Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 126 Deducting Your Favorability

Lu Wenyuan was furious: "You—"

The male cultivator chuckled: "Hey! He's getting anxious, he's getting anxious!"

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush."
"I see you're a disciple of a major sect, so your sect's treatment must be quite good," the female cultivator said, pointing to a mortal surrounded by a group of cultivators and ordinary people at a nearby table. "Old Wang's plastering skills are unparalleled in Chang'an City. He can earn several hundred spirit stones a month, and he can't keep up with the demand. Oh, by the way, may I ask, fellow Daoist, does your sect pay you two hundred spirit stones a month?"

"I doubt it!"

"Hey, looking at it this way, it seems that ordinary disciples of major sects don't earn as much as our so-called 'residual spiritual root' and 'severed path to immortality' mortal old Wang!"

The two of them went back and forth, which made Lü Wenyuan quite angry. Even Chaoyan couldn't stand it anymore and said, "From what you two are saying, you get two hundred a month?"

"Don't say it, don't say it!"

The male cultivator held his head high with pride, patting his chest and saying, "I'm now the independent project manager at the Chang'an Research Institute! The Master gave me two thousand spirit stones in the first phase of funding!"

The female cultivator beside him covered her face, looking as if she couldn't bear to watch the male cultivator's childish behavior, and whispered, "Senior brother, you can say whatever you want, but have you no shame? What does the project funding have to do with you?"

The male cultivator lowered his voice and confidently argued, "How can it not be related! I'll just use the money to buy spiritual materials to study alchemy anyway. My project is related to pills! Spending it on the project is the same as spending it on myself!"

Although Lü Wenyuan didn't quite understand the strange and unfamiliar words used by the two cultivators, he roughly understood that the so-called two thousand spirit stones were not their own "monthly allowance." He breathed a sigh of relief, but to save face, he sneered, "Hmph! Nonsense!"

"Fellow Daoist, please don't be offended. Those two are cultivators hired by the research institute of their Chang'an Sheyi. They are disciples of the Guangcheng Sect. Chang'an City has always been open-minded. They don't have any issues with you. They are just used to striking up conversations everywhere."

Baili Shuang had only explained a few words when she heard the two cultivators arguing with another table of players.

"So you mean you embezzled research funds? Which project? I'm going to report you!"

"Which eye of yours saw me embezzle?! Every expense on our project is recorded in the accounts, okay?!"

"I don't believe you! Unless you let me check!"

"Why? You don't look like an outsider. Are you a disciple of the Taiyin Sect? What's your ID? I'm going to lower my favorability rating!"

"Pah! You? You didn't even get the 'system'!"

"Wait until I finish this project! I'll get it approved sooner or later! Then I'll shut you down!" "Hehehe! I'm not telling you my ID!"

……

Baili Shuang, who had overheard the argument, couldn't help but twitch her lips, feeling her worldview suddenly become a bit distorted—how did this native cultivator get influenced by the players like this?! He's even learned to use "ID"!? And he knows how to threaten players with favorability points!?
The so-called "decrease favorability" is part of the "NPC administrator" function that Fang Xianyu added when he opened the community city construction system.

"NPC administrators" are permanent managers who have reached agreements with players' communities and are eventually employed in the cities established by the players. In addition to the fixed categories such as [Public Security], [Taxation], and [Household Registration], players can also add "officials" under different categories and specific subcategories by spending the faction contribution points under their community.

Oh, and one more thing to add: after a community is established, it will have a system for calculating the collective's faction contribution points and faction prestige points. Whenever a community member acquires contribution points or prestige points, the corresponding faction contribution points and prestige points under the community's name will increase by the same amount. These contribution points and prestige points under the community's name can only be used for community development, such as adding city management category modules or increasing the number of officials.

In the cities built by the players themselves, the more complete the city management categories and the managers are, the higher the city's livability will be as automatically judged by the system. As a result, at the beginning of each month, players will receive more subsidies from the sect, including but not limited to a certain amount of Taiyin essence, minerals, and timber.

It is foreseeable that as players build more cities in the future, the high livability value will attract even more people to settle down.

Of course, these city managers do not have to be "NPCs"; they can also be players.

For example, in the "Legal Affairs" section of Chang'an City, which is customized by players, the Minister of Justice is a player who works as a lawyer in real life. However, because this player is usually very busy and is only online at night and on weekends, he is currently training a native NPC apprentice so that he can add an NPC as a deputy minister to help with his work.

However, all native NPCs registered in the Sheyi City Construction System and serving as city administrators will be assigned a "system," which is a watered-down version of the game system that Fang Xianyu created for the players.

This stripped-down version of the system is also known as the "administrator system." For players, it's an extra section in the game system; for native NPCs, it's a small metal "magic weapon" that can be used without spiritual power.

Compared to the players' system panels, the administrator system doesn't have any quantifiable personal information panels. It only contains basic information such as name and position, as well as a system that can access all players and those registered in the city's household registration database. This system allows NPCs to quickly record players' "illegal activities" or "good behavior," and then transmits this information to the appropriate administrators through the interconnected database for processing. This is how the entire security system of Chang'an City is maintained.

As for "favorability," it's a small additional function in the city NPC administrator system. It allows you to freely adjust your "favorability" towards players at any time and broadcast real-time notifications to the corresponding players, thus avoiding being harassed by some players who aren't doing anything productive—the effect is significant.

While theoretically only native NPCs who become city administrators can obtain magical artifacts with administrator systems, but...

What kind of players are they if they don't exploit bugs?

After numerous experiments, Wang Ergou discovered that he could exchange community contribution points for corresponding "administrator slots." As the community leader and city lord, he could set the administrator system permissions himself. Therefore, he created a "Chang'an City Honorary Citizen" module in the city management category, and turned off the functions with higher permissions, leaving only the favorability system and the function of viewing the player's basic information panel. He distributed these as "incentives" and "rewards" to the native NPCs who made outstanding contributions to Chang'an City, so as to better motivate them.

Therefore, the threat of "deducting favorability" became popular among the native NPCs who had settled in Chang'an City...

(End of this chapter)