An hour later, the four players who formed the team met again behind the small hill, both sides having completed their missions.
The two who lost money planted twenty sets of trap trees in the wilderness behind the camp, and the other two completed the experiment of implanting glowing plants. Now they just have to wait for the results.
After a brief exchange, [ Great Wei Boxing Champion ] and [ Shit Appraisal Master ] returned to the vicinity of the castle first because they still had things to do in the real world, while [ Good Times Don't Last Long] and [ Litang's Supremely Fierce Tiger ] decided to stay longer since the next day was a rest day.
The two had already planned that once it got dark, they could return to their base camp after confirming the next movement direction of this batch of Blood Corpse and whether the fluorescent markers were effective.
As evening approached, the Blood Corpse in the shade of the trees began to stir like office workers just waking up.
Out of respect for morning grumpiness, the two who remained did not do anything drastic, but simply faithfully recorded the Blood Corpse's reactions and updated them in real time on the forum.
[ The Good Times Don't Last ] Suddenly, I realized something: the World of Disorder didn't seem to have telescopes yet. Even though most of the rules had changed, big or small, the basic properties of light remained unchanged, at least in this region.
If we could build a telescope, even a monocular one, it would greatly reduce casualties for exploration players and sentry NPCs.
Simply to manufacture a telescope, you need glass; but to manufacture glass that meets the requirements, you need many more prerequisites...
[ The Good Times Don't Last ] As I was thinking, I suddenly realized that I wasn't playing a game, but had been transported to a technologically underdeveloped world, just like most protagonists in transmigration novels, preparing to make a glass, soap, and cement three-piece set.
Just as his thoughts began to drift towards the boundless future, the [ Litang's Supremely Fierce Tiger ] beside him nudged him with his elbow:
"Dude, look! It's lit up! It's lit up!"
[ The Good Times Don't Last ] He quickly pulled himself out of his thoughts and looked in the direction his friend was pointing. He saw that among the Blood Corpse, there was a faint blue light flickering behind one of the individuals.
The two quickly checked again to make sure there were no problems. They then highlighted the group of Blood Corpse on the map and updated the forum with instructions on how to use the Fluorescent Velvet Grass.
Fluorescent labeling can be applied under the skin of the Blood Corpse, and it has been confirmed that the Blood Corpse will ignore the presence of Fluorescent Velvet Grass and will not actively choose to remove it.
Two days have passed since the new plant was released, and the most popular post on the forum has changed from " Chosen of the Four Gods of the Blood Corpse " to "One Hundred Ways to Use the New Plant".
The new hot post was naturally written by [Pond Fish and Old Abyss] and [Vanilla Ice Cream Scoop]. Both of them have relatively high Plant Compatibility and constitution attributes. After doing a lot of things in the Greenhouse, they posted the results on the forum, titled "One Hundred Ways to Use the New Plants" and left plenty of space for other players to add to it.
Meanwhile, other players also tried to combine new and old plants to develop new strategies, making the Plant Compatibility faction particularly Vitality for a time.
While the players were having a heated discussion, Ed was worrying about something else.
He discovered a problem: the players' preferences were not evenly distributed.
Although he has set up four different gameplay styles for players—building, resource gathering, scouting, and responding—the transitions between these styles are so natural that a new phenomenon has gradually emerged over the past two days.
After a small Corpse Tide appeared, many players dropped what they were doing and rushed to the battlefield, only to find that the Corpse Tide had already been wiped out when they arrived.
This means that the so-called lag effect has begun to take hold.
Putting aside the pointless concern about the Blood Corpse being in short supply, Ed felt he needed to consider the gaming experience of the players who hadn't managed to get any food.
After much deliberation, he could only resort to a major intervention, quietly increasing the returns for both infrastructure and resource management by 20%, thus directly intervening manually.
Players naturally had no objection to this, since prices in the World of Disorder are constantly changing. Whether it's the simple weapons players use or the plant plugins that can be activated at any time, the prices only remain at a certain level, and there is no situation where they are static.
Ed can actually understand some players' thoughts. When there is no need to fight, Incarnation porters, and when they need to fight, they put down their tools and pick up weapons in a second. They are just like the ancient people of the Warring States period who combined farming and warfare.
However, trying to please both sides carries the risk of pleasing neither, so he could only use these methods to appease the players and prevent negative emotions from accumulating and affecting their enthusiasm for the game.
However, when it comes to game engagement, Ed thought of another issue—having just taken care of the game experience for players focused on infrastructure and resources, in the spirit of treating everyone equally, they couldn't neglect players focused on reconnaissance and response.
After three major and minor battles with the Blood Corpse, the total number of player deaths has reached fifty. Players who went out to scout are more likely to be bitten to death by the Blood Corpse due to poor timing and other issues, resulting in about twenty deaths. Even the [ Dark Archmage ], who is skilled in scouting, died once because of reckless activity at night.
As for novice players facing Blood Corpse for the first time, if they are not well prepared or have low constitution and agility points, they may easily run out of strength halfway through the fight.
Ed even remembered two players whose willpower was too low after Blood Corpse Transformation, and they were cut into pieces by their bloodthirsty teammates. Although this was also related to their own point allocation, the kind-hearted Ed still decided to try his best to take care of everyone's gaming experience.
We can't let only one type of player enjoy the game while the other can only watch helplessly, can we?
Now that support players have already experienced "one hand," Ed intends to let frontline players experience the warmth of "the other hand."
As for the selection of personnel, that should naturally be left to professionals.
If Ed is the brain of the Second Holy See, responsible for all major decisions of this emerging power, then another member can be said to be the heart of the Second Holy See; the entire Second Holy See can function effectively entirely because of her existence.
I've chosen you, Seraphina!
Ed started the call on his local area network:
"Hey, Haji Dragon, what are you doing?"
"You're doing math... did you need something?"
"I have a profitable business opportunity that I'd like to discuss with you."
"The castle? We're coming right away."