You said you were going to make games, how did you become the richest man without doing anything?

Chapter 94: Following the Clues (Please Order)
In the evening, Lu Yu lay at his workstation, checking the point records comfortably.

With Fan Jing's joining, the daily income of leisure points reached a new high of 75 points.

As of today, more than 40 days have passed in this cycle. Taking into account the fixed points income enjoyed by employees in the manor and the extra points income from strolling around, Lu Yu has earned a total of 3560.5 leisure points.

Wow, in less than a month and a half, I made 350,000 yuan.

Beautiful!
In this cycle, although the start was unfavorable and points were deducted.

However, through his meticulous work and sustainable efforts to exploit his employees, he finally turned the company from loss to profit.

Moreover, the 35 yuan earned is a free rebate from the system, and the operating funds in the company's account will not be misappropriated.

This means that he can continue to use operating funds to figure out how to keep the company running at the operational level, expand employee benefits, and continue to improve ways to earn points.

In this way, wouldn’t it form a virtuous cycle where the more you enjoy, the richer you become, and the richer you become, the more you enjoy?
Great, keep the cycle going!

In order to maintain the newly formed cycle, he now needs to pay special attention and firmly control the speed of the company's business expansion.

The reason is simple: the more people there are, the harder it is to manage.

In his previous life, he worked in a large company with 100,000 employees and witnessed firsthand how terrible the so-called big company disease was:
The organizational structure is bloated, execution efficiency is low, and flattery, fawning and upward management are prevalent among leaders and employees.

What is even more frightening is that there are many factions and clans between different departments, and the internal strife and competition for promotion and performance are particularly serious.

There is no way. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Although the company's leadership is aware of its own big company disease, the organization has become extremely large and bloated, and it is not so easy to turn around.

If Taoyuan Township also got to this point, Lu Yu would probably wake up every morning and see his leisure points being deducted by critical hits, combos and straight strikes. He would probably owe the system so many points that he would not be able to pay it back even if he worked since the Tang Dynasty.

He must stop this horrible scene!
The most direct way to control the scale of the business is to prevent the emergence of a "roll king" in the company and the production of big hits from now on.

Because a big hit means a surge in user scale, and now the small team's workload is unmanageable, and they need to continue to expand. As the number of employees continues to increase, he will not be able to manage it.

……

Lu Yu opened the employees' leisure point income ranking from the system list.

The three new employees in the Cat Girl Paradise team have relatively easy work because they maintain old games, and their per capita point income ranks first.

The Mouth Cannon Life group has performed fairly well recently and ranks second.

The per capita point income of the island owner life group is the lowest among the three project groups.

This caught Lu Yu's attention.

Speaking of which, the island owner's life group has indeed been in a free-range state recently. He hasn't paid much attention to it and is not familiar with the new employees recruited by the project team.

It's time to meet them.

So, he took some free time and called everyone in the island owner's life group to the conference room.

He smiled warmly:
"How are you all doing lately? Are you feeling comfortable living in the company? Are you feeling comfortable with your work?"

The team members were flattered and nodded one after another.

Lü Rui, the most senior level planner on the project team, began reporting his recent work to Lu Yu:
"Mr. Lu, our project team has recently done three things: one is to fix bugs and vulnerabilities in the game itself, the second is to maintain the player community, and the third is to develop subsequent content updates.

And, as you know, when the game Island Owner Life was first developed, um... there were no comments in the code, so the project team spent a lot of effort to clarify the code and game structure."

Lu Yu sighed. That large pile of unannotated resources had troubled him for a week.

It is understandable if the development team is distracted by this matter.

"Thankfully, we've finally figured out the code completely, but... we're faced with another challenge."

Lu Yu instantly became alert: "Be careful."

"Just look at it, after all, Island Owner Life is now a phenomenal game, with a peak of nearly 16 concurrent online players. Therefore, players have high expectations for subsequent content updates.

However, our capabilities and experience are not as good as those of the directors who originally developed this game, so the project team is under great pressure to ensure that subsequent content updates can meet players' expectations."

The artist Wu Siling next to her continued:
"Especially, top streamers like G-chan and Wang Fanqie are making very rapid progress in clearing the maze on the central island of the area. They have already reached more than 60 floors underground and are about to encounter the 'Land Feather Demon'.

According to Mr. Liu, they did not have time to carefully design the BOSS mechanism of the Land Feather Demon when they were on Dongming Island.

Therefore, the project team is currently in the dark about how to conduct this boss battle...

It’s still in the early stages of planning, and we don’t want to bother the directors all the time.”

Lu Yu thought, "No wonder you guys are at the bottom of the points income list lately. So you're struggling with this?" However, the Island Owner team is mostly new to the industry, unlike the Mouth Cannon team, where many are veterans of Frostwolf Studios. So, it's understandable that they're stuck here.

"I only have one sentence."

Lu Yu, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke. Everyone perked up and listened attentively.

"Let nature take its course. Do whatever makes you feel comfortable and happy."

"what?"

Lu Rui and his friends looked at each other in surprise.

At the beginning of the meeting, they thought that Mr. Lu came to blame them for the recent design bottleneck.

Unexpectedly, Mr. Lu not only did not blame everyone for the delay, but instead comforted everyone to do whatever they wanted.
Seeing the confusion on everyone's faces, Lu Yu continued to smile:
"Just be bold and do what makes you happy and comfortable. Don't worry about the players' expectations or whether your products have been proven in the market.

As long as there are no major bugs and the experience is complete and smooth, that's fine.

Even if the results are mediocre, I won’t hold you responsible.”

He was telling the truth. The island owner had achieved such unexpected results in life that he had already exceeded his goals.

Even if this group of people makes the boss battle very mediocre, it doesn’t matter. After all, Taoyuan Township now has a lot of family business and can start to be a little willful.

Now, this group of people is the short board of the company's point income, so he is more concerned about whether this group of people can enjoy themselves wholeheartedly.

"Also, I see that you seem to be focusing all your energy on work lately. This is not good. This is very bad."

Hearing Lu Yu's serious tone, everyone was stunned.

This… When you’re at work, if you don’t focus on your work, where else can you focus your energy?
"Well, the company obviously has so many facilities for your entertainment. I've also taken you out for a stroll a few times. As mature Taoyuan Township employees, you should now learn to enjoy life on your own and have some fun."

Lu Yu could only give this much advice. If he deliberately told them to give up their work, it would trigger the system's passive resistance warning.

……

After the meeting, the team members stayed in the meeting room and discussed the matter.

Lu Rui scratched his head and said, "What do you think Mr. Lu is singing about?"

Wu Siling put her chin in her hand and analyzed, "Boss Lu's words are definitely not as simple as they seem. He said that we should not focus on work, but there must be a deeper meaning.

A simple proof is that a game as successful as Island Master Life could not have been created in a passive and bad state. "

Client programmer He Chuming said at this time:

"I heard from Zhang Fan, the programmer of the new project team, that our CEO Lu is a veteran and very good at giving everyone development hints through all kinds of chicken soup and small details in daily life."

"Ah this..."

The other team members looked at each other suspiciously.

What does game development have to do with chicken soup for the soul jokes in life?

He Chuming said firmly:

"Don't disbelieve me, Zhang Fan heard it from the two big guys, Brother Xiong and Sister Qiqi. They are the ones who contributed to the development of the island owners' lives.

Brother Xiong also said in the mouth cannon group that they didn't believe it at first, but it was President Liu who said it with full confidence.

Don’t forget that Mr. Liu is the hero who developed the Cat Girl Paradise.

According to the information Zhang Fan heard Brother Xiong get from General Manager Liu, General Manager Liu didn't believe it at first, but it was General Manager Lu who said it with full confidence.

It actually worked!"

Everyone was stunned.

Good guy, follow the clues and the logic is closed.

It turns out that Mr. Lu’s thousand-layer cake is the origin of everything. Now I have to believe it.

Everyone was touched and flattered. President Lu really valued and cared about our group and even came to give them some advice.

(End of this chapter)