In order not to ruin the wuxia flavor of the novel, the real world and some important settings would be written at the beginning of each volume as a wedge. After all, this was something that could not be avoided. A story with a beginning and an end needed an ending that could be passed on a logical level. The wedge of each volume would be a little bit of foreshadowing for the future ending.
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"With the development of technology, more and more virtual game worlds have appeared in our lives. From the original Azeroth remake, to the sandbox intelligent virtual world opened by the Ancient Scrolls, and now various more and more intelligent game worlds, many people have completely immersed their senses in the virtual game world as a part of their lives. Some people even believe that those worlds really exist, and spend a lot of time and energy on them.
So, what is the charm of the virtual game world, and why are people so obsessed with it? For this issue, Lu Yu invited the chief designer of the most popular online game of the year, 'Immortal Martial Era', Professor Chen Ming, and his team members. "
The huge light screen was playing a series of classic games. When the voice-over ended, countless bright lights lit up, and a place that looked like a living room appeared in front of them. There were a few long sofas in the living room, and a slim woman with a bob hairstyle was sitting on the sofa on the right. She turned her head to look at the screen behind her and said unhurriedly, "Looking at these games, if you're slightly older and have a certain understanding of online games, you'll definitely understand some of the questions in the voice-over just now.
In traditional online games more than ten years ago, people still sat in front of the computer, and the games pursued exquisite and magnificent graphics. Although it's not bad, it still can't be immersed in the game.
Today, with the epoch-making progress in AR technology, not only could people bring their senses into the game world, but more importantly, the development trend of online games was to make the game world more realistic. Just like the images on the screen, all of them were filled with a sense of realism.
But just the advancement of technology and more realistic experience can make thousands of people crazy, even addicted? "
The woman with the curly hair and clear speech was the host of this interview, Lu Yu. She paused, then stood up and applauded, "Let me welcome Professor Chen and his assistant, I hope they can bring some answers today."
Following the applause, a white-haired, hunchbacked old man walked into the living room with a few young men and women. When they walked to the sofa on the left and greeted the audience, Lu Yu gestured with her hand, "Professor Chen, please take a seat."
The old man took the lead and sat on a sofa alone, while the other young men and women squeezed on another sofa. When the host and guests were all seated, Lu Yu, as the host, immediately went straight to the topic, "Immortal Martial Era is the most popular game this year. According to the latest data released by the authoritative website Ari, since the official launch of Immortal Martial Era two months ago, the highest number of online users has reached 7 million, and the average number of online users in 24 hours has also exceeded 3 million. It is the first in the world, becoming the first Chinese game phenomenon in the past five years. So, Professor Chen, how Immortal Immortal Martial Era to achieve such great success?"
Faced with Lu Yu's question, the old man appeared calm and composed. He slowly said, "The secret to success is only one word, and that is hard work."
"Online games have been developed for nearly two decades. From the very beginning, there were games like Legend of Mir, Millennium, and World of Warcraft, to a series of games after entering the virtual gaming world, the form of online games has been constantly changing, but it has never been able to jump out of the box. People always seek fresh content, and once they can't go further in the game and get more experience, most people will choose to leave. After all, there are only a few people who place their feelings on the game, and this fact cannot change even in the virtual era.
Immortal Martial Era completely broke the tradition, giving players the strongest experience signal from the very beginning, and that is complete transmigration! "
Hearing this, Lu Yu took over the conversation and said, "I believe that everyone is familiar with the concept of transmigration. It was born in online literature more than ten years ago, and later appeared in movies and TV works. Even the concept of embedding it into online games is not uncommon. So, what is so special about the Immortal Martial Era?"
"To restore the most authentic feeling!"
The old man's answer was full of confidence, and then he continued, "We used a lot of online literature as reference, and finally decided to give players only two functions in the game world: self-information status template and experience gain distribution."
Lu Yu instantly grasped the key point, and said, "There is no friend system, mailbox, chat channel, and so on? Wouldn't it be very inconvenient for players to communicate with each other? "
The old man waved his hand. "None at all. After players enter the game world, they are like transmigrators, and the self-information status template and experience gain are like a cheat. Apart from these, everything else is no different from the real world. There will be no name above your head like in traditional online games, no friend system, and no chat channel for everyone to communicate with each other. Everything that hinders the real feeling does not exist!"
At this point, a young man with glasses next to the old man took over the conversation, and said, "Actually, I don't think this will cause communication barriers. After all, today is a diverse society. Apart from online activities, players still have time offline. If they really love Immortal Martial Era, they can communicate through the forum. Our company even specially launched a 'Chivalrous Friend' social app for players to communicate with each other. Currently, this social app has more than a million registered users, and it is completely customized for both real and game identities, so communication is very convenient."
This young man showed off the company's product advertising ability. Lu Yu smiled and nodded, and said, "Indeed, if they really love something and are willing to spend time and effort on it, it is not impossible to have a social app on their phone.
Let's get back to the topic at hand, as Professor Chen said, Immortal Martial Era is based on the most authentic feeling, and strive to create the real feeling of transmigration. But will this increase the difficulty of the game, and cause some players to lose? "
"A game can't be all-encompassing. For example, in today's highly advanced technology, simple web-based games and mobile games still exist, and there are still consumer groups. Why? Because they are for fast consumption, quickly giving players pleasure, and then using them to kill time. After all, no matter how good the virtual game world is, there is no way to connect to the game world during work hours. "
The old man's words were filled with disdain for web-based games and mobile games that had been around for decades. Seeing this, Lu Yu quickly changed the topic, and said, "So, apart from the complete simulation of transmigration, is there anything special about Immortal Martial Era?"
The old man swept a glance at the young people beside him, and immediately a young woman said, "We have completely cancelled the mission settings, or rather, changed the mode of triggering and completing the mission.
In traditional online games, the generation of the mission is repetitive and traceable. Once it is generated, the corresponding reward will be given according to the completion progress. However, in the Immortal Martial Era, there are no fixed and repeatable missions. Only when special events occur, such as the sect being attacked, or when the emotional interaction with the NPC reaches a certain level, will the NPC give some missions.
It can be said that the concept of missions does not exist in the Immortal Martial Era, but in reality, every NPC can trigger a mission. There are many ways to trigger a mission, and the reward is also very fluctuating. Players can fight for it themselves, such as bargaining, increasing the effort, and so on, in order to obtain a greater reward. This method naturally enhances the real experience, and also satisfies the psychological needs of the players for a fortuitous encounter.
However, as the reward is greater, the difficulty of the mission will naturally increase. So, here, we still ask the players to do as much as possible. Don't be blinded by the expected reward, and increase the degree of recognition. After all, in our game world, there are some highly intelligent NPCs that even have subjective initiative. They will imitate the players, and they will lie. "
"Wow!"
Lu Yu exclaimed, her face full of disbelief. "This is the first time I've heard of NPCs in the game having such high intelligence, and they will also lie. May I ask if this is a kind of program setting, or the NPC's own consciousness?"
Lu Yu's words carried a hint of doubt. The old man smiled faintly and said, "I myself am engaged in the research and development of digital artificial intelligence. A few years ago, I coincidentally met Mr. Wen Shiming, the CEO of Cloud Net Technology. Because I have some common views on digital artificial intelligence with him, I later became the chief designer of the Immortal Martial Era.
Let me put it this way. Whether it is the performance of high-end NPC intelligence or the average NPC intelligence, the Immortal Martial Era is much higher than any game today. As the main body of the game world, which is also the mainframe, you can visit it later. It is as tall as a three-story building. In order to carry the huge amount of data, we have a total of nearly three hundred large machine rooms across the country. In order to carry the data of some high-end NPC, we even have more than a dozen machine rooms and research rooms.
Miss Lu may not have a very deep understanding of digital artificial intelligence, but in today's technological environment, as long as there is enough support, it is not difficult for a large composite application program to produce a similar performance of self-consciousness under its own rules and logic. "
"I really don't know much about this. Then from the perspective of an ordinary player, if I am deceived and killed by an NPC in the game, will I feel angry and feel that I have been fooled?"
Lu Yu countered from another angle, but the old man smiled faintly and said, "If you really think that you have transmigrated, of course not."
But after all, it was not a real transmigration, it was just a game world!
Lu Yu wanted to pester him endlessly, but she felt that it was meaningless, so she immediately changed the topic and said, "Professor Chen, can you explain a little about the classification of NPCs in the Immortal Martial Era?"
"Generally speaking, the stronger the NPC in the Immortal Martial Era, the more intelligent they are. In traditional online games, NPCs that are treated like bosses have more intelligence than ordinary people.
But to make it easier for everyone to get used to the game and have a way to quickly level up in the early stages, we have set up some low-level, simple intelligence NPCs. In game terms, they are low-level EXP cannon fodder, and the main world program of the game will periodically repair these low-level EXP cannon fodder, commonly known as refresh. But this frequency is very low, just to satisfy new players who have just entered the game. We encourage everyone to go deep into the game, roam the world, and interact with NPCs to improve their game characters.
If we divide the NPCs according to their levels of power, we've added templates for the NPCs of different levels, such as the cannon fodder template for low-level EXP monsters, the normal template for the ordinary people of the world and the normal disciples of various sects, the elite template for some experts, and even the heroic template for the famous heroes.
These templates can be seen as normal monsters, silver monsters, sub-elite monsters, elite monsters, and even world bosses in other games. But the difference is that different templates reflect not only combat performance and intelligence, but more importantly, the NPCs themselves can use this template to improve themselves. The higher the level of the template, the clearer the NPCs can see their own cultivation situation.
Although players can't see the NPC templates, after understanding them, combined with their experience in the game and interaction with the NPCs, they can slowly sum up the rules, which will help them better understand the game world and know how to deal with different NPCs.
But this is not absolute. “
Lu Yu was a little confused and could not help but ask, "What do you mean by not absolute, Professor Chen?"
"Because I have implanted a considerable number of low-level NPCs with the X program I developed, which I call Life Activation. This is a variable program with great autonomy, and it is put in for the possibility of harvesting intelligent life.
Just like fertilization, a man emits billions of sperm in an instant, and as long as one implants, it will give birth to a life. The X program can be seen as sperm, and the Celestial Martial Era in this game world can be seen as a harem. Once an X program causes an NPC to undergo a qualitative change, there is a possibility that this NPC will slowly grow into a real and complete digital intelligent life in this world.
And from the current situation, the performance of the X program far surpasses that of human sperm. We have discovered thousands of autonomous evolutions, and these evolutions will display intelligence and combat performance that surpass their own settings and added templates. For this reason, we will make some adjustments. Even if their strength is still low, we will add more advanced templates to them, which we call Super Beings. To the players, they may have powerful combat strength that surpasses their own level. "
Lu Yu listened very seriously. She did not feel embarrassed because of Professor Chen's straightforwardness. Instead, she grasped a key point and said, "Professor Chen obviously values the development of artificial intelligence, but if the players are in this world, wouldn't these Super Beings be very dangerous? Because you mentioned the existence of EXP before, these Super Beings that have the potential to grow into intelligent life are naturally hunting targets for the players, or can these Super Beings also be resurrected? "
"I have always believed that interacting with real life, such as emotional interaction and cognitive judgment, is more conducive to the breeding and growth of intelligent life, and it can make intelligent life more complete. Back then, I agreed to be the chief designer of the Celestial Martial Era precisely because of this common understanding with Director Wen.
As for resurrection, it is impossible. The breeding process of life is irreversible. This is the rule of nature, and digital intelligent life also has to abide by it. Once their consciousness dies, even if we refresh their main program, they will only be resurrected as a bunch of digital programs, and not as a life in gestation.
However, as you have heard before, these high-intelligence NPCs have the ability to deceive or disguise themselves. In other words, these Super Beings have a strong sense of survival, and they will try their best to survive. Disguise is just one of their methods.
Of course, under the condition that it does not violate the objective rules of the game world, we will also provide certain protection for them. Correcting the added templates is one of the reasons, and we will also implant the Y program in the Super Beings that have truly awakened their self-awareness at the appropriate time. "
Lu Yu was completely captivated by the concept of intelligent life described by Professor Chen. She quickly asked, "What is Y program?"
"The creativity and the main rules of the Celestial Martial Era world are set by our team, but there are more rules, such as the creation of martial arts, and most of the consciousness and behavior of the NPCs are calculated bit by bit by the mainframe in the process of perfecting the game world according to the self-rules and logic of the program.
Let's put it this way. In the eyes of the players, martial arts might be a skill that was added to one's body. However, to the NPCs in the game world, they communicated through a specific numerical program to determine the rules. In other words, when they practiced martial arts, they really practiced it bit by bit because it was their rule.
This is also a pity. After all, the current technology is still unable to allow the players to truly practice in the game world. After all, the rules of the game world are completely different. Even if it looks similar to the real world in many ways, that is only the result of numerical calculations.
In fact, it is very difficult for the players to understand the rules of the game world itself. Even if they understand it, they cannot use it because it requires a huge amount of calculation. This is also a bottleneck and limitation that the current online games are facing.
Back to the Y program, the Y program is actually the deduction and calculation ability used by the mainframe in the creation of martial arts rules. However, this is a weakened version because the carriers of high intelligence NPCs are independent units, and we cannot use the calculation ability of the mainframe.
As for the NPCs that have been implanted with the X program, once they develop self-awareness and enter the Super Being stage, we will give them independent units as data carriers. The X program itself is a variable program, and the actions of the NPCs are unpredictable. After they develop self-awareness, the function they show in the game may be to create their own martial arts, or to use the rules. The Y program is actually an amplifier in this aspect, strengthening their ability to create their own martial arts, and allowing them to have a deeper understanding and use of the rules. This is the greatest protection we can give them. "
Lu Yu heard this and could not help but laugh. "Can I understand this as giving the Super Being a cheat? This is the first time I've heard of cheating for the NPCs. "
"No. This is just to give the Super Being a better chance to complete a complete metamorphosis, to become a real digital intelligent life, to become a real living body! "
Professor Chen's reply was serious, and Lu Yu could not help but feel respect for him. She softly asked, "Then what does Professor Chen think is a real living body?"
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