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Chapter 597: Li's good idea

Lilith seemed very ambitious and she quickly gave a series of ideas.

“Our forced kryptonian must start from the moment you create your character and meet him!
“When creating a character, players can choose different origins. The three origins are ordinary villagers, disciples of small sects, and disciples of large sects.

“It’s free for ordinary villagers, disciples from small sects need to top up 98, and disciples from large sects need to top up 648 directly.

“Moreover, once you have chosen your identity, you cannot change it. Even if you regret it, you cannot make up 648 to become a disciple of a large sect. You still have to go through a specific process from being a villager to enter a large sect, and the price you pay will be even higher.

"If you are an ordinary villager, you can only practice with a broken book passed down from your ancestors in an environment with thin spiritual energy, and hope to be selected by an ordinary sect. If you are not selected, you can only practice in the village forever and become a casual cultivator with no human rights.

"Disciples of small sects are better off, but they also need to complete the sect's tasks on time every day, and they will also receive some basic sect benefits every day. But if you fail to complete the tasks, your benefits will be deducted, and you may even be expelled from the sect.

"It's the same with big sects. Although the benefits are good, there is still a lot of internal competition. If you don't spend enough money, you may be eliminated and sent to a small sect.

"Moreover, there are subtle differences between small sects and between large sects. It is completely random where one is reborn.

"Within the sect, if one wants to practice, there are many different methods.

“For example, external spiritual roots, spiritual power pools, oral pills, fluid injectable pills, initiation or power transmission, etc.

“Of course, these all require krypton gold to recharge.

"If you buy these things, your cultivation will naturally be twice as effective with half the effort. However, these things are not completely risk-free. Pills have a poison value. If you swallow an unsuitable pill, such as forcibly using pills to improve your physical fitness when your physical fitness is not strong enough, there is a certain possibility that you will die from the poison explosion.

"Once this happens, the player can reincarnate and transfer the resources on the account to his own small account. But there will still be a certain loss, after all, the resources that cannot be recovered from the dead will only be wasted.

“But there is no other way. Cultivating immortals is risky, and you need to be careful when taking pills!

"In addition, there should be various types of immortality loans in the game that can help players quickly obtain large amounts of start-up capital. If players cannot pay it back, they can only choose to pay it back slowly or cancel their account and start over."

The Liver Emperor was shocked: "Oh my goodness, so cruel?"

Although he plays a lot of games, they are mainly single-player games. In his opinion, games like "Endless Fantasy Legend 2" that require kryptonian gold to draw cards are already challenging his bottom line.

But I didn't expect his bottom line, and I couldn't see Mr. Li's upper limit.

Lilith waved her hands: "How can you call this cruel? The bigger one is still to come!
"Although players can practice automatically even when offline, there are still penalties for not logging in. If you haven't logged in for more than 7 days, the plot will be automatically triggered when you log in: you have been demoted to a spiritual field fertilizer by the sect due to your 'mediocre qualifications', and you need to buy the Resurrection Pill to revive.

“Although paying players can’t kill regular players directly, they can’t live in complete peace either. They have to disgust each other within the game framework!

"Each player has his own cave, and after recharging, krypton gold players can add a 'spiritual energy siphoning' effect to the cave, automatically siphoning 10% of the spiritual energy from the surrounding caves.

“All players have to participate in the sect competition, and this is the opportunity for the kryptonian players to bully the ordinary players.

"In addition, paying players can also team up with ordinary players to clear high-difficulty dungeons, but we must force them to sign a 'voluntary distribution agreement' and give paying players extra high subsidies based on the difference in strength between the two parties, giving them an absolute advantage in redistribution.

"The krypton-paying player wants to show off and help ordinary players clear the dungeon without taking any resources? No way, he must accept this money!

“There is definitely no customer service, but we can make a customer service interface. No matter what problems players report, there is only one sentence: cultivating immortals is to go against the will of heaven. Please make an effort to recharge and change your fate!

"Also, there could be a few more pop-up windows for recharge. One pop-up would appear when the player's cultivation level is slow; one pop-up would appear before the player is about to pass the thunder tribulation; and another pop-up would appear when a good item is found during an auction...

“And the pop-up window should not only ask players to top up, but also include loan sharking in the top-up interface to create sufficient confusion.”

Lilith became happier as she spoke, and even stood up and took a few steps.

"These are what I can think of for now. Do you have any better ideas?"

Everyone looked at each other and felt that this game was really exciting.

At this time, Su Tong, who had been silent, spoke up: "Boss Li, I have an idea.

“I think the reincarnation system you mentioned is very interesting and should be made more perfect.

“Death in games should be divided into two types of death.

"The first type of death is death caused by external factors. For example, a player is killed when encountering a monster, or is accidentally killed by other players in a sect competition, or is turned into fertilizer for the sect's spiritual fields because of not being online for a long time.

“In this case, we can use the Resurrection Pill to revive.

“In addition, players can also choose to enter the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and exist as a special spirit body to continue their cultivation.

"The second kind of death is death due to internal factors. Just like what you said, Boss Li, the player died because he took too many pills and his body exploded.

“In this case, since the original body can no longer be saved, if you don’t want to enter the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and want to keep your body, you can only reincarnate into a small body and start practicing from the beginning.

"We must strictly limit the training speed of the trumpet. It cannot be slow, but it cannot be fast either.

“The trumpet inherits some of the resources of the big one, and when it breaks through the previously broken levels, it is much faster than the ordinary trumpet.

“But it’s not possible to break through to the big level in just three to five days.” Assuming that a new account takes two weeks to go from Qi Refining to Foundation Building, then this small account will probably take three days. It’s roughly the same ratio.

"This will make the players feel more painful after their bodies explode and die, and make them feel more deeply the difficulty of cultivating immortals."

The Liver Emperor was somewhat stunned: "But won't this force players to quit the game?"

Su Tong shook her head slightly: "Maybe a small number of players will indeed quit the game, but most will not.

“After dying from the explosion, most of the resources can still be obtained by looting your body. If you continue to train, you can train your account again in three to five days. Although you will lose about 20% or 30% of the resources, if you quit the game, you will have nothing.

"Besides, if everyone loses, then no one loses."

Lilith nodded happily: "Okay! This is good! This is exactly what I like!"

Gu Fan, Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie looked at each other and instantly understood what Su Tong meant.

Obviously, this reincarnation system is a double-edged sword.

Lilith believes that this system creates a lot of negative emotions and does not help generate positive emotions at all.

But it's not.

Because some players exploded after taking the pills and were forced to open an account and start over, it was a very happy thing for other players who were lagging behind him.

It’s just that Su Tong deliberately didn’t mention this, and Lilith didn’t realize it for a while.

She was completely overwhelmed by the scene in her imagination that was surrounded by a massive amount of negative emotions.

Su Tong continued, “Moreover, regarding the pill system, I think we should make bolder innovations.

“The pill system in traditional Xianxia themes is still too normal, because death from pill poison explosion is actually very rare.

"Take the most basic foundation-building pill for example. Everyone can take it, and there won't be too many side effects. If someone who has practiced well can take it, they will get twice the result with half the effort. If someone who has not practiced well can take it, it will only lower the upper limit of what they can achieve in the future, and it won't put their life in danger.

“So, I think we should establish a new medicine system and give these medicines a new name.

“For example, Long Dan.

"These pills are not made from ordinary natural treasures or spiritual herbs, but from various terrifying dragon beasts. These dragon beasts have powerful blood and energy, so they can help cultivators quickly improve their realm, but they are also extremely toxic. The more you take, the faster you die.

"When we first introduced the elixir system, we should have clearly informed the players."

Lilith frowned and instantly became alert: "Tell me from the beginning?

“Isn’t this inappropriate?

“I think it would be more of a surprise if we didn’t tell the players and let them discover it themselves.”

Su Tong shook her head: “No, President Li.

“If we don’t tell them, the players will just keep taking pills, and if they die, they won’t blame themselves, but will just put the blame on us.

"They will say that it was because the game system did not warn them that they accidentally took the elixir and their bodies exploded and they died, and the responsibility lies entirely with the designer.

"They pass the buck to others and are even less willing to use the reincarnation system, which will lead to more players quitting the game. Moreover, after passing the buck, they won't be too angry or too entangled, because they feel that it is not their problem.

“On the other hand, what if we clearly warned people of the risks of these dragon pills from the beginning?

"They knew about this risk from the beginning and would resist these pills. They would find it inexplicable: I spent 648 krypton to buy the stats, but there is still a possibility of sudden death? Why! I won't buy it!

"But as other players take drugs and their training speed improves by leaps and bounds, their attitudes will also become loose and they will take risks.

"If they die again from taking drugs and exploding, there's no way to blame the production team.

“Because the production team has fulfilled its obligation to give adequate reminders.

"These players will be very angry, but they can't blame others, so they can only hold their noses and continue playing. Overall, this is more conducive to improving the players' 'gaming experience'."

Lilith nodded suddenly: "Oh! Yes, yes, yes, now that you mention it, it is indeed quite interesting."

Obviously, from the perspective of collecting negative emotions, Su Tong's solution seems to be a better choice.

Gu Fan looked at Zhou Yang and Wei Chengjie again, and they understood each other tacitly.

They roughly guessed Su Tong's thoughts, but all they had to do now was to cooperate.

(End of this chapter)