PS: Ahem, anyway, I dug a pit in a hurry, but I fell down, because I wrote it down and found that there were too many loopholes, and I was thinking about how to round it these two days.

Forgive me.

Quickly changing the server, Lu Xiaofeng immediately finished the main city of mankind, and according to the agreement, he met Jack the Ripper in the administrative area of the blessed city.

This bloody and violent human female warrior stood in front of the fruit vendor with ease, dressed from head to toe in snow-white shining armor without the slightest variegation, which was very attractive to people's eyes.

Lu Xiaofeng secretly thought that GM is wealthy, the dyeing of snow white looks soft and beautiful, the explosion rate of dyes is very low, so the price is expensive, and the deep and restrained pure black, solid and shiny golden yellow are called the three most expensive in the dye world, the market price is more than 5 gold per bottle, the props of dye are not helpful to the improvement of combat effectiveness, but it can help sullen people to express some different psychology quietly, such as the one in front of him is dyed with the effect of a peerless pure white lotus, which makes people forget the vulgar, I have to say that it is very stylish- However, the top and bottom of the body are all dyed white on the snow, and the six-piece set is 30 gold as a base, even if it is orange equipment, it is obviously not something that ordinary players will play.

Lu Xiaofeng stepped forward and beckoned, "GM? I'm coming. ”

"Don't call me GM." Jack the Ripper said politely, "Leopard Piercing, let's call each other by ID in the game." ”

Lu Xiaofeng said that there was no objection to this, and Jack the Ripper continued: "OK, from now on the conversation between us will be recorded for later review, if there is no problem, I will start telling you about this mission." ”

“…… Recording? Lu Xiaofeng didn't expect to hear this as soon as he came, and sweated: "It's so formal, I say it's a lot of pressure." ”

"Hehe, don't be nervous." Jack the Ripper laughed: "Big companies always have such and such regulations, and they can't be avoided." Recording is just a fixed program, made for record-keeping purposes. ”

"Is that really it?" Lu Xiaofeng was skeptical.

"If you decide to accept the quest later, we'll also track your account during the quest so that you can get some information from your account at any time." Jack the Ripper said honestly: "Of course, if it's just a later conversation, only a recording, as for whether you accept the task or not, it's entirely up to you to decide, and we won't force it." ”

The other party's tone was indifferent, Lu Xiaofeng felt that it was true, the game company was so big. There will not be only one "peripheral member", maybe they are casting a wide net to catch more fish, and this task does not necessarily require their own help.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiaofeng quickly straightened his mentality, temporarily restrained his thoughts of knocking on the GM bamboo pole, and praised:

"Our company is atmospheric! I'm okay here, you can start talking to me about the mission. ”

"Okay, then I'll get started." Jack the Ripper smiled, "Before I get down to business, I have to explain something to you." ”

"Please."

"Yes. I don't know if you feel about the economic balance in the game? ”

Lu Xiaofeng didn't understand why she was asking, her brain was racing, and she said: "I don't have any research on the economic system of the game, I only say what I personally think." I've played a lot of games. I don't know whether the economy is economical or not, but I know that the game currency of most games has depreciated seriously in the middle and late stages, and the game currency is becoming less and less valuable. The recovery of game currency is doing well, and although the value of game currency has inevitably started to decrease recently, it is still quite stable overall. ”

"Yes. I'm in charge of the economic balance of the adventure, and I'm glad to have your recognition. Jack the Ripper nodded, and said: "The word balance, simply put, is to mediate the relationship between the player's output and consumption, there is a degree problem in the middle, for example, if the player's in-game output is not enough to support consumption, it will make them feel that the game is difficult to play, and it can cause the player's freshness and desire to struggle in a short period of time, but not for a long time, if there is no balance of game currency after hard work, it will discourage the player's enthusiasm and then do not want to continue the game, so most games are difficult to earn at the beginning, However, in the late game, it will become less and less difficult to earn, and the purpose is to give players a sense of accomplishment by accumulating in-game currency. ”

Lu Xiaofeng thought about it for a while, and agreed.

Jack the Ripper continued: "In addition to the level and equipment, the sense of achievement in the game is also largely determined by the deposit of game currency, but if the game currency is not valuable, the blow to the sense of achievement in the game is very big, such as the big adventure, if the gold is worthless, then what if the player has tens of thousands of gold in his hand? I'm in charge of this aspect of the game, and I'm committed to maintaining the value of the game's currency, and I've done a lot of hard work to do that, and I'm glad that I've seen that my efforts are paying off, and like you said, the price of the gold in our adventure is stable and the value is being recognized among the players. ”

Speaking of this, she suddenly asked: "Piercing Leopard, I know that you also had some large amounts of money mailing game currency before the Dao, so you should have sold it." ”

“…… Ha, in fact, I'm a sponsor friend, I don't know if you believe it or not? ”

“…… Hehe, don't be nervous, even if it's selling in-game currency, it doesn't matter. Jack the Ripper affirmed: "It's definitely okay to earn money through the interaction between players, and the behavior of players buying and selling game currency, I think, is also a very normal behavior, because it is a big help to the economic balance in the game - the players who buy the gold must be for consumption, which is to make some players who have no consumption needs for the time being indirectly consume, of course, provided that players consume through normal consumption channels, such as auction houses, rather than privately mailing items and money to each other." ”

"Of course, these are just minor problems, most of the in-game consumption is still through official channels, after all, this is the safest, let's not talk about this first." Jack the Ripper changed his words and said: "Let's talk about economic balance, for the economic system in the game, there is one type of person who is essentially a destroyer and a moth, and that is the gold mining studio!" ”

"They are different from you because they fundamentally upset the balance of the economy. It is reasonable and necessary for players to farm normally for certain equipment, and their output will eventually be for consumption, but the gold studio is different, their position is destined to make them have only one goal, that is, high output and low consumption, or even no consumption, so this is the reason why many games boycott gold studios. ”

After she said this, Lu Xiaofeng somewhat understood that this matter was related to a certain gold-mining studio.

Sure enough, Jack the Ripper said: "I also hate the gold mining studio, and I want to build a seal one, but I know that this can't solve the root of the problem, so I designed a set of diminishing return judgment programs in the game, while not affecting the farm of normal players, the working principle of this set of judgment programs, to explain it simply, the first two hours of normal monster farming belong to the high-yield farm time period, so that normal players spend a small amount of time to reach the farm goal in a day, Then there are a few hours of normal farm time, and then the returns will start to diminish until there is none, which is simply to force the 'robots' who have disappeared online to farm monsters almost 24 times to force them to rest. ”

“…… There's still this trick, but it's okay to tell me this information? ”

"This doesn't need to be kept secret, in fact, this is information that can be made public, but it is not deliberately stated in order to let players experience it for themselves." Jack the Ripper explained: "Originally, I was very happy with this design, but among the players, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the members of those studios are really good at making money, and the judgment program I designed may now have gone wrong and someone has found a bug." ”

"What's going on?" Lu Xiaofeng hurriedly asked.

"I don't know the specifics, but I know there must be something wrong." Jack the Ripper said: "In fact, we have a monitor on players privately mailing large amounts of gold coins, and the current limit of triggering monitoring is 50 gold coins, in recent days, I suddenly found that there is a batch of level 1 trumpets, and the number of gold coins in each trumpet every day reaches hundreds of gold, which is obviously abnormal, I immediately realized that this was a game studio 'shipping', and the first time I found the abnormality, I sealed these trumpets and intercepted a large number of gold coins." ”

"This is a normal procedure, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, I thought it should have temporarily emptied the inventory of a studio, but I didn't expect it to be this server, or the same method, the next day there were still a lot of records of trumpets handling large amounts of gold coins, I immediately realized that it was wrong, I did a little statistics, and found that according to the player's normal farm speed, the gold coins that these trumpets passed through in one day were the total harvest of nearly 100 20+ monster players in a day, in other words, this is a huge studio with a scale of 100 people- But judging by some clues, this assumption is not reasonable. ”

"Through a lot of data analysis, I think this is a small and medium-sized studio that has mastered a bug in a certain monster farming equipment, and used this bug to make huge profits, but after communicating with the technical department, I haven't found any in-game data anomalies for the time being. Later, we searched for the source of these small gold coins, but found that the gold coin delivery channel of this studio was very secretive, and there were many procedures, simply put, a small amount of multiple mailings, which made our investigation difficult. ”

"In fact, the server has a lot of computing, and our way to check the abnormality is to analyze whether the running data is abnormal, and we can't record the normal behavior of the players, such as the monitoring of abnormal transactions, we set the limit of 50 gold instead of 10 gold or even smaller, because this is too much burden on the server - there are countless mail transactions within 10 gold between players every day, if you have to monitor them one by one, even if the server is affected, the most abnormal analysis is our employees, With so many quantities, we can't rely on humans to tell them all. ”

"The studio obviously knows a thing or two about anti-data monitoring, and it's hard for us to figure out why it's going to be by analyzing game running data, so I thought I'd start with both the inside and outside of the game, and that's why I'm looking for you."

"If you can find this bug, the company won't treat you badly!"

Lu Xiaofeng's spirits perked up, thinking that the meat drama was coming! (To be continued......)