[Announcement for the whole server: The outpost base has obtained a "magnetic confinement plasma processing machine tool" with a durability of 99% and an industrial index of +100]
[Note 1: This machine tool can produce metal parts of any geometric shape. Now players can submit relevant drawings and explain the purpose to the administrator assistant to obtain quotes and material requirements. Drawings can be drawn in the game, or electronic files can be submitted through the personal page of the official website. ]
[Note 2: Processing equipment can only change the geometric shape of the material, but cannot change the properties of the material itself, and the cutting process will produce waste. If you want to process steel ingots into steel pipes, please pre-treat them first and process them into rods or approximate rods. If you want to process copper ingots into copper wires, please use a wire drawing machine and do not occupy precious machine tool resources. ]
[Note 3: The specifications of the input processing materials are limited to 1X1X1m, and materials exceeding the specifications cannot be processed. ]
The announcement was released at 6 pm.
This point is exactly the peak time for players to go online and offline.
Whether it was the brick-moving players who went to the northern town to pick up garbage, or the hunter players who went to the Elm District to play in the wild, most of them returned to the action camp.
Looking at the announcement that popped up on the VM, the little players all showed surprised expressions on their faces.
"Magnetic confinement plasma machine tool?"
"It's CNC?"
"What the hell is this stitched monster? Why have I never heard of it?"
"If you have heard of it, that's a coincidence. In reality, 1 minute can be considered "high confinement" and "long pulse". Do you understand what it means? Forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you."
"Alas, these game developers are still very imaginative, and they don't even think about bragging!"
Although Chu Guang wanted to share this joy with them, people's joys and sorrows are different.
Most players don't know how hard it is to get this machine tool, and it's even more impossible to know how much sacrifice those little players who can't go online because of BUGs have made for it.
They just thought that maybe Boss Xia had another workbench, and now he could not only drill holes for weapons, but also inscribe them?
Anyway, they were all redundant functions!
The smarter players thought of the update of Alpha 0.8.
The industrial index of the outpost increased by 100 points from 150 points to 250 points... In other words, the increase was 250%?
Doesn't that mean that the weapon store will have new items! ?
Some of the more serious players who happened to be in the outpost excitedly took the steel ingots and went to the administrator's assistant to inquire about the price according to the instructions on the announcement.
Some wanted to make an axe, and some wanted to make the steel ingots into the shape of a rifle, but in the end most of them left cursing.
Why?
Because it's not worth it!
The startup fee of the machine tool is as high as 100 silver, and the processing price of an axe is as high as 100 silver, which adds up to 200 silver.
With this money, it is enough to buy 20 axes! If you wholesale from Steel Plant No. 81, you can probably have some left.
As for the rifle, the price for processing a rifled barrel is 200 silver, and the player must provide the rod-shaped steel himself.
If not, plasma thermal welding is required for operation, and the price will be doubled.
With this money, it is enough to buy two in the weapon store!
But think about it, an ordinary rifle does not need such an advanced machine tool, the cost is not worth it.
At this time, in Steel Plant No. 81.
Sitting on a small stool, [Yaer I want to go to the toilet rope], one hand touching his chin, the other holding the steel ingot, staring and thinking for a long time, before he uttered a word.
"I guess that machine tool is used to make production tools!"
His good friend [Ward Foot Foot Who Laiwen] rolled his eyes.
"Do you need to tell me that? You are using the CNC machine tool worth tens of millions in the laboratory to mill seamless steel pipes. It depends on whether your boss will punish you or not."
Brother Ce Suo: "Uh... I think he will be scared and call the police and send me to jail."
Brother Levin: "The cost of using this machine tool is really high. I don't think it is prepared for individual players at all. The startup fee alone is 100 silver coins. Unless it is a company sponsored by the shelter, it is difficult for ordinary self-employed people!"
Brother Ce Suo: "That may not be the case. Brother Mosquito will definitely be enough!"
Brother Levin: "He won't say anything. Anyone who sees that guy will say he is a criminal. By the way, how much money do we have in our account?"
Brother Ce Suo: "4,000 silver... Newcomers bought a lot of axes and arrows before. What? Are you going to share the dividends?"
Brother Levin: "What the hell! This little money is not enough to share. I plan to make a hot punching machine. Those parts that could not be made before should be processed with this machine. Once we have a punching machine, we can make seamless steel pipes!"
Hearing this, Brother Ce Suo's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Brother, you are awesome! We are thinking the same thing!"
Brother Levin rolled his eyes: "Don't be awesome, I will be offline soon, you go and upload the drawings, let's make a simple one, I guess it shouldn't be too expensive."
Brother Ce Suo chuckled.
"Okay, brother, this is exactly what I did for my graduation project!"
…
Just when Brother Levin and Brother Ceso were discussing how to expand and strengthen the seamless steel pipe industry and create brilliance in the wasteland, Xiao Qi raised the camera on the third floor of the sanatorium not far away and looked at Chu Guang standing beside him, and whispered.
"Master, is the price you set too expensive?"
Just now, at least a dozen people asked for the price, but when they heard that the startup fee was 100 silver coins, they were scared and turned away.
100 silver coins are needed for startup, this is robbing!
Hearing Xiao Qi's suggestion, Chu Guang did not agree.
"It's not expensive at all. I even think it's cheap. They think it's expensive only because they don't understand the version deeply enough, which means they are not our target customers at all. If there is no threshold at all, who knows what drawings they will get. Do you want to use that thing to make a bunch of broken javelins and broken axes?"
Go to Boss Xia for this kind of thing!
She has two workbenches, one DIY and one picked up, which can make this thing.
Xiao Qi clicked the camera as if he understood it, but it seemed that he didn't understand it. In its view, if it is not allowed to be used to produce those things, wouldn't it be enough to directly prohibit it from being used?
Why go around in circles and use "thresholds" to restrict it.
Chu Guang did not intend to explain to AI his intentions and the difference between human behavioral logic and AI algorithms.
What to say.
Chu Guang does not object to players' creative ideas, but he needs to restrict players through rules to make them consider whether it is worthwhile to do so before they can use their creativity.
As Xiao Qi himself said, this machine tool is not used to produce those rough things.
Take the AK47 he made earlier as an example. 6 kg of steel made 3 kg of workpieces, half of which were cut into strange shapes of steel scraps, which are likely to be sent to the steel mill for recycling.
In addition, there is the consumed electricity and the natural loss of inert gas during use. These are visible costs, not to mention the invisible hidden costs.
The real purpose of this thing is to produce "tools for production" or to process some "high-tech added value" high-precision equipment when materials are available.
The latter is not worth considering for the time being, and the former is the main goal at this stage.
Chu Guang plans to take it step by step, and first let his little players make a hot perforator to solve the problem of the barrel.
Let's not consider the complicated technologies of three-roll continuous rolling and centering straightening for now. For the production of seamless steel pipes, a punching machine is enough.
Whether it can be produced in batches, efficiently, and with guaranteed quality and quantity is a matter for the future. We must first have the production capacity before we can find ways to optimize.
For a long time in the future, seamless steel pipes will become the most important pillar industry of Shelter No. 404.
As for the process of the receiver.
Chu Guang hesitated for a while between the milling receiver and the stamping receiver, and finally chose the latter.
Although the milling receiver is more modern and has higher precision, its disadvantages are also obvious. It wastes materials, has high requirements for personnel and equipment, and has low production efficiency.
For example, the AK47 he made with a machine tool before was strictly a milling receiver, and even the barrel and the rifling in the barrel were cut by a single-atom knife.
The stamping receiver is different. In addition to the trouble of making molds, the entire production process has almost no technical content, and the efficiency of mass production is particularly high.
The only disadvantage is poor accuracy, but compared with its two advantages of cheapness and durability, this disadvantage cannot be regarded as a disadvantage at all, at most it is a small flaw.
After all, in the wasteland environment, the average combat distance is less than 100 meters. No matter how accurate the shooting is, it is not as good as shooting fast and steady.
Based on the stamping process, Chu Guang plans to simply imitate the AK's receiver and design a 7mm caliber rifle.
Compared to the upper and lower receiver design and seven-protrusion locking of the AR series rifles, the U-shaped receiver and two-protrusion locking design of the AK are more than twice as difficult to produce. Once the mold is made, it can even be punched out directly from a whole piece of steel.
What does it mean to punch out a whole piece of steel?
It can be mass-produced like ink paper under a printer, and it can be used after installing a barrel and a solid wooden buttstock, which perfectly meets the combat needs in the wasteland environment.
There is a reason why this thing sells well in the third world.
Especially in places where human lives are worthless, guns are definitely the cheaper the better.
Otherwise, how wasteful it would be to die?
…
The next day.
There was a crowd of people at the entrance of the weapon store. Last night, many small players ran back from the action camp, waiting for the weapon store to open.
Yawning boss Xia has long been accustomed to this.
As usual, she opened the shop door on time. She took out the two samples that Chu Guang asked her to make yesterday and hung them on the semi-open window.
They were two solid wood and pure steel rifles.
One of them had a compact layout, with a standard assault rifle shape for the buttstock and magazine, a sight for the top rail, and a grip under the barrel.
The other had a significantly longer barrel and receiver, and the magazine embedded in the gun body only revealed a triangular outline, which looked slightly wider.
The common point between the two is that they both have a rugged appearance and atmospheric lines, and their appearance is extremely similar, like good brothers coming down from an assembly line. Not only are the appearances similar, the names of the two guns are also very similar, the long one is called LD-47s, and the short one is called LD-47.
In addition, they have a very coquettish nickname——
Sickle!
"Fuck, the weapon store has new items today! Brother Fang is awesome!"
"I know this! LD-47s should be a sniper!"
"Got it! It's a 98K!"
"What the hell is a 98K! It's obviously a sniper rifle!"
"Wait, the short one... the more I look at it, the more it looks like an AK?"
"Be more confident and put aside your doubts. This operator is lazy again. It's probably just copied the skin from CF!"
The prices of both guns are very cheap, the long one is 250 silver coins, and the short one is 200 silver coins, which is only twice as expensive as the iron barrel rifle!
Now, who among the old players doesn't have 200 silver coins in their pockets? Especially in the game against the Legion, the basic income is 150 silver coins!
Many people are still hesitating, but the quick-eyed tail has already made a move.
"Boss lady! Make me a gun! I want the one with a long tail! The short one is for Sisi."
Giving the short-haired female player a cold look, Xia Yan yawned and said a few words.
"Samples, not for sale. If you want to buy, wait two days."
Hearing this unskilled and unstandard Mandarin, the players around were stunned.
What the hell?
Not only did the boss lady change her legs, but she also updated her voice pack!
Epic enhancement!
Just when there was a commotion at the door of the weapon store, the industrial area in the south was also very lively.
As soon as many small players who registered as self-employed business owners went online and were about to get on the truck to go to the action camp, a bunch of orders popped up in the VM task bar.
Some of them required the production of wooden butts and some required the production of grips. They were not difficult, and it could even be said that having hands was enough.
Some tasks with a slightly higher difficulty include polishing lenses and making optical sights, and the types can be said to be varied.
These tasks have one thing in common, that is, the rewards are quite generous, and due to the update of Alpha 0.8 version, there is an additional 10% reward bonus for orders!
In addition, the first 100 orders of various commodities will also have additional contribution points and regional reputation.
If you miss this, you are still a human? !
With such generous rewards, many small players who focus on life professions are instantly excited. One by one, they picked up tools and rushed to their own small workshops to work, wishing they could weld their butts to the bench.
Of course, compared to those self-employed individuals who do manual work, the real pleasure is still a "large producer" who has invested in the shelter.
Early in the morning, the No. 81 Steel Plant of the Outpost received an exclusive order - [to produce 100 receivers and 100 gun barrels for the Outpost].
This order has clear requirements for the material, specifications, dimensions and even processing accuracy of the products, and the production is not easy.
However, this is not important!
The important thing is that the wise and powerful administrator not only offered a generous price of 4,000 silver coins, but also paid 50% of the order in advance as a prepayment.
The sudden "windfall" made Brother Ceso and Brother Levin dizzy.
Although the money was placed in the company account, it was still money!
Under the stimulation of the order, the two who were still a little hesitant took the deposit of 4,000 silver coins and a large amount of steel in the inventory without saying a word, and went to the assistant of the administrator to customize a large number of parts, ready to work hard to complete the punching machine for stamping gun barrels and the stamping die for making receivers.
In addition, the two also spent the 2,000 silver coins advance payment that they had just received, which was not yet warm, to issue scavenging tasks and order raw materials needed for production.
Although the steel plant's account was completely spent, the two did not feel anything wrong at all, but felt that the future was promising.
On the surface, in order to complete this order, they not only did not make any money, but also spent their own money.
But can we only look at the surface when looking at a problem?
Of course not!
The money spent did not disappear, but was replaced by a more advanced form and stayed with them forever.
With the molds of the punching machine and the punching machine, they will be able to complete more orders, further reduce the cost of production, further improve efficiency, and the snowball will roll completely.
This wave is more than a win.
It's simply a win, okay!
Coincidentally, as the major shareholder of the steel plant, the wise and powerful manager also thinks so.
For Chu Guang, money is a small matter. The key is that this wave of operations not only greatly increased the production capacity of the steel plant, but also reduced the logistical pressure of the outpost base.
And all he paid was a few thousand happy beans.
This wave probably can't be considered a win.
It should be said to be a win-win situation!
After all, he won twice.
In addition to the gun itself, there are also wooden buttstocks, triangular bayonets, magazine drums, bipods, optical sights and other accessories. Chu Guang plans to get them all.
In the future, just by selling accessories and bullets, he can get a lot of silver coins, and even dump the excess production capacity to the survivors around, or even export it to Honghe Town and Boulder City.
Chu Guang was sure that as long as his weapons were sold cheaply enough, those mercenaries and caravan guards who could not afford expensive weapons would love him to death.
"But... by then, it would be impossible to use game coins as currency."
Although the game coins produced in the pre-war era had excellent production technology and certain anti-counterfeiting capabilities, their disadvantage was also obvious, that is, the quantity was limited.
Players could use electronic currency, but those wastelanders would not admit things they could not see, and they did not even believe in paper money.
Besides, Chu Guang was not sure whether the merchant named Sun Shiqi had kept a trick, such as secretly hiding a bag of coins and not selling them to him.
This kind of thing was not impossible.
Looking at the outpost base industrial zone that was in full swing and lively again, Chu Guang silently made up his mind in his heart.
"The second generation of currency must be launched as soon as possible!"
This work must be completed before the end of winter.
After winter, trade in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City will become active again. At that time, players will also usher in a more open, broader, and more challenging world.
Just then, a familiar voice came from behind, pulling Chu Guang's thoughts back from afar to the present.
The fully armed Fang Chang nodded slightly and said respectfully: "Dear Administrator, we are ready. When will we set off!"
Standing up from the chair, Chu Guang grasped the war hammer placed aside and hung it behind his back.
"Now."