Chapter 143-4: Seventy Thousand Newbies, Noobs Pecking Each Other (4) |
In this round of recruitment, he issued a total of seventy thousand slots.
Among them were forty thousand Human players, twenty thousand Skyfeather players, and ten thousand Gill-Fish race and Abyssal Mermen players.
The respawn plazas of the three spaces randomly distributed the newbie players.
Most of the players were sent to the newly opened Rimewinter Snowfield scene.
Observing them, this group of newbies soon walked out of the starter village space and began exploring the world, all stunned by the realistic scene before their eyes.
This was especially true for the newbies whose initial login locations were in the Colorful Mist Coast space and the Rimewinter Snowfield space.
In the white space they could not see any scene modeling and were still complaining that the game’s starter village was too simple.
But once they left the starter village space, they were instantly overwhelmed by the scene before their eyes.
Almost all players held extremely high expectations for Dark Land.
The regional voice channel was flooded with the newbies’ cries of amazement.
The arrival of new players should have been the moment for old players to posture and display extraordinary power, but soon the old players realized something was wrong.
The forum refreshed with a bunch of posts of buying sacrificial power.
This was especially true for the newly entered Skyfeather players, who had not yet started to experience the game content but were already buying sacrificial power.
This made many Human P2W veterans feel displeased.
During this period, the price of sacrificial power had already gone through a round of skyrocketing.
The reason was that the Arms Dealers Guild and the Apothecary Alliance had suddenly begun bulk purchasing sacrificial power on the forum at prices higher than the market.
This caused the acquisition cost of sacrificial power for many paying players to soar straight up.
It also caused players who had originally intended to sell sacrificial power to stop making moves lightly. They all began to wait and see, hoping the price of sacrificial power would continue to rise so they could obtain higher returns.
There was even a new batch of investor players in the game.
They bought sacrificial power from other players and hoarded it, waiting for the price to continue rising, using it as a financial product.
Facts proved that this group of players all earned considerable real world profits from several rounds of sacrificial power increases.
Right now sacrificial power, which was already in short supply, saw another round of increases due to the arrival of new players, making the paying players feel very uncomfortable.
Unlike the Gill-Fish race and the Abyssal Mermen, the Skyfeather newbies were already paying players in other games.
After preliminary exploration to understand the game’s quality, realizing this would be an irreplaceable virtual game in the future and would be their ‘main world’ for decades to come, they immediately chose to invest in advance and accelerate their growth progress in the game.
This behavior also aroused dissatisfaction among many veteran paying players.
But quite a few old players were overjoyed by this, such as the Gill-Fish race and the Abyssal Mermen, two groups that resolve real world difficulties through game gold-farming.
In their eyes, the higher the price of sacrificial power, the better.
Qi Sheng had kept statistics. The five thousand game qualifications issued earlier to the Gill-Fish race and the Abyssal Mermen had already produced real world returns amounting to 27.82 percent of the usual seafood sales revenue of the Abyssal Mermen and the Gill-Fish race.
According to the current rising trend of sacrificial power, the future returns produced by the fifteen thousand Abyssal Mermen and Gill-Fish race players who entered the game would surpass the profits brought by exporting seafood.
The issues of the Gill-Fish race and the Abyssal Mermen having difficulty selling seafood and lacking foreign exchange income were no longer problems.
As for the Skyfeather race recruited this time, what Qi Sheng valued was their air combat capability, to make up for the early shortcoming.
As for the later stages, players would all possess the ability to fly through the sky and burrow through the ground, so air combat would not be a problem at all.
This recruitment was also an assessment to see the performance of the Skyfeather players before considering whether to continue issuing game slots later.
As for how Skyfeather players who failed to obtain game qualifications would feel if priority recruitment were cut off later, he did not care.
At this moment his view shifted to the Rimewinter Snowfield, and he began to observe the newbies’ performance in the new scene.
The area near the Rimewinter Snowfield’s starting point was packed with people. The army of newbies advanced in mighty formation, opening a steamroller mode.
Gnawing on trees, having snowball fights, eating snowballs, yelling and hollering… the newbies who had just entered the Rimewinter Snowfield scene were like energetic toy poodles with nowhere to vent, frolicking everywhere.
After statistical analysis, Qi Sheng discovered that among this batch of Skyfeather players who had entered the Monster World, the highest initial Inherited soul selection rate was the Scatter Arrows spirit weapon.
Upon entering the game, they generally operated in their primary forms, spreading their wings and flying high into the sky to look down upon the land.
Before long, the army of players encountered hundreds of giant bears.
A great battle erupted. The Skyfeather players who had taken to the skies all condensed the Scatter Arrows spirit weapon to carry out high-altitude shooting.
But without the blessing of inherited soul attributes, the shooting that required the consumption of vitality quickly made the Skyfeather players unable to maintain flight. They fell from the sky and crashed into the snow.
This was a common mistake made by newbies, especially those who refused to learn the game settings and jumped straight into exploration.
Inherited soul attributes were far higher than the players’ primary attributes in reality.
Directly using inherited soul traits in the primary form would result in dizziness caused by excessive consumption of mental power, or a weakened condition caused by excessive consumption of vitality.
In the initial battle after entering the game, quite a few players were killed by the giant bears.
After the players cleared out the hundreds of giant bears, the rampaging army continued to steamroll forward.
After sweeping several waves of giant bears in succession, they encountered the main legion of the Rimewinter Snowfield.
A group of peculiar lives constructed of purple energy.
Seeing this group of Monsters, the newbies’ expressions were quite a sight.
Especially when they saw the Monsters suddenly trip while advancing, then wobble back to their feet. They almost burst out laughing, and the regional voice channel launched into heated discussion.
“Come on, the scene modeling is so excellent and the physical behavior is perfect, so why is the modeling of these purple-skinned Monsters so trash? It is an eyesore.”
“I am dying of laughter. That Monster with a leg growing out of its head. The model clipped into itself.”
“The analytic info says these are Ecstasy Evil Entities, so it is fine for Evil Entities to look a bit weird, right? I think this is the game setting. The design idea is to create a lifeform with a relatively chaotic body structure to present a sense of distortion and madness.”
“I can accept what you said above, but can you tell me why that Ecstasy Evil Entity lying on the ground got trampled to death by its own side’s Monster?”
“I’m laughing till I spit. These Ecstasy Evil Entities are way too abstract. Are the starter village Monsters already trying to fool players? Refund!”
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The newbie legion soon broke out into battle with the purple tide.
But the battle was abstract on both sides.
On the players’ side, the fight was like street thugs brawling, completely without order, and they would even sometimes hit their own people due to conflicts over kill-stealing.
On the Ecstasy side, the brain cells of the Ecstasy warrior on the tower were about to burn dry.
The Ecstasy Evil Entities it controlled would often suddenly crash and stare blankly in the middle of battle, or suddenly fall and roll on the ground, or hit the wrong target.
The newbies were dumbfounded, exclaiming that the Monster intelligence was too low.
But the hunt level of the Ecstasy Evil Entities was 6+, and their numbers far exceeded those of the newbies, so they beat the newbies into wails, and the battle line collapsed at the first touch.
The scene could be described as noobs pecking each other.
Just when the newbie legion thought their side would be routed, a bizarre scene occurred.