Chapter 188: The Largest Wallet
In the months since the game was launched, no player has achieved the "Discover the New World of America", "Discover the Australian Continent", or even "Go Out of Asia" achievements, the main reason is the game's huge map and limited speed. Although the standalone version can speed up the character's movement with the help of acceleration gears (which directly modify system parameters and deceive all Windows applications), it is useless to have no corresponding DLC.
In the world of "Da Ming", the mainstream travel mode is temporarily only three kinds of running, horseback riding, riding a car, taking a boat, etc., their maximum speed is running 10 meters per second, riding a horse 20 meters per second, sailing 10 meters per second (about 20 knots per hour), and these three speeds are only the limit speed when sprinting, and the speed is usually half or even a quarter of the limit speed when moving long distances.
There may be steam trains, cars, and airplanes in the future, but in the game it is now 1628, and Watt, the maker of the first practical steam engine, is still nearly 110 years old, and can only ride horses, donkeys, and camels for the time being. Of course, with so many players who have mastered the knowledge of the afterlife, there is no need to wait for European inventors to build steam trains, steam tricycles, and gasoline tricycles one or two hundred years later.
And until now, the game has not turned on the function of players freely choosing their place of birth, and the place of birth of all player characters is automatically assigned to the nearest six cities of Yanjing, Xijing, Jiangning, Jiangcheng, Rongcheng and Yangcheng according to the source of the IP address.
These six cities are known as the three capitals and three cities, and they are the six first-level main cities in the game, and the central cities of the region. Because the game has a real estate system, for the sake of fairness, the six main cities are temporarily closed to players, and all players will randomly appear in small counties, small villages, and even wild areas around the six main cities according to the different initial identities they choose.
This can not only gather players, so as not to see other players feel that they are playing stand-alone, but also to facilitate players to find problems and put forward opinions and suggestions to participate in the improvement of the game, such as Zhao Xilin's first suggestion to the game is to recommend canceling the statue of Zheng Chenggong on Qin Island, after all, Zheng Chenggong was only four years old at this time, and he was still an overseas Chinese in Japan.
Moreover, these major cities are surrounded by areas with a high concentration of domestic players, and Bee Technology is currently preparing to build its own server clusters in these six major cities, and the future operation will also focus on these six computer rooms.
However, with the fact that these six cities are all quite far from the borders of Asia, and the distance is limited, coupled with the limitations of the physical strength, hunger, fatigue, and injury system on the player's ability to travel long distances, it is not surprising that there are no explorers among the players who can "go out of Asia".
Fortunately, there are also various book worlds for players to release their energy, and the teleportation system of "Daming" is also relatively user-friendly, and you only need to activate the city teleportation point to freely travel with all the sub-cities, towns, villages and cottages under the city. Of course, the interactive confrontation gameplay of "Runner vs Road Bandit" and "Maritime Merchant vs Pirate" cannot enjoy the teleportation benefits, the reason is to provide players with a sufficiently detailed "immersive ancient life role-playing experience".
In fact, the reason why the Overworld timeline is so slow is that Bee Company also has its own considerations.
On the one hand, it is to wait for a more powerful computer configuration, wait for better server hardware, and more players to upgrade to a dual 2G configuration with CPU memory.
Although the virtual server technology allows players to interact across servers, the cost is too high and troublesome, so simply slow down the new generation of hardware to be launched and increase the server capacity.
The operation team plans to develop slowly, constantly iterate and update and improve, and strive to make a long-lived online game that continues to evolve and change, comparable to the UO network Genesis that has been in operation for ten years. These people were frightened by the incredible function of Atletico Madrid's globe engine, and after sobering up, they became blindly confident, and many people had the feeling that "I have the artifact in the world", so it doesn't matter if you wait for half a year.
On the other hand, it is also to facilitate the development team to fill in the pit of the century dug by Atletico Madrid.
Using satellite map data can only make a rough map like the regular version, and then the development team needs to use various terrain data and actual photos to correct the regular version of the large map. Although there are shortcut tools that allow the terrain to change instantaneously after setting the contour line, and to generate vegetation and animals with one click after setting the climate, water source, and soil information, many details still need to be manually processed.
On the one hand, the existing data usually cannot be used directly, and the staff need to reprocess the data with the help of archaeological, climatic, biological, geological and other knowledge, so as to "restore" the old appearance of the earth 380 years ago; on the other hand, the information in many remote places is incomplete, and it is necessary to combine professional knowledge with reference to other similar materials to complete it, and the workload is quite large.
However, everyone understands that what they are doing is only a historical online game, and they only pursue the basic compliance with the existing information and natural laws, and there is no need to organize hundreds of experts in various subjects to focus on public relations in the past five years like the "Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty Project". Moreover, the historical data and research results of the mid-seventeenth century were much richer, and the results were very quick after the conditions were relaxed. As for the issue of academic controversy and persuasion, everyone did not pay attention to it at all, and the original words that Atletico Madrid told them were: "If any expert jumps out to find a thorn, we will send him a set of the latest stand-alone version, and let him make his own views into a touch and send it to us, otherwise they will all be ignored." ”
And when a planner asked if he wanted to adopt it if someone really uploaded a touch d, Atletico Madrid also waved his hand easily, "It's up to the player to choose, let's not mix." ”
Of course, the slowdown in the flow of time in the main world of the Ming Dynasty is also related to the company's plan for this game, they do not intend to lure new players by opening new servers regularly like other online games, all players are theoretically in the same server, although the vast majority of players may rarely have specific interactions with each other, but through some associated interactions, everyone can still have some relationships, and this is considered irreplaceable by design.
By actively slowing down the flow of time and the production of resources, you can limit the first-mover advantage of early players and avoid occupying too many advantageous resources to discourage later players.
At the same time, there is another reason, that is, Atletico Madrid needs to test the censorship scale of the competent authorities, and this game does not have much glorification of the Manchu Dynasty. The images of men and women are designed according to the old photos handed down from generation to generation, with the man's money rat tail and the woman's small eyes and big mouth. In case it is really the same as what is said on the Internet, a certain propaganda department and a certain general bureau are full of yellow and red belts, there is still room for conversion, otherwise if time flows too quickly and a certain yellow belt ancestor is killed, it will be unlucky.
Of course, the last reason is just the statement that the company jokes in private, from the fact that there are a lot of Qing palace TV series on the market, but there are fewer Qing palace themes in the movies that a certain general administration pays more attention to, it shows that this statement on the Internet is pure nonsense. In fact, the truth is: every aunt lives in her heart!
The dream of all players sharing the same world on the same server is not only the dream of the 2008 Organising Committee, but also the dream of all players around the world. That's why the sandbox online game Eveol, where players from all over the world are on the same server, is so charming and so talked about by supporters.
Of course, due to the needs of national conditions and censorship, the EVE national server is independent of the world server, and the world is actually two servers, a super large world server at the level of 100,000 people, and a poor national server with thousands of people.
In the future, if "Daming OL" is launched to the international market under the name of "1628" or something else, it may also become two versions of two servers. Although there are a small number of foreign players who have joined the game, because the game is still in the development and perfection stage for the time being, Bee has no plans to take the game abroad to make money, and is just paying attention to these players, and is not enthusiastic.
In any industry, new entrants have two choices, the first is to choose to imitate and follow in the footsteps of industry leaders, which is called "following the footsteps of successful people is not easy to fail";
Bee company has stirred up a lot of industry in the past year, the antivirus software market for individual users has collapsed under the free offensive of bees; all kinds of shareware that once were quite popular on the Internet that need to pay to get full functions have basically disappeared, and the number of clicks and visits to several major software download platforms has dropped wildly; now Bee's eyes have focused on the 7.1 billion online game market early, and it is naturally unwilling to be mediocre.
In fact, whether it is Atletico Madrid itself, or the developers of the game department, or even other players have competitors, no one can accurately define what type of game the current "Daming" is, role-playing, simulation management, adventure decryption, real-time strategy and other game elements all have a place in this game, and at the same time, this game also has a strong sandbox, platform, realistic, no main line, no goal, With six untethered features, plus a super huge map and already a super large number of NPCs, there is no doubt that this is a monster-level product.
"Daming OL" is not the first online game with the theme of traveling through time and space, at least before it, it was an instant hit with the free national war game "Rabbit OL", and is planning to go public in the United States to recruit rabbit company, and recently launched the same time-traveling theme "Giant OL".
According to the news revealed above in the game media, this new game is 2. The 5D lock perspective is set in 2060, and 14 elites of various professions are dispatched to 1850, ten years before the British and French forces ransacked and burned the Old Summer Palace, intending to change history and shame the Snow Country. These 14 protagonists are the game's 14 classes and player templates, but unlike other online games, players can freely switch classes. According to the available information, this game is actually a sci-fi version of the clear version of "Rabbit", and the British will destroy the law or something, and I am afraid that in the end it will give way to the "Legion War" and "National War" between players who are fighting each other.
In comparison, the timeline of "Da Ming" is two hundred years earlier, choosing the earth in 1628.
This year, the Yellow River did not flow into the Huaihai Sea, but relied in the course of the Huai River for more than 400 years.
In this year, Emperor Napoleon was not yet born, so naturally there was no triumphal arch, but the Champs-Élysées already existed, but at this time there was a boulevard leading to the Louvre. Because the road was built at the request of Empress Medisis, it is also known as the "Queen's Boulevard".
It is worth mentioning that at this time, Europe was still at the end of feudal society, modern natural science had not yet developed, and the cities were basically dirty and smelly. However, it seems that there are already spices and perfumes to hide body odor.
Because the practical steam engine would not be invented for more than 100 years, the industrial revolution was still early, but the British capital-production-class-revolution-life was already in the making. In times of social upheaval, some people choose to rise up, while others choose to flee their homes. In 1620, the Mayflower, an immigrant ship, transported 102 Puritans from Plymouth, England, to establish the first colony in North America, New England, which was later believed to be the ancestors of the Americans. However, because of the special terrain of the North American continent, there are few mountains and the north-south direction, and there are no cold waves in winter and hurricanes in summer, this group of people actually did not leave a few descendants, and basically all of them became pioneers.
A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with a wind speed of more than 33 meters per second, and is called a typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean and a cyclone in the Indian Ocean.
The future father of the United States, George Washington, the "Falling Cherry Blossom God Axe", will not come to this world for another hundred years, but in the world of "Daming", there should be no United States of America in the future, at least there should be no more in the national server version of "Daming OL".
In 1627, Zhu Youxiao, the "carpenter emperor" of the Ming Dynasty's Wonderful Emperor Army, died unexpectedly at the age of only one year. Because he had no children under his knees, he was finally succeeded by his fifth brother Xinwang, a 17-year-old minor Zhu Youzhen, and then changed to Yuan Chongzhen half a year later. Born in 1611, Zhu Youzhen dedicated his youth to the superficial career of the emperor, diligent and conscientious, but in the end it was difficult to resolve the crisis of bankruptcy and bankruptcy of the Ming Empire, and finally had to commit suicide in anger when the city was broken, adding a record of "hanging the emperor" to the army of the Ming Emperor.
Similarly, with the interference of tens of thousands of players crossing the road, the probability of history going the same way is almost non-existent. Zhu Youzhen may eventually be ousted from power, but at least he will not cut off the arm of his eldest daughter, Zhu Yujiao (měic), and then hack her third daughter to death, and then hang herself.
Princess Zhu Zhu Yujiao of Changping is the first heroine of "Daming", she and the first beauty Chen Yuanyuan have frequent appearances in the game's official wallpaper and official CG, but at this time Chen Yuanyuan is only five years old in the game world, and she has not been born at all.
The reason why this miserable princess of the dead country was chosen as the heroine of the game is because of her high popularity "Blue Blood Sword" female number two and "Deer and Ding Ji" big dragon set, and on the other hand, it is also the reason why the development team feels that Chen Yuanyuan's identity and story are somewhat controversial. As for Da Yu'er and Concubine Dong E, in order to prevent some players from being fascinated by beauty like the legendary Hong Chengchou, they were both designed to be more in line with the bloodline of the Aixin Jueluo family, and the production team was required to design the male and female characters on the Manchu side with strict reference to the Qing palace portraits and photos of the late Qing Dynasty, and it was strictly forbidden to appear characters similar to the Qing court dramas.
Princess Changping has it, but as for the heroes and heroines of the novel "Blue Blood Sword" Yuan Chengzhi and Wen Qingqing, they are not in this world. First, there is a copyright issue, and second, the historical exploits of Yuan Chonghuan, the hidden protagonist of this book, are too controversial.
According to the plot in "Blue Blood Sword", history will be revived in 1628, Yuan Chonghuan, who is holding the sword of Shangfang and supervising Liaodong, is a hero of the anti-Qing Dynasty, but in the end he was imprisoned and executed because the emperor fell into a counter-plot, and in the end it was actually the most cruel thousand knives, and everyone in Beijing fought for his flesh.
According to the views of some others, Yuan Chonghuan is a traitor, at least a warlord, and an incompetent warlord who can only brag and amplify words. The reason is that he used Shang Fang's sword to kill his subordinate Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of Dongjiang Town, and insisted on resisting the great cause of the Qing Dynasty behind enemy lines. In the end, Dongjiang Town was not only unable to continue the great cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty because of the leaderless dragons, but many people, such as Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, successively voted for the Manchu Qing Dynasty and became big traitors. The person who created the traitor is also a traitor, so Yuan Chonghuan has also become a traitor in the eyes of these people.
Whether Yuan Chonghuan is loyal or traitorous, and how the warlords of Liaodong and the civil landlords of Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty hollowed out this old empire is not something they need to pay attention to. They just set the historical background and various basic information before the game was launched according to the official information, and then set the AI program and logic of the NPC of the main historical figure with reference to the biographies, and then basically put the historical data aside.
The next development and evolution of the game world will be determined by the tens of thousands of players. Whether they are helping Ming, or surrendering, or becoming their own king, or crossing the sea to Southeast Asia to leave independence, or even the establishment of Australia and the domination of North America, everything only depends on the player's online banking balance.
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