After informing them of their identities, the attitude of the guards on Planet Golden Gate became extremely respectful, and they immediately let them pass. With the Golden Gal Badge, their status in the eyes of the Godora citizens was extremely high, and they could move about freely in the Garton Star System.
Countless players squeezed in front of the porthole and looked at the majestic exterior of Base No.1.
Base No.1, which had taken a year to build, was like an alloy castle. Han Xiao knew that this was an era where looks mattered. Thus, the exterior was very beautiful and filled with a technological aura.
If not for the fact that he did not want to leave a narcissistic impression in the hearts of the players, he would have painted his handsome figure on the exterior walls of the base.
The fleet successfully landed in Black Star Base No.1. When the base was being built, Han Xiao's blueprint had reserved an enormous hangar, which was more than enough to accommodate sixty to seventy spaceships. Even the largest fortress-grade flagship had its own hangar.
Chi chi chi —
The air pumps made noises, and the cabin doors slid open one after another. Hundreds of thousands of players stepped into the hangar hall and looked around curiously. The place was densely packed, and it gave off a sense of deja vu of the Spring Festival.
At this moment, Philip's voice could be heard in the hangar hall, suppressing the noise and clearly reaching everyone's ears.
"Welcome back to Base No.1, hum … New mercenaries, please turn on your communicator to receive the manual verification program, hum …"
As he spoke, the communicators of the hundreds of thousands of players rang out.
Mad Blade took out his communicator and saw that there was a new program in it. After opening it, he realized that it was the Black Star Corps' mercenary identity verification program. There were also some auxiliary functions, such as checking the functions of the base and searching for information in Philip's database …
It was basically a guide that could be used to tease the AI.
This was a subroutine that Han Xiao had created for Phillip. The players could check their achievements in the Black Star Army through this program. Because the players were also freelance mercenaries, their achievements had to be calculated separately. Thus, it was convenient to manage and coordinate the overall situation. It was also convenient for the players to check their achievements.
In order to increase the players' sense of achievement, they had to see the real-time feedback of their achievements in the Black Star Corps. There was no need to do anything behind the scenes, and it had to be transparent and public.
With the remuneration from [Operation Hodelias — War Mercenary], the players had all bought communicators when they were on the mother planet of Godora, and it had already become their standard equipment.
The market price of the communicator was very cheap, and Han Xiao couldn't raise the price if he wanted to resell it, so he didn't do this business.
Base No.1 was built by Mad Blade, Hao Tian, Wang Hou Jiang and the other top players after version 1.0, so they only received the subroutine now.
"So this is the headquarters of the Black Star Corps. It's pretty cool."
"Strange, this base didn't seem to be in the previous version of the video." Someone stared at Pork Bun. Pork Bun covered his face and walked away.
"Heh, it must be a change in the version update. It's not like this is the first time I've encountered it."
Including Mad Blade and the others, this was the first time all the players had come to Base No.1. They were all excited.
The purpose of Base No.1 was to let the players treat it as their faction's main city. Only with a headquarters would the players feel that this faction was of a higher level and that they could rest assured and feel a sense of belonging.
With the guidance of Philip's subroutine, Han Xiao did not have to explain it personally. Therefore, he didn't care about the players and let them do whatever they wanted.
These players' main city used to be Blue Star, but now, their main city was their own Base No.1. They needed to familiarize themselves with their new main city and get over the confusion of changing their main city.
…
After returning to his room, Han Xiao dealt with the backlog of work, such as the application of freelance mercenaries to join the group and some new employment invitations.
After Godora's celebration, he had gained a lot of face, and the pending business had increased exponentially. There was even an invitation for him, a mercenary, to be the spokesperson for an advertisement. That was crazy.
However, after taking a look, the other party seemed to be an arms company, so it made sense.
After recruiting a few hundred thousand players, Han Xiao decided to recruit as many freelance mercenaries as possible. Although the players were good, they were limited by the version update. He liked to plan ahead.
Using the players to expand the business of the Black Star Corps, improve its reputation, and indirectly attract more freelance mercenaries. This was also a benefit chain.
The backlog of employment invitations was innumerable. Philip sorted them according to the difficulty of the job, and the layout became clear.
Most of the employment missions would be provided to the players. Only a very small number of high-reward, high-difficulty, and high-level missions would require him or his officers to participate.
Because of the business model of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, the players went to different places to do their jobs, which had the intention of exploring the galaxy. The locations where the missions were carried out had events and storylines, so this could make up for the lack of foundation of the Black Star Corps and also give the players a second benefit.
Furthermore, the players had just entered the galaxy and needed a stable area to familiarize themselves with the environment. They needed a storyline to guide their actions.
NPC resource lands like Planet Sunil had most of the functions that the players needed, and they happened to have a storyline.
If the players were the seeds, the NPC resource lands would be the soil with its own fertilizer.
Planet Sunil was the first trial area that Han Xiao had prepared. It was time to fulfill his promise to Herlous.
Han Xiao pondered.
"From now on, the plan will enter a new stage."
…
"Black Star, you're looking for me?"
Herlous pushed the door open and entered.
Han Xiao sized Herlous up carefully. Compared to a few years ago when he had just followed him as a mercenary, Herlous' aura had become much more stable. Mercenaries did not lack opportunities to fight, and Herlous' strength had also slowly increased through the missions.
"Herlous, I promised you that I would bring you tens of thousands of Supers to solve the problem of Planet Sunil once and for all." Han Xiao paused, smiled, and said, "In the name of the Black Star Corps, I will lend 200,000 people to Sunil with the most basic reward. During the mission, these mercenaries will be under Sunil's command."
Herlous was stunned for a moment before he was overjoyed.
He had followed Black Star precisely because he believed in this promise, and the day had finally come for him to fulfill it!
At this moment, he was so touched that he almost wanted to draw his sword for Han Xiao.
Why would he draw his sword? Even he did not know.
Barely suppressing his excitement, Herlous excitedly said, "I'll inform my people immediately and ask them to issue an official employment invitation to the Black Star Corps."
"Okay, but I have an additional condition." Han Xiao nodded.
"As long as it's within our capabilities, we'll definitely agree to it."
"It's not a big deal. I just want to get Sunil's approval to build Black Star's sub-base on Planet Sunil."
Han Xiao revealed a harmless smile.
Every NPC resource land was the best place to provide benefits to the players. As long as a sub-base was built, it would be indirectly counted as Black Star's' territory '.
"No problem." Herlous agreed immediately. After thinking for a while, he added, "This is beneficial to us. The upper echelons won't reject you."
Because of Godora's award, Han Xiao's face was like a golden signboard in the Garton Star System. He estimated that he could even get a 5% discount when he bought fruits on the street.
After sending the excited Herlous away, Han Xiao turned on his communicator and opened Philip's feedback interface.
All the players who received the sub-program turned into red dots and appeared on the map in real time. Han Xiao was best at Virtual Technology. This was a disguised form of surveillance.
It was not that he did not trust the players but that he did not want them to lose him.
On the map, the players were scattered to various areas of Base No.1. The shop area had the most people.
Seeing this, Han Xiao's lips curled up slightly, revealing a joyful smile.
"There's finally a market for the stockpiled goods."
…
Base No.1 was divided into different areas. The shop area allowed the players to buy goods from the stockpiled goods. After paying, Philip would take out the goods from the stockpiled goods.
At this moment, countless players formed a long queue in the shop area.
The mass production line in the workshop had never stopped, and there was a large stockpile of machinery equipment. The types of machinery were carefully selected by Han Xiao, and they were very suitable for the players at this stage. They could replace all the equipment on the players.
The other players did not have NCO Class armor like Mad Blade and the others. They had a huge demand for higher-grade equipment. If there was a demand, there would be a market. If there was no demand, there would be a demand.
The machinery was sold one by one, and the stockpiled goods were like cheap goods, squeezing the wallets of most of the players dry.
The sales soared at an unbelievable speed, and all the money flowed into Han Xiao's personal account. One million Enas? That was just a fraction!
However, although the stockpiled equipment was assembly line products, the quality was not too low. Furthermore, the technology level of the equipment itself was even higher, so the price was not low. Therefore, even if most of the players spent all their money, it would not be enough to replace all their equipment.
This was especially true for the expensive full-body armor, which tempted the players' stomachs.
When the players were short of money, the first thought that came to their minds was to do missions as soon as possible!
The Philip subroutine listed out a list of acceptable hires. It was so dense that it was a dazzling sight.
Most of the missions had a sizable reward. According to the program set by Han Xiao, Philip explained that this was a benefit brought by the reputation and connections of the Black Star Corps. Only mercenaries who joined the Black Star Corps could enjoy such good missions. If they were freelance mercenaries, they could only work for the meager reward.
The reason why Han Xiao asked Philip to emphasize this was because this was one of the core attractions of the faction. It reminded the players how they could enjoy the benefits of the faction. Furthermore, in the eyes of the players, the Black Star Corps was a growth faction, and working for the Black Star Corps was a win-win situation.
"There are so many rewards."
"The best missions will definitely be fought over by many, but the failure penalty is also quite high."
Most of the players instantly felt the benefits of being a mercenary.
The most obvious point was that the rewards of these interstellar missions were far better than the missions they received on Planet Aquamarine. Furthermore, they were now free to choose their missions, and they had a lot of initiative. This made the players, who had previously struggled to trigger missions, very happy.
Every mission could be participated by many people, and the maximum number of people could participate in it was different. If the players wanted to accept a mission, they first had to send an application through the sub-program. Then, Philip would calculate in the background, and if the players met the requirements, the applications would be approved according to the order of priority. Only then would the players officially receive the mission.
Because this took into consideration the difficulty of the mission, the higher the difficulty of the mission, the better the rewards. Many players wanted to fight for the missions with high rewards, but their applications were all rejected one by one.
Philip explained.
Han Xiao had set up a faction level system to provide a channel for players to advance in the system. Starting from 'one star', the higher the level, the higher the authority and treatment. Personal level was also the criteria for applying for missions of different difficulty levels. This meant that the players had to complete missions of low difficulty and raise their credibility level before they were qualified to accept missions of higher difficulty.
This was to protect the reputation of the players. Han Xiao understood the players too well. They loved to mess around. If the mission failed, the reputation of the faction would be damaged. Therefore, this kind of safeguard was necessary.
Other than that, Han Xiao also set up another system. The players could browse the list of missions anywhere, but they had to be in the base to accept the missions.
Although it was said to verify the identity of the mercenaries and prevent their communicators from being stolen, it was actually to prevent the players from wandering around outside. They had to return to the main city every now and then to cultivate feelings … The main thing was to make the players pay for the missions.
If they didn't come back, how were they going to earn money?
On the other side, the players in the expert group all had different feelings.
"The way to accept missions has changed …"
In Version 1.0, they had followed Han Xiao to do missions. Now, they were accepting missions on their own. The most direct feeling was that the faction was getting stronger and stronger.
[Sunil Rescue Operation — Large Scale Mission]
Mission Introduction: Planet Sunil is plagued by the Catastrophe. Under the suggestion of Black Star Officer Herlous, we have decided to issue a specific mission to the Black Star Corps to recruit a large number of mercenaries to solve the Catastrophe once and for all.
Mission Requirements: Head to Planet Sunil to solve the source of the Catastrophe.
Number of Recruits: 200000
"Wow, recruiting 200,000 people? That's half the number of people in the army! "
"This is a new big event."
"Sunil? Catastrophe? Isn't this the plot of Pork Bun's Black Star video series in the early stages? So, there's a continuation. "
The players were instantly curious.
The reward was not high. After all, Sunil was living a tight life. One Enas could not wait to be split into five petals. Han Xiao had given Sunil a discount, so they could barely afford it. However, because this was a large scale mission, the EXP reward was quite sufficient.
A large scale mission involving 200,000 people was undoubtedly a big event comparable to a main storyline in the eyes of the players. Many players liked to join in the fun, so gathering 200,000 people was not a problem.
Among the hundreds of thousands of players, the proportion of casual players was higher. Compared to the professional players and guild players who had a clear goal, the adaptability of casual players was slightly weaker.
The galactic map was extremely vast. When casual players saw a large number of missions that could be accepted in a short period of time and obtained a high degree of freedom, they would be confused for a period of time, not knowing what to do.
This Sunil mission played the role of half a 'main storyline' and had the effect of guiding the way.
Not knowing what mission to choose? In that case, he might as well do a large scale mission with 200,000 people. With so many people, there would be no mistakes.
To ensure that the benefits would attract enough players, Han Xiao also increased the faction favorability reward and modified the mission description to emphasize that this mission would allow the faction to grow, thus increasing the motivation of the players.
However, he had worried too much this time. The award ceremony not long ago had caused a new wave of commotion on the forums. The players recognized that Han Xiao was already a big shot in the universe, adding many legends and lofty colors.
The players could be said to have watched Han Xiao grow all the way, and they felt an inexplicable sense of gratification. Fighting for the Black Star Corps, the players were willing.
Even if the reward was not high, many players would still participate in missions that could allow the Black Star Corps to grow.
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