Chapter 502: Private Island
Jester didn't know that his opponent was in trouble at the beginning.
In fact, he didn't have much time to focus on this development, and in the initial discussion, he had to set the tone for the initial development of this game, so this discussion will be held for three days, which is basically extremely rare in Mars Entertainment.
The reason is very simple, at the end of this month, Jester is going to plan his wedding, so naturally there is not much time to waste here.
Time flies.
Towards the end of the month, the initial development of "Requiem for an Outland" is almost on track.
In fact, there is nothing particularly difficult about the initial development of this game - to be precise, there will be no particularly difficult technical difficulties in the development of games in this era, and the most difficult point of "Outlander Requiem" is its plot, which is after all a game that uses a very tense plot to sublimate.
That's why, decades later, even though the game's graphics are noticeably outdated, there are still so many fans who can't put it down.
Although Jester's plot text about "Requiem for an Outland" has been written for hundreds of pages, there are still a lot of things about some settings and the like, and the plot can only be regarded as a relatively detailed outline, not to mention the language and wording of the plot.
And "Requiem for an Exotic Town" was often bragged about by fans later for its level of writing like a super-first-class novel.
This is not difficult to do.
After all, Jester has prepared a development team of more than 20 people, and more than half of them are specially polished for the plot text.
At the beginning of development, the main thing was to improve all the plots.
As for the artist, he only does some hand-drawn scenes, while the technician completes the preliminary production of the game engine according to the game type and some systems or game functions written in the settings with Jester, which is also the tradition of Mars Entertainment.
Half of their game development is based on the type or style of the game, or the bottom layer is more appropriate.
It's not about making an engine and then swapping it between different games.
Because Jester hates this kind of engine use the most, the name is a game of different types and styles, but the most intuitive feeling of making a player is like a multiple, of course, there are artistic reasons for this, but more, it is still a problem with the engine.
Although Jester also knows.
He did this in the 2D era, so when the engine requirements are not high, he can do it, even at the beginning of the 3D era, it is not impossible to do this, but if he lives in the era in the future, when the 3D technology is very mature, he has to write a separate 3D engine if he doesn't make a game.
Then the cost is not proportional to the cost.
However, the things in the future will be talked about in the future, and what can be easily done now, Jester will naturally not be stingy in this regard.
Claudia also rushed back from the UK at this time, and the negotiations with Ubisoft were also very smooth, and Ubisoft's proposal to exchange shareholdings was rejected by Claudia, but directly replaced with a personal capital injection of shares, and the investor was Claudia, and now Claudia and Jester are about to get married.
Originally, Claudia wanted Jester to inject capital as an investor.
But to be honest, Jester's current vision is not at all satisfied by companies like Ubisoft, in his eyes, it is companies at the level of Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple that make him interested in investing.
Although in the future, Ubisoft's market capitalization will also be billions at its peak.
But in the eyes of Jester now, billions are a piece of fart, and next year Sandy. Will reorganizes the Commercial Credit Company into the Travelers Group, and after a few years of merger with Citibank, his assets will swell to an unimaginable level, and he will even become one of the richest people in the whole of the United States, or indeed in the whole of the world.
Of course, the main thing in this is net worth and influence.
If you want money, then nothing is faster than doing finance, for example, he was with Sandy. Will teamed up to see the appreciation of the Japanese yen on Monday, followed by oil futures for the Gulf War a year later, and Japanese index futures for the Great Hanshin Earthquake a few years later.
Thinking of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Jester also thought of the century-old Bank of Bahrain, which went bankrupt as a result.
In fact, Jester does have the idea of buying a bank, after all, it is much more convenient for a bank to transfer funds than not.
Moreover, banks are the core of the consortium.
Now, although the assets are only in the initial stage for those large consortiums, they have barely achieved it, and it is time to plan in advance for the establishment of their own consortium, and the Bank of Bahrain is a good choice.
Of course, there are a lot of problems to solve, and it's not that simple.
Gulfstream's private jet has not yet been delivered, because in addition to some problems before, the construction period will be delayed by two months, but for Jester and Claudia, although there are some regrets, it is not unacceptable, because Gulfstream provided them with a plane for free for temporary use.
This is considered as compensation for delays in the construction period.
The private island that Jester bought was New Zealand, and the area was not large, but there were not many private islands for sale in New Zealand.
In order to keep his business, Jester had to sell part of his fixed property to save his business, but his most valuable property was this private island called Slipper.
But then again.
There are many people in the world who can afford private islands, but there are not many people who want to buy them but can afford to buy them.
In addition, there are those who expect to be able to take over as much as possible, so naturally there are even fewer.
It just so happened that Jester found out about this, so he got in touch with the wealthy New Zealand businessman.
Jester has never been a stingy person, although the agent also reminded Jester that he could use this opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to lower the price, and he could probably get it at a price of less than 80% of the market price, but Jester still refused with a smile.
He didn't think it was necessary.
When the other party is in a dilemma, the benefits obtained by falling into the well are only minimal, and this is not their own enemy or anything.
Jester had a good conversation with the wealthy New Zealander who wanted to sell his private island, and finally reached an agreement for the real price.
And this money is indeed a relief for the wealthy New Zealander.
The New Zealand tycoon is also very grateful to Jester for his generosity, and the two have become good friends, mainly because Jester knows that the New Zealand tycoon has a lot of influence in New Zealand, and although he bought this private island, it is only used as a leisure resort.
It may be once or twice a year, and the total time may not be a month.
Therefore, it is very necessary to ask a local head snake to take care of it.
The Slipper cost Jester less than $3 million, which is definitely not a low price, and it is definitely a high price for a private island in this era.
If you use this money to go to the Caribbean and buy those private islands.
You can probably buy two of them.
Located 4 km off the coast of the Coromandel, Slipper, also known as Whakahau, is a 224-hectare island with two main residences and more than a dozen detached bungalows, all with direct access to the beach and views of the ocean and the coastline of the Coromandel Peninsula.
Of course, this is a small private airport.
Although it is not possible to park large passenger aircraft, there is absolutely no problem with the take-off and landing of private jets.
On top of that, there is also a horse farm on the island, of course, there are no good horses, but for Claudia, as a traditional British nobleman, Claudia is also very interested in raising horses.
At an early age, Claudia was required to learn to ride a horse.
Even when she was in a girls' school, she also signed up to learn polo, although she didn't have a lot of time in the past few years, and basically didn't go to a few horse races or polo matches, but she still raised a few good horses, and Jester also saw them, but he didn't have any knowledge about raising horses.
I don't know much about this line of work either.
However, after seeing the horse farm on this island, Claudia still liked it very much, and planned to transport several of the horses she kept in London here after the wedding.
Jester and Claudia first arrive on Slipper Island, accompanied by the wedding planners.
Jester hired the best relevant contractor in the whole of North America this time, and all the requirements for the wedding were agreed upon by Claudia and them, basically the consensus reached by Jester and Claudia was that this time it should be held in a low-key manner, and the people invited were only limited to friends on both sides.
There was just one thing that made Claudia a little dissatisfied.
When Jester sent an invitation to his most important partner, Samsung's president Lee Kun-hee, Lee Kun-hee immediately said that he would definitely attend Jester's wedding.
But the earliest one who came was Li Fuzhen. R1152