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Chapter 929: Selecting the Future Main Combat Unit
While Jiang Yao was still thinking about these questions, at this time on the other side.

The players on Chen Yao's side have completed the task and come to hand in the task.

Seeing the players coming, Chen Yao immediately stepped forward to inquire about the situation.

"Have you guys mastered the control of the drone?"

Hearing this, several people nodded.

"Commander, we can now skillfully control 30 drones."

Hearing this, Chen Yao pretended to be very surprised.

"I didn't expect that several soldiers would become familiar with the operation so quickly."

"In that case, please follow me, warriors."

As he spoke, Chen Yao brought a few people to the simulation room.

After arriving here, several people started the operation. Because there was a script, the overall operation was very smooth for everyone.

Seeing what several people were doing, Chen Yao also began to think about how to give the reward.

"According to my settings, the transaction currency in this game is points. All the resources obtained by players can be exchanged for points from me."

"Of course, in addition to points, there is also the concept of levels, which are used to unlock mall items."

"The higher the level, the better the things you unlock."

The items in the mall were also carefully selected by Chen Yao and are helpful to him at his current stage.

At this time, Chen Yao had prepared a lot of goods in the mall.

Originally, he wanted to let players directly become level one after completing the task.

Then I unlocked all the items in the mall for them.

But after thinking it over, he gave up the idea.

He planned to unlock fewer items each time. Unlocking too many items at once would not be a good thing for him now.

So after careful selection, he chose a set of armor and a mining mecha.

The role of the armor is to provide players with a layer of protection when encountering emergencies. As for the mining mecha, it is to replace drones and improve collection efficiency.

In fact, at the beginning Chen Yao wanted to directly allow players to board mining ships, but the price of mining ships in the system mall was also very high, a full five-digit points.

Although players can still get enough if they work hard.

But the cycle required is very long.

After working hard for a while, he was able to build a mining ship. This would be no problem in reality, but Chen Yao, as a planner, felt that it was not feasible in the game.

If a new game wants to retain players, it needs to be highly playable.

Who can stand mining all the time after entering the game?
So after thinking about it, Chen Yao changed his strategy.

After making up his mind, Chen Yao immediately began to make arrangements.

It was obvious that he had his own plans on how to get the players to continue operating here.

Although the result was far from what Jiang Yao had imagined, at least the matter was resolved.

To be precise, we should at least be aware of this problem.

In fact, Chen Yao had also thought about this. After all, he was a game planner before traveling through time.

He is well aware that if a game wants to retain players, not only does it need to be of high quality, but most importantly, it must also provide players with some visible benefits.

At first he wanted to improve the players' physical fitness, but later based on research he found that it would be extremely difficult and costly to do so.

And the most critical thing is that after upgrading the clones, you cannot guarantee that the players will not die. Once the players die, the problem arises that the previously upgraded clones will be scrapped.

Here you have to consider two factors. The first factor is that the previously upgraded clones are scrapped, and a large amount of resources are consumed. This is borne by yourself and the player. The second thing is about combat units. Whether it is a battleship or something else, it also requires costs.

After the players died, these things were gone, which means that the death penalty in this game is too severe.

The loss of the vehicle originally carried may be difficult for players to accept, but they have to add an attribute that the players themselves have enhanced.

Adding these two things together, if this really happened, it would be so heartbreaking. No one could accept this kind of death penalty.

And this is the biggest problem.

There are so many things involved here.

As a planner, the first thing you need to solve is the problem of combat losses, because if this problem is not solved, it will be difficult for both yourself and the players to accept it.

Take the players for example, they worked hard to create something, but in the end it was all gone. It must have been a huge blow to their mentality, and the same goes for me. So after thinking it over, I tried my best to reduce this kind of loss within my ability.

Simply abandon the item of strengthening the players' bodies.

Put the level mechanism on opening the mall purchasing authority. The first point is that players have their own goals, so they will definitely work hard for themselves and then unlock the things they want to buy.

After unlocking, game currency is required, so they need to continue working hard to earn enough currency to purchase it.

In Chen Yao's plan, what he wanted to create was the definition of this game, and the level of the players, that is, unlocking mall props, was the most important.

Everything else is secondary.

In this way, even if there is heavy casualties, players will be heartbroken, but they will not lose hope.

As long as players subconsciously believe that it doesn’t matter if something is lost, because their level is still there and if they want to buy the same thing they just need to do a little more.

This is his plan. In this way, because there are levels, players will also improve themselves. For them, even if they don’t have what they want now, when what they want appears in the future, as long as their levels are met, they can buy it immediately.

And that's enough.

Of course, this is only his first step. Player casualties are always a big problem. If this problem is not solved, even if he uses this method, it will still cause a lot of player loss.

Therefore, he must find a solution before the number of players increases drastically.

While thinking about this, he distributed the rewards for this mission to the players and then left.

The three people who had completed their mission watched Chen Yao leave and started communicating again.

"Oh my god, this wave of experience rewards is quite a lot. This wave directly allows us to be promoted to level one." At this time, he was a little excited when he saw that his authority level had reached level one.

Looking at the excited Sky Dragon, he turned his attention to the items in the mall. "This is unusual. After all, I have exceeded the task." Star Dragon pointed to the unlocked items in the mall.

"Brothers, look at the things unlocked in the mall, the Whale-class strategic industrial ship, the Dragon God-class mecha, and the A3 Hercules industrial mecha." As Star Dragon said this, he couldn't help but be moved when looking at the goods in the mall.

Especially when he saw the Dragon God Mecha Star Dragon, which looked similar to the first generation machine in EVA, he silently made up his mind to buy one.

However, looking at the six-digit price of this mecha, he knew that it would be impossible to buy it in a short period of time.

So he turned his attention to the A3 Hercules industrial mecha.

The shape of this mecha is very similar to a mecha called Cherno Alpha in a movie he had seen before.

The overall gray paint gives players an overall heavy feeling.

This mecha's somewhat bloated body is equipped with a complete ore processing production line.

The collected ore can be processed immediately. After processing, the volume of the ore is reduced and more resources can be brought back.

Because of the support of these things, the estimated mining efficiency of this mecha has reached an astonishing 500 points per day.

"This mecha is amazing." Star Dragon's eyes lit up when he saw that the collection efficiency was so high.

Then he turned his attention to the price of this mecha.

"Two thousand points, this price is not too expensive."

After hearing what Star Dragon said, several people also turned their attention to this mecha.

"I think this mecha has something special. It is 40 meters tall, and its main function is mining.

But considering its size, its combat power is definitely not weak." As he spoke, Tianqiong began to think about it in his mind.

"The NPC loaned us thirty mining drones."

"And the NPC also mentioned that the daily output of a drone should be around 1 to 1.5 points."

"It's definitely not enough to raise enough money to buy a mecha with these few drones, so what we need to do in the early stages is to dig out as many mining drones as possible."

Suifeng, who was standing next to Tianqiong, added.

"If we use the script, one person can control up to 30 drones. Based on the output of 30 credits per day, it will take me at least 100 days to buy this thing."

Naturally, several people could not accept this.

"This cycle is too long." Tianqiong said and looked at the Star Dragon.

"By the way, Mr. Starry Sky, is there any way you can optimize it so that we can have more control?"

After hearing what Tianqiong said, Xingkonglong thought for a while and then said.

“The actual drone control seems to be different from the simulation. I have to actually operate it to know.”

As he said this, he looked at a few people.

"Well, I'll try it first and then see if I can optimize it."

In this way, several people came to the drone control room while talking.

Chen Yao had carefully selected the things to unlock this time. First of all, there were mechas, an industrial mecha and a combat mecha. Although the combat mecha could not be used now, it was always better to be prepared. As for the industrial mecha, it was naturally to improve the players' collection efficiency. The same was true for the battleship, which was an industrial battleship.

Mainly responsible for assisting in collecting resources and transportation.

"If players redeem all these things, my mining efficiency will increase many times."

"But it's not easy to use drones to dig up so many resources and build these things. The mecha is okay, but the warships do consume a lot of resources."

"From this point, it is not difficult to see that if we really want to talk about cost-effectiveness, it will definitely be best for my main combat units to be mainly mechas."

"There aren't so many messy problems with the mecha side."

"Compared to warships, if we use mechas, the cost of a conventional warship can at least produce several mechas. Although the disadvantages of mechas are very obvious, the first point is that they cannot fight at long distances, which is the biggest problem."

"But we can choose to use warships for transportation. In this way, we don't need to worry about so many things. However, the transport warships are very vulnerable to attack, which is the biggest flaw."

“But the cost here is a little flawed, which is understandable.”

Indeed, as for the mecha, due to its own situation, in order to improve its combat capability, it is necessary to save a lot of things. The first point is personnel. The vast majority of personnel are there to supply the weapon system of the mecha itself.

Secondly, in order to maximize the combat capabilities of the mecha, there is no space to install things like jump systems, and no energy to support these things.

In other words, the combat mode of the mecha is only short-term combat. It is simply impossible to engage in long-distance combat.

During peacetime combat, warships are also needed to transport them to the combat area.

It seems that there are many disadvantages, but it has one biggest advantage, which is saving resources.

With the same resources, you may only be able to build a frigate or destroyer-level battleship.

But as for mechas, you can at least build a dozen or twenty of them.

The amount of resources used by the two is completely not on the same level.

However, the destructive power that these dozens of mechas can cause naturally far exceeds that of battleships.

The price/performance ratio of these two products is totally not on the same level.

And that’s the point.

Simply put, the mecha lost so many things in exchange for stronger combat capabilities. For those who are short of resources in the early stage but want to improve their overall combat capabilities as soon as possible, this is undoubtedly a very good choice.

According to its plan, subsequent battles will mainly be fought by mechas, supplemented by warships.

The reason for this decision is actually out of consideration for the players' situation. Unlike other Space Marines, players can be resurrected immediately after death, but their memories and combat experience are all retained, which means that they will become more and more proficient in operating mechas in combat.

After becoming proficient, the combat effectiveness will be greatly improved. This is a very good cycle.

From a certain perspective, the process of a player going from unfamiliar to familiar has training costs, and this mecha can minimize the training costs.

So with so many advantages, those disadvantages are not necessarily unacceptable. After all, there is nothing in this world that is without any disadvantages.

After making this judgment in his mind, he turned his attention to the players. After all, this group of players were actually controlling the drones. He was not nervous because this was fake.

He was also worried that something unexpected might happen and his drone would be scrapped, which would be embarrassing.