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Chapter 343 The eve of online game prosperity ([-])
At nine o'clock in the morning on October 10th, Yuebai Studio on the 8th floor of Building 6, Dongfang Industrial Park, Shangdi West Road, Haidian District, BJ City...

"...Okay, the above are the main operating data of "Legend" at present." Lu Yongcheng, the general manager of Yuebai Studio, closed the folder in his hand, turned his eyes to the working partners in the conference room, and continued: "Everyone, we will take over Come down to discuss the next version update of "Legend", that is, what content should be added in "Legend" version 1.02?"

As soon as Lu Yongcheng finished speaking, Zhang Heng, the game system architect, went on to say: "Then let me say a few words first, which can be considered as an introduction. Well... everyone knows that there are currently nine major NPC sects in "Legend", and they are mainly archers. "Shenjianmen", the "Green Mountain School" dominated by swordsmen, the Taoist "Jiantianguan", the "Five Tiger Gates" with knives, the "Hundred Flower Valley" of pure women, the "Wanxiejiao" of ghosts, and the ambitious The 'Fengtianhui', the 'Ghost King Banner' with its many gangs, and the 'Leimen Fort' which has always maintained a neutral status. According to the data from Fengyun Network, there are about 8 players who have reached the level of Jiamen faction, among them About 77% of the people joined the first five sects such as 'Shenjianmen' and 'Hundred Flower Valley', which means that the number of people in the first five sects is almost twice that of the last four sects. If we start the sect war as planned , the balance in the number of people is too different, so the first thing we need to do is to adjust the settings of each sect and try to make their numbers relatively average."

The people in the conference room were silent for a while. The data on the game operation report in front of them showed that this was indeed the case. If this continues, when the sect war starts in two months, the sects of the 'Wan Xie Jiao' and 'Ghost King Banner' will Players will obviously be at a disadvantage, and if things go on like this, there may be fewer and fewer people.

After pondering for a while, Lei Yin, the chief planner, said: "Actually, when we first designed the nine sects, we considered the balance between them. In the case of equal numbers, each sect has a certain chance of winning one-on-one. Moreover, there are sects in every major city, so theoretically, this situation should not happen. I think the current situation may be related to the fact that the players do not know enough about the sects. They probably think that the top five sects Stronger or more fun, so naturally more people choose the top five sects. I think that if you want to adjust, you must not use the method of weakening a certain sect to solve it. , we should try some other ways, such as using some benefits to lure players into the next four sects..."

"That's right." Numerical planner Qing Wanping nodded, and said, "In terms of numerical balance, we have used computing clusters to conduct simulations. From the perspective of the underlying data settings, there is no obvious balance problem, so we need to consider A method that will not affect the existing underlying data and can adjust the player's desire to join the sect."

Everyone was silent for a while, and they all started thinking about this problem. Is there any way to influence the player without affecting the underlying data? direct impact.

"Hmm...do you think this will work?" Zhou Jiarui, the creative planner, thought about it for a while, and said to everyone: "I think it's not easy to directly adjust the sects, assuming that the 'Wan Xie Jiao' and 'Ghost King Banner' sects are added. Something to make players feel more cost-effective after joining, then these four sects will inevitably surpass the top five sects such as "Shenjianmen" and "Hundred Flower Valley" over time. At that time, should we cancel the additions? , or to add something to the sects such as "Shenjianmen" and "Hundred Flower Valley". In this way, we still fall into the situation of tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall. I think it is better to make more connections among the sects instead of this. Work hard."

"Oh, tell me in detail, how does it work?" Lu Yongcheng felt that Zhou Jiarui made sense, so he gave him an encouraging gesture.

"Well... I just had an idea, please correct me." Zhou Jiarui said a few words modestly, and then continued: "Since individual sects are not easy to operate, we can consider these sects as a whole. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty When the world is full of lords, for the weaker forces, the correct strategy should be to find allies and strengthen their own strength. We can learn from it..."

According to Zhou Jiarui, the current strength of the nine sects is strong or weak. He thinks it is possible to consider adding a sect relationship system. "Hostile" and other states can be adjusted through some specific sect tasks.As for the sect itself, a sect reputation was originally set, with three camps of "evil", "neutral" and "good", "Shenjianmen", "Qingshan School", "Jiantianguan" and "Five Tigers". Belong to the good camp, "Hundred Flower Valley" and "Leimen Fort" belong to the neutral camp, and "Wanxiejiao", "Fengtianhui" and "Ghost King Banner" belong to the evil camp.

The sect battle originally conceived was more like a battle between camps, but Zhou Jiarui thought it could be made more complicated. For example, "Wanxiejiao", "Fengtianhui" and "Ghost King Banner" could become an alliance through sect missions, or It was in a state of alliance at the beginning, but the "Shenjianmen", "Qingshan faction", "Jiantianguan" and "Five Tigers" became "sinister" and even hostile due to other people's troubles, that is, It is said that due to the civil strife in the good camp, the evil camp can gather into one fist to attack a certain sect.

"But how can the sect status limit the player's actions?" Mission planner Vivien Li heard Zhou Jiarui's introduction, and she felt that there seemed to be some things that she hadn't considered.

"There is a way to do this." System planner Song Jiale touched his nose and said, "We can add some processing to the system, for example, according to the relationship between the sects, the system will dynamically adjust the task release. ' or 'hostile' state, it will automatically release some tasks for the opponent, such as eliminating the opponent's specific level of players or sect NPC, and even directly setting the sect in the 'hostile' state to the state of war, that is, the hostile sect Free PK can be carried out between them. And this adjustment is directly adjusted by the sect head NPC, in fact, by the game server. Players can only indirectly affect it by changing the sect relationship through special tasks, unless the player's sect is opened in the future."

"Oh, if that's the case," Vivien Leigh felt as if her brain had opened up, thinking about the setting of the mission: "We can consider designing the mission in this way, such as adding sobriety to the sect mission, or similar missions. Through this kind of mission It can destroy the relationship between two sects, and conversely, the provoked sect can increase the task of uncovering the truth, which can be used to repair the relationship between sects."

"I don't think it's enough to rely on missions alone, we have to add some more." Props planner Zhao Shijie also made a statement at this time: "We are going to open the weapon forging system, so we can think about it this way, the forging of special weapons of the sect requires 10 special items, The nine sects can only own 2-3 of them, which means that any sect that wants to forge special weapons must either trade with other sects or take direct attacks to plunder."

"Actually, I think we can refer to strategy games, such as diplomacy in the Three Kingdoms game. We can also add dynamic jumps to the state machine in the game, using the political and economic model method..." The main program Sun Zhifeng interrupted at this time, although he is I play programs, but I am also very interested in planning.

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"Okay, let's talk about the balance between sects here first. Zhou Jiarui's suggestion procedure is to evaluate the possibility of realization first, and then we will discuss the specific implementation plan." Lu Yongcheng knocked on the conference table, drawing everyone's attention After being attracted, he went on to say: "Fengyun Network is going to ask us to join the sect war in this version update. It would be better for everyone to discuss how to achieve it."

"If you want me to say, to put it simply, build a landmark building, such as a school stone, as long as it is destroyed, it will be considered a defeat in the school war. This is very easy to deal with." The main program Sun Zhifeng said first.

"This is too simple, and it doesn't reflect the characteristics of sect wars at all." Lei Yin, the main planner, objected: "I think it is necessary to add some other content to enrich the sect wars, instead of just a large group of people smashing together Stone."

"Since we want to add the content of the sect war, should we consider adding some sect management?" Zhou Jiarui scratched his head, glanced at everyone, and said, "Well... for example, adding some special buildings of the sect, with certain Resources can be built and will bring certain benefits to the sect. For example, if you build a sect medicine garden, you can grow some medicinal materials in the game yourself, and then process them into medicines in the sect pharmacy. For example, some special buildings can provide defense. NPCs may provide offensive and defensive bonuses for sect defenders..."

"I quite agree with Zhou Jiarui's statement. According to the current game architecture, it is not particularly difficult to add these functions." Song Jiale nodded in agreement, and then said: "We can also add a special building, such as the head room, or other What is the name, as long as it is occupied, it is considered a victory in the sect war. As for the occupation, it can be set that only one party stays in a room for 10 minutes, and the building is considered occupied. Or it can be destroyed The way to tear down the opponent's head room is also considered a victory in the sect war, and it can even wipe out the opponent's sect directly..."

"It's not too difficult to realize the occupation, but you need to determine a suitable occupation method first, which can neither make the attacker unable to achieve its goal, nor make the defender suffer too much." Program Wu Baojun frowned and said: "That's it The requirement of destruction is a bit difficult, and it is not impossible to realize it, that is, the process of being destroyed can only be simulated in the form of blood bars, and then the buildings will be wiped out directly when the blood bars bottom out. This can only be used as a workaround. Otherwise, the system would have to be overhauled.”

"Since this is the case, let's treat the sect as a small city, but don't design the city walls, otherwise it will be too difficult for the attacker." After Vivien Li finished speaking, she changed the subject: "Should we also consider those who are not interested in PK?" People, if the martial art war develops in the future, it is likely to evolve into a big dogfight on the whole server, so many people who don’t like PK will not be able to play the game for a while, at most they will be in a daze in the city after going online.”

Everyone was silent for a while again, maybe for men, PK is both passionate and exciting, but after all, there are still some people who don't like PK every day.Now "Legend" generally only has small-scale melee or organized guild battles. According to the news from Fengyun Network, some players have been affected. Once the sect war is opened, "Legend" will definitely become more bloody. , For those players who love peace and don't like PK, there is even no place to go, so let's help them think about it in advance.

"Hey!" Executive planner Chen Chen suddenly thought of an idea, and he said it right away: "We can create a safety map, an area that is the same as the current game world, as if it is a complete mirror image of the current game area, but PK is not allowed inside, and battles between players are not allowed, so that during the war, those players who don’t like PK will have a place to go, they can still fight monsters and upgrade, and they can still run around to complete tasks.”

"Chen Chen's idea is good, but I don't know if the program can be realized?" Lei Yin turned his gaze to Sun Zhifeng, the main program sitting opposite him, waiting for the other party's answer.

"It's no problem, it can be realized with a little adjustment, but you need to decide how to deal with this map first, whether it will be open for a long time, or it will only be open when sect wars happen." Sun Zhifeng replied.

"In this case, can we consider doing some hidden tasks for this kind of map that will not be open for a long time." Zhou Jiarui talked eloquently while making associations: "For example, the clues or items of certain tasks can only be found here. Look in the mirror world, for example, for the fairy-hunting mission we are going to launch, should we put the corresponding process in a special map? We can even design some maps that can only be opened at specific times or under certain conditions, and put some special ones in them. NPCs or can find special items, used to solve puzzles or for other purposes..."

"Yes, I think so too." Vivien Leigh agreed deeply: "We can definitely use this feature to design some hidden tasks and increase the fun of the game..."

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"Well, what everyone said is very good." Lu Yongcheng looked at the people who were speaking freely, and nodded in satisfaction: "Next, Lei Yin will summarize some of the ideas that everyone mentioned today. I hope you We can come up with a formal plan within three days. Let's discuss it together to see if there is anything that needs to be modified, and then determine the version update plan as soon as possible. Our time is only two months, so everyone must hurry up. Let's break up the meeting."

Everyone agreed with a loud bang, then packed up their belongings, got up and left one after another...

(End of this chapter)