[Double Happiness Town Rating: B, Reward Points: 1000]
Qi Si floated in the darkness, watching the settlement text spiral around him.
After seeing the words "Rating: B," he lifted his eyelids slightly. "Skip."
However, the Eerie Game clearly had no intention of paying him any mind.
The prompt text, irritating to anyone with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, continued refreshing.
[Double Happiness Town Normal End route cleared, Reward Points: 1000] [Worldview Decipherment: 73%, Reward Points: 1000] [Became the sole survivor, Reward Points: 3000] [Total Reward Points: 6000, deposited into points account]
The settlement for this Instance was relatively simple, with no notifications or rewards for unlocked achievements.
Qi Si had previously learned from the forums that achievement unlocks were judged on the basis of clearing an Instance with a TE. Only a rating higher than A could trigger them.
When clearing with an NE and receiving a rating below A, all rewards would be compressed to a pitiful degree—at most, they could be called a "consolation prize."
It could be said that this was a form of "winner takes all." The gap between players who cleared Instances perfectly and those who merely muddled through would only grow wider. Points, as a natural divide, split the player population into two groups: "stars" who stood beneath the spotlight and challenged high-difficulty Instances, and "expendables" who could be sacrificed or caught in the crossfire at any moment.
Just like now. Although Qi Si had not completely given up and coasted along, because he had failed to complete the main quest, his total reward points were even lower than those from the Carnivore Instance in the Novice Pool. Judging by the ratio of difficulty to returns, this calculation was highly unfair.
If he had been clearing everything