Chapter 79 Do you have to pay for your life?
"Shennong Continent" is a traditional RPG adventure game with some simulation and pigeon elements.
Since it is an adventure, there will be monsters and dungeons.
There are more than 100 kinds of monsters!
Although it sounds like a lot, many of these more than one hundred monsters belong to the same category.
What does it mean?
Skeleton soldiers, skeleton knights, skeleton archers, skeleton mages, skeleton shield guards...
There are five kinds of monsters in total, but these five monsters are actually variants of the "Skeleton Soldiers". Even the original paintings are from the same template, except that the weapons or mounts have been changed.
An ordinary skeleton soldier becomes a skeleton mage when wearing a robe, a skeleton archer when holding a bow and arrow, a skeleton shield guard when holding a shield, and a skeleton knight when riding a warhorse. The changes are not very big.
Where there are monsters, there is battle.
"The battle adopts a pseudo-turn system, with an action bar, and attacks are made in sequence according to the agility attributes of different characters or monsters."
Chen Ba has a special liking for turn-based games, and "Divine Grace Continent" is not suitable for real-time combat, so it can only be made into a turn-based combat system.
The turn-based system focuses on decision-making and combat rhythm, and also requires more teamwork.
This is also in line with the core gameplay of "Divine Grace Continent", which is to cultivate teammates instead of engaging in personal heroism.
"Because of the unlimited resurrection feature of the hero, he is more suitable for tank professions such as the Paladin. He can stand in front of his teammates to taunt monsters and absorb damage..."
Chen Ba turned the pen in his hand and continued, "Of course, the occupational divisions in the game are not that strict. Heroes can also be trained as the main output."
It all depends on the player's choice.
The simplest method is definitely for the brave man to stand in front, protect other teammates, and let other teammates output as much as possible. This is also a more recommended team style.
You can also train an NPC to be a tank, let him stand in the front, and the brave will deal damage...
The existence of the job transfer mechanism makes the positioning of each character not that clear.
For example, elves, because of their extremely high potential for growth in intelligence, agility and brilliance, training them into long-range mages or shooters is the most resource-saving and worry-free route.
But no one has stipulated that elves cannot be tanks or nurses!
However, due to the attribute potential, training in this direction may consume a lot of resources, and it will only be mediocre when trained to the limit.
"The brave are special!"
"No matter which direction a hero is trained in, his ultimate potential is to be a top-level character."
Xiao Lu couldn't help laughing and said, "As a tank, she is the best tank. As a mage, she is the most terrifying mage. As a nurse, she is also the nurse with the biggest breasts."
“That’s right.”
Chen Ba nodded and said, "The reason why a hero is a hero is because all his attributes and potential are top-notch. It all depends on how the player uses them."
"But no matter how good a hero is, he is only one person after all. That's why the hero needs to recruit teammates to defeat the Demon King together."
What if there is more than one hero? Then the NPC can really go away. After all, if five heroes with all attributes and MAX potential form a team, how can the Demon King have any chance?
You don't even need five heroes.
According to the training potential of the heroes, one hero focuses on defense attributes, and the other focuses on output. On the simple difficulty, only two heroes are needed to pass the level.
Of course, this is the easy difficulty.
The game is divided into three difficulty levels: easy, hard and hell. The higher the difficulty, the greater the monster attributes, the difficulty of recruiting NPCs and the cost of training.
The highest level of Hell difficulty, if you don’t spend at least a hundred hours in the game, there is probably no hope of clearing it.
After all, in the hell difficulty, not to mention the tank profession, professions like nurses and mages will die if touched by monsters, or at worst be seriously disabled.
“That’s right!”
As if thinking of something, Yang Dong asked, "How do we determine the prices of goods in this game?"
Game prices are very important.
Prices are too low, various magical items have depreciated too seriously, and the development speed has been greatly accelerated. It may be a bit interesting in the early stage, but it will be very boring in the later stage.
This is also a common problem in many RPG adventure games.
In the early stages, you have to be very cautious and calculate every penny carefully. Every resource is hard-earned, and buying one more bottle of potion would feel like a waste.
But once you enter the later stages of the game, you have so much gold that you can't spend it all, and you can squander resources at will, and there is no sense of tension at all.
"As for equipment, it's not difficult to get ordinary and excellent equipment. You can buy them at stores or get them from monsters."
"But when it comes to epic level and above, equipment can only be produced through manufacturing. The materials and gold coins consumed increase significantly with each upgrade."
Chen Ba explained: "When a hero goes to defeat the demon king, he only has one or two artifacts on him at most..."
Artifacts cannot be allowed to proliferate!
Even in the later stages of the game, when the hero and his teammates have been trained to the highest level and have the capital to defeat the devil, top-level equipment like artifacts will not be common in the streets.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
This also ensures playability.
Otherwise, in the later stages of the game, when no one has time to play and no one is interested in the game anymore, who would open the game "Shennong Continent"? Artifacts are very powerful, and one or two of them can defeat the demon king.
After clearing the game, players can continue to play the game, collecting materials and working towards the "full body artifact".
"We should also control the output of gold coins. We can't let the heroes achieve financial freedom so easily."
Chen Ba smiled and said, "The most reliable source of income for a hero, besides killing monsters and clearing dungeons, should be the income handed in by teammates."
"Ah? Handing over income?"
Before Yang Dong could say anything, Xiao Lu beside him exclaimed, "NPCs work for heroes, not only do they not get paid, but they also have to pay money to the heroes?"
Normally speaking.
The hero recruits teammates to fight the devil together. Doesn't that mean the hero is paying his teammates? How can teammates pay the hero?
“Ahem!”
Chen Ba cleared his throat and said, "But the heroes have to spend a lot of money to train these NPCs, otherwise where will they get their fighting power?"
It’s not too much to pay some money.
If you don't pay, you will become a big bootlicker of the hero, only paying but not getting anything in return.
Compared to the money and resources that the heroes spend on their teammates, the income they hand over is simply not worth mentioning.
For example.
NPC teammates give the hero 50 gold coins every once in a while, but how can this amount of money be enough? The resources that the hero has invested in his teammates are worth at least hundreds of thousands of gold coins.
Paying money is to show attitude, so that players can feel better and won’t feel that they have cultivated a group of ungrateful people.
As for how much money...
It all depends on your status! If a hero hooks up with a king or a duchess, he will have to pay a lot of gold coins every time.
But the problem is that NPCs that pay a lot of money may not necessarily have a high growth potential. So, does the brave want money, or teammates with great potential?
"Only children make choices, but adults want everything! Can you hook up with a rich woman in the early stage, and then kick her out and get a new one in the later stage?"
Chen Ba: “…”
(End of this chapter)