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Is This Really A Game? - Chapter 121

Published at 19th of May 2023 05:55:36 AM


Chapter 121

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[ Mission Rewards: 1500 silver coins, 1000 contribution points, 4 free weapon upgrade opportunities. ]

[ Reminder: Due to the workbench you recovered, the weapon shop of shelter No.404 unlocked the "Weapon Modification" option. Do you want to announce the squad information to all players on the server? ]

[ Yes/No ]

Next morning.

The four little players who logged into the game confirmed their dungeon income through captain Bunny's VM.

"F*ck! Four digits!?"

"Brother Light is awesome!"

"Get rich, get rich!"

After deducting the 225 silver coins given to Irena, there are still 1275 silver coins left. If the average score is divided, each person can get 318 silver coins!

Compared with the less than three-digit deposits in most players' bank accounts, this is undoubtedly a huge sum of money!

Looking at Walker who looked like a pig brother, Bunny gave him a hard look.

"Don't go to the forum to show off your wealth! I warn you!"

As he spoke, he poked on the "No" option.

Walker said with a hippie smile.

"Am I that kind of person? That's called sharing the joy in my heart with the old buddies on the forum!"

As soon as he said this, he immediately received three blank stares.

But jokes are jokes, Walker still has a sense of compulsion in his heart, this kind of compulsion cannot be casually pretended.

Making a fortune in silence doesn't necessarily mean that someone will take care of you, and it will cause public outrage. No matter how much the planner wants to protect you, he has to take care of the emotions of most players.

1500 silver coins!

At present, the most expensive weapon in the weapon store is the 9mm iron pipe rifle produced in Boulder City, which is only 150 silver coins. And this is after the 7mm iron-barrel rifle was sold out, and the overall price of the rifle was slightly raised once!

It's like other people's hard work, sweat for several days, and finally happily saved money, bought the first iron in your life, and when you feel a sense of accomplishment in your heart, the four-digit dungeon reward is thrown directly in the face.

Is there any point in doing this other than to make those players who work hard and are willing to be tool people feel like stupid asses whose brains have been raped?

Games are not reality. From the standpoint of game companies, the game experience of all players is definitely the most important.

Don't say that the planner brother Light is just a friend in chat group. Even if Brother Light were his own father, he too would probably sacrifice him to Heaven for the sake of the overall interest.

After all, objectively speaking, their dungeon rewards did affect the balance a little bit, which was two orders of magnitude higher than the regular mission rewards of players of the same level.

Last night they discussed for a long time among the cattle and horses, and the final consensus was only about 800.

After all, compared with the tragic meat grinder at the entrance of the greenhouse ruins, hundreds of gnawers are scattered on the two floors of the underground parking lot. The crawlers are a bit difficult to deal with, and that was several versions ago.

Equipped with equipment, leveled, and able to arrange traps and tactics in advance, the real difficulty is not as exaggerated as Walker's bragging.

If [ The Thunder King ] found out that they made four figures in one dungeon, I'm afraid he will probably call them shady again.

"I'm thinking about how to spend it..." Tomorrow touched his chin, "200 silver coins should be no problem for Bunny to buy a set of steel armor, 100 silver—"

"Okay, okay, don't forget it," Bunny waved his hand, interrupting Tomorrow, "Set aside 200 silver coins for the guild fund, and save enough money to build our guild building. Everyone else will share. Let’s buy some equipment together.”

"I agree." Gale nodded, "But I'm afraid 200 is not enough, and I will bid for the right to explore the copy of the greenhouse ruins at eight o'clock later."

Bunny: "Hiss... Is it enough to reserve 500?"

"It must be enough," Tomorrow said with a smile, "You can figure out the money in other people's pockets. I bet it will not exceed 200 silver. If the bidding price is lower than 200, let's directly pull it to 200 in seconds!"

Bunny nodded. This is indeed the case. Other players have no competitiveness at all unless several people pool money together. And it doesn't matter if they pool the money together, they can definitely come up with more.

"How about contribution points? There's that opportunity to upgrade weapons, what is it?" Walker asked suddenly.

"Let's average the contribution points, counting Irena's 200. Anyway, everyone is a citizen, and we will wait for the new version to open a higher status level. The weapon upgrade... I guess it is to put a grip on the gun or engrave it. I don't have enough brains for the sights, so I'll see." Bunny rubbed his chin and analyzed indiscriminately.

Gale: "I'm going to make a winding winch for my crossbow, and replace the front pedal with a bayonet."

Walker: "You're just taking off your pants and farting."

Gale: "You don't understand, this is more wasteland."

"I'll let it go, I'll give Walky my chance." Tomorrow loved his "Dawn" very much, but he didn't want that workbench to be ruined by him.

Walker: "Tomy, what the hell is Walky?"

Tomorrow: "You can't call me Tomy, otherwise I will shot a arrow in your ass."

The three of them froze for a moment.

Well. So cold.

……

Wasteland time around seven in the morning.

The sun in the distance is gradually rising, and the thin sunlight passes through the gaps in the woods and sprinkles on the white snow.

The nomads in the camp carried large and small plastic buckets to the lake to fetch water, and the players also came out of the elevators in the nursing home one after another, and began to relax after get off work.

At this moment, a large group of people surrounded the gate of the nursing home in darkness.

Standing in the center of the crowd, Lucius, wearing heavy armor and carrying a sledgehammer, spoke in a solemn voice.

"What is going to be auctioned now is... the right to explore the first floor of the greenhouse ruins."

Hearing this sentence, the players around whispered.

"Why only the first floor is auctioned?"

"Stupid, of course you have to clear the first floor before you can clear the second floor and the first underground floor!"

"I remember there are 5 floors above ground and 10 floors underground?"

"I know, the controllable fusion generator seems to be on the 9th floor! The 10th floor is connected to the urban drainage system? The brood of the devil moth should be there!"

After glancing at the chattering players, Lucius didn't stay too long, and briefly described the difficulty of the dungeon, the expected number of monsters, etc., which was an introduction to the auction target.

Then, he announced the start of the auction.

"...The guaranteed reward for dungeon clearance is 200 silver coins, the starting price is 100 silver coins, and each price increase must not be less than 1 silver coin."

Mosquito brush raised his hand.

“150——”

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted directly.

"200 silver!"

Looking at Tomorrow who raised his hand, the surrounding players gasped.

"Damn, customs clearance rewards of dungeon is 200 silver, and bet price is 200 silver directly?! What the hell are you making?"

"It's outrageous!"

"What do you know, that 200 silver is a guaranteed reward, if you clear out the cocoon inside and sell it, then would it's only 200 silver then?"

"That's not necessarily true. You may not understand that the cocoons of devil moths have been piled up into several hills next to the warehouse, and the purchase price has been broken several times. If there are no other new harvests, the remaining cocoons of devil moths will not be able to get rid of them. Well, it can’t even be sold for 200 silver.”

Wasteland OL currently has two markets, one is the NPC warehouse, and the other is the market at the north gate.

There are too few players in the beta test stage, and the consumption ability is not high. If you want to make money at present, you mainly rely on the orders from the NPC warehouse.

Wasteland OL's economic system is very interesting. In order to prevent the excess of a single resource and serious inventory backlog, the NPC warehouse will preset a blue line and a red line for each type of resource.

The blue line represents the "Reserve upper limit", and the red line represents the "Inventory warning line". These two lines maintain the lever of supply and demand balance, and are mainly determined according to the demand of industrial areas.

If the resource reserves exceed the blue line, that is, the upper limit of reserves, for every 10% exceeding, the purchase price and selling price will be reduced by 10% on the current basis, which is equivalent to reducing production and promoting at the same time.

If it is lower than the red line, that is, the inventory warning line, every time it is lower than 10%, the purchase price and selling price will increase by 10% simultaneously, which will promote production increase and tighten consumption.

There is also a cold knowledge here, the vast majority of players do not have private warehouses.

A small amount of supplies can still be stuffed into a locker, and bulk supplies are either sold to factories in industrial areas or piled up on their own private land.

Random stacking will be regarded as abandonment, and other players and NPCs can pick it up.

And now let alone the NPC's warehouse, the warehouse of the Shuri hut is full of these cocoons. After several days of dumping, the purchase price of the devil moth cocoon has dropped to 1 silver coin each, and the selling price has also been pressed together.

It is said that if the inventory exceeds the blue line by five times, the circuit breaker mechanism will be triggered, and the manager will set a "White line", lock the selling price, and stop the purchase before the inventory drops to the white line.

At present, this situation has not happened yet, but if it continues to develop at this speed, it is estimated that it will be soon.

The same is true for the devil moth's corpse and spirit leaf. The "Blue line" of these two materials is very low. The warehouse's willingness to stock up is not strong, and the purchase price continues to fracture.

"Don't worry about others." Seeing the group of sand sculptures worrying about others not making money, Brother Mole looked at the sky, sighed, and shook his head, "You don't understand the rules of this thing at all. ...Is it the 200 silver coins that people plan to earn? Even if they don't make money, so what?"

"What do you mean?"

Richest Elf King was stunned for a moment, confused.

dungeon does not make money? Then hit a chicken. Not to mention bullets, if the ax is broken, you have to spend money to buy it again!

Brother Mole gave the little fool a meaningful look.

"After clearing the ground floor, will the entrance to the basement floor and the second floor be unlocked?"

Richest Elf King: "Uh, what then?"

"The priority exploration right can last up to 7 days." After a pause, Brother Mole continued calmly, "If it were me, I would directly sell the priority exploration right of the second floor to other teams... for 200 silver Alright, then concentrate on attacking the basement level."

"F*ck?!"

Richest Elf King finally understood this time, his eyes widened.

"Doesn't this snowball?!"

"As long as the level can be cleared within the time limit of the priority exploration right, such a layer-by-layer strategy will indeed snowball in theory."

The Mole sighed enviously.

"You can earn 200 silver at the bottom of the first level...there are ten levels below."

If he didn't know that these people had just cleared a large dungeon, and he couldn't win them 100%, he would raise his card and try to grab them.

After all, the premium here is too scary.

F*ck!

If only it could krypton gold!

The Mole had a hunch. If these few people continue to snowball, I'm afraid Wasteland OL will start the union system before the closed beta stage. Or a game that burns more money than the guild system.

After all, the most expensive equipment in the store is currently only three digits.

He really couldn't figure out what else to spend when these people earned more than three figures of silver coins.

……

After getting the right to explore the "Greenhouse Ruins" dungeon, The Cowboy Team did not immediately start the strategy, but recruited 5 old players who had participated in this dungeon before, and mixed them into a 10-member team.

Everyone's level is above LV4, and the sequence is mainly strength and agility.

This naturally includes a certain Mole.

Bunny, who was the team leader, walked up to the five passers-by and said.

"The first floor has been gnawed almost, and I guess it's rare to collect 200 silver for the remaining resources. If there is no accident, the final customs clearance reward should be guaranteed."

Richest Elf King nodded.

"It's true... those cute newcomers are so wild."

Bunny: "We can't blame others for being wild. After all, the previous gameplay mechanism was indeed a bit problematic. Dozens of people were squeezed into a dungeon, and we didn't dare to speak on the forum. It's different now."

After a pause, Bunny continued.

"If the final dungeon income is 200 silver, the five of you will share the money, and the four of us will not participate. For the part that exceeds 200, we will get 40%, and you will still share the rest."

Tabletop Cop said in a daze: "Then you are not at a loss?"

"You don't need to worry about that," Tomorrow smiled and said frankly, "Our goal is the right to explore the basement floor and the second floor above ground."

Bunny shook the VM on his arm.

"If there is no problem, I will start editing the team contract here."

The team contract can be drawn up through the team formation function of VM. In addition to the templates provided by several official websites, you can also edit it yourself.

In the event of a dispute, the shelter will conduct arbitration according to the content of the contract to determine the ownership of the spoils and rewards.

After the five players received the team formation information, they confirmed it again, and exchanged glances from left to right, but none of them had any objections.

Especially Mole and Brother Elf King, the two had communicated before, and they already knew what the goals of The Cowboy Team were.

These gangsters are not interested in picking up other people's leftover soup to drink. The real goal is the next stage, and the level of the next stage.

However, what Mole didn't expect was that they didn't even pay attention to the remaining 200 silver coins, and gave them to passers-by directly.

How fat they are!

After clicking OK on the VM's screen, Mole clenched his fists.

"Brother, rely on it, just let us also get some benefits for your leftover."

Tomorrow said with a smile: "My good brother, don't say that, we are still counting on you to learn how to brush the nests of insects. Don't worry, next time we have such a good opportunity, we will definitely not rob you!"

If I believe in your nonsense then I am definitely idiot! The Mole sighed inwardly.

If you want to get rich, you still have to find a way to explore some high-value resource points. There is no future for following others to drink their leftover soup.

Looking at Mole, Bunny said with a smile.

"Brother, why don't you come to our group, we plan to build a guild when the time comes, and everyone will play together when you have time."

Walker giggled and joined in the excitement: "Is it right to be the vice president? When the guild is established, I'll let you be the vice president."

Mole looked up at the sky and shook his head.

"Thank you, but let's forget about the guild. I used to play other games, and I had no money and time to hit first place. Now it's rare to come across such a powerful game... I want to be a thigh."

MM's vice president, isn't that just a title for fun. Anyway, he is also a beta tester, so it would be too wasteful not to play as a guild leader.

Tomorrow and Bunny looked at him and smiled, expressing their understanding, and didn't mention it again.

"Let's start a group, let's not talk nonsense, it's important to make money!"

"Come on!"

"Get started!"





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