Then they checked their phones and were stunned.
Holy crap, I walked over 10,000 steps yesterday!! I was awesome yesterday!
[I've never had this much exercise in a single day since high school military training; it's like reaching a new peak in my life...]
[I visited eight friends' houses yesterday! My goodness! Has my social anxiety been cured?!]
[Waaaaah, I'd do anything for my little dragon!]
According to internal statistics from Bluestar, their players averaged over two thousand meters of exercise yesterday.
In other words, the vast majority of people have hatched at least one dragon egg, and many people choose to work hard to reach the next, the third, and so on to hatch the next dragon egg.
Of course, it's also possible that some of them were influenced by their neighbors...
Schrödinger, the head of the technical department, was both amused and exasperated: "They need someone to get around to incubating a dragon egg! These people are hopelessly lazy!"
Mingyan also found the players' bizarre cheating methods amusing.
Tying it to a big dog is actually quite good... The ambassador of the Galactic Empire next door has already deleted that blog post out of guilt.
But the inspired players were incredibly outrageous.
Someone set up a virtual location system to cheat, which was naturally quickly discovered and the dragon eggs were confiscated;
Some people, perhaps because they don't have pets at home to link their phones to, have come up with some ingenious solutions...
The program team even discussed the issue when they detected that the motion trajectory was incorrect.
"What the hell is that thing drawing circles in the room? They're even using a pet mouse?"
"What kind of animal can be so steady? It walks without any up-and-down movement or wobbling! Is this some kind of ghost?"
"It's too hard to guess, maybe we should just ban the account."
"This isn't good. We haven't even figured out the principle yet. What if it happens again? Maybe we should just go ask that player."
Finally, the programmers consulted with Mingyan, wanting to communicate directly with the player.
Mingyan suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Could it be... a robot vacuum cleaner???"
"..." Everyone burst into laughter!
First there was a cooking robot to help with card drawing, and now there's a sweeping robot to hatch dragon eggs.
The players' imagination and ingenious tricks are the biggest cheats!
Mingyan was both exasperated and unable to suppress a laugh.
After deliberation, Blue Star decided on the following punishments: Any player who uses improper means to play the game will, depending on the severity of the offense, be subject to the following penalties, ranging from confiscation of illegally obtained dragons, a seven-day account suspension, and the ultimate measure—burning the Dragon Hunter Scroll.
Each scroll is unique and contains all the dragon eggs and dragons associated with that account.
Burning the scroll results in a permanent account ban, from which recovery is impossible.
With such a rule in place, players will likely behave much better.
Well, until they finally found the job on a part-time job platform:
Dragon Egg Mobility System.
Monthly salary xxxx, responsible for daily long-distance running with n mobile phones. There is a bonus for each dragon egg hatched, corresponding to the level of difficulty.
"..."
Everyone burst into laughter again!
171. Granting fiefdoms and enfeoffments
When a new game is released, time always seems to fly by.
In early March, the public beta version of "Dragon Hunter" had been online for more than a month, and the game content had basically stabilized.
The entire development process took about six months, and this VR-focused mini-game was completed in a remarkably fast time.
Of course, Dragon Hunter's overall size is also very small, with the initial download package being less than 200GB, which is exceptionally portable in the interstellar era, roughly equivalent to several mobile games from the Dragon Slayer Studio.
As a result, it was incredibly fast, possibly the fastest development cycle in Earth's history.
The official version of Dragon Hunter will even be ready to be released in time for this year's Blue Star Carnival.
The annual carnival, of course, was already in preparation long ago.
Unlike the tense atmosphere at the beginning, everyone is now quite skilled and generally excited and expectant.
"The opening ceremony is confirmed for May 21st, right? That's a great number. How about we put a giant torch on the stage for the opening ceremony?"
"Great idea!!!"
"Ahem, I meant, putting a scene of a red dragon and a fire-breathing dragon battling it out on the screen could boost players' positive feelings towards dragon hunters, right?"
"Let's take this opportunity to release two rare dragon eggs."
"I think that's a good idea. How about releasing limited-edition dragon eggs directly? I recently did an extra color adjustment on the Lao-Shan Lung, and we can give them out as rewards to this year's Carnival players?"
"Great idea, hehehe, but those unlucky ones who didn't get an invitation are probably going to wail again..."
The two designers chatted about their ideas as they walked toward Chief Designer Ming's office.