Chapter 518 Player's Bag
The eastern wilderness of Odysseus is the hot land where the army of undead once fought against the border troops of the Principality of Lionel.
At the beginning, because of the dual covetousness of the Rose royal family and the Rhine royal family, the Odysseus family planned to develop this place into a "rear base" in case of emergency... After obtaining the strong support of Yang and his undead army allies, the Odysseus family got out of the predicament and this piece of land was never put to use.
A year and a half later, traces of the army appeared again in the field where the Undead Army captured Prince Lionel alive.
The army that appeared this time was much larger than the Lionel Border Army that had come to challenge the Odysseus family...
Anthony, a strong Kenyan man who had just returned from the Principality of Shiga and was thrown to the front line of the battlefield by Yang Qiu to suffer hardships, was now lying on an unnamed mountain with a look of regret on his face, looking at the wilderness ahead with despair.
At the end of the sight, there are densely packed black dots wriggling, almost forming a line with the sky and the earth... That is the direction of the Nosk coalition army's base.
"There are quite a few people here—I saw several of the four-sided flags."
The other "front-line scout" who came with Anthony was obviously much more serious and responsible. He was holding a telescope and carefully identifying the marching flags of the Noske coalition army.
Generally speaking... when an army goes out to war, the triangular flags commonly seen in the army represent the army's affiliation, such as the city defense army of the former Bartles family, which is a private army raised by a great noble, or a regular army such as the national garrison of a certain city.
The four-square flag represents the nationality of the army, and usually only appears when launching foreign wars or when multiple coalition forces participate in a war together. Although it is not deliberately written, when the Undead Army helped the Principality of Shiga fight, the Western Coalition Army that was defeated had several square flags.
Anthony, with a look of regret on his face, silently turned his head to look at the serious and responsible "control group" lying on his right.
"I was sent here, so what... Why are you here too?" Anthony said with a twitch of his mouth. "If I remember correctly, the operator Yang arranged to partner with me should be Sam Hank, right?"
"I exchanged with Sam." Tuttle Joe put down the telescope and raised his eyebrows. "Why, you are not happy to see an old friend?"
"Yang, that - the task arranged by Yang, can it be exchanged?!" Anthony was shocked.
"Of course not, so I used some 'tricks' that Sam couldn't refuse." Tuttle Joe calmly made a gesture of immoral sneak attack on others that only a former robber could understand.
Anthony took a deep breath, veins bulging on his neck, and growled, "Are you sick?! The carefree Lord An Yi can't live his life, and you have to rush to the front line of the battlefield just to do something like attacking an operator?"
"Stop talking nonsense! After all, that guy Ji Tang is gone, so of course I have to find something fun to do!"
"You call running to the front lines and suffering hardships fun?! Tuttle, you should find a priest to help you think!"
"What?! You, a big fool, actually said that someone else has a problem with his brain? Do you have any self-awareness?"
"I have nothing to say to an idiot like you!"
"Come on, let me teach you the proper etiquette when talking to people!"
The two of them kept arguing until they retreated from the mountain peak back into the valley, where they started fighting...
In the back, Yang Qiu, who was using these two anchor points to observe the battlefield, silently raised his hand to support his forehead.
During the past six months since Ji Tang left, Tattle Joe has behaved well and managed Westham well by himself. Yang Qiu had even considered giving Westham's mayoral position as a reward to players, but he never expected that this guy's obedience was just a pretext for a big move...
Yang Qiu didn't really care about it because Tuttle had done enough work preparation and arranged things with Westham before he openly skipped work... But once this guy ran into a free world without supervision, he went wild without limits, which was really worrying.
"We still have to tie a rope around this guy's neck." Yang Qiu silently sentenced Tattle to life imprisonment for the rest of his life. "After this battle, we'll assign him an Undead Archon who can control him."
The Rhine royal family has spent a huge amount of money to invite the Nosk coalition to help in the war, and will certainly try their best to provide battle examples for the Undead Army; this time the opponent will not be as careless as previous enemies.
Of course... this is actually useless.
When an army of 200,000 undead was released, Mommy would just sing and dance around this menacing army. She would annoy these people to death...
The only problem was that this army had to be completely wiped out in the wilderness, and the remnants could not be allowed to wander into densely populated areas to burn, kill and loot.
This requires comprehensively improving the enthusiasm of players, making them more motivated to capture prisoners and ensuring that no one is left alive.
As for ways to motivate players... Yang Qiu is already prepared.
In other words, the "rewards" were actually prepared when the fourth test was launched, but they were not released in a hurry at that time, waiting to be used when needed...
This reward is - portable space.
Or it can be said to be a player's bag.
Yang Qiu is not a space spellcaster, and even the space props he uses have to be purchased at high prices. It is impossible for him to prepare space props for more than 200,000 players... But after swallowing up the "same species" of the Principality of Shiga, Yang Qiu gained a trace of space power, making this impossible become possible.
The spatial power alone could not solve the problem of 200,000 portable spaces. After all, the tiny bit of spatial power that Yang Qiu obtained by devouring the fragments of "similar" ancient gods could not suddenly make him possess the ability of a spatial spellcaster... But it happened that he had a stable and sufficient amount of independent subspaces on hand.
That’s right—it was the unique subspace that the player had snatched from the great evil spirit Toby Bennett when he was doing the night watchman mission in Moses Port.
Yang Qiu couldn't create a stable, solidified subspace, but it was not difficult to divide the existing subspace into small cubes and then link them to the player's matrix imprint...
Toby Bennett, this regrettable genius space spellcaster, created a subspace with an area large enough to cover half of the city of Moses Port, and its height is even more astonishing. It is no problem for him to cut out hundreds of thousands of one cubic meter micro independent subspaces. The remaining area is more than enough for Yang Qiu to use as a cross-dimensional logistics transfer station.
This is also called taking from the people and using it the people; the players' hard work is just the handling fee collected by Yang Qiu...
The "pain point" of not having luggage has been hotly debated by players on the forum for more than a year. Yang Qiu has no doubt about the enthusiasm of players after releasing the benefit of "exchanging territory reputation for luggage" - even those lazy players who only go online every day to do nothing will have to come to the battlefield and sacrifice their blood.
"Destroying this invading army is just a warm-up. The main event is to march into the Norsk mainland. But if we keep the players hanging without giving them any benefits, it will also wear out their enthusiasm... Well, let's add a setting where territory reputation can be traded and given as gifts, and turn territory reputation into a virtual currency. This should keep players enthusiastic about continuing to participate in battles and gain reputation."
Too lazy to pay attention to the two idiots who were sent to observe the enemy situation but ended up fighting each other, Yang Qiu shifted his focus to his main job as a "game producer".
"The boss can use his money to buy reputation for his luggage, and the professional players who work there will be enthusiastic to help the boss get things done; the players who don't spend money can also feel a sense of accomplishment by earning reputation on their own... OK, let's do it."
Yang Qiu immediately pulled his hand out and started editing the "Online Announcement" in the matrix.
"Wait a minute, we need to give the kryptonian boss a chance to show off... Anyway, there is plenty of subspace, so why not add a repurchase setting to the carry-on bag as well."
"There should also be a threshold for territory reputation trading... Well, gold farmers must also raise their territory reputation to friendly, and then the newly added reputation can be traded or given as gifts."
After some consideration and modification, the fresh online update announcement is released.
The rigorous game producer Yang Qiu first returned to Earth to post an update announcement on the official website, and then returned to the alien world to update the game "online" simultaneously...
The players who were completely unaware of the arrival of the new large-scale battlefield event and who were even less aware of the dog planners sharpening their knives and forcing them to work hard, suddenly saw a large row of yellow words pop up in their information bar:
"Online Patch Update 2.04"
"Dear Undead Warriors, the Undead Race Mentor, Black Mage Yang, has finally prepared a space bag for everyone to carry with them after two and a half years of preparation."
"The player baggage function has been turned on, and the baggage icon is displayed below the personal panel information bar."
"Conditions for unlocking the player's baggage: reaching level 1 or above, choosing a professional guild and completing a transfer, and having a friendly or higher reputation in the territory."
"Players who meet the above conditions can click the baggage icon on their personal panel online and pay 3,000 territory reputation points to unlock it."
"The initial unlocked space in the player's bag is one cubic meter. There is no limit on the number or weight of items placed in the bag. Items exceeding one cubic meter in volume cannot be placed in the bag."
“After completing the initial unlock, players can purchase more luggage space. Each cubic meter requires X2 reputation.”
“Added a new territory reputation monetization function: Players with friendly territory reputation can transfer reputation values between each other through trading or gifting. There is no upper limit for trading or gifting. After trading or gifting, reputation will not be recovered. Please operate with caution.”
“In order to support players in gaining territory reputation and opening their own personal bags, we will launch a continuous large-scale battlefield event for players to participate in in the near future. Please look forward to it.”
“The closing time of this continuous battlefield activity is uncertain after it is opened. In order to ensure the game experience of players, the monster battlefield and weekend inner demon activity will be temporarily closed.”
As soon as the announcement came out, the entire server was in an uproar...
Monster battlefields and weekend activities are considered "old friends" of the players. Although with the increasing content of the game (actually, it is because players have more and more space to explore and more places to roam), these two "old friends" are not as popular as when they were first opened, there are still many players who will participate when they are bored.
Not to mention that the weekend activity book is still the first choice for civilian players to replace equipment enchantments - even if they find a substitute team, it is more cost-effective than exchanging reputation for enchantments.
In short, despite the benefits of luggage opening and new activities, the closure of the monster battlefield and weekend activity book still caused dissatisfaction among players; many grumpy players directly logged off and went to the official forum to speak eloquently...
But obviously, verbal criticism is useless, and Yang doesn't care at all.
With such a major event as the war with the Knox Federation, Yang Qiulian had to slow down his conquest of the Rhine Kingdom and concentrate on his business; the monster battlefield and weekend activity books, which were entertainment projects for players that required the appearance of "real NPCs", should just be closed!
