The Primordial Sacrificial Altar.
Everything that happened in the real world was under Guide's surveillance.
That included the Eclipse Race's latest product launch.
Qi Sheng naturally understood why the Star Network was doing this. It wanted to actively develop the real world to create more player online time for him.
Although many players wanted to spend longer playing, health problems in reality and other issues forced them to cut back.
The Star Network's two latest products were both intended to solve this problem.
But just as the Star Network understood, its real-world arrangements treated the symptoms rather than the cause.
They could not break the players' predetermined fate of birth, aging, illness, and death.
Mechanical ascension was feasible, but achieving it for everyone would take a great deal of time, and the process was truly cumbersome.
Qi Sheng had considered these issues long ago.
He naturally would not abandon the veteran players.
Early on, he had indeed considered whether the Player Faction's development should follow an era transition model.
Era transition meant optimizing the player system generation after generation, disregarding the players' birth, aging, illness, and death in the real world.
Whenever a player died, their account could not be inherited, and everything belonging to the deceased player would be broken down into sacrificial power and recovered.
This sacrificial power would be used to build more comprehensive player features and support systems, helping the next generation of players grow faster.
For example, the next generation could start with ten thousand points of sacrificial power as starting resources, or even more.
Under this model, players were more like recyclable resources.
The Player Faction's development would become an endlessly surging river, each drop evaporating upon reaching the end before falling again at the source in a new form.
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