"But in addition to the kind of situation that you've just gotten to, there's another possibility — they can form a private alliance and band together to make more equity demands on us." Andre looked grim and raised a worst-case scenario, "If they do, we have no choice but to be forced to back down, otherwise the plan to upgrade the spell network will come to naught." ”

"Rest assured, the reality is unlikely to be the kind of situation you fear." Roland smiled confidently, "I will make it clear in my letter to them that if someone is not involved in this matter, the equity that should be shared by that person will be divided equally among the other participants." Let's assume that the five invitees privately form an offensive and defensive alliance, threatening us with a collective absence as a weapon to give up more shares, and considering that the participants will benefit from the absentees, who do you guess will abide by the offensive and defensive alliance and really miss the event? ”

André is worthy of being a legendary archmage, and in an instant he realizes that Roland has used a clever game strategy to create a conflict of interest between the five invitees and destroy the foundation of their alliance.

This is like the "prisoner's dilemma", from the collective interest, everyone remains silent is the best decision, but from the perspective of personal interests, everyone will rush to denounce their comrades in order to get a chance to reduce their sentence.

Andre pondered with his eyebrows, and suddenly turned to face Roland: "According to your strategy, we can further reduce the equity of those five, such as reducing it to 4% each, and they will still accept it in the end, after all, it is better to take less than nothing." ”

Roland shook his head and smiled bitterly: "It is reasonable to give each of them 8% of the shares, 4% is not to seek cooperation, but almost insulting, Mr. Andre, people are not machines, rationality is always limited, negotiation is not to solve equations, not only to consider the ideal state of the game strategy, but also to grasp the complex human nature." ”

There has never been, and will never be, a purely rational person in the world. A large number of repetitive experiments by behavioral economists on the "ultimatum game" show that human beings are not always so rational, and that a person may behave irrationally when he is provoked, preferring not to gain himself - or even to suffer some losses - to fight to the death and punish those who anger him, perhaps this is the so-called "bottom line".

Roland became the majority shareholder of the spell network, and then he could give full play to his sense of ownership and put forward his own ideas for the upgrade prospects of the spell network.

"Mr. Andre, there are a lot of spell networks currently existing in the Varess world, and there are also networks covering the whole Tianyu, such as the 'magic network' of the Yashan Empire, as well as the 'arcane network' founded by the Feizhen royal family, even if our spell network is successfully upgraded, it has no competitive advantage compared with the above-mentioned networks, especially considering that network services have externalities, the first-mover advantage is very significant, and the same type of service will always appear that the stronger the stronger, the winner takes all, and the later competitors are congenitally at a disadvantageIf it lacks characteristics, it will be difficult to gain a foothold in the fierce competition. ”

André agrees with Roland, but his intention to upgrade the network is only to provide more attentive services to existing users, and he has no intention of competing with other spell networks, so he doesn't care much about the prospects. However, the spell network is no longer under the exclusive control of Beacon Mountain, and he must respect the opinion of Roland, the majority shareholder.

"What do you mean by 'special'?"

Roland held up four fingers and calmly stated his expectations.

"First of all, the upgraded spell network must at least cover the entire Varestianyu, which is the most basic service guarantee, and there is no need to say more."

"Secondly, the upgraded spell network can transmit magic broadcasts, so that the radio programs we produce can be heard throughout the Far East and even the whole of Vares, which is a special service for Internet users, and it is also conducive to us to seize the propaganda position."

"Thirdly, I want to come up with a way to make the spell network accessible to those who don't have the ability to cast spells. Compared with those spell networks that occupy a leading position and have a large number of users, we are nameless and small, and it is difficult to compete with oligarchs for users, but most of the spellcasters are not born, and those who cannot cast spells now may also gain the ability to cast spells through learning or faith in the future. ”

"Last but not least, I hope that the upgraded spell network will no longer be just an 'arcane network', but will be able to load arcane, magical, trap and psychic abilities at the same time, and include all arcane spellcasters, magic casters, trap warlocks and psionics into the user category, and our spell network will be 'comprehensive' and 'universal' as the biggest feature, which is undoubtedly more competitive than a single 'arcane network' or 'magic network'!"

After talking about his vision of a spell network, Roland had to return to reality and asked André with anticipation: "In your opinion, is it possible for these ideas I have enumerated to come true?" ”

"First of all, I have to admit that your idea is very exciting and exciting, as for the feasibility......" Andrei stroked his beard and said cautiously, "Let's analyze them one by one." ”

"Needless to say, the first one is the upgrade goal of the spell network, and the second one is also easy to achieve, there is no technical difficulty in the magic guide broadcast based on the spell network, as long as the cost is controlled a little; As for the third trait you mentioned, it's actually not that hard to get non-spellcasters online, remember what I said earlier' about the 'Magic Channel'? Originally, I planned to use this invention to enable ordinary people to listen to the magic radio, and since they can listen to the radio, of course, they can connect to the spell network, and even set up their own spell slot account like a real spellcaster, and make deposits, withdrawals, and transfer transactions. ”

"Well said, that's exactly what I wanted!" Roland's face was beaming.

André was puzzled by Roland's unusual agitation, but without delving into it, his mind quickly moved on to the next question.

"The last feature you just mentioned, on the contrary, is the most difficult to achieve, first of all, the most common arcane network and magic network, in fact, arcane and magic are similar, can be completely connected to the grid circulation, in reality, isn't this the 'magic network'? The reason for the division is not mainly due to technical obstacles, but to political and religious factors. A sneering sneer appeared on Andrei's lips.

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