Chapter 160-4: Public Monster World (4) |
Monster World?
As members of the Lunar Eclipse race, they had never heard of such an internal virtual game project.
Before this, all internal publicity had been about Dark Land, saying that this game would be the core direction of the Lunar Eclipse race’s future.
This made members of the Lunar Eclipse race feel it was hard to understand and gave them a strong sense of disparity.
After Dark Land was released, the first to be satisfied would be their Lunar Eclipse race players, and only then would other races’ players be considered.
But this time, Starnet actually decided to place players of all races at the same starting point of growth.
On the Starnet forum, members of the Lunar Eclipse race expressed their views on the matter one after another, but the opinions were largely positive.
Some Lunar Eclipse race netizens said they would always support any decision by Starnet. History has proven that Starnet’s decisions have never been wrong, and every decision that seemed incomprehensible at first ultimately benefited the Lunar Eclipse race.
There were also netizens saying they hoped Starnet would see their post and quickly arrange an internal test qualification for them. They wanted to experience Monster World too.
The core questions discussed by Lunar Eclipse race netizens were when Monster World would open qualification issuance and end internal testing.
And how many internal test players within the Lunar Eclipse race were currently experiencing this game, and so on.
After the press conference officially ended, the upper leadership of all races in the Earth Alliance immediately held top level meetings.
The topic of discussion was the game secretly released by the Lunar Eclipse race: Monster World.
The answers given by the Lunar Eclipse race’s No. 1 governor at the briefing made them realize how terrifying the potential of this game was.
Although it was hard to believe in 100 percent simulation of reality, since the truth was already before them, what they had to do was plan ahead.
The core topics exchanged at the top level meetings of all races were highly consistent, namely how to obtain Monster World testing qualifications from the Lunar Eclipse race and how to use the perfect virtual environment to create advantages in technological development.
At the first possible moment after ending their meetings, all races chose to contact the Lunar Eclipse race leadership through diplomatic means, hoping to obtain a test qualification for Monster World.
Batch applications were obviously unrealistic, since even qualifications for Dark Land were difficult to obtain through diplomatic means.
So the races simply gave up requests for batch applications and applied for only one internal test qualification, to gain a detailed understanding of Monster World. This could significantly increase the probability of obtaining a slot.
But the races also clearly understood that the decision of whether qualifications could be obtained lay with the Starnet AI core, not with the upper leadership of the Lunar Eclipse race.
And a request for a single slot would not affect the Starnet AI core’s layout for the future.
All races of the Earth Alliance were rubbing their hands with anticipation, full of expectation for this epoch-making game, and looked forward to Starnet giving an affirmative answer.
Players of all races who had already obtained game qualifications were even more overjoyed.
Only then did they realize that the cracked version they had been secretly playing was actually an internal test version of a next-generation game more advanced than the official release.
The official version required spending 120,000 to purchase, but although the internal test version they used was free, it was something no amount of money could buy.
Players who had already obtained qualifications finally understood one thing as well.
Why they had never seen Lunar Eclipse race players in the game.
It turned out the Lunar Eclipse race was using the internal A version of Monster World, while they were using the B version of Monster World.
And in the future, Monster World’s development will also be centered on the B version they are using, and the A version will be completely canceled soon.
By then, they internal test players will have a higher starting point for development than members of the Lunar Eclipse race.
The forum within Monster World was boiling over.
All players were cheering and celebrating, and the heavy stone pressing on their hearts shattered.
They knew they no longer had to worry about a series of risky issues such as having their game qualifications revoked or their accounts banned.
The No. 1 governor had already clearly explained at the briefing that internal test qualifications were issued by Starnet.
Therefore, they were all the internal test Destined Ones chosen by Starnet.
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Qi Sheng, operating from behind the scenes, also watched the Lunar Eclipse race’s briefing.
He was very satisfied with the Lunar Eclipse race’s explanation.
The Lunar Eclipse race had indeed explained the existence of the game Monster World in the manner he requested.
Just as Starnet had speculated at the time.
When he contacted the Lunar Eclipse race leadership in the manner of a god’s descent, it was precisely to avoid the Lunar Eclipse race entering a state of war mobilization.
According to Guide’s analysis, faced with the irresistible Black Tide invasion, Starnet would think of every possible way to accelerate the development speed of the Lunar Eclipse race.
This created a possibility with a relatively high probability.
Resources were ultimately limited. If the Lunar Eclipse race wanted to enter a phase of comprehensive development, it would inevitably squeeze the living space of other races and even plunder the stockpiled resources of other races.
It would inevitably cause violent upheaval in the real world and could even trigger war.
The impact would seriously hinder his progress in building a player legion and even cause many lives who could have become players to die in reality because of war.
He needed to maintain the Earth Alliance’s current state of peace.
In fact, contacting the Lunar Eclipse race leadership was a form of reassurance, giving the already despairing Lunar Eclipse race leadership new hope, so that they would continue to maintain the Earth Alliance’s current situation rather than enter a radical state of war mobilization.
The Lunar Eclipse race leadership also carried out his idea.
They explained the existence of Monster World as a game secretly developed by the Lunar Eclipse race.
And with this briefing, the Lunar Eclipse race also made advance preparations for entering Monster World in the future.
The seemingly generous refund notice was actually to obtain enough resources after entering Monster World to develop rapidly.
This was the core reason for holding the briefing. All purposes were hidden in the final refund segment.
It could be foreseen that the game Dark Land would still be frenziedly snatched up.
Whether or not they entered the game to experience it, players who grabbed qualifications would apply to the Lunar Eclipse race for a refund after obtaining Monster World qualifications, seeking a high cash compensation.
What seemed like a loophole in the compensation terms was in fact the result of Starnet’s meticulous arrangement.
According to feedback from Guide, Starnet had even arranged the public-opinion momentum.
Once members of the Lunar Eclipse race entered Monster World, Starnet would cause a voice to appear online, having some Dark Land player post that the Dark Land qualification they snatched only after the end of the briefing could also receive a 1.5 times compensatory refund and that there was a loophole in the Lunar Eclipse race’s refund terms.
High-end hunters often present themselves in the form of prey.
What Starnet wanted was to give all netizens the impression that they had profited, and then, with joy, exchange Monster World’s resources into premium refund compensation in the hands of the Lunar Eclipse race.
After watching the Lunar Eclipse race’s briefing, an idea surfaced in Qi Sheng’s mind.
What had always limited the recruitment speed of Monster World players was never reality, but the growth of the player legion within Monster World.
The speed of acquiring sacrificial power and the expansion of spatial area brought by containing territory nodes were the two key factors affecting recruitment speed.
At the current stage, the player legion already had corresponding player groups across sea, land, and air.
Future development would also gradually tend toward diversification.
It was completely possible to fully open up the method of qualification issuance and let more alien-race players join the game.
That is to say, future qualification issuance would be distributed across the entire network at random times, and all alien-race players could obtain it through a connection.
There was one benefit to doing this.
The players entering the game would be completely random.
For example, in the next round of issuance, some races might obtain only a single game qualification.
Then players of those races who obtained qualifications and wanted to grow quickly would have to integrate into player teams of other races.
In the long term, player teams in the game would tend toward racial diversification.
Rather than small cliques formed among players of their own race who felt a natural rejection of players of other races.
By fragmenting the issuance of Monster World game qualifications, this problem could be solved.
Since Monster World had already been officially made public, Qi Sheng decided to establish an official website for Monster World within Starnet.
It would provide outside players with relevant content about Monster World so they could understand Monster World in advance.
Doing so would help them get off to a quick start after obtaining qualifications later.
In the future, game qualifications would also be issued externally through the official Monster World channel rather than being spread in different group chats in the form of links.
But the specific speed of qualification issuance would still depend on player output in the game.
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