Chapter 163-4: Currency System, Death in Reality (4) |
After trial running and transferring, and confirming perfect operation, Qi Sheng began crafting the second update content.
He planned to connect the ‘livestream function’ from the forum to the Monster World official website.
Every day a large number of players on the forum start livestreams.
Players who have not yet obtained game qualification can understand Monster World in more detail through the livestream content.
This lays the foundation for rapid growth after obtaining qualification and entering the game.
Connecting the livestream function to the Monster World official website was not difficult.
In the settings, he marked viewers without qualification as guests, their names being a string of numbers. They could send bullet comments and remarks but could not provide sacrificial power rewards.
It was foreseeable that after this function went online, every player’s livestream room would flood with a large batch of guests pointing fingers and educating veteran players from afar.
So he added a permission setting for players who were livestreaming, allowing them to ban guests without any permissions at will, preventing situations where guests cause trouble in the comment area and bullet screen during the stream.
A new livestream heat ranking was added, and together with the forum’s hot post ranking they were placed on the left and right sides of the forum homepage respectively.
Among them, the livestream heat weight of research-party players would get more heat bonus points than streams by players of other types.
For example, A Stream is a research-party player, and B Stream is a unserious player.
Then for each additional viewing player in A Stream’s room, heat +2, while for each additional viewing guest in B Stream, heat +1.
After all, he opened external livestreams to improve potential players’ understanding of Monster World, shorten the familiarization process for newbies after entering the game, and let them learn some real things in advance.
After completing the settings for the two items, Qi Sheng issued an update prompt in the game.
[Challenger Notification (All Channels): The game is about to be updated. The contents of this update are as follows]
Update Content 1: Currency Transaction System.
Function Introduction: Players can perform sacrificial power consignment and sacrificial power purchase operations in the currency transaction function. The function connects to the real world banking system. After the transaction is completed, the amount is automatically transferred.
Note: If the bank card balance is insufficient, the transaction is automatically canceled.
Note: Consigned sacrificial power will be deducted and then frozen, and cannot be operated or used.
Note: After the sacrificial power transaction is completed, 1% is deducted from the buyer’s obtained sacrificial power.
Update Content 2: Livestream Opening.
Function Introduction: After this update ends, forum livestream rooms will connect to the Monster World official website. Players who have not obtained game qualification will enter livestream rooms as guests. Players who start livestreams can obtain the permission to ban guests, with an option to one-click ban all guest speech, and the forum will add a new livestream heat ranking.
Comment Section:
God King: Finally here. Previously buying sacrificial power was too tiring. Now the ones selling are basically small amounts. Every transaction required memorizing a long string of bank card numbers. Several times I got them wrong and had to log in again to memorize them. Only the guild managers could help me handle it. Now I can finally complete trades in the game without logging out. I give this update a full score.
Iceheart Police: I give a positive review to the update content, but why is the dog official up to tricks again? Why does the currency transaction not take a cash commission but takes it from the buyer’s sacrificial power? We paying players lack sacrificial power, which is why we buy it, yet you still take 1% of sacrificial power. Dog official drop dead for me. (cafeteria battle choking and shaking.jpg)
Muscle Frying Master: Do you think we have too much sacrificial power on us? What does it mean to take sacrificial power? I could understand taking 5 points of cash, but taking sacrificial power is too much. I suggest changing the setting.
Eat My Worn Shoes Holy Light Slash Holy Light: This time Monster World is completely open to the outside. Even the external currency system is online. It feels like the game is getting more and more fun. The various convenience settings really make me feel the game is growing. Every update is progress.
National First Class Protected Waste: So when will you nerf the intelligence of the Earthmind bully? Aside from the positive behavior of dropping treasure chest monsters, the rest of the Earthmind bully’s settings are too much. Can you not change the setting of trash talking players? Every time it flames me my qi and blood surge. Last time it even had an Evil Entity get in my face and say I have a small rooster. I really want to punch the bully’s head to pieces. Who taught you to set up villains like this?
Horizon Rogues: Hahaha, the one above made me die laughing. The Earthmind bully’s trash talk tactics are indeed getting more and more brilliant. Last time a tank player in our group and an Evil Entity trashed each other until entering red heat state, and he was scolded until smoke came out of his head. But there is actually a counter method to this tactic. When you flame, do not curse the Evil Entity. Curse the Earthmind bully. The Earthmind bully will also go red heat and control the Evil Entity to gang up on you. Mutual harm. Everyone loses.
Holy Light Betrayed Me: You obviously have not realized what the biggest problem of this update is. After the livestream function opens to the outside, a large wave of cloud players is about to enter the battlefield. Everyone get ready to be flamed. Although they have not played the game, they definitely know the game better than you. I guarantee quite a few livestream rooms will see this sentence: Streamer, do you even know how to play? That is not how you operate. (funny.jpg)
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The currency system had just gone online and several transactions were quickly completed.
Basically, as long as sacrificial power was listed for sale and the price was within the market range, it would be snapped up instantly.
After observing the direction of a few transactions, Qi Sheng no longer paid attention.
Once the official website connected the livestream function, a large number of ‘guests’ entered in a short time.
Just as the forum players had predicted, the enthusiasm of the guests was unleashed in the livestream rooms. They drifted from room to room. The number of bullet comments in most rooms skyrocketed a hundredfold, and the traffic continued to surge.
Outside were all players hungry and waiting who had not obtained qualification. They watched the streams immersively through the game pod from Guide’s perspective.
The fully realistic scene experience was far more fun than personally experiencing Monster World.
As the number of guests surged, every livestream room had guests wailing about when Monster World’s game qualification would come to them. They wanted to play this game.
Some guests even vented hostility, raging at the players who were streaming, demanding to know why they had the right to obtain game qualification and why it could not be themselves.
All kinds of meaningless statements also triggered resistance among many veteran players, but the numbers were too huge to keep up with banning.
The only thing they could do was one-click block ‘guest’ speech.
The cloud players that the players had anticipated soon appeared as well.
Based on what they had learned on the forum these days, they were like commanders standing on high. Although they had never personally set foot on the battlefield, they knew the situation like the back of their hand through intelligence, always able to analyze players’ behavior at length and point the way.
In the words of a certain streaming player: I am just eating a piece of Spiritual Food, and someone says my method of eating is wrong, that I have to follow his operation for it to taste better. Good thing the game does not require taking a dump, or I would get told the angle of lifting my butt is wrong and that I am not pooping happily enough.
These cloud players quickly earned a pile of titles on the forum.
For example: Theoretical Faction Master, Cloud War God, Virtual Dreamer, Philosopher of the Comment and Bullet Screen Area, Wandering Cloud Bard, Military Advisor Behind the Screen.
Browsing player-produced information, Qi Sheng continuously collected player feedback to better carry out the next round of updates.
Just then, feedback from Guide surfaced in his mind.
Qi Sheng’s gaze immediately jumped, arriving deep within the dense forest of the Colorful Mist Coast.
His eyes locked onto a figure with graying hair lying on the ground.
Although advanced in years, his appearance was fixed in the game, and the strength of his initialized body was no different from a normal player’s.
The elderly player had chosen a melee build and had been following the team in a fight against a group of monsters before falling.
In an instant of Qi Sheng’s thoughts, the scene seemed to rewind in time.
He saw the elderly player who had been charging with the team suddenly show an expression of extreme pain. His steps slowed, then he collapsed to the ground.
This scene immediately drew the team’s attention. When they approached, they discovered that the elderly player seemed to have fallen into a coma.
His consciousness jumped to Earth, to the area where the elderly player was, and the scene content rewound.
Qi Sheng saw the light blue game pod sounding an alarm, urgently contacting a nearby medical station.
At this moment the game pod automatically opened, and the Challenger System also returned the elderly player’s consciousness to his body.
The elderly player forced himself to sit up, his hands weakly resting on the edge of the game pod. His fingertips trembled slightly, as if trying to grasp something, yet unable to hold on.
Then a sharp pain came from his chest, like an invisible hand tightly squeezing his heart, causing his breathing to become suddenly rapid. His face turned pale, and fine cold sweat continued to seep from his forehead.
He tried to lift his hand to clutch his chest, but his arm felt as heavy as if filled with lead and could not move.
His lips parted, wanting to call for help, but he could only produce a faint breathy sound.
The pain grew more and more intense, like countless knives slicing his heart. His vision blurred, the scene before his eyes gradually dimmed, and a buzzing sounded in his ears as if the whole world were receding from him.
Eventually his breathing stopped, his chest no longer rose and fell. The room was silent, with only the wind outside gently stirring the curtains and making a faint rustling sound.
His life in that moment came to a period, like a lamp burning out, quietly extinguished.
Before the rescue team from the medical station could arrive, this elderly player died of a heart attack.
Seeing this scene, Qi Sheng could not help but frown.
This was the first case of a player’s death in reality in Monster World.
The cause affecting the player’s death had nothing to do with Monster World. It was entirely a myocardial infarction caused by bodily aging in reality.
One could predict that in the future, as the player base continued to grow, real world death cases would occur frequently.
When he had recruited all life on Earth into the game, with more than fifteen billion players, deaths in reality would occur at every moment.
“Guide, can he be resurrected?”
[Yes, by consuming sacrificial power, but not recommended.]
Hearing this, Qi Sheng fell into contemplation.
Before this he really had not considered the issue of how to handle the accounts in Monster World of players who died in reality.
Resurrection in reality, or account disassembly and recovery, or perhaps…
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