Chapter 661 (1/2)

Chapter 661: Chapter 661 – Regulation

Translator: Exodus TalesEditor: Exodus Tales

A single update created thousands of ripples Professional gamers, normal players, experts, even pay-to-win players… Players of every type all had their own reaction when they first saw the details of the new update

What was especially strange was how a certain player froation for this new update, and it received a strong positive response Tens of thousands of players suddenly came forward and expressed their support for this opinion Even as everyone was greatly surprised by substantial mobilization, Brother assist had quietly closed the post This player was the very same person who had co routine previously after gathering a consortiu like this to occur ale deal that cost each individual 200 gold coins, how could these people not express their consternation? There were plenty of players ere in the same situation as theame coins that they had before the update went like were all extremely sad and appalled by the existence of such an update

At the very saotiating the next deal with another person on his QQ! When the news of the new update was suddenly announced, Brother assist ione up in sh, the person's profile picture popped up, sending the er any follow-up e sent after

Many people had only glanced at the headlines and they could not wait to get onto the forums and check out the essays after essays of comments made in response, but the truth was that the officials had written a long stateraph alone contained thousands of characters

The official stateeneration was just a temporary halt, and it did not aer be unrestrained generation of in-ga forward, and the officials would oods, the value of said good as well as the speed of the currency circulation in Parallel World, so that they could regulate the in-galy They had even specifically hired a famous economist as a consultant for this purpose The players would, of course, have no idea who the economist was, but when they read this portion of the statement that the officials released, soe of this already understood that this regulation through the control of currency generation was completely similar to how the modern nations would issue real-world currency It was all to continue the ga to simulate the real world!

But the probleoods in the real world needed to be produced, and labor had to be induced before they would be placed into the market Players were able to use the currency to make purchases, and the profits froreater production, for a perfect closed loop Meanwhile, if they depended on the systeoods, there would not be that sort of industrial chain If the currency was being regulated in such a fashi+on, and the products in the enerated ento spend the coins they have in their possession, would that not result in an economic recession?

The officials had not said anything with regards to this, but the players could already sniff out quite a few clues about this eventuality when they read into the change being introduced There were a few es toward the currency, and one of the on for aelse would all be confiscated by the system, so if soame for more than a month, they would have to apply for the system to place their account on hold

What the players had paid particular attention to, was the detail about how items would be confiscated too It was easy for the system to casually stow the coins that it confiscated with some NPCs, but for the items to be confiscated as well, does that not ulate the iteame currency as well? Because Parallel World was in the process of being updated when this announceet online to experiment with this, and every one of the websites, after the online currency transaction orders were being taken down, the number of equipment that had been up for trade reduced over time as well

Putting soe for RMB dollars Now that the value of in-gah the coin value of equipment would decrease, but because of the subtle ‘item confiscation' condition attached, there would be the illusion of equipa value in the coins would ultimately see the equipment's true value increase At the end of the day, RMB is the truest hard currency to the ga the real-world currency would be a bettervalue

Because players were teah there was nothing that they could do about it Meanwhile, the second update was the more important event that players were recently concerned with However, now that it was happening alongside the changes to in-game currency, it made it seem less impactful This second update was about the City Wars

While everyone was in a panic, the system had actually pushed forith this ame company had started this War all to shi+ft people's focus away But their resentment and complaints were just that, this event that everyone had been concerned over for such a long ti into, and there were still plenty of people who had set their eyes on it, especially the guild leaders of the various uilds

But no one would have thought that the rules for the City Wars would actually be so different from what they had first assumed

The City Wars event was still a competition between the players, but it was not a direct confrontation between each other on the battlefield Instead, it required the players and guilds to pool together and assault the city, with the syste the points that players could be awarded, and finally deciding the city's sphere of influence

Sphere of influence was yet another vague teret a coame currency when the officials released yet another mysterious update The players were all incensed and infuriated, as the various guild leaders froauild e ruckus, insisting that the officials clarify the matter, once and for all

Even the officials were angered; so nonsense without even finish reading the details of the previous update that they had just released on the currency changes they were ain? Actually, the players themselves could not be completely blae traffic at this tie was slow to load By the time the players saw the second update, many believed the inforh the page itself had not been fully loaded Even as they yowled, they carelessly checked the page again, only to realize that the scroll-bar by the side still continued The players hurriedly read on and realized that the rest of the information was actually listed below

As it turns out, what the term ‘sphere of influence' meant was that a city would ultiuild The city's highest poould still be the systeuilds would be ranked by the contribution score that they had accu the assault, with the syste the land within the city that were up for grabs in accordance to the points earned The calculation of this contribution score was very siive out Guilds would then be able to walk aith their respective areas of influence according to the points that they were awarded by the ranking of the guilds For exauild in the first place would be given 1000 points, which meant they alk aith 10 of the city's area of influence that was up for grabs, the guild in second place would have 500 points, and would be able to earn theo on until all 10,000 points are distributed, so even if the reuilds had earned contribution score, there was no way for them to obtain any further area of influence

Meanwhile, there were plenty of uilds could accu the city was naturally the simplest and most direct method, but aside from the number killed, the system would also consider the quality of said enemies killed as well as the decisive influence that it would have toward the final battle And it will thus beof the ene contribution score, but it was not the only way for guilds to do so During the assault, each city would have a massive amount of quests and tasks related to the assault which would also award contribution score, and it was through suchany less contribution score than the larger guilds

To sule sentence, this City Wars event would not solely be about players' ability to fight, but it tested their luck as well as their wisdom

Many players had not thought that there could be a final rule like this, but everyone felt it e, but the size of the largest guild to date had just a little over a thousand members It would be a joke for such nuantic cities found in Parallel World Even if there were two, three or four guilds facing off against each other, there would still be no need to take up such a huge area The syste it this way could very well be described as quite the heroic undertaking on its part

At the aaan to busy the the City Wars event better The chat groups that the guild leaders of thetheir ed into strategic planning before the assault The officials had released the rules of this affair, and specifically pointed out the existence of quests related to the assaults, yet the specific contents of the quests ritten in a rather inconsistent style The stronger guilds were all a little uncertain about the ‘it was through suchany less contribution score than the larger guilds' part of the inforized to set the bulk of their forces to focus on killing the ene the rest of theireverywhere to search for quests

The update this tiame servers were down for the entire day In fact, the expected tiame to coaame was released The number of players on the forums had broken the record of uild and le Parallel World player was there waiting for the game to come online once ht up with the gossip

This event had been set over the weekend, and the update used up the entire Wednesday By the tiaas a little foreign…

In that first moment, players who collected thee, and other such locations, intending to cancel all the itenment After a whole day of speculation, ame currency that would be affected, but even equip in the future

However, before these people could even e, the system had already es ame currency, the economy has experienced a comprehensive restructure, so all the equipned were all canceled and returned to the players' inventory

Ever since the game was released, this was the first time that the system had shown any sort of benevolence, and many shed tears of happiness…

The otten online one after another by this ti one another Coold freely before the update, these experts had struck theroutines right before this update went live Now that the game had placed a cap on the number of coins available, there was no way anyone out there would have old coins in their hands had surged, how could these people not be elated with this turn of events?

Gu Fei was a lot le, “show sootten online, and before anyone froreet him, July froe to hi in two days' time

Svelte Dancer was currently wailing her heart out in the guild channel! This woman was one of the unfortunate players who had been burnt by this update She had just coo and was just about to use her RMB to get aed into Parallel World, all the in-gaht to buy out with her RMB dollars had been canceled Now that everyone aiting till the price of the gold coins rose, all Svelte Dancer had in her pockets noere just a few copper coins She had quite the a talent to be able to spend all her money so cleanly

“There, there” Gu Fei had sent an unprecedented e to console her, which immediately drew everyone's attention As far as all these ladies remembered, this was very well the first tiuild channel

“Miles, you've got plenty of coins on you right now, yeah? I recall it was your workshop that was earning plenty of coins o,” Luoluo quipped

“I don't have ot the most of it,” Gu Fei said

“So lacking in backbone This madam here didn't even ask you forpoor

“I really don't have ht now, all I have is a couple of tens of thousands” Gu Fei said