This update caused a huge uproar. Studios, professional players, ordinary players, professional players, players with money … all kinds of players reacted to this update the moment they saw it.
What was especially strange was a player from a certain main city. He strongly condemned this update, and his statement received a positive response. In an instant, tens of thousands of people came forward to sign their names. Just as everyone was shocked, Brother You, who was reading the thread in front of the computer, silently closed the thread. This was the Alliance of Ten Thousand Guilds that had just completed the transaction of the Efficiency Leveling Method. After a major transaction of 200 gold coins, they suddenly released this update. How could they not be furious? There were many people like them. Countless players who had spent all their money in the last second of the update were now grief-stricken.
As for Brother You, he was browsing the web while discussing his next deal on QQ! With the sudden announcement of the update, Brother You immediately knew that the transaction was going to fall through. Sure enough, the avatar on the other side of QQ jumped and sent a "Look at the update" message. After that, there were no more messages.
Many people who had just read the opening had already rushed to the forum to complain. In reality, this update by the officials was also lengthy. After the opening, there were thousands of words.
The officials said that the game's currency would stop being refreshed, but it did not mean that they would no longer interfere. However, from now on, the currency refresh would no longer be uncontrolled. The officials would adjust the amount of currency, the quantity of goods, the price of goods, and the speed of currency circulation in the game. For this reason, they had specially hired the famous economic expert "XXX" as a consultant. Of course, the players had no idea what this "XXX" was. However, after seeing the official's comments, some of the players who knew a little about the game understood. The rules of controlling the release of the currency were almost the same as a country's currency in real life. The official was continuing the path of making the game more realistic!
However, the problem was that in real life, goods were produced, processed, re-processed, and put on the market. People used money to purchase them, and the money that was used to purchase them was put back into production. This was a perfect cycle. However, there was no such system in the game. This was because the items in the game were never produced by the input of money. Instead, they were refreshed by the system. Without this kind of industrial chain structure, the currency was controlled, but the goods were constantly produced in large quantities. Players held onto their money tightly and were reluctant to spend it. Wouldn't that cause economic regression?
The game officials did not say much about this, but the players were able to sniff out some clues from another rule. Among the minor rules derived from this currency rule, one of them was that if one did not log into the game for a month, their account would be erased, and all the currency and items in the account would be confiscated. If there were special circumstances that required them to stop playing for more than a month, they would have to apply to the system for account preservation.
What the players noticed was the fact that the items were confiscated. If the currency was taken back by the system, it would naturally be easy to stuff it into the hands of any NPC. However, the items would also be confiscated. Could it be that the items would be controlled by the system like the currency? As the system made this announcement, the update was still in progress, so the players had no way to go into the game to farm monsters and experiment. They were all extremely anxious. Some online trading websites, after all the currency trading orders were taken back, the number of equipment trading orders also decreased.
The online trading orders were all directly traded with RMB. Right now, the value of gold in the game was bound to increase. Although the value of equipment would decrease, due to this subtle "confiscation of items", the gold price of the equipment might just be an illusion due to the appreciation of gold. Its true value would actually increase. At the end of the day, RMB was the true hard currency in the game. If you really wanted to compare the value, you would have to use RMB to measure it.
As they were temporarily unable to log into the game, the players could only worry helplessly. As for the second update, in reality, it was something that the players were very concerned about recently. However, under the gold rule, it seemed insignificant. The second update was: City War.
At a time when everyone was panicking, the system actually created such a major event like City War. The players felt that this was like starting a war to divert the attention of the people. However, complaining was just complaining. This was something that everyone had been concerned about for a long time. There were still many people paying attention to it, especially the guild leaders of the big guilds.
No one expected that the rules of this City War would be completely different from what they had expected.
The City War was still a competition between players, but it wasn't a direct confrontation. Instead, it was through attacking the city, the system would determine the power division of the main city based on the points awarded.
Power division was another subtle choice of words. The players hadn't even figured out what was going on yet, and now, the game developers had sent out these unclear updates. The players were furious. The guild leaders of the major cities went on QQ, YY, MSN, and all other communication tools to contact the players in their guilds. They went to the forums to make a ruckus, insisting that the game developers explain the situation clearly.
The officials were also furious. There were people who didn't even finish reading the previous update before running out to spout nonsense. Why was it like this this time? Actually, this time, the players couldn't be blamed. The number of visitors on the official website was too high, and the page refreshed very slowly. When the players saw the second update, they thought that the "power division" was over, but in reality, it hadn't refreshed completely. After shouting and yelling for a while, they turned around and took a glance. Huh, why was there a scroll bar next to it? They hurriedly scrolled down, and the content was complete.
It turned out that the meaning of the power division was: The final ownership of the main city wouldn't belong to any guild. The highest ruler of the main city would still be the system. The guilds would form a ranking in the main city attack battle, and the system would finally divide the main city's power division according to their points. The calculation method was very simple. All the main cities would be divided into 10,000 points, and the guilds would be divided according to their points according to their ranking. For example, after the City War ended, the first-place guild would receive 1,000 points, and would be given 10% of its territory. The second-place guild would receive 500 points, and another 500 points would be given to the second-place guild, and so on and so forth until all 10,000 points were distributed. Even if the remaining guilds received points, they would not be given any territory to claim their territory.
The way to obtain points was naturally the simplest and most direct way to kill the defending enemy troops. However, killing enemies not only required quantity, but also quality. Battles that had a decisive impact on the final outcome of the battle would have more generous points as rewards. In addition, killing enemies was only the most direct way to obtain points, but it wasn't the only way. There were also a large number of siege related quests that could also be used to obtain points. Some of the weaker guilds might be able to obtain more points than the bigger guilds in a siege battle if they used it well.
In conclusion, a siege war didn't just require bravery. It also required wisdom and luck.
This final rule was something that many players didn't expect. Although they didn't expect it, it was reasonable. The main city in the game was quite large, but the largest guild at the moment only had a little over a thousand people. It was simply a joke to have a City War with such a small number of people. Even if two or three or four guilds fought against each other, they still wouldn't be able to occupy such a large area. This move by the system could be said to be a magnificent feat.
At this time, the players couldn't care less about the gold coins, and they couldn't enter the game for the time being. Therefore, very soon, everyone began to busy themselves with the upcoming Guild War. The chat group of the Guild Leaders that was just a "game company condemning conference" immediately turned into a strategic deployment before the City War. The game officials announced the rules of the City War, and especially pointed out that there were quests in one of the sections. However, the specific content of the quests was not mentioned in the usual style. The more powerful guilds were creeped out by the statement that "some of the weaker guilds, if used properly, might be able to obtain more points than the bigger guilds in a siege battle". They temporarily decided that the main force would kill the enemy to obtain points, and the weaker ones would be responsible for searching for quests.
This update was obviously very large. The game hadn't been released for the entire day, and the estimated release date had been pushed back three times in a row. The game forum became the busiest day ever since the game was released. The number of online players on the forum even broke the online player record during the Guild and Mercenary Group Competition. Almost all the players in the parallel world were waiting for the game to be released while scrolling through the forum for gossip.
The City War was set for two days during the weekend, and the update took up an entire day on Wednesday. After the update on Thursday, the game was released once again. When the players stepped into the game again, they felt a little lost and unfamiliar …
The players who reacted immediately rushed to the Exchange Hall, Auction House, and other places in a frenzy, wanting to withdraw all the items that they had consigned for sale. After yesterday's day of suspicion, many players agreed with the statement that "not only gold coins, but also equipment will not be able to be farmed in the future".
However, before these people could rush to the Auction House and the Exchange Hall, the system had already made an announcement in the world: Due to the adjustment of the gold coin rules, the economy has been completely reshuffled. The equipment and items that the players had consigned for sale previously have been withdrawn and returned to the players' pockets.
Since the game was released, this was the first time that the system had shown warmth. Many people shed tears of relief …
The guys from Childe Elite Group had also come online at this time, and were celebrating in the channel. Compared to the players who had just spent a lot of money before the update, these guys had really made a huge profit. The efficiency of leveling up was just before the update, and there was definitely no one who had more gold coins in the game than them. Looking at the gold coins in their hands rising in value, how could these guys not be happy?
Gu Fei was relatively calm, and said disapprovingly, "Good for nothing." As soon as he came online, before the people from the mercenary group could greet him, July from Reborn Amethyst had already sent him a private message, telling him to hurry back and participate in the city war in two days.
In Reborn Amethyst's channel, Slender Waist Dance was currently wailing in grief! This girl was also one of the unlucky ones in this update. Two days ago, she had just bought a lot of items, and was preparing to exchange RMB for gold coins, but in the end, she was caught up in the update. Now that she was back, all the orders for RMB to buy gold coins were gone, and everyone was holding onto their gold coins tightly, waiting for it to rise in value. At this time, Slender Waist Dance only had a few copper coins left in her pocket. Spending money so cleanly, she could be considered a genius.
"My condolences, my condolences." For the first time, Gu Fei also sent a message to express his condolences, and it immediately attracted a crowd. In the memory of all the girls, this was the first time Qianli spoke in the guild channel when he was drunk.
"Qianli, you have quite a lot of gold coins on you right? A while ago, your Qianli's Drunk Studio was the one that made the most money. "Luoluo said.
"I don't have much, so I gave it all to them." Gu Fei said.
"Good for nothing, I didn't ask you for money." Slender Waist Dance looked at Gu Fei with disdain for pretending to be poor.
"It really isn't much, I only have a few tens of thousands." Gu Fei said.
A few tens of thousands wasn't much … If it wasn't for all the girls here, they would have definitely cursed at him. However, everyone knew that a few tens of thousands wasn't a lot to them, didn't those guys all get around two hundred thousand each time?
"A few tens of thousands isn't a lot, let's split it among everyone!" Luoluo joked.
"Okay." Gu Fei was very straightforward.
There was an awkward silence in the channel. The girls weren't as shameless as Yutian Shenming's Unscathed In Battle. If it was them, even if they were shocked, they would still be discussing how to split the money.
"Ahem … I'm joking." Luoluo said.
"Yeah, I know. I'm joking too. "Gu Fei said.
"F * ck!!" Slender Waist Dance led the others in disdain. It was clear that being a person was difficult. If you say give it to them, they don't want it; but if you say no, they'll say you're stingy …
Gu Fei chatted in the two chat channels as he walked towards Amethyst's office. He had been in Cloud City for the past few days, and now that he was out of the revival point, he headed over. There weren't many people in the office when he arrived, only a few had arrived. Most of them had just logged on and were rushing over, so there weren't many who were as fast as Gu Fei. The only ones who arrived earlier than him, other than those who logged off, were Slender Waist Dance.
Slender Waist Dance was still crying, but when she saw Gu Fei, she opened her hand to reveal four pitiful copper coins. "Look, there's only a few left."
"Yeah!" Gu Fei nodded, took out a gold coin from his pocket, and tossed it into her hand. "Here's a gold coin for you."
"I'll kill you!!!" Slender Waist Dance pulled out her sword and was about to pounce, but Gu Fei hurriedly took out a Myriad Gold Pouch and tossed it into her hand. "Take this first."
"That's more like it." Slender Waist Dance accepted it without hesitation. July and the others' eyes were popping out, 'He really dared to give this one, and that one, he really dared to accept that one.'
Slender Waist Dance had another ten thousand gold, and her smile returned to her face. She put the Myriad Gold Pouch into her pocket, and threw away the ones in her hand as she was annoyed.
"…" Gu Fei was speechless. Rich people were rich people after all. No matter how much trouble you made in the game, you wouldn't be able to hurt them at all. Slender Waist Dance was in dire straits, mainly because she had money but had no way to buy gold coins. When the market normalized, she would still be the number one RMB warrior.
The few coins that Slender Waist Dance threw away were silently picked up by July, and stuffed back into her hand. She then looked at Gu Fei and said, "Let's talk about the city war! Our guild is very weak, and killing enemies for points is definitely not possible. We can only rely on quests. What do you think, Qianli? "
"Why are you asking me? You guys can decide for yourselves!" Gu Fei didn't care at all.
"But there are so many guilds. Even if we snatch quests, we won't have any advantage. It seems like we can just accompany the prince and have some fun." July said.
"Yeah!" Gu Fei nodded, he quite agreed with this view. The situation this time was completely different from the guild competition. At that time, it was a one on one elimination, and an accident could decide the outcome of the match. That was why the reborn Amethyst still had a chance to be a dark horse. But this time, all the guilds were competing against the same starting line, and the chances of them taking advantage of the situation were greatly reduced.
"Can points be bought?" Slender Waist Dance asked. They couldn't even buy gold coins, and they still hadn't changed their habits.
"It can't be. How can it be bought?" Qiyue said.
"Then can we hire a mercenary group?" Gu Fei asked.
"This … There's no description! You're thinking of … "July thought that Gu Fei would bring their Childe Elite Group to help, but then she suddenly remembered that apart from Sword Demon and Brother You, everyone else in their group had a guild, so she suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
"I have a few friends who don't have a guild. I wonder what this activity is for!" Gu Fei was actually thinking of South Sword and the other seven. They were neither a guild nor a mercenary group, but they learned from Childe Elite Group and formed their own mercenary group. As for the Childe Elite Group, they did indeed have a guild, and they were all participating in their own guild meeting. Han Family Young Master and Unscathed In Battle. Based on their level rankings, even if they weren't the core members of their guilds, they still had the qualifications to attend this kind of core meeting. Yutian Shenming originally had a conflict with Unhindered Four Seas because of Gu Fei, so he was only a nominal existence in the guild. However, after Unhindered Four Seas' quest, Childe Elite Group helped him greatly at a crucial moment, so this conflict didn't exist anymore. Yutian Shenming was indeed a top-notch expert, so he was summoned again.
As for the guildless Sword Demon and Brother You, Sword Demon acted as if nothing had happened and continued to practice. Brother You also went with Sword Demon. Recently, there were many rumors about the drop rates of the mobs in the past. Once the game started, Brother You couldn't wait to study it.
"The system didn't mention anything about mercenary groups. It only said that guilds are participating. It seems like there's nothing to do with mercenary groups." July said.
"The system didn't say anything, but it shouldn't stop mercenary groups from participating, right? At most, the people they kill won't be counted, but for example, when doing some quests, it might still be useful. "Gu Fei said.
"Even if that's the case … in this situation, mercenary groups … how do we calculate the price?" July said.
Currently, the economy was in a state of confusion. No one knew how much a gold coin was worth.
At this moment, Han Family Young Master suddenly sent a message in the mercenary channel, "Yo, this update isn't bad!!"
"What's wrong?" The others hurriedly asked. Han Family Young Master had spoken. Could it be that this guy found some loophole? Everyone was excited.
"The wine has been reduced." Han Family Young Master said.
"Oh? How much? "Brother You was quick witted.
"Ten times." Han Family Young Master said.
"Ten times … Is this the current system's current currency value?" Brother You mumbled.
"It's just wine. But to me, it's equivalent to having ten times the money in my hands. This update is really good. "Han Family Young Master said.
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