A turn-based online game that hadn’t been updated for half a year, had a development budget seven times that of its competitors, yet only made a tenth of their revenue—a total failure. A game t...
Chapter 5 I did it
... I miscalculated.
Knowing how to write is different from typing it out word by word. Lin Yao wasted an entire afternoon before she realized
this . Four and a half hours. She wrote an introduction, plus a solution to the current problem of in-game item prices being continuously driven up. This is already her limit. In fact, the solution to the current problem of in-game prices being continuously driven up is quite simple, but it may be more troublesome to implement. There is a stall system in the game, which is the player's personal business system, but the output of items in a server is limited. Merchants can stock up on goods with the help of their large studios. As long as supply exceeds demand, prices can indeed be driven up. This is the simplest economic principle. In this case, it is not very meaningful for the government to regulate prices. As long as the total output remains unchanged, the difficulty of merchants monopolizing is still very small, but if the output is increased, new problems will arise. So Lin Yao thought of a way, which is to add a cross-server trading center, so that players can have another trading solution in addition to stalls. The so-called cross-server trading center is to sell all the materials commonly used in tasks across servers and regions. All players can put the items they get on the unified trading center for consignment. The system will give a guide price, and then this guide price will be simply adjusted every day according to the demand relationship. In simple terms, the materials of the entire region are sold together, which does not increase the output, but increases the number of props in disguise, and adjusts the price according to the guide price, making it more difficult for merchants to monopolize. Of course, players can also not follow the guide price given by the system and raise the price on their own. In theory, there is still a risk that merchants will drive up the price of props. After all, prices cannot be fixed, otherwise the game will not be playable... Of course, this is just a theory. As long as there are no merchants with a large enough volume, the cross-server trading center is the best and only way. After all, it is the materials of all servers. With the current size of the game, there should be no merchant who is capable of buying all the props of the entire game server in seconds. At present, it is enough to solve the existing price problem of the game. Anyway, Lin Yao thought of such a plan, and it took her an afternoon. For this reason, she also went to the player server to play for a while. It has to be said that as a relatively new type of game in this world, this turn-based online game, which Lin Yao thinks is quite rubbish, still has people playing it, and the atmosphere is not bad. Maybe it's because there are relatively few games of this type on the market. An afternoon passed quickly. After Lin Yao typed the last word, she looked at the time and clicked save. At the moment of six o'clock, she ran away. Only fools work overtime. She was not given overtime pay, and it was even a question whether this plan could be passed. She could use work as a way to kill time and deceive herself that she was improving herself. Of course, overtime was impossible. Lin Yao ran to the door with the joy of getting off work. Mu Wanqing happened to pass by with a water cup. She looked at Lin Yao, who was wearing jeans and a white T-shirt, trotting to the door, exuding a youthful atmosphere all over her body, like a sixteen-year-old girl. She was slightly stunned, and then smiled. ... Lin Yao returned home with the joy of getting off work. But as soon as she stepped into the house, the joy disappeared. The main thing is... she found that she didn't seem to have anything to do... The original owner had friends, and they seemed to be pretty good friends, but the friends were not in the same city, and besides, Lin Yao was not ready to face the previous interpersonal relationships. And she had just arrived, and she had not yet accepted the entertainment methods here, and she didn't know what to do. So the fun of getting off work was soon replaced by emptiness. Open the door. Lin Yao changed her shoes, and then collapsed on the sofa, not knowing what to do... "Meow~" Suddenly there was a cat's cry. "Hmm?" Lin Yao tilted her head slightly and looked at it lazily. In the morning, the gray and white ragdoll cat called to him softly, and the sapphire-like pupils looked at her faintly again. The person and the cat looked at each other. Lin Yao hadn't reacted yet. The ragdoll cat jumped onto her flat belly, then walked forward a few steps, and a pair of short legs pressed against her chest... and sank slightly. "..." Originally, this was just a normal act of intimacy by the ragdoll cat. But the girl seemed to be in great discomfort, as if she had received an electric shock, and immediately slapped the cat off her lap. The ragdoll cat was frightened, jumped down, rolled over quickly, then raised its head and looked at her eagerly. "Damn." Lin Yao sat up quickly, covering her chest, her face slightly red, staring at the cat on the floor. Then she bent down and was about to rub its head angrily. The cat seemed to sense the murderous intent and ran away in an instant. Lin Yao did not chase it. She put down her hands on her chest, leaned back on the sofa, and sighed. What on earth am I doing? Forget it... let's go for a run. I felt tired just from jogging to the station just now, and my body was too weak. Just do it.
Lin Yao sat up, tied her messy hair into a high ponytail again, and then went to the bathroom to change clothes.
A few minutes later.
She changed into a pair of cool shorts, revealing a pair of white and round thighs, walked out of the bathroom, turned around a little uncomfortably, put on her headphones, went to the entrance to change into running shoes, and walked out of the house.
Open the door.
Feeling the heat wave coming towards her.
Lin Yao lifted her hair, put on her headphones, looked ahead, full of confidence.
She felt that she could run for a whole day!
... Twenty minutes later.
"Ha...ha...ha...I...what kind of physical strength do I have..."
Lin Yao panted and almost crawled into the door.
As soon as she entered.
She collapsed on the floor, sweating profusely, and the T-shirt on her body stuck to her exquisite snow-white body because of sweat, which made her graceful and curvy figure undoubtedly revealed.
She became like this after running less than two kilometers.
There is no way.
The body is too weak.
"Meow."
The gray and white ragdoll cat heard the sound and came again.
She walked gracefully to Lin Yao's side, called him softly, lowered her head, and sniffed Lin Yao's side gently.
"Haha!"
Lin Yao did not move, and when the cat came over, she stretched out her hand, grabbed it, and lifted it high in the air.
"Meow."
The ragdoll cat's front legs were caught, and it looked at Lin Yao below with its face slanted.
Lin Yao looked at it, barely calmed her breath, and smiled cutely: "What are you looking at, change for me! Make me four dishes and a soup!"
"Meow~" The ragdoll cat shook its head and meowed again, and it was unclear whether it didn't understand or disdain.
"Ah, do you dislike me..."
Lin Yao wanted to say something, but the cat's patience was exhausted and it began to struggle.
She could only put it down.
As soon as the ragdoll cat was put down, it immediately ran away.
Lin Yao looked at the ceiling again and put away the smile on her face.
She slowly turned sideways, closed her eyes, and continued to calm her breathing.
Evening.
After Lin Yao took a shower, Mao Mao didn't make her four dishes and one soup, so she had to do it herself.
She lived with her sister named Lin Xi, but they didn't seem to have a good relationship.
Lin Xi, who cooked, came back late at night, so Lin Yao usually ordered takeout at night.
But today, perhaps because she was too bored, Lin Yao didn't want to order takeout, so she put on an apron and made herself four dishes and one soup.
The process was not difficult, she still knew how to cook simple home-cooked dishes.
After dinner.
Lin Yao put the other person's meal away, wrote a note and pressed it on the table, then clapped her hands, showing an expression of being done.
Next.
Wash the dishes, curl up on the sofa to play with her phone, try to make tea, and chase the cat.
Lin Yao was alone in a large house, looking for simple fun.
Then at around eleven o'clock, she went to the bathroom to brush her teeth, then turned off the lights and went upstairs to her room.
Turn on the air conditioner and lift the thin quilt.
Lie down on the familiar, yet strange bed.
Lin Yao stared at the ceiling with her beautiful eyes, motionless, in the moonlight coming in through the window.
Time passed slowly.
The room was silent.
The other person in the house hadn't come back yet.
Very quiet.
"..."
Lin Yao pursed her lips, suddenly grabbed the thin blanket on her body, covered her head, and turned sideways.
Although she wanted to find something to do.
Although she wanted to enrich herself.
Although she wanted to accept the status quo.
But it was really...
boring.
Forget it.
I'll write the plan tomorrow.
Anyway, there's nothing to do.
...
The moment Lin Yao made up her mind.
The progress bar suddenly jumped forward.
[Resurrecting the game "Fantasy OL", progress: 1%]
At the same time, a dim head icon appeared in the lower left corner of the progress bar.
...
Early morning.
After twelve o'clock.
Lin Yao's house.
The door on the first floor was gently opened.
A woman with a slightly tired look walked in .
She closed the door gently, then turned around, changed her shoes, and walked into the house.
Click-
the lights in the living room were turned on.
The ragdoll cat lying in the corner looked up at the woman, licked its front legs, and lay down again.
The soft light shone on the woman.
She slightly raised her snow-white chin, looked upstairs, pursed her lips, untied her hair, and slowly walked towards the kitchen.
The scattered hair slid down, covering her delicate features.
In fact, apart from their similar faces, if you only look at their temperaments, it is really hard to believe that she and Lin Yao are sisters.
She herself sometimes doesn't believe it.
After all, their personalities are so different, and they are like enemies...
huh?
The woman suddenly stopped in front of the dining table, hesitated for a moment, and reached out to pick up the note on the table.
[Thank you for your hard work. The food is in the refrigerator. You can heat it up and eat it. I made it. Sister - Lin Yao left it]
"..."
Lin Xi slightly exerted force with her fingers and pinched the note tightly.
(End of this chapter)