Visa Time

Biodata

Overview

Visa Time is the resource players spend for daily living in the Community. It is held on a player's visa and can be exchanged for food, ingredients, clothing, medicine, and other available necessities. The Gallery awards Visa Time for completing Judgment Games. 5

A player may check their balance through Visa Machines, vending machines, or a personal computer. 5 12

Visa and Balance Access

• A player's visa is issued through a scanning machine and appears as an abstract barcode pattern on a black wrist bracelet, alongside the player's real name. 4
• Community entry requires a visa scan; violations of Community rules can result in Visa Time deductions or expulsion. 4
• Vending machines display an item's Visa Time price and deduct the amount when the player's bracelet is scanned. 6 7
• Personal computers offer private balance checks and item-price information. 12
• Visa Time balances are treated as private information by several players, despite being viewable when a person uses a public vending machine. 7 8

Acquisition

• The Community assigns each player an initial amount after conducting a “comprehensive assessment” of their circumstances. 5
• Completing Gallery Judgment Games is the only stated way for players to earn Visa Time. 5
• In Blood Poker, chips were converted into Visa Time after 24 hours; 10,000 chips equaled 10,000 minutes of Visa Time. 13 25
• Spectators in King's Judgment can tip Visa Time to active players, though a tipped player is not required to follow the accompanying request. Each message character costs 1,000 minutes. 38
• Spectators may also stake 50,000 minutes on the King or Prisoners and receive game-dependent returns. 38
• When a player dies in a Gallery game, the designer of that game receives all of the deceased player's remaining Visa Time. 5

God's Imitator Concealment

An Imitator whose game receives an S rating may hide bonus Visa Time gained through their Imitator status from public balance-query systems. 12

Lin Sizhi uses this privilege after receiving bonus time from Redemption Roulette and later gains an additional 37 days when a player dies in Blood Poker, the game he designed. 7 12 35

Expenditure and Survival

Visa Time is continuously consumed simply by remaining alive in the New World: doing nothing for a full day costs 24 hours, or 1,440 minutes. Lin Sizhi estimates that basic survival requires at least 1,500 minutes per day once minimal living expenses are included. 7

• Prepared food carries a substantially higher labor cost than raw ingredients, encouraging players to cook for themselves. 7 8
• Ding Wenqiang reduces his meals to steamed buns and pickles when his low balance leaves him unable to risk ordinary food costs. 29
• Players may convert blood into Blood Poker chips at a rate of 100 mL for 10,000 chips, equal to 10,000 minutes of Visa Time; the exchange requires gambling against the Chip Exchange Machine. 13
• The Chip Exchange Machine is deliberately unfavorable: it draws an extra card, selects the best three-card hand from four cards, acts as dealer, and bets first. 28

Transfer Restrictions

Direct and indirect Visa Time transactions between players are prohibited in the Community. Buying supplies with Visa Time and gifting those supplies to another player is also forbidden. 5

This restriction prevents ordinary resource sharing and makes a player's individual balance central to their ability to survive. Attempts to help low-balance players therefore require new Community rules rather than private transfers. 29 30

Community Security Fund

The Community Security Fund is a Community-approved mechanism that permits collective Visa Time use without classifying the resulting supply distribution as a transaction. 32

The Fund begins with 52,775 minutes after Blood Poker earnings are processed and distributes 960 minutes for the first day's twelve 80-minute allowances. 33

Penalties

• Community-rule violations may result in Visa Time deductions or expulsion. 4
• In King's Judgment, spectators who cast a fairness vote contradicting their true thoughts lose 10,000 minutes through an automatic lie detector. 38 43
• Attempting to improperly use the King-only visa scanner incurs a 50,000-minute deduction; further violations carry an instant-death penalty. 41
• In Prison Cell No. 3, refusing to break a finger costs 30 minutes per second, totaling 18,000 minutes over a ten-minute round; the cost doubles in later rounds. 43
• Failing to play another player in Blood Poker before the time limit results in a 10,000-minute deduction. 15

Documented Balances