374.Chapter 372: 371 Just Right Version Update

Chapter 372: 371. Just the Right Version Update

Happy Stick’s wave of “hate” was just right, causing Murphy’s sneaky upload of the version update announcement to be ignored by most of the players.

Finally avoided the dilemma of being spit on by players for every update, but the administrator has no choice, he can’t kick the players out every time there’s a big update, pretending to do a “server reboot” right?
Hey! Wait a minute!

Why not?

It’s true that you can do this kind of thing once in a while to remind those who are already searching for the “truth” that it’s just a mediocre playtest, and even though it’s just another poorly executed “smokescreen” for those who have already decided that it’s the truth, it’s better than nothing, right? “But it’s better than nothing, right?

After all, who has to suffer through “server updates” when traveling to other worlds?

Murphy thought for a moment that this was a good idea.

So he highlighted the idea on his “development team notebook”, but after reminding Brother Meow to look at the update, the heat of the previous post that was criticizing Happy Stick dropped rapidly, and everyone switched to the newly released update post.

This time, it was a truly “big update”!
[Real World Alpha 3.0 Closed Beta Update Announcement:

Hello everyone, I am your dear beta team member Alpha, before formally announcing the content of this update, I would like to firstly, on behalf of the entire members of the development team and beta team of The Real World, express our sincere thanks to all the people who have contributed to the beta testing of the game so far!

Thanks to everyone’s dedication and hard work over the last two months, we’ve advanced the game from bug-riddled mess to something that’s now barely usable at the seams.

But even the most confident programmers in the development team aren’t sure if there are any undiscovered bugs in the mountain of code they’ve hammered out.

But even with all these concerns, we’ve made it this far, and we’re confident that the bond between the development team and the testers is strong enough to overcome any obstacle, and we’re also confident that the current testing model is strong enough to find and eliminate most of the factors that affect the game’s experience.

Therefore, after repeated discussions with the development team, we have decided to give all players who participated in the closed beta a gift from the development team.

We haven’t agreed on what to put in the gift box yet, but we’ve had plenty of time to pick out our favorite goodies!
And I personally believe that this small gift is not enough to express our gratitude to all of you. (The proposal to give out server-wide rewards was my idea, so why don’t you all get down on your knees and thank your beloved Fat?)
Next up is the official content of the major update:
I. The opening of player territories:
I believe that some of you who are good at collecting information have already known some information about the ‘stronghold’ gameplay, but there were some logical loopholes that delayed the launch of this gameplay.

In the end, under the pressure of the test team members, our development team finally managed to fix this heavyweight gameplay before the end of the closed beta.

Since the date of the update, Transylvania will have three new player territories, which we call ‘strongholds’!
All recruitment, construction, and regulation in this area will be decided by the players, with the Scarlet Fortress Administrative Office delegating maximum authority, retaining only the ability to tax, inspect, and intervene when necessary.

This will be another perfect example of the game’s high degree of freedom.

Players will no longer play the role of ordinary adventurers but will be able to step into the political arena of Transylvania as ‘Lords’. However, since the management and construction of player strongholds cannot be accomplished by a single player, the development team has decided to delegate the management of strongholds to the player guilds after weighing the situation several times.

In the current version of the game, the ‘Fort Riptide’ and ‘Maginot Line’ will be decentralized to the ‘Knights of Riptide’ and the ‘Scarlet Hammer’, respectively, which are the most outstanding player guilds in the mainline. Scarlet Hammer and Sickle Regiment’.

Guilds that have not been assigned a stronghold don’t have to worry, Governor Murphy still has a stronghold that has yet to be determined, and will decide on its ownership according to the progress of the mission.

It should be emphasized here!
Strongholds are not developed as a single village or town, and according to their different responsibilities, there are different routes of growth for strongholds.

The different development routes for strongholds are as follows:

Initial strongholds – villages/barracks/merchant stations – towns/forts/bazaars – cities/defense lines/commercial hubs.

After each guild obtains the land deed of a stronghold from the administration office, it must designate the function and development route of the stronghold and complete the target within a period of time according to the construction tasks issued by the administration office.

Once a stronghold fails to develop to the satisfaction of the Administration for an extended period of time, the management of the stronghold will be permanently withdrawn and redistributed after a maximum of three administrative reprimands.

Ps:

The ‘Maginot Defense Line’ issued this time is a special stronghold, it cannot be used for any other purpose other than ‘Barracks-Fortress-Defense Line’.

II. Renovation of the tester recruitment system:

At this stage of the two-month long closed beta test, the testing team has realized that in order to complete more in-depth testing work and plot advancement, it is inevitable that more testers need to be recruited to participate in our project.

Therefore, after repeated discussions with the development team, the decision-making team and the logistics team, we have finally decided to adopt a new model for recruiting testers.

From the date of version 3.0 update, tester recruitment authority will be decentralized to player guilds, in conjunction with the upcoming “guild rating” model to be launched by the Scarlet Fortress administration office, all player guilds with level 2 or above will be given 5-20 tester slots each week to recruit their own guild members.

But please note!

This method of recruitment will be supervised by the tester team at all times.

All newly recruited testers must also complete the beta application and wait in the forums for 7-14 days to complete the qualification process before being given a game terminal.

In addition, if a new recruit violates the “Real Otherworld Players Convention” in the game and causes serious disruption to the testing work, not only will the player’s qualification for the test be canceled, but the guild he/she belongs to will also be subjected to serious penalties including demotion, confiscation of property, and even mandatory disbandment.

If the situation is serious, the test group will file a lawsuit with the local judicial department.

In addition, the test group will also issue a certain number of places every week to recruit testers who do not want to experience the guild gameplay.

Tips from the test group!
The authorization of recruiting means that the beta team trusts the guild leaders and management, so please do not abuse this authorization.

III. Explanation on the mapping between the number of lords and testers.

A long time ago, many smart Pozi have been asking the testing team about the relationship between the two, and as the plot has advanced to the current stage, the testing team is finally able to reveal certain truths about The Real Otherworld to the Pozi.

Back in the game’s inception, the decision-making team had already confirmed that they wanted to tie the number of testers to the number of Transylvanians in the game, as a way to achieve the authenticity and sense of immersion that this game boasts.

According to the current rules of the game, for every additional 100 registered citizens under Governor Murphy’s command, one beta test slot will be provided to the testing team.

This ratio is in line with our research and examination of warfare in a medieval setting, and the reason for setting a fixed ratio is to tie the expansion of the beta group to the improvement of the Transylvanian environment as a whole.

In this way, players will be able to visualize the impact of their activities on this suffering land, and from the information we have gathered so far, the recruitment ratio we have set has perfectly achieved the desired effect.

Of course, the mapping between the number of citizens and the number of testers does not depend only on the number of people.

It is also linked to the level of development of a territory, and when a territory or stronghold reaches a certain level of development, the percentage of player slots that can be fed back into their territory will be further increased.

This percentage can be increased to a maximum of 3%.

Therefore, when the plot of Transylvania advances to the point where it is no longer possible to expand the player base by recruiting stragglers, it would be a very good way for the managers of the strongholds to divert their energies to territorial development to grow their own selves.

IV. Administrative Gameplay Updates:

With the rapid increase of Transylvania’s population, each stronghold is in urgent need of outstanding leaders. From the date of this update, all administrative players who have passed the administrative test will be assigned official positions, and there are a large number of official positions vacant in the first five collective farms, so the administrative players who serve as administrators can award these positions to the players or NPCs of their choice, and the appointments will take effect after the Scarlet Fortress Administration Office approves. The appointment will become effective upon approval from the Scarlet Fortress Administration.

All players who are appointed to official positions will receive a position allowance from the Administration according to their rank.

The power you desire is now at hand, so obey the call of your heart, pack your bags, and begin your career as a Mayor in Transylvania.

V. The ‘Midnight Blood Vulture Tavern’ project, a third-party social platform for the public in the Real Otherworld, has completed its pre-funding phase and will soon enter the formal development phase.

This social platform was authorized by the development team and entrusted to several beta testers to create a project dedicated to publicizing all aspects of the game to the public realm, and is currently being planned by the ‘Players Committee’, with a launch date yet to be determined. According to its proposal, the platform will be highly social and compatible with video, text and audiobooks, as well as offline running groups.

All beta testers with forum accounts will be able to enjoy certain benefits.

VI. Mysterious material revealed.

Uh, I don’t think an official reveal is necessary anymore.

As far as the beta team has observed, a significant number of members of the current player base have already guessed what this sourcebook is about and have begun to prepare for its arrival.

Based on the current communication between the testing team and the second development team, what I can reveal to you is that the material titled “The Black Calamity Revisited” will be released as a bridging plot between the first chapter and the second chapter of the player’s main line, and the player’s performance in that material will directly determine the direction of the subsequent plot.

The specific launch time of this profile is highly tied to the Dawn of Transylvania main quest that we are currently advancing.

In this regard, the development team’s advice to all beta testers is to do your best to strengthen Transylvania’s defenses and territories before the Black Calamity arrives.

VII. Official explanation about certain special events.

The incident in which beta tester ID ‘Onboard Happy Stick’ unlocked the vampire race gameplay – Blood Pact – early for some special in-game reasons that cannot be explicitly stated has sparked extensive discussion among players.

The beta team would like to emphasize that the incident itself stemmed from an error on the part of the development team and does not represent the normal flow of the game.

According to the original development plan, the gameplay will only be opened in the middle and late stages of the game plot.

Currently, there are a large number of bugs in this game and these procedural problems will directly affect the player’s gaming experience, so the test team would like to remind vampire players not to try to obtain blood descent in advance through various normal or abnormal methods.

The development team is hereby officially warning! Risking to obtain this gameplay will not bring any benefits to the current vampire players’ game experience, and the development team will reserve the right of final interpretation of the subsequent series of problems caused by this risky behavior.

Emphasize again!

I hope players cherish their accounts and test qualifications.

VIII. Fixed a few bugs and added a new air wall. h]

Underneath this official update post at this point in time there have been a lot of follow up posts brushed up, mostly related to the various important information revealed by this update.

But there are those whose focus is perpetually skewed.

Woo Meow King: [Crap, Stick is awesome! This is the first time I’ve ever seen a player’s name posted in an official version update, you’re now ‘famous in history’. How’s that for a @boardload of happy sticks?
It must be a great experience to be officially posted as your wife, right?”]

Banzai Happy Stick: [What’s so great about it? I just talked to Melina and found out that she does come with a ‘Grey Claw Treasure’ secret quest and a ‘Corlando’s Revenge’ side quest, both of which seem to be pretty screwed up.

But the biggest problem was that she was too weak right now!

Those vampires who kidnapped her injected her with a toxin that not only blinded her but also made her lose almost all her fighting ability.

I still have to suck her blood once every three days to make sure she doesn’t continue to deteriorate, but the problem is that every time I suck blood it gives me an ‘Anemia’ buff that lasts for a day.

All attributes reduced by 30%!

Crap!

I’m basically fucking wasted by this blood-sucking old bitch! How can I fight monsters and upgrade from now on?

Fatal Orchid: [You’re upgrading my ass! Didn’t you already get the right to manage the stronghold of the ‘Maginot Defense Line’? Just be an honest commander next, and with what’s happening to you right now, I can only say that it’s time!

Look at what you’ve done, you’ve almost turned Vikki into a vampire trafficker, now that you’ve seen what happened to Stick, do other people still want to have a second wife like that?

Arrival: [Totally lost interest, heading to the exam room, don’t cue.]]

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Rex Che Che: [@Banzai Happy Stick, Stick, your wife is poisoned give her the antidote won’t that be enough?

Slate Happy Stick: [It’s not as easy as you think, Grand Duke Trish personally gave Melia a look, her conclusion is that this toxin contains some subspace breath.

Unless the configurator of the poison is found to ask for an antidote, there’s nothing she, a master alchemist, can do.

And Merliah said that the person who gave her the poison is still in the Wolfsbane territory of Greenie Island, that damn place is not open at all, and it is a high-level map as soon as you hear it, right?

Fuck!
Old me became a wasted man!

Whoever wants this e-wife, I don’t want it anymore!

Reed Name Female Sword Saint: [Hahaha, deserved! The first to run to mock, hee hee hee hee]]

Lumina Yang Scar: [@Honor Knight Tepal, Tai, where exactly is that ‘Fort Riptide’ stronghold of yours?]

Honor Knight Tepal: [In the Andromeda Hills, belonging to one of the baronies under the command of Andromeda’s Countess, Lord Phemis, right in the vicinity of the Transylvania National First Arsenal, and it can even be said that our Fort Riptide was actually set up to arch over this factory district.

It is located right at the bay of the Cadman River.

It happens to be right next to that culvert that leads to the sewers of Fort Scarlet, and we intend to build a village there first, and then receive the territories transferred from the Administration Office.

In addition, I’ve confirmed that after the establishment of Fort Riptide, our Riptide Knights will be given the power to issue territorial quests, so I hope that our brothers and sisters will come and join us in this endeavor!

If the name of Fort Riptide spreads throughout the continent in the future, we will not forget your help!

Wholesale Invincible Old Voldemort: [Ah, the Sons of the Holy Light have finally landed in Transylvania, and a new era is about to begin!

Tiger Leopard Cavalry – Soldier: [Squinting, paladins who can break their legs riding horses are really enough ow.]]

Wholesale Invincible Old Voldemort: [What do you mean by breaking your legs? Can you call what happens to a paladin a broken leg? That’s just a trial given to me by the Holy Light! Don’t talk nonsense!

Seeing that Uncle Fording was starting to get anxious at seeing his black history being revealed, the post was filled with a cheerful air.

However, on the other side, Brother Loyalty, who was still busy in the game, immediately brightened up when he saw the post update, and he immediately sent out a message to his teammates:
What color is Loyalty: [Zwei, go to the administration office and register a guild, raise the rating to level 2 or above as soon as possible, 5-20 slots per week . Tsk, isn’t this a good opportunity to dabble in the sand.

Get the rest of the brothers in the group ready, next we’re ready to transfer the structure to the game.

Yeah!

The development team is finally doing something good, huh?]

(End of chapter)