Chapter 295.2: Change Of Heart

Maybe thanks to the price cut, or maybe because the damn developers took pity on him, there were some more NPC customers.

Some came to try the dishes after seeing the price cut, and some brought their children and wives to have dinner together. His booth finally had some faces other than players.

Looking at the curious and immature faces following their parents, Boss Zhang eventually didn't have the heart to reduce portion sizes.

Since the price was a bit cheaper than before, there were more and more customers at night, and in the end he was so busy that he didn't even have time to rest.

But the NPCs never urged him, after all, he couldn't understand even if they did urge him.

Zhang Hai only had time to rest for a while after working until half an hour past meal time.

Although he was tired, seeing the NPCs devouring his noodles and the hard-earned silver coins in the drawer, he couldn't help but put a smile on his tired face.

Maybe...

I should hire someone to help me.

And then go to the Longevity Town and open more branches.

The game is changing. I have to make a little change, too.

Just when Zhang Hai was thinking about the future, there were loud shouts from the door of the shop.

"Old man Zhang! A bowl of noodles!"

"Fuck you, I'm not old!" Zhang Hai glared at the person directly, "Look at my face, I'm at most 20 years old!"

Sisi, who was standing next to Tail, tugged at her clothes, "Tail, it's impolite, and how do you know how old he is? What if he's younger than us?"

Tail replied like an old man. "Shame... Sisi, you don't understand this. Which young man would use his real name as his online name, and which young man would get angry when he was called an old man?"

"I am your father, you little brat." Zhang Hai chuckled, and placed 2 bowls of noodles on the table.

After paying for the noodles quickly, Tail sat on the chair in a hurry and couldn't wait to pull out the chopsticks from the wooden cup, but just as she was about to start eating, she noticed something. "

Eep

! Why do my noodles have 1 less meat slice today!"

Zhang Hai said with a straight face. "Is it strange that the quantity is reduced after the price is decreased?"

Tail said pitifully, "But, why do Sisi's noodles have more meat slices than mine!"

"Oh that's an accident."

"Damn it! This evil capitalist!" With a restrained expression, Tail sighed and shook her head, muttering, "Huh! For the sake of this last bowl of noodles, I won't argue with you."

Zhang Hai stopped slicing meat and took a look at this lively little girl. "Last bowl? You want to quit playing this game?"

"How is that possible! We've only just reached Beta 0.2!" Tail said with a chuckle, "This game is getting more and more interesting, okay?"

Zhang Hai was confused: "Then what do you mean by the last bowl of noodles..."

"I've set up a mercenary group. I'm planning to go on a trip with Sisi, so today is my last day here!" Tail said with sparkling eyes, "oh right, there are also Sesame Paste and Roro! We agreed to hit the road tomorrow!"

"Don't say so much..."

Sisi lightly taught Tail a lesson with her small fist holding the chopsticks, cleared her throat amid the latter's mournful cry, and explained calmly, "In short, it's the traveling merchant system... This prodigal woman bought a bunch of useless digits from the forum trading platform, and I have to help her earn them back."

Zhang Haiyu sighed earnestly, "You guys, you have to control yourself... What's the point of paying to play a game? Isn't it good to enjoy the fun of the game normally?"

Tail snapped unpleasantly, “You're just a retired old man, you have no right to express your opinion!"

"I'm not a retired old man!" Zhang Hai rolled his eyes, and threw 2 slices of freshly sliced cooked beef into her bowl.

"Finish your noodles quickly and get out of my sight!"

...

It had been 3 days since the Beta 0.2 version was launched, and it was not just the Bull and Horse Squad who were selling silver coins.

How to sell them?

Of course, everyone had their own way of selling.

Although there was no such thing as candlestick charts for silver coins consignment, the pending orders of historical transactions were all open and transparent, and it was enough to fine-tune up and down according to other people's prices. This was not fundamentally different from

CSgo's

skin trade.

If a player found it troublesome, they could directly price a silver coin at 1 RMB, and then place a trade of 10,000 to 20,000 silver coins on the platform.

If they didn't mind the trouble, they could also split it into several or even dozens of small trades of 100 silver coins, and place them on the positions of 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000... and wait for people to buy them. As for how many trades could be made, it depended on their luck.

Although this way would be slower, it could maximize the profits.

With the emergence of a large number of selling orders, the price of silver coins finally began to gradually fall after the trading volume hit a new high.

And all of this happened under someone's nose.

"Hehe, clever little tricksters." Looking at the transaction records in the background and the soaring number of applications, Chu Guang, who was drinking Nuka Cola and watching the show, smiled.

Brother Ample Time probably had traded stocks in the US stock market before. His skills of selling high and buying low within a day was exceptional.

He would place a large order to cause the price of silver coins to fall to single digits, and then secretly place small orders to buy silver coins at low prices. After buying and selling a few times, he even helped to sell out all his good brothers' silver coins. Now, they were probably counting their cash till their hands hurt.

There were also some people sending private messages to Chu Guang to inquire about his background and wanted to have a talk with him.

Talk?

Talk my ass motherfuc...

What's there to talk about between a Fallen Empire and Primitive Earthlings.

The Shelters were at least the last stand of the Federation of People. Chu Guang's brain must have had some problem if he resorted to the desperate measure of "laying his cards on the table" to request cooperation when the other party mistook him as an extraterrestrial civilization or other higher beings.

What does dimensionality reduction strike in the information field mean?

Power cut? Disconnect the interest connection?

Those are all child's play.

Little Seven alone could upgrade the technology of the Earth and turn it into paradises without any effort. And if the way to save the world was hidden in the game of higher civilization, and the knowledge of the advanced technology was recorded in the lore of the game that's displayed on the game's website, would you play this game?

The

Big Five

would definitely rush to play it.

Not clicking on the cross-border bill did not mean that this option did not exist, but that there were options that were more suitable and more in line with his moral principles.

If players did their jobs well, what they needed would come naturally. Chu Guang was a reasonable person. If one worked for him, one would get paid by him.

This reward could be money in reality today, status in reality tomorrow, and even rise of the civilization in the future.

It was the legacy from a higher civilization after all.

The ones that could benefit from it would be more than just individuals.

So if someone wanted to enter the game, they should fill in the form honestly, apply for a ‘work visa’ according to the rules he made, and abide by the local laws and regulations.

The New Alliance was at least one of the successors of the Federation of People, so as its administrator, Chu Guang naturally wouldn't lower himself to negotiate terms with those people.

As for the volatility of the silver coins market, Chu Guang didn't plan to do anything about it at the moment.

Some people were willing to trade hundreds of thousands of dollars for a silver coin, and some people were willing to exchange hundreds of thousands of silver coins for 1 USD. But this had something to do with him. After all, both of those were worthless digital numbers to him.

As long as players were willing, they could trade 10,000 silver coins for 1 RMB for charity. Everyone could trade them for the value that they believed they were worth. After all, silver coins were not currency that could be used to buy food in the real world, but game props.

As for whether it was really worth it?

Was it worth it to exchange a +999 attack dragon-slaying sword for an apartment? Was Metaverse Real Estate worth hundreds of thousands of dollars?

Honestly speaking, which virtual things were not worthless?

At least silver coins could really buy land that could be freely built on Wasteland Online, instead of a paper model that was used to fool people.

Those who felt that it was too expensive were sensible people.

But if one felt that it was ridiculous, it could only show that that person had been living under a rock for too long.

The development of the New Alliance from a piece of wasteland to its current scale was inseparable from the efforts of generations of players. Now that Wasteland Online had successfully reached the beta stage, Chu Guang would of course give some benefits to those who had helped him.

That was the reward they deserved for their hard work.

But Ample Time was only half right about his intentions.

The original intention of Chu Guang to develop the platform was really not to earn worthless currency from another world, but it was not just to distribute dividends to alpha testers and regulate off-market transactions; there were 2 other deeper purposes.

The first was to assign value to the promise given by Wasteland Online, and the other was to redistribute the wealth in the game.

The former would make players more motivated to do missions and more actively participate in the Corps System and Traveling Merchant System he planned.

The latter would make the economic cycle in the game more reasonable.

A bowl of ramen that cost less than 2 silver coins could be sold for 6 silver coins when taxes and land rent were extremely low was simply ridiculous. Even gambling didn't have that much profit margin.

Being able to sell so expensive was all because it was indulged by the high-income players.

As the level increased, high-level players had too many silver coins, which couldn't be consumed by buying equipment alone. Ordinary aboriginal people with a daily income of just over 10 silver coins could hardly afford to consume products that players priced themselves. After all, no matter how their income increased, they would never be able to outperform immortal players.

The players themselves had gradually formed a closed economic cycle. In fact, they were the gentry or knights of the New Alliance. If there was no administrative intervention, the risk of exporting inflation to the NPC market in the same faction would continue to accumulate.

As for how he would spread the risk out...

Establishing an official silver coin trading channel and assigning value to silver coins was just the first card Chu Guang played.

A part of the liquidity rolling in the closed loop would be released outside the game, while the other part of the liquidity would be bought by players who were eager to become stronger in the new version. It would be invested in equipment, traveling merchants, or other places, turning the closed economic cycle into a virtuous circle.

And those squandering players would also consider the weight of the currency more seriously, whether the things they bought with silver coins were worth it, and whether the prices they set for their products were reasonable.

If the citizens of a country had no respect for their own currency, and the gentry masters held unimaginable wealth but did not use it where it should be used, the risk would be far more than just inflation.

The New Alliance already had more than 1,000 players, and more people would be qualified for the closed test in the future.

The sooner these issues were resolved, the better.

"... The Bull and Horse Brick Factory, which has never paid dividends to its shareholders, finally begins to distribute dividends, and Steel Plant 81 is also the same. Part of the silver coins deposited on the book flowed out of the game, and some went to other players, but most of them were into the treasury of the New Alliance. The problems of inflation and fiscal deficit are solved together.”

"New players can also get a better gaming experience. In addition to spending time on earning equipment, they can also take shortcuts when the price of silver coins drops. High-ranking players can solve financial problems in real life and put more energy into the game."

"Although the cloud gamers are still not qualified for the closed test, they have also got the opportunity to indirectly participate in the game."

"This time it should be... Sigh, forget it." Chu Guang counted for a while with his fingers, and finally gave up.

He had lost count on how much benefit he gained from this update.

Anyway, it was a win-win.

"But master... why would those people who obviously can't enter the game buy Game Coins?" Little Seven was confused.

This kind of confusion was the same as it faced those snails who were obviously too weak but insisted on coming over to test it out.

After taking a sip of his cold drink, Chu Guang, who was sitting on the sofa, replied casually, "Everyone has their own reasons. Some people spend money to learn lessons, and some spend money to buy dreams. What we need to do is not to control how players should play the game, but to ensure that most players are on the same track and clear offending players from the track."

Those who could get the game invitations were adults, and adults should be responsible for their own actions. He was an administrator, not a nanny.

One of the players even spent 200,000 RMB to sweep 20,000 silver coins off the platform, and the biggest single transaction was to buy 800 silver coins with 40,000 RMB.

It would be a huge loss if they used it all to buy ramen.

But what if the player bought nutrient cream and shipped it to a plantation in the south, or exchanged them for weapons and shipped them to Red River Town?

She would be able to make more than 20,000 silver coins.

"The price of silver coins seems to have dropped." Little Seven buzzed at the side.

"Yeah, that’s normal, it means that the New Year's red envelopes are almost finished, and they should go online to earn more silver coins." Chu Guang stretched and stood up from the sofa.

Little Seven continued to beep curiously, "But if the price of silver coins keeps falling, will anyone still buy them?"

Chu Guang said lightly, "Prices will move towards whatever they are willing to pay. The increase in trading volume is the beginning of the reversal, and the shrinking is the end of the trend. Whether 1 silver coin is exchanged for 100 RMB, or 100 silver is exchanged for 1 RMB, they are just numbers for us.”

"If it really gets to the point where the market needs to be rescued, it's too easy to make the price of silver coins go up. I'll just post a full set of solid hydrogen technology on the official website, the kind that includes teaching packages for 10 spots for studying the technology in a foreign land, priced at 100 million silver coins. How much do you think the silver coins will be worth at that time?"

"Think about how much garbage we picked up and how many buns we steamed for the Pioneer in order to get the Magnetic Confinement Plasma Cutting Machine, and now look back and see if the deal is worth it."

"You can't just look at the problem on the surface..."