Chapter 635: Officially On Sale
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Chen Chen walked out of the ti machine and once again arrived at the era where civilization was near its end.
The Black Knights on the side had been waiting for a long ti. At this ti, a Black Knight stepped forward and X-112’s voice ca from it. “Sir Commander, long ti no see.”
“It’s been a long ti indeed.”
Chen Chen nodded. He looked at the piles of materials in the warehouse and the androids coming and going, and asked imdiately, “Is everything running smoothly after those players arrived?”
“Except for so disturbance in public security, I suppose... It’s going well.”
X-112 felt a little helpless. “The entire Blacklight City is anxious. After all, many natives have learned of the fact that a group of outsiders has arrived.
“To the residents of Blacklight City, these players are desperadoes. Every day, innocent native residents are robbed and harassed, and many people also learned from those players that all this is just a ga, that they ca from another world. This made everyone even more worried and the natives have even begun to march on the street, hoping that we’d expel those who caused the anxiety and disturbance.”
“Erm...”
Chen Chen frowned when he heard these words, showing a pensive look. “If that’s the case, it’s indeed ti to plan in more detail.”
“By the way, Sir Commander.”
X-112 said again, “Several other forces in the Joint Resistance Army have also inquired about this matter. So ti ago, they sent an emissary to ask these people what’s going on. They also hope to et you.”
“I won’t et them.”
Chen Chen waved his hand. “I originally planned to channel so players into their territory of power after the official launch of the server in the future, but now it seems that this isn’t a secure thod. Sooner or later, the players and the natives will have fierce conflicts. In that case, let’s just rebuild the city.”
“Rebuild the city?”
X-112 curiously said.
“We have only one city, Blacklight City, not because we don’t have the conditions and financial resources to establish other base areas, but because of an insufficient population.”
Chen Chen said, “But if we have a large number of players joining, the situation will be different...”
As he spoke, Chen Chen suddenly waved his hand, and an image of the world map erged out of thin air. Chen Chen tapped lightly on Greenland. “This is the location of Blacklight City, this is the location of Northern Arica City, and this is the location of China City...
“The territory of the Divine Fusion Empire is in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and the territory of the Joint Resistance Army is in Northern Arica and South Arica...”
Chen Chen silently sketched sothing on the world map, sotis contemplating, and sotis wearing a look of realization. “In the future, players will continue to show up in increasing numbers and the demand for resources will be extrely high. With this in mind, we can build a new city in the North Sea Continent, China, India, and so on.
“At that ti, this dinsion will be split into three factions. The Divine Fusion Empire will be one major force and the other two major forces, the Joint Resistance Army and the players, can form an alliance.”
“Then, we might need more than one city.”
X-112 reminded. “At least hundreds of cities are needed. Otherwise, we’ll not be able to take on so many players. However, resources, labor, and ti needed for all this will cost us imnsely.”
“These aren’t problems.”
Chen Chen flashed a secretive smile. “The players can build cities on their own, right? We just need to give them tasks and tell them what to do and how to do it. That’s all.
“It doesn’t matter if we don’t have money. We can use virtual ga currency as money. It doesn’t matter if we don’t have resources too. They can mine and haul them by themselves. At the sa ti, as long as the pain system is shut off, they’ll be the most tenacious, diligent workers.”
“Oh, we can still do that?”
X-112 was struck by the realization.
“What the player wants is very simple.”
Chen Chen sighed, spreading his hands. “Looking at the cities that they built with their own hands rising from the ground, watching themselves offering light and heat to the world — this sense of accomplishnt is unparalleled. What does it an to create happiness through effort? This is it...”
It was carried out as planned. Chen Chen asked X-112 to create a plan, which enurated every detail of what would happen after a player ca here. In the plan, the city did not need to be so vast and beautiful. A standard dieval city was enough.
After controlling a few large ships and transporting the first batch of materials and a ti machine, Chen Chen had already thought about the location of these cities. They were all the relics of the harbor cities from the old era. These areas had a common characteristic, naly, the geographical position was superior and conducive to developnt. After getting there, the Black Knights would set up the initial camp to welco the first batch of players who ca here.
A standard player camp was equipped with a 3D printing factory that could continuously manufacture the bodies of ga characters, a shop that sold supplies, a black sphere teleportation station that could transport players to other camps, a hospital that could heal any injuries, and a defense camp where the Black Knights were stationed.
Except for these five departnts, the rest would all be created by the players.
Of course, the players could not just be treated rely as workers, otherwise, they would complain that this ga was just a “Build-a-House Simulator”. Therefore, hunting, mining resources, fishing, and other tasks were also given to the players by Chen Chen. What X-112 had to do was to issue the tasks in an orderly manner to make it fun for the players.
As a reward for the players, Chen Chen also naturally crossed out the original Joint Coins and changed it into a virtual currency. The virtual currency could buy anything they wanted in the camp such as food, weapons, wilderness survival items, teleportation costs, the opportunity to get treatnt for injuries, and so on.
The real world had beco the industrial logistics base of the end dinsion. Rockets and satellite launch materials were transported over. In the next few months, Blacklight City would continue to send satellites into space, allowing thousands of satellites to cover the entire earth, so that no matter where a player went, they would not crash due to a loss of signal.
When everything was ready, Chen Chen also issued a corresponding notice in reality:
“After three months of beta testing Ancient Civilization, it has been confird that the ga is 100% safe and most of the hidden bugs have been eliminated. Therefore, we announce that from next Monday (1 June 2044), Ancient Civilization will be officially launched and the matching ga chambers will also be on sale today. All this will be available for sale on the official website of any Blacklight Biotechnology branch in the world. At the sa ti, we have also revised the ga rules —
“1. We’ve modified the player’s birthplace. From now on, new players who enter the ga will be born at one of the 50 designated spawn points, and will no longer be born in Blacklight City.
“2. Because a large number of players obtained ga currency through illegal ans to maintain the balance of the currency system in the ga, from now on, we’ll modify the currency chanism to remove the Joint Coins from the currency and use virtual currency instead. The virtual currency is nad Ancient Coins. The beta test players’ attributes will be retained, their money will be cleared, and the old currency will no longer be able to purchase any items from the player’s camp.
“3. The ga has opened the construction module. From now on, players will receive a large number of construction tasks after entering the ga, and to encourage players to participate in camp construction, the rewards for construction tasks will be two to three tis that of other tasks.
“4. The red na chanism 1has been modified. From now on, players who kill their own forces will be hunted down by various camps. Specifically, other players may receive corresponding hunting tasks, by which killing red na players would result in rich rewards; at the sa ti, hurting innocent NPCs will cause a player to beco wanted by the NPC’s own faction, and they’ll lose the qualification to enter the city of said faction until they die once.
“5. According to the suggestions of most female players, the ga has opened the reputation points module. Each person earns 12 points per year. Players who verbally harass the opposite sex (including but not limited to players) will have 1 point deducted after verification. 3 points will be deducted for subjective malicious contact with the body of soone of the opposite sex. 12 points will be deducted all at once for forced copulation with the opposite sex. Those who have zero points within one year will have their account banned, never to be restored.
“6. According to the discussion of the ga planning team of Blacklight Biotechnology to maintain the fairness of the ga, the exchange channel of real currency and virtual currency is closed for now. Any action in the ga that involves transactions in reality is not protected by the ga. We hope you understand.
“At present, the first batch of ga chambers will have 1 million units sold, each priced at 100,000 USD. Action speaks louder than words, join Ancient Civilization now and begin a new life with us!
“Sincerely, the Blacklight Biotechnology Ga Departnt.”
With the release of this announcent, there was an uproar all over the world. Although the ga had only operated for three months and hardly any advertisents had been put out, it was after all the first ga in the world involving all five senses, a high degree of freedom, and a 100% simulation of reality. Without any need for advertisent, solely through Blacklight Biotechnology’s prestige and the comnts from the 100,000 beta test players, Ancient Civilization beca a hot topic that flooded the world’s platforms.
Except for those who had no contact with the Internet, there was almost no one who had not heard of this ga. Plenty of avid gars had even beco premature fans of Ancient Civilization before even playing it, and their wealth of knowledge about the ga would stun anyone.
This announcent caused an Earth-shattering wave of responses. The official website of Blacklight Biotechnology, major forums around the world, and even the news dia of various countries had imdiately issued the news that Ancient Civilization would be officially launched.
[The ultimate in virtual reality? When a ga simulates all five senses, can you still distinguish between the ga and reality?] — Northern Arican Associated Press News.
[Ancient Civilization is officially launched. Experts claim that this type of technology is not just a ga, but may also embody the future of human civilization?] — Reuters.
[Biology, dicine, resources, military, aerospace... Along with today’s ga, how many industries must Blackwatch monopolize before it will give up?] — United Press International.
[Announcent that Ancient Civilization is launched—is the greatest online ga in human history about to be born?]—Sina Express.
On the Internet, everyone was also very eager to talk about this topic. However, unlike so dia’s pessimistic spin, those players who looked forward to this ga were celebrating and constantly discussing the newly released rules.
[It felt like a pipe dream, but finally, it’s officially launched! I thought there’d still be an open beta after the closed beta.]
[This ga has a very high degree of completion. Apart from modifying a few inhuman rules at the beginning, there are not many changes. Compared to CD Projekt RED who likes to sell semi-finished products and Ubisoft who gives free gas riddled with bugs, Blackb*tch has way more of a conscience!]
[OP, are you dreaming, can those even be compared? Blackb*tch is the world’s largest private economy, with authority comparable to that of a continental governnt, and its financial resources can compete head-to-head with Northern Arica and China. CD Projekt RED and Ubisoft are just ordinary ga companies, at most they’re relatively large ones. Can they compare to Blackb*tch? Just Ancient Civilization alone probably costs an investnt of over 100 billion.]
[They are indeed very conscientious. For most ga companies, closed beta data will not be retained, but now Blackb*tch is only eliminating the money earned by the closed beta players during the testing, but retaining their physical fitness.]
[Hey, then isn’t this unfair to new players?]
[The red na chanism and reputation points are too unnecessary, right? I’m stifled enough as it is in reality, but I can’t do whatever I want in the ga? Then why should I play this ga?]
[Because it’s not ant for you but other people then! Surely you mustn’t have a female family mber, otherwise would you not mind if they are wantonly dishonored by others when they play the ga?]
[The comnter above the last is disgusting. His speech shocked . Does he think he can do whatever he wants in the ga?]
[The ga cannot exchange real money for ga currency? What kind of idiotic plan is this, doesn’t Blackb*tch want to make any money?]
[As if Blackb*tch is short of money? This is the best joke of the century!]
[I think this rule is very good, it protects the rights of us common players. By the way, you guys keep saying “Blackb*tch, Blackb*tch”, what does Blackb*tch an?]
[Blackb*tch is the nickna for Blackwatch in the gaming world. You should know that Blackwatch was once a Chinese company, and its Chinese na translates literally to “Blacklight”, but the English version ans “black watch”, so we started calling it Blackb*tch (TN: In Mandarin, the phrase for “black watch” and “black b*tch” sounds the sa.)...]
[One hundred thousand USD is so expensive. I’m now in the third grade of elentary school and my weekly living expenses are only 100 dollars. If I want to afford a ga chamber, don’t I have to wait until after college then?]
[Haha, elentary school students can forget about it. This ga is PG18. You can’t enter this ga if you’re under 18 years old. You should wait until you grow up to play!]
...
The Internet was full of discussions about Blacklight Biotechnology and the ga Ancient Civilization. In reality, so people with sufficient resources kept watch over the website that night, waiting for the arrival of midnight.
It was because that was when the ga chambers would go on sale.
Although the price of 100,000 USD would eliminate a considerable part of the population, many people who had never been in contact with gas had also received a lot of information from the videos released by those closed beta players and the publicizing of the premature fans.
For example, how all five senses in the ga were comparable to reality, how players could change their sex in the ga, customize their faces to be beautiful, enjoy delicacies and even sex... These conditions alone were enough to make countless people feel a rush of excitent, especially those who felt that reality was not complete enough, who wanted to experience a second life in the ga.
Around the world, more than one billion people, comprising countless players as well as scalpers and purchasing agents, would compete for the first million ga chambers tonight.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night for this group of people...
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