Chapter 223: The Play Committee and the Pearl Holder

Ever since Big Beard created the highest level record for "Ancestor Tree" and it was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, more and more players have begun to challenge higher level records.

Level 4000 has been broken!

The last time Chen Ba received news was when he saw a post from a whistleblower in the Tianba community, saying that the highest level number had reached 4870, and was only one step away from 5000 levels.

Oh my goodness...

A game with 5,000 levels, players almost feel dizzy just thinking about it.

How long will it take to finish this game? As the number of levels increases, a new problem arises: the game "Ancestor Tree" needs a save mechanism.

I really can't live without saving! In the past, I didn't save the game, and I had to start all over again when I died. That's because there were not many levels, so even if I started from scratch, it wouldn't waste too much time.

But what about now?

Thousands of levels... If one mistake means having to start all over again, I would be really upset. And not just ordinary upset, but the kind that would make me never want to open this game again.

In order to protect the mental health of players and prevent more and more players from breaking down and damaging their morale, Tianba Studio has launched a save mechanism in a recent update in response to players' calls.

The game can finally be saved! However, although the save mechanism has been added to the game, in order to prevent players from abusing this mechanism, there is a limit on the save points.

There is a save point every 10 levels.

This limitation is much better than having to restart the game after a mistake. After all, it is only 10 levels, and for many technical experts, it is just a waste of one or two minutes.

"In fact, if there are too many levels, players will really feel desperate..."

Chen Ba explained: "After all, you are always alone in the game, and there is not much interactivity. After playing a hundred or a thousand levels, you will feel like vomiting, which will greatly dampen a player's enthusiasm."

This is just like when Shen'en Animation was first released! At that time, Shen'en Animation was highly publicized, and everyone was very satisfied with the update rate of the animation. Ten episodes were updated a day, and people even felt that ten episodes a day were not enough.

What happened next? It turns out that the large amount of content is only good in the early stages. In the later stages, when the amount of updates far exceeds the audience's needs, everyone enters the sage time, which makes people numb.

I haven't finished watching the previous episode of the animation, but while I was going to the bathroom, you've updated another episode? I watched the animation before work, and after work, I watched it again, and it's updated for ten episodes? Please!

This really dampens the audience's enthusiasm for watching the series. After all, no matter how hard they try, even watching it at double or triple speed, they still can't finish it. They simply can't finish it.

It was also from that time that Shen'en Animation began to develop in the direction of high quality.

Large quantities and enough to make you full are the basis!

Compared to ordinary animations, the biggest advantage of Shen'en animation is that it is simple to produce. As long as the voice actors and editors work hard enough, they can update as many episodes as they want in a day.

However, on the basis of large quantity, it is also the audience's demand to slow down the update speed appropriately and improve the quality of animation.

The current number of levels in "Ancestral Tree" definitely meets the requirement of "large quantity and sufficient content".

On this basis, improving the fun and difficulty of the levels is the key to standing out, not simply competing in quantity.

“Open the creative workshop!”

Chen Ba made a decision and said, "We can't blindly roll up the number of levels anymore. It's meaningless to roll up like this."

In addition to quantity, everyone should focus more on creating more interesting and difficult levels instead of simply increasing the quantity.

Based on this premise, it is necessary to open a creative workshop for "Ancestor Tree".

The opening of the creative workshop will liberate the nature and creativity of players, and will also give birth to more interesting new maps and new levels.

This is the key to the game's long-term success. Without the Creative Workshop, people would probably get tired of playing "Ancestor Tree" after a while.

“That makes sense.”

Yang Dong nodded and said, "Quantity without quality is not enough. We still need something new."

"That's right, Brother Ba!"

"What do you think of the "Tianba Sanxiao Culture Co., Ltd." that was just registered by players in Zone 3 of "Don't Leave After School"? Do I need to be warned?"

"Don't Leave After School" is a weird game. The weird thing is that you don't have to spend money to play this game, and you can even make money!

For this reason, the actual controllers of many servers, that is, the game partners recognized by Tianba Studio, have all started corporate operations.

District 3 was the first district to be corporatized, and it is also the most formal and genuine district.

They signed a contract with someone...

That’s right!

If an advertiser comes to sponsor District 3 and is willing to place an advertisement in District 3, the local tyrant of District 3 will not only sign the contract and stamp the official seal for the advertiser, but will even hire employees in the name of the company to handle the daily affairs of the district.

What are the daily affairs? As mentioned before, each server of "Don't Leave After School" has a "game partner" mechanism. This game partner actually contracts the operation rights of a server from Tianba Studio.

Game updates, game activities, etc. for this server must all be done personally by the game partners.

As for Brother Ba?

Just sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Anyway, just hand over the tribute to Brother Ba on time, and he won't care what the gaming partners do in this area.

Tianba Studio only looks at data.

This area has many active players, players are enthusiastic about recharging, and game revenue increases every month, so this game partner is qualified.

Normally, Tianba Studio has no control over these game servers. It is the local tyrants who bring their subordinates to maintain order and plan various activities.

To give a more vivid example, these gaming partners are warlords.

They have a lot of autonomy in decision-making! It is difficult to manage a server with hundreds of thousands of active players, so it is inevitable to set up a company to take care of this matter.

The players didn't mind either.

If you play other games, wouldn’t the game company also be in charge? But in the game “Don’t Leave After School”, the game company doesn’t take care of things. Instead, the “Player Committee” formed by the players themselves is in charge.

The full name of the Player Committee is the Player Self-Government Management Committee, which is usually led by the local tyrant and formed by several powerful players in the area.

Don't underestimate this organization...

They are in charge of everything, no matter how big or small, as long as it is something concerning the district, they can take care of it.

From big issues like server competition to small disputes among players, this is the neighborhood committee in the game, responsible for coordinating and handling various trivial matters, and its role is even greater than that of the GM in many games.

By the way.

Another important function of the Game Committee is to supervise the actual person in charge of the area, that is, the gaming partner and local emperor of the area.

"From feudal monarchy to parliamentary elections!"

Xiao Lu smiled and said, "District Three is fine. Although a play committee has been established, it has little practical significance. On the contrary, District Five has made full use of this play committee..."

With his introduction, Chen Ba roughly understood the actual situation of the fifth area of ​​"Don't Leave After School: Marble Storm".

The result surprised him.

District 5 is really... too advanced in concept! There is a kind of beauty that doesn't fit the game environment! While other districts are still fighting for the throne, players in District 5 have already established a preliminary administrative system through the Player Committee.

The five districts have district laws, parliaments, courts, and pickets...

The so-called "district law" refers to the rules and regulations of their five districts, and all players in the five districts must abide by them. If there is any offense or violation, the whole district will fight together!

According to the district law, all players in District 5 can participate in the election and become the marble holder of this district through the election! The [Ball Holder] is the head of District 5, the supreme being who controls the marbles. In other districts, he is a local tycoon and game partner.

"election?"

Chen Ba was very puzzled, so he asked: "How is the election? Don't you think it's unfair?"

“No…”

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Xiao Lu explained: "They have launched an event. All players in the five districts will receive a pop-up window notifying them of the event as soon as they log in. After entering the event page, they can cast their sacred vote for the candidate."

"Each candidate needs to meet several strict conditions at the same time to be selected, and after being selected, they will go through two rounds of screening, and finally only five people will be selected for the final list."

Xiao Lu has looked at the candidates in District 5.

These people all have one thing in common, which is that they have a lot of free time, and their resumes are more impressive than one another, and their real identities are more awesome than one another! "The current Fifth District Master, real name Shen Xin, is the chairman of a private multinational logistics company in real life. He has extensive management experience and was a soldier when he was young..."

This resume is almost unbeatable.

Among the other candidates, none is more awesome than Shen Xin. The players in District 5 chose to vote with their feet, so Shen Xin was elected as the District 5 Pearl Holder with 320,000 votes for a term of three months! The reason for three months is mainly because of the special game environment of "Don't Leave After School". Three months as the district leader is already a very long time.

Moreover, you can run for re-election after your term ends, which does not mean you have to retire after your term ends.

The unique environment of the fifth area, the control of the player committee, and the unity of the players have become an extremely beautiful landscape of "Don't Leave After School".

For a moment, players from other zones also began to think.

Why are other people electing their bead holders, but our district is still stuck in this world of kings, princes, generals and ministers? Isn't this a bit bad?

People are restless, especially under the influence of the Fifth District as a reference. The local emperors in other districts seem to be on the verge of becoming the "last emperor". It is unknown how long their feudal rule can last.

It probably won't last long.

Because everyone with a discerning eye knows that with the establishment of the Player Committee, players who pursue progress will inevitably unite and end the dark rule of the local emperors in their respective regions.

"The one holding the pearl?"

Chen Ba smiled. He didn't expect that such an interesting thing would happen in District 5.

But compared to the bead holder, he was actually more curious about what Xiao Lu said about the fifth district having a court and judges responsible for handling disputes between players. What was going on? "The fifth district has a set of exclusive rules and regulations that all players need to abide by and enforce."

Xiao Lu explained: "For example, in free mode, you are not allowed to snatch other players' marbles, and you are not allowed to use dirty words or swear on the server public screen..."

If these regulations are violated, or if there is a dispute between players, just file a lawsuit in the game!

The punishment is interesting.

Either the game coins or marbles will be deducted, or even the public screen will be banned. The most serious punishment is to be "kicked out of the server."

By using the power of the authority marbles, the person holding the marbles can prohibit a player from logging into this area.

This is not a title.

The authority marbles do not include the authority to ban the account, but can prohibit the player from entering this area. After such a punishment, the player can only "immigrate" to other areas and can no longer stay in Area 5 to play.

“The public screen in District 5 is the cleanest and most civilized one I have ever seen. Everyone speaks politely and friendly.”

Xiao Lu said happily: "As for those people who like to curse and swear, they have been sent out of District 5 and are causing trouble in other districts."

Other districts are not vegetarian either.

Once other districts also follow the five-district model, these players who swear all the time, like to make personal attacks on others while playing games, and curse at others at every turn will probably have nowhere to go.

"That's a good thing!"

Chen Ba also hates those people who take advantage of the convenience of virtual networks to speak and act recklessly on the Internet.

To be honest, the Internet atmosphere in the 2000s was obviously very good, and there were not as many blocked words and obscene language as there are now.

But later, I don’t know if it’s because everyone is under too much pressure in real life, they all like to express negative emotions online, making the Internet a mess.

A very strange phenomenon is...

In the past, the blocking effectiveness of swear words was almost zero. People could say whatever they wanted on the Internet, but at that time, few people cursed or insulted others online.

Nowadays, a swear word is usually surrounded by an asterisk (*). This and that are not allowed to be said. The netizens’ hostility has become many times worse than before.

Chen Ba has no control over other places.

But in the games under Tianba Studio and on the Tianba community platforms, he does not welcome those "Zuans".

District 5 has done a good job in this regard and has contributed to purifying the gaming environment and cyberspace. Chen Ba is very satisfied.

So, he sent a benefit to the players in Zone 5 in the official name of Tianba Studio.

He also wrote a handwritten "certificate of honor" and sent it to the current holder of District 5, Shen Xin, the game partner.

When Shen Xin received this certificate, he was speechless...

He is worth billions, his company has tens of thousands of employees, what big scenes has he not seen, what honors has he not won?

But this thing called a certificate... he had never received one. The last time he saw one was when his son was awarded the title of "Best Boy" in kindergarten and the principal gave it to his son.

Okay, okay!

Although this certificate looks very low-class and unpresentable, it is an honor awarded by Brother Ba himself after all, and it also has Brother Ba's autograph on it, which can be regarded as a recognition of District 5.

Then frame it and hang it in the most conspicuous place in the office, so that every visiting guest will drop their jaw when they see it...

(End of this chapter)