Chapter 17 Anti-Harassment Procedures
Although the time selected for the second open beta was an unfriendly 8 a.m. during the long holiday, because of being sprayed on live broadcasts, mocked in videos, and written sarcastic essays... no matter whether they were players with helmets or trolls without helmets, the attention to the game "Alien World" was particularly high, which was why the announcement was released at 7 a.m., the server was opened at 8 a.m., and the online rate of players who had received an account could reach more than 90%.
Then... of the two hundred and eighty players who came online at the first moment, more than fifty of them died before 8:30...
What should these players who were kicked offline do during the half-hour real-time waiting time for the “resurrection CD”?
Of course, I went to the official website message board to fight against the trolls~
Although they were quite upset when they found out that they had to wait a day to download the screenshots from the game, but they had already played the game and even enjoyed the treatment of being killed by an NPC with super high IA intelligence. Even if there were no pictures, it would not prevent these "paying players" who had been worried for several days and finally got reassurance from confronting those trolls who were so anxious that they threw dirty water on black people without any evidence.
Anyway, the "Resurrection CD" takes a full thirty minutes, so I'll just do nothing...
The player who had just criticized the "resurrection CD" came online to play the game, and another player who had just died took over.
Of course, even if players relayed the battle, they still lost miserably on the official website message board where people could leave messages without logging in. The reason was that there were too many "enemies" - who asked that the vanilla pudding video went viral and attracted too many eyeballs? Who asked that there were too many idle people during the National Day holiday? It was too easy and pleasant to attack people in groups without any burden or risk?
Yang Qiu returned to Earth and prepared a video of players committing suicide in various ways. He was about to upload it to the official website when he discovered that the message board was even more chaotic than before. He was silent for two seconds and quietly posted a notice that the message board would be closed in 24 hours.
Then... I just put up a player forum that I spent several hundred dollars to find a college student on the Internet... There was no moderator or administrator at all, and there was only one communication area, and you had to register to post a comment.
Then he was too lazy to care about it. He checked the seal of the computer room on Earth to make sure it was ok, then he returned to the magic plane to deal with those players who were not even at level one but wanted to improve his reputation as a magic instructor.
Not to mention the reaction caused by Yang Qiu's announcement to close the message board that allowed people to leave messages without logging in, the "Fifty Ways for Beta Testers to Die" he released in the name of the production team was the first to stir up a thousand waves...
The same background and style as the game video that Vanilla Pudding once released, with skeletons with player IDs coming and going wantonly in the desolate Exile Town; human NPCs that surpass the current top CG technology and are no different from real people in the movie, and a collection of scenes of these human NPCs killing skeleton players in various ways - the video posted on the official website exceeded 100,000 clicks in just half an hour, and because external links are allowed, the number of clicks has increased rapidly.
Players and studios who had obtained the login helmet but resold it to other people before creating a character and binding it to a character, stared at the video screen and cursed "Fuck it" countless times.
At noon on the day of the beta test, the first batch of players who had logged off the game logged into the official website and found that both the message board, which allowed people to post without logging in, and the official forum, which required registration and logging in, were filled with messages asking for helmets...
"Hahahaha, if I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place!"
"Give up! The helmet is bound to the character you pre-created on the official website, so it can't be transferred! Don't say you can't get it. Anyone willing to sell it is a liar!"
"The moderators should come out and do some work. What's the matter with a good communication area filled with purchase requests?"
"Thank you to the studio brother who tricked me into adding value to my game account three days ago and sold me a helmet for 300 yuan. Thank you! I have bound my character and played online. This game is really awesome and worth it!"
"Hahahaha, I also bought a helmet from the studio. I sold it for 300 yuan and now you're asking me to buy it back for 500 yuan? It's too late. I've already logged into the game!"
These players, who had been frightened by public opinion and lived in fear for several days, were now invincible. It would be strange if they didn't taunt them back...
Of course, apart from mocking the "outsiders", the atmosphere between the players was not very harmonious. After posting one after another to suppress the purchase post, these annoying kids started to fight over the unfairness of the game.
"y1s1, this game is fun, but is the planner idiot? The whole random potential value system doesn't allow people to re-select characters and start over. What's the idea? Aren't they afraid of players getting angry?"
"If you don't want to play, then don't. With this realistic black technology, I can be a mutant guard for a year."
"I just don't understand. Fixed potential is obviously beneficial to everyone, but some people insist on eating SHI? They can't eat enough and they want others to eat too?"
"Maybe the planner has his considerations. The closed beta has just been launched. I don't think it's necessary to draw conclusions now. I've played games for so many years and have never heard of this production team. I think people should be more tolerant of small workshops."
A group of people were arguing about whether the potential value was fixed or not while they were playing games and eating. A player with the ID of 欧鳇 jumped out and adjusted the hatred value: "Am I the only one who thinks that random potential values are interesting? How can it be reflected in the other world when everyone is the same? Of course my potential value is full. Save your life."
As a result, replies such as "The sturgeon must die", "Get lost, seal", and "The dog head can't save your life, die, sturgeon" were posted on many posts.
At this time, a player with the ID "Entropy does not increase" posted a short essay: "Rather than discussing whether the fixed potential value is fair, I think we should first consider the principle on which our operations in the game are implemented. My friend mentioned that we are playing games wearing helmets, and the character operations in the game should be completed by our brain wave activities. This idea is a bit self-evident, but after careful consideration, I found that it makes sense. The evidence is that high-intensity activities in the game seem to make us hungry faster."
"If we consume 'brain power' when playing games, then the process of playing games is like concentrating on doing some kind of mental work, which is reflected in our real body as faster consumption of sugar and calories. So is it possible that people with stronger brain power, more energy and more spirit have higher potential?"
"Of course, I do n't have more reliable evidence to support this conjecture at the moment, so it's all just speculation. But I still insist that this should be related. After all, we all know the potential data of the three closed beta veterans. The one with the highest potential value, 'Miao Bi Sheng Hua', is a big name in online literature. She has completed six novels with more than one million words, and she never adds water. The quality of her completed novels is quite high. Her potential value is as high as 48, and it should be 49 now. Compared to the player above who claims that his value is full when he logs in, Miao Bi Sheng Hua should be the player we know most clearly and is about to reach level one."
"By the way, I'm just an ordinary student from a second-tier university. My initial potential value was 45 points. After playing games for a whole morning, it's now 46 points."
As soon as this short essay came out, the comments exploded.
Some people shouted "It's proven that the vanilla girl has 37 potential points, big breasts and is stupid", some wailed "Is there any hope for those with potential starting with 2", some opposed the idea that entropy does not increase and she still advocates intelligence-only theory when playing a game, and mocked her for pretending to be an ordinary academic master, and some asked the European sturgeon who boasted about her full potential to prove her identity or she was just bragging.
When Qin Guan, who had successfully angered the warrior mentor Charlie Rex, was killed and offline, this number one "Otherworld" user only then discovered that he had been shot multiple times...
After reading the essay "Entropy does not increase", Qin Guan was furious. He quickly coded his graduation certificate and posted it on the forum to prove that he was definitely not a bad student.
Then… the player “欧鳇” who was probably coming back from dinner and preparing to log in also sent a new reply: “I’m not a top student, but I also think that the conclusion that entropy does not increase makes sense. It’s possible that potential is really related to energy and spirit.”
Then the player presented a certificate of honor from a provincial mountaineering association, proving that he had climbed Mount Everest when he was eighteen years old.
For a moment, including Qin Guan, who is now a well-known game zone anchor, all the players on the forum who took advantage of the offline eating and bickering fell silent...
Mountaineering is a field that most people don’t know much about. For players, it’s a dimensionality reduction attack...
Yang Qiu, whose timeline followed the Earth, chose to return to Earth for lunch at noon, and naturally saw this discussion post.
"There are quite a few strong players among the players." Glancing at the essay on the non-increase of entropy, Yang Qiu couldn't help but smile.
Among the first 281 players who logged into the game, one-tenth had potential values (mental power) below 30, more than 80% were between 30 and 40, and less than one-tenth were above 40.
The player with the highest potential value is indeed the one with the ID "欧鳇", who has a potential value of 54 when he logs in. He claims that it is full value because he is being modest and does not want to overly undermine the confidence of other players.
Secondly, it is the brilliant writing with a current potential value of 49 points. Someone who has the perseverance to update 6,000 words a day for five consecutive years is indeed extraordinary.
Next, it was his elder sister Yang Ying…her initial potential value was 47, and it reached 48 when she went offline.
Well, this is definitely not a secret operation. Yang Ying is a capable person. When she was still a high school student, she dared to drive her unreliable father out of the house with a kitchen knife. She entered the workplace at the age of 18. In Yang Qiu's memory, she has never suffered any loss and her fighting power is extremely strong. It would be unscientific if she did not have this mental strength.
Of course, thinking that it is awesome that these players discovered such "inside information" on the first day of logging in does not mean that Yang Qiu, as the "game official", will admit that these players have discovered the truth - he will never respond to any doubts or speculations about the potential value. The game is just a game, don't always think about making big news.
While eating braised chicken takeout, Yang Qiu released the "Online Patch Update 1.03" on the official website:
"1: Added a nighttime anti-harassment program for high-level NPCs. Any player who attempts to disturb high-level NPCs during non-working hours will be trapped by a defensive trap."
"Two: New description of the time slots for senior NPCs to work: The normal interaction time for senior NPCs is from 8 am to 10 pm in game time."
"Three: If a senior NPC temporarily leaves his post for personal reasons during normal working hours, it is not recommended that players whose personal reputation with the senior NPC is below Respect forcefully contact the NPC, otherwise the consequences will be at their own risk."
"Four: During the high-level NPC rest period, it is recommended that players choose to interact with the zombie NPC. The zombie NPC is available all year round and is more friendly to fellow undead."
Such an announcement that the working hours of high-level NPCs far exceeded the time limit stipulated by labor laws did not arouse the players' sympathy for the high-level NPCs. Instead, it instantly united the players who were just arguing over the fairness of potential values...
"I've never seen this before, NPCs even take people off work to rest! The production team must be crazy in their pursuit of realism!"
"That's not necessary! I just want to be able to complete the mission whenever I go online!"
"What the hell, zombie NPCs are around all year round, and zombie NPCs don't give reputation!"
Yes, players are so realistic...
Yang Qiu didn't care about all that. After eating and drinking, he returned to the magic plane. The first thing he did was to add anti-harassment insurance to the tents where the "intelligent NPCs" lived.
Not to mention the former thieves, even Rex, who had a good temper and a warrior spirit, was forced to kill the players, which shows how upset they were by the harassment.
Arriving at the planned construction site of the Warrior Guild under the moonlight, Yang Qiu saw... Rex, who was suffering from mental pollution, standing outside the tent with a big sword in his hand, looking around fiercely, his eyes as red as a rabbit's.
"Are you okay Rex?" Yang Qiu waved sympathetically.
"Yang." Rex felt aggrieved when he saw Yang Qiu. "Our agreement was not like this. You never said that these undead spirits would disturb us endlessly, even at night!"
"Uh... this is my mistake. Don't worry, our agreement will not change. I will restrict the behavior of the undead." Yang Qiu shyly took out a net bag of mangoes and stuffed it into Rex's pocket. "Have some fresh fruits, then go back to the tent and have a good sleep. No one will be able to disturb you this time."
Since road infrastructure is almost non-existent, most people in this world really cannot eat fresh fruit. Rex, who was holding a net bag, smelled the fragrance of mango and stopped complaining immediately. He took out a small knife to peel the fruit.
While Rex was calmed down by the fruit, Yang Qiu took out the dragon bone staff and placed anti-harassment facilities such as soundproofing, quagmire curse, bone needle puncture, etc. outside Rex's tent.
Rex almost lost his grip on the knife: "Yang, what are you doing?"
"You can't make those lawless undead understand respect just by talking. The most effective way is always to make them retreat in the face of difficulties." Yang Qiu admired the results of his work and said calmly, "From now on, no creature except you will be able to approach your tent. You can spend the night in peace."
Rex glanced at the circle of dangerously cold blue characters outside the tent and swallowed unconsciously.
It seems that there is no need to be so cruel...
"I have to go see Hal, Tuttle and the others. Sweet dreams." Yang Qiu waved goodbye to Rex without any delay.
Rex watched Yang Qiu leave, then carefully walked through the trap belt holding the net bag... These protective traps, which were more dangerous than the nobles' cemetery, would not attack him.
Next...that night, Rex was not disturbed again and slept soundly.
When he woke up at dawn, stretched his body and crawled out of the tent.
"ah!"
The weapons master, wearing only a pullover and pajamas, was so scared that he quickly retreated back into the tent.
“Don’t go—!”
"Let him go, boss!"
"It's us, Rex, your undead friend, please let us out and give us the mission!"
Several players were submerged in the quagmire with only their heads exposed, or were hung in the air by huge bone needles protruding from the ground. They called out pitifully towards the tent.
Tang Jia, Yang Ying and Zheng Qingyue, who all had waist bags on their waists and a set of novice clothes on their bodies, came over when the daybreak in the game came. When they saw the player hanging outside Rex's tent, they burst into laughter on the spot.
"There really are a lot of people who mess around online without even reading the announcement. Even though the official website has released an online patch update, there are still so many people who want to die." Tang Jia said gloatingly.
"That's normal. It's common practice not to read the plot when doing a mission or to use home appliances without reading the instructions." Zheng Qingyue said calmly.
