Volume 3 Chapter 28 Work at the end of July
On July 24, according to yesterday's assignment, everyone was busy distributing pensions, compensation and equipment to the alliance members who participated in the battle, commending the alliance members with outstanding combat performance, handling post-war system procedures, hiring NPCs to repair fortifications, rebuilding shops... Everyone was busy and it took most of the day to complete all the affairs. The next step was the reorganization of the Thunder Alliance!
Ah Wei's level is really amazing. They compiled some exciting and intense processes in the battle into articles and posted them on our gang's website and the official forum of Fantasy, which caused a great response. Then they promoted it among the members, and released the news that we were going to form the Thunder Knights. They also emphasized that the conditions for joining the Knights were very strict, and once you joined, it would be so glorious and there would be so many preferential conditions... Just as the profiteers expected, the members were not dissatisfied with the fact that the Knights would get more gang benefits, but tried every means to participate in the competition, hoping to become a member of the Knights.
And we got an extra surprise: the dreamy GM came to see me!
Due to the particularity of the game design of Fantasy, it stimulates brain waves through helmets to directly generate various sensations (including vision) in the human brain. To convert this data into images, special software and hardware equipment are required. With the current technical conditions, players are not allowed to take screenshots and record the game at will, which is a major flaw of Fantasy. As a means of compensation, Fantasy has a special photography NPC, and allows players to choose the profession of photography expert. Through skills, a certain section of data can be saved and uploaded to the server. After special processing in the company's technical processing center, it is converted into an image document and sent back to the player's computer, which is very troublesome.
In the Jinglei Alliance, there are two members who are professional photography experts, but their levels are still low and they cannot record videos. The number of photos they can take per unit time is also limited. They only took a small number of shots during the battle, which were also posted on the website by Awei. However, the content that such static pictures can express is less than one thousandth of the actual battle process.
However, as the first gang war in Fantasy, this war attracted the attention of the game management! They sent a GM to track the entire battle process. This rare large-scale group battle scene is a valuable data for the company to upgrade and adjust the game in the future to ensure the best possible balance.
Of course, GM kept all the data and processed it to make a video.
The management suddenly discovered that if the unnecessary content was deleted from the video, it would become a wonderful war film after being edited and synthesized by the director and art staff! This film could be used as a fantastic promotional film, and it would have a very good advertising effect, and even make some people who were not interested in online games become addicted to the game!
However, there was a problem with the publishing. This war itself took place on the game platform of Zero Degree Fantasy, but without the participation of us players, such a scene would not have been possible. So as a film, does its copyright belong to the game production company or the players?
At the beginning of the 21st century, when online games just started to become popular, there were almost no relevant laws and regulations, and the interests of players were not protected at all. At that time, if there was a siege or group battle, the screenshots of the game did not have copyright, and anyone or company could use them at will. Until 2010, a strange lawsuit between a game developer and a game agent occurred. They were fighting for the portrait rights of a game image spokesperson! However, after investigation, the "image spokesperson" claimed: My portrait rights have never been granted to any company. On what basis can they fight for my portrait rights? This lawsuit was cited as a joke. Although the final investigation results involved commercial contract fraud, etc., the case itself was not complicated, but it triggered the rights protection awareness of the majority of players. Due to the increasing number of legal disputes caused by online games, coupled with the popularization of the exchange of virtual game currency and real currency, most countries in the world began to pay attention to this issue. Various legal provisions were introduced one by one, and online games were finally able to develop in a standardized environment.
For example, according to the law, the copyright of the video recording of this kind of game content belongs to the game company, but there is a supplementary clause: without the consent of the main players (the interpretation of this definition is very complicated, to put it simply, it is equivalent to the starring actors in ordinary movies), it shall not be publicly released for commercial purposes!
This put the company in a difficult position, so they sent GMs to negotiate with the leaders of the Violent Group, Ao Shi, and Brotherhood. Of course, there was no way they would miss out the leading Thunder League.
Originally, this was a great opportunity to extort money, but the GM was very skilled in negotiation. He pointed out that the law only prohibited the release of the video for commercial purposes. If I disagreed, then as long as the video was circulated privately, it could still serve as a publicity function, but the effect would not be as good.
After a long discussion, the company finally agreed to compensate the Thunder Alliance with 500,000 gold coins. As for the Violent Group and Ao Shi, I believe they will be able to recover a lot of losses through this incident.
Thinking about it carefully, the game company is really treacherous! In fact, in a war, both sides lose so much money. Where does this money go? War taxes, repair of damaged territories, purchase of some advanced medicines and repair of advanced equipment... Damn, didn't the company make all the money? Now the company is just returning the profits it made from us to us. We fight the war for nothing, and the company gets the distribution rights for the war scenes we perform so hard. If the publicity is good , the market will be expanded, and the company can make more money... Oh, if only I could open a game company and be the boss!
However, the release of the film also brought us great benefits! Two days later, New Era Group officially launched the war film titled "Fantasy Chronicles 1", which caused an explosive sensation among players. One player's comment after watching the film was considered the most classic: "Is this a game? No! This is war! A real, living war!"
I don't know how much benefit this promotional video has brought to the company, but the reputation of the Thunder Alliance has risen to an unprecedented height! The number of players signing up to join has increased suddenly, and the quality requirements that many people previously thought were too strict are now seen as the key to the Thunder Alliance's ability to defeat the strong with the weak (although in fact the Brotherhood Alliance is the real controller of the war, but in the film, the main battlefield is in the Thunder Alliance! The Brotherhood Alliance's sneak attack on the Ao Shi headquarters is also seen as a trap set by the Thunder Alliance and the Brotherhood Alliance in advance). Therefore, a large number of players said that they would definitely abide by the rules of the Thunder Alliance and resolutely demand to join... In just a few days, the number of members of the Thunder Alliance has nearly doubled!
With this extra income, the profiteers' anger subsided immediately, and they worked even harder. As the leader of the alliance, I finally have some free time to level up!
As the level increases, more experience is needed to level up. Before the team battle, my level was 46.5, but it took me nearly two days to reach 47! At present, the second place on the level list is still Lawless, and I have never left him behind by more than two levels. Phils is ranked third at 44, and Xiao Yi is probably busy with building a gang this month, so he didn't have much time to level up, so he dropped out of the top 10 of the list and is only 43.
It is worth noting that in the recent rankings, magicians have gradually caught up and occupied 30% of the seats. After the emergence of powerful area attack magic, mages do have a slight advantage over warriors in leveling up. Their weakness is that their carrying capacity is too low and they cannot carry enough magic potions. The combination of warriors and mages is the best choice for leveling up, but it is still inferior to a perverted character like me. With the speed at which I gain experience, solo training is still the fastest way.
The reorganization of the Thunder League was also completed relatively smoothly. Now, we have more than 10,000 members, from whom we selected 1,000 people to form the Thunder Knights, which can be regarded as the elite of ten miles. The conditions for joining the group are very strict. Not only do they require a high level of personal combat and a strong sense of cooperation, but each member must also ensure that he will take out one hour of time every two days for training. Those who cannot participate in the training must ask for leave in advance. If they are absent from training without reason for more than three times, they will be expelled from the Knights. The welfare of the Knights is also scary. The training expenses are completely paid by the gang; each member can get a fixed salary of 10 gold coins per week, and it is promised that this salary will increase in the future; there will be a plan to organize members to level up every day. Although this leveling activity is decided by the members voluntarily, most people are generally willing to join, because Xiao Wu and the others have made very precise arrangements, and have made reasonable professional combinations, and the leveling efficiency is very high. In the leveling process, the level of cooperation of the small group can naturally be improved, and for the members who participate in the leveling , the gang will be responsible for part of the cost of medicine supplies! Besides, usually we organize a dozen teams to level up on a peak in the Kunlun Mountains. They are not far from each other. If we find a super boss, we can call nearby teammates to help. It is very likely that we can kill the boss and get top-grade equipment, which is also very attractive to the team members. It can be said that we are training the Knights in the same way as we train an army, and the strength of the team members is indeed improving rapidly. Ji Mo once proudly told me that as long as we train for another week, these 1,000 people will be able to defeat 3,000 troops of the Ao Shi family in a field battle!
In addition, the unscrupulous businessmen also organized people to develop the base that was originally owned by the violent group. The current Thunder Alliance is completely different from when it was first established. Thousands of people worked together to develop the wasteland in less than two days (this is also because the branch's territory is only three square kilometers, the workload is much smaller), and a monster attack on the camp was easily repelled. The Thunder Alliance has finally become a truly powerful gang!
We didn't build any other buildings in the branch, just a headquarters, and opened a teleportation array directly between the headquarters, and built a simple defense at the mountain pass. Then this place became the training base of the Thunder Knights. Haha, it's a real military base. Strict regulations have been established. Without permission, even if it's a member of the alliance, anyone who enters this base at will will be killed! As for outsiders, don't even think about setting foot in! Although the construction of this branch is simple, it also cost us a lot of money. In addition to the initial expenses of forming the Knights, the 500,000 yuan subsidy from the company was almost all spent. But we think it's worth it. The branch has brought a lot of convenience to the training of the Knights. Now with the improvement of the player level, many people have begun to form teams to explore the Kunlun Mountains. Most of them have to go through the headquarters for supplies. In addition, there are some players who come to visit the Thunder Alliance. The headquarters is now crowded with people. Training there will expose all our strengths, which is quite disadvantageous to us. The power of the trump card is always the greatest when it is not turned over!
On July 30, after everything was roughly settled, the profiteer held the second player auction!
Although there is no monkey wine this time, the profiteer obtained the entrustment of a player to sell the Holy Spirit equipment through his channels! This is the first time that the Holy Spirit equipment is publicly sold in Fantasy! In addition to the five pet eggs and many high-level equipment obtained from the two treasure hunting activities of our alliance (another one was held on the 29th, and the harvest was very fruitful), as well as the equipment I have obtained in the past period of time and a large number of level 40 gold equipment bought in the City of the Dead... The attraction of this auction is even greater than the last time!
As a result, this auction set a record of a total transaction volume of more than 3 million gold coins, and the profiteers made more than 300,000 gold coins just by taking a cut! Among them, the Holy Spirit Equipment "Black Warrior Helmet" sold for 520,000 gold coins! As for the items obtained from the treasure hunting activities of this alliance, they were also sold at a good price. Some of them were bought back by the members of this alliance themselves, and a total of more than 1.2 million gold coins were obtained (mainly pet eggs were sold at an average price of 150,000 gold coins each. At this stage, there are too few players who own pets in Fantasy, and I am afraid that there are no more than 5,000 people in total). Among them, 70% of Yinuo was distributed to the members who participated in the treasure hunting activities, and 30% was distributed to other members. The gang itself did not earn any income from it.
However, my personal income is also over 100,000 yuan, and the gang doesn't need any capital investment for the time being, so I finally received a "huge sum" from my personal account, which has never had more than four figures since the gang was founded! Hehe, if it weren't for the cornucopia, I would never have been able to earn so much, fortunately I chose this bracelet when I chose the prize!
The busy July is finally coming to an end, and the Thunder Alliance, after overcoming various difficulties and going through the test of blood and fire, has established a solid foundation and gradually grown stronger. Everything seems so beautiful, but with the arrival of August, a new crisis has emerged!
