novelraw #196 - Section 196
#196 - Section 196
This square, steel-reinforced concrete and glass curtain wall architectural style is unprecedented in this multiverse.
The densely populated city, the skyline formed by a steel jungle, the orbital traffic shuttling through the air, and the flying cars passing by like matchboxes, Shana thought were original to this space.
For example, the honeycomb-like dense building she is currently in, should it be a centralized residence?
However, she couldn't quite figure out why people were being squeezed into such cramped places.
Is the land in this world running out?
How many people would it take for land to become scarce?
Shana originally just came to play with her cat son, but because of various scenes that amazed her, she began to be curious about this Dauntless Space.
Because they landed together, Xiao Bai appeared directly beside her, also looking very curious, looking around, licking and rubbing against the furniture and appliances, jumping back and forth.
Although the initial Dauntless Space was based on the scriptures in Afu's inner demon domain, it was moved to other Eris magic worms after completion. He didn't understand the filling of art resources and internal details.
Now, these things are combined to create a near-future metropolis without magical elements.
A very common sight for Earthlings, just a few decades more advanced than modern technology, with some new technologies applied, but not to the level of spaceships flying all over the sky.
But for the natives of the Eternal Night World, and even for angels like Shana who have seen many worlds and have rich experience, the style of this technological world is a completely new landscape.
Just like in the eyes of Earthlings, the magical otherworld is unfamiliar, when the Empire people land in Dauntless Space, they will also find that this is a completely unfamiliar style.
After a short period of adaptation, a cute golden-haired loli projection appeared in front of Shana, claiming to be her personal assistant "Xiao Ao Tongxue".
"Welcome, players with unlimited possibilities."
Clearly a loli but with almost perfect aristocratic etiquette, so she seems super well-behaved.
This is designed based on the young Eternal Night Empress, with 70% similarity in appearance, also to increase the sense of substitution for the Empire people.
Skins can be changed and new assistant images can be purchased as needed.
However, don't even think about certain particularly revealing clothes, they are directly locked, the Eternal Night Empress will not allow lolita lovers to perform any outrageous operations on her image.
Under the guidance of Xiao Ao Tongxue, Shana quickly mastered the basic gameplay of Dauntless Space.
She and Xiao Bai both have a new identity, called players, they can do everything they want to do here.
This technological-style city is called "Dream City", claiming to accommodate one billion people, and the time flow rate is 10:1 compared to reality.
It is the birth point for all current Dauntless Space users, and also houses a large number of NPCs.
Some are virtual data, some are the fallen souls in the Eris magic worms, full of realism, far stronger than artificial intelligence.
Players can start learning, working, earning money, strengthening themselves, buying items, owning weapons, exploring the unexploited new world outside the city, establishing their own country, and even launching power wars.
In this world, it is possible to commit crimes, but crimes are likely to be discovered by the Skynet system's monitoring, and then they will face wanted and arrests, and in serious cases, even the death penalty.
Resisting arrest may also lead to gun battles, and there is a small probability of being accidentally killed. The death penalty is the same high:
Loss of certain skill points, all equipment on the body is dropped, all money and reputation are cleared, and return to the birthplace.
The characters in Dauntless Space have no levels, only a skill list.
This list can memorize one hundred skills,
And these skills can be divided into "Talent Area", "Mastery Area", "Daily Area", "Backup Area", and "To Be Forgotten Area" according to the player's adjustments.
The skill effects exerted in each area decrease in turn, being 120%, 100%, 80%, 60%, and 40%.
Depending on the attributes, the number of skills that each character can accommodate in these areas varies.
Skills can accumulate skill points to upgrade, but depending on the area, Gun術 lv3 in the talent area may actually be stronger than Gun術 lv5 in the daily area.
Every night's sleep, players can rearrange the zoning of their skills, but each skill can only move up or down one zone at a time.
A skill in the to-be-forgotten area may take four days to return to the talent area.
This skill list provides players with a sense of reality of character memory, because the human brain is like this, skills that are not commonly used will slowly fade away, but they will not be completely forgotten.
If needed, a simple warm-up training can quickly regain the feeling.
In addition to the sense of reality, the skill list also simplifies the difficulty and playability of the game. You can rearrange skills according to the situation, and then develop new combat routines.
In Roger's words, the preparation stage of the main world of Dauntless Space is a card game, and the start of the battle is real-time strategy.
In short, everything is just beginning on this planet. As Xiao Ao Tongxue said, players have unlimited possibilities, and more gameplay needs to be discovered by themselves.
At the current stage, most of the operations that players can perform are the daily routines of modern Earthlings. Earthlings may be bored to death when they come.
But for players from other worlds, this kind of life without magic, which requires the use of various tools to replace operations, emphasizes wisdom and skills more, but it is a completely different experience for people in the Eternal Night World.
"So creative, how did the Arcane Council create such a realistic world without magic?" Countless Empire people exclaimed, the longer they stay here, the more they can feel the charm of this world.
Reality has its own power. One detail after another accumulates, without bizarre and tortuous plots, it will be fascinating.
There is no need to enter the two big killer-level battle games developed by Roger for the time being. Just discovering all kinds of fun in this world with extremely high freedom has already made players linger.
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Maple Spirit Moon Shadow Palace.
Sophie, on behalf of the Amuti Chamber of Commerce, is responsible for reporting the sales of the Soul-Simulating Bracelet to the Eternal Night Empress.
"After enough preheating and promotion, plus your Majesty's personal promotion, our first-day Soul-Simulating Bracelet sales exceeded three million. It is expected that tomorrow, buyers will drive word-of-mouth communication, and sales will enter a period of rapid growth within a certain period of time."
"Sophie, thank you for your hard work, please continue to work hard." The Eternal Night Empress is very satisfied with this first-day sales volume.
Three million pieces a day, as long as it can be maintained for more than a month, it can sell 100 million pieces. By then, plus the overseas sales, you will know the secret layout that Roger kid is carrying out.
"It is my duty to share the worries for the Empire." Sophie gritted her teeth and agreed, with an unconcealable fatigue on her face, and a kind of lucky escape.
These days, she has been tortured by the Soul-Simulating Bracelet to the point of almost having depression.
The Amuti Chamber of Commerce is the Eternal Night Empress's white glove. It was already rich in capital, and now it is backed by the Arcane Council's research and development strength beyond the times. It has completely甩开 competitors of the same level.
It has crushing advantages in terms of scale, channels, funds, and products, and makes money from arms deals and magic equipment, and will laugh awake in dreams.
But there is never a reason to only take advantages in the world. The Amuti Chamber of Commerce bears the nature of certain state-owned enterprises. The risky and unclear Soul-Simulating Bracelet production and sales are the tasks that Sophie must complete.
In Sophie's eyes, it is best to make money from the rich. She has always made excessive profits from luxury goods. When has she ever produced such a low-profit, high-volume thing...
And in the beginning, she couldn't figure out what the Soul-Simulating Bracelet was for. How could all poor people be equipped with magic equipment?
This is a completely unfamiliar field for the cat-eared girl...
Fortunately, the size of the Amuti Chamber of Commerce is there. Building factories, running suppliers to reduce costs, market research, writing marketing plans, and Roger, the time-traveler, helped, plus state-level tilted resources, and the money she earned before was enough to burn, and finally successfully supported the launch of the Soul-Simulating Bracelet.
But according to the indicators issued by the Eternal Night Empress, excessive stocking still made the Amuti Chamber of Commerce's cash flow extremely tight, and it would have to apply for bankruptcy protection if sales failed.
The Amuti Chamber of Commerce used all its strength, and all its stores launched the greatest promotion. The Soul-Simulating Bracelet made the greatest efforts from appearance to function, to as close as possible to the aesthetics of contemporary age groups.
It has no competitors, but it also has no market. Ordinary civilians do not know what this thing can do.
Many people buy the Soul-Simulating Bracelet as a pocket watch replacement and as a timer.
After all, the Eternal Night Empress endorses it, and she still has the ability to drive a group of consumers to buy it without thinking.
In the end, the price of one gold coin is a price slightly lower than the current production cost, which will be flat in about the fifth to sixth batch of shipments, and will eventually make a profit.
If the price is lowered or given away for free, everyone will suspect that this thing is false propaganda, and the production loss is too great.
The Empire's ambition is to have a Soul-Simulating Bracelet for everyone. Buying one will lose one gold coin. The hole of 400 million gold coins is that the Empire sucked the blood of the nobles, but there are too many projects to operate, and it cannot afford it at all.
1 gold coin is a small expense for most civilian families, but it is not impossible to take out. As long as this thing has enough functions, they can always take it out by gritting their teeth.
And Roger also taught Sophie a very common business routine in later generations:
Sign in for ninety days and get a full refund of the purchase price.
In later generations, this is a form of the legendary "financial product". As long as you buy a product with a marked price of several hundred yuan and sign in every day without interruption, the merchant will refund you the full amount.
Many times, you don't even need to sign in. You only need to buy it for more than the specified time and get a direct full refund.
This is actually a cash raising activity using goods as collateral, which can greatly boost sales and alleviate the merchant's urgent need for cash flow.
For industrial-era production and operation, even if the product is sold at a loss, as long as the production line is still running and the capital chain is not broken, there is still a chance to make a profit.
But if there is no money to start the machine, it will be a complete failure.
Especially when new products are launched, competitors are strong, and everyone's functions are not qualitatively different, latecomers can only exchange prices for the market.
Attracting attention with the gimmick of "financial management" reduces the psychological pressure of buyers to pay, making them think that this thing is just free, so there is money to continue production.
There are also those who are very bold in playing futures. They take the prepayment and go to the stock market to make some money. If they make money, they start production. If they explode, they disappear on the spot. The routines are very cunning.
The Soul-Simulating Bracelet will definitely not run away. Its difficulty is that the Empire people do not know what this thing is for. Even with the endorsement of the Eternal Night Empress, most people are just curious to watch.
"Limited time free" will become their strongest motivation to buy.
For users, anyway, they just go to sign in every day, and they can get an alchemy device for free; for the Amuti Chamber of Commerce, it has obtained the funds to carry out the next round of production, and it has not been dragged down. Sophie can sleep peacefully tonight.
Standing aside, Roger listened to Sophie's report and found a problem exposed in the production process of the Soul-Simulating Bracelet.
Although the Empire is now rich, there are also very many projects to be completed. Under full operation, the amount of currency has encountered a shortage...
This is not that the Empire's finances have encountered a deficit, but that there is really not enough money, because this world is using gold and silver coins, and these precious metals are limited.
Born in an era where fiat currency is in circulation, and even paper money is about to be replaced by numbers, Roger had not really considered that the Empire's development path would encounter such an embarrassing problem.
According to the payment level of modern countries, both the Amuti Chamber of Commerce and the Empire are in a very good financial situation, and can fully support higher expenditures.
A super-large economy without debt and leverage is too high-quality in modern times.
Banknotes, that is, the general equivalent based on the credit of the regime, Roger ignored this aspect before.
Now it seems that it must be put on the agenda to discuss with Angelina how to realize this thing and make the Empire people believe and get used to it...
If we can get the Eternal Night World to use the Empire's fiat currency and settle all international trade, that would be even better.
While Roger was silently thinking about these things, Sophie had completed her report, and it was his turn to report the operation of Dauntless Space to the Eternal Night Empress.
"Your Majesty, the number of logins to Dauntless Space yesterday exceeded two million!"
"Yay!"
"But the players who entered the two games we developed with heavy investment only account for 1% of the total number."
"What?"
"More than 80% of the players played for five hours."
"They didn't enter the game, what are they doing?"
"They have a strong interest in our login interface."
"……"
Chapter 173 Constantly Updated "Earth OL"
In the eyes of Roger and the Eternal Night Empress, the trump card for Dauntless Space's online number of people is the two games "Dimensional Survival" and "Empire Guardian".
A magic version of battle royale, a MOBA, these are the types that have been proven on Earth to retain countless players.
Directly putting them to the Empire players who have not experienced rich game tests is like super-strong antibiotics crossing to the Jurassic, guaranteeing a stronger stimulus to those players who have never seen the market.
The result is that Roger thought too much.
After logging into Dauntless Space, the Empire players think that the first game they came into contact with is called "Earth OL"……
The City of Dreams they saw was a scene created by Roger to guide the Imperials, who had never been exposed to the internet, to quickly get started. It was modeled after Earth's technological world, with some science fiction elements added.
The City of Dreams has a tutorial to guide users through this virtual network, and it also places the entrances to office work, entertainment, and games within it.
It looks powerful and cool, but in Roger's eyes, this is actually just the Windows desktop!
At most, it's a desktop with wallpaper installed, a little bit more beautiful, but really nothing more than that.
To guide players to learn the basic operations of Fearless Space, he just instinctively thought of such a design, and naturally created a city he was familiar with, without any other ideas.
However, in the brainwave game world, the entire world seen by the player is real, and this desktop becomes three-dimensional.
Double-clicking an icon to start can be like pushing open a door to open a new world, or it can be like actually having a computer in your hand to double-click the icon.
At the same time, because of the characteristics of the inner demon domain, the City of Dreams has many of his memories and imaginations in it, so it seems full of details, and it is even more like a real world...
Or rather, that is a real world, a projection in Roger's heart, and at the same time, it has many functions such as social interaction and entertainment, which are cleverly integrated into the City of Dreams.
When the Imperial players logged into Fearless Space and first saw the City of Dreams, they were amazed and naturally regarded it as a new world to start exploring and conquering, and they enjoyed it!
This was a path that Roger had never thought of.