Chapter 235-1: Undersea Expedition, Rule Godshift (1) |
Before returning to Monster World, Alan sat dazed beside the game pod, pondering a question.
How could he get the other members of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to agree to allocate a portion of the profits to purchase intelligence on Primordial Monsters and territory nodes?
This decision would inevitably reduce the dividend benefits of the Chamber members.
He needed to handle this properly.
While contemplating, an idea sprouted in his mind.
Several hours later, Alan logged in and sent a mass mail to the members of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
Buying Sacrificial Power:
Brothers, I have an idea, but whether we actually do this will still follow your advice.
Here is the idea. I want to take a portion of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s future profits to build an intelligence platform dedicated to collecting intelligence provided to us by the various races of the sea region.
I know that by doing this, some brothers will definitely think that the share of Chamber profits they receive will be harmed.
In fact, the intelligence platform can enhance the reputation and influence of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
It will attract more players and races to cooperate with us, thereby indirectly increasing our profits.
Right now the trading center and the mercenary platform can both bring us stable and continuous profits, but our influence is still limited to a certain range. We have much contact with alien races in the sea region and very little contact with our own players.
If we can establish an intelligence platform, use a portion of the profits to purchase intelligence and make it public to all players, we can expand our influence within the player community.
There are many resources whose profit from sacrificing to the Emperor’s Sign is relatively small, while transactions between players can carry considerable premiums.
But if they are traded to specific races in the sea region, they can bring even higher premiums.
For example, Heaven Gate Stone may carry only a 5% to 10% premium in transactions between players, but if we sell it to the Black Bei race, the premium could reach 50% or even more. This is because the Black Bei race’s refining technology requires a large amount of Heaven Gate Stone, and their native output is far from sufficient.
Through long-term trade with various races, our Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce can gradually establish detailed ‘race demand profiles.’
We will know which races need which resources, when they need them, and how much wealth they are willing to pay for them.
Then we will perform precise demand matching.
This is something ordinary players cannot do.
If in the future we can pool players’ resources and then use our channels to sell them precisely to alien races in the sea region, the profits will far exceed direct sacrifice or transactions between players.
For instance, Player A has a batch of Dragon Scale Grass. If he sells it directly to other players, he may only earn a 10% premium, but if he places the Dragon Scale Grass with us, we can leverage the demand of Race X and help him sell it at a 50% or even higher premium.
In this way, Player A earns more, and we can take a commission, achieving a win-win.
The trading channels between the various races in the sea region are very limited. Many races have no opportunity to make contact with outsiders at all.
For example, the Tiger Stripe race lives on a lonely island in the north. They excel at mining, but they lack a trade network with other races.
The Ghost Bat race does possess rare medicinal resources, but because their habitat is concealed, they hardly communicate with the outside world.
This isolation makes resource circulation between races extremely difficult. When there is demand, they do not even know how to obtain particular resources.
This predestines that as long as we can provide the resources they need, we can sell at a premium.
If we can connect to player channels, we can expand the market for buying and selling resources and allow other players to earn profits from our trading market.
More importantly, this model not only increases our profits but also strengthens the core competitiveness of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
We will become the bridge connecting players and alien races in the sea region, holding the most precise in demand information and the highest bargaining power.
In the future, whether players or alien races in the sea region, they will prioritize trading through us, because only we can maximize their interests.
And the intelligence platform is the gift we give to all players.
Although it will reduce dividends in the short term, in the long run it will bring us more cooperation opportunities.
Moreover, the intelligence platform can bring us some hidden gains.
For example, when a race happens upon but cannot acquire special resources, they will give priority to selling the intelligence to us.
We can first take the intelligence for verification using the credibility we accumulated earlier, and once the resources are confirmed, we can resell to those top guilds to earn profits.
The essence of building an intelligence platform is giving, but limited to two kinds of information that can strengthen the entire player legion, namely Primordial Monsters and territory nodes.
Many brothers in the Chamber also started from hunting and want to continue down this path in the future.
Our model can bring welfare to the overall player camp and also bring us personally more optional Inherited souls, or better environments in Emperor’s Mound Village.
At the same time I guarantee here that the expenditures for the intelligence platform will account for only a small portion of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s profits.
It will not have too great an impact on everyone’s actual earnings.
For example, 5% to 10%. Compared to our future profit growth, this investment is negligible.
Moreover, the expenditures of the intelligence platform are controllable. We can adjust the investment ratio based on the Chamber’s profits and inventory sacrificial power to ensure that everyone’s actual earnings always remain in a growth state.
I hope everyone can support my idea. I believe the intelligence platform will be the key step for our Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to stride toward a broader future.
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After sending the mail, Alan teleported to the Colorful Mist Coast.
He took a vehicle out to sea, heading toward Dream Island.
Three hours later, Alan convened an internal voting meeting of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce on Dream Island to decide whether to support the establishment of the intelligence platform.
In fact, before coming, Alan had already thought of how to handle a failed vote.
Back when the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce was first founded, he had set up a kicking mechanism. He would find ways to gradually expel those players unwilling to support providing intelligence for free, and then in the future initiate a new round of voting.
Other issues could be discussed, but this one was not up for discussion.
As Starnet said, the Lunar Eclipse race’s development in the game must first serve the higher-dimensional deity.
This future profit-making machine, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, must also operate within a framework that serves the overall player legion.
But in his heart, he was still confident about the result of the vote.
The meeting place was chosen on a high ground on the east side of Dream Island.
The terrain here was high, backed by a dense mangrove forest, facing the boundless sea.
Standing here one could clearly see the magnificent sight of waves pounding the reefs. On the far horizon where sea and sky met, the rising morning sun dyed the sea a golden red.
At that time, Alan had led the Chamber members to build an open-air platform here using timber, supported around by stout round logs, with a sunshade roof woven from leaves on top.
In the center of the platform sat a huge round table, cut in one whole piece from Dream Island’s timber.
Twenty-eight wooden chairs were arranged around the round table, all made on the spot as well.
This meeting had 23 people present. The rest participated via video link.
Alan took the Guild Leader’s seat and checked the number of connections via video.
After confirming that all members holding shares were present, Alan began to reiterate his idea.
During the process, some guild brothers raised questions. Alan answered them on the spot, making the establishment of the intelligence platform appear even more reasonable.
The key point was not to let the Chamber members feel this was a setup that harmed their interests.
The entire presentation considered the direction of future development.
As for Alan’s vision, many players in the Chamber could not mentally project such a distant future.
But one fact could prove it.
The early founding of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, and even the subsequent conception of the mercenary platform, were proposed by Guild Leader Alan, bringing them considerable sacrificial power gains.
More importantly, there would be continuously growing returns in the future.
They trusted Alan’s foresight and believed he could lead the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce onto the right development track.
The final vote result was unanimous approval.
Not a single player raised objections, choosing to trust Alan as Guild Leader.
After the vote, Alan discussed a series of issues to note in the development of the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce and asked each Chamber person in charge about detailed situations in docking with various races.
Before the end of the meeting, Alan stated that they would begin docking with the races to purchase intelligence right away.
Thereafter, the Chamber would run three platforms in parallel: the trading center, the mercenary platform, and the intelligence platform.