On the other hand, on the day the game was launched, the core server was thrown into the sea in front of the whole world, and it was impossible to modify the data.

Therefore, this is a game that gives him the opportunity to enter a state of flow, to experience the joy of the game normally.

There is one thing to say, the 3D version of "Ark: Voyage Age" is still very good, not only the picture quality, but also the gameplay is actually quite good.

If you put aside the land sector of Ark World and regard "Ark: Voyage Century" as a 3D online game of ocean trade or naval warfare, it can also be called a classic online game masterpiece.

At least after Fang Jie had some experience with the game, he believed that, apart from "World of Warcraft" and "EVE", which had been in operation for several years, there was no 3D game that could compare with it in terms of gameplay.

This is also because the gameplay of the circle game Ark World has been criticized by players all over the world. When Ark Games planned this upgraded version of the game, it deliberately carried out innovative upgrades in terms of gameplay and functions.

For example, when the player is born, if he chooses the geographical coordinates of the ocean, he will still be placed in a copy of the island similar to Novice Village at the beginning, and then some novice guidance and teaching will be given.

There are various basic small resources on this island, such as fresh water and wild fruits, to ensure that even if the player does not master any survival skills, he will not starve to death within 6 months in the game, that is, within 3 days in reality.

During this period, there will be novice tutorials to guide players how to survive and collect resources, and then how to build a ship with the collected resources to leave this novice village.

Of course, the so-called boat is actually just a simple raft with a mast and a sail. Ships, that's not something you can do by yourself.

When the player drives his simple raft and successfully crosses the novice sea area, he will officially enter the real ocean map of "Navigation Century", and once he enters the real map, he will face the real challenge of survival. If he is unlucky and hits a storm Even the seaspout, even if you are lucky, is to find a small island and live a life similar to Crusoe Crusoe.

When Fang Jie experienced "Navigation Century", he chose to be born in the ocean area at the beginning, but found that it was similar to playing a single player, it was too boring, so he jumped into the sea to commit suicide and resurrected.

The safest way to be born is to develop from the 2D version of land and sea, and explore the ocean world along the coastline. However, in this case, the ending is generally either absorbed by capital forces, sunk by pirates, or joined by pirates. It is impossible to be alone.

Of course, at the beginning of the game version upgrade, pirate players have just started, and sea trade is relatively safe, especially in the Mediterranean Sea. At the beginning, everyone started sea trade on rafts.

As for naval battles, they don’t exist for the time being. Foreigners also know how to make money with peace. If you have time to drive a raft to fight naval battles, it’s better to make a few more trips to transport, hoard all kinds of supplies, and build advanced ships first to dominate the ocean.

Fang Jie also had the same idea, so after his resurrection, he chose Quanzhou as his birthplace. This place has been a very prosperous foreign trade port since ancient times, and it is most suitable for ocean trade or the development of ocean power.

However, it is not only Fang Jie and a few Chinese players who are eyeing here, a large number of players from island countries and Bangzi countries have already taken root here.

Anyway, this is the unclaimed land of the game world, they don't care which country's territory it is in reality, or they have coveted it in reality, since there are no relevant rules in the game, it is natural to seize the opportunity to achieve their goal. A dream that our ancestors did not achieve.

Of course, the Chinese players are very upset about this. Since the launch of Ark World, especially after the version update, they have fought with players from these two countries in the coastal areas, but they have not succeeded in driving them out of the country. The players gradually got the climate.

This is actually impossible. As long as players have money, they can be revived indefinitely regardless of the region. This fundamentally rules out the possibility that Chinese players will drive out Bangzi Country and Island Country players.

Secondly, compared to being rich, the players of these two countries are much richer than the Chinese players. It is not a big deal to spend 0.1 US dollars for one death. Huaguo’s death is almost 7 cents. A close match After the war of attrition is over, a Chinese player will lose a dozen or so dollars casually, and he can't afford to spend it a few more times.

What's more, the domestic attitude towards Ark World is not encouraging, advocating, or opposing. The gameplay of Ark World itself does not meet the tastes of Chinese players. After the version upgrade, it is quite unfriendly to Chinese players, making Chinese who enter Ark World There are very few players.

This also involves the tactical balance of the 2D version to 3D version.

Entering the naval battle mode in the 2D version is just going around in circles, passively waiting for the text broadcast from the system from time to time, unable to micro-manage the details of the battle, and unable to adjust tactics according to the battlefield situation.

If your side is in 3D mode and the opponent is in 2D mode, you are in a 3D naval battle scene, fighting against a computer NPC who can only stand up and don't know how to adapt. As long as you are not brain-dead, you can easily obtain Absolute advantage on the battlefield, it is normal for the weak to defeat the strong.

Obviously, in terms of computer hardware configuration, Chinese players are one or two levels lower than overseas players, and they generally choose 1D mode games. Going out to fight sea battles with overseas players is purely to deliver food.

There is another reason: Most of the Chinese players who can hold their temper and stay in Ark World are opportunists. They aim to make money and play fools. To a certain extent, they hope to be "good-neighborly and friendly", after all, harmony makes money.

Therefore, the Huaguo port in the game was occupied by "foreign invaders" due to various reasons. In fact, not to mention the Asian side, the European side is also in chaos. For example, the German players in the game collectively took France's Paris Basin was occupied, while Russian players successfully occupied half of Poland's game territory, and more than half of the Mediterranean economic circle was controlled by Citigroup capital power players.

In short, it is meaningless to talk about national boundaries and border lines in the game World of Ark. Gradually, players don’t talk about these. Some people even think that this is not bad. The Earth Federation and the like can accomplish things that cannot be achieved in reality.

Fang Jie did not have such an internationalist spirit, but he did not object to the fact that the port was occupied by Bangzi and devils.

To be precise, he thinks this is a good thing, because it's just that the Huaguo players haven't started to work hard at the moment, so what if these devils and sticks take over, once the Huaguo players enter Ark World in large numbers, the fruits of their labor will Sooner or later, they will make wedding dresses for Chinese players.

In that case, why not...

Fang Jie committed suicide by jumping into the sea again, and then changed his birthplace to Osaka Port in the island country.

Osaka Port has been the sea gateway of Kyoto since ancient times, known as the "water capital".

However, in the world of Ark, this place is deserted. After all, Quanzhou Port has already been occupied, so why do players from the island country go back to the island to develop?

Since island players don't care about this place, let's use it for development. It will be so interesting to make those devils lose their watermelons and sesame seeds and make them homeless...

Of course, Fang Jie knew that it was impossible to develop by himself, so he called all the Chinese Legion players in the "EVE" international server over.

The protracted war of attrition in "EVE" basically ended in the middle of last year, and after another year of small troubles, it completely stopped.

Without the suppression of the hostile player corps, the Chinese player corps themselves have gradually become boring. Now everyone has nothing to do, and they don’t play "EVE" much. Let them come to Arkworld to develop and dominate the ocean. new stimulus.

As soon as they heard that the boss was going to do something again, and he was doing something about the island country in the Ark World, everyone naturally responded and geared up.

"We're not here to make trouble."

Fang Jie immediately corrected one thing: "I came here to play and have no other purpose, and I can clearly tell everyone that although I am the founding partner of Fangzhou International, I cannot change the data of the server. Everything has to develop slowly and start from scratch.”

But no one believed this at all.

If you don't want to make trouble, why did you go to the island country as your birthplace?

Why did you set up a company called "Ark Asia Pacific Economics and Trade"?
Why recruit a large number of professionals and consultants, and many of these people are from Jiangcheng University of Shipbuilding Engineering, one of the three universities before the merger of Jiangcheng University of Science and Technology?
Even if you really don't come here to do things, at least you are here to make money, right?Otherwise, as for making such a big show?
Since it's profitable, and it's the boss who leads everyone to make money, it doesn't matter whether you want to make trouble or not, it's right to follow along!
But soon, this group of people realized that they seemed to be thinking too much. Fang Jie really only came to play games for development.

There are only two main tasks assigned to the legion: 1. Shipbuilding, collecting resources in two shifts, constantly exploding ships, frantically improving shipbuilding skills and lighting up related technologies; The silver mines were hollowed out as much as possible, and then dragged to the mainland to be sold in exchange for the resources needed by various technological civilizations.

As for the initial survival problem, there is no need to talk nonsense at all. If a group of hardcore high-level players who have played the international server "EVE" Star Wars cannot solve the survival problem, it will be a big joke.

It is worth mentioning that the skill tree and civilization tree of Ark World are not linear. Players can directly skip a certain level of skill or technology, light up and activate the next level of skill, and the technology points accumulated through the online time are only for production. Efficiency has a bonus effect, and it is not technology points that limit skills or civilization, but materials.

For example, in the work of logging, the player can use a stone ax to chop, or a chainsaw. Even if he does not have the stone ax skill, as long as he has a chainsaw, he can still log. The premise is that the player can make a chainsaw, and making a chainsaw is not It is not determined by the technology point, but by the various parts of the chainsaw, as well as the electric energy and the manufacturing materials of the battery.

The role of technology points is that after adding points to related skills, such as the "chainsaw" technology, the efficiency of logging with chainsaws or the amount of harvesting will increase.

This kind of setting is more realistic, and it also allows later players to have a head start, and they will not feel that there is any gap between them and old players. For example, Bell has a level 100 "drilling wood to make fire" skill. Later players only need to buy a box Matches or a lighter are far more efficient at making fire than Bell.

This is also the main reason why a large number of players continue to join Ark World. If it is an ordinary online game, everyone may abandon the pit because they do not have the first-mover advantage, or wait for the new server to enter. This situation does not exist in Ark World.

So even if Fang Jie and his group entered Arkworld after the version upgrade, they would not be opened up by the old players, so they worked harder at the beginning, digging a ship of silver ore with a stone pickaxe and transporting it to Quanzhou Port for intercommunication. With or without, in exchange for a batch of the latest scientific and technological civilization products, the productivity will be instantly synchronized with the world.

Even if the latecomers have more professional knowledge and organize a little bit, it is normal to gain a development advantage over the old players.

For example, under the help of a group of professional shipbuilders, the wooden three-masted sea-going ship developed and produced by "Ark Asia-Pacific Economics and Trade" was quickly praised by the market. The supply was simply in short supply. Each transaction was often sold together with the goods and the ship. After going out, many businessmen couldn't wait, and went to Osaka to find Fang Jie to buy a large number of "advanced" sea-going ships.

This incident then triggered a series of chain reactions. In reality, many workers and technicians in the shipyard saw that this matter was profitable, so they resigned and joined Ark World to start their own shipyards.

Then the real shipyard bosses couldn’t sit still when they saw it. They hurriedly set up relevant departments, purchased a large number of virtual resources in the Ark World, invested in the virtual shipbuilding business, and automatically became partners of Fangzhou International. , or participants in this financial game.

As a result, more and more advanced ships were manufactured, and in the process of manufacturing, the internal economy and the circulation of materials were also accelerated.

This is the case in the shipbuilding industry, and it is the same in all walks of life in reality. Professional companies that are linked to the Ark World economy have also joined in. While accelerating the development of the Ark World civilization, it also involves the participation of more downstream industries.

The joining of countless industries and industries, out of self-interest demands, more people began to sing more Arkworld, which brought more players and users and a larger volume to Arkworld, and the entire virtual social and economic system became more and more solid , the development of human civilization in the virtual world is also accelerating.

As a result, the snowball rolled bigger and bigger, and its speed became faster and faster...

And can't stop at all.

So soon, there were no more rafts on the ocean in the world of Ark, but fleets of fleets.

In the beginning, they were all merchant ships, making money in harmony, but gradually, due to the overactive ocean trade, a large amount of materials were piled up in the port, causing prices to plummet, and the profits of ocean transportation were diluted, so the pirate fleet was born.

After all, being a pirate only needs to rob halfway, or even rob at the door of the house, and then sell the goods by reselling them. There is almost no cost. Save effort.

The emergence of pirates made everyone have to modify their ships to improve their combat and defense capabilities, or directly hire armed ships to guard them. Pirates also have such needs, so in order to strengthen their combat capabilities, artillery was born.

Coincidentally, a large number of guano islands provided sufficient and cheap gunpowder to the humans in the Ark World.

In the end, just like in the opening animation of the game, human beings inevitably broke out into a world-class naval battle.

At the same time, after a period of peaceful development, the city-states on the land gradually widened the gap between each other, arousing the ambitions of various forces. Driven by various interests, disputes resumed, and a new round of conflicts began. chaos.

Seeing that the Ark World is finally in chaos again, and it is the chaos of the age of firearms, Fang Jie, who is squatting in a corner of Osaka Port to develop, is very happy. I think this wave will cut off a lot of leeks...

(End of this chapter)