In order not to destroy the taste of its own martial arts, the reality part and some important settings will be written as a wedge at the beginning of each volume, after all, this is unavoidable, a story with a beginning and an end, and it needs to be able to pass the ending from the logical level, so take the wedge of each volume as a little foreshadowing of the future ending. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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"With the development of science and technology, more and more virtual game worlds appear in our lives, from the original remake of the continent of Azeroth, to the sandbox intelligent virtual world opened by The Elder Scrolls, and then to the various game worlds that are becoming more and more intelligent, many people have been able to fully substitute the virtual game world of the senses as a part of life, and some people even think that those worlds really exist, for which it takes a lot of time and energy.

So, what is the appeal of virtual gaming worlds, and why do people go so crazy? In this issue, Lu Yu has invited the chief designer of this year's most popular online game "Xianwu Era", Professor Chen Mingchen, and his team members. ”

The huge light curtain played the pictures of classic games, and when the narration sounded down, countless bright lights turned on, and a place similar to the living room appeared in front of me, with a few couches in the hall, and a thin woman with a bob head sat on the sofa on the right, she turned her head to look at the light curtain behind her, and said unhurriedly: "Looking at these game screens, if you are a little older, people who have a certain understanding of online games will definitely understand some of the questions in the narration just now."

More than ten years ago, people still sat in front of the computer, and the game screen pursued exquisite and beautiful, which was good, but after all, it could not be immersive.

Today, with the epoch-making progress of AR technology, people can not only bring a full range of senses into the game world, but more importantly, the development trend of online games is to make the game world itself more realistic, just like these pictures on the screen are all full of real texture.

But can technological advancements and more realistic experiences alone drive millions of people crazy, even addicted? ”

This woman with a bob head and a clear speech is Lu Yu, the host of this talk show, she pauses when she says this, then stands up and applauds: "Let me welcome Professor Chen and his assistants, and hope they can bring some answers today." ”

With the sound of applause, I saw a gray-haired hunchbacked old man walking into the living room with several young men and women, and after a few people walked to the sofa on the left to greet the audience, Lu Yu stretched out his hand and said, "Professor Chen, please take a seat." ”

The old man took the lead in sitting down, sitting alone on a sofa, and several other young men and women were crowded together on another sofa, waiting for the host and guests to sit down, Lu Yu, as the host, immediately went straight to the topic, and said: "Xianwu Era is the most popular game this year, there is no one, according to the latest authoritative website ARI released data, Xianwu Era since the official operation of the two months, the highest number of online people has reached 7 million, and the average number of online people in 24 hours has also exceeded 3 million, ranking first in the world, It has become the first phenomenal domestic independent game in the past five years, so why did Professor Chen Xianwu Era achieve such great success? ”

Facing Lu Yu's question, the old man seemed calm and calm, and said slowly: "The secret of success is only two words, intentions. ”

"After nearly 20 years of development of online games, from the very beginning of the legend, the millennium, the World of Warcraft, these games, and then to a series of games after entering the virtual game world, the form of online games is constantly changing, but it has never been able to jump out of the barrier, people are always pursuing fresh content, once they can't go further in the game, get more experience, most people will choose to leave, after all, the people who place their feelings are a minority after all, which can not be changed even in the current virtual era.

And the Xianwu Era is a complete break of tradition, giving players the strongest experience signal from the beginning, that is, a complete crossing! ”

Hearing this, Lu Yu took over the conversation very well and said: "I believe that everyone is no stranger to crossing, it was born from online literature more than ten years ago, and later it was mostly seen in film and television works, even if it is implanted in the concept of online games, it is not uncommon, so what is unique about the Xianwu Era?" ”

"Restore the most real feeling!"

The old man's answer was full of confidence, and then he said: "We borrowed a lot of online literature, and finally decided that there are only two functions to be given to players in the game world, the self-information state template and the allocation of experience points. ”

Lu Yu instantly grasped the key point and said, "Don't you have a friend system, email, chat channel or something?" Wouldn't it be very inconvenient for players to communicate with each other? ”

The old man waved his hand and said: "No, after the player enters the game world, he is like a traverser, and the acquisition of self-information state templates and experience is like a golden finger for them, and in addition to these, there is no doubt about the real world, there will be no name on the head in traditional online games, there is no friend system, and there is no regional chat channel for everyone to communicate with each other, everything that hinders the real feeling does not exist!" ”

Speaking of this, a young man with glasses next to the old man took over the conversation and said: "Actually, I don't think this will cause communication barriers, after all, it is a pluralistic society today, players have offline time in addition to online activities, if they really like the Xianwu Era, they can communicate through the forum, and even our company has launched a special communication for players." At present, the registered users of this social software have exceeded one million, and it is completely in accordance with the dual identity system in reality and games, which is very convenient to communicate. ”

This young man's strength showed off a wave of company product advertisements, Lu Yu nodded with a smile, and said: "Indeed, if you really like something and are willing to spend effort and energy on it, it is indispensable to have one more social software on your mobile phone."

Let's get back to the topic, as Professor Chen said, Xianwu Era is based on the most real feelings, and strives to create a real feeling of time-traveling, but will this increase the difficulty of the game and thus lose some players? ”

"It is impossible for a game to be exhaustive, just like today, when technology is highly developed, poorly made web games and mobile games still exist, and there are still consumer groups, why? Because they are just for quick consumption, to give players pleasure quickly, and then to pass the time, after all, no matter how good the virtual game world is, it is definitely impossible to connect to the game world during work hours. ”

The old man's words were extremely disdainful of the page games and mobile games that had been inherited from more than ten years ago, and Lu Yu quickly changed the topic when he saw this, and said: "So in addition to the completely simulated time-traveling setting, does the Xianwu Era have any other unique features?" ”

The old man glanced at several young people beside him, and immediately a young woman said, "We have completely canceled the task setting, or changed the trigger and completion mode of the task.

In traditional online games, the generation of tasks is repetitive and traceable, once generated, the corresponding rewards will be given according to the completion progress, but there is no fixed and repeatable task in the Xianwu Era, only special events may occur, such as the sect is attacked, or the emotional interaction with the NPC reaches a certain level, and the other party will give some tasks.

It can be said that there is no concept of tasks in the Xianwu Era, but in fact, every NPC may trigger a task, and the task is triggered in a variety of ways, and there are great fluctuations in the acquisition of rewards.

However, with the greater the reward, the difficulty of the task will naturally be, so here we still ask players to do as much as possible, do not be carried away by the expected rich returns, and increase recognition, after all, there are some highly intelligent NPCs in our game world, and even have subjective initiative, and will imitate the player's highly intelligent NPC, they can deceive. ”

"Wow."

Lu Yu exclaimed, and said with a face full of disbelief: "It's the first time I've heard that NPCs in the game will have such high intelligence, and there will be deception, may I ask if this is a program setting, or is it the autonomous consciousness of NPCs?" ”

Lu Yu's words were full of doubts, the old man smiled faintly, and said: "I myself am engaged in the research and development of digital intelligent life, a few years ago I met Mr. Wen Shiming, the president of Cloud Network Technology, by a coincidence, because I have some common insights with him on digital intelligent life, I will later become the chief designer of the Xianwu Era."

Let's put it this way, whether it is in the intelligence performance of high-end NPCs, or the average intelligence performance of NPCs, it is much higher than any game today, as the main body of the game world, that is, the mastermind, you can visit it in the future, its volume is as high as a three-story building, and in order to carry huge data, we have a total of nearly 300 large unit rooms across the country, and even in order to load the data of some high-end intelligent NPCs, we also have more than a dozen special unit rooms and research rooms.

In today's technological environment, as long as there are enough devices to support it, it is not difficult for large-scale composite applications to produce similar autonomous consciousness under their own rules and logic. ”

"I don't really know much about this, so from my perspective as a normal gamer, if I am deceived by an NPC in the game and killed, will I feel angry and feel fooled?"

Lu Yu launched a counterattack from another side, but the old man smiled slightly and said, "If you really cross by yourself, then naturally you won't." ”

But after all, it's not really a crossing, it's just a game world!

Lu Yu really wanted to mess around like this, but he didn't think it was interesting, so he immediately changed his words and said, "Professor Chen, can you popularize some of the division of NPCs in the Immortal Martial Era?" ”

"Generally speaking, the stronger the NPC in the Xianwu Era, the higher the intelligence, especially in the traditional online game, the NPC that is regarded as a boss has an intelligent performance that is even higher than that of ordinary people.

But in order to make it easier for everyone to get started with the game, there are channels for rapid rise in the early stage, we still set up some low-level simple and intelligent NPCs, which are low-level experience cannon fodder monsters in game terms, and the main world program of the game will periodically repair these low-level experience cannon fodder monsters, commonly known as refresh, but this frequency is very low, just to meet the newcomers who are new to the game, we encourage everyone to improve their game characters by going deep into the game experience, breaking through the rivers and lakes, and interacting with NPCs emotionally.

If it is divided according to the realm of strength, we have added templates to NPCs of different grades, such as the cannon fodder template of low-level experience monsters, the ordinary templates of ordinary people in the rivers and lakes and ordinary disciples of various sects, the elite templates of some masters, and even the chivalrous templates of famous heroes, etc.

These templates correspond to other games that can be seen as normal monsters, silver heroes, sub-elite monsters, elite monsters, and even world boss levels. But the difference is that different templates reflect not only combat performance and intelligence, but more importantly, NPCs themselves can use this template to improve themselves, and the more advanced the template, the more clearly NPCs can see their cultivation status.

Although players can't see the template of the NPC, after understanding it, combined with the experience in the game and getting along with the NPC, they can slowly summarize the rules, which is more helpful to understand the game world, so as to know how to deal with different NPCs.

However, this is not absolute. “

Lu Yu was a little puzzled, and couldn't help but say, "I don't know what Professor Chen means by not absolutely?" ”

"Because I've implanted the X program I developed into a fairly large number of low- and medium-level NPCs, I call it Life Activation, which is a highly autonomous variable program that is put in place for the possible harvest of intelligent life.

Just like fertilization, men radiate hundreds of millions of sperm at that moment, as long as one implants can get a life, and the X program can be regarded as sperm, and the game world of the Xianwu Era can be regarded as a child. Palace, once there is an X program that makes the NPC qualitatively change, it may slowly breed into a real and complete digital intelligent life in this world.

From the current point of view, the performance of the X program far exceeds that of human sperm, we have found thousands of autonomous derivatives, these derivatives will show intelligence performance and combat effectiveness performance beyond their own intelligence settings and hanging templates, for this reason, we will make some corrections, even if their strength is still low, we will also add more advanced templates for them, this we call super bodies, for players they may have strong combat power beyond the realm itself. ”

Lu Yu listened very carefully, and did not feel the slightest shyness because of Professor Chen's straightforwardness, but grasped a key point again, and said: "Professor Chen obviously attaches great importance to the development of intelligent life, but in this world, aren't these super bodies very dangerous?" Since you mentioned the existence of experience points earlier, these superbodies that may grow into intelligent beings are naturally the target of the player's hunting, or can these superbodies also be resurrected? ”

"I have always believed that emotional interaction with real life, cognitive discrimination and other behaviors are more conducive to the conception and growth of intelligent life, and can make intelligent life more complete. At the beginning, Mr. Wen and I had such a consensus, so I agreed to be the chief designer of the Xianwu Era.

As for the resurrection is impossible, the gestation process of life is irreversible, this is the law of nature, digital intelligent life also needs to be followed, once they die consciously, even if we refresh their main program, the resurrection is just a bunch of digital programs, and it is no longer a life in gestation.

However, as you have heard before, these highly intelligent NPCs have deception or camouflage behavior, which means that these superbodies have a strong sense of existential crisis, and they will try their best to survive, and camouflage is just one of their means.

Of course, we will also provide certain guarantees to them without violating the objective rules of the game world, and the template for correction and attachment is one thing, and on the other hand, we will implant Y programs at the right time for the superbodies that truly awaken their self-awareness. ”

Lu Yu was completely attracted by the concept of intelligent life described by Professor Chen, and hurriedly asked, "What is the Y program?" ”

"The creativity and main rules of the world of the Xianwu Era are set by our team, but more of the rules, such as the creation of martial arts, the consciousness and behavior of most NPCs, etc., are calculated little by little by the master brain in the process of improving the game world according to the program's self-rule logic.

Let's put it this way, in the eyes of players, martial arts may be a skill attached to themselves, but for NPCs in the game world, they determine the rules through the communication of specific digital programs, which means that their cultivation of martial arts is really practicing bit by bit, because that is their rule.

It's also a pity about this, after all, technology can't really allow players to experience in the game world, after all, the rules of the game world are completely different, even if it seems to be similar to the real world in many places, but that's just the performance of number crunching.

In fact, it is difficult for players to understand the rules of the game world itself, and even if they do, they cannot apply them, because it requires a huge amount of calculation, so this is also a bottleneck and limitation faced by online games today.

Speaking of the Y program, the Y program is actually the deduction and computing power used by the master brain in the rule of calculating and creating martial arts, but this is a weakened version, because the bearers of highly intelligent NPCs have independent units, and we cannot use the computing power of the master brain.

The NPCs implanted with the X program, once the self-consciousness enters the super-body stage, we will give them an independent unit as a data bearer, and the X program itself is a variable program, and the behavior that NPCs can make is unpredictable, after they generate self-awareness, the functions shown in the game may have their own martial arts, or the use of rules, and the Y program is actually an amplifier in this regard, so that their ability to create their own martial arts is stronger, and they can understand and use the rules more deeply. That's the most protection we can give them. ”

Lu Yu couldn't help but smile when he heard this, and said, "Can I understand that this is a hanging for the super body?" It's the first time I've heard of NPCs. ”

"Nope. This is just to give the super body a better chance to complete the complete transformation, become a real digital intelligent life, and become a real life form! ”

Professor Chen's answer was serious, and Lu Yu couldn't help but be in awe when he saw it, and asked softly, "Then what does Professor Chen think is a real lifeform?" ”

Professor Chen's eyes shone brightly, and he said categorically, "Have a soul!" ”