Rebirth of the big era of online games

Chapter 394 From Games to Olympic Games

In the "EVE: War of Powers" version, if you want to staking the land, it doesn't mean that you can build your own space fortress base by driving the fleet to an uninhabited galaxy.

Although the official ultimate goal of the game is to allow players to build their own homes and allow players to dismantle each other's homes, the Icelandic game company is still very disciplined. It has added a lot of processes in terms of form and content, making this gameplay at least seem unsightly. So straightforward and monotonous.

The first point is to climb the technology tree. If the production and R&D technology of the legion does not meet the requirements, it will not be able to produce or can only produce lower-level facilities and fortresses.

Therefore, it is almost impossible for a small legion, or a newly established legion to enclose land. It doesn't mean that a random group of people can occupy a star field and become the king of the mountain. Qualified to become a party force.

As for the Legion Logistics, one is not enough, and there are often a dozen or so numbers. Specializing in the development of different technological skills can save production time and resource consumption costs, and efficiently cooperate with the Legion to complete the hegemony.

So this is a systems engineering.

In the previous life, the logistics players were often like this. One person controlled several accounts or even a dozen accounts, and the total investment in the early stage was at least tens of thousands, usually 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands...not game currency, but real currency.

Some of these players are logistics accounts raised by the legion itself, and some are pure professional players. If you invest so much money in the early stage, you will earn back double it later.

This is actually a means to stimulate player consumption and activate the internal economy of the game.

On the surface, there are only 1 or 2 people online in the game every day. In fact, the number of players who recharge every month is at least twice this number. After all, it is impossible for one account to have all the technical skills in all directions in "EVE". Yes, any game boss with some financial strength, such as Fang Jie, will open more trumpets or even open n accounts, and use skills in different directions.

Players exchange recharge points with game coins. No matter how the recharge points are circulated internally, it is the game company that makes the real money. As long as the players continue to play, the game recharge points earned are not real money.

To play strength war, in addition to improving technology and doing logistics, you have to earn reputation points, and use reputation points to find NPC forces in exchange for some special material resources or equipment related to the power war gameplay.

The prestige in "EVE" is different from the prestige in traditional online games. It is said to be prestige, but it is actually military merit. Its essence is a game currency in exchange for special resources. The way to obtain it is to complete various tasks in the game , or spawn monsters.

In the "War of Powers" version, a quick access method has been added. Players can join the four NPC race country camps to help their own camp compete for the occupation of the opponent's galaxy and expand the territory of the game as the goal.

This is one of the reasons why this version is called "The War of Powers".

Before the player's legion grows up, you can join the NPC faction to simulate and experience the power war gameplay, and accumulate combat experience for the player's self-built forces in the later stage.

Speaking of simulation experience, NPC starships are basically soy sauce. In fact, it is mainly a PVP activity between players, which is nothing more than participating on behalf of the NPC faction.

After the player signs up to participate in the power war through the system, it is equivalent to changing from the peaceful mode to the guild mode in "Legend". You can conduct offensive and defensive battles with players from the opposing camp on the adjacent galaxy at the junction of two NPC national camps. Kill players from other nations' factions regardless of galaxy security level.

This gameplay is similar to capture the flag. Its core content is that as long as you stay within a certain range near the "complex" in the galaxy, your team's capture the flag progress bar will increase. If it reaches a certain time, it will be considered as complete occupation. They are commonly known as "circling the pole".

During the circle around the pole, of course there will be NPCs and players from the opposing faction who will come to defend, so the two sides will often compete repeatedly for a certain galaxy.

Therefore, this way of gaining reputation has high returns and high risks. If there is no legion force as a backing, it is difficult to capture the flag successfully by relying on personal strength.

And because it is an open world, Capture the Flag has a real impact on the territory of the NPC national forces in the game world. If you win a galaxy, the territory of the NPC country will expand by one point.

Therefore, this is also a preview of the war of legion forces, or a novice teaching for the gameplay of legion forces.

There is no such thing as going straight to the Yellow Dragon, drawing salaries from the bottom of the pot, and beheading actions. If you want to destroy one side's strength, you can only do it step by step. game resources.

So in the early days of the "War of Forces" version, the so-called staking is actually enclosing land for NPC national strength, because the establishment of a legion force requires a lot of prestige in exchange for some special resources and devices, and winding the pole is the fastest way to earn prestige. Enclosing an area and gaining reputation quickly is the current priority of the player army.

Even without considering the development of the legion, going around the pole is the most profitable way.

The prestige gained can be exchanged for various special game props, such as power equipment, various blueprints, etc. These are things that players cannot produce by themselves, so they are rare and expensive, and they can be sold in the market for a good price. Something worth 1 to 2 million game coins is not a problem.

Therefore, even small armies and PVE armies with no ambitions on the Symmetrical Hegemony side, and even scattered players, driven by profit, flock to the faction war gameplay, even though they are mainly just playing soy sauce to gain reputation.

This makes the activity around the pole extremely intense. In the game, it is no longer the sporadic PK between the player legions before, but all the players on the server are participating. Although most players are mainly just playing soy sauce to gain reputation, If one's own advantage is obvious, he doesn't mind making trouble by the way.

But any game in the hands of Chinese players, or in the hands of Fang Jie, becomes a bit ridiculous.

Fang Jie also circled the pole, not only by himself, but also with more than 300 players from the legion, not only with his own legion, but also called all the 500 Chinese miners to circle.

Over the past few months, he has accumulated too many mineral resources in his hands. If he does not want the price to drop, he can only sell part of it slowly in the short term, and even what he sells every day has not produced much.

So simply let the Chinese miners stop and go directly to the pole, and by the way, they can support the price.

It is much faster to get money around the pole than mining. With the skill efficiency level of these miners, the level of the mine ship and the rarity of the collected minerals, it is impossible to dig minerals worth 1 million star coins in an hour anyway, but You can earn so much around the pole, as long as you don't get blown up.

In fact, it’s okay to explode the ship, just drive the most trashy white board frigate to go around, even if it is lost, it is only a few hundred thousand star coins, even if 500 miners are blown up 490 frigates, as long as 10 people can go around for an hour, The capital will come back, and there will be profits.

not to mention……

There are 300 members of the regular army of the Chinese Legion, and 24 Chinese miners who are online in real time 500 hours a day. This adds up to 800 people!
Just ask: Who would dare to poke this hornet's nest from the players of the enemy faction?

Not to mention taking risks by coming here, I am afraid that as soon as you enter the galaxy, you will be scared to pee on the spot when you see hundreds of hostile players gathering in the local channel?
Even if you know that these Chinese players are only driving whiteboard frigates, even if you drive a battleship, the elephant will be killed by ants!
What's more, the space where the flagpole "complex" is located is a graded dungeon, and battleships can't enter the low-level flagpole dungeon, and the only ones that can enter the first-level dungeon are frigates or destroyers.

When everyone is a starship of the same level, who will give you the courage to single out 800 frigates?

So what's funny is that while the game world is in chaos, the front line of the Chinese Legion controlled by Fang Jie is extremely calm.

It's not that there were no players from the hostile faction who came to resist the defense, but most of the players just jumped out of the star gate and entered the galaxy they were fighting for. When they saw the hostile players on the local channel get together, they immediately turned their bows and fled.

Some foreigners who are not afraid of death are very curious and want to find out the truth. They drove a whiteboard frigate around the "military flag" and saw a shocking scene-thousands of frigates densely packed together in the capture the flag area. Fly around the flagpole according to some fantastic rules!

And there is also a player named "niubi" in the chat channel saying some incomprehensible words: "lai, dajia, haiqilai!!!zuo sanquan you sanquan, zanmen raoqilai!"

If he knew Chinese pinyin, he would know Fang Jie was saying: Come!Hi everyone!Three laps to the left, three laps to the right, let's go around!

When the Chinese Legion first developed in a low-key manner, Fang Jie strictly forbade everyone to use pinyin in the game, but now it doesn’t matter anymore, the Icelandic game company knows his identity, and other foreigners in the game also know about him and those Chinese miners He is from the country of Hua, and he has already completed the primitive accumulation in the game.

So, since there is no way to keep a low profile, let's be more high profile.

For example, it was supposed to be a very serious power war around the pole, but it was turned into a grand space ball by Fang Jie. Not only was it broadcast live to domestic audiences, but the video was also recorded and sent to the game's official website.

As a result, more people participated, and not only Chinese players came to circle, foreigners also came to play soy sauce.

In fact, foreigners are more sand sculptures. Well, seeing such an interesting event, it is natural to come to join in the fun. At this moment, everyone seems to let go of the prejudice between countries. Even if the language is different, the happiness is common.

Even a few players from the enemy faction who came over to check out the reality also participated in it, because the players from Fang Jie's side, who had an overwhelming advantage, were not interested in dealing with these trash fish at all, and gave them a chance to have a carnival together.

When the game official saw this scene, he was stunned.

Let's create a power war version, the purpose is to let you players kill each other, okay, but you actually started patty!

But what made the game official even more unexpected is that this is just the beginning.

After that, Fang Jie led the Chinese Legion, and every time they occupied a galaxy, they would hold a grand performance, which not only attracted the attention of all players on the server, but even the media at home and abroad reported it as an anecdote.

I even mentioned this in a certain news and gave it a thumbs up.

That meaning is not ordinary, you must know that games have always been something that is not accepted by the majority of parents.

Because Fang Jie showed very distinctive Chinese elements in the next space ball, and many foreigners also participated in it, so that it had a certain impact on the entire international public opinion.

In fact, Fang Jie didn't do anything else, just a flash of inspiration. Thinking of the drone light shows he had seen in his previous life, they were well received by netizens at home and abroad. Since drones can be used, why not use starships in "EVE"? Wouldn't it be better?

This can be regarded as a cultural export.

So at first Fang Jie just asked Chinese players to play in circles, but gradually he played tricks.

For example, when the third galaxy was captured, under the joint planning and command of him and the legion managers, [-] Chinese players used all the same frigates to form a huge "I love you" letter in space.

Engaging in cultural output requires routines. At the beginning, let players all over the world know that Chinese people are full of love in their hearts, and also let the game officials know that Chinese people love this game, so as not to cause any trouble by the officials, and prohibit this kind of fighting activities that face suspicion.

Sure enough, this event was officially recognized by the game, and finally expressed its recognition and appreciation for the behavior of Chinese players, and reiterated that "EVE" is an open and free world, and players have absolute freedom in the game. The right to freedom, the official will not intervene in the activities of the players.

Seeing that the effect was good, Fang Jie increased the number. In the fourth event, Chinese players created several world architectural wonders, including the winding Great Wall.

In the following performances, the landmark buildings of various countries were recreated together, such as the Statue of Liberty in the United States, Germany, the Eiffel Tower in France, Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany... etc. Of course, the finale is Tiananmen Square!
At this point, Fang Jie decided to continue to increase the size, and began to display the names of countries, but all displayed in Chinese: English, French, German, American, and China!
This forced the foreigner players who were watching the fun to have to ask around what the meanings of these Chinese characters were. When they heard that they were the names of their own country, they suddenly realized, and any resentment that might have arisen in their hearts disappeared immediately.

Moreover, I have a strong curiosity and interest in Chinese. Not to mention learning Chinese specifically, at least I have an interest in learning and imitating the writing of Chinese characters for the names of countries. Once I learn it, I can pretend to be in front of others in the future.

After the name of the country is displayed, there is the national flag pattern of each country. In order to fully display the colors and subtle differences of the national flags of each country, Fang Jie also spent some recharge points for this, and purchased ship skins in the game.

But it's all worth it, because the finale show is a very vivid five-star red flag!

And, in the subsequent legion activities, there will be a flag-raising ceremony before the performance of the Chinese Legion!
Whenever this scene appears in the game, while foreigners are amazed and envious, it also makes countless Chinese players and Chinese netizens watching the live broadcast cry.

Although this kind of behavior may be more formal than content, more entertaining than political, some emotions cannot be controlled.

Looking back from 2004, Huaguo has been bullied by foreigners for dozens of hundreds of years, and the national self-confidence has been hit. Although the international status has not changed much, the Chinese can hold their heads high in the game. It is quite proud and gratifying to have come up with such an internationally influential thing.

The flag-raising ceremony greatly improved the centripetal force and cohesion within the Chinese Legion, and it also made foreigners finally realize that although the reality of China does not seem to be very good, the Chinese players in the game are really awesome...

The name of the Chinese Legion and their boss are called "Niubi", so this word is the first Chinese word and pronunciation that foreign players in the "EVE" game learn and understand first, followed by "666 ".

Now foreigners beat each other down, they no longer use "amazing", but imitate the Chinese to use "niubi" or "666".

It even transliterated for this purpose, creating and inventing a new English word "niubility" or "newbility", and these usages are often abbreviated as "NB".

This is a kind of cultural export, just like the transliterated word "coffee" in Chinese. Now through the game, a Chinese transliterated word has been added to English. Although this word may be a bit vulgar, it is still considered a success.

In addition to these subtle influences, of course there are many other details, too many to list.

Fang Jie knows very well that the premise of engaging in cultural output is to be influential, and to be influential, one must be awesome, and at the same time pay attention to routines. Direct indoctrination is definitely not pleasing, so his method is Increase the price layer by layer, so that foreigners will not be too disgusted.

If the flag-raising ceremony was done from the very beginning, people would definitely go online and say that Chinese players are engaging in politics, and the game officials might jump out to prohibit this behavior. Now it is different, the Chinese are doing it like the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Similarly, it’s okay to hang your own national flag, right?
Speaking of the Olympic Games, this year happens to be the Olympic year, and the next one will be the Olympic Games in Huaguo.

So in the performance show, Fang Jie also showed the slogan "one world one dream" when Huaguo hosted the Olympic Games in the previous world.

one World, One Dream.

Look, just look at us Chinese players and you will know that we Chinese are actually very peace-loving. Don’t just call out the threat of China, you are absolutely unfounded...

To prove this point, Fang Jie then brought out the slogan of the hip-hop circle: "pice and live", love and peace.

Of course, it is impossible to clearly praise Fang Jie for engaging in cultural output, so I went round and round to praise him for these two slogans. It is a very correct expression of Huaguo's consistent international proposition and philosophy. The country has a long face.

Said that the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee is considering using "one world one dream" as the slogan of the Beijing Olympic Games, and also invited Fang Jie to use this as a creative concept to write an Olympic theme promotional song.

Uh... "Me and You"?

Fang Jie was stunned when he received the invitation, because he didn't like this song very much, even if he moved it, he didn't really want to move it, but he has already established the title of "Qu Dae" in the industry, if he doesn't make a difference , I'm afraid I can't justify it.

Then "Beijing Welcomes You", you can deal with it...

(End of this chapter)