Chapter 7: The Stormy Forum
Now, Yang Tian finally had time to take a good look at all his progress today.
Name: Li Zhuang
Qualification: S
Occupation: Senior Shipbuilder Reputation: 0
Identity: Villager of White Cloud Village
Merit: 0
Loyalty: 80
Rank: 0th (100/200)
Commander: 2 Military Power: 5 Intelligence: 9 Politics: 6
Specialties: None
Skills: Advanced Shipbuilding
Yang Tian once again marveled at the power of Bai Jin's village order and his own good fortune, as an S-level NPC had joined him. The gap between S-level and A-level was simply indescribable. To put it simply, developing to a first-class town would basically allow one to possess A-level NPCs, but to have an S-level NPC, one would probably need to develop to a first-class metropolis.
Currently, the growth of ordinary NPCs is still determined by the players themselves.
When a villager becomes a warrior, his attribute points are defaulted to prioritize strength over intelligence and will not add to leadership or politics. Excess attribute points are automatically reserved.
However, if a villager is a life-type NPC, their attribute points default to prioritizing intelligence, with very few attributes added to strength, and none added to leadership or politics.
Military-type NPCs are divided into leadership and strength types, each leaning towards leadership, strength, and supplemented by intelligence, without adding politics.
Administrative-type NPCs default to prioritizing politics over intelligence and will not add to leadership or strength.
Of course, these are all defaults, and players can change them themselves. However, there is one thing that cannot be changed: the NPC's current activity will cause him to add free attribute points to attributes related to that activity until the upper limit is reached.
Warriors and administrative NPCs can go to specific places for career advancement and learn skills. However, soldiers and life NPCs must rely on their own understanding or use skill books and other things to acquire skills and promote their ranks.
According to the official information, life-class NPCs only need to add points to one attribute, and their growth is much faster than that of soldiers. In fact, it's not that simple, because life-class NPCs gain experience through daily labor, and the speed of their upgrade is closely related to the intensity of their labor, but they are all far slower than the upgrade of soldiers.
The success rate of S-level qualification NPC's skill enlightenment is extremely high, and the king-level skill can also be 100% enlightened. Even the emperor-level skill has a very high success rate of enlightenment.
The information of other villagers, Yang Tian only took a glance, the highest was only one B-level, that was the merchant named Zhao Qian, 12 were C-level, 9 were D-level, and one E-level.
Yang Tian's vision has also been nurtured, and he directly ignores those below B-level, letting Wang Lao arrange them casually.
Look at the attributes of Baiyun Village again:
Village name: Baiyun Village (The second village under heaven: a well-known village that attracts migrants)
Rank: First Class
Current residents: 27/100
Public Sentiment: 70
Law and Order: 85
Tax rate: 5%
Special Attribute: Territory Recruitment NPC Qualification +1 Level. The probability of encountering special NPCs increases by 5%.
Current resources: 476 units of grain, 180 units of stone, 50 units of wood, 670 copper coins.
Upgrade required resources: 400 units of food, 400 units of stone, 400 units of wood, 2000 copper coins.
Village area: 1 square kilometer
Territorial area: 160 square kilometers (regular territory is 10 square kilometers)
Current building / Building required for upgrade: 6/8
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Intermediate Dock: A dock built under the guidance of Senior Shipwright Li Zhuang, who is in charge of ship manufacturing. Can manufacture Gunboat and Intermediate Fishing Boat. (Gunboat: A fast combat boat that can carry 20 soldiers. Manufacturing conditions: 100 units of lumber, 100 copper coins. Intermediate Fishing Boat: Used by villagers for fishing, with a 50% increase in efficiency compared to the Basic Fishing Boat, can seat one person. Manufacturing conditions: 50 units of lumber, 20 copper coins)
The change in half a day is not insignificant, but the biggest change is that many of the original resources have been spent. Even if all the buildings were built, it would not be possible to spend so many resources, but who let Yang Tian build an intermediate dock? The resources required for the construction of the intermediate dock are five times that of the primary dock, but Yang Tian did not regret it.
The resources are too scarce! Especially wood, only enough to build 5 civilian houses. Tomorrow we have to arrange for villagers to cut down trees, and stone materials also need to be solved as soon as possible. Now the most important thing to solve is the currency problem.
Baiyun Village is isolated from the world. If money only circulates within this small circle of Baiyun Village, Yang Tian is 100% sure that all copper coins will end up in the villagers' pockets. To get money, a market must be established to exchange goods for copper coins.
And another change is that the population increased by 24, which seems too high. It's absolutely impossible for a first-class village to refresh 24 people in one day. Otherwise, the population would not have been the biggest obstacle to upgrading the territory in the previous life. Yang Tian estimated that with Baiyun Village's various bonuses, an average of around 13-15 refugees can be refreshed every day, and the extra part is likely to be a hidden reward for the second village under heaven. As for whether it is or not, it will be known tomorrow.
Yang Tian had nothing to do, so he opened up the game forum and started browsing (the helmet has a function that connects to the game forum, entering the forum is equivalent to exiting the game)
Even Yang Tian, who had experienced it once before, was still caught off guard by the explosive situation on the forum.
The first pinned post is an official release: "Tianxia" started with a bang, with over 200 million registered players on the same day.
Open this message, popped out is more than a dozen game screenshots. One is the central square of the system city standing densely packed players, and many white lights flashing, estimated to be killed in the wild back. After all, it's hard for early players to survive in the wild.
Some screenshots are scenes of busy and prosperous cities. Thinking of the deserted scene in his own village, Yang Tian could only look at some screenshots to satisfy his cravings.
Nothing new, Yang Tian continued browsing other information.
"Waaaahhh...! I was actually killed by a cute little sheep!"
"The stuff in the system store is too expensive! An iron sword costs 2000 copper, a healing potion costs 200 copper, do they want people to die?!"
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"The teleportation fee is too expensive, it's actually one gold (1 gold = 100 silver = 10,000 copper)! Robbery!"
First floor: Sofa! LZ is outdated, teleportation is more advanced than a spaceship, and I'll take one gold coin from you as a bargain.
Second floor: wooden bench! Agree with the upstairs view. LZ can choose to rent a post horse at the station, which is much cheaper."
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"Hey big brother or sister, be kind and give me a Village Construction Order! I'm not asking for much, just an ordinary one will do!"
Get out!
Second floor: Which big sister wearing a white coat didn't take good care of your customers?
Third floor: You can't talk like that, it's not right to insult nurse MM! It should be said that the gatekeeper of which zoo was negligent!
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"Who knows where to learn life skills? Give me some directions!"
First floor: I don't know.
Same as above.
Third floor: I teach here, tuition is one hundred gold.
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Yang Tian also found a post about himself:
"Niu ah! 'The second village in the world' is China's. Chinese players! Rise up......"
First floor: Warm sofa! Where are you, Mr. Sunshine? Little brother wants to take a look at your face...
Second floor: Sunlight Big Brother, my admiration for you is like the Yellow River overflowing, unstoppable. Please accept me as your apprentice!
Third floor: Sunny GG, I'm a beauty! Can I be your wife?...
Fourth floor: It can't be Ruhua!
5th floor: Go die on the upper floor! I'm really a beauty!
Sixth floor: Yang Guang Lao Da built Bai Yun Village on Mars, so you don't have to look for it anymore.
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"Selling hemostatic grass! It's been a day since it was hung on the market in Wanning County, and it's only 2 coppers per plant. Doesn't anyone want it?"
First floor: "Now none of you have learned living skills, what's the use of your hemostatic grass?!"
Second floor: I still have a large pile of iron ore! Nobody wants it either.
Third floor: How did the iron ore come from upstairs? Are there mining tools now? Awesome!
Fourth floor: Ah! I dug it myself. It took me a whole day to dig out just two units of iron ore.
5th floor: The system store is too cheap! It's suppressing the procurement price of raw materials too low! How can people survive?!
6th floor: When a large number of villages appear, raw materials will be in short supply! Everyone hurry up and stockpile them!
7th floor: I agree with the view of the upstairs, otherwise, I'll sell all the raw materials to you? Let you get rich!
8th floor: You're too inhumane! The 4th floor genius finally appeared, but you scared everyone away!
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Upon seeing the message above, Yang Tian couldn't help but smile. The player thought that hoarding raw materials was indeed reasonable, but who wouldn't want to develop early on? Getting their hands on an iron-made weapon as soon as possible would be a huge advantage.
Newbie didn't get any equipment, but the system isn't too bad either, and also gave 1000 copper coins, which isn't too excessive.
What's most frustrating is that the NPCs' intelligence level is too high, they actually know the player's situation and raised the price of the lowest-level weapon Iron Sword to 2000. Yang Tian knew that the system-set price for an Iron Sword was only 200 copper coins. Suddenly it skyrocketed by 10 times, how ruthless.
You don't have a weapon? Well! I'll sell one to you, 2000 copper coins each! ... What? Too expensive? Then you can just not buy it! ... Not enough money? Go gather some materials first and exchange them for it! Oh? You have materials? Alright, 1 copper coin per unit! ... Think it's too cheap? Then just keep it!
Yang Tian was clearly aware of the YD degree of high-intelligence NPCs.
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"The First Iron Gun in the Whole Server!" As soon as Yang Tian saw this title, he knew what the content was about. It was a combat video recording of over 200 elite members of the Tianya Guild killing a lone strong thief.
Humanoid monsters are not something that current players can provoke, their lowest level is also 30. They have high intelligence and basically all act collectively.
Most of the humanoid monsters at level 30 have combat power that has reached 50, and compared to them, the player's 10 or more points of combat power is like the difference between a child and an adult.
But the temptation of profit is infinite, who let this lone bandit still hold an iron spear in his hand! In a situation where weapons are extremely expensive, iron spears can be considered high-end weapons, and the price sold in the system store is 5,000 copper.
Then, after gathering more than 200 guild members with iron swords in hand, the battle began.
Result...
Too horrible to behold.
More than 200 elite members were slaughtered by this ordinary bandit, almost one shot at a time. In the end, the bandit was still killed, after all, players held iron swords in their hands, not wooden sticks.
The iron spear was obtained, but more than a hundred members were demoted. The gains and losses are hard to distinguish. Fortunately, there were no casualties, which is fortunate in misfortune. Otherwise, even if only buying golden medicine would be enough to make this action a joke.
There are also many posts collecting copper coins, roughly 1 copper coin = 1 RMB. But who would sell? A gaming headset is tens of thousands of yuan, who would be tempted by your thousand yuan? Posting this is purely asking for scolding.
Yang Tian did not discover anything new and valuable, so he re-entered the game to start cultivating his inner strength and mind method, quickly entering a state of complete absorption.
In reality, Yang Tian's true energy in his body began to synchronize and run...
