Seven o'clock.
As players gradually logged off, the official website gradually became lively.
It has been 12 hours since the Alph 0.3 version was launched. Whether it is the prospective players who have made an appointment but have not yet obtained the qualification, or those cloud players who have not made an appointment at all, they are all waiting for the first-hand information of the new version.
Chu Guang sent a meal to little sister Xia Yan, then hummed a little tune and sat down in front of the computer, opened the forum and started to peek.
The first post I saw was from Garbage Jun.
[Today, it was finally confirmed! The tire factory three kilometers north of the abandoned construction site is a predator camp! The number of people is about 50 to 100! I originally wanted to capture a prisoner and brought it back, but they were a bit too many. Fortunately, those people were obviously scared by me. I slapped the dog that bit my arm and fainted, and escaped while they were reloading. ]
[Damn, that dog almost bit my tail off! The predator I encountered this time is much more fierce than last time! ]
Chu Guang: "..."
Why is what's written in this post different from what I heard half an hour ago?
Chu Guang remembered that this guy said that he didn't take the initiative to provoke those predators? The injuries on his body were because he ran into the predator patrol when he came back.
However, according to the post, it seems that he took the initiative to attack in order to capture a prisoner.
This guy didn't tell the truth.
Chu Guang thought for a while and shook his head.
Forget it, it doesn't matter.
The first posts are usually not nutritious.
As for the predator camp of Trash Jun, the old friends in the forum have listened to him bragging for almost three days. As a result, after three days of squatting, they were killed and fled.
Everyone expressed their disapproval in the forum.
Quit smoking: [What the hell is the number of people between 50 and 100? How many is it! You are a scout, and you are worse than a Teletubbies. ]
Irena: [I took off my pants and didn't fart. Hey, I'm just playing. (Funny)]
What can I do with you: [Low-jinx, there are less than 100 monsters, what the hell are you afraid of! Can't you kite? Just kill one at a time, and you can kill them all by repeating it a few times? Bah, what am I talking about, this game doesn't even exist! ]
All the good names are taken by dogs: [Movement! Noob! ]
Sisi: [You can't beat the monsters with a special profession, how embarrassing! Why don't you let me play! ]
Trash Picker Level 99: [? ? ? Show me how to move? Damn! You can even tactically outflank the monsters, alternately shoot, and release dogs, can you believe it? ! ]
Quit Smoking: [I want to! Give me your account, I'll show you. ]
Trash Picker Level 99: [I'm a young player! ]
The post went completely off topic, and became a debate between Lizard and a group of scholars, just like the time when the free Crow and a group of players were online.
However, no matter how he described the situation at that time, it could not change the fact that he was labeled as a bad player in the hearts of cloud players.
Perhaps, only when the photo function is released in the future can he be vindicated.
Chu Guang is very clear about the combat effectiveness of those plunderers.
These people may not have strong equipment, physical fitness, and poor discipline like goblins in the fantasy world, but their talents in street fighting are almost maxed out.
After all, since the first year of the Wasteland Era, these people have never stopped fighting, and the gene of plunder has long been integrated into their blood and bones, and has been passed down for countless generations.
After revisiting the beautiful Mandarin in Garbage Jun's post, Chu Guang closed the post and continued to browse the forum.
It has been a while since the players went offline, and a lot of high-quality content has begun to emerge.
What surprised Chu Guang the most was that there were many new faces that he had seen for the first time in these high-quality contents.
For example, an ID called "Canyon Escape Mole".
Chu Guang looked at his personal information and found that he was a newcomer who entered the game in Alpha 0.2 version.
According to his historical comments, he found the official website of Wasteland OL through a link shared by a friend because of an urban legend circulating in the single-player game circle.
In a word, he is also a guy who is relatively free at night.
"Mole Express: Hardcore Observations on the New Version! Cloud players and newbies please take a detour! "
"Hello everyone, I am your big-nosed mole. After going online today, I found that the game has been greatly changed. The production team finally fulfilled a small piece of the pie he drew. I really love the new version! Great!"
"Let me first say the conclusion: I will praise the newly designed economic system! Although there are only a few simple supply chains at present, some details are enough to glimpse the ambition of the production team! They are indeed playing a big game!"
"But I won't blow rainbow farts here, just briefly talk about my findings, which may bring some help to you!"
[There are currently two recognized low-threshold and high-return ways to make money in the game, one is burning cement, and the other is hunting. The former has a stable income and can be operated by one person, but it needs to be robbed because there are not many people needed every day. The latter has an unstable income, requires equipment, and is almost impossible to play alone. If you want to go the hunter route, it is best to form a team with a perception system! ]
"Burning cement doesn't require any technical skills, let's just talk about the hunter gameplay here!"
"A 30-kilogram mutant hyena can be sold directly to the granary for 5 silver coins. It takes some time to slaughter and get 12 kilograms of raw meat, which is instantly worth 40 silver coins. Isn't it amazing?"
"Of course, here we are talking about value! Value! Emphasize it."
"The granary at the outpost does not accept raw meat, only unprocessed prey and air-dried meat that can be directly preserved. And like other games, there is a difference between buying and selling in NPC shops. For example, air-dried meat costs 5 silver coins to buy one kilogram, but if you recycle it, you only get 1 silver coin per kilogram. Is the five-fold price difference outrageous?"
"You can at least make more money by making air-dried meat from the prey you kill and selling it to NPCs, but if you buy raw meat from NPC shops and smoke it yourself, you may even lose money!"
"But it's actually okay. I've seen more outrageous things in other games. This is nothing. Especially in online games, it's basic to sell something that costs 1,000 game coins for only 1 game coin. The cleverness of this game's planning is that it uses the price difference between the NPC store's buying and selling goods to encourage players to trade with each other instead of buying inventory from NPCs."
"Here's a small idea. The hunting team can find one or two players to cooperate, slaughter the prey themselves, and make it into dried meat and fur."
"Some of the dried meat can be sold to players at a price lower than the granary's price. Cut one kilogram into ten pieces and sell it for 1 to 9 silver coins. It's up to you and the wallets of other players. It doesn't matter if you can't sell it all. You can sell it to the granary before dark and make another profit."
"Although this operation will take a little more time, the theoretical income of a mutant hyena can at least double. Isn't it wonderful?"
"In addition, according to my research, running a business is also a way to play, but it is difficult to operate and unprofitable at present. It takes 5 silver coins to buy a kilogram of bacon from the NPC store, and it can be exchanged for 5 kilograms of grain when it is transported to Brown Farm (in theory). The latter is only worth 5 silver coins when it is transported back to the outpost! And this is the price of the NPC store! The purchase price will be even lower! Whether it is sold to NPCs or players, it is a blood loss."
"Considering that the current expansion pack is named "Winter is Coming", it is estimated that the production team's testing focus is not on the trade system. I am very much looking forward to the next version, and the production team can focus on developing the trade system."
"An economic system with no exports but only domestic sales is incomplete. Wouldn't it be more interesting to balance the relationship between production and imports and exports through tariffs and prices? Please consider it! If the server CPU allows!"
Chu Guang read the post and clicked a thumbs up, but did not make any comments.
The idea is good, but it is not very meaningful at this stage.
Keyboard economists often fall into the misunderstanding of idealists. Excessive grand narratives do not actually help solve the current problems.
From the perspective of planners and players, this suggestion to enrich the playability of the game is indeed good.
But from the perspective of the manager of Shelter 404, it is another situation.
For Chu Guang, everything in the shelter, even the players' bodies, belongs to him. Why should he let them take their own things and trade with their neighbors?
Unless they can do better than himself.
But this is obviously impossible.
Even Chu Guang himself is often excluded and suspected by some scavengers on Bette Street because of his accent, and because he does not understand the market and rules, he cannot use his sales experience in his previous life.
This is the wasteland.
A dystopian collection of scum and villains.
Compared with law-abiding bankers or economists, scum who sells ships and scammers who sell bad financial derivatives will do better.
Let the players do business with these local rich people. Not to mention whether they can use 1% of their eloquence normally, even if they can, what will happen?
It would be better to bring an extra gun.
Chu Guang suddenly understood the old leech on Beth Street - oh no, the old mayor.
This guy is really not a good guy. He is also very ugly when he eats. He exploits people just for pleasure and has no long-term plan for the future of Beth Street.
But if the scavengers really go to trade with the merchants, those poor people will only be exploited more miserably.
This is not just a matter of ignorance.
Only people who are naive to a certain extent will think that the merchants from Boulder City will be more kind than the local rich people in the suburbs.
This is like comparing bats and leeches, which one can suck more.
"It's meaningless to encourage players to trade with indigenous forces. Every large-scale transaction involving exports must be conducted under supervision. For example, set up a fixed caravan, plan routes and trading varieties, list commodity prices, and let players serve as escorts for transportation, while NPCs are responsible for handovers, and the returns are 50-50 or 30-70... This can also take care of less hardcore players and simplify the transaction process."
"But tariffs are indeed a good idea, and this can be remembered! In the future, according to actual needs, we can consider allowing NPCs outside to directly participate in the players' market... The premise is barter or using the currency of the shelter."
And under supervision.
"Free trade?"
"Haha."
"When I need you to fight, I will naturally tell you who to trade freely with."
In addition to the strategy post posted by "Canyon Escaping Mole", there are also civil engineering dogs who open posts to exchange house-building skills, and metallurgical engineering dogs discuss how to use limited materials to efficiently make steel.
Some people chatted and threw the link to N station A island, and changed to another place to continue chatting, and finally unexpectedly attracted a lot of new traffic to the website.
The urban legend about "fully immersive virtual reality online games" is showing signs of expanding. Although most people regard it as a setting that was made up by talk, a small number of people take it seriously and click the reservation button with a half-joking attitude.
The number of reservations is growing steadily.
What surprised Chu Guang was that Lai Rifangchang, who is usually the most popular and "knows himself best", did not share his game experience on the forum this time.
The sun really rose from the west.
Just as Chu Guang was browsing the forum, the Niuma Club group was also very lively.
Although Brother Guang did not show up these days, the topics in the group were basically around Wasteland OL.
At least that was the case in the morning.
Lao Bai: "Fang Chang, did you read the post on the official website? It's the one written by the big-nosed mole."
Kuang Feng: "People call him the mole on the run in the canyon."
Lao Bai: "Not important!"
Fang Chang: "I saw it. The method proposed in that post is a little interesting, but not very meaningful."
Lao Bai: "Ah? I think it's okay! Just sell it to the NPC and you can earn 5 silver. Find someone to slaughter and dry it all up, and the value will at least double, right?"
Fang Chang: "Haha, theory is theory, but he ignores the existence of contribution points."
Ye Shi: "What do you mean?"
Fang Chang: "You can understand citizenship as Shenzhen hukou, and contribution points are settlement points."
Kuang Feng: "Jue, your metaphor is a bit sexy..."
Fang Chang: "Same idea. Among all the players now, except for a few of us who have upgraded to citizen, only Mosquito who works as a carpenter and Teng Teng who makes clothes can barely collect 2,000 points. In other words, except for these six people, everyone else needs to make contributions and upgrade to citizen, and then make money."
You can buy land only after you upgrade to citizen.
Even a fool can see that the sooner you buy the land, the better.
Fang Chang: "Think about this question carefully, then analyze the others. Who do you think is more suitable to be a butcher among these six people? Do you have experience in butchering?"
Lao Bai: "Well, this is indeed a question."
Ye Shi: "No, I just want to ask, is butchering difficult?"
Kuang Feng: "... Anyone who has gone to the supermarket to buy vegetables would not ask such a question."
Fang Chang: "Ye Shi is still in school, it is normal that he has no life experience. Just talking about the method mentioned in the strategy post, it is not feasible at present. We need to find another salesperson and a butcher. Six people share the profits, and we may not make more money."
"In fact, I have already calculated this account, but I just didn't say it. When that tomato scrambled eggs is promoted to a citizen, we can try to talk to him about cooperation, although I don't think we should have too much hope."
Ye Shi: "Why?"
Fang Chang: "Are you stupid? Why would he cooperate with us? Isn't it good to save enough money to buy a piece of land, open a restaurant by yourself, and take over the butchering business?"
Lao Bai: "Fuck! Now that you mention it, if you have some skills in slaughtering and cooking, you can make a lot of money in this game!"
Fang Chang: "It can only be said at this stage, but it may not be the case if we wait a little longer."
Fang Chang: "Our first priority is to upgrade, and then to improve our proficiency. In any open game, it is easier to make money in the early stage of the life profession, but in the middle and late stages, the first echelon will always be the real strong ones!"
Kuangfeng: "Hey, you have played the game to its fullest... I have never figured out why you don't become a professional player."
Fang Chang: "I didn't have the opportunity before, but now, hehe, I feel the opportunity has come."
Garbage Picker Level 99: "Boss! Please accept my knees!"
WC Real Mosquito: "Take me too!"
Fang Chang: "Sure, haha! We are all in the same group, and the guild will be called the Cow and Horse Club in the future!"
Lao Bai: "Ahem, how about changing the name?"
Ye Shi: "What to change, this name is so nice. (Funny)"
Fang Chang: "It doesn't matter whether the name is changed or not. But I have to say that your contribution should be enough, Mosquito, but Garbage has been playing in the wild these days, so it's probably a little short. Your first priority now is to upgrade to citizen, and then save money! When the time comes, we will form a team and build a house directly in front of the resurrection point. The first floor will be a street shop, and the second and third floors will be partitioned so that each person can have a large standard room. Isn't it beautiful?"
Lao Bai: "That will be our guild base in the future! (Excited)"
WC is really Mosquito: "Brother, steady!"
Picking up garbage at level 99: "6666!"
Quitting smoking: "Fuck! I really want to play!!! T.T"