Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 222: Battle of the Union Flag! (Updated from yesterday)
"..." Cheng Yi was silent for a moment, then replied: [The secret is, I'm not your father.]

Less than five seconds later, Jiang Yuxi called.

On the other end of the phone, Jiang Yuxi's heavy breathing was still heard.

"You are really patient, are you the second sister of the Ninja Turtles?" Cheng Yi sighed: "If you have something to say, just say it out loud, don't keep it in your heart."

Jiang Yuxi still didn't speak.

"Okay, that's fine too. I'll tell you what I say next time."

"..."

Jiang Yuxi hung up the phone.

Soon, another text message came: [You pissed me off! I won't forgive you!]

"Oh, this rebellious child is really a headache." Cheng Yi put away his phone with an indifferent look and plunged into the ocean of code.

The function of deducting handling fees when redeeming equipment still needs to undergo a lot of careful testing before it can be launched online.

Because the deduction function involves many issues and requires detailed payment, conversion and deduction processes, it is a very cumbersome process.

Even a mature and complete game mall will have bugs that allow players to swipe game coins, let alone directly adding a new mall system.

In addition, the skill learning level and equipment requirement level need to be adjusted. The original level 7 and level 13 are too cumbersome and confusing. They should be uniformly changed to multiples of 5, level 5, level 10, level 15 and so on. Players should not be allowed to waste time in the game on such things.

In addition, all the function shortcut keys in the game will be deleted. The typing functions of exclamation mark and slash are too primitive. A unified chat channel will be added on the left. You can switch between local chat, city chat, world chat, guild and other chat boxes by clicking the mouse.

All operations can be completed with the mouse!

After finishing all this, it was already late at night.

Cheng Yi first tested it on the test server for a while, and then began to update the guild system.

Although Shengda deleted the functions of the guild system, the source code guild framework still existed. Cheng Yi separated the guild UI graphics of the client and began to rewrite the guild system.

New props:

Horn: The guild leader can use the horn while ensuring that he is not attacked. Members can accept his invitation and quickly teleport to the leader. It can be used three times a day.

War Drum: The guild leader uses the war drum to increase the attack power of all members by 10%, which lasts for 10 minutes and can be used three times a day.

New gameplay:

Guild Flag: Every night at 19:00, a guild flag will appear at each of the four gates of Biqi City. The guild that captures the flag will have all its members' leveling experience increased by 20%. This will last for 24 hours. The battle for the guild flag will resume at 19:00 the next night.

"Before Shabak is launched, let's use the guild flag to increase the guild's cohesion and retention." Cheng Yi thought as he made the changes.

Momo Legend is different from the official Legend. Its purpose is to gradually and subtly change Momo Legend to the extreme, even to the point where it is completely different, and then seamlessly transfer it to the new game a year later.

After revising it until after five in the morning, Cheng Yi finally figured out the framework of the guild system.

He slept for a few hours and plunged into the ocean of code again.

During the two days when he worked all night, a huge change had already taken place in the computer industry in Jingzhou City.

On October 10th, four days after the XP system was released, all sorts of issues with the 29 and 98 systems became apparent: freezes, lags, overheating, slow refresh rates...

Whether in terms of performance or other aspects, the XP system completely beats the 98 system and 2000 system.

Overnight, long queues formed in front of major computer stores in Jingzhou City.

The XP system's burnable disc was hyped up to a sky-high price of one thousand yuan.

The price of installing an XP system in the store was once raised to 100 yuan. Don’t think it’s expensive, you still have to wait in line for several days.

The entire IT industry went crazy because of the launch of the XP system.

"This system is so fast." In the Tianqin Internet Cafe, a man in his thirties was operating a computer that had just been installed with the XP system, and he couldn't contain his excitement.

Chen Zhi stood nearby with a smile on his face.

As he operated, the man said, "This seems to be similar to Momo Group's genius system. It runs at least 98% faster than the 50 system!"

Chen Zhi also nodded with great satisfaction. Although Chen Zhi didn't know much about computers, he was willing to spend money and was very obedient in professional fields.

The man's name is Wu Lianju. He graduated from the Computer Science Department of Jiangnan University and is an Internet cafe expert specially invited by Chen Zhi from the group headquarters.

Wu Lianju has been in charge of Tianqin Group's Internet cafe market in Zhonghai City. He manages hundreds of Internet cafes and is very knowledgeable about computers.

Wu Lianju said, "However, Pentium 2 computers may be in trouble."

"Why?" Chen Zhi asked curiously, "I see Pentium 2 computers running smoothly."

"That's all an illusion. I estimate that within two more XP updates, these Pentium 2 computers will start to lag." Wu Lianju said, "Let's get rid of the group's Pentium 2 computers while they can still be sold for some money."

"Okay, I'll report to the board of directors later." Chen Zhi responded.

Wu Lianju said, "Mr. Chen, we've already integrated all the internet cafes in Jingzhou City, with a total of 32660 computers. However, it seems like there's been some big activity at Momo Internet Cafe these past couple of days. There's a shop on the same street as many of our internet cafes that's undergoing renovations. I asked someone, and the lessee is Du Yusheng."

"Du Yusheng?" Chen Zhi frowned and asked, "Chairman of Momo Group?"

"Well, judging by the current number of leases, there are at least 100 of them," Wu Lianju said with some concern. "Based on my experience, the Momo Group is planning to fight us to the death. Now even their chairman has personally intervened."

"Fight to the death?" Chen Zhi smiled and said, "What can they fight with? The gap in our assets is so huge."

Wu Lianju also said with some confusion: "So I don't understand what Momo Group is trying to do. Their fixed assets are only tens of millions. If they really open 100 more internet cafes, once we start a price war with them, how long can they last? The more internet cafes they open, the more losses they will lose."

"We'll see. Maybe it can surprise us." Chen Zhi said with a smile, "The board of directors always thinks I'm making a big deal out of nothing. Now let them see if I am."

Wu Lianju said: "The people on the board of directors only know how to read financial statements and don't understand anything else."

"That's true, but they're on the board of directors, so they're better than us." Chen Zhi laughed and said, "We just need to do our job well. I hope Momo Group won't let us down."

"By the way, Mr. Chen, the computer system at this Momo Internet Cafe seems to be using a Chinese operating system. I checked it out yesterday, and I couldn't log into apps like QQ," Wu Lianju said. "That's why I asked you to come here," Chen Zhi said. "The people I have under my wing are good at capitalizing on the market, but they're not good enough when it comes to computer technology. You should carefully analyze why those Momo Internet Cafe branches are so popular."

Wu Lianju said, "One reason is the membership recharge system, and the other is that they have a game called Momo Legend. This game is very playable and is currently free. I compared it carefully and found that it is very similar to the Legend game in our internet cafe, with only some minor adjustments to the gameplay. I don't play games, so I don't see the significance of these minor adjustments."

"Legend?" Chen Zhi suddenly realized, "Recently, more and more people in our internet cafe are playing this game."

Wu Lianju said, "Legend is a game distributed by Zhonghai Shengda. I asked Shengda's marketing manager and learned that Momo Internet Cafe obtained the distribution rights from Shengda for one year."

Chen Zhi asked, "Is this the reason Momo Internet Cafe dares to resist us?"

"That's probably the case." Wu Lianju nodded and said, "Should we also get an agent?"

Chen Zhi thought for a moment and said, "It's too late to get the agency rights now. For now, let's promote the game Legend as quickly as possible and organize more promotions. We now have over 30,000 computers, so we can easily control all the game players in a short time."

"Also, tell Shengda that the Tianqin Group is willing to spend 500 million yuan to help them promote Legend on a large scale in Jingzhou City. Ask them if they can provide any support. Even if they can't, it will leave a good impression on them. When the game officially becomes available, we might be able to get some discounts on game cards."

"Okay, then I'll contact them now." Wu Lianju immediately took out his mobile phone and made a call.

Chen Zhi laughed and said, "Whether it's an internet cafe or a game, as long as it's a business, capital is always invincible, and no one is exempt."

"Done!" In the computer room, Cheng Yi stood up with disheveled hair and a gleam of joy in his eyes.

The guild system test is over!
"It's over, but we can't go online just yet." Cheng Yi chuckled and said, "This guild system must be treated as a killer weapon."

"The game has been online for so long, we need to set up an official website and forum for it." Cheng Yi rested for a while and logged into the official website of Momo Group again.

Now, under the maintenance of Guolong Software Center, Momo Group's official website has undergone a great change, and is beginning to be comparable to the Penguin official website, which is half official website and half portal.

In addition to the introduction to Momo Group, the official website homepage also has major sections such as Xiaonei.com and Toutiao. Cheng Yi carefully looked at the layout of the official website. After determining the location, he immediately called He Xu and expressed his demands in detail.

After finishing the presentation, he hand-drew some location maps and some ideas for the Momo official website forum, and sent them to He Xu.

Cheng Yi sent an update announcement in the login tool, and the maintenance and update will be restarted at 8 am tomorrow. The update content will include the deadline for the redemption fee reduction activity and the update of skill and equipment requirement levels.

Announcing the deadline for the redemption fee reduction activity can make players accept the issue of fees and convey to them that this is not a sudden decision to charge, but that it was previously in a reduction period.

The update of skill and equipment requirement levels makes the game simpler and more straightforward.

This requirement level is very advantageous for point card payment. After all, many players are accustomed to checking the BBS for their level and skill level when logging into the game. Moreover, they check it not once or twice, but almost every day. Coupled with equipment, many players have invisibly paid more than ten hours or even more for point card time.

These are all small details in the official operation of Legend, but in Cheng Yi's view they are dregs. Once they encounter an opponent with internal competition, these are fatal injuries.

The next morning, Cheng Yi restarted the server and left the office.

He first went to the exclusive lounge next door to take a shower and change his clothes, then returned to the office to open his email.

I opened my mailbox and found a resume for a game artist position.

Some time ago, although Cheng Yi received some responses to the advertisement he posted in the computer room recruiting game programmers and game artists, he was an intern after all and had no experience at all, so after interviewing a few people, nothing came of it.

The game program is fine, but the key is that the game artists are too hard to find.

During the days of writing code, Cheng Yi placed some advertisements in many magazines and tabloids, but still failed to find an experienced artist. Nowadays, professional game artists are in high demand in the eyes of major game manufacturers. It is extremely difficult for an inconspicuous small company like his to recruit an experienced artist.

Cheng Yi glanced at the resumes and gave them a template rejection.

Not at all.

He now needs to find a few experienced artists to help him lead a new team. After all, even he himself doesn't quite understand the specific operating procedures of the game art.

The most important thing is that Shengda gave him too little time, he only had one year.

Therefore, he had to form a game art team that could start work immediately in the shortest possible time, and he couldn't let the newcomers grow slowly by groping.

"It seems that I can't hope to stay in Jingzhou City." Cheng Yi thought for a while and said to himself, "I must go to Yanjing City."

He thought for a moment and called Yu Sen.

"Teacher Yu, I want to ask you for help with something." Cheng Yi laughed.

"What's the matter? I can't handle big things. I have already resigned from Volkswagen." Yu Sen came up and gave Cheng Yi a shot of prevention.

Cheng Yi laughed and said, "How dare I ask you for something important? I remember you said you had a student at Kingsoft. What's his current position?"

Yu Sen smiled and said, "I think he's the project manager. I don't know what he's responsible for."

"Can you recommend someone for me?" Cheng Yi said, "I want to find an outsourced art design team and see if he knows anyone familiar with them."

"Okay, I'll call him first and then send you his cell phone number." Hearing this, Yu Sen agreed readily.

Cheng Yi knows people like Yu Sen very well. They all live their own lives behind closed doors and are most afraid of owing favors to others, so Cheng Yi never asks them to do difficult things.

More than ten minutes later, Cheng Yi received a text message from Yu Sen.

Zhu Shanhu, 13812345...

"It's him." Cheng Yi was not surprised to see the name.

　I'm going to make up for yesterday's update, and today is the third update. I'm going to continue to push the limits! I feel bad for being behind schedule!

Explain a small point.

Now we are going to enter the online game part, which will include some game plot.

I will slowly modify the game to a level that you can understand, so that readers who have not played Legend can also understand it.

The game plot is not watered down. In fact, the game plot is very difficult to write. It is not my forte. However, if I don’t write the plot and just dryly promote the plot, saying how awesome and popular this game is, it will be very dry to read.

For example, in the online game plots I wrote before, every paragraph had a meaning. For example, I used the storyline of treasure hunting to describe the fun level, and used the failure of a team battle to introduce a guild. Even when I actually make games in real life, I test them hundreds of times every day, until I vomit. Every day I play games, find problems, fix them, and play games again...

　
(End of this chapter)