This is not a BUG, this is a game feature

"Cultivation Fantasy" is in open beta for one week.

As an MMORPG game that has not been seen in the PC game market for a long time, it still has a fairy tale theme that is full of emotions. It has advertising that covers the entire network, so there is naturally no shortage of players.

The first five districts were fully booked during this week.

Even at three or four in the morning, these five popular regional servers were still full, and the queue waiting page would pop up from time to time.

Please note, it’s three or four in the morning!

During this period of time, it is exaggerated that the server is full. If you can still jump out of the queue waiting page, it can only prove one thing: a new server needs to be opened!

Yes……

Taking into account the overcrowding status of these five districts and the influx of a large number of new players, Chen Ba had to open three new districts on the fifth day of the open beta after careful consideration.

"Eight districts should be enough!"

Chen Ba muttered: "The PC game market is in a slump. People now play more on mobile phones. The computer boot rate is ridiculously low. It's useless to open too many new areas."

"That's the truth..."

"It's different now! In the past, MMO games could open several new areas in a month. In a year, there would be a minimum of a dozen or even dozens of new areas opened."

Luo Ji commented: "But if the current game can maintain the normal operation of seven or eight districts, then it is already very powerful."

Didn’t you see that for a super popular phenomenon-level game like League of Legends, the national server was also forced to merge?

No one would doubt the popularity of League of Legends. It is said to be the No. 1 PC game. However, even the big brother in the PC game market cannot support so many regional servers. It can only combine regions to retain six or seven regional servers.

This fully shows that the current rush to open new districts has no future and is not necessary.

An online game, no matter how popular it is, should not have more than ten regional servers. It is best to retain four or five districts, which is a more reasonable state.

Why open so many districts?

The zone is a ghost server. You don’t think this is funny, do you? Not to mention wasting resources and energy, the key is that if there are too many ghost servers, they have to be merged, which adds a lot of workload.

"Sir, times have changed!"

Xiao Lu joked: "It is estimated that it will be difficult to see again in the future. There is a long list of servers, and it takes a long time to scroll with the mouse just to find the server in your region."

"I know what you mean!"

"You remind me that when I played games in the past, I would first choose Netcom and Telecom, and then choose my own province and region. After selecting the province and region, there were still one, two, and three districts..."

Chen Ba also laughed.

In the past, when playing large-scale online games like this, selecting a constituency was indeed a headache. Taking the famous CF as an example, a province can be divided into one, two and three districts.

This situation is indeed no longer the case.

The main reason is that the PC game market is sluggish, the number of players is not as good as before, and it cannot support so many server divisions.

In addition, there is a secondary reason that today's servers are generally very poorly configured. The number of players that can be accommodated in one area is equivalent to four or five areas or even more in the past.

Take "Fantasy of Cultivation" as an example.

Cultivation Fantasy currently has eight zones, and the player capacity limit of these eight zones is based on 100,000 players. In other words, eight zones can accommodate 800,000 players online at the same time.

This is just online at the same time!

In fact, the number of registered players and active players in one area definitely exceeds 500,000. It's just that the time when everyone logged into the game was staggered, so there were only a little over 100,000 online at the same time.

Speaking of this, Chen Ba admires the telecommunications area of ​​the League of Legends national server, which is Ionia!

This area accommodates many players in the national server. After the TFT version was launched, it attracted many TFT players.

Who knows what the upper limit of this area's carrying capacity is?

Millions of people in a district are online at the same time?

Maybe it's not that outrageous, but during certain events where skins are given away online on time, there must be hundreds of thousands of people online at the same time...

"Cultivation Fantasy" has not yet reached this level, not even half of it. After all, the audience groups of these two games are different, and they don’t like to crowd into the same area.

However, in the game "Stay After School: Pinball Storm", there are already some regional servers, which have become the new "Ionia".

"What did you say?"

"The server can't hold on any longer. We must either expand the capacity or stop the registration of new players or transfer to different regions!"

Yang Dong was worried that Chen Ba wouldn't understand, so he explained specifically: "In Districts Three and Five, the peak number of people online at the same time has exceeded 500,000. Do you know what this concept is?"

Two districts can support millions of people online at the same time. This kind of thing is scary when you think about it. It is expected that the server will not be able to sustain the strike.

All I can say is that it is indeed "Don't Leave After School"!

In any other game, this would have been jaw-dropping, but in the case of Don't Go Back to School, it's not surprising.

"Why are there so many people?"

Chen Ba was also puzzled. He knew that "Don't Leave After School" was very popular, especially among office workers. It was listed as the first choice game for "fishing at work".

But no matter how popular it is, the growth rate of players is always regular and traceable.

What's the meaning?

This means that no matter how popular "Don't Leave After School" is, the number of players is growing bit by bit. It is impossible for hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of new players to pop up overnight.

Because of this, Chen Ba is very confident in the server capacity limits of Districts Three and Five, and feels that these two districts will not have to worry about being "full" in a few years.

But now, is it full?

Where do so many players come from? Did they all pop out of rocks?

"of course not!"

Yang Dong explained: "Players cannot appear out of thin air. After investigation, most of the players who poured into the third and fifth districts were transferred from the first and second districts."

Transfer zone!

The existence of this mechanism is the main reason why the servers in Districts 3 and 5 are full and have reached the designed load capacity limit.

"I see."

When Yang Dong told him about the transfer, and that the transfer targets were the third and fifth districts, Chen Ba understood it instantly.

Most of the players who moved to different districts could not stand the "feudal rule" of their own district, so they resolutely defected with their relatives and friends, and fell into the arms of the third and fifth districts, supporting the resolutions and bills of the "Game Committee".

Mudd!

They are also playing "Don't Leave After School". The third and fifth districts have established "play committees" and "bead holders", formulated and promulgated bills, and initially established a modern civilized system. Our district is still playing palace fighting. Nine sons seize the throne?

Is this really the same game?

I can't stand it anymore!

Players are not stupid. If you don’t stay here, you will have a place to stay. If you like to play house and build a feudal dynasty, then just put aside the fight for the throne and become your local emperor. I will not accompany you!

As a result, areas one and two began to lose a large number of players, and these lost players moved to areas three and five, leading to the situation where areas three and five were overcrowded.

The fourth district also moved around a lot.

It's just that the fourth district is special, because the fourth district is actually an "international server", and the players are mainly from overseas. Everyone has a language and culture barrier, so not many people change districts.

But this is not much, compared to the first and second districts.

To be honest, there are between 10,000 and 20,000 foreign players in the fourth district. They couldn't stand the stupid rich second generation in the fourth district who had "many billions of dollars", so they chose to switch districts to embrace the "play committee".

"Ah this..."

After understanding the reasons why the third and fifth districts were crowded, Chen Ba also had a headache.

There are two ways to solve this problem!

The first way is to expand the capacity of areas three and five to meet the basic needs of players and allow more people to transfer to these two areas.

But this is treating the symptoms rather than the root cause!

After the server capacity is expanded and talents from other districts are absorbed, the third and fifth districts will naturally develop extremely well and are expected to become the first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in "Don't Leave After School".

But it was sent to other districts!

There is a brain drain and a net outflow of population. If the third and fifth districts become Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, then won’t the other districts become fourth- and fifth-tier towns?

"This has to be stopped!"

Chen Ba believes that players of "Don't Leave After School" should be spread out and should not be concentrated in one or two districts, which will lead to uneven development.

In order to prevent the brain drain, the best way is to set up play committees in the first, second and fourth districts, and humbly learn and copy the successful experiences of the third and fifth districts.

But there will be an obstacle.

Will the vested interests, that is, the local emperors in Districts 1, 2 and 4, agree to this plan? Will they be willing to delegate power?

"If that doesn't work, launch Heavenly Punishment!"

Yang Dong said unkindly: "Having been a local emperor for so long, you won't forget where their rights come from, right?"

In ancient times, there was a saying that kingship was granted by heaven.

In the game "Don't Leave After School", the rights of the Tu emperors are granted by Tianba Studio. As long as necessary, Brother Ba can launch heavenly punishment on them and establish a new king.

"Don't be so extreme. I haven't made any principled mistakes..."

Chen Ba thought: "It's better to be polite first, then to attack, and focus on communication! It's best if they can see the situation clearly and be more conscious."

A die-hard who can’t see the situation clearly?

Chen Ba and Yang Dong will never show mercy to this kind of stubborn ruler who is blinded by fame and fortune and has lost the support of the people. If God punishes an independent man, God will punish him.

The Game Committee is the choice of the players.

Ignoring the collective will of the players and trying to block the car will not end well. In the end, it will only be ruthlessly run over by the wheels of the development of the times.

certainly!

Chen Ba will give them a decent look.

Players of "Don't Leave After School" like to write history books and record the history of each district and server. In the history books, the last emperors of these regional servers will receive fair evaluations.

But then again, respect is mutual. If they don't accept Chen Ba's kindness and choose a less honorable way to die, then don't blame Chen Ba for smearing them in the history book of "Don't Leave After School".

King Pinzhu Zhou, King Pinzhu You, King Pinzhu Jie, Emperor Zhu Ru, Emperor Zhu Ai... When they are given posthumous titles, Brother Ba will never let them go.

Just a quick mention.

The historians of Tianba Community who are responsible for writing the record "Don't Leave After School: The Chronicles of the Pinball Dynasty" really have two skills.

"The Chronicles of the Pinball Dynasty" compiled by them was successfully approved by a publishing house not long ago and decided to publish it in detail.

Good guy!

As soon as this news came out, not only the players were dumbfounded, but Chen Ba was also shocked.

Can this thing be published?

It seems that the book publishing industry is indeed in a bad situation. In order to make money through gimmicks, it no longer cares whether the content is serious or not.

But it’s not a big problem!

Although this idea is speechless, printing and publishing the book "The Chronicles of Pinball Dynasty" is definitely the most correct decision the publisher has ever made.

The first printing was 200,000 copies, and I thought it would be sold for a while, but I didn't know that these 200,000 books were sold out through online channels in just two hours.

Even Chen Ba didn’t buy it.

This made him very angry. He was also one of the authors of this book, but he couldn't even buy it, which shows how popular it was.

So he quickly called the publishing house and asked them to print more copies as soon as possible. This time, instead of printing 200,000 copies, just start printing 500,000 copies!

"Huh? Print so many?"

The publishing house was shocked and said that this was not possible. If so many copies were printed, it would take until the Year of the Monkey to sell them all.

"Only 500,000 copies!"

"Who are you looking down on? Do you know how popular the game "Don't Leave After School" is and how many players it has?"

Chen Ba said there was no need to panic, just print them and it would be over. Any books that could not be sold would be brought directly to Tianba headquarters in Jiangning, and Tianba Studio would take care of them.

OK OK!

Brother Ba promised to pay for the unsold books, so the publisher had no worries, so it immediately risked its fortune and printed an additional 700,000 copies in one go.

Facts have proved that Brother Ba did not lie.

The book "The Chronicles of Pinball Dynasty" is definitely one of the must-buy books for every "Don't Go After School" player.

An additional 700,000 copies were printed, and although they were not sold out immediately, they were completely sold out within just one week.

200,000 + 700,000 = 900,000!

In today's sluggish book publishing industry, "The Chronicles of Pinball Dynasty", which sold 900,000 copies in just half a month, has undoubtedly topped the bestseller list.

Almost everyone who plays "Don't Leave After School" has a copy. Don't ask why, it's just that this book is very qualified to be used as a "joke collection".

Players who have never played the game "Don't Leave After School" may not understand what this book is about.

But those who have played the game will be fascinated the moment they see the title of the book.

Buy buy buy!

You must buy a copy of this!

Such an abstract book only costs 35 yuan. It can be bought as a storybook for your son or as a table corner pad.

Chen Ba also bought it, and bought a thousand copies.

Don't ask him why he bought so many. Ask him just to "preach". Everyone in the studio must have a copy and check everyone's "history" skills from time to time.

When guests come to the studio or attend any game exhibition, just give this book as a gift!

What?

The studio toilet is out of paper?

fine! Don't worry, Brother Ba bought a lot of "The Chronicles of Pinball Dynasty". If you don't have toilet paper, just use it. If you don't have enough, just go to the warehouse to get it.

This book is so versatile and full of funny abstract elements, such as Emperor Zhu Xian, Emperor Zhu, Emperor Ghost, and Emperor Huang Niu. I can’t help but laugh when I read their records.

Because of this, "The Chronicles of Pinball Dynasty" has also attracted many casual readers who have never played the game.

They can’t quite understand it, but if you don’t understand it, you can go to the Tianba community and look for posts!

Combined with the posts in the Tianba community and watching some game videos, this book is not difficult to understand. As long as you can understand it, you will feel that the 35 yuan is really worth spending, and you will have doubts.

Such a great book, when will the sequel be released?