Chapter 44: Disrupting Our Friendly Forces
Real time: October 18th, 8:00 in the morning.
It was already afternoon in the game when Enbudzeng came online to take over. Ji Tang, who had been online for more than ten hours, was already a little tired. When she came up, the team leader's authority was immediately transferred to her.
Before logging off, Ji Tang had not forgotten to remind En Bu Zeng how to organize players to attack elite monsters and small BOSSes, how to create a relatively safe output environment for players based on the types of monsters, and how to ensure that the player's casualty rate is not too high...
Tang Jia, Yang Ying and Jia Luo have also been logging in and out to save time. When the entropy did not increase, Tang Jia and Jia Luo had just logged off, and only Yang Ying and two other people were online in the team.
En Bu Zeng looked at the online situation of the team... and called Qin Guan and La Hong Ge over.
"Now our group has barely enough people online, and Ji Tang has gone offline first. I think we'd better cooperate sincerely when we kill monsters next time and try to avoid having people killed. What do you think?" En Buzeng said.
"Of course we should." Brother Lahong said with a smile on his face, "We only have one undead horse to supply people now. It takes longer and longer to send people back and forth. We have changed several couriers. We should try to reduce the number of deaths."
Qin Guan also nodded in agreement: "You are the commander, and we all listen to you."
The two big players still remember the time when they led a group of players to fight back and forth on the "Carnival Night" of the players and the "Good Friday" of the high-level NPCs...
En Bu Zeng smiled slightly, and when he was "killing monsters", he ordered the elite team brought by the two big guys around without any courtesy...
No matter how strong the personal abilities of the team leaders in traditional PC games are, whether they can successfully complete the game often depends on whether the actors are willing to "retire"… Those killer actors who are sleepwalking throughout the game, either walking away to do this or that, and who can even switch out of the game to video chat while beating the BOSS, and who have to ADD (attract monsters) as soon as they move their butts, can often make the team leaders so angry that they are furious.
The holographic game "Another World" is different. Although the commander cannot observe the entire group through the monitor by turning the mouse like in PC games, players cannot chat, browse the web, watch TV shows, etc. while playing the game; and because the private chat function has not been opened, there is not much they can do even if they slack off, so they are relatively focused and willing to obey - as long as the commander does not slack off to the point of not having any thoughts in his mind when doing something, he can basically lead the team.
Of course, being able to lead a team and being able to bring out the team's strength are still two different things. The same elite team led by La Hongge only knew how to charge forward recklessly in a group, but in the hands of En Bu Zeng, they could advance and retreat, attack and defend rhythmically and purposefully; En Bu Zeng led the large group to push away two elite monsters that blocked the way, and La Hongge and Qin Guan gave up the idea of trying to pull this girl into their own bowl...
It's obvious at first glance that this girl is someone who can recruit people, build an elite team, and lead a blood alliance. She's taking the money from her own bowl. Is she afraid that she won't have another chance, so she's rushing to give herself to others to poach?
In traditional online game guilds, it is extremely common for the powerful people who were recruited into the guild in the early stage to want to work alone in the middle and late stages, and they can take away most of the core members of the guild with a single call.
Then...these two big players, who had become wary and had been fighting overtly for a while, secretly cooperated in the next material auction and adopted a material monopoly strategy.
The monsters in this game only drop materials, not equipment or money, but that doesn't mean the materials are worthless - ordinary materials can be exchanged for the personal reputation of Lord Yang or other high-level NPCs (give it to whichever NPC's reputation you want, because Lord Yang's reputation is difficult to gain, so it's most cost-effective to give it to him), and ordinary players can use them; excellent grade and above materials can be exchanged for territory reputation, and those who are interested in competing for the position of mayor can also use them.
Especially the latter, after the official website announced the operational scope of the "mayor", anyone who wants to be the boss in the game will be tempted:
First, the town mayor has the right to allocate land use within and outside the town:
Players who want to establish a blood alliance can apply for a blood alliance base if they have obtained blood alliance orders and have enough reputation, but where this land is allocated will be determined by the mayor.
Those who understand will understand how much room there is for maneuver here...
Secondly, the mayor can appoint sheriffs. Players who are responsible for the two permanent positions of "mayor" and "sheriff" can issue three daily tasks every day - yes, just like high-level NPCs, players can also issue tasks to other players!
This daily task is not a specific brick-moving task, but a team-based elite monster-killing task similar to the "Eliminating Rats" released by Zombie General!
The blood alliance that can take on the titles of mayor and sheriff will have six more quests per natural day that can yield elite monsters than any other player team. The benefits are self-evident.
When Ji Tang was directing, La Hongge and Qin Guan had been tearing up materials, because everyone's money was always insufficient when it was circulated, so the individual players also picked up some leaks; now that they found that En Bu Zeng had the potential to become a third-party competitor, the two alerted them and cooperated tacitly:
When individual buyers bid for materials, they will bid the highest price; if their competitors bid the highest price, they will give it up if they don’t have enough money on hand.
After one round of auctions, all the retail investors saw clearly their shameless monopoly tactics...
As the team continued to set off, Yang Ying couldn't help but approach En Bu Zeng and said, "Qing Yue, they must have done this on purpose. No one else can get the materials because of this."
"They have more people after all, and the cash that individual players can get together is certainly not as good as them." En Buzeng smiled slightly, "It's okay, this dynamic story mission is not the only way to gain reputation through materials."
"You mean, we should focus on escort missions and repelling the pursuers?" Yang Ying said, "But the reputation of escort missions is added by the whole group, so there is no difference at all. Then we have to rush to capture prisoners?"
"Yes." En Buzeng nodded. "Excellent-grade materials are worth 20 points of territory reputation, and rare-grade materials are worth 50 points. One captured prisoner can be worth four rare-grade materials and ten excellent-grade materials. We definitely can't compete with them in terms of financial resources, so we can only compete in this aspect."
Brother Lahong and Qin Guan were not wrong in their defense. Enbudzeng was indeed interested in competing for the position of mayor.
The reason is very simple. If the mayor is snatched away by the people of the Great Blood Alliance, then the individual players will definitely not have the chance to receive the daily team items six times a day. Just like the last "Carnival Night", if it weren't for Entropy Bu Zeng's organization, the individual players would definitely not have a chance to get the items dropped by the high-level NPCs.
En Bu Zeng herself didn't mind it too much, but her childhood friend Tang Jia, who had a bad temper, might be so mad that she couldn't eat... So En Bu Zeng could only try her best to compete.
"Based on my understanding of entropy, if she really wants to compete, she won't give up so easily."
Behind the tricycle expedition team, running side by side with the vehicle in charge of his own team, he spoke to his friend Qin Guan with certainty.
"As expected." Qin Guan frowned and said, "Tsk, this is a bit troublesome. With the credibility this girl established during the last 'Carnival Night', if she spreads the word, the individual teams with materials on hand will definitely support her."
During the "Carnival Night", neither he nor his opponent La Hongge brought any individual players to play.
En Bu Zeng did organize the individual players and did grab a lot of small pieces. The auction and money division were also quite fair, not a single copper coin was cheated. If there were not only 300 or so players in this game, and most of the relatively active players online had been pulled away by them, Qin Guan would have suspected that this girl had caused some big trouble a long time ago.
Miaobishenghua knew that independent players also had their advantages. She had actually suggested leading independent players at the beginning. However, there were too many people hanging out with Qin Guan, and a few of the more active ones came out and said something like "Why lead someone who doesn't usually fight monsters with us?" Her words didn't work...
You should know that the channel for monetizing copper coins in this game is very smooth. If you bring one more person to play, you will have to share one more person's salary. No matter how brilliant your writing is , it is impossible to ask sixty or seventy players to consciously consider the future of the team and temporarily sacrifice their current interests - let alone the stable 1:10 copper coins in "Another World". There are not many cases of quarrels and breakups in a certain beast nostalgic server over the distribution of gold coins that are not worth a few dollars.
These things are over and done with. Miaobishenghua is a very open-minded person and doesn't care. After thinking for a while, he said, "Enteros was not online last night. Ji Tang was offline when she came online. They should be saving game time. If nothing unexpected happens, when we connect with the Kamoer refugees we are going to receive and deal with the pursuers, everyone in their team should be online."
"The competition focuses on capturing prisoners, right..." Qin Guan touched his chin, "They do have an advantage in this regard. There is not a single weak person in their team, and Ji Tang is even more awesome. If we really compete in capturing prisoners alive, we might not be able to compete with them."
If this kind of task aimed at grabbing certain resources were done in a traditional game, the side with more people would definitely win; if players pay attention and only let one person take the resources, they would definitely be able to stack up a number with particularly high scores.
As for this game... players who have played for at least half a month (Earth time) will never have such fantasies - high-level NPCs will run away, so how can humanoid monsters not run away?
It’s not like they haven’t fought high-level NPCs before... If the high-level NPCs in the town hadn’t turned around to fight them, and hadn’t used the town hall as cover to engage in a tug-of-war with them, the players would actually have no way to deal with those NPCs if they just ran away.
"Ji Tang is really awesome. I heard that he was a soldier." Miaobishenghua nodded and smiled, "There's no need to be afraid. No matter how good their team is at fighting individually, they are small in number after all. Even if all the scattered people help them, they are not as many as us. If Ji Tang is too efficient in capturing prisoners, the worst that can happen is that we can contact Brother Lahong and each send a few people to entangle Ji Tang and that's it."
"This is the only way." Qin Guan nodded.
When doing missions, friendly forces interfere with each other and hold each other back, but this is not a problem at all for players.
It's nothing to just hold back, but not hitting your allies is great quality...
October 18th at 6:00 pm Earth time, game time at 11:00 am.
After a long journey of two days and one night of gaming days and killing monsters along the way, the huge tricycle expedition team arrived at the mission location marked on the paper map carried by the zombie general: the desolate wasteland.
Well...it's just a basin-shaped plain covered with wild grass and thorns.
The terrain of this place is quite open, very suitable for being used as a preset battlefield. The zombie general chose a place near the river to stop and issued an instant task of "Build a Camp" to the players:
One type is to clean the ground and remove the messy stones, rotten wood, and thorns that may cause tripping.
One is to set up camp, unload the packages from the tricycle, and use the baggage skins and local wood to build a tent...
"I knew it. This crappy game doesn't allow you to just refresh a new camp. We have to do it ourselves!"
The indignant players cursed the bad planner every day while resigning themselves to their fate and getting busy with their work.
If it were a normal creature, they would have collapsed from exhaustion after traveling for such a long time in this vast wilderness and fighting against the monsters that attacked them along the way. Only the players were still energetic, and some even regretted that they could not continue to kill monsters...
On the other hand, the Nakamore weaving team led by Yang Qiu was not so smooth.
When the players began to build the camp, the weavers, who had walked less than a quarter of the players' distance, were chased into a valley by pursuers from the direction of Kamor.
