Chapter 481: This World
In June 2014, there is not only the International Children's Day on June 1, the annual College Entrance Examination Book Tearing Festival, but also the quadrennial World Cup, and World Refugee Day. On June 20, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced its "results" for the past year, saying that in 2013, the number of people displaced by war exceeded 50 million, reaching 51.2 million. Of the world's 7 billion people, 7‰ have become refugees, which seems so scary, but it is better to be shocked by other news earlier, such as "2.1 billion people in the world are plagued by obesity".
In fact, the number of refugees did not increase suddenly, as early as the beginning of 2000, it exceeded 31 million, when the number of refugees in the world was already 16 million, and the number of displaced people still in the host country was 21 million, and this part of the rapid growth in recent years is the same part. It is precisely in view of this situation that the United Nations has decided to change the "African Refugee Day" on June 20 to "World Refugee Day" from 2001 to remind the international community of the plight of refugees around the world, but it does not seem to be useful.
According to the statistics of some scholars, from the third millennium B.C. to the present 5,000 years, there have been nearly 15,000 wars in the world, an average of more than two a year, and only more than 300 years of 5,000 years have been without wars.
After entering the modern industrial society, the war has not decreased, but has become more intense and intensive, thanks to the modern military industry, we have a more efficient way to kill ourselves, World War I caused 10 million deaths, 20 million injuries, World War II casualties increased several times, 51.6 million dead, 150 million injured. The only good news is that in the early 30 years of the 20th century, two consecutive world wars have hurt countless countries and their peoples, coupled with the fact that nuclear deterrence existed between the major powers after the war, so that although there is a shadow in the third world war, it will not come, and it will only appear in fantasy works such as novels, movies, television and games in the future.
However, there are no more major wars, but there are more local wars. According to the statistics of some scholars, the number of local wars in the 70 years since the end of World War II has exceeded 500, and the number of days of peace and quiet in the world is less than a month. Of course, there is a problem of statistical caliber, that is, the criteria for selecting materials, and if the criteria are relaxed, even if the guns are used, there may not even be a day of peace in the world. And if we count only the wars officially declared by nations, and ignore tribal conflicts in Africa and sectarian conflicts in Asia, the figure becomes one-third. The 13-year surge in the number of displaced people is mainly contributed by Syria, although war-torn Central Africa and Somalia remain stable "fundamentals".
Although it is suspected that "foreign people are in dire straits" is excessively amplified, it is true that there are more than 50 million people and nearly 100 million people in dire straits.
Strictly speaking, "refugees" are foreigners or stateless persons who have been registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and are arranged in refugee camps in the country where they have fled or in third countries.
As a country of immigrants, Eagle Sauce was actually built up by boatloads of refugees, and if it weren't for the influx of refugees from the two world wars, Eagle Sauce might still be selling cotton cloth and iron ingots now. Although it claims to have taken in a total of 3 million refugees since 1975, the largest number in the world, it is also an indisputable fact that since the enactment of the immigration law in 1980, the number of refugees has been greatly reduced, and the examination of refugee status and skill background has become more and more stringent. In the three years since the Syrian crisis, hundreds of thousands of people have fled to Europe, but Eagle Sauce has only accepted more than 1,000 people, and European friends can only complain in their hearts, at most about the good feng shui of Eagle Sauce left Pacific and right Atlantic.
Reality is not a game after all, in the war strategy game you can recruit "homeless" people by repairing their houses, and they can quickly become your "population" resources, and you can assign them to build you a house, farm for you, serve you as a soldier, and help you conquer the world. However, in reality, it is a very difficult problem to turn refugees into usable population resources, and the language problem alone is enough to cause headaches, and if it is mixed with the problem of religious customs, it will undoubtedly be much more difficult to assimilate and absorb refugees and turn them into population resources.
"So, the bees are trying to tell us that those experts who advocate the protection of indigenous culture and minority languages are actually deliberately tricking people!" Shen Mo said, pointing to the portrait of the characters on the mobile phone screen, "Only by abandoning small languages can we globalize." ”
Next to the head of the aboriginal with colorful feathers on his head, there are several lines of text that no one can understand, which is naturally the "language of the aborigines".
"It's really hard for the bees to come up with so many indigenous languages. In order to disgust people, no effort was spared. A male classmate next to him said.
"It's not specially designed, this character is Tibetan, this character is Thai, this is supposed to be a Burmese word, and this character should be a script of some Tu ethnic group in Africa, I can't remember the name. Shen Mo said: "They didn't specifically design a new language, at least they didn't specifically design words, there are enough existing words on the earth, except for the common ones, the slightly obscure words are placed here, you still can't see that it is the earth script." ”
Just today, Shen Mo and the others finally finished all the final exams of the second semester of their sophomore year, but because there is still a third semester before the summer vacation, everyone still has to stay in school for nearly a month, and they can't pack their bags and go back to their homes like the winter vacation. But it also has the advantage of being able to relax after the exam, and everyone can get together and play online games, but at this time, their famous alumni has added a block to them, and they are talking about this thing on the screen.
In fact, this is just a holiday easter egg they found in the game "Civilization Road", but the problem is that this "festival" is chosen on June 20, and the added content is also quite strange, which is "the real diversification of displaced people". In the 12 days from this day to the end of the month, the newly spawned NPC homeless people will have a more "real" and "diverse" identity and background.
"The Road of Civilization" is a fantasy background strategy simulation stand-alone game developed and published by Bee Games, the story takes place on a fantasy planet, which is in the same huge universe as other large and small manned planets, players play a force leader in the game, leading their forces to join the competition for the hegemony of the universe. You can either brush the computer on a stand-alone machine or connect to a server for a "plane war".
It is worth mentioning that although Bee Game purchased the license to use the DND world, this game did not fully adopt the latter's world view setting, but transformed it into a "Chinese fantasy" that is not local or foreign, which is said to be more in line with the tastes of local players. This game also has a very large class system and god system planned, but in the past, because of the scope of activities, many players only came into contact with the local mainstream professions and gods, and as a result, as soon as the 20th passed, these players were blinded by the colorful background of the newly brushed out outcasts NPC.
"Brushing the Exiles" is a classic gameplay of various "Three Kingdoms" themed war strategy games, which was also learned by the bees and added a change, saying that the exiles are actually free talents who travel around. There is also the "Sid Meier's Civilization" series, which also has a lot of references, but the world view has changed from the earth civilization to the fantasy civilization, and at the same time, it has also changed from a turn-based grid climbing to a real-time system, and the RPG part has been greatly strengthened, and it is okay to ignore the power building and play it completely as an RPG. The only problem is that this kind of non-mainstream gameplay will be a lot less fun, for example, this time 620 easter eggs, solo players will basically not be glued.
In fact, as a holiday easter egg, although this easter egg is a little weird, it still hasn't changed the essence of easter eggs to send surprises and benefits. In the past, because of the restrictions on the refresh rules of the homeless, many players have not been able to collect all the necessary talents after playing for a long time, and they have been stuck by the talent gap and are eager to leave their territory to be a lone player, so the official specially launched the "Diversification of the Homeless" easter egg in order to appease the majority of players.
It's just that the Bee Game Civilization Project Team is not a good person, they are all black when they are cut, and the "realization of the homeless" in the easter eggs is very cheating, and the newly brushed NPCs have their own language and beliefs, and the cost of communication has surged a lot at once. In fact, the language problem is not too serious in the fantasy background, after all, there is a "fluent language" magic, and all player characters are hero templates can be very convenient to learn this magic, will not be because they can't find New Oriental can not learn a foreign language, such as Shen Mo's classmates skillfully pressed the keys to use this magic, and then the twisted alien text on the screen became Chinese Simplified, except for Fei Erlan, there is nothing else.
This is also the reason why Bee insists on "Chinese fantasy" instead of bringing you the original DND, players who are used to dark and Korean-style online games will never accept the egg-pain setting of spell bits.
In fact, the real trouble is still those chaotic beliefs of gods, and when they find that the religious facilities do not match or there are hostile gods and beliefs, the newly brushed outcasts will turn around and leave.
Then Shen Mo and the others could only complain "Hell, how did this homeless uncle come to my place across half a planet", "What are you, look at me, aliens have wood?", while trying to make good use of these sudden increase in homelessness. After all, the official has said that the current situation is just an easter egg plot, and it will return to normal in July, and it will be very difficult to get these people at that time.
Luckily, there was no shortage of creative players who quickly discovered ways to exchange and trade these outcasts. The rougher way is to catch it directly and sell it to the slave market, the advantage is simple and direct, but the disadvantage is that it may lead to camp deviation and gain some malice. There is also a more civilized way, which is to introduce new homeless people to the territory of friends, without the above shortcomings, but it brings inefficient trouble, because you have to confirm that there are people in your friends who can accept them.
But even so, Shen Mo and the others still did not choose to simply catch and sell slaves, but took the second way, which led to their dormitory temporarily becoming a talent market, where everyone got together, showed each other their mobile phones, and then exchanged homeless talents that could not be used.
Bee's PT game console still uses the bee system, and does not have its own special system, but only introduces PUI and legs, two sets of their own user interfaces, the former is a gamepad mode user interface, and the latter is a desktop mode similar to Windows that adapts to keyboard and mouse operation. Therefore, the games and applications on the bee platform only need to be slightly modified to adapt to these two sets of interface standards, and they can be easily transplanted to PT game consoles.
In fact, even if you don't modify it, you can run it directly.,It's just that the interface and operation mode will continue the mobile phone version.,There is a lot of sense of disobedience.,That's how the hundreds of thousands of applications that were claimed to be fully compatible when PT was launched。 Bees have also been pushing software vendors to adapt to the p-leg, and their own software and game products are being PT at a rapid pace.
After all, it's on a platform,The system kernel and hardware are still the same,Just change the outermost control mode,Bee has also specially updated the development tools,UI matching is automatically completed to save time and effort,So the overall advancement speed is quite fast。 In contrast, the road to a unified platform that has been prepared since the win8 era is much more difficult, because of the differences in hardware platforms, in fact, the problem of transplantation still exists.
This should be regarded as a difficult scripture for every family,The basic disk of the giant hard is the X86PC,And on the mobile side is the world of the ARM camp,The giant hard wants to occupy the PC basic disk,At the same time, it is also actively trying to invade the mobile system market,Naturally, it is all kinds of uncomfortable。
On the contrary, the basic disk of Bee is on the mobile side, and it is still a member of the ARM camp, so it is like a fish in water on the mobile side, but it is more difficult to advance to the PC and game console platforms. And now PT's achievements are largely bought by burning money.
On the one hand, you have to lose money selling hardware, and on the other hand, in order to equip it with various productivity software, you are also losing money. In addition, bees also donated a lot of PT hosts to major cooperative universities out of their own pockets to help them open PT-related courses. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net