Chapter 292.2: Silver Coins = Money?!

Chu Guang glanced at the half-open giant alloy gate, and suddenly asked, "How many people were there when your gate first opened?"

Sun Zewen thought for a while and then answered, "About 700."

Chu Guang raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Only 700?"

Sun Zewen sighed, "People who didn't want to go into cryosleep all died of old age. The people who were alive were not optimistic enough about the future, and there were only a handful of people who were willing to reproduce. I heard that during the time I was sleeping, the administrator broke the black box for producing contraceptives, but It turned out to be useless... It all boils down to the fact that the shelter was too small and there were all sorts of problems."

Chu Guang continued to ask, "What about the rest of the people?"

Sun Zewen explained, "Most of the first-generation residents died of old age. Some of the new-generation residents died in the Tide, and some became seriously ill after failing to adapt to the new environment, and then the things you already know happened... In short, the only ones who are still alive now, including me, are the 7 of us."

After a pause, the old man continued, "Administrator of Shelter 404, I have a treasure I plan to dedicate to you."

Chu Guang shot him a curious look. "What treasure?"

Professor Sun Zewen had a happy expression on his face. "Black boxes! You are an administrator, you must know what they are, so I won't explain much. One of the black boxes is for producing blue coats, and the other is for producing VMs. The former can produce a good material that can adapt to different temperatures, and the latter has a wider range of uses. Not only can it be converted into a survival tool for various purposes, but its carbon nanoelectronic components can also be recycled."

Chu Guang looked at the old man in surprise. "Those marauders didn't lose them?"

Professor Sun Zewen smiled. "Those marauders? Those vulgar savages didn't understand the value of treasures like this. I had no reason to take the initiative to tell them those good things... But you are different. You are the administrator of a shelter. I believe you will be able to properly use our devices."

"But the problem now is... We had a small situation before. The black boxes were locked in the administrator's office. If you want to open the door of the administrator's office, you must first restart the reactor."

In other words, if he wanted to recover the black boxes, he had to restore the power supply.

Chu Guang said with a cheerful expression, "Thank you for your trust. I assure you that we will make good use of this technology."

The scientific expedition team was already searching for clues to the fuel rods, and Yin Fang told him that finding one wouldn't be a big problem, and it would probably be resolved within a week.

Although Chu Guang already had the black box for producing VMs, who would mind having another?

Like the black box that produced the clone cabin, more of this versatile stuff was of course better.

As for the black box for producing blue coats... It was a pleasant surprise for Chu Guang.

The blue coat made of temperature-resistant materials could automatically adjust the material's air permeability and heat dissipation according to the external environment, so that the wearer's body temperature could be maintained in a comfortable range as much as possible.

With it, players no longer had to be afraid to go out in their blue coats!

...

Wasteland Online official website.

The forum was as lively as ever.

The reason was that the Jungle Corps posted their battle videos on the forum.

Those macho men in heavy armor and holding machine guns really attracted the attention of many male players, so much so that at least half of the thousands of new player applicants filled in the questionnaire with the strength type as their first sequence choice.

In comparison, the Burning Corps suffered a little.

Although the single-round combat effectiveness of the Burning Corps was obviously higher than that of the Jungle Corps, their personalized equipment configuration made them not recognizable enough in small-scale battles.

Frankly speaking, no matter how efficient the tank-infantry collaboration tactic was, it was not as visually impactful as the wall of steel. When 10 KV-1 exoskeletons welded with steel plates were lined up, the scene of their machine guns firing alone was enough to make people excited.

However, although the Jungle Corps stole most of the limelight, Mosquito's air strike still surprised many onlookers.

Especially the incendiary bombs that were dropped at the end. They made the directors of Steel Plant 81 rage.

Bathroom Goer: Holy shit! He actually made incendiary bombs?

Athlete Foot: Dude, what's your thickener made of?

Mosquito: You can take a guess! (Smirk)

Chasing Souls: Using sodium soap solution and aluminum sulfate water to make fatty acid aluminum soap. Smh, it's such an easy thing, but you guys don't know how to do it. A bunch of noobs!

Mosquito: ???

Be Quiet: It's incredible!!! You guys are really geniuses!

Lone Wolf: I suggest you go to the bureau to file a case...

Most of the old players' posts revolved around the tactical collaborations and gameplays of the updated corps system in the Beta test, or the discussions of the new map of Clearspring City's East District.

The entire East District was a jungle that no one had explored.

The vegetation density and air humidity here were much higher than those in the north and west of Clearspring City, and there were a large number of wild mutants active in the collapsed ruins and jungle-covered streets.

In addition to Ironback Apes and Silvermouth Snakes, Ample Time summed up several common monsters and updated them in the post for other players' reference.

This time it wasn't just Ample Time, Gale also wrote a post for the first time, and uploaded the photos of Shelter 401.

When Yin Fang went to the shelter to recover the data, he happened to receive an escort mission, and that was when they took the photo.

"... Shelter 401 is the same as Shelter 404. Its power source is suspected to be a controllable fusion reactor. However, because the energy source has been exhausted, the shelter is currently in a state of abandonment."

"I found a mission to find fuel rods on the scientific expedition team's mission page. I suggest everyone level up the profession level of the scientific expedition team when you have time. Although the mission cycle of the scientific expedition team is long, once you complete the whole mission chain, the rewards given by the mission chain are quite rich."

Gale's wording was more reserved.

Considering that every bastard online was asking the developers to nerf him, he did not disclose how much he received from Yin Fang.

But having said that, even if other players knew that the missions of the scientific search group had high returns, most players still preferred the missions of the Hunter's Guild.

After all, the former would always travel more than 10 kilometers, go deep into no-man's land and fight with unknown dangers, and collect and search for files and data that no one knew whether they still existed or not.

Even a small mistake may cause the whole team to be wiped out.

Without absolute confidence in the strength of themselves and their teammates, few non-hardcore players would choose such a high-risk, high-reward mission.

While the old players were exchanging their strategy experience, the newbies of the Beta test also posted their comments on the general chat section where there was no threshold for posting.

Falling Feather: This game is too difficult. (T▽T)

Breeze: Isn't there an easier monster? Those screaming Crunchers are too scary. QAQ

Free Sniper: Yes, cockroaches are much easier to bully than Crunchers. When they come out, they don't make any sound at all; they are very quiet. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Old Six: Sigh, the newbies nowadays are really weak. They can't bear any hardships! Back then, when we first entered the game, we encountered the Tide straightaway and started the hell mode directly.

Quit Smoking: Tsk, stop bragging! When you first entered the game, you were chased around by a Cruncher. I couldn't even bear to watch it.

Unprofessional Retort: Damn it! Those people always say on the forum that pigs are so cute, and they like pigs a lot, but when they saw me in the game, they either wanted to take off my pants, or ask me for a hentai pic! It's all because of them that there are no girls who want to team up with me! Angry!ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

Make Me: Wuu wuu, say no more, fam. These guys don't treat us like humans at all! If you can't stand it anymore, come to West Continent City. My house here is quite big and you're welcome to come and play here. I'll help you level up.

Unprofessional Retort: Good brother! I'm coming right now! QAQ

Irene: Brother Make Me just made a player come... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Teng Teng: There is actually an animal couple in this game. I never once imagined that this could actually happen in a game. I'm still too young. (T▽T)

Ya Ya: ???

Sesame Paste: Meow meow?

...

Shelter 404.

After spending the whole morning, Chu Guang moved the administrator's office to the room on level B4.

There was not only ready-made furniture, but also a separate shower room. In addition, the space was large enough, and the environment was much better than his previous simple office.

Whatever it was, it wouldn’t be suitable for him to open level B4 to the players. Rather than keeping it empty, he might as well use it.

Sitting on the soft sofa, Chu Guang drank some Nuka Cola while browsing the official website forum to see what new ideas his cute little players had come up with that he hadn't thought of.

It had been a week since the launch of the Beta test.

In the past four days, 30 to 40 new players had entered the game every day and the number of players on the server had increased from 1,500 to 1,620.

"Will it break the 2,000 mark in 2 weeks?" Chu Guang mumbled as he glanced at the tablet on the side, which listed the expenditures of various departments the previous week.

The most eye-catching section was the mission expenditure.

In the past week, the mission income sent by the shelter to all players reached nearly 900,000 silver coins.

And the per capita daily income of players also increased to 97 silver coins.

Of course, the number was mainly pulled up by players in the tier 0 to tier 2 echelon, and the income growth curve of players before LV10 was relatively flat.

Chu Guang also found out recently that the inflation caused by sending money to players was actually not as high as expected.

One of the reasons was that players had an internal circulation economic system. The money earned by player A was either spent on player B, or consumed by NPC stores run by the shelter collectives, and a small part would flow into the market.

Also, players did not need to support their families, nor did they have the need to have children. At most, they would stuff their bellies and eat a lot. In addition, everyone had the habit of saving money, so the spending power was actually not as high as imagined.

The storage balance system established by Chu Guang in the early version also stabilized the prices of basic materials such as grain and minerals to a certain extent. After several rounds of updates and adjustments, the system was developed relatively well.

However, it was unrealistic to expect a one-size-fits-all approach to solve all problems. As the number and level of players continue to rise, new problems gradually emerged.

It took about half a month for new players to gather a complete set of equipment, which was too long; and old players had too many silver coins in their pockets to spend, so Chu Guang had to raise the price of high-end equipment.

To think of a method to allow new players to obtain enough game experience and for older players to be more motivated to make more money... It was actually very simple.

It was actually very simple.

He just needed to build a reservoir for the excess silver coins!

After he thought about it, Chu Guang, who was sitting on the sofa, straightened his back and tapped on the keyboard to create a new folder.

[Beta 0.2 version update:

Silver Coins Trading System

]

[Modification:

Players who have obtained a VM can digitize silver coins assets, synchronize them to the official website forum account in real-time, and trade with other players in the form of digital currency.

]

[Note:

Cloud Gamers can also participate in transactions.

]

Of course, that was only the first draft, and the specific trading rules still needed to be carefully designed. Whatever it was, those were minor issues, and there were too many cases that could be used for reference.

Looking at the edited document, Chu Guang revealed a happy smile.

Although it was inconvenient for him to send RMB to players who worked hard, there was always someone who could do those things for him.

So what if currencies such as chips, Dinar, and CR were stronger than his silver coins?

Could those native currencies be converted into real money?

Chu Guang would not only give players a reason to work harder to make money, but also make them obediently hand over foreign currencies earned from other survivor settlements.

As the value of silver coins continued to grow, more useful professional players would soon be born.

"Aren’t they complaining that they can’t afford the equipment?"

"Aren’t they demanding microtransactions every day?"

"I’ll give it to you now! Have fun with it."