Shi Yangyu didn't quite understand why it took half an hour to load the game for the first time.
However, in this half an hour, he understood the rules of the game.
To put it simply, the designer of this game seemed to have extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder. Every detail in the game was 100% restored to reality. For example, in the game, one had to eat and drink water, take a bath and clean up, and even pee and defecate.
Not only that, but players also needed to rest and recover from injuries.
These restrictions were fine, but the key was that they couldn't go offline at any time??? This was a little confusing.
According to the 'Game Rules', if you want to log off, you have to return to your designated room before logging off. Otherwise, you'll have to bear the consequences.
Moreover, if the character's injuries were too heavy, their mobility would be greatly reduced, and they might even die due to their wounds getting infected. It wasn't like normal games where players could jump around as long as they had a sliver of health left.
If a player's character died, they would have two choices. They could either create a new character or respawn. However, players would have to wait for another half an hour to respawn. Moreover, they would lose all of their equipment and physique, and they would return to their starting point.
To put it simply, the game was designed with reference to reality. Whether it was the physics engine or the chemistry engine, they were exactly the same as reality.
In the end, the final interpretation of the game belonged to Blacklight Biotechnology.
After reading these rules and regulations, Shi Yangyu could not help but feel a little speechless. He did not understand what fun there was in the game if it was designed like this, but who asked the other party to be the first game in the world with five senses? In a situation where players didn't have a choice, this game would probably be pursued by a considerable number of people no matter what.
Fortunately, at the bottom of the Game Code, there was an option for comments. Seeing this, Shi Yangyu immediately left a message: "Although I haven't really entered the game yet, according to the Game Code, I hope to make the following suggestions:
"1. Is it possible to remove the setting of not being able to log off anywhere? After all, games are just a pastime. Although they claim to be 100% realistic, there's no need to be too rigid. "
"2. Is it possible to reduce the death penalty? The penalty of dying once and having your account reset to zero is too severe. Personally, I suggest keeping the physical fitness that players have trained. Otherwise, this setting will dissuade a large portion of casual players. "
"3. The pooping and peeing setting must be removed. It's too disgusting!"
"4, I wonder if there's a 'that' System? I strongly request to join 'that'! I'm begging you, planner! "
After writing this carefully, Shi Yangyu felt that his opinion was quite pertinent. He glanced at the progress bar and saw that it had basically reached the end. Seeing this, he immediately clicked the send button and submitted his suggestion.
Then, Shi Yangyu's vision went black again.
"Uh …"
An indescribable feeling came over him. Shi Yangyu only felt that he had regained his sense of his body, but his whole body was limp. A feeling of weakness and powerlessness hit his nerves, making it difficult for him to even open his eyes.
"He's awake, he's awake!"
There was a female chatter in his ears. Shi Yangyu tried his best to open his eyes, but only saw a blur in front of him. He could only see a light above his head, and a figure sitting in front of his bed. As he opened his eyes, the figure immediately stood up excitedly and kept nagging at him.
"Recluse Giant Sun, you are finally awake!"
The female voice said, "Two days ago, you fainted in front of my hotel and had a very serious fever. I thought you wouldn't survive, but I didn't expect you to survive. How delightful!"
Shi Yangyu opened his mouth, but he felt his throat was burning dry, and he couldn't even say a word.
"Oh, look at me, I'd better drink some water first …"
The figure quickly walked away, and when she came back again, she had already brought a bowl of water. She helped Shi Yangyu up and let him gulp down the whole bowl of water.
"Phew …"
Shi Yangyu breathed a slight sigh of relief, but his body still felt extremely weak. This incomparably real feeling even made Shi Yangyu panic a little because all of this was too real. Whether it was his soft body or the bowl of water he drank, it was so real that it was as if it was reality!
At this moment, he even had the illusion of whether he had really transmigrated.
He slowly opened his hands and placed them in front of him. With his blurry vision, he looked at his hands, only to see a pair of slender, white hands. The fingers were long and slender, the joints were fine, and the skin was fair. These were not the hands of a man …
What shocked him the most was that these hands were full of details. Whether it was the fingerprints or palm prints, or the hairs on the back of the hands that were so thin that they were almost invisible, they were all extremely realistic. He tried to clench his fists and his hands successfully produced the same tactile sensation...
"This, this, this..."
Shi Yangyu stared blankly at all of this, the shock in his heart indescribable.
Was this really a game? Was this not reality? Had he actually transmigrated?
"Okay, okay, you're a little weak now. I'll bring you a bowl of rice."
The woman by the bed continued, "When you can get out of bed, you can be a dancer in the shop. After all, you've lost your memory and you have no one to rely on in Blacklight City, which is an unfamiliar place. If you leave here, with your looks, you'll be caught by human traffickers in less than two days and sold to the rich..."
With that, the woman turned and left.
Shi Yangyu listened to all of this silently. His vision became clearer and he was gradually able to see everything around him. At the same time, there was a sudden "ding" in his mind and a translucent interface that only he could see appeared in front of him. There was a line of prompt on it:
[Mission Hint: This mission is a novice mission. Player "Juyang Jushi" can choose to temporarily stay in "Aunt Mi Hotel" as a dancer and gradually familiarize himself with Blacklight City, or the player can choose to leave at any time and give up the novice mission.]
[However, please note that any action of the player will cause a chain reaction. After choosing to leave "Aunt Mi Hotel", "Aunt Mi Hotel" will no longer be a hiding place for player "Juyang Jushi".]
Seeing these two prompts in front of him, Shi Yangyu could not help frowning and murmured, "Is this the legendary novice mission? And my background is that of an unknown amnesia? That I'm currently being adopted by the proprietress of a hotel? "
However, after saying this, Shi Yangyu was suddenly startled because he found that although his voice was a little hoarse, it still sounded a little crisp. This was the voice of a woman...
Thinking of this, Shi Yangyu immediately moved out of bed. He forced his somewhat sore and weak body to come to the mirror and immediately saw the shadow of a beautiful blonde girl!
"Damn..."
The corner of Shi Yangyu's mouth twitched violently and an extremely absurd feeling struck him. Although he did take the initiative to create this female character, he never expected that the immersion of this game was simply amazing. Everything that was transmitted from this body was almost no different from reality!
No wonder the game said that this game would be the player's second life...
The corner of Shi Yangyu's mouth kept twitching, and she in the mirror was doing the same thing. It was just that because the character was too beautiful, even this absent-minded expression was very tempting.
"Wait!"
Suddenly, a thought-provoking thought flickered in Shi Yangyu's mind. As soon as this thought appeared, it immediately spread like grass after the rain, unable to be suppressed. His breathing became more and more rapid and at the same time, he raised his trembling hands, slowly reaching toward his chest with a tentative intention...
"Ah ~"
...
Five days later, the popularity of the game Ancient Civilization did not decrease because there were only 100,000 closed beta players. On the contrary, the popularity of Ancient Civilization grew higher and higher, and all of this came from the crazy feedback and bragging of the 100,000 closed beta players on the Internet.
At the same time, many closed beta players also keenly sniffed the scent of business opportunities. They made videos of the in-game scenes and uploaded them to major video websites around the world, attracting a world-shaking tsunami —
The extreme degree of freedom, the game graphics that were as real as reality, the incredible immersion, and the feedback from the NPCs was like a real person...
Countless advantages converged into a strong wave, causing the storm of Ancient Civilization to blow more and more fiercely.
At this time, Chen Chen was sitting at his desk, listening to Little X's report.
"At present, all 100,000 closed beta players have entered the game."
Little X reported, "On average, each player spends 14 hours online every day, accounting for 58% of the daily time.
"The probability of closed beta players entering the game for the first time is 100%, 95% for the second time, 93% for the third time, 92% for the fourth time, and 91,300 players have entered the game for the fifth time, which is today, which is 91.3%. The player retention rate exceeds 90%."
"This data is not bad."
Chen Chen nodded and said with some satisfaction.
"The reason why many players haven't entered the game again, in addition to factors such as work, is that the game is too close to reality and the death penalty is too high."
Little X said, "So far, we have received more than 330,000 suggestions for improvement from closed beta players. Most of these suggestions mention the death penalty for players. Basically, everyone thinks that the death penalty is too severe and does not conform to the rules of the game at all.
"And the second most mentioned suggestion is the problem of going offline. Many players think that they occasionally have urgent matters to attend to and it is impossible to return to their hiding place and then go offline every time.
"Indeed, if it were me, I wouldn't like these anti-human rules either."
Chen Chen said thoughtfully, "For real players, it's a game after all, and it's a game full of violence and killing elements. In this case, it's difficult to avoid death. No one wants to die once and have to delete their account and start over again."
"So, what should we do?"
Little X asked curiously.
"We can record the physical strength of each player after training."
Chen Chen thought for a while and suggested, "After the player dies, when we print a new body, we directly print their physical strength at their peak. In this way, even if they die, the physical strength they have worked so hard to train won't be lost."
"This is a good idea!"
Little X's eyes suddenly lit up and she reminded, "In this case, we can also open the Blacklight City bank to players. All player characters can deposit money and valuables in the bank, so the death penalty can be further reduced.
"At the same time, the problem of going offline can actually be solved."
Chen Chen continued. "After all, their bodies in the end dimension all have God chips, so when they go offline, we can take the initiative to control their bodies to find the nearest hiding place. In this way, there won't be a situation where the player's game character dies due to no one controlling it after going offline."
"Mm-hmm!"
Little X nodded and then reported again. "And the third suggestion mentioned by the other party is that the body function system of the game is too realistic. Many players are doing the novice missions we've arranged. These players have not been exposed to fighting, but there's still a small number of players who are restless. They think that all of this is a game, so they do whatever they want in Blacklight City.
"After several battles with the gangs, many of these players have died. However, there are some players who have not died but have lost an arm or a leg. These people found that their injuries are difficult to heal, so they asked us to modify their body's function system to allow their injuries to heal faster."
"This is indeed a serious problem."
Chen Chen could not help thinking. If this problem was not solved, the gameplay would also be greatly reduced.
"Not only that."
Little X suddenly complained, "These players have also brought serious hidden dangers to the safety of the city. Although it's only an increase of 100,000 people now, the burden of Blacklight City is already not weak. When those players arrive, they also bring a large number of crime rates. The crime rate of Blacklight City has soared sharply in the past few days and the city is in a state of panic.
"At the same time, the thousands of Android NPCs and hiding places used in the novice missions are almost not enough. We can only accept 100,000 players at the same time at most. Any more and I'm afraid that the entire Blacklight City will be completely chaotic when the game is opened to the world in the future..."
"After all, it's the 'fourth calamity', I naturally understand this."
Chen Chen thought for a while and said carefully, "I've already planned to launch 5,000 low-orbit communication satellites in the end dimension in the near future, covering the whole world without any blind spots. This way, the game characters can run around the world. At that time, they can run wherever they want, completely as they please. This will indirectly reduce the pressure on Blacklight City.
"But in this way, the healing system also needs to keep up..."
Chen Chen added, "We can transport a few fully-automated healing devices to the end dimension and open a few rapid healing centers in the Joint Resistance Army. Injured players can quickly heal their characters' injuries by spending money. This way, the injury problem of the players will be solved."
"At the same time, the next step will be to cooperate with the other four Joint Resistance Army forces in the end dimension and set up a 3D printing factory there. At that time, it can also serve as a diversion for players, but this is a discussion for later..."
At this point, Chen Chen could not help but smile slightly and tease, "Maybe in the near future, the end dimension over there can really be conquered by the army of billions of players..."
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