The Professional Football League stipulated that the latest time for all major clubs to submit scene cards for review was March 20, and Nirvana Club submitted it just at the "latest time".
The map department had already reviewed the scene cards of other clubs before the 20th, and sent them to the programming department to be imported into the game for actual combat to find bugs. If there are no problems, they can be imported into the alliance competition map library.
Everyone was thinking that Nirvana would not make a map since it was delayed until so late. After all, it was a newly established club and it was said that they did not even have a dedicated scene design department! They would probably just submit a few randomly to make up the number and simply review it and that would be it.
As a result, on the last day, the Nirvana Club handed over dozens of GB of compressed packages to the Map Department!
Dozens of gigabytes! Did they just make a game out of it?
It was already six o'clock, time to get off work, and everyone was packing up to leave, but the boss said, "Everyone work overtime for me," and forced them to stay.
A group of people came over to look at the big screen with doubts. Director Zhao of the Map Department said seriously: "Look at the map submitted by Nirvana. I thought they sent it by mistake, but after opening it, I found out that I was wrong! I underestimated the imagination of this fat uncle. Nirvana made the most maps in the whole alliance. The highlight was saved for the end!"
Some time ago, the card review department next door had to work overtime all the time. He heard a few girls complaining that Uncle Fatty often worked on the cards in the middle of the night, causing them to have video conferences all the time and their schedules became irregular. At that time, he was gloating over the misfortune, but now it's his turn.
Zhao Yi, the director of the Cartography Department, pressed his temples with a headache and said, "There are still five days left. We may not be able to complete the review. Let's work hard tonight and divide these maps into three groups. Each group will select a few maps and start reviewing them with all our strength tomorrow!"
After hearing this, everyone immediately teamed up with their familiar friends and started picking pictures.
"How many scenes are there? Wow! They're even categorized by series!" The senior scene designer from Group 1 exclaimed as he looked at them. Then he leaned over to the newcomer's ear and whispered, "What Journey to the West series is this? It has the smallest capacity. Let's pick this one."
"The team leader is wise!" No one objected. The one with the smallest capacity must have the simplest map and the fastest review.
"It's decided. We will definitely be the fastest group to finish the work among the three." The team leader thought he was really smart.
Group 1 was so quick to act that the other two groups hadn't reacted yet, so the leader of Group 2 decisively said, "I'll pick the Three Kingdoms series, which are all small scenes, so it shouldn't be difficult to review."
The leader of Group 3 had no choice but to pick the remaining ones: "Leave the Red Mansion series to me."
Director Zhao said: "Okay, everyone should review as quickly as possible starting tomorrow. If you encounter any problems, discuss them together. Go home and get a good night's sleep to rest up!" He believes that tomorrow will be a tough battle.
On the morning of March 21, when the people from the Map Department came to work, Director Zhou Jiayao from the Card Data Department next door was pouring coffee in the lounge. When he saw them walking by, he pushed his glasses and said, "Director Zhao, Nirvana submitted the scene card, right?"
Director Zhao said with a wry smile, "Yes, there are quite a lot. We are rushing to review them."
Zhou Jiayao smiled meaningfully and said calmly, "Come on."
Old Zhao felt a chill run down his spine. This data engineer sister was a well-known iceberg beauty, but now she smiled at him... smiled? This was definitely not a good sign! When the data department was working overtime, he had laughed at their low efficiency, holding meetings in the middle of the night when they couldn't even handle a single card. Why did he have a bad feeling now?
Lao Zhao coughed and ignored the uneasiness in his heart. He also poured a cup of coffee and walked into the office. As soon as he entered the door, he saw that the faces of the employees were as dark as the bottom of a pot. He hurriedly asked, "What's going on? Who has offended you so early in the morning?"
The staff of Group 1 said with a bitter face: "Director Zhao, what the hell is this card pregnancy? Should this strange setting be approved?"
The staff of Group 2 said seriously, "Director, the cards were put in jail, ambushed, and forced to be divided into three camps. Will these really not affect the balance?"
Group 3 was the most upset. The team leader came over and said with a sullen face, "They actually pieced together the Grand View Garden and made a 10GB large scene map. Such a large map is almost becoming a tourist attraction! And there is also a 'dynamic event'. An NPC named Granny Liu visits the Grand View Garden, and all the cards have to go shopping with her and listen to her jokes!"
Director Zhao: “…………”
He suddenly realized the sadness of the card data department - the cards designed by Uncle Fatty must be very weird, which is why the neighbors have to work overtime all the time!
Taking a deep breath to calm himself, Director Zhao smiled and said, "Everyone should first select the simple scenes to review. As for the complicated ones, we will discuss them slowly... If we are not sure, we can ask the programming department and the data department to come and help."
It’s better to work overtime together than to work overtime alone. We can’t let Fatty Uncle only harm their map department!
***
Among the scene maps submitted by Nirvana, some are indeed relatively normal. For example, the Peach Festival, although the setting of grabbing peaches is fun, it is essentially a buff effect map and does not affect the balance.
The frequent displacement of the Flame Mountain is complicated to operate, but this is something that players should consider. From the perspective of the map, this map is easy to implement and fair to both sides, which meets the map review criteria. The Water Curtain Cave has a water curtain that descends at regular intervals, affecting the vision of both sides and forcing a ceasefire, which also meets the map rules.
The Grand View Garden series of scene cards, such as the "Xiaoxiang Pavilion" full map defense reduction, the "Yihong Courtyard" full map crit increase during the night banquet, the "Hengwu Garden" flower sea illusion, and the "Longcui Temple" Miaoyu's tea offering blood, are all very simple single event/effect scenes, and are also easy to implement. Most of the scenes in the Three Kingdoms series also meet the regulations, and there is nothing to argue about.
What shocked the staff of the map department was that the scene map submitted by Nirvana Club was not only extremely rich in settings, but also very detailed. No wonder it was dozens of GB. The details of the flowers, trees, light effects, shadows, lake ripples, etc. in the scene were all handled perfectly.
Designers who have seen simple maps often couldn't help but praise: "The person who made the scene must be a professional, from the art department!" "With such a level, it's not bad to be a professional map designer in our official company!" "It seems that Nirvana is really full of talents!"
It's true that the maps are beautifully made, but it's also true that some of the map settings are too weird.
The maps that were stuck in the review stage and could not pass included the Kingdom of Daughters, the Tree of Marriage, the Confiscation of the Grand View Garden, Granny Liu Entering the Grand View Garden, and the Three Kingdoms. Director Zhao himself could not make up his mind, so he shamelessly called the Director of Programmers and the Director of Data Department to come to a meeting.
The programmer was very unhappy and complained in his heart: "Why is there such a big fuss just to review a map?"
However, Director Zhou from the Data Department looked calm and said, "Maybe they encountered a difficult design." They have reviewed so many weird cards made by Uncle Fatty and have gained some experience.
When they arrived at the meeting and saw the map settings that Director Zhao had displayed, the programmer spit out a mouthful of coffee all over the table: "Card pregnancy?"
Director Zhao looked embarrassed. "That's right. In essence, it's a copy of the generated cards. Can this be implemented in the program? Will it affect the balance of the data? Our map department only reviews the scene maps for bugs. For other issues, you two will have to check."
After reviewing the strange map of Nirvana Club for three consecutive days, the people in the map department worked overtime until late at night every day. They all had dark circles under their eyes and looked as if they had been trampled and ravaged by others, and were in low spirits.
The programmer was shocked: "What did Director Zhou say?"
Zhou Jiayao adjusted her glasses calmly: "I've seen cards get pregnant before. Uncle Pang once made a card called 'Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth', which sends a fetus to a designated card, allowing the card to get pregnant and give birth to a copy."
Everyone: “…………”
Jaws dropped in the conference room.
Director Zhao was stunned for a moment, and finally found his chin. He looked at her with a complicated expression and asked, "How did you deal with it in the end?"
Zhou Jiayao said, "The basic data of the copy card generated by the Fertility-Giving Avalokitesvara is halved, and only one skill is allowed to be copied, so as to avoid affecting the balance by copying a card with 3 skills in a duel. This is the conclusion reached by our data department after a night of discussion." She calmly took a sip of coffee and said, "If this setting is placed on the scene map, since both sides can copy two cards, I think we can imitate the setting of the Fertility-Giving Avalokitesvara to impose some restrictions."
The director of the program department also found his voice again and laughed dryly, "This is not difficult to implement from the program point of view. The card data and size are all scaled by half. Uh... the more troublesome thing is some cards in the Dark Night City. Ye Zhu's butterfly and Pei Jingshan's insect are small in size. What if the baby is too small to be seen?"
Everyone: “…”
Ye Zhu's love for Butterfly is true love from the bottom of his heart. He would be so angry if his Butterfly gave birth to a baby!
Zhou Jiayao said, "Special cards have special treatments. For those whose size is less than 10 centimeters, you can keep the babies as they are and not shrink them any more. For example, if Lao Zheng's elephant gave birth to a baby elephant, it would be quite cute, wouldn't it?"
Everyone: “…”
It seems that after being "poisoned" by Uncle Fatty for a long time, the card data department can now easily accept all kinds of weird settings.
Director Zhao coughed and said, "Then... the scene of the marriage tree forces the cards to fall in love. What do you think?"
What else can we do? Can we catch the fat uncle and give him a beating?
The people in the map department were devastated, but on the surface they tried to remain calm, saying, "The map aspect is not difficult to implement. Two wishing symbols are dropped each time, and the cards hit by the wishing symbols enter a passionate love state... The key lies in the programming department. Is it easy to write the code?"
The programmers were about to vomit blood. They said they couldn't write it. Wouldn't that be a joke? However, writing such code to make the cards fall in love was very uncomfortable! The programmers also have to have some dignity! This is a card competition game, not a dating game!
Director Zhou said coolly, "Oh, this scene is a bit like the setting of Yue Lao. He once made a card called Yue Lao, which also uses a red string to connect two cards, forcing the two cards to fall in love."
Everyone: “…”
What has Director Zhou of the Card Department been going through in the past few months?
Director Zhao's smile became more and more stiff. He immediately took out the next map and said, "Dividing the world into three parts, the map is easy to make. According to their design, a scene is divided into three areas: the blue Wei Kingdom, the green Wu Kingdom, and the red Shu Kingdom. The key lies in how to set up the division of the card camps, because it is randomly divided and completely depends on luck. It is difficult to make it fair, so I would like to ask Mr. Liu from the Program Department for advice."
Chief Programmer Liu took a deep breath and said reluctantly, "We can use a fixed algorithm. Since we are dividing the camps, we can set a balance value. In one of the three camps, the number of cards on both sides must be equal. In the other two camps, one has more cards on side A than side B, and the other has less cards on side A than side B. When encountering a large-scale group battle, the algorithm for this map will be very complicated. We have to go back and discuss and study it."
Director Zhao gave him a look that said "thank you for your hard work, brother" and continued, "The search of the Grand View Garden and Granny Liu's entry into the Grand View Garden are all dynamic events, just like the cutscenes in a movie. Cards have to participate in dynamic events and act with NPCs. This should be more complicated, right?"
Several participants from the programming department collectively complained: "It's very difficult to make a map like this without bugs!" "Dynamic maps are much more difficult to make than static maps, especially the setting that the cards have to follow Granny Liu for 30 meters. If they exceed the range, they will be kicked out of the game. The program needs to perform a lot of calculations, which is almost the same as a large-scale 30-person team copy!" "And during a team battle, if there are 40 cards on the field at the same time, not only do we have to calculate the distance between the cards and Granny Liu, but we also have to calculate the various skills of the cards in real time!"
Director Zhou said calmly, "I believe in the strength of the Cartography Department and the Programming Department. It sounds difficult, but you have such superb skills that you can definitely handle these problems perfectly."
Everyone: “…”
Sister Zhou, please stop flattering everyone! Just because the Card Department was abused once before, you can't just sit there and watch the show with gloating, okay?
The tripartite talks lasted for an entire afternoon.
Finally, the heads of the three departments finalized the plan for producing some maps and fine-tuning the data.
Then it will be handed over to the programming department to implement.
Not only did the map department work overtime, the programming department was also dragged into overtime to write code. Director Zhou originally sat back and watched the show without worry, but the other two departments did not want to let her go, so they gave her a lot of cards and asked her to test them on the new map.
The result is that three departments have to work overtime together!
That night, the official Star Card headquarters was brightly lit. Programmers, map designers, and card data analysts all stayed up late. Even the boss of the Star Card headquarters was alarmed and came to inspect in person and brought everyone delicious midnight snacks.
Everyone was working hard while eating supper. From some corners, staff members would complain from time to time: "Damn that fat uncle!" "Where did this bastard Xie Mingzhe come up with so many weird designs!" "Fuck you! He turned a good card battle game into a love and childbearing game!" "Oh, I feel like I'm going to die if I keep working overtime like this!"
At this time, the culprit, Xie Mingzhe, was happily chatting with Tang Muzhou: "Our club's map was submitted last, and it will probably take several days for the authorities to review it before giving the result."
Tang Muzhou sent a plant emoji of "I don't want to hang myself" and said, "Is there a map that forces cards to hang themselves?"
Xie Mingzhe laughed dryly: "Our scene pictures are quite normal and will not make the cards hang [sincere smile]"
Tang Muzhou certainly didn't believe it: "It would be strange if you could be normal."
Xie Mingzhe touched his nose and asked curiously, "Do you think I am a particularly strange person?"
Tang Muzhou said in a gentle voice: "You are quite strange, but..."
He suddenly stopped talking here, and Xie Mingzhe immediately asked: "But what? I also have many advantages, right?"
You are cute, cute in a unique way.
Tang Muzhou smiled slightly, hiding this comment in his heart, and changed the subject: "On April 1st, the pre-season preparation meeting for the new season will be held at 11 am. All professional players must be present. Remember not to be late."
Xie Mingzhe said, "Yes, Yingying has told us about this. She has arranged a car, and the four of us will go together."
Tang Muzhou asked, "Master, are you still not going to show up?"
Xie Mingzhe said with a headache: "Master doesn't like to deal with reporters. He doesn't want to show up at this press conference. Let's talk about it after the official competition. If he shows up, our relationship will probably be exposed."
Tang Muzhou sighed lightly: "It's okay, it won't be hidden anytime soon, I'm already prepared. Go to bed early, see you on the 1st."
"Well, good night, brother."
Xie Mingzhe went to sleep peacefully. Strangely, in his dream, he was chased by a group of people with knives. He didn't know those people at all, but they said in unison: "It's you who made us work overtime, it's all your fault!" "You have to pay us overtime!" "The knife is ready, choose a way to die!"
When Xie Mingzhe woke up the next day, he was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.
Thinking back to the dream I had last night, maybe the employees who reviewed the maps were too resentful?
He had never imagined that the large number of maps they submitted this time would cause three departments to work overtime at the same time.
The official headquarters is now "terrified at the mention of Nirvana", and the heads of the three departments gnashed their teeth when talking about Uncle Fatty!
***
The map review, which was originally supposed to be completed on the 25th, was delayed until March 31st.
The dream of the map department employees to have an early holiday was shattered, and the programming department and the card data department were also busy until the 31st. Everyone finally completed the review of all the scene drawings of Nirvana within the official deadline.
The official and the league are connected, and the map submitted by Nirvana is imported into the league competition gallery.
The person in charge of event arrangements at the league was once again shocked when he saw the last batch of maps submitted.
Cards are pregnant? Cards are in love?
It looks like the cards' private lives are going to be in complete chaos from now on!
The league's events department informed Chairman Zhou of this matter.
After all, the chairman has seen a lot of ups and downs. When he heard this, his smile froze for a moment, and then he smiled and said, "Well, we encourage interesting ideas. In the eleventh season, with Nirvana joining us, the league will definitely become... ahem, more interesting!"
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