This is not a BUG, this is a game feature - #245 - Chapter 245 The first one on the list is the sect leader!

During this Spring Festival, the news that many old games from Tianba Studio will be given away for free quickly spread throughout the Tianba community.

Most players are fine with it.

As the same saying goes, buy early and enjoy early. These old games have been available for three or four years. Previously, they were only a few dollars at a record low price. Now it’s no big deal to give them away for free.

But there are also a few players who think they have been stabbed in the back. You gave it to me for free not long after I bought it?

Refund, must be refunded!

Those who can get a refund have initiated a refund. After refunding, they will receive it for free, which is equivalent to free prostitution.

Players who do not meet the conditions and cannot get a refund will give the game a negative review and a low score, saying “I am a bad guy”, complaining about Tianba Studio’s unkindness, and not saying anything in advance about giving away games for free.

But it’s not a big problem…

As early as when he made this decision, Chen Ba had already guessed the players’ reactions. He didn’t pay attention to the scoldings and complaints at all.

Compared with the negative reviews and complaints from players caused by this incident, the commotion caused by the launch of the new version of “Cultivation Fantasy” was more serious.

“Cultivation Fantasy” has been in public beta for more than a month. In addition to routine maintenance every Wednesday, the game also undergoes a major version update.

This update has a lot of added content.

The main direction of the game update is actually to “reduce the burden” on players, so that they don’t have to spend too much time cleaning up daily chores. They only need to log in every day and collect merits.

The starting point is good.

After all, “Cultivation Fantasy” is different from other MMO games in that it does not require players to spend a lot of time developing it, it only needs to hang in the background.

Players also support this update. After all, no one wants to be as tired playing a game as they are at work, with endless daily tasks.

However, such a version, which both players and game planners were very satisfied with, caused unexpected riots within just a few hours after the update.

Reducing the burden is the right approach.

But as the saying goes, one person can feed all kinds of people, and not everyone who plays “Cultivation Fantasy” feels that playing games is the same as going to work.

Um… let’s put it another way!

Not every player hates this mode of working in the game. Some people just like to go to work, and they like to make mistakes in the game.

This round of updates is said to reduce the burden on players, but in fact some people don’t want to accept Chen Ba’s kindness. They don’t want any burden reduction. They just want the game to be better and better.

So, a contradiction arises.

After the version update, the game requires much less content. Except for daily check-ins and bounty tasks, the rest of the time is basically spent idle.

But some people don’t want to hang up. They like to play “Cultivation Fantasy” and they don’t like to play other games…

then what should we do?

Of course, out of boredom, I ran to kill those players who were idle in order to accumulate merit or karma.

Trivia!

The game background of “Cultivation Fantasy” is a vast continent called the Fairy World.

On this continent, there are very few safe areas where players can safely hang up and rest. Only a few areas are safe.

And are these safe zones really absolutely safe?

Not really!

Take the “Seven Immortal Cultivating Sects” in the game as an example. Fighting is explicitly prohibited in the sect’s headquarters. Once discovered, they will be expelled and punished by the sect’s law enforcement disciples.

“A group of evil cultivators guessed that the players had left the game in the background to play other games! So they formed a large-scale team and joined forces to massacre the safe zone…”

“Slaughtered the safe zone?”

Chen Ba was a little surprised. Can the safe zone take action? What do those law enforcement disciples do for food? Why couldn’t they stop these guys?

“They exploited a loophole!”

Yang Dong explained: “The number of law enforcement disciples of each sect is limited, about a hundred.”

With a limited number of law enforcement disciples controlling tens of thousands of players, there must be some omissions and it is impossible to cover everything.

Moreover, these evil cultivators who follow the karma route are very powerful in combat. Even if their cultivation level is not high, it is not difficult to hold back law enforcement disciples for a period of time.

As long as the number of people is overwhelming, these law enforcement disciples will not be able to take care of them. This also gives the Karma players the opportunity to massacre the “unresisting” players.

Damn it!

Do you know how many players hang up in a martial arts station?

It can range from a few thousand to tens of thousands!

When those idle players switched back to the game to claim their merits, they found that the screen had turned black and white and their bodies were lying on the ground. Do you think they were angry?

Hold the grass?

Didn’t my friend hang up in the safe area? How could he still be killed? How did the other party do it?

The players were stunned.

As for being killed while hanging up in a safe area, the murderer must be easy to find. After all, the other party didn’t hide it, and even posted a battle report in the community.

But this has little to do with the murderer…

The evil cultivators who take advantage of their idle time to cause trouble are certainly hateful, but isn’t the root of the problem not a loophole in the game’s safe zone?

“Brother Ba announced responsibility for this attack!”

“Are you Brother Ba himself? The real owner didn’t say a word, and you announced it for him?”

“The safe zone can be attacked by other players. Isn’t it Brother Ba’s fault? If he didn’t say this is a safe zone, how could I hang up here?”

“You still call me Brother Ba? Maggot!”

The community was very noisy, and players were clamoring for Brother Ba to take charge and explain why the safe zone could still be attacked even if it was idle.

Some people also pointed out that the current security zone has exposed loopholes and it is no longer safe to hang up. Tianba Studio should fix the loophole so that everyone can play with peace of mind.

“What does this have to do with me?”

Chen Ba was speechless. When he first set up this safe zone, he didn’t say it was absolutely safe.

It’s just that compared to the wild map, the sect’s station will appear safer. After all, there are law enforcement disciples patrolling and supervising at all times, and players can’t defeat these law enforcement disciples, so it is safe.

It can only be said that the “safe zone” he understands is completely different from the “safe zone” understood by the players.

The safe zone that players want refers to a safe zone that is 100% safe and cannot attack any player in this area. Players are prohibited from PK according to the rules of the game.

But Chen Ba did not add the rule that “PK fighting is prohibited in this area”. The safe area he created was only protected by NPCs.

“It was meant to be a transition.”

“When the player’s cultivation level improves and reaches the level of the elders of each sect, these safe zones will be useless.”

Chen Ba was speechless and said: “With so many players, has not one of them read the relevant fairy tale novels? They don’t even know how to find a safe place to retreat?”

Is it stupid?

“Fantasy of Cultivation”, as an online game that simulates the reality of cultivating immortals, must have considered this aspect.

After the player’s cultivation level has improved and he no longer needs the protection of the sect, he can leave the sect and find the cave on his own.

The only thing Chen Ba didn’t expect was that someone would break into the sect’s camp in the early stage, making this safe zone no longer safe.

“A hundred law enforcement disciples are still too few, and their cultivation level is not good enough. Why are they only at the Golden Core stage?”

In order to appease the restless players, Chen Ba proposed to increase the number of law enforcement disciples of each sect to one thousand, and their cultivation levels ranged from the Golden Core stage, Nascent Soul stage, and Transformation stage.

“correct!”

Chen Ba seemed to have thought of something, and then added: “Players can also apply to become law enforcement disciples and kill players who come to cause trouble in the sect.”

“Forehead……”

Yang Dong expressed surprise at this arrangement.

You know, in the game “Cultivation Fantasy”, although players play the role of disciples of various sects, the upgrade route is fixed.

Handyman disciples, ordinary disciples, core disciples, true disciples…

Under this system, even if a player’s cultivation reaches the Mahayana stage, they can only remain a true disciple and cannot change their identity.

But now, Brother Ba proposes that players can apply to become “law enforcement disciples.”

Don’t underestimate this identity change!

Does this mean that, if possible, players can even become elders of various sects, or even sect leaders?

“sure!”

Chen Ba nodded and said: “Compared to NPCs whose cultivation levels remain unchanged for thousands of years, players will improve their realm much faster.”

“So in the later stages, the value of NPCs will decrease, and the top leaders of each sect will be replaced by players…”

A true disciple of the Mahayana period?

How embarrassing!

To be honest, it is a bit ridiculous and funny that the players have already reached the Mahayana stage of cultivation and still treat them as so-called “disciples”.

Chen Ba also felt it was unreasonable, so he adhered to the concept of “the strong are respected” in the world of cultivation and planned to let players have access to positions within the sect.

The stronger the strength, the higher the position!

This strength is not only about the realm of cultivation, but also has a hidden meaning, that is, you must be stronger than your “fellow disciples”.

“An alternative ranking list?”

Yang Dong figured it out. Brother Ba meant to use these sect positions to make a more abstract ranking list.

This ranking is an exclusive ranking for the sect. The first ranking is the sect leader, followed by the deputy sect leader, core elders, ordinary elders, etc.

Being able to become a sect leader means that you are the top brother of this profession and this sect! After all, if you’re not number one on the list, you can’t be the leader!

In the early stage, the players’ cultivation level was too low, so these positions were occupied by NPCs. However, in the middle and later stages, when the players’ cultivation level caught up, they would naturally be replaced by players.

“Okay, then I’ll change it.”

It doesn’t take much time to make this kind of content change. The game happens to lack a ranking function, so it makes sense to make it like this.

As for the safe zone…

Listen to Brother Ba, add a few more law enforcement disciples and mention their cultivation level, that’s almost enough.

The main thing is to tell players that the safe zone is not 100% safe, and the sect’s station may also be breached by sneak attacks. If you want to be safe, then find a reliable cave retreat yourself.

Isn’t there a formation?

Isn’t the existence of the formation just to prevent this move? Otherwise, is learning the formation just for the purpose of PKing the dungeon?

After solving the problem of the security zone of “Cultivation Fantasy” being breached, causing countless players to hang up and be killed, Chen Ba asked about the situation of “Tianning Pavilion”.

“The frame has been put up!”

Yang Dong introduced: “This function will be launched tomorrow, but now there is a thorny problem, that is, Tianning Pavilion is very empty, and there are no products or characters on sale.”

The newly created game trading platform, even if it is an official platform, is unlikely to have much trading volume for the time being.

Only by slowly letting players understand and realize the role of “Tianning Pavilion” over time can it be possible to increase the number of transactions.

certainly!

There is another way, which Yang Dong just came up with, that is to put a relatively precious and rare game prop or game character on Tianning Pavilion to attract the attention of players.

In this way, players will spontaneously run out to watch the excitement and spread the word. Soon Tianning Pavilion will be known to all players and its reputation will spread.

“Cool idea!”

Chen Ba nodded first, and then asked: “Where can you get precious and rare game props or game characters?”

“Isn’t this simple?”

Yang Dong disagreed. As game officials, wouldn’t it be easy for them to do this kind of thing? Open the GM backend and do some random operations. What rare props and rare accounts can’t be obtained?

“But have you ever thought about it, players are not stupid. If you fabricate a rare game prop and a rare account character out of thin air, will the studio still be embarrassed?”

“How is this different from selling all kinds of krypton gold props in the game mall? The nature is even worse!”

Chen Ba was speechless.

Because the platform lacks props and account roles to control the situation, so you just use the game administrator’s authority to fabricate it out of thin air?

This is so stupid!

If you really do this, Tianning Pavilion’s reputation will be ruined before it is even established. After all, everyone knows that the props and accounts traded on this are all created by the official “out of thin air”.

“What should we do?”

After being reminded by Chen Ba, Yang Dong suddenly realized that it was really bad to do this. He couldn’t be smart and treat the players as fools.

But if we don’t do this, Ningge will be officially launched that day. What will we do with the missing gimmicks?

“It’s okay, sell my number!”

Chen Ba sighed and said: “When Tianning Pavilion comes online, put up my “Star Emperor” and “Fast” game characters and start bidding at the base price of 1 yuan.”

This way there is no shortage of gimmicks.

Chen Ba has played all the games under the studio, and he usually has two accounts. One is a super administrator account and the other is an ordinary account.

Administrator accounts generally do not log in, after all, it is boring to play, and they are all cracked versions of the game. It may feel great at first, but after you get over the addiction, you will feel that it ruins the gaming experience.

And as a game developer, Chen Ba knew all aspects of the game. It would be really boring to open an administrator account to play the game.

So he also has a trumpet account, which is usually used like ordinary players to experience the real game…

There is no use keeping this trumpet.

If players are interested in the account characters that Brother Ba has played, then take them. There is nothing in them anyway.

wrong!

There seem to be some pretty good cars in Chen Ba’s “Speed” garage, all of which were given to him by others.

These cars are quite collectible and may not mean much to Chen Ba, but to ordinary players, getting one can be used as a family heirloom.