Has anyone reached level 10 yet? Isn't that icon a rose? I want to plant a sea of roses outside my house, hehehehe (drooling.jpg)
Because the first thing you see upon entering the Blue Star Platform is a small house, and outside the house you can see your two acres of initial farmland, the player traffic here is actually quite large.
Most players will be curious and give it a try.
The operation is very simple. Just give the command, and the interstellar-era farming robots will perform operations such as cultivating, renovating, sowing, watering, and weeding.
Wheat, a first-level crop, can be harvested in just five minutes, and each pound of wheat yields 10 silver coins—the built-in currency of the farming gameplay.
This simple process of labor, waiting, and reaping can bring joy to many people.
However, just two days later, they discovered another kind of joy.
[Hahahaha, you can actually steal crops from your neighbor's farm!! Before they're ripe, you can only water and weed, but once they're ripe, you can steal 10% of the entire yield, hahahaha! ...Eh? You guys already knew this?]
[I'm so frustrated! I got a rare seed, planted it all night, and when I set my alarm this morning, it had only been ripe for a minute before three groups of people stole it... I desperately need a fierce-looking dog!! What level does the dog unlock at? Please tell me!!]
[What do you need a dog for? Who stole yours? Go steal it back! I only planted one crop of wheat in my field and haven't harvested it since. I survive by stealing wheat from the neighbor's field every day. Yesterday, a thief broke in. We stared at each other blankly, and we searched the field together for ages. We couldn't steal the last 1% of the yield—we're dirt poor, so we have nothing to fear!!]
[Holy crap, who stole the chili peppers I planted last night?! I'll make you burn to death, you son of a bitch! You dare steal chili peppers that were left overnight!]
[The "Farming Alliance" is recruiting! Still searching for game guides? Still worried about your neighbors stealing your crops? Still working hard to grow wheat and save up silver coins to buy a dog? Join our alliance! We have 24-hour shifts to guard your fields. Anyone who dares to steal a member's crops will be caught by one of us! Our motto is: Those who invade our fields, no matter how far away, will be punished!]
225. Farming Era
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it's already the Little New Year.
The date for this year's Lunar New Year's Eve has been announced, and it's about half a month earlier than in previous years. So everyone is already distracted from work, and their entire focus is on "waiting for the holiday, waiting for the holiday, waiting for the holiday."
On Earth, with the release date of "Hunter World" drawing ever closer, the busiest people are the game testers and programmers who are still debugging and conducting the final round of testing before the game goes live.
They invited another group of players, basically through random selection.
Because of the sudden surge in traffic a while ago, the number of players who signed up online to take the test also surged again. This time, the selection rate has reached one in hundreds of thousands, and everyone is practically a "chosen one" or a lucky winner.
In this test, the focus was on verifying the complete game process, so the staff did not provide any assistance to the players; they had to figure everything out on their own.
Overall, the results were quite satisfactory, and the test engineers also recorded some interesting data.
In this test, there were a total of 200 players:
28 people have died at the hands of the lowest-level monsters in the game;
79 people have fallen off the cliff and died, 21 of whom caused mission failures as a result;
Sixteen people gave up resisting after being smeared in the face by mosquito monsters because they hated insects so much. They also gave up the mission after returning home. Two of the players tried to buy insecticide at the general store.
One player was imprisoned for attempting to harass a female NPC;
The four-star boss, the Volcano Dragon, has a death count of 0. In a grind-heavy game, no player can accumulate enough resources in a short time to challenge the boss; most people can only defeat the two-star final boss.
One player didn't understand the NPC's message while doing the quest.
The PC instructed him to collect items and put them in the gondola, but he himself sat in the gondola and hanged himself in mid-air because he lost his balance.
The designer worked overnight to revise his mission dialogue.
In addition, seven players attempted to cheat at the slot machines in the Hunter's Camp. Six of them tried to bypass the 10:1 coin exchange rate by directly inserting copper coins into the coin slot.
The remaining person didn't even want to pay the single copper coin, and instead pulled out a mint from his pocket...
Thin! Lotus! Sugar!
The designer added a handwritten rule at the end of the slot machine rules: "Anyone attempting to evade payment will be fined one hundred times the amount! Anyone who damages the coin slot will not be allowed to leave until they complete a penalty task!"
In conclusion, Hunter World has been fully packaged after this test and is just waiting for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Meanwhile, the publicity department naturally followed suit in a flurry of activity.
Although they always feel that they might be the most redundant department on Earth, often it's not them promoting and the fans cooperating, but rather the players promoting and them cooperating with the players...
The second promotional video mainly introduces the hunter camp and also demonstrates the differences between the various weapons used by the hunters.
Players' eyes lit up:
Wow, that greatsword is so cool!
No one can stop me from wielding the greatsword! A weapon with such a slow attack speed is obviously designed for showing off!
Seeing the players' reactions, the designers, who had anticipated this, smiled knowingly and kindly.
The third promotional video mainly features a live-action demonstration – [Chief Master Ming and his friends personally challenge the four-star boss, the Volcano Dragon].
With its catchy gimmicks and thrilling battle scenes, this promotional video actually surpassed others and became the most memorable one among players.
Thus, the pre-sale version of "Hunter World" has been available on the Blue Star platform for a month, and the number of pre-registrations has reached a staggering 70 million.
In order to pre-register for "Hunter World", many Blue Star players had to download and upgrade their Blue Star launcher to become members of the Blue Star platform—after all, it's the platform's first game release!
While waiting for the game's release, they didn't sit idle; most of them would browse the emerging platform out of curiosity.
As a result, once they started shopping, they couldn't get out...
【Aaaaaaah! My World is 90% off?! This is outrageous!!! You can buy it for only three dollars, that's too much!!!】
Damn, my hand just wouldn't cooperate and I bought three Minecraft activation codes. They were so cheap, I might as well stock up and give them to friends later. That saved me almost a hundred yuan... (proudly puffing out my chest)
[Blue Star Apocalypse Generation 1 is half price!! Buy the Blue Star Apocalypse Generation 1 + 2 bundle for 30% off! I rave about this Blue Star series! My fellow fans, please grab it now!]