eternal glory

Most of the players who came to Banyan Tree Village left quickly after a short stay, because their main purpose was to save enough flower seeds to exchange jewelry or check the latest news.

Green-quality gemstone jewelry is priced at more than 2 yuan in real money in the forum, and naturally very few players are willing to equip it. Most of these players are scalpers who come to make money.

"Businessmen value profits over affection." After the opening of the waiting room in Rongshu Village, except for three or four novice players born in the village who were eager to help, other players would rather sit idle in the hotel than participate in what they think is meaningless. labor.

In principle, there is nothing wrong with this. They have not settled down in Rongshu Village, and they have no obligation to contribute to the village.

But the way they watched, laughed and pointed like idiots was very dazzling, making Mu Ning frown.

It is chilling to take advantage of this one-third of an acre of land to make money but not even bother to pretend the most basic respect.

"Ningning, we leave too much profit margin for these scalpers, shrink it, lest people think we are stupid."

"Listen to you."

Liu Zhe silently went to the high-altitude platform to make a small modification. After 5 minutes, the task was updated. The player who checked the bulletin board suddenly exclaimed, and then other players came over, and soon there was a burst of crying and cursing.

Originally, each piece of jewelry had a profit of about 300 yuan, but now it was suddenly chopped off by the ankle, leaving less than a third. They had no pricing power, and it was impossible for them to maintain the original high profit by simultaneously raising prices. In an instant, he was so angry that he scolded his mother.

But apart from knowing that there is a billboard in the middle of the square that can accept the mission, they don't even know who to scold.

Originally, Mu Ning was not as independent as Liu Zhe. He didn't mind if everyone earned money, so he specially left a huge profit margin for the visiting players. The players who came here made a lot of money and didn't need anything all day Do it, and you can get a lot of income by staying in the village.

However, sharing your profits is based on my happiness. If I am not happy, I will kick your job at any time.

Originally, Mu Ning wanted to hand over all the work of building the waiting room to the NPCs in the village, and his own team went out to find the quest monsters, because the sooner they found the scarlet beetle to deliver the quest, everyone could devote themselves to building the village earlier.

It's just that they found that the labor force in the village is not rich. Although the total population is about [-], most of them look at the shop and go to work. .Seeing that everyone enthusiastically and spontaneously joined the construction, and even came to help during his original break time, Liu Zhe was very moved and made a natural choice.

The task can wait, but he doesn't want to miss the fun of devoting himself to the construction with everyone.

"Move to the left a little more, yes, a little more to the left, okay, right here, drill holes and install pillars!"

Mu Ning pinched the drawing and instructed an NPC to place the log fence. The bark on the wood was not scraped off, and it looked rough with a natural simplicity.

This is not for the original ecology or special artistic beauty, but because planing the bark takes too much time, Mu Ning directly omitted the steps.

At this stage, there is no life profession like an architect in the game at all. All the buildings rely on a group of people with little architectural knowledge to integrate materials according to the drawings, and the quality of the buildings is naturally not much better.With Mu Ning, a relatively knowledgeable person, in charge of the command, many unnecessary troubles were saved, and the project progressed very smoothly.

"Are you interested in switching to a management type?" Uncle Baron used to be the village head. He is very optimistic about the wind dancer's dispatcher to make the whole project orderly and stable. Bring that thing back, and then the wind dancer will be able to jump directly to a rank like him, and the tenth-level promotion test will be directly avoided.

Wind Dancer's style of doing things is very decisive. The uncle feels that if this player is willing to govern wholeheartedly, Rongshu Village will have a bright future, and Wind Dancer's achievements will definitely not be low.

"Not interested." Mu Ning refused without even thinking about it. Players can indeed switch to a management type, but the price of switching to a management type in the early stage is to sacrifice most of their combat capabilities in exchange for various management skills. However, the fundamentals of these management skills The function is to allow players to have the capital to climb from the bottom to the top along various lines of influence. Simply put, it is to be able to become officials and be promoted like NPC executives.

Rongshu Village is now eager to get rid of the relationship with Whistler. He is mentally retarded and switched to management. Besides, the power and status that management professions can get can be obtained by combat players, and the benefits are higher. , Why should he look far away.

Uncle Baron is now the only management-type NPC in Rongshu Village. In order to make room for the new village chief, he has already left his job. After a few days, the new village chief officially takes office, and he will be completely free. He can choose to take up some positions in the village. As an office worker, you can still run tasks and do odd jobs to earn a little money and wait for the birth of the little life in your wife's womb.

Villagers in a small and remote village like Rongshu Village have almost no worries about the so-called "milk powder money". Although the supplies are poor, everyone has enough to eat. A few small lives that will come are the best gift that the small village can get, and everyone is looking forward to it The coming of the little babies is a magical hope like never before.

Liu Zhe and Luhua nailed rivets with a hammer, Pudding Cat took turns sawing wood with the others, while the old lady and female NPCs took care of the details and the assembly of small objects.

Everyone was collecting firewood, and the enthusiastic work continued until the evening. The main frame of the waiting room was basically completed. The NPCs met for a few hours after dinner, so that the project could come to a successful conclusion today.

Mu Ning arranged more than a dozen gray and white gradation lighting runes inside and outside the half-finished waiting room, which directly saved everyone from the tedious preparations for lighting the torches.

To be honest, even though he knew that ordinary fire would hardly cause real damage to the entire banyan tree, Mu Ning couldn't help but get hairy when he saw the bright torches and the brazier for lighting not far from the wooden wall in the village at night.

The wood used to build a house is dry, and it is very easy to catch fire. Once something goes wrong, it will burn very quickly.

If the flames burning in the whole wooden house ignite the wooden platform below and the staggered branches above, the whole banyan tree will probably become a large Olympic torch...

"Ning Ning, what are you thinking?" Liu Zhe shook his hand in front of him: "The expression is so scary."

"I decided to popularize the lighting runes first, and then find a way to get something like a water reservoir that can save the emergency." Mu Ning wiped the goosebumps on his arms: "Recalling the fate of this tree in the previous life, I feel that the fire drill This thing needs to be studied carefully.”

Rongshu Village now only has seventeen or eight households, about a hundred people, and forty or fifty light runes can make every household bright and dignified.

Mu Ning usually produces a large amount of white quality light runes when making Xinghe. Although it can only work for two days, it is not complicated to replace it. It takes at most 10 minutes to change it for all households, and it can be done even outside the house. Make arrangements to make Banyan Village light up throughout the night.

In the night, the new village chief put runes from house to house, two to three in each house, and directly eliminated the oil lamps and candles that every house had to use, and the brightness soared.

Not only inside all the houses, but Mu Ning also arranged a lot of light runes on the outside of the houses. With the slightly smaller light balls floating in the air, the whole small village became brighter and brighter, as if there were more Lanterns emit soft light.

The white quality light rune is not as bright and bright as the perfect rune, and its lighting range is slightly smaller, but it is more than enough to illuminate this quiet village surrounded by giant trees.

The ivory-colored light balls with different heights illuminate every corner around the square, making all the buildings bright and clear, and also illuminating the ring flower wall.

The petals of the bell flower tree in the square are still falling slowly, and the bright stream above is flowing quietly, making people unable to move their eyes.

Seen from a distance, the dimly lit small village is like a pearl wearing a bright comet ring in the night, and the banyan tree embracing it is a giant clam as black as ink.

Banyan Village has never had such a wonderful night view.

"There are a lot of things to improve, but our village is too small." Mu Ning didn't know where to start: "There is not enough manpower. To build a waiting room, the whole village will be mobilized. It will be more troublesome to build other buildings in the future."

"Hire players?" Liu Zhe said: "We can find a way to get some players over. As long as we do it well, players are cheaper than NPCs." He has rich experience in exploiting players.

"No." Mu Ning shook his head: "Hiring players can't solve the fundamental problem."

"Why don't we also set up a guild or legion or something, recruit 800 people on the forum, and it won't be a big problem to support them, and Mama Wu and I are both familiar with the management."

Mu Ning shook his head again, and he explained to Liu Zhe: "What the village lacks are NPCs, not players."

Liu Zhe didn't understand what Mu Ning meant. What does it mean that there is no shortage of NPCs and no shortage of players?Could it be that NPCs can work day and night without being paid, so they are more cost-effective than players?

"It's not cost-effective, but the game of Eternal Glory is different from your previous impressions. Here, the connection and interaction between players and NPCs is very important, especially in settlements. To put it bluntly, in any city, In villages and collectives, NPCs are the main body, and players are always subordinate."

"Ah?" Liu Zhe heard one head and two big ones. How can this be called blunt, the more he listened, the more confused he became.

"A force composed entirely of players in Eternal Glory is unhealthy, has no development prospects and potential, and has no ability to resist risks," Mu Ning continued to explain: "In an ordinary healthy force, the ratio of players to free NPCs must be at least Between one to ten to one to fifteen, and in the best state, the ratio should reach more than one to thirty, that is, an average of [-] NPCs 'raise' a player, so as to ensure the stability of the power."

Liu Zhe understood quickly, but he was a little hesitant: "You mean we have the two of us and pudding cat in our village, so there must be at least ninety NPCs in the village. Now we are three to one hundred and one is considered healthy, but if we With three players settled down, at least seventy more NPCs are needed to maintain the 'best condition' as you said?" Liu Zhe himself felt unbelievable when he said this.

"That's it." Mu Ning nodded.

"gosh!"

What is the reason for this? Why must there be NPCs in the player organization, and the number far exceeds the number of players? This is obviously unscientific and unreasonable!

"Stupid?" Mu Ning crossed his arms and walked to the hotel with Liu Zhe, explaining to him and the pudding cat who came over to listen: "There is a limit for our players to upgrade. If you don't open the new version, you can't upgrade your level. To be stuck, but the NPC can upgrade as much as he wants, as long as the conditions are met, he can go up all the way, the player is simply incomparable, I mean you understand, right?"

"I don't understand." Pudding Cat shook his head resolutely. What does it have to do with the player whether the NPC is promoted or not?

"Deadwood! We can't go any further if we are struggling to reach level nine in the current version. If a group of level nine players form a union to build a village, and a group of level fifteen NPCs come to rob the door, what will they do?"

Pudding cat replied without thinking: "It's a dead end!" There is no suspense at all with the level gap of six levels.

"You mean...you want their NPCs to protect us?" Liu Zhe looked strange.

"Damn, although not all of them, this is indeed the main reason." The player wants NPC protection, and Mu Ning doesn't feel ashamed at all.

Small groups of two to three hundred players are very common in the game. According to what Mu Ning called "health status", if a group of 300 players wants to build their own power, the number of free NPCs that need to be invited is between [-] and [-] Between five, this is a terrifying number.

"But this is not necessary, at least others don't think it is necessary now." Mu Ning said.

He meant that Liu Zhe understood that this was probably a trick that the players realized later, and the current players would definitely not be so bored as to invite free NPCs to join their forces.

How to increase the number of NPCs in the village is what Mu Ning is thinking about. He knows a lot of methods, but it is difficult to find one suitable for Rongshu Village. He has to think about it slowly.

After playing the game, Mu Ning was thinking hard, even absent-minded during breakfast.

Liu Zhe put his arm around Mu Ning's shoulder and said, "Tell me all the solutions you know, and I'll help you refer to them, and let's figure out a solution together." Two people's minds are better than one person's, and maybe they can find a solution.

Mu Ning also felt that Zhezi was really good at using his brain, and he followed the advice of good people, but he himself really didn't know what to do.

"There are many ways to invite NPCs to join forces. Most of them are not operable at the current stage, and there are only five or six ways to choose. The first method is completely free of money, which is to let NPCs in the village give birth naturally. Female human NPCs usually give birth to a child after five months of pregnancy, but the growth rate of the child is the same as that of our real children, at least fifteen or sixteen years, this objection is because distant water cannot quench thirst.”

Liu Zhe said that this stupid method obviously won't work, so why do you still say it.

"Didn't you tell me to talk about all the ways?" Mu Ning straightened his mouth: "The second one is to go to other villages or places to recruit and invite, one for one gold coin, our original assets plus you just got from Qunshu Town" "Twenty gold coins came back, and now about thirty can be settled."

Liu Zhe broke out in a cold sweat: "Now I have very cautious reservations about the character of the Wisler compatriots. As for those gangsters who are thieves to death, they will choose to relocate without saying a word after they settle down, and then roll up the relocation compensation gold coins." Run away."

"This is also what I am worried about." Mu Ning also had to admit that there are too many things to be careful about when recruiting Whistler NPCs. It's normal to be dishonest.

"The third way is to get vassals. Each village can have a vassal. They can be demihumans or beasts. We have goblins, ogres, kobolds, and lizardmen nearby. Get a group of vassals." The demi-humans can solve the quantity problem directly when they come back, and the coolies are basically found, but the disadvantage is that the demi-humans are not good at brains, and management is troublesome. Not to mention participating in construction, it is difficult to complete the tasks standardly, and rough work can be used You can’t do it in detail.”

"Relying on goblins as bodyguards, I'm afraid that Rongshu Village will soon regress to a primitive tribal society." Thinking about the architectural style of goblins, Liu Zhe feels that this is even more unreliable.

"There is also the abduction of NPCs from the dungeon, and the players recruit attendants and then settle in our village. This has the most benefits, such as being able to choose the target race. If you are lucky enough, you can even abduct high-grade NPPCs, which is extremely beneficial to the development of forces. This was the most extravagant NPC recruiting method for player power at that time. Only very powerful powers could afford it, because there must be players with attendant slots, and players had to dismiss their attendants again and again, plus one day to bring One comes back, not to mention the settlement fee of one gold coin for each NPC after success, just paying the player's salary is not a small amount."

The cost of this method is frighteningly high in the later stages of the game. The reason is that everyone knows that servants are smarter and more powerful the longer they are brought in. Frequent replacement of servants takes a lot of energy, because the time lost in the recruitment of the next instance and the cost of training previous servants are all The cost of hiring players must be added, so that the cost that was originally not low will become an unacceptable figure.

Not to mention that recruiting servants has strict restrictions on the attributes and conditions of players. Generally, relatively good players are qualified for the job of recruiting servants, and the cost of hiring a large number of such excellent players can be imagined.

In the game, unless it is a way to burn too much money and be surrounded by surrounding forces so that you can't recruit ordinary NPCs, you won't choose this method.

"You said we can abduct the NPC in the dungeon of Aurora Garden?" Liu Zhe became interested in an instant.

"I know more than 80.00% of the method of kidnapping. The key is that the players who help us kidnap people must be a group of people, at least a dozen or twenty. Can you tell them some information about Aurora Garden, and how much can you tell? I have reservations." Mu Ning said: "If you are hiring ordinary players, I will only tell them how to recruit some gray-level NPCs."

"If there are players joining us, it should be more convenient if they settle in our village to help recruit people?"

"It's okay, if players with attendants join in, as long as they get [-] NPC attendants to come back and settle down, it's a good way, but I don't want to let people into our village casually, it's better to join with a small number of people who know the basics and are more familiar with it. Just play, and with NPCs, our village is just as lively."

Liu Zhe's mind is running fast, where can he find a group of reliable players who are willing to settle down in Rongshu Village?

Most of the players in the game now have their own small circles, and it is not easy to organize them. Rather than looking for them in the game, it is better to...

"Ningning, what do you think if we bring a group of people into the game and let them be responsible for recruiting attendants for our village to enter the dungeon and come back to settle down?"

"Huh?" Mu Ning was stunned for a moment: "You mean organizing a 'studio'?" In the previous life, many players in the early stages of the game organized profit-making organizations similar to the 'studio', with the intention of earning gold coins in the game and communicating with other players. Exchange for real currency, but because the logistics and distribution channels in the game are already extensive and efficient, most of these small organizations have a hard time and were eliminated from the game very early.

"Didn't you say that something big will happen before and after the tenth-level version opens?" Liu Zhe seemed to have thought of something: "I think if we move fast enough now, our village might really have its own 'trafficking team'." .”

The tenth-level version is most famous for its two contents, "Backtracking" and "Completion". Experience the peak state of the healthiest state in an all-round way. The incredible effect even shocked the whole world, and made Eternal Glory usher in the second wave of players frantically pouring into the game.

Seeing Liu Zhe's confident expression, Mu Ning Zhanger's monk was puzzled. It's good to go back and make up, but what does it have to do with the trafficking squad?

"I'll go home and ask my grandfather," Liu Zhe blinked, "If you succeed, you'll have to reward me well!" After speaking, before Mu Ning could ask, he hurried out the door holding the car keys.