New Reward: Points-Doubling Card Extended!
At this very moment, Lin Ye is jogging slowly on a treadmill in the Cliffside Villa, working up a good sweat.
When he saw Kim Geun-seok's famous Black Hawk fighter in the Instance, he left the Instance livestream.
There's no point in watching any further; the Black Hawk fighter only has ground attack and a tiny bit of air-to-air capability.
The gap in military equipment is simply too large. The range of the Su-57 is hundreds of times that of the Black Hawk fighter. Even if Kim Geun-seok were to use his skills to the fullest, he still couldn't win.
This further confirms his previous deduction that the military level of Azure Star is the same as that of Blue Star S1 era.
Even if there are deviations, they are only minor changes and cannot bridge the technological gap.
In his view, the so-called top Aerial Warfare force in the South Korea Settlement was actually quite weak.
Instead of watching Kim Geun-seok get wrecked, why not run around and think about how to design the next Instance, the Great Wall Watch?
The entire project was completed in one go before Winter Is Coming, so he didn't need to waste any more time on revisions and updates.
If you have time, you should consider the new Instance issue and take advantage of the temporary lull to build a solid foundation.
The map issue is relatively easy to solve now; the key is how to design the mechanics to make his beloved the Great Wall Watch truly amazing...
[Firmament Notification: Dear Dungeon Designer, your first Instance "Winter Is Coming" has ended!]
The prompt from the Firmament pulled Lin Ye back to reality.
"Call."
"It's over so quickly."
Lin Ye glanced at his watch; there were only three hours left.
This has already broken my own record for the fastest completion of Instance...
The shortest duration of previous Raging Waves was about three days.
However, this suited him perfectly; the faster it ended, the sooner the next Instance could begin.
[With no one clearing the dungeon on its first opening Winter Is Coming, your Instance design has received high praise from Firmament!]
[A total of 4.88 million points were earned in this Instance! This includes 80,000 points from 4,000 players surrendering and 4.8 million points from 6,000 defeated players!]
[For the portion of points not exceeding 100 million, Firmament will return 1% to the Dungeon Designer.]
[For the portion exceeding 100 million but not exceeding 1 billion, Firmament will return 1/1000 to the Dungeon Designer.]
[For the portion exceeding one billion but not exceeding ten billion, Firmament will return one ten-thousandth of it to the Dungeon Designer.]
[According to the Firmament Curtain Points return rules, you will receive 48,800 points in this Winter Is Coming!]
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[Additionally, the daily Raging Waves has been settled. All Instance surrendered immediately, totaling 100,000 Challengers. The Instance yielded a total of 2 million points!]
[According to the Firmament Curtain Points return rules, you will receive 20,000 points this time during the Winter Is Coming!]
Because you have the Points-Doubling Card given to you by Firmament, your points earned today will be doubled. You have earned a total of 138,000 points today!
It's understandable that Lin Ye didn't get a huge number of points in this Winter Is Coming Instance, because Lin Ye didn't design a high-score-boosting mechanism like Raging Waves in this Instance.
However... it's only temporary.
While Winter Is Coming doesn't rely on special events for rewards and punishments, that doesn't mean Winter Is Coming lacks its own unique mechanisms, nor does it mean Winter Is Coming won't reap massive amounts of points.
Lin Ye smiled slightly.
All of this was designed with a purpose. He didn't intend to achieve everything at once by frightening people Winter Is Coming, but rather to make them surrender and submit like Raging Waves.
As the saying goes, you have to give people hope first before they'll take the bait.
If I had to describe the feeling, it's a bit like playing with electronic crickets.
Although he only earned 138,000 points today, Lin Ye was very satisfied because, in his view, points are like stocks; sometimes you shouldn't care about temporary highs and lows.
You have to cast a long line to catch a big fish.
Currently, his total points have reached 4 million!
Lin Ye glanced at the Firmament Hero Ranking at the top of the Dome outside the window.
[NO47 Gebhard von Blücher; Race: German people; Level: lv3; Dungeon Work: Battle of Waterloo]
[NO48 Lin Ye; Race: Great Xia people; Level: lv3; Dungeon Works: Earth Online: Five Permanent Members’ Raging Waves, Earth Online: Five Permanent Members's Winter Is Coming]
[NO49 Singh; Race: A San people; Level: lv3; Dungeon Work: Royal War, the Glory of the Ganges]
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This increase of less than 140,000 points actually helped him move up a rank, directly overtaking Prince Singh.
This was a pleasant surprise.
It can only be said that the difference in points between the two was not significant before.
The thought that Prince Singh was trying to use points to buy technology from him made Lin Ye laugh.
If he really comes to him to buy technology, Lin Ye is happy to sell it to him, collect the points first, and then get him some strange and unusual weapons.
As long as the logic makes sense, it can always be designed.
It's like a martial arts manual written backwards; you can still practice it, but you might end up going berserk.
The weapons he sold to Singh could also misfire or go off accidentally.
Lin Ye glanced at the Instance Heavenly Ranking again.
The Winter Is Coming Instance has risen to the TOP 2 of Instance.
This was roughly in line with his own expectations; based on the combat power currently displayed in the Instance, Winter Is Coming was definitely inferior to Raging Waves.
Furthermore, the number of kills and points earned in the Instance are definitely not as high as in the full version of Raging Waves.
But that's only in comparison to Raging Waves.
Compared to other Instances on Azure Star, it's still a game-changer!
[Firmament Notification: Congratulations to Instance Challengers for advancing to the top 2 of the Heavenly Ranking "Winter Is Coming"! You are the first Challengers on Azure Star to have two Instance ranked in the top three of the Heavenly Ranking. To encourage the Challengers to create even more exciting Instance in the future, Firmament is awarding you this reward!]
Your Points-Doubling Card will be extended for seven days!
"Very good!"
Lin Ye's face lit up with joy; this reward was truly generous.
For him, the most important thing right now is points! Points are the foundation of everything!
After the hidden mechanics of Winter Is Coming were released, coupled with the doubled points, Lin Ye himself couldn't imagine how huge the points would be.
It could even be said to be a much larger amount of points to be collected than Raging Waves.
If that's the case, he's fully confident he can advance to LV4 within these seven days!
Just as Lin Ye was feeling overjoyed, the voice from the Firmament came again.
[Dear Challengers, after real-time review of the difficulty of the Instance Winter Is Coming, Winter Is Coming Firmament determined that the difficulty is too high. The initial capacity of 10,000 Challengers is insufficient to conquer the Instance, and the Challengers capacity needs to be further increased!]
[Winter Is Coming, the Instance capacity has been adjusted to 50,000 players...]
Have to.
It seems Firmament is really going to make changes again.
First give them dates, then give them several large slabs of bread.
In the end, we still have to use this method to reduce the difficulty of the Instance.
However, Lin Ye didn't see this result as a bad thing at all.
He didn't think the Instance would decrease with the increase in the number of Challengers; on the contrary, the more people there were, the more points he could get.
With such a small number of people, the power of the Steel Torrent cannot be fully demonstrated!
Otherwise, that Snowfield- covered plain, a burial ground specifically designed for Challengers, would be wasted.
"Firmament! Even if it's subject to review, I designed this Instance to allow Challengers from Azure Star to experience a more exhilarating war."
"I would be pleased and honored if more Challengers could participate."
After saying such shameless things to Firmament, Lin Ye prepared to issue a new statement to the world via video.
Kim Geun-seok, that little Koreans, has already lost the duel, and there naturally needs to be an explanation for this.
The humiliation must be dealt with; this matter must not end here.
Just as Lin Ye was about to pick up his phone, it rang.
Upon closer inspection, it was Bai Tianhao's phone number.
"Mr. Lin, Dean Ding asked me to remind you to be extra wary of Kim Geun-seok and the chaebols from the South Korea Settlement."
"The Kim family wields considerable power, and their weapons and technology extend far beyond just the Air Force. From what we understand, the South Korea Settlement and German Settlement have maintained cooperation for years, with the Kim family purchasing numerous Land Warfare units from the Germania, including many tanks and armored vehicles..."
"Your victory over Kim Geun-seok this time will inevitably shake the Kim family's control in South Korea, and they certainly won't be able to accept such an outcome."
"This won't end here..."
Then, Bai Tianhao told Lin Ye in great detail about everything the Research Institute had learned over the years.
This includes several major conglomerates in the South Korea Settlement, Park Seong-man, the supreme Commander of these conglomerates, and the ties between Park Seong-man and the Kim family.
Lin Ye shook his head helplessly, somewhat amused and exasperated, and replied directly:
"Um... excuse me, Assistant Bai."
"I thank Dean Ding for the reminder."
"I know what I'm doing."
After saying that, Lin Ye hung up the phone.
Is he afraid that Kim Geun-seok will continue to pester him?!
Isn't this exactly what he wanted? The reason he set the rule of a life-or-death contest was to keep Kim Geun-seok challenging him until he eliminated that bastard.
As long as Kim Geun-seok doesn't give up, everything will be fine from here on out. What he's worried about now is that this little Koreans will really chicken out and cheat out of the game.
The real show is yet to come; the True Winter is coming, and this little Koreans hasn't even seen it yet.
We absolutely cannot afford to let things fall apart.