The moment Xu Sili’s two system announcements came out, it was immediately screenshotted by the players and sent to the forum.
The first announcement was that players who reached Lv 20 would quit the Sixth Army.
This meant that at least 10,000 people from the previous day’s team would be cleared. The remaining 2,000 people would basically soon reach Lv 20.
Therefore, the dream of the first batch of players to continue riding the flying rocket to level up could be regarded as a direct failure.
As for the second announcement, it made the players who didn’t give up doing daily missions, even if they complained, happy.
[Hahaha, fortunately, I listened to the advice of the great god Yishihuan. The moment I entered the game, I seriously did my daily missions!]
[Why does Starry Sky Age always have people do the daily missions…?]
These players had basically been influenced by the first and second closed betas. They had read many guides from great gods and carefully followed the advice of old players.
Starry Sky Age attached great importance to the daily mission of ‘Respecting the Old and Loving the Young.’ It was best to do it every day.
[The daily missions are great. Not only can you quickly accumulate reputation and gain the NPCs’ favorability, but it also helps you understand the game’s worldview, better integrate into the Roland Empire and enhance the sense of substitution.]
[Yes, I personally like to do the daily missions. I feel that the days I encounter every day are different. Even if it is the same mission content, it isn’t boring to repeat it. Every old person or child I meet has a different personality.]
[The NPC modeling of Starry Sky Age is really amazing. I haven’t encountered any NPCs who look the same despite doing so many daily missions.]
Perhaps it was due to the quality of the game. Even if they encountered the unfairness of yesterday, none of the players were so disappointed that they decided to quit.
This turmoil also showed the tendency to subside due to these two announcements.
Some players were happy and some were sad, but most players were satisfied.
After all, there was still one month to go. This was equivalent to a month where everyone had the opportunity to participate in this mission.
To be reasonable, the leader of the NPC faction took them all to level up together!
In other games, they didn’t dare think about it. But considering the particularity of Starry Sky Age, everyone felt that this arrangement was unexpectedly good.
The number of first and second closed beta players might be small, but the gap with the open beta players was still relatively large, no matter whether it was in terms of level or the skills they learned.
In the past, some games would narrow the gap between new and old players by giving away cultivation pills, but this method obviously didn’t work in Starry Sky Age.
Now the leader of the NPC faction led everyone to level up to level 20. On the one hand, this increased the fun and the sense of game experience. On the other end, it also promoted the social fun of the players.
Even players who didn’t want to join a mercenary group could meet many partners through this mission.
The dissatisfaction of the players subsided smoothly. Due to the problems caused on the first day, Starry Sky Age once again gained a wave of enthusiasm. This made it enter people’s field of view more widely.
The number of orders received by the game company continued to increase.
In the mouths of many game streamers, the mission of building a city had directly become a stroke of genius for the game group.
There were also players who posted on the forum, praising the planners for the first time. They said that the more similar activities there were, the better. The game group must continue to work hard.
As for the game group…
They actually wanted to say that the plan all of them had discussed overnight hadn’t taken shape yet!
The person in charge of the planning team was really confused. In fact, the ‘City of the Braves’ mission had shocked and dazed them.
They did plan a home system but it wasn’t to directly build a city. They planned for players to buy houses with NPCs and mix in with them.
Building a city was theoretically achievable in Starry Sky Age, but they hadn’t designed the relevant missions. They mainly had to rely on the players to explore it themselves.
Therefore, it could be imagined how confused they were when this mission of building a city came out.
Then after the investigation by the technical department, they didn’t find any bugs. In the end, it was a result calculated by the main brain itself.
From all indications, the NPC called Snow Roland had a particularly high intelligence.
It was very likely that after he announced the mission of building the city, the main brain created this mission based on his words and added relevant details.
These two system announcements were probably the solutions calculated by the main brain.
This interpretation was the most reasonable one.
They vaguely felt that something was wrong but most people still accepted this speculation.
Xu Yuheng was inevitably relieved after hearing the conclusions they had drawn.
In fact, he had doubts before. Then after the mission of building the city came out, he finally determined that Xiao Li could indeed release missions to players!
These two game announcements also confirmed his guess.
He felt that it was amazing. He couldn’t help thinking about what type of state Xiao Li was in now.
His soul crossed into the game and became an NPC. Then was Xiao Li now a data life like Xiao Wu?
Still, this didn’t seem quite accurate.
Starry Sky Age gave him the feeling of being too much like a real world.
In short, the problem was temporarily resolved but his work wasn’t over.
It was because there was a bigger problem waiting for him—
Should they open the player recharge channels?
Ever since the first day of the open beta, countless players had reported to the officials through the forum, hoping to open the recharge channel as soon as possible so they could buy Escher coins.
Right now, the Escher coins and real money had been speculated to have an exchange rate of 1:20, but they were still in short supply.
The number of people in the open beta had increased, but the newcomers needed time to explore the game, not to mention that most people who could spend 100,000 yuan to buy a game cabin weren’t poor.
It could be imagined how much demand there was for Escher coins and how many wealthy people couldn’t buy Escher coins with money.
However, Old Wang had his own persistence.
Opening the recharge channel and the trading of Escher coins was likely to destroy the economic system of the Roland Empire, leading to many problems.
Starry Sky Age was different from other games. It had its own set of logic and systems.
For example, for the daily missions released by Xu Sili, the Escher coins for the rewards were drawn from his account rather than pulled out of thin air by the system.
“For the equipment and weapons, according to the original design concept, they can be obtained by the player in the game or created by themselves. The system mall won’t directly sell the finished products.”
Old Wang said, “All we can do is provide a safe trading system for the players. Then charge a certain fee for it.”
For example, when issuing diamond coins, players could recharge and buy diamond coins to buy and sell in the game. But these diamond coins were limited to circulation between players and wouldn’t flow into the NPC market.
“As for the direct sale of Escher coins, equipment and weapons, which can be obtained from the game—I will never agree.”
In fact, the function of diamond coins was no different from real money but there were relevant regulations. The currency of virtual products couldn’t be directly settled using real money, so it was put in a different way.
The launch of the diamond coins simply couldn’t alleviate the shortage of players’ Escher coins.
Xu Yuheng had a headache. How much money could they earn if they only charged a handling fee? He felt that Starry Sky Age still had a long way to go to achieve profitability.
The initial investment was too much. It was difficult to recover just the costs alone.
Still, he had to say that he was indeed biased toward Old Wang in his heart. After all, his brother was still the emperor in the game.
Next, they had a heated discussion again about how the game would be monetized and how to appease the players.
In the game, after completing the gathering of a new batch of cute players, Xu Sili once again led the Sixth Army to launch a massacre-style cleaning operation against the interstellar beasts.
He must build a protective belt around the border before the beast wave came. The City of the Braves was the top priority.
Qing Yan and the other mercenary group leaders who first received the mission had been expelled from the Sixth Army. After all, a lot of them had levels that exceeded 30.
The land of the City of the Braves was distributed according to contribution. Everyone was unwilling to give up increasing the contribution like this.
So instead of going back, they remained at the border with the 10,000 players who had been expelled from the army. They participated in the battle with the new Sixth Army.
At this time, the gap came out directly.
Roar!
The interstellar beast was red-eyed as it died and directly used a big move. This directly killed dozens or hundreds of people surrounding it, while the Sixth Army on the other side were almost unscathed despite being all new players.
The older players fell bit by bit, their lives ruthlessly harvested by the interstellar beasts. They had no strength to resist. Who could stand this psychological gap?
They felt that they were invincible yesterday. Then today, they deeply realized—
This was all an illusion. The one who was truly invincible was His Majesty Snow!
In particular, the players killed by the interstellar beasts felt really cold and desolate when they saw the Sixth Army next to them killing in all directions.
Soon, some players recognized reality.
They no longer stayed on this side of the border to look for abuse. They chose to die to return to the city and obediently do missions to improve themselves.
Besides, the level of the interstellar beasts near the main city were more suitable for leveling. They also needed to start exploring the characteristics of various interstellar beasts and figure out the strategy for pushing monsters.
It was cool to kill monsters without thinking, but researching strategies to outsmart them was another type of coolness. This was the norm. After all, it was rare for the NPCs to take them to fly.
In the eyes of Silin and the others, this situation inevitably made them anxious like ants on a hot pot.
There were too many dead and wounded braves!
Their strength wasn’t high but their fearless spirit of taking the lead when fighting the interstellar beasts was still worthy of admiration. Silin couldn’t bear to watch them die meaninglessly like this.
She wanted to report the situation to Snow, but with the current battle situation, she didn’t dare to disturb him. Otherwise, there would be even more braves who died.
At this time, she saw Si Sheng, who was still staying in place, and flew directly toward him.
“Si Sheng!”
Si Sheng glanced at her and nodded slightly. Then he looked away, still staring at the silver-haired young man fighting in the distance.
Seeing his calm and indifferent expression, Silin couldn’t help saying, “Too many braves have died. Si Sheng, we can’t continue like this!”
“They will be resurrected,” Si Sheng said softly.
Silin was still trying to analyze the situation with him when she became stuck. “Huh? Resurrection?”
“Yes.” Si Sheng didn’t explain much and just stared into the distance. Suddenly, he frowned slightly.
Silin saw his attitude of not caring about her. There was the prejudice from before and she couldn’t help frowning.
She really wanted to know how this Si Sheng replaced Admiral Joyce as the marshal!
However, before she could ask, Si Sheng’s figure in front of her suddenly flashed and he disappeared.
In the next second, a sharp whistling sound was heard. Silin looked in that direction and her expression changed dramatically.
She saw interstellar beasts with heads full of flames flying in the sky. They were fire beasts, one of the overlords of the sky. They each had a strength that was over six stars!
Perhaps they were attracted by the battle on this side, but the one in the lead fluttered its wings. Then overwhelming flames erupted from its mouth and headed straight toward Xu Sili!
Silin saw this scene and couldn’t help being dazzled.
“Snow!”
She shouted loudly in a panic but she could only watch the young man directly become submerged in the flames.
Then once the flames disappeared, the expression on her face froze.
She saw that the blond-haired man in a snow-white military uniform had blocked the front of the young man at some point. He raised his right hand and all the flames flowed around them, avoiding them.
Under everyone’s gaze, the blond-haired man turned around and said something to the young man, who nodded with some helplessness.
Silin could lip read, so she saw that the man seemed to be saying, ‘Can I make a move now?’
Then Silin witnessed a one-sided killing that completely subverted her previous perception of individual strength.
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