LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 461 Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Initiated!

Fortunately, this possibility simply doesn't exist.

During the period when Lin Ruo resumed broadcasting, the Zhanqi platform operated smoothly without any lag or even black screen pop-up.

From 19 p.m. to around midnight, a period of nearly 5 hours, Zhanqi's revenue surged, generating almost the equivalent of a normal month's revenue.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night. The official team of the strategy game can't sleep, and neither can the official teams of Huya and Douyu.

Unlike Lin Ruo, who is sure she can sleep.

The next morning, Lin Ruo sat in front of the computer, already thinking about which game to play.

Although there's a competition the day after tomorrow, I still need to find something to do today and tomorrow, right?

After all, he only has practice matches in the afternoon, so he doesn't have to play ranked games. In the morning and evening, he basically has very free time.

The viewers in the live stream had a lot of opinions about what games to play, basically saying that games that had already been played couldn't be played for a long time.

Lin Ruo also noticed that the audience nowadays is quite picky, especially the group of viewers in his live stream. They are always clamoring to play new games to find something new, and they are treating him like a pathfinder.

Last night, besides playing a game of League of Legends, Lin Ruo also played a few games of Overwatch and PUBG. However, for these games that have been streamed for a long time, many of his viewers were clearly no longer interested.

They all wanted to see new games, and it's unclear whether they wanted to see if their talent was applicable to any game, or if they genuinely couldn't find any fun games and wanted them to be their recommenders.

Lin Ruo didn't know that; he only knew that developing a new game was indeed very necessary.

Of course, Lin Ruo herself also had the idea of ​​playing all the games in the world. First of all, she really liked playing them, and then she had the talent to play them even more.

Yes, the latter part is more important than the former.

Back in the days before cheating, Lin Ruo would definitely never have played Dota 2, let alone StarCraft.

Even if I want to play, you still have to consider whether my hand speed can keep up.

In that situation, Lin Ruo would probably only yearn for games where you could become stronger by spending money.

Never mind, I'll go get some breakfast first.

Having little desire to explore, Lin Ruo chose to leave it to the sidelines and first implement Plan B: filling her stomach.

Half an hour later, when Lin Ruo returned to the training room from the cafeteria, almost everyone in the room was there, each busy turning on their computers.

After glancing at the time subconsciously and confirming that it wasn't even 10 o'clock yet, Lin Ruo cautiously asked, "Kai, what's going on?"

How could these hardcore gamers who stay up all night playing ranked matches possibly get up so early? He began to wonder if he might be like the characters in the "Rules of Legends," not actually back in the real EDG club.

Mingkai, who rarely stays up late now that he's a coach, picked his nose and said, "We went to bed early last night, before 1 a.m., not much later than you."

Normally I would stay up until 2 or 3 a.m., but things are different now.

It's not so much about correcting bad habits, but mainly because the regular Korean server ranking climb plan for each season has been put on hold. Abu plans to take a month off before starting again.

The reason is simple: since last year's Spring Split, EDG has had too many matches, resulting in the longest break this year being only 20 days during the Spring Festival.

Needless to say, even though they didn't participate in the Demacia Cup after returning, they still didn't have a two-week buffer period because they had to prepare for the Summer Split in advance.

Since there's no longer a requirement to reach a certain score, and you only need to complete a fixed number of ranking matches each day, the actual number of ranking matches has decreased accordingly, naturally reducing the need to stay up late.

Lin Ruo, who was listening, couldn't believe that Abu was actually so humane.

If Ai Luoli were here, she would be overjoyed.

After all, in the Lolita League ranked matches, nine out of ten teams lose. Forget about ranking up; it's already good enough if you can just keep your rank from dropping every day.

Whether it's possible to achieve the specific goal of climbing the ranks in the early part of the season is unknown, but playing ranked games from morning to night every day, in addition to scrims, is a must.

Unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time. By the time Abu realized what was happening, Ai Luoli was already a man at another club.

Lin Ruo, who had just sat down, held his head and rocked the chair, looking around. Haro and GimGoon had already started playing ranked games, while Mingkai was studying IG's match recordings again.

As for Tianye and Scout, they were chatting and laughing with the netizens in the live chat.

That's how most fans are.

Turning to look at her own chat, she saw the familiar game recommendation section, filled with all sorts of weird and wonderful games. Among them, "Where's My Water?" was the most normal game in Lin Ruo's opinion.

I've at least heard of it.

As for the others, Lin Ruo didn't know that these weren't serious games. It seems that the people at Lezi were really going to great lengths to get him to play all sorts of bizarre games.

For example, things like dating simulators, bishoujo carnivals...

Putting aside whether it's proper or not, this name doesn't seem suitable for playing in a live stream.

"Top lane 1v1, the guy's ultimate is coming, what are you doing here, jungler? Where's our jungler? Are you in the jungle having a postpartum confinement period?"

Lin Ruo, who was immersed in the barrage of comments, snapped back to reality when the familiar sound of keyboard slamming came from the side. He instinctively turned his face away to avoid being hit on the face by the keyboard beads and disfigured.

"This game... I feel like I haven't played it in ages."

While casually glancing at the inconspicuous lower left corner of the computer screen, Lin Ruo couldn't help but choose to open this six-character game.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition...

A game that combines sandbox strategy and card collection.

He remembered that the last time he logged into the game was during the Spring Split last year, or more precisely, during the nearly one-month holiday period of the Lunar New Year.

Scout, who is homeless, plays Chinese-style fantasy online games every day, and he spends all his time figuring out how to develop and fight in this management game.

I gave up after playing for a month.

There was no other reason than that the alliance had already completed its integration at lightning speed and was ready for the new season, leaving only the boring task of logging in to draw cards.

Opening the game's main page proved that Lin Ruo's guess was correct.

Unfortunately, a year has passed, and not only have my game records been wiped out, but my account has also been deleted.

At this point, the system has automatically marked a new section for him, and once inside, everything has to start from scratch.

The orange cards I got from the previous 648 yuan top-ups will not give me anything.

Lin Ruo paused for a moment, showing some interest, but did not click on the system as required.

He's not stupid; the servers assigned by the system are random, and it's very likely that one has been open for ten days to half a month.

Others have been playing in this area for ten days or half a month longer than you, and their lead is immense. If you only join at this point, you'll probably only be able to play single-player farming games.

If that's the case, then why not just play Minecraft?

It's a single-player game, it's about farming, and you can conquer and expand anywhere.

Clicking on the existing servers, Lin Ruo fumbled to start the game on the newly opened server, which had been open for less than a minute.

The Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition server opens new servers almost every morning and afternoon, and he happened to be on the new server 3135 at 10 am.

Upon entering the new area, the first thing to do is create your own character, before which you will need to have a conversation with an NPC.

The game, set against the backdrop of the Three Kingdoms period, discusses strategies for building a grand empire. After answering several related questions, the system will identify you as one of four rulers: a wise ruler, an enlightened ruler, a virtuous ruler, or a hegemon. Is there a difference? Of course, there is, but not a significant one. The only difference is the newbie gift pack, and overall, there's no clear advantage or disadvantage.

After answering a bunch of random questions, Lin Ruo easily obtained the title of Wise Ruler and received 50000 copper coins.

Then came the naming, and that was it—EDG Zhao Dashu (EDG Recruit Big Tree).

Next, you will enter the vast Three Kingdoms map. Before that, you will need to make a choice, namely, decide on your birth state.

Which state will players begin their quest for supremacy in?

In this respect, Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition divides the game map into nine maps, which are divided into two categories: the starting state and the resource state.

The starting states include Hebei, Xiliang, Bashu, Jingchu, Shandong, and Jiangdong. The resource states are Jianghan, Guanzhong, and the most special Sili. Players who have just entered the game can only choose to start their dominance in their starting state.

The resource state will initially be unclaimed territory.

Just by listening to the literal meaning, you can tell that the biggest difference between a birth state and a resource state is obvious, which is the difference in resources and products.

In the context of the Three Kingdoms period, the resource-rich region most likely refers to the northern part of the country ruled by Cao Wei, which was rich in resources and had a large population.

The birthplace was one of the surrounding separatist regions, primarily those of Shu Han and Eastern Wu.

This includes figures like Ma Chao of Xiliang and Yuan Shao of Hebei.

Therefore, the main purpose of playing this game is naturally for players to form alliances and help each other, and to fight their way from the barren starting state to the rich resource state.

Because there are six birth states, six allied forces from different directions will emerge from the pass and eventually wage war in the resource states to compete for land, resources, and cities, thereby establishing their own hegemony.

The conditions for establishing hegemony are also very simple: conquer the capital city of Luoyang within the Sili region to ascend to the top of the world, and at the same time take a certain number of prefectures.

These capitals were located within each of the birth states, such as Chengdu in Sichuan and Jianye in Jiangdong.

And Xiangyang in the Jianghan Plain of the resource prefecture, and Chang'an in Guanzhong, which was famous throughout the world.

As long as an ally can capture three of the state capitals plus the capital Luoyang, they can achieve hegemony.

Other allies either only managed to occupy a state and barely become warlords, or they couldn't get any state and became warlords.

This is the entire format for the season. Rewards will be distributed based on this format, and then players in that region will enter the new season.

As for how to do this, there's only one way: fight.

The alliance leads the players to fight against another alliance.

To fight, you first need to draw cards. Only by drawing powerful generals from the Three Kingdoms from the card pool, combining them with various skills and equipment, and forming combat power can you gain an advantage for your alliance in the war.

Lin Ruo didn't play much, but she basically knew how to play.

They chose Sun Shiwan's Jiangdong region as their settlement point, and immediately possessed a very small city upon landing.

The city is surrounded by mountains and water, and has various square land resources. You can tell what type of resource it is just by clicking on it.

Grain, timber, iron ore, copper ore, and stone ore, etc.

What are their functions? As the name suggests, for example, food is the foundation for replenishing the hero's army, while other things like iron ore are used to build structures, and copper ore can be used to obtain copper coins as a trading unit to recruit heroes.

Upon entering his own city, Lin Ruo discovered that there were various city buildings that he needed to construct and upgrade.

The prerequisite for construction is land. Only land can provide resources. To obtain land, you need to use heroes and generals drawn from the card pool to lead a certain number of troops to conquer the land.

At the start, there will be a short tutorial. Lin Ruo will follow the system's instructions to appoint the free general and have him lead a certain number of troops to acquire land.

Using one's own city as a link, one can expand to the surrounding areas, conquer related lands, and thus increase the production of related resources within the city.

After completing the tutorial, Lin Ruo took a sip of water and immediately checked the number of heroes she currently owned.

Very few.

There are only three military generals: Guan Ping, Cao Xiu, and Sun Qian.

Furthermore, these three generals are only subordinate generals, which means they are quite incompetent, because there are good generals and orange-tier generals above them.

Good generals can be recruited using the copper coins they acquire.

Orange generals are different. Almost all the prominent figures in the Three Kingdoms are in this category, such as Cao Cao and Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, who are at the highest level.

Want it? Well, sorry, you'll have to pay for it.

You can spend a certain amount of money to recharge the virtual currency Jade Walls and exchange them for Gold Pearls. Then, you can use the Gold Pearls to randomly recruit generals from the card pool.

However, the card pool doesn't just contain orange-tier generals; it also includes good and subordinate generals, so what you recruit depends somewhat on luck.

Looking at the newbie benefits on the game interface, such as receiving a certain number of Jade Coins as a bonus for recharging 648 yuan.

Lin Ruo smiled and let it go, saying that it was just something to look at, and there was no way she would spend money on it.

This game isn't entirely free-to-play; after all, you get two free draws every day, plus two half-price draws.

Not everyone is a top player; correspondingly, most players in Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition tend to be monthly pass players.

What is a monthly subscription? It's like a video streaming membership; you just need to pay a few dozen yuan each month.

Once you recharge, you become a VIP, and the game's official team will give you a certain number of gold coins every day to use for card draws to enhance your combat power.

So even if you want to play for free, you still need to buy a basic monthly card, otherwise you'll probably get beaten up every time you go out in this game.

No, no, let's not even talk about fighting. Just using generals to conquer land and expand resources can be quite troublesome.

Although as a beginner, the official team will set up various easy-to-achieve tasks, thus giving players a lot of gold ingots in the early stages of the game.

However, if you want to have a continuous gaming experience, it's essential to subscribe to a monthly pass to keep up with most other players.

[What kind of game is this that can actually force Lin Gou to spend money?]

Don't ask, the answer is simply "The Land Under Heaven".

[Don't worry, guys. I've played this game. Lin Gou only buys a monthly pass, and he'll definitely get killed by the pros.]

So, in this game, I'll see Lin Gengxin getting abused, right?

[Nonsense, this game has only one principle: whoever spends more money is the boss. If someone else spends money at the start and gets Liu Bei, and you get Liu Shan, who wins? It's obvious who wins.]

[Holy crap, Lin Gou, don't spend any money! I just want to see you get beaten up.]

Upon hearing that Lin Ruo was going to be tortured, the viewers in the live stream instantly became excited.

"Hmph, why would I spend money? I just want to use a limited number of generals to create a high-tech lineup and show you what the joy of being a monthly card player is."

Lin Ruo smiled calmly and said, "I'll say the same thing again: there's no way I'm going to spend money."

unless…

Well, if the official organization were to give him money to recharge, then things might get complicated.

So who is this official? It's so hard to guess.

(End of this chapter)