Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 388 Dog Planner

Not long after Wang Ergou's "insider information" was spread, a golden announcement popped up in the game—

[Official Announcement for the Open Beta of "Ten Continents Chronicles"]: [Thank you very much for your support and love for the game "Ten Continents Chronicles". We will be holding the "Taiyin Military Exercise" welfare event tomorrow (November 24th) at 10:00 AM Central Continent Time (2:00 PM Imperial Capital Time)! This event has no level restrictions, no cultivation level or sect inheritance requirements, and all players can participate! Based on the contribution to the event, all players can obtain the brand-new special effects appearance "Chosen Nine Songs" for free, and have a chance to draw the limited-edition special effects golden hair "Heroic Spirit"! We encourage all players to actively participate in this welfare event! Win generous prizes... (The rewards in this event are subject to the actual content obtained, and the final interpretation right belongs to "Ten Continents Chronicles".)]

"Wow! This kind of event sounds so familiar!? Master Guo, did you switch jobs and join 'Ten Continents Chronicle'!?"

"To be honest, I think the benefits are better than those of that crappy little game next door!"

"Don't lie! It's clearly not as good as the benefits next door! If you don't believe me, ask the game planner to give us a little more (handsome guy reaches out)!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the world channel immediately began to copy them in perfect harmony.

However, soon fragmented information was inserted into the comments of these copycats, with nonsensical remarks constantly appearing—

"Huh!? This event actually has a mission!"

Wow! What a generous gesture! They even give out contribution points! It smells so good!

"They gave us contribution points but not experience points? Is this all they're going to do to us? I'm so angry! (shaking bowl)!"

"Be bold! I want them to send school uniforms directly!"

"Be bolder! Why can't everyone have a magic weapon?!"

……

The entire "military exercise" design, which was called a "public beta benefit event," was actually planned overnight by a team of temporary workers from a certain game company that was poached by the China project team.

Besides copying some content that was still being tested and planned to be used on New Year's Day, everyone also had panda eyes and wrote a bunch of event copy.

The game content itself was easy to handle; we simply submitted the design to Fang Xianyu, saving the programmers from going bald. However, coordinating with the project team was not so straightforward.

Even though the entire game operation and planning team that was poached was quite famous in the industry, they had never met these big shots in person, whom they could only see in the news in China. They were all trembling with fear, racking their brains to complete the strange requirements given by these big shots.

For example, how to arrange players to walk in a square formation in the form of fun activities, how to keep players from running around, and more importantly, how to prevent them from doing embarrassing things such as picking their noses, scratching their butts, or stealing strange things in such a serious occasion!

After finally finishing communicating with the big shots and returning to their own studio, K couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "Sigh, if this were our little game, we could just design it as a hard-control storyline! Why go through all this trouble!" Yu also sighed, "That seems possible, but the main problem is that hard-control for too long isn't suitable. Who can stand being AFK for that long? Have you forgotten how many players cursed the super-long storylines of the Candle Dragon Palace and the Dihua Temple? Those were only a few minutes! This time, the General Staff requires at least a two-hour march!"

Another person in charge of copywriting suddenly suggested: "If all else fails, we can split the players into two groups, that is, divide the whole process into two halves, let one group play the first half and the other group play the second half, that should prevent it from being too boring!"

"Wow... an hour is a long time!"

"It's better than two hours! Besides, you forgot about our side, they can fight for hours on end! They can even fight for days over a single goose!"

"That's different. PVP gameplay is more free in the wild. At least you can always move around, and there's a strong, immediate feedback when you fight. But this is just pure boredom. It's like marching in formation! Have you forgotten how much the students complained during university military training?"

"Let's split it into four groups, each lasting half an hour. That would be better!"

"We probably won't be able to gather enough people. How many people do we have now? Will we be able to gather that many people by then?"

"We'll set a limit on the number of participants, and then use a queuing system to extend the quota. This will create the illusion that the spots are very limited and require a scramble. In this way, some people who receive the reward may not really want to participate, but because they managed to get a spot, they will still participate!"

"Hiss...that makes a lot of sense!"

How many slots are planned?

"Ten thousand per batch!"

"I'm afraid this won't be enough to cover the shortfall."

"We can design activities to earn points. For example, perfectly completing the marching formation task can earn points to redeem our motorcycle skin (【Heavenly Chosen Nine Songs】) for free. If you want to get the gold medal, you have to perfectly complete the marching formation task three times. When explaining this to others, we can say, 'Look, we don't even require players to participate in the whole process, but we give them all the benefits.' They might even thank us! Hehe!"

As K listened, his eyes grew brighter and brighter, his smile practically impossible to suppress, though he outwardly cursed, "What a damn planner! What a damn planner!"

"This way, we can definitely achieve the General Staff's requirement of at least 10,000 people and a performance lasting more than two hours! We can also offer some small perks, such as Taiyin coins, contribution points, prestige points, and skill books, and even some furniture that is completely impossible to produce with current technology! Didn't Sect Leader Fang say she could provide all of these? We can also exchange them with points, so we can extend the time! For example, we can design a total of three hours and six tasks! We need the appearance, right? We can't skimp on the furniture, right? The more prestige points and contribution points, the better, right? There will definitely be many hardcore players who will participate in all six tasks! And tomorrow is the weekend! Even the anti-addiction restrictions for minors have been extended to three hours! It's practically tailor-made for this event!"

"That's outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!" K muttered to himself for a moment, then made a serious decision: "Let's do it!"

The entire plan took several hours to prepare, and the parts that required Fang Xianyu's help were quickly delivered to her "desk" in the game, leaving her speechless—professional game planners are just different, much more so than her!
Look, a "TV" that can only play game trailers, a low-end mobility gadget that looks like a modern sports car, and a single-function "phone" that replicates the chat bar onto a handheld screen are all considered rewards!
These things are not products of true modern technology at all; they only have a similar appearance, and their functions are worlds apart. Even if Fang Xianyu could create tens of thousands of them, it wouldn't consume many energy points. If the raw materials were metals and wood from the Guixu Realm, the cost would be even lower and negligible!
After reviewing the list of all the items she was required to create as rewards, even she, the true "dog planner" of *Ten Continents Chronicles*, couldn't help but sigh—

"It's so dark! It's incredibly dark!"