"How many people have left the island now?" Wutong asked a little nervously.

"Not a few!" The lion frowned and said: "The outlying island quest is actually very simple, as long as you can bring back a skeleton of an undead creature from the ruins as evidence, and complete the energy injection quest, so a large number of players have already completed this quest." ”

He paused and hesitated, "But I suspect it's not a good thing to leave the island too early!" ”

Wutong froze: "Why?" ”

"Boss, you should know that the game mode of Endless is different from most traditional online games, right? In Endless, there is no rigid task system with limited system everywhere, so no matter how you use to complete the task, it is feasible, and you don't need to complete the task step by step like in traditional online games! ”

Based on his own game experience, the lion analyzed: "However, according to the realism of "Endless", do you think that the reward that can be obtained by picking up a bone and returning it to the business can be the same as that of opening up the ruins?" ”

Wutong understood, the lion meant, as long as you hand over the bones to complete the task, compared to the trial task of the island, it seems to be too easy, it is said that there are many players who have entered the ruins, bring back a lot of bones to sell, as long as you spend a few silver coins to buy a bone, you can also complete the task, and the difficulty of the task is not out of the village.

"And I doubt that this outlying island mission has a 'mission completion'! Don't forget, what are we players called among NPCs? 'Trialist'! And what are these Endless Islands called? 'Island of Trials'! In other words, the 'purpose' of those of us players to come to these Endless Islands is to conduct a probationary trial before the official inauguration. ”

The lion said a little excitedly: "If you buy a skeleton, you can complete the task, but there must not be much 'mission completion', and the rewards you get are naturally very rubbish, and if we complete all the trial tasks on the trial island, and then go to the outlying island tasks, and get a very high degree of completion in the task of exploring the ruins, is the task reward very strong?" ”

"In theory, that's true"

Wutong thought about it against some of the things he saw from the strategy, and felt that what the lion said was not wrong, and there is no so-called "first place reward" in the game "Endless", and it doesn't matter if you go out early and go out later.

Leaving the Trial Island early is nothing more than one step ahead of others to get in touch with the blank market on the continent on the other side of the sea, but the problem is that the accumulation on the Trial Island is not enough, even if that continent is a huge cake, the appetite is too small to eat much, and even the cake will choke to death!

Why did the official set up a novice village like the Endless Islands on the premise of a traditional online game novice village, which is equivalent to an enlarged version?

In order to expand a small environment that is larger than the novice village based on the novice village, but smaller than the entire "Endless" world, so that players can adapt to the world of "Endless" as much as possible, the official painstaking efforts to do so are nothing more than because "Endless", a new concept online game that is very different from the traditional online game in terms of style and concept, can be gradually accepted by players.

However, players in the Asian and American regions, who are accustomed to fast food online games, always feel that "what's so fun about the novice village?" Just a few minutes away from the newbie village! Under this concept, there are naturally many players who pursue the level and strive to leave the trial island as soon as possible, but the moment they leave the trial island and really set foot on the other side of the sea, they will know what a nightmare is, and then they will complain that the game is too difficult, right?

Wutong, who wants to understand the key to it, suddenly sympathizes with the official R&D personnel who will be scolded by players no matter what they do, the setting is too simple, and the handicapped online game is scolded, the setting is too difficult, and the psychopathic is scolded, and you can't afford to hurt the game that pursues a reasonable surname and a real surname! You can't even survive the infinitely simplified game world, Nima is dead! Playing a hairy game, huh?

"Is there any information sent by players who have already left the island about the other side of the sea?" Sycamore asked curiously.

"Yes! And much more! ”

The lion couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the posts he saw in the official community: "Now the official community has already quarreled, some remind players who haven't left the island not to leave the island in a hurry, and some describe the outside of the island as full of gold, encouraging players to leave the island quickly." ”

"How so?" Sycamore was a little dumbfounded.

"It's very simple.,Of course, those who found themselves fooled plan to pull other people into the water.,It's better to be happy alone than to be happy.,Some people's psychology is so perverted.,Now the two factions are quarreling in the official community.,Persuade players not to rush to leave the island The faction that scolds and encourages the player to leave the island has bad intentions.,And the faction that instigates the player to leave the island.,Scold and persuade the player not to leave the island The faction has ill-intentioned intentions and wants to monopolize the resources outside the island."

The lion spread his hands helplessly and said, "Are the resources outside the island so easy to occupy?" I don't think so! As far as I know, there are no guilds with a bit of power, none of them are in a hurry to leave the island, and they are desperately accumulating strength, but there are many scattered players and small players vying to leave the island. ”

"I also suggest that our people should all complete the apprenticeship before leaving the island! Although you can officially find a job without taking a job [trainee occupation], the official will definitely not take off your pants and fart, and make a useless [trainee occupation] in one fell swoop, and if you take a job [trainee occupation] and then take a job [formal occupation], the benefits will definitely be more than direct employment [formal occupation]! ”

Uncle said very calmly, although he hadn't been exposed to many games before, but during this time, as long as he was free, he was studying the information of "Endless" against time, and now theoretically, he knew much more than the game Wutong.

"This is equivalent to going to a 'preschool' before going to a 'primary school' to lay the foundation, although I can't see any strong effect in the early stage, but in the middle and late stages, some people with a good foundation will naturally take advantage of it because the foundation is stable enough."

"According to my speculation, the 'Explore Ruins' quest, in fact, we are too advanced, as long as we get the undead bones to hand over the mission to leave the island itself, there is nothing wrong with it, but the higher the progress that can be explored, the more rewards we will get." Uncle said: "So, on the premise that we complete all the trial tasks on the trial island, we will increase the progress of the ruins as much as possible, I estimate that it will take a week of reality, that is, about twenty days in the game, a week earlier to leave the island and a week later to leave the island, for us who have a lot of savings, it will not affect anything." ”

"Yes, although we only have more than a hundred people, but in terms of equipment, skills and strength, they are several times more than ordinary players, and after such a period of training, their skills and tacit understanding are not bad, no worse than some old players."

The lion also said: "In addition, we are taking an army-style route, and the requirements for personal skirmisher skills are not so high, even against the elite groups of large guilds, with our equipment and resources, it is not a problem to kill twice as many enemies as us." Rather than leaving the island too early and entering the 'big world' on the other side of the sea to be abused by high-level monsters, it is better to stay in the 'small world' of the endless archipelago for the time being and continue to improve its strength. ”

Wutong nodded, since everyone agreed to lay a good foundation and leave the island, it would be simple, but with their current strength, it is impossible to completely open up the ruins, and it seems that they can only start by completing the trial task as much as possible.

The lion reported: "Because we don't have many people, so we only need to complete one island of the trial mission, I suggest that we focus on the island of Ogarus, after all, it is our 'birthplace', Bahadiga Island has now become the island of the dead, and it is difficult to say whether doing tasks on it can be regarded as completing the trial mission!"

While you'll have to explore the underground ruins of Ogarus Island again, it's easier than exploring Bahadiga Island, which is full of mountains and a sea of skeletons.

The trial mission in the Endless Islands region is nothing more than exploring the forests on the island, clearing the aboriginal tribes and pirate islands, and exploring the forest. The goblin leader of the big stick unified the goblin tribes in the forest, and we almost turned the forest upside down, except for some powerful aboriginal tribes and dangerous ruins that we didn't dare to approach.

Now all we have to do is to clear out the barbarian villages, bandit lairs and small groups of pirate water villages on the Haisha Plain, if I guess correctly, that pirate island may be an 'additional question', like the remains of the underground temple, it is not at all something that players in the trial period can deal with, if we complete the trial mission on Ogalus Island, our 'trial mission completion' should be able to reach 100%, plus the attack on the pirate island, I estimate that the completion level can reach more than 120%! ”

There is no hard name to stipulate what tasks must be completed in the trial process, and it completely depends on the player's own experience, and finally the all-knowing and all-powerful core consciousness god will evaluate the task and issue rewards.

Although he has not yet gone to the City Lord's Mansion on Ogalus Island to receive the trial mission, according to his judgment and estimate, he can complete 50% of the exploration of the forest, 50% of the clearing of the sea sand plain, and finally go to the dungeon in the center of the island to retrieve the bones of the undead as a certificate, and he will be able to complete the trial mission perfectly.

And the difficulty of attacking Pirate Island and exploring dungeons is too high, and it is not at all something that players in the trial period can complete, if it is also done as a trial task, the island task is counted as a one-star difficulty, attacking the Pirate Island is counted as a three-star difficulty, and exploring the dungeon is counted as a five-star difficulty, no matter which one is completed, you can get 100% completion, but the evaluation of the trial tasks of the two after completion will be higher, if you do all three tasks 300%?

"Okay, then let's temporarily explore the forest and clear the sea sand plain as the goal, if you have time and strength is enough, we will also knock down the pirate island, and then consider whether to explore the dungeon, I estimate that when we clear the sea sand plain, the equipment on the body is almost enough to reach the limit of the trial island, and it is also possible to challenge the pirate island, and if you really accidentally knock down the pirate island, it is estimated that the equipment situation will be able to challenge the ruins again"

Wutong said a little greedily: "If you complete these tasks during the trial period, it is more cost-effective than going directly to the other continent, anyway, we can end the trial period at any time, and send more people to keep an eye on the situation of those players who go to the other continent, or simply we send a few." Scouts' go over and take a look at the situation first, let's stay on the island first to complete the mission, if we have the opportunity to have time, don't talk about Ogarus Island, we even complete the trial missions on Bahadiga Island and other trial islands, although it can't increase the completion, but the reward is double! ”

The uncle nodded: "I'll arrange the 'advance team' in a while." ”

Wutong had just heard the lion mention the goblins, and couldn't help but be curious: "Hasn't the big stick been able to rise to the goblin chieftain yet?" ”

The lion shrugged his shoulders: "We helped it lay down more than a dozen goblin villages, although it now has twenty or thirty thousand goblins under its command, but it can only be regarded as the leader of the [village], and it is still far from the [tribe] chieftain, I estimate that this goblin is also a hidden mission?" With our strength and equipment, it may be a bit difficult to help it defeat the tribe. ”

Is it another late-stage mission?

You said that a novice map, what to do with so many super difficult tasks, if there is no hope at all, forget it, but the strength of their team, for various reasons, seems to be a little ahead, and they have the opportunity to challenge in advance, if it goes on like this, when did they come out of the trial island?

Wutong decided to be a little worried, first send the scouts of the advance team to leave the island to see the situation, if the situation is not right, directly complete the mission on the island, and then take the time to return to the trial island to complete these pit tasks.

These tasks can only be completed by the combatants of the Sycamore, not the Uncle, and they will not leave the Endless Islands for the time being, because they will stay here to meet the second wave, the third wave, and even the possible fourth and fifth wave of players.

After operating for so long, the territory of the Endless Islands, whether it is the "Secret Shadow" Guild or the "Islands Chamber of Commerce", will not give up easily, not to mention, the business license certificate of the "Islands Chamber of Commerce" can only take effect if it is limited to the Endless Islands region.

Now that the Endless Islands have made it clear that they can come back in the middle and late stages, Uncle has decided to build the Endless Islands region into a huge logistics base and raw material supply base for the "Secret Shadow" guild.

That's the raw materials purchased by nearly 10 million gold coins, and this number is also increasing with the expansion of the power of the "Secret Shadow" guild, as well as the increase in the number of craftsmen under it, and the output of various consumables is increasing.

Because of the early start, within the influence of the "Secret Shadow" guild, more than eighty percent of the casual players who were lucky enough to obtain [professional] and [craft] skills were signed into the name of the "Secret Shadow" guild, and the remaining two percent were either unwilling to be a production profession or recruited by other player guilds.

However, fools also know that the average guild can't afford to raise too many craftsmen at all, and recruit a small number of them, just to provide the needs of the guild's internal members after they are cultivated.

Moreover, in order to meet the needs of all the guild members, the number of full-time craftsmen must reach at least about one percent of the number of guild members, and this is only a single craft, if you want all kinds of supplies and consumables, all of which are self-produced and self-sufficient, you must maintain full-time craftsmen equal to the number of guild members according to a ratio of 1:1!

This is not realistic at all, cultivating a craftsman, from feeding them materials to burn skills, to really being able to produce products to make a profit, the funds consumed, can almost train a hundred elite warriors, if it is in the middle and late stages, it is also cost-effective to invest in a surname for life, but now, there is such a huge amount of money from the guild to train craftsmen?

Also, how many players with [Professional] and [Craft] skills are willing to become full-time Craftsman? The vast majority of them are part-time! Even if they took half of their time to produce, that would have to be cut in half!

There are also some guilds that use the method of recruiting craftsmen to stay idle first, but this method makes it clear that these players who have mastered the [professional] and [craft] skills will be far behind their peers at that time, and it is better to directly recruit the craftsmen with higher skill levels to come in at that time.

But the pain is that if you don't keep them idle, these handicraftsmen and talents will be snatched away early, and then they will face a situation where there is no one to recruit.

If there is no "Secret Shadow" guild, everyone is on the same starting line, and they all tacitly agree not to recruit handicraft talents for the time being.

The ghost knows that the "Secret Shadow" guild has such a huge amount of money, which can support so many craftsmen at once, and it is also like not bad money, and those who come do not refuse to buy all kinds of raw materials!

"Who's going to stop them!?"

This may be the wailing voice of all guild bosses, because if this continues, it is clear that the entire supply and consumables market in the middle and late stages will be completely monopolized by the "Secret Shadow" guild!

For this unknown "Secret Shadow" guild that has never appeared in the guild world, countless guild players hate and love, hate their appearance, and make it clear that they have monopolized too many ways to make money in the future, and they love their appearance, and provide the masses of people with available cheap weapons and equipment and various consumables.

The things in the NPC store,Basically,It's not for players at all.,Although the surname and quality are very strong.,But the price is very devastating.,A medium-sized guild with a population of nearly 10,000 members.,Want to buy [ordinary] quality equipment sold in the NPC store.,Create an elite group of 100 people.,I'm afraid that the people of the whole guild will have to go bankrupt and raise funds may not be enough!

Unbelief? Look at the hundred-member elite group of the "Secret Shadow" guild, don't look at the small number of people, but there are members of the elite group of the old guild who dare to provoke them? I'm afraid of being embarrassed!

The "Secret Shadow" guild will be attacked by a sneak attack, at most it will lose some worthless materials, but if it angers them and sends a group of 100 people to block the rabbit at the door of your guild, then it is called wanting to die, there are fewer people to go out, and they are cut one by one, and they gather a big vote of people to beat each other, not to mention the shame, the equipment is not good, is it fun to be chopped up by others to chop melons and vegetables?

This is also the reason why there is only one hundred-member "Secret Shadow" guild, and no one dares to mess with it! Small guilds can't be beaten, medium-sized guilds can't be provoked, and large guilds rely on crowd tactics to win people's lives, and an obscure freshman small guild has a lot of face?

At present, there are thousands of craftsmen recruited by the "Secret Shadow" guild, there are thousands of full-time and tens of thousands of part-time workers, as well as large-scale labor groups and coolie groups trained by the "Secret Shadow" guild itself, and the number of large-scale labor groups and coolies who have not yet graduated from the study is even larger!

Whether it is full-time or part-time, the uncle is very black-hearted and signed a 10-year work contract for others, but it is also very generous that the benefits of the hardware and three insurances are not bad, full-time and part-time in addition to the basic salary of each month, dividends, commissions, rewards and other treatment are also different, after all, whether it is full-time or part-time, the training costs consumed by the guild are the same, but the output they create is very different, and naturally they can't get the high salary of full-time.

Under this perfect management mechanism and generous welfare benefits, the output of the "Secret Shadow" guild is naturally quite amazing, and the products that can be sold to the outside world at present are: cloth armor, leather armor, iron armor equipment, various weapons and crossbows, arrows and other long-range weapons.

Although the output is mainly [Inferior] and [Rough] quality equipment for the time being, the price is very approachable, and it is very popular with players who cannot afford to buy a store load.

And because the quantity is limited, you have to book in advance, and it is said that the orders are scheduled for a week later, so that the store of the "Zhudao Chamber of Commerce" has not been able to open until now, not that it can't be opened, but after it is opened, there is no goods on the shelves at all, and the output of the things has not been out of the production room, so they are directly packed and shipped away.

(To be continued)