According to Gaia's settings, a first-level county city was allowed to have five martial arts dojos, a second-level county city was allowed ten, and a third-level county city was allowed fifteen.
As for the highest-level capital city, it was allowed to have twenty-five martial arts dojos.
It had to be noted that martial arts dojos were not the same as sects. Although martial arts dojos could appear in the capital or player's cities, the various large sects had to appear in the wilderness according to the changes of dynasties.
Martial arts dojos were just a warm-up for the sects. They only imparted the basic martial arts of the various large sects.
Shanhai City was now a third-level county city, so Ouyang Shuo could choose fifteen martial arts dojos. He had to choose the five sects, but the remaining ten spots had to be carefully considered.
The Longspear Sect, Eight Extremities Sect, and Five Tigers Sect were sects that had ties with Shanhai City, so he naturally had to choose. Then there were the Xing Yi Sect, Five Phoenix Saber Sect, Medicine King Sect, One Word Wisdom Sword Sect, and Sichuan's Tang Sect.
For the last two spots, Ouyang Shuo chose the Carefree Sect and the overseas sect.
Ouyang Shuo's choices were not without purpose. They were all sects that could cooperate with Shanhai City in the future. As for those that had nothing to do with Shanhai City's territory, even if they were chosen, they would be fed to ingrates.
The other territories would probably make the same choice.
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Apart from the four major updates, there were also five relatively minor updates.
[5] Increase marching speed.
As the various players' territories had expanded to a certain scale, marching would take too long, so they began counting in months. Gaia had decided to increase the basic marching speed of all troops by five times.
This also meant that be it infantry, cavalry, navy, or even food convoys, their overall marching speed would be increased by five times. A journey that would have taken a month would now only take a few days.
Not only that, if one had the territory's special buff, including the General's special buff, they would receive a second buff on top of the base speed.
In other words, the true marching speed could be increased by six to seven times, or even seven to eight times. As such, the factor of the game map expanding by ten times was basically eliminated.
When the time was right in the future, Gaia would probably increase the basic marching speed again, laying the groundwork for the complete elimination of the teleportation tactic that was popular in the wilderness.
For the time being, Ouyang Shuo was unable to accurately assess how this update would affect the ongoing war in Yunnan.
At the very least, Bai Qi's Left Army would be able to greatly increase the speed of conquering Mengding County. This wasn't good news for [Yunnan City State], which relied heavily on teleportation.
[6] Cancel the territory area attribute.
Previously, the size of the territory's attribute pane did not match the territory's actual size. This situation wasn't just limited to Shanhai City; most of the other territories were experiencing the same thing.
Therefore, Gaia decided to remove the useless attribute.
[7] Slow down the construction of buildings.
The construction speed of buildings in the game had a special bonus, which was far faster than the construction speed in reality. A house that would take half a year to build in real life could be completed in a few days in the game.
This update slightly slowed down the speed of construction. The construction time of each building had increased by at least three times, and some even increased by five or six times.
It wasn't just the construction that was slowed down. The ships, cannons, and so on were also forced to slow down. In the past, the Shanhai City Shipyard only needed half a month to build a ship.
Now, it would probably take more than a month and a half, or even two months.
This would definitely have a huge impact on Shanhai City's shipbuilding industry, greatly reducing its output.
This was to make it more realistic, and at the same time, increase the territory's construction costs. This was especially so for the territory's infrastructure, which was a huge challenge.
What the Lords could do was to continuously increase the technology tree and increase the construction efficiency.
Gaia's actions could be said to have given a lot of thought.
[8] Changes to the alliance settings.
Territories that have already formed cities or joined an alliance are not allowed to form alliances with territories outside of the alliance. For example, the cooperation between the Yan Huang Alliance and Yunnan City was not allowed in the future.
Similarly, Shanhai City could not form alliances with members outside of the Shanhai Alliance. Unless that member was included in the Shanhai Alliance, it wouldn't be considered a violation.
For example, the Mediterranean Alliance that Shanhai City had formed in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the Shanhai Alliance-Phoenix Alliance that Feng Qiuhuang had formed, were considered violations.
Gaia would not deal with those that had already formed alliances based on its principles.
[9] Unlock more manufacturing techniques.
In the wilderness, every manufacturing technique manual was extremely precious, and was viewed as a treasure by the Lords. Because of the scarcity of technique manuals, there was a huge gap in technology between the territories.
Taking Shanhai City as an example, the weapons and equipment of Shanhai City far exceeded that of other territories. They even monopolized many patented technologies, such as shipbuilding, cannons, and so on, forming a technological monopoly and reaping huge profits.
Obviously, in Gaia's eyes, this technological advantage would be slightly controlled in Gaia's fourth year.
Therefore, in the following period of time, Gaia would release a large number of technique manuals into the wilderness. As long as the Lords were willing, they would be able to obtain some common technique manuals.
Their intention was to break through the technological barrier and promote the overall technological level of the wilderness. For Shanhai City, the era of profits from the technique manuals was gradually fading away.
Gaia's actions were not unreasonable.
After all, compared to the 'low' cost for Shanhai City to obtain the technique manuals, the profits they earned were already very considerable. They could not be greedy and think of monopolizing the market forever.
Gaia's true intention was to urge the various territories not to stick to the old rules, but to innovate on the basis of the ancient technique manuals and create new technological advantages.
The entire process was to push the territory's technological strength.
After coming to Hope Planet, the Lords had to deal with all kinds of unknown challenges. There was no future in sticking to the old rules. Combining it with the planet's environment and carrying out secondary research was the right way.
Ouyang Shuo had previously established the Equipment Research and Development Center and the Industry Department for this reason. Using weapons and equipment as an example, by the time the Tang saber forging technology was popularized in the wilderness, Shanhai City had already developed an upgraded version of the Tang saber.
As such, they could still maintain their technological advantage. And this advantage was something that Gaia could not take back, nor could it settle for the other territories. In modern terms, this was an exclusive core technology, one of a kind.
This was the advantage of being reborn. Without such foresight, how could Shanhai City be one step ahead in everything?
Of course, to the other Lords, this update was undoubtedly a huge boon. If it was done properly, they could greatly shorten the gap between them and a powerhouse like Shanhai City in a short period of time.
Shanhai City could also use this opportunity to supplement the territory's technological shortcomings, such as glass manufacturing technology, rubber manufacturing technology, and other technologies that they currently did not have.
It was also an inspiration for the territory's industrialization.
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After checking the system update, Ouyang Shuo was filled with emotions. The ones who benefited the most from this update were the Adventurer players. To the Lord players, it was difficult to accurately assess whether it was good or bad. It varied from person to person.
Unlike other games, Gaia's updates were basically not patches. Instead, they followed the progress of the game and introduced more game content, so as to enrich the entire game world.
At the same time, there was another principle, which was to nurture and train stronger 'Lords'. Without understanding this principle, there was no way to understand the various updates that Gaia released.
As the Federation's mainframe, Gaia had always been perfecting "Earth On Le". The perfect data base was the activities of hundreds of millions of players in the game.
Therefore, other than the annual routine updates, some details had been updated without anyone realizing it. For example, the adjustments to the forum, the fine-tuning of the weather system, the adjustments to the ecosystem, etc.
Just as Ouyang Shuo closed the forums, he suddenly heard a series of system notifications.
"System Notification: Imperial City Chengdu/Dali has set their relationship with Shanhai City as Hostile. Both parties are automatically rated as [Hostile]. All players, please be informed."
"…"
From the looks of it, the Dali imperial court did not approve of Shanhai City's attack on Yunnan City. Ouyang Shuo felt a headache when he thought of how Shanhai City would need to obtain the approval of the Dali imperial court when it was promoted to a capital city in the future.
"System Notification: Imperial City Capital/Jianye/Xiangyang/Chang 'an has set their relationship with Shanhai City as Neutral. Both parties are automatically rated as [Neutral]. All players, please be informed."
The four imperial cities did not have an emperor stationed there, so setting them as Neutral was not out of Ouyang Shuo's expectations.
"System Notification: Imperial City Quanzhou/Xianyang/Luoyang has set their relationship with Shanhai City as Friendly. Both parties are automatically rated as [Friendly]. All players, please be informed."
Quanzhou and Shanhai City had close trade relations, and with Mazu as a link, it was normal for them to be set as [Friendly]. However, Ouyang Shuo did not expect that the two great emperors, Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of Han, would have a favorable impression of Shanhai City. He was overwhelmed by the unexpected favor and thought that it must have something to do with Bai Qi, Xiao He, Huo Qubing, and the others.
Just as Ouyang Shuo was about to head to the Silver Prayer Tower, another system announcement sounded.
"System Announcement: On the third anniversary of" Earth On Le ", the game will release the third expansion pack," Martial World's Wrath ". All players, please log on to the official website for the details."
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The moment the announcement was released, the Pugilistic World that countless adventurer players, especially vigilante players, were looking forward to was finally here!
Some of the more observant players even linked the system update that had just been released with the expansion pack. Wasn't the opening of the martial arts dojos the prelude to "Martial World's Wrath"?!
There was a reason why Gaia chose to release the expansion pack at this time.
The war had already passed through the Three Kingdoms. What followed was the Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. During this period, the various sects of the pugilistic world were slowly blooming.
As the battle progressed, more and more sects would appear in the wilderness, and the winds and clouds would gather.
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