Chapter 189: The Conscience of a Profiteer

Lin Chen looked at the three-masted Chinese-style wooden ship that looked a little silly on the screen speechlessly, although its appearance was ordinary, but the name was a big name, after all, the news of the official launch of the salvage operation last month had just been on CCTV news.

After all, he is a gamer, not a lover of antiquities, so Lin Chen is not much obsessed with this "Nanhai No. 1". And the price set by the game company for this ship is really inspiring, after all, Nanhai No. 1 can allow the country to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to fish it out of the water, and then spend 150 million to build a "crystal palace" for it, but it is not the first submarine shipwreck in the picture, but the sunken ship is full of cultural relics and antiques!

Even if the porcelain carried on it is just an ordinary export porcelain of the year, the nature of porcelain is no different from those modern freighters sunk near the busy route, but people are really old enough, after all, this is an ancient ship of the Song Dynasty 840 years ago, even if it was just a ball of mud back then, it will become a cultural relic, as long as it can prove the origin of this mud.

A mere Yuan blue and white Guiguzi downhill picture jar can be sold for a high price of 200 million, the culture is more developed, the ceramic industry is more prosperous in the Song Dynasty?

Of course, all the buried objects underground and underwater belong to the state, no matter how valuable it is, it doesn't matter what Lin Chen's own business is, which is also the real reason why he doesn't care much about this ship.

Because the land belongs to the state, the use of cultural relics buried in the ground is also the state, just like because the game server is a bee company, so the virtual world running on the game server is also a bee company. Lin Chen secretly slandered.

Unlike Blizzard's father and Uncle Jiucun who directly stated in the World of Warcraft user agreement that "you do not have any ownership rights or other property rights to the account, and you further acknowledge and agree that the account and all rights in the account are and will always belong to the ninth city", the user agreement of "Daming OL" stipulates that the ownership of all items in the game belongs to Bee Technology, and players have the right to use the characters and virtual items they legally obtain, and they can be transferred through the official platform.

And for the first time, it is completely and clearly defined in the game that the "forever free" and "permanent props" of "permanent" are actually 14 years, and Bee Technology promises that "Daming OL" will continue to operate for free until at least 2020, and all the props owned by users that indicate "permanent" will be used until after 2020. If the service is interrupted due to reasons attributable to Bee, Bee will not compensate for the "permanent free", and will compensate for the remaining years and refund the remaining usage fee for the "permanent item".

As for "permanent = 14 years" or something,This is a legal stalk that everyone in China understands,Bee wrote that 14 years seems stingy,But because there is no game in China that has been in operation for more than 14 years,In fact, it's not a pick.,On the contrary, it seems real.。

However, because the ingots system has not been opened, everyone has not seen a prop marked as "permanent" so far.

It seems that because of the end of the college entrance examination, the first and third year of high school candidates have to get rid of the barrier temporarily, and many people choose to devote themselves to online games to pass the three-month long summer vacation, many of them choose "Daming OL", resulting in the number of game activation accounts and the number of simultaneous online users continue to break records and climb to new highs.

So, just a few days ago, Bee Company finally officially opened the ingots exchange business of "Daming OL".

Previously, although it was said that the internal test was not deleted, due to various reasons, the ingots exchange has not been opened. This made a large group of pop-up ads lured into the game, and players who planned to seize the opportunity to invest in the future were quite annoyed, and they posted on the official forum to criticize and ridicule, and then the official really "knew that mistakes can be changed", and the super administrator with ID name "——" replied to the post that the ingots exchange would be opened soon, and it really entered the stage of non-deletion operation.

Sure enough, a few days later, today's ingots exchange business was opened, and the ingot mall panel is no longer a reminder of "in stock, please wait for good news, welcome to pay attention to appointments".

However, when thousands of players poured into the Yuanbao Mall and saw the things sold on it, everyone was a little dumbfounded!

The ingots and bee gold coins of "Daming OL" are exchanged one-to-one, and the bee gold coins are the universal tokens on the bee platform, but the ingots are not. Bee gold coins can be freely exchanged for unbound ingots, but ingots can only be exchanged for bound bee gold coins, which is said to be at the request of more relevant departments, in order to prevent money laundering crimes or something.

In short, for most players, they have become accustomed to the value relationship between a gold coin equal to a dime, and when they see the ingots number, they only need to make up the gold ingot pattern behind the brain into a round gold coin pattern, or a brown horn coin pattern, and the conversion is still very convenient.

Then everyone easily found that the things sold in the ingots mall, or the things that are "rented to use", are very scary, the price is frighteningly expensive, and the quantity is frightening.

The interface design of the ingots mall seems to be like Taobao and ebay, and the page content is rich and diverse, and it feels very much like an e-commerce website to use. Keyword search, keyword exclusion, price sorting, sales ranking, credit sorting, classification filtering, good and bad reviews and other common functions of e-commerce pages are also available. Otherwise, it can't support the sales and purchase of tens of thousands of virtual goods at the same time.

In fact, Bee is now cooperating with Taobao, on the one hand, to obtain some technical support from Taobao in terms of interface design of product classification, and on the other hand, it is also ready to provide Taobao sellers with a visual shopping experience based on the 3D engine of "Daming OL".

Lin Chen took his eyes off the 3D model of "Nanhai No. 1", although this Song version of the 800-ton wooden Chinese hard-sailed cargo ship has two labels: "unique in the whole service" and "permanent", but in essence, it is just a medium-sized cargo ship with a load of 400, and there are no cultural relics and antiques on it, just a cargo ship with a slightly strange name and shape. In the eyes of most players, it is completely incomparable to another big ship on the front page.

After all, big ships and cannons are a man's romance!

"It's the Victory! The bees are too undisciplined, aren't they? What about basically abiding by the historical facts? The Victory is obviously an 18th-century battleship, isn't it cheating in the 17th century?" The one who spoke was Zhao Xilin, a close friend who was sitting next to Lin Chen, who just took the time to glance at Lin Chen's screen and saw this ship. The huge hull like a city on the sea, as well as dozens of dense gun windows, as well as the distinctive black and yellow color scheme and simple appearance, made it easy for him to recognize it as the famous British Empire warship Victory.

"Well, it's the Victory" Lin Chen nodded in response as he whispered the words on the screen: "The British Empire's first-class battleship, the seat of the legendary Royal Navy Admiral Horatio Nelson." Displacement 3556 tons, deadweight 2176. 4 tons. Overall length 69. 3 meters, the deck is 57 meters long, and the mainmast is 62 meters high. 5 meters, the width of the ship 15. 8 meters, draft 8. 8 meters, sail area 5440 square meters. The maximum speed is 10 knots, the cruising speed is 6 knots, the crew is 850 people, and the self-sustaining power is six months. Armament of 104 guns: 30 32-pounder guns on the lower deck, 28 guns on the middle deck 24-pounder, 30 short guns on the upper deck with 12 pounders, 2 12-pounder medium guns on the first deck, 2 68-pounder guns, and 12 12-pounder short guns on the aft deck. ”

"I think," Lin Chen said, "maybe the bee said 'basically abide by historical facts' to mean not to sell things beyond the current level of technology, such as not selling steam ironclads like Badayuan, and there are no dreadnoughts, destroyers, aircraft carriers, or so on." This time, the only historical ships in the whole server are not particularly limited to the historical period, and it seems that as long as it is a wooden structure sail power, it can be selected. ”

"It should be, it depends on whether the fame is big or not, and those who are not famous and have no information must not get it. Zhao Xilin said: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 0, 1 million yuan treasure, I am dizzy is only the starting price, and it will take two months to deliver." Sure enough, the profiteer's discipline cannot be overestimated!"

Atletico Ma cried and fainted in the toilet: One million yuan treasure is only 100,000 yuan, is it very expensive? Which of the soft sister coin warriors who played "Rabbit" did not spend 100,000 yuan? What's more, I still have a permanent version that has been guaranteed for 14 years, the only one in the whole server and the only one in the country, which is really worth it.

"This should actually be considered a pre-sale, right?" Zhao Xilin opened his side of the Ingot Mall and carefully observed the giant ship, "Maybe the bee people don't know if this thing can be sold, this ship may not be finished yet." And maybe they are also hesitating, whether to sell this Zhenguo artifact to the player as soon as possible, right? And if the delivery is delayed in two months, the impact on the forces of other players will be smaller, right?"

If Atletico heard Zhao Xilin's analysis, he might come over to shake hands and hug him, and praise, "Sure enough, there are still many people in the world who understand me!"

This ship has indeed only completed the preliminary modeling of the shape department, and the next internal structure, gun emplacement design, and NPC action AI design have not been carried out, because there is no tradition of sail battleships in China, and the bee company does not have professionals in this area, so Atletico Madrid plans to wait for the belated summer vacation to begin, fly directly to the United Kingdom, and go to Portsmouth Harbor to visit the genuine Victory, to get pure first-hand information.

As a sail battleship more than 200 years ago, the Victory is still in the British Royal Navy, but this service is only a form and honor, symbolizing the enterprising spirit of the British Empire that once crossed the three oceans. Long docked in Portsmouth, the home port of the Royal Navy, it has long since become a floating pavilion of the Museum of Historical Warships, or a "patriotic education base" for the British people.

The existence of this museum saves Atletico a lot of things, he only needs to go to the boat in person, carefully observe the ship up and down, inside and out, and combine it with other exhibition materials and explanations to form a complete impression, E7U can help him output this impression to the computer, so that it can appear in the virtual world. And this is a real "resurrection", with a crew of 850, a full installation of 36 soft sails and 104 guns, ready for long voyages and battles. The Victory, which is now docked in Portsmouth, has long since taken off the sails for wind protection and anti-sinking, and the guns have all become wooden models, in a sense, a large model.

In the past few months, he often took time out of his weekends to run around Ludao and even all over the country, and he already had a preliminary understanding of the architecture, clothing, and utensils during the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, at least he despised the level of prop masters of domestic costume dramas. Next, he was going to go abroad to find foreign prop masters, museums, and old buildings to learn from experience, and fill in the materials for "Da Ming".

Although the task of collecting information and pictures in this area has been published to the CTA for a long time, and has achieved a lot of results, the use of photos and model data restoration has never been intuitive and realistic.

Lin Chen scrolled down the page and saw a line of words, "The company will invite the winning bidder to join this summer's three-day tour of Portsmouth on the sail battleship tour to experience the real Victory for themselves and compare it with the virtual Victory that will be delivered later." Oh, buying a boat also comes with a three-day tour of the UK, which is not dark. ”

Nodding, Zhao Xilin said: "Well, it's worth tens of thousands of dollars to stay in the UK for three days, and it's impossible for the bee company to leave players in the cheapest small hotel, let them nibble on bread every day." And the application for outbound travel is already troublesome, they are not a general tourist route, it should not be with a tour group, it is even more troublesome. Maybe the delivery after two months was to allow time for the player who bought the Victory to walk around the real Victory and then give it to him. Tsk, specially send buyers to feel the real thing, deliberately let people compare the difference between the physical and virtual versions, the bee company's tone and confidence are so big!"

"Yes, but people do have the strength and confidence, not to mention anything else, what other company in the world can put 5. 100 million square kilometers into the game?"

"Looks like Google Earth is about the same maximum, right?"

"It should still be different. Lin Chen said, "By the way, what about your brother Qin Mo, why didn't you come out together today?"

"I went to meet netizens, and it has something to do with this million-dollar treasure Victory. A few days ago, he was pulled by me to play "Daming OL" not long ago, and he joined an organization of the 'North American Construction Association'. As soon as the name of this organization was known, it was planned to develop North America and establish its own country, and after the Victory came out today, their chairman called the members of Egret Island together and held an offline meeting. I guess I'm going to raise money and send out a boat, right?"

"Oh, I forgot that large ships and building plots can be purchased as guild property and purchased collectively by the guild. I think this game is the best guild system, all guild members have a share according to the amount of capital contribution and guild contribution, the president and executives can no longer easily hack guild assets, and it is not easy to have any 'copper beard gate' or other unspoken rule events. ”

"But the name of the guild in this game, eh, let me laugh for a while, haha," Lin Chen laughed a few times, took a breath, and then said: "Qin Mo, are they used to the titles of 'member' and 'production captain' now?"

"It seems that he is used to it, but when I called him in the morning, he said that the president of the cooperative had organized a general meeting of all members to discuss the revision of the articles of association of the cooperative. ”

In "Daming OL", players can create various types of player organizations, and they can join NPCs as members. However, the official name of these organizations is "XX Cooperative", which is a somewhat joyful and somewhat rustic name. Now that the Ingot Mall is open, players can purchase the name change prop "Name Change Order" to modify all the names related to themselves in the game, from their own names, the names of item moves, to the names of NPCs, and the names of cooperatives can naturally be changed.

Of course, the number of name change orders that need to be consumed to change the name is floating, and the more players associated with it, the more expensive the name modification price is, and the name change of the obscure trumpet only needs one "name change order" prop, and the price of the world-famous guild to change the name needs to be tens of thousands. Moreover, the name must also comply with national laws, and no political and insulting words must appear, so the official name of the "North American Construction Association" is "Target North American Cooperative", and the use of the word "country" is prohibited.

Zhao Xilin shook his head, "I think they don't have a good time." This time, the official launch of these large sail warships are armed and NPC sailors, and only the player needs to be the captain to set the target location to sail automatically, which is very convenient for players to explore the ocean. And the official clearly said that this kind of automatic navigation function is only available on these 'full-service only' limited edition ships, and other ships can only sail automatically when the route exploration degree exceeds 70%. Therefore, those guilds that are interested in going overseas to fight for turf should all take action this time, even if they can't get the million-dollar treasure Victory, at least they have to buy the Qiying. Although the ship bears the name of the Governor of Liangguang, it is a historical record that actually went to New York and London. In this way, the competition may be fierce, Qin Mo and their North American National Construction Association will hold a meeting to revise the constitution in order to raise funds, I don't think I can spend much money on these historical ships. ”

"Well, unless they want to buy the unfortunate boy of Emperor Gustav's Vasa that sank on its maiden voyage. ”

"The Vasa should not be sold, you see it is written here, it is forbidden to disassemble shipboard guns and other items on board. Zhao Xilin pointed to a line of words on the screen and said: "If you don't let the cannon be dismantled, the birth defect of the ship's center of gravity that is too high will not be cured, who wants it?"

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