Rebirth: It’s Like Flowing Water

Latest website: The sound of firecrackers on New Year's Day shook the northern land, rumbling endlessly.

It started at seven or eight o'clock and continued until more than nine o'clock.

Sanshi Company is located in the headquarters of Songhuajiang Street, but the atmosphere is somewhat depressed, revealing a deep chill.

At this time, almost all relatives and friends who have a relationship with Sanshi Company are there!

Five pairs of parents, as well as the aunts of the Qi family, even Lao Geng and Lao Nan went to the "Legend" operation department to join in the fun.

As for Ding Lei and Xiao Ma, although they are far away, they are also paying attention to the last moment in their own way.

Xiao Ma also came to Penguin's Shenzhen office early in the morning.

On the first day of the new year, except for a few staff on duty, the other employees of Penguin have gone home for the New Year.

And the person on duty didn't expect that the boss would come over today.

"Mr. Ma, what are you..."

I saw Xiao Ma with his hands behind his back, "Come and see."

After going around in the company, I finally came behind an employee who was staring at the back of the server, "How many online users?"

The answer is, "More than 3 million. It's morning, and the number of people online has not yet come up."

"Yeah." Brother Xiao Ma nodded, and suddenly said, "Tell the web design side to make a temporary pop-up window for the opening of the "Legend" server, 9:50, 12, 4, 7, give me Play it four times."

"..."

......

Tang Haichao didn't go to the company. He sat alone in the study at home, staring at the computer screen. No one knew what he was thinking.

300,000 pre-registration...300,000 three days ago! What about now? Can there be 400,000? Impossible.... It is the limit to reach 350,000.

The previous publicity efforts were so strong that there were almost no occasional players. Anyone who still wants to play "Legend" will register an account in advance on the official website.

In other words, this 300,000 is the number of players who may log in to the legend on the day of service.

Do not......

Even less!

Now that the public opinion against Three Stones and the "Legend" is so aggressive, it will inevitably cause some players to change their positions. It may be that the registered players follow the public opinion and don't plan to play in the end.

So......

how many? With a base of 350,000, can there be 300,000 left? 250000? Even less?

Tang Haichao quickly calculated.

It can only be said that the plan has not changed quickly, and the previously estimated data has basically no reference value. Now it can only be re-evaluated based on the current data and experience.

If you count the 300,000 registered players, it is impossible to log in to the game in the first time, and there will be a large percentage of delayed logins.

However, because it is the first day to start the service, this ratio should be very high.

Tang Haichao estimated that the peak number of online users should reach around 200,000, and the average number of online users is the key to evaluating a game.

......

The average number of online players is these 300,000 registered players. They will not log in to the game 24 hours or even every day, and there will always be times when they stagger. And the number of people online at different times of the day is definitely different.

Just like the prime time from 6 to 10 in the evening, the number of online users must be very high, while the number of people who must be online in the early morning is very small.

Count the number of online people in each time period, and take an average number, which is the average number of online people.

This is the core data for an online game.

According to conventional practice, Tang Haichao estimated that 300,000 registered players, the hottest day on the first day, and the highest level of attention, should reach 100,000, right?

"100,000... That's pretty good!" Although it was much lower than expected, at least it looked better. After all, the most popular game in 1999, "Stone Age", only had an average data of 40,000.

"I hope it can reach 100,000, and it is best to keep this data!!"

......

Ding Lei, Wang Zhendong was not in a hurry to stare at any computer, and both chose to call at this time.

Calling the company's staff on duty, the question is almost the same, that is:

What are the number of viewers and clicks on NetEase and Sina in real time?

Why do you ask this question?

Because, the data of these two major portals is not just as simple as their own data. From a certain level, it can reflect the real-time traffic of the entire network.

For example, if NetEase's real-time visits are 100,000 people, Ding Lei can calculate a series of data based on the data of the same period, NetEase's market share, and so on.

For example, during this period, the number of Internet users in the entire network increased or decreased compared to the same period.

However, the result...not as good as you wanted. Netease and Sina's visits dropped by more than 40% compared to the same period.

In other words, on New Year's Day, the time period approaching ten o'clock, only 60% of netizens are online.

Think about it, too, for the New Year, who is all right at home or runs to the Internet cafe to go online?

Both of them shook their heads and sighed. The launch time that Qi Lei chose did not seem to be good.

Depend on! ! What special Spring Festival stalls? Flicker, we froze for a while, this time silly, right?

Ding Lei finally sat down in front of the computer in a gloomy manner, and opened the official website of "Legend" and the client at the same time, feeling that the Internet speed in the first year of the junior year was particularly weak, the webpage was stuck, and the client was also delayed.

"Damn!" cursed, "everything is not going well!"

The situation on Wang Zhendong's side was similar, and it took a while before he jumped the "Legend" login port to the page of the selected district server.

At this time, there are still 5 minutes before ten o'clock, and the preset 48 district servers in "Legend" are all closed.

Of course, Wang Zhendong knows that these do not represent all the regional servers that will eventually be opened today, and Lei Qiqi has actually prepared more servers than this.

Operating companies generally start servers gradually, open a part first, let players enter in a concentrated manner, and the servers are full, and then add servers.

While ensuring that each server can evenly distribute players, it also creates a hot atmosphere.

However, Wang Zhendong knows how good the server technology of Sanshi Company is. The 48 district servers are all today's servers!

With 48 servers from other companies, withstands the tipping point of collapse, regardless of the lag, it can hold hundreds of thousands of players to death.

But Sanshi throws 300,000 people in 48 servers, at most it is a small card.

According to Tang Haichao, there are only 300,000 people who have pre-registered, and some people have to be scolded online, which is enough.

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At this time, Qi Lei was also a little excited.

To be honest, he doesn't know what kind of data will be reached after opening the server. In his previous life, the number of simultaneous online users at the peak of "Legend" in 2002 was 670,000.

It stands to reason that the "Legend" in 2000, because of the two years behind the development of the Internet, the base of netizens is much different, and it should not exceed the data of later generations.

However, Qi Lei doesn't think so.

There are three reasons:

First, the competition in the online market in 2002 and 2000 is fundamentally different.

In 2002, there were indeed many Internet users, but many popular online games have also come out.

Like "Net Gold", "Miracle", "Western Journey", etc., in addition to these hot games, there are dozens of unknown online games on the market, not to mention hundreds of them, which disperses a large number of players.

At present, there are only a few models in the whole network, and players have not many choices.

Second, the 670,000 people counted by later generations are the data of Shanda's official uniforms.

Don't forget, in that time and space, the leaks in the client of "Legend" led to private servers everywhere. It is unclear how many people are playing private servers.

Just look at the Internet cafes at that time and you will know that there are ten computers in all Internet cafes in China.

At the moment, "Legend" is free of charge, and secondly, there is no trouble of private server, which will cause a large number of players to gather in the official server. But no one can tell how much they can get together.

Third, that is the historical trajectory that this time and space has completely deviated from.

Yes, there were no four melee scenes in the previous life in 2000, nor was there a collective crusade by game companies from all over the world to raise awareness, and it was not launched on the New Year’s Day when the whole people were on holiday.

The most important thing is that in the 00 years of the previous life, there was no Internet support policy triggered by the May incident. The country's strong investment made the base of netizens in this time and space completely different from the previous life.

In fact, even if it is a little bit worse than the following year's 2002, it is not so bad as to cross the stairs.

Therefore, Qi Lei can't say exactly what level it can reach.

At ten o'clock exactly, looking away from the quartz clock on the wall, Qi Lei took a deep breath, and finally gave an order, "Let's start! Let's open 48 district servers to log in first."

There are a lot of 48 servers. Three Stones limited the number of simultaneous online users per server to 6,250, and 48 to 300,000.

Three Stone Company is similar to the other three companies, and has also prepared a number of servers in advance.

Each district server can achieve 4000 people online at the same time without stalling, 6000 people delay increases but does not affect the game experience, and the ultimate pressure is 8000 people.

Well, three stone company played a conspiracy here, and did not use the server to make a big article on the official website, and even deliberately lowered expectations. Just wrote a thousand people with the same service.

No way, Jin Yongmin knew that Three Stone Company had server technology, but he didn't know the specific parameters. If the labeling is too outrageous and then startle Jin Yongmin, Qi Lei is afraid that the three families will gather together to make a moth.

......

At the same time, Jin Yongmin, Jiang Mingsheng, and Harold, who are in the capital, are also in charge of the company and open the game to log in.

The four melees officially entered the second half!

Jin Yongmin is more cautious. In order not to waste server resources as much as possible, so that each server can be kept in a relatively even state, so the first batch of 12 community servers in 12 regions was opened. While opening up the district service, he did not forget another important mission.

"The research team used all means to attack the servers of "Legend", "UO" and "King of Kings"!"

The research team is an elite staff dispatched by Jin Yongmin from South Korea. It is a game server on such a scale, and it is no problem to win the firewall of a large portal website.

Jiang Mingsheng is in each corner of the capital,

He has a different mood from Jin Yongmin, but he is more confident in "The King of Kings". The first batch of 20 regional servers in 20 regions was opened.

"Huh!!" Jiang Mingsheng's eyes beamed, "Give me in and see who is the most popular game!"

"In addition...all the technicians will rush to me! Break down the three servers!"

The situation on Harold's side is similar. 18 community services in 9 regions are open at the same time. As for the lineup of attack servers.

It is more powerful than Actoz and Lei Jue! ! Because he is a member of EA!

Own the hacker team who knows the game best and will destroy the game the most in this world.

......

Just a moment.

The back-end data of the four companies began to climb at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a large number of players who had been waiting for a long time began to flood the server.

At Sanshi Company, Tang Chenggang frowned.

He swears that even on the day the Lotus Group was listed, he would not be so nervous.

Hearing that Qi Lei opened his mouth to be 48 district uniforms, he was a little frightened immediately, "Stones, aren't there many? It's all open!!"

"Three hundred thousand people! When do you have to fill it up? Can't you do it little by little? Just put out 48 servings in one go. Isn't it too big!?"

Xu Wenliang over there was also anxious, carrying his hands behind his back, "Or... first..."

As a result, as soon as he finished saying this sentence, Zhang Jian, who was watching the server data, jumped out, "Netcom District 1, North China District, Huazhong Telecom District 1, Campus Network 101, 102. Red."

Tang Chenggang: "..."

Xu Wenliang: "..."

Red, it means that the server is about to reach the limit of the number of people. In other words, a district service of more than 6,000 people is full.

Haven't spoken yet, Zhang Jian, "Netcom District 2, South China Telecom, Southwest Telecom..."

There are more than two dozen full servers.

Looking back at Qi Lei, "Continue to drive?"

Qi Lei did not answer, but looked at Wang Yong in the distance. At this time, Wang Yong's team, as well as dozens of programmers under Nan Lao, were working hard under the leadership of Wang Yong, Chen Yinghao, and Weng Shitong. Maintain the normal operation of the server.

Seeing Qi Lei look over, Wang Yong smiled slightly and made an OK gesture, "Don't worry... a military-grade firewall, I hope they will try it."

Don't forget, Chen Yinghao and Weng Shitong are now the top hackers.

And Wang Yong...that is the master tutor of Harbin Engineering.

Upon seeing this, Qi Lei smiled slightly, really relieved!

"Open!! Open 48 more servers!"

Regardless of the list, there are 48 regional servers prepared, but in fact, for today, Three Stones has reserved 7000 megabytes of bandwidth in the telecommunications company.

Zhang Jian and Wang Yong set up 24 service stations in various network nodes across the country, with a total of 240 district servers.

In order to deal with emergencies, there are also 24 temporary area services, ready to be added at any time.

The estimated peak value of today’s first day is 150W! !

"Open! Go on! Let's 48 more groups!"

Tang Chenggang: "..."

Xu Wenliang: "..."

He looked at each other with Qi Guojun and Wu Lianshan, and his faces were shocked.

How exciting!

On each side.

Jin Yongmin couldn't hide his smile looking at the 12 servers that were full in less than three minutes.

Twelve servers, the ultimate pressure of each server is nearly 4000 people!

Is this full? In other words, nearly 50,000 players! Who else! ?

The heroic spirit rose instantly, "24 more!"

Jin Yongmin is confident that he will be able to fill up these 24 servers immediately.

Moreover, Jin Yongmin also instructed the director of the operation department, "Be ready to contact your telecommunications unit at any time, and be prepared to temporarily increase the server!"

He estimated that today may exceed expectations, and he estimated that the peak players of more than 200,000 may be conservative.

Because he neglected a detail, "Legend" was beaten down. Those new players who had spent a lot of energy at Three Stones to attract new players from outside the player market, after abandoning "Legend", did not abandon online games, and must be divided among the other three games. .

"Plus!! Set up another thirty sets of servers temporarily, just in case!"

After listening to the operations manager, he was naturally fine and very happy. He didn't expect "Red Moon" to be so popular as soon as it was launched!

After going down to work, Jin Yongmin stared at the server's increase data for a while, more satisfied.

As if thinking of something, I asked Secretary Xiang, "Go and find out about the other three companies."

The secretary smiled indifferently, "President Jin can rest assured, he has already sent someone to stare at him. I will call someone over to report to you in person."

Just kidding, this is the basic quality of a qualified secretary, okay? I knew the boss would care about this a long time ago, so the secretary was prepared.

This made Jin Yongmin very satisfied, and a clerk from the marketing department ran over in a short while.

"As of now, 20 servers in "King of Kings" are full, and follow-up services are being launched."

"The first batch of 18 regional servers of "UO" is also full, and another 24 regional server interfaces have just been added."

Jin Yongmin nodded and said nothing. The game foundation of these two companies is better than that of "Red Moon". As expected, the speed of server opening is not slower than that of "Red Moon".

He asked casually: "Where is the Three Stones? How many servers has the Three Stones Legend opened?"

"this......"

The clerk hesitated, "This...I have to confirm it again."

Jin Yongmin frowned immediately, apparently a little dissatisfied with this answer, "Confirm what? You didn't pay attention to the legend!?"

The staff looked embarrassed, "I paid attention! But..."

"But the "Legend" landing device seems to be wrong, and there is a problem with the display of the district server."

Jin Yongmin frowned again. Is there a problem? error? How can it be?

Although he and Three Stones are at odds, he still believes that Three Stones should not make such low-level mistakes.

There was an error in the landing device on the day of launch? impossible.

He asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

The staff laughed bitterly, "After two minutes of opening the server, they opened 96 servers. Now they have opened to District 144."

"And...and it's all red!"

"puff!!"

Jin Yongmin spurted out a mouthful of old blood, his eyes rounded and he couldn't believe it, area 144? Are you kidding me?

His eyes changed and he suddenly rushed to the computer of the clerk in the marketing department, sat down in person, and opened the login port of "Legend".

As a result... I was silly on the spot immediately, and I saw the blood red all over the screen.

The list of servers in red status seemed to be killing the screen, and Jin Yongmin's eyes were hurting.

"Impossible!!" Jin Yongmin was hysterical, "This is impossible!!"

......

At this time, it was not just Jin Yongmin who was stunned. Jiang Mingsheng from Lei Jue's studio and Harold from Origin were already staring at the interface of "Legend" in a daze.

144 districts.... all full?

Even if he uses the worst server, the single server limit is reduced to 1500...144 districts...More than 200,000, right?

Still crushing everyone! !

impossible! ?

Jin Yongmin struggled, and suddenly asked the staff around him: "Who has a legendary account!?"

The staff in a circle rolled their eyes, yes, yes, but, our own game is being launched, don't you care?

Jin Yongmin really couldn't control it, he was too curious.

People who are so special have been scolded as that virtue, where are so many people? Isn't it something trivial about Three Stones?

He must figure it out right away.

Finally, a login account was obtained from the staff, and Jin Yongmin personally manipulated the mouse and clicked on a district server.

The newly opened server, District 155.

enter the game......

Immediately, the magnificent title of the game showed that it was the promotional film that Sanshi Company spent a lot of money to build.

I have to say that even after watching it countless times, Jin Yongmin is still a bit shocked.

In my heart, it was rumored on the Internet that the promotional video alone cost more than 8 million, which is a real value!

Apart from anything else, as a practitioner, Jin Yongmin can conclude that this promo is definitely a milestone in the history of online game development and will be remembered.

It's a pity that he now cares about the excitement of the title without jurisdiction. He skipped the title and thought it was the page created by the character, but he didn't expect that what jumped out was a huge 16-word slogan.

A cursory glance, somewhat similar to a legal statement, regulates the rights and obligations between players and game companies.

Jin Yongmin didn't take it seriously, he was sick! There is a fart to do this stuff! ?

Skipped with disgust, and finally entered the character creation, randomly created a warrior, click to enter.

Then.....

Black screen... When it lights up again, Kim Yongmin is stupid! !

....

Tang Haichao was at home, staring at the scene where more than one hundred servers were full on the screen and couldn't shut his mouth.

Xiao Ma, Ding Lei, and Wang Zhendong were in the same situation, and suddenly they couldn't understand.

It's so special that people call it that virtue, so why are there so many people! ?

The three people had the same idea almost at the same time, "Quick! Book me a plane ticket! I'm going to Harbin."

But Tang Haichao recovered, and furiously grabbed the phone and made a call, "Qilei, your uncle!! You are only 300,000!?"

The opposite Qi Lei smiled, "That was what you said, I didn't say it."

Tang Haichao stagnated, well, Qi Lei did let him imagine a number at the time, neither too many nor too many numbers.

result...

The result is obviously that Tang Haichao's imagination is not enough.

Cursed: "True grandson! How much is it?"

Qi Lei didn't have to be sloppy anymore. "Pre-registered...1.5 million! 200,000 paying players, 1.8 million medals were sold."

"puff!!!!"

Tang Haichao's pupils dilated, and the whole person was stupid.

I froze for a while, and threw a sentence, "1.8 million? What the grandson said is true. It is true that ten people sell 12 medals! A special 1.8 million! There are also more than 43 million at a 20% discount!!!"

crazy....

This world is crazy!

"I'm going to your uncle!!" Tang Hai hung up the phone and ran downstairs and went straight to the airport.

"Wait for me!! I'll be in Harbin at night!"

Kim Yongmin...

He had been standing in the legendary Novice Village for ten minutes, and he couldn't move when he got stuck there.

It's not that the network is stuck, but there are too many people, and the volume of collision makes it difficult for him to move!

The whole person is just like in the game, sitting motionless in front of the computer!

Just one thought, this is the "Legend" I sold to Sanshi! ?

I saw on the screen, densely packed with people.

You can see an afterimage in the chat window, and whoever said something flashes past, you can't see it at all, it's too fast.

[Guy Chasing Wind]: "Fuck! The movement outside!! Can't get out!"

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[Frozen green]: "Mom, there are more people than chickens, can you stop grabbing!?"

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[Flower girl]: "I envy someone who can kill chickens. If I came from Hongyueka, why don't I get stuck here?"

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[Violence Aqiang] "UO old fan came to report! UO's trash clothes, I can't stand it! The more I scold, the more I have to come and see."

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[Xiao Xiaoyu] "You guys love to turn around! I believe in fools on the Internet, I'd better go back and play your junk games, I just want to play legends!"

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[Brother Sledgehammer]: "Can you stop picking up my pants? Let my old lady go out!"

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[Master is crazy] "Fuck, there are so many dramas! Sell 200 Warrior Medals and trade in game currency. Collect all kinds of small bests and skill books for warriors."

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[LOVE Dust Love] "Selling medals for 29 yuan! Large quantities, full, market transactions!"

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[Zixiao War God]: "Hey! A profiteer? The 24 medal is only 29?"

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[Archmage]: "Now the event is over, it's up to 30 yuan! Soldiers 30-level skill books are also sold for 100 yuan, and they are traded in the market."

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[Master is crazy]: "I want the skill book, add friends."

Jin Yongmin held the ID of [Mr. Jin] and couldn't move. He could only watch the chat~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After watching the chat, people became even more confused.

How do you feel that this server has a lot more people than "Red Moon"?

......

And this day.

Everyone...

Everyone is watching the performance of Three Stone Company!

I can't understand, and I can't see through.

And it's the kind, from the inside out...

can not read! !

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Thirteen thousand today, will you quench your thirst?