In the dead of night, Gu Cheng, who returned to the rental house, did not rest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A newly bought desk lamp rested on a wooden wardrobe, because the power strip was dragged too far, the voltage was unstable, and it flickered and dimmed.

Gu Cheng was sitting on the desk under the lamp and sorting out his notes.

"Historically, although the 'Dragon Clan' surpassed 'Legend' in popularity in Dongyi during the same period. However, after the introduction of these two into the Chinese market, the market data has reversed. Among them, the biggest objective reason is that Legend is more suitable for the relatively primitive network infrastructure environment of Huaxia at that time.

The PK of the dragon clan is too intense, the output ability of the character is too high relative to the character's HP, and life and death are often between the line. Problems such as lag and frame drops are much more costly in Dragons than in Legends. After 2 seconds, a level 100 player will be counter-killed by a level 90 enemy.

The legend is a clever replica of Blizzard's Diablo 2 game's advanced design of 'slowly recovering health after using a blood vial'. This is significantly better than the traditional 'instant health after using the blood vial' design in terms of game experience - slow health recovery makes the game's PK and monster killing rhythm more peaceful, and players don't have to card the precise timing of the blood vial, further enhancing the legend's forgiveness at high latency network speeds.

And these fault tolerances are very necessary for the Chinese market, where the broadband penetration rate among netizens is only one-fifth of that of Dongyi. This means that if dragons are introduced, only first-tier cities and second-tier cities with better network infrastructure can have fun playing, and the introduction of legends can ensure that Internet café users in third- and fourth-tier cities can also participate.

On the one hand, because of the overemphasis on tactical coordination and restraint, it is easy for characters with restrained playing styles and skills to appear in the dragon clan, and in the case of a level higher than 10% of the restrained person, there is still a greater possibility of being defeated - this sense of restraint weakens the player's enthusiasm for leveling.

In Legends, even though there are also combat, legal, and Taoist professions, it is unlikely that a level 30 player will be killed by a level 27 restraint.

On the other hand, the aforementioned instantaneous health regeneration setting is also the main reason for the lack of dragon leveling achievement. This setting is a disguised suppression for high-HP classes, resulting in a relatively weak and unbalanced warrior class among dragons, which will inevitably affect consumption in the long run.

Finally, the best equipment for the Dragons is too easy to obtain compared to Legendary, leaving players with the motivation to continue to invest for years......"

Gu Cheng remembered it very seriously, and he meditated and revised it from time to time, taking out all the analytical capabilities he had accumulated in his later years to make entertainment products. It also fully combines the objective data collected and experienced by today's actual collection and experience, and lists a detailed analysis report.

The point he wrote in his notes that "instantly refilling after drinking blood will make a high-HP profession lose its sense of achievement" may not be well understood by laymen. Translated in human terms, it is:

For example, the upper limit of 50,000 HP for a level 100 warrior in the Dragon Clan, 10,000 for a mage/priest, 20,000 for a bow/thief without a minor spell and focusing on adding blood, and the lowest HP in the game, only about 10,000 if you minor in some BUFF spells.

Originally, the warrior's HP was 3 times that of Fa and 2 and a half times that of a thief, which was very fulfilling.

However, what about 20 10,005 large blood vials in both sides' bags? Because clicking on it will instantly restore blood, and there is no blood vial cooldown time, and you can drink it continuously, which leads to the fact that as long as the warrior can't kill the thief/mage with one sword, then the upper limit of blood volume is meaningless, and it depends on who points the blood vial in time.

The upper limit of 50,000:20,000 blood between warriors and thieves was actually 350,000:320,000 in the actual PK, and in terms of proportion, the warrior's sense of superiority was greatly reduced.

And the warrior's lack of skill and spell support must have been greatly suppressed in the early versions of Dragonborn.

In fact, later history also proves this, and the players who play the dragon are basically more than the legendary player Sven.

This is not to say that people who play warriors are vulgar, but most vulgar people will play warriors. It's like "those with good grades in liberal arts don't necessarily go to liberal arts, but those with poor grades in science will definitely go to liberal arts."

The dragons' suppressive sense of implicit accomplishment of the warrior profession naturally caused the two major online game backbones of the Void Coal Boss and the hot-blooded little hooligan to collectively fall into the legendary game.

After the legend became popular, other online games slowly noticed this problem and began to learn the "slowly return health after drinking blood" design that started in Diablo 2, or added a cooldown time to the blood vial. Only then did you save the sense of accomplishment of the warrior class - what's wrong with your blood vials? You don't have a chance to drink too many blood vials, and you don't have time to drink them!

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From the perspective of decades later, this kind of analysis is simply done behind closed doors, with no big data support at all.

But in 2000, under today's limited conditions, Gu Cheng can only do this.

"Turn off the lights and go to sleep. Gu Cheng turned out the lamp and slept on the broken bed, feeling more confident in his heart.

Maybe Xiaobai will ask: After going around in a circle, in the end, he still didn't decide to act as a legend? Wouldn't it be good to jump to the conclusion directly, what kind of big-tailed wolf professional is pretending?

The thing is, it's really different.

A reborn person with a low IQ, if he doesn't have any qualities, he just relies on the prophetic prescience of a reborn person to bump into it, maybe the general direction is fine.

But let's ask: When Dongyi Development Company raises the agency fee, what reason do you have to bargain? After the agency right is taken back to China, how to find the positioning of the target market city?

If these can't be analyzed, just remember the conclusion that "Chen Tianqiao took the legendary agency and made a fortune when he returned to China" and did it, it would definitely be a dead life.

Not to mention anything else, if you get the agency of "Legend", return to China to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, which have a better network environment, as the first wave of the main market, and fight with the agent of the "Dragon Family", then the Legend will definitely be killed without leaving a piece of armor - people's Internet speed can play "Dragon Family", and the "Legend" of fart is still playing.

For legendary agents, "the countryside surrounds the city" is a must to understand.

When he got up the next day, Gu Cheng pondered whether he should go to the legendary developer to step on it.

He looked up information about Legend on the Internet yesterday: it was developed by a game company called WE-MADE, and the information showed that it was located in Guro District, a western suburb of Seoul.

Because of its proximity to Incheon Port and Incheon Airport, Guro is an outward-looking and economically developed area. Most of the import and export companies and software service companies in Seoul are registered there.

After washing and cleaning up, Gu Cheng went out and bought something similar to pancakes and sweets for breakfast at the subway station.

After an hour of pouring the subway, Gu Cheng found the WEMADE company according to the address copied down on the Internet: it was in an office building near the Jiulao subway station.

The company occupies an entire floor on the 7th floor, and Gu Cheng visually measured the scale of hundreds of people.

With the idea of giving it a try, he walked generously into the door of WEMADE.

"Hello sir, how can I help you?" said the front desk lady politely.

After all, Gu Cheng is dressed quite decently today, and his appearance is enough for the girl to give him a good face.

"I'm more interested in the 'Legend' developed by your company, and I would like to talk to your person in charge to see if there is any possibility of cooperation in adapting the online game. ”

"Do you have an appointment, or can you leave your work information?"

Gu Cheng is just here to step on the point, his company has not been registered yet, of course he can't report it.

"I'm just here to see, I'm from Huaxiaguo, and I don't have a company in Dongyi. ”

The smile of the girl at the front desk stiffened.

Her responsibilities lie in it, and it is impossible to put all the three no-personnel in it casually and disturb the leader.

"That's right...... Because I haven't heard of the project you mentioned, I'll help you ask if there are any relevant leaders. ”

The girl at the front desk picked up the internal phone on the table and dialed an internal line, and the person on the other end seemed to say that this matter was not in his hands, so he hung up.

"I'm sorry, but the leaders who can be in charge are not here. Otherwise, please leave a contact information and we will report back to you. ”

Only then did Gu Cheng remember that he hadn't even bought a mobile phone yet.

"Forget it, I'll come back later. ”

HE GAVE US ONE LAST GLANCE AT WEMADE, TURNED AWAY WITHOUT HUMILITY OR ARROGANCE, AND TOOK THE ELEVATOR DOWNSTAIRS.

Because it wasn't a commute point, the elevator was empty.

He was idle, so he read all the advertisements in the elevator.

"WEMADE, recruiting 4 C++ programmers, 2 artists, and 1 game planner......"

"CMS Vocational Training Institution, C/C++, JAVA, VB, PHP, Graphic Art Courses......"

Gu Cheng was just passing the time, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not bad to sign up for a short-term shift this time.

As a later generation of IT elites, he is of course a genius in terms of programming ideas and topological architecture, but he does not understand the most basic programming languages today, and has a big and inappropriate "dragon slaying skills".

THE MAIN REASON FOR THIS "TRAGEDY" IS THAT PRIMITIVE LANGUAGES SUCH AS C AND JAVA HAVE LONG BEEN USED IN LATER GENERATIONS. Starting with Visual-studio 2030, programming languages are becoming more and more readable. The code is getting closer and closer to the language of human logic, and even programming directly in Chinese is no problem.

It's not a bad thing to sign up for a training course to get a glimpse of the world.

Moreover, until his agency is registered, it is estimated that WEMADE will not bird him. Anyway, being idle is idle, so it's better to learn something, and maybe you can get acquainted with some people in WEMADE.

He had no doubt that in the same office building, the people from WEMADE must have charged at CMS.

"Sir, it's on the first floor, won't you go down?"

Gu Cheng was wandering when he was interrupted by a passer-by. When he looked up, it turned out that the elevator had reached the ground floor.

"Oh, no, it's on the wrong floor. He casually dealt with the passer-by, and then looked at the location of the training school written on the advertisement, and pressed the floor again.

"Hey, what a weird guy who gets overdone in the elevator. Passers-by watched Gu Cheng leave the elevator and complained about him behind his back.