Chapter 30: The First Pot of Gold
The area of the novice map is claimed to be one million square kilometers, but Jian Guangyi is only a part of it, if the known five maps are divided equally, the top will be more than 20 square kilometers. If the space occupied by the building is removed, how much space is left for people to move around? And now, tens of thousands of people are crammed into such a small place.
Bustling, shoulder to shoulder, crowded with people......
Rin had a little excitement in his head in addition to such adjectives. A successful game merchant will never have fewer players, because the more players there are, the greater the business opportunities. Especially those local tyrant bosses, the more people there are, the more they can stimulate their vanity and sense of achievement, once they are happy, they will never hesitate to spend a lot of money!
Squeezing through the crowd, Rin first handed over the task of Sumeru mustard at the gate of the city.
"Yo-"
Although there were hundreds of players piled up nearby, the non-commissioned officer in charge of distributing the mission was not in a hurry, and his voice came clearly to Rin's ears: "Brother is fast enough!" Well, although there are not many, they are all fresh, not bad. I see that little brother, you are a person with lofty ideals, have you ever considered long-term dedication to the empire? As long as the little brother has a heart, it is not difficult. Now, the benefits of Sumeru mustard, the little brother has seen it, right? It's okay to borrow this thing from you temporarily, you only need to hand over a fixed amount of military funds every month......"
The last few sentences about Sumeru mustard are the main points. Of course, Rin won't miss it, and after confirming the lease, he gets the right to use Sumeru Wasabi for one month. Subsequently, he walked through the 6 material stores one by one, and handed over all the 6 material tasks with great effort, and finally crossed the street and came to the relatively open central square.
"Come on, come on, leather, leather......"
"Sell grassroots, ...... grassroots"
"Does anyone want a wolf skin, a freshly baked wolf skin......"
"Selling 20 leather clothes, as long as 10 copper coins, it is necessary to go out to fight monsters!"
"Unidentified weapons, unidentified weapons, come and see, unseen weapons that just came out......"
……
The teleportation point is a few hundred meters in circumference, and it becomes a large bazaar. Rin looked at the stalls arranged in a circle, a little dumbfounded. It's only been a long time, and these people are too fast, right? Moreover, someone actually made equipment? Turning around the stall, Rin realizes that someone has actually made the most rudimentary equipment, and many of them are still new equipment that has not been recognized.
Unrecognized, a state of manufactured equipment.
Although the new equipment created by the player can be used directly, the player does not know the specific attributes of the equipment, and the equipment attributes will only be displayed after identification. And this process is called "Soul Identification" in the term 'legend'. This is actually the same as the identification of treasures and antiques in reality, but the game is far less complicated than the former, in addition to finding the corresponding spirit appreciator, the player himself can also learn 'spirit appraisal', and after the spirit art reaches a certain level, they can identify the equipment by themselves.
Since it is easy to identify, why not sell the unappraised equipment after appraisal? Quite simply, because it involves the psychology of gamblers in a market economy. To take the simplest example, if there are two pieces of equipment in front of you now, one is an ordinary whiteboard, 10 copper coins, one unappreciated, and 12 copper coins, and then the seller tells you that the unidentified equipment has a 10% chance of identifying the best attributes, which one will you choose? Anyway, the unidentified piece of equipment is just 2 more copper coins......
How to choose?
That's the business opportunity – most people don't mind spending an extra dollar or two on a chance of getting an excess return, even if it's only a 1% chance or less. When Rin was learning about the equipment system, he had the idea of selling unidentified equipment, and he didn't think that anyone would have already put it into action. Sure enough, there are really many great gods.
The good news is that there aren't many players completing material quests right now, and even fewer of them have similar ideas. Rin walked around the square and saw that there were only three or four companies selling self-made equipment, and the prices were all 'outrageous'. For example, weapons, the lowest-level weapons, in terms of current materials, after identification, the highest quality can only go up to 30 products, but the lowest selling price is 15 copper coins. You must know that among the novice weapons issued by the military department, a 20-grade weapon is only 3 copper coins......
What is the difference between 30 and 20? It seems that the former seems to be much more powerful, but that refers to the best attribute, if you count the probability of the manufactured equipment fluctuating between 1-30 grades, the probability of a new piece of equipment appearing better than 20 grades after identification, it is about 1/3. But what about the actual situation? How can the probability of the appearance of the junk attribute and the superb attribute be the same...... There is a chance of identifying more than 20 products, and it would be nice to have a 1/10. What's more, this is just novice equipment, unless there is really a super-best product with retained transformation value, general, even slightly better equipment, after two days and the main city opens, it will have to be replaced in a few days.
However, the seller is not worried about selling. This is the monopoly welfare of the First Army. No one else has it, only I have it, love or not. Rin desperately ran the map brush task to want, right here. Although there are already people one step ahead, at least they are still ahead of the vast majority of people, and they will have a relatively advantageous advantage in the next 1-2 days. Rin was a little depressed, but there was always some comfort. Because, with the continuous increase in the number of people, in the longer period of time, the difficulty of brushing materials will only increase, and the time will become longer and longer. I don't have much time left for myself, but there's always there. Rin thinks about it, looks at the time, and starts working on the first step in the plan.
First of all, you have to start equipment manufacturing and earn your first pot of gold.
The amount of game currency in the early stage is still small, the proportion is abnormally high, and it is not cost-effective to collect it directly with RMB, so you can only rely on yourself to save it slowly. Rin was busy for a long time, and he added up to more than 10 copper coins, which was not enough to buy a handful of unseen gods...... And it also owes the military department 6 copper coins. The new game has no money, no equipment, no one to bring it, who plays who knows......
The first step in equipment manufacturing is material collection, and then material processing. In the previous mission, Rin had some extra materials, although it was far from enough for the amount of equipment he wanted to make, but he could practice his hands first. As for the skills of material processing, I have already learned them as a task reward when I handed in the material task. The 13 copper coins in your pocket can buy some raw materials, so ...... After doing the math, although it is very embarrassing, if you are careful about it, it should be enough to make 3 pieces of equipment.
Walking around the stall, Rin looked for a few materials and accepted them decisively. At present, there are two main sources of game currency for players, one is to do tasks, and the other is to sell materials. Needless to say, the quest is the same for everyone, and selling materials is divided into throwing them directly to NPCs or selling them to players. The former is equivalent to processing, very cheap, Rin tried it just now, and threw all the remaining materials of the task on his body to the NPC, which added up to less than 5 copper coins. In comparison, it is much more cost-effective to sell to players, after all, most players will learn some manufacturing skills, and some materials will be needed, as long as the price is not higher than that of NPCs, it is not a big problem. On the other hand, in Rin's case, the price is cheaper than what the store sells. Of course, if he talks about bargaining, he can save a little more, but time is precious, and he doesn't care about one or two dollars.
The only family property was spent all at once, although it was a little distressing, but if you want to turn other players' money into your own, how can you have less investment in the early stage. Rin sighed at the value of the game's currency and counted the materials available. Furs and all kinds of meat are the most, followed by planting wood from the forests of the euphem, and then there are some raw ores, bone armor, scales, and medicinal herbs.
The planting materials just purchased plus the original ones are exactly 30. The price of fur and meat is much lower, and it seems to be a good deal to buy, but Rin has her own ideas. After roughly classifying the things, Rin put aside the bones and armor, scales, and medicinal herbs, which were not needed for the time being and could not be sold for much, and then began to process the furs and meat. The price of these two items is not high, but there are more of them, and the processed products can not only be practiced by the way, but also sold for a small amount of money to subsidize it.
"Successful processing and obtaining wolf skin (grade: 15)."
"Your hand slipped, and the processing failed."
"You're wrong, the processing failed."
"You're so stupid, the processing failed."
……
Rin didn't know what her expression was, but it certainly wasn't pretty. After cooking all the furs, it was only 6 times. With a blank face, he continued to process, and the result was slightly better, and he got 8 servings of meat, one of which was grade 30. This is the highest grade that can be processed with the lowest level of skill. Rin finally felt better. Even if it's not very valuable, it can stop some bleeding, but after that, it's a bit of a dilemma. The higher the grade of the material, the better the effect of the equipment, medicines, and food produced. If this meat is made into food, it may be able to sell for some money. After a little hesitation, Rin gave up on the idea of cooking considering that the 'gods' were not enough.
Then, it's time for the main event. Rin sorted the 30 pieces of wood into categories and worked on them while praying silently.
"The processing was successful, and the sandalwood branch (grade: 12) was obtained."
"The processing was successful, and the sandalwood branch (grade: 17) was obtained."
"The processing was successful, and the sandalwood branch (grade: 20) was obtained."
……
Rin stopped, not at all happy. After waiting for more than ten seconds, he continued to move.
"Successfully processed, obtained sandalwood branch (grade: 8)"
"Accidentally, the branch broke."
Rin felt a beat and continued.
"Successfully processed, sandalwood branch (grade: 3)"
When the system prompted it out, Rin's heart was a little colder. Looking at the rest of the material, he was left with helplessness.
"The branch snapped off."
"Be gentle, you've broken the branches."
"Failure is the mother of success, and stepmother is also a mother."
“……”
Rin was silent for two seconds before taking out the moonlight vine. Waiting for the system's prompt, he held his breath for a few seconds, and then 'whew' and leaked all at once.
"The rattan is too tender, and it twists into twisted flowers."
Seeing a portion of the ingredients fly, Rin didn't know how to describe her feelings. The typical illusion of control seems to make no sense to bet on the odds with the system. Calming down his emotions a little, he took two breaths and processed the remaining four moonflower vines one by one. The final result was quite satisfactory, it became three times, and the grades were good, 15, 18 and 26.
Finally, 6 parts of various leathers, 8 parts of meat, plus 9 parts of sandalwood branches, 4 parts of logs, and 3 parts of moonshine rattan. Skill proficiency has improved to varying degrees, and it's still too early to level up. 50% success rate, a bit of a pitfall. Rin glanced at the attributes, and there were only more than 60 points left for the 'god'. What to do? If the 'god' is too low, it will not only affect the success rate, but also affect the quality of the finished product. But by this time it was almost 10 o'clock, and the players were almost coming back, which was the time when the most people were there.
If you sell it, the quality seems to have nothing to do with the manufacturer, but since Rin has thought about being a merchant for a long time, reputation is very important, and if someone else buys your unidentified equipment, it will only be garbage after the spirit is recognized, and it will be difficult to turn back in the future. Especially the bosses who brush up on equipment, if they feel that the equipment they buy from you is not good, they will basically not look for you again unless they are forced to do so or are hot-headed. After weighing the pros and cons, Rin still goes to the wood shop and finds a manufacturing NPC to start crafting.
The manufacturing technique of primary equipment is free, which saves Rin a lot of effort. It didn't take long for the sum of 6 materials to be spent, and 2 sandalwood staff and 1 log sword were born.
In this way, the first barrel of gold is there.