Chapter 37 Survival of the Fittest
"This matter was not something you should care about at this time, but since you asked, I'll talk about it roughly."
"When your basic attributes meet the corresponding career requirements, you can change your job."
"If you are lucky when you change your job, you may awaken the combat skills of the corresponding profession on the spot. If you don't wake up at that time, you can kill wild monsters and set up a dungeon. Players may wake up when PK. Kill wild monsters and set up a dungeon, you can get a reward for dark energy points to improve the level of combat skills. After you have a certain amount of combat experience, you can participate in the combat effectiveness assessment in the game."
"There are various types of dungeons for combat effectiveness assessment, some are exploration puzzle-solving, some are mission-based, some are survival-based, and some are fighting bosses; there are also single-challenge dungeons and team battle dungeons between players. The team battle dungeons between players are divided into three-person team battle dungeons and five-person team battle dungeons."
"Adventure puzzle-solving, mission-based, survival-based, and BOSS-based dungeons need to explore and find randomly occurring space-time cracks in the wild...that is, the entrance to the dungeons to enter. If these wild dungeons have high completion and excellent completion evaluation, they will receive extremely rich rewards and some 'stars' used for combat effectiveness evaluation."
"But the risk of adventure puzzle-solving, mission-based, survival-based, and BOSS-based dungeons is very high. Once they die in these dungeons, the character's real death, so you must be cautious when entering these dungeons."
"The 'star' that obtains combat effectiveness rating through the single-match dungeon between players is relatively less risky. When the 1V1 single-match dungeon between players is better than one match, he will get 1 star and lose 2 stars; a three-person team battle dungeon with 2 stars and lose 4 stars; a five-person team battle dungeon with 5 stars and lose 10 stars."
"No matter what method the player uses, as long as he accumulates 10 stars, his combat power can be rated as E-level. This is actually very easy; if he accumulates 20 stars, his combat power can be rated as 2E level, and if he accumulates 40 stars, his combat power can be rated as 3E level; if he accumulates 80 stars, his combat power can be rated as D level."
"But PK between players is not risk-free. If a player has a star count that becomes minus 100, the character will be judged to be dead."
"The studio's requirement is that the transfer must be completed within three months after entering the game. Players who have not yet transferred within three months will be dismissed, and the player's role will be automatically converted into NPCs in the game. If the player is really working hard but has not completed the transfer due to some special reasons, the studio may give a two-month extension assessment."
"After a transfer player, one month after completing his job transfer, must participate in a five-person team battle copy every week. Therefore, it is definitely not feasible to avoid being deducted from minus 100 stars by evading the combat effectiveness assessment." Chen Wei explained to Luo Xiangchun in detail, and other new employees also listened attentively. After all, this information is very important to their future development in the game.
"In the battle between players, the number of stars deducted by one loses is twice as high as the number of stars that wins! In this case, the overall number of stars will become smaller and smaller, and such rules are very unreasonable!" Liu Xu questioned Chen Wei.
"This rule is for survival of the fittest. In the mobile game "Horror City", if you don't work hard to become a strong man, you will be eliminated by the game sooner or later. You will either die or be fired by the studio, and your character will be converted into NPCs in the game." Chen Wei answered Liu Xu.
After hearing these words, Yu Gang couldn't help but think of Luo Jing who had an accident after being fired by the studio, and the NPC Luo Jing who picks manure and digs soil in the ecological planting area every day. He showed a look of fear on his face, but he quickly tried to pretend to be nothing, not wanting to be seen by others.
"I think... if you win a team battle of five people, you can get 5 stars. Wouldn't it be easy to cheat? For example, if you have an acquaintance in the studio, if you ask four experts to help you in the combat effectiveness evaluation, it will be easy to rush up the combat effectiveness evaluation. In this case, we scattered players will suffer a loss, and at least the fairness and justice will be gone." Luo Xiangchun also questioned Chen Wei.
"The combat effectiveness assessment cannot be conducted in teams. The system will randomly match teammates and opponents with close strength based on the strength of each player. There is no problem of experts helping to advance to level as you mentioned." Chen Wei shook his head.
"This game has not been made public, right? I feel that it is more like it is in the internal testing stage. From time to time, players voluntarily resign or are dismissed. How many players are waiting for a match? What if the number of people is not enough at that time? Especially the 5V5 PK among players, how can the number of people be so just right?" Xu Shu, a new player who replaced Luo Jing, also expressed his own opinion.
"It doesn't matter if the players are not all together. All NPCs in the game must also participate in combat effectiveness assessment regularly. If the number of players is not enough, there will naturally be NPCs with equal strength to replace them. And the NPCs in the game have as many as they want." Chen Wei answered Xu Shu.
"NPCs are also involved? Then... what should I do when I encounter teammates in team battles? Especially those NPCs, they are not like us, and they are worried about being deducted from their salary, dismissal, etc. If they match those NPC teammates who don't work hard, they deserve to be unlucky?" A 25-year-old new employee named Xiao Baiqing mentioned to Chen Wei.
"The PK dungeon is randomly matched. NPCs and players can anonymously change their appearance and sound to participate. You can't tell who is the player and who is the NPC when PKing. According to my experience, NPCs will strive to win, and overall they are much more dedicated than players."
"In addition, whether it is a member of the winner or a member of the loser, the system will rate the performance of each player or NPC at the end of the PK dungeon, and the winner and the loser will rate the MVP of this game respectively."
"If you encounter a teammate who loses the team battle PK dungeon, but as long as your personal combat power is strong enough, you can get the MVP of the loser and your score is high enough, you have certain authority to allocate the number of stars deducted by yourself and other players. Players with particularly excellent performance can use this method to reduce the number of stars or even not deduct the stars in this way. The specific calculation rules in this regard are very complicated. When you participate in the player PK dungeon, you will understand after settlement." Chen Wei gave a general explanation to Xiao Baiqing.
"I feel that the combat power level of this game is different from other online games. It is not that you can upgrade by just reaching the experience value, but that the combat power must be higher than other players with similar strengths in order to stand out in the combat power assessment and become a higher-level player." Luo Xiangchun summarized based on what Chen Wei said before.
"It's almost like that." Chen Wei nodded.
Chapter completed!