Chapter 1020: Chapter 948: Ten chs or So?
Are We Going to War?
(Two-in-One) _1 Chapter 1020: Chapter 948: Ten chs or So?
Are We Going to War?
(Two-in-One) _1 “Boss, can you explain what the [Forgotten Cetery] situation is all about?”
Right after Lincoln finished a call with Yi, he received another one from Jason, the chief planner of the Pacific Rim developnt team.
Clearly, they were also quite puzzled.
They did indeed expand on the [Forgotten Cetery] storyline, but terms like “Human Modification Hospital”, “Prosthetic Robbers”, and “Compulsive Modification Disorder” were completely new to them!
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These things were nowhere on the developnt log!
If it wasn’t for the enormous player group uncovering this information on the first day, who knows when they would have found out!
Especially after seeing these additions, Jason, despite having finished work for the day, urgently accessed the project with administrator privileges and checked the partition directory of the [Forgotten Cetery], wondering what big surprise the boss had quietly cooked up this ti.
Apart from many side tasks and special NPC quests, what surprised him the most was that the boss had stuffed a gigantic race event in there!
“What is this [Mobile Ball Tournant] all about?”
“Oh that, it’s an Easter egg.
All Easter eggs.” Lincoln blatantly lied.
Jason was utterly speechless on the other end.
If it was just a side task, it could still be reasonable, but you’ve got a whole race event, with an arena, rules, selection procedures, and even the competitors ready.
This thing could practically be a new ga on its own!
And you call this an “Easter egg”??
“Boss…” Jason said helplessly, “Is there a second explanation?
The team is asking…”
“Well…
I just found this scene interesting and I’ve had so spare ti lately, so I couldn’t resist.”
Lincoln told the truth.
They had developed “Gravity” so quickly, they had almost added all the Easter eggs they could think of.
While pondering and with so spare ti on his hands, Lincoln started adding things to the virtual world.
Like when he and Xiaong, with nothing better to do, tossed Dinosaur Island into the wilderness area of Paradise; now it was the [Mobile Ball Tournant].
Because he hadn’t decided the scope for this race yet—whether it’s a casual gaplay elent within the ga, or build it into an esports event—Lincoln had set [All-age] and [Adult Level] modes for this race.
[All-age] mode is pure rollerblading combined with ball snatching and throwing, healthy and green.
[Adult Level] mode allows the carrying of weapons and body modifications.
You snatch balls while fighting and killing each other on the race track.
The thrill doubles but at the expense of harmony…
And he stuffed even more than that.
As more and more global server centers are established, Xiaong becos stronger and stronger.
And Xiaong has been involved in the developnt of every Cloud Dream ga from start to finish.
Now, she herself is truly a top-level ga developer.
Additionally, they now have Camille, the genius errand girl— she truly is a genius, otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to keep up with Lincoln and Xiaong’s pace.
In general, multiple factors have caused Lincoln’s speed of creating new things in the virtual world to be much faster than before, naturally leading to an increase in the scale of new additions!
He even worked with Xiaong and Camille to create a [Planet Generation Algorithm]!
They could also generate “virtual planets” at will, but those planets didn’t have much aning.
Because in the virtual world, the success or failure of randomly generated planets has little to do with size.
What really matters is the “diversity of species” on the planet, “ecological rationality”, “exploration and aesthetic value of the terrain”, “interactive and creative space for players”…
and many other factors.
The new [Planet Generation Algorithm], while not being able to perfectly solve all demands, already represents a trendous advancent compared to the past.
The “planetary embryoids” generated by this algorithm have a high starting point, and altering them according to requirents saves a great deal of work.
This is also an indispensable technology reserve as the virtual world moves towards the [Space Era].
Lincoln will also take ti to continue optimizing this algorithm.
How to optimize it…
Of course, optimizing through practice!
This is also one of the Easter eggs prepared by Lincoln.
*
After the conversation, Jason left with deep shock and confusion.
But Lincoln had to continue laboring.
Ever since the ga launch, he has been constantly receiving calls, and it hasn’t stopped till now.
Actually, given his current situation, he doesn’t necessarily need to take these calls.
They were just from directors and deputy directors of local cultural tourism bureaus which didn’t carry much significance for him.
—The [Earth Online Team] he’d dispatched to capture natural scenery was mostly deployed overseas, with not much presence in the country.
Even so, Lincoln had been prepared for rejection, specifically instructing his staff to “not negotiate prices”, “not to insist”, and to give up if necessary.
Contrasting with the overseas teams which had a high degree of operational freedom—for the overseas teams, Lincoln not only gave them money but also said sothing outrageous like “The Cloud Dream Legal Departnt is your most solid backup”.
This caused new employees to think that Lincoln was encouraging them to bribe foreign officials, cross borders without permission, trespass on restricted areas, or perform unauthorized filming and photography…
Even when Lincoln attempted to explain: “In many places abroad, you simply can’t get anything done without bribing officials, I just want you guys to work at ease”, they still couldn’t alter their preconceptions.
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