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Chapter 193 0190 [Server Full]

Xiang Weijie's high school grades were not ideal, so he can only attend a junior college now.

He was still playing video games the day before the college entrance exam. Anyway, his family wasn't short of money, and nobody cared about him.

His parents initially sold clothes at a street stall, and later started a family-run garment workshop, specializing in imitating popular styles from Hong Kong and Taiwan. As their business flourished, more than twenty households in the village followed suit.

His parents seized the opportunity to set up a company, purchasing raw materials such as fabric and buttons in bulk, and selling them to villagers for garment processing. They also bought finished garments from the villagers and wholesaled them as counterfeit brand-name products.

As the business grew, several surrounding villages joined in.

There are also those who don't work with their parents; there are three similar companies in the whole town.

His parents continued to upgrade their business, simultaneously wholesaling counterfeit brand-name goods and creating their own brand. His father was often away expanding sales channels, while his mother stayed in their hometown to manage production.

Soon after, his father had an affair. He not only had a mistress, but also an illegitimate child.

The couple had several arguments, but surprisingly maintained the status quo. His mother later started keeping a gigolo, even bringing him home occasionally and making Xiang Weijie call him "uncle"...

Xiang Weijie started boarding school in junior high and completely gave up in high school, spending his days playing video games and wasting his time.

When filling out his college application, he, whose family lived on the southeast coast, applied to a vocational college in central Sichuan. The farther away from home, the better!
"Damn it, next time I'll beat that son of a bitch to death!"

"Screw hitting it, or I'll be fired."

"Why should I be fired? He stole my girlfriend! If anyone should be fired, it should be him!"

"..."

The two roommates returned to the dorm, grumbling and cursing.

Xiang Weijie turned his head and saw that his roommates Li Jun and Pan Qiang were dressed in tattered clothes and had bruises on their faces.

"You got into a fight?" Xiang Weijie asked.

Pan Qiang said, "Li Jun's girlfriend was stolen, so a few of us went to demand an explanation and got into a fight with the other side."

Li Jun was extremely frustrated and cursed, "Slut! She uses my money, wears the clothes I buy, and still hooks up with other men behind my back. If the student affairs officers hadn't come, I would have beaten that slut to death today!"

Xiang Weijie smiled and casually comforted him, "Kill him, I support you."

He actually disliked Li Jun, and was secretly pleased at that moment.

Pan Qiang changed out of his torn clothes, sat down next to Xiang Weijie, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Xiang Weijie said, "Waiting for the game to launch."

"Playing with private servers again?" Pan Qiang asked.

Xiang Weijie said, "The game 'Reign of Power' launches tonight, and I've already downloaded it."

"Is it the one you always brag about?" Pan Qiang asked.

Xiang Weijie raised his voice and recommended the game to his roommates again: "I'm not exaggerating. The owner of this game is incredibly awesome. He used to run private servers. To make the official version, he sold his internet cafe and car. He was even planning to sell his house when he ran out of money, but he finally managed to get a big company to invest."

Li Jun said impatiently, "You've said it countless times, I can recite it by heart. My buddy invested in it, right? ByteDance!"

"You're not going to invest in what your buddy invested in?" Xiang Weijie asked.

"What's the point of playing video games? I'd rather play basketball," Li Jun said.

Li Jun doesn't go online much and never plays video games, but he still bought a second computer for the dormitory.

Because Xiang Weijie has one, Li Jun also needs to have one, otherwise he will feel embarrassed.

Li Jun glanced around the dormitory: "Where are the others?"

“Li Yuan took Zhang Peng and Du Ruifeng to get computers set up,” Xiang Weijie said. “Li Yuan’s uncle runs a computer shop where you can get a used computer set up for 3000 yuan.”

Pan Qiang asked curiously, "Where did Zhang Peng get the money? That son of a bitch still owes me tens of yuan."

Xiang Weijie laughed and said, "He hasn't paid his tuition this year."

"Using tuition fees to buy a computer?"

"Ah."

"Brilliant!"

Just then, the two roommates returned happily, each carrying a computer case.

They put the computer down, ran outside again, quickly grabbed the monitor, and continued running outside. However, one of their roommates remained downstairs, waiting.

Soon, the number of computers in the dormitory increased from two to five.

Zhang Peng also took out a router: "Let's use the campus network for now, and we'll get broadband installed another day."

The campus network requires users to top up their accounts and log in with their username and password. The cost is 3 cents per hour. However, the network is cut off at 11 p.m., which frustrates students who want to stay up late to surf the internet.

Xiang Weijie often stayed out all night. Although he had his own computer, he would go to internet cafes and play games all night.

"Hey, you guys hurry up and download the game, let's play 'The Emperor' together," Xiang Weijie urged.

"I bought the computer to play World of Warcraft."

"Zhang Peng, World of Warcraft requires game cards. But 'The Emperor's Reign' is free!"

"Really free?"

"It would be stupid to lie to you."

"Then I'll play."

"Damn it, Zhang Peng, you promised to play Warcraft with me!"

"I don't have any money. I used my tuition money to buy the computer."

"Try it first, and if it's not fun, then go play Warcraft."

"..."

After some back and forth, everyone downloaded "The Emperor's Reign".

Even Pan Qiang, who didn't have a computer, used Li Jun's computer to download games.

Seeing that everyone else was playing games and he was the only one with nothing to do, Li Jun suddenly felt isolated.

He wanted to pull Pan Qiang away from the computer, but Pan Qiang had just helped him fight that day.

"Damn, you guys haven't downloaded it yet? The game's about to launch!"

"Brother, the campus network speed is slow."

The server will open promptly at 8 PM.

"The Reign of Power" is a completely original work. The general framework comes from Chen Guiliang, and the details were supplemented by Tao Chenggang and his team.

Tao Chenggang also modified the worldview presented by Chen Guiliang.

The seven states of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin were locked in a power struggle.

When players enter the game, they need to select their country.

To avoid a significant disparity in the number of players from different countries, once a country reaches its player limit, that country can no longer be selected.

If a country has too few daily active users, its king will issue a "recruitment order" to encourage players from other countries to immigrate. Players who complete the immigration task will receive a reward.

Each country has five maps: the Royal City, the Wilderness, the Great City, the Border, and the Starting Village.

Of course, the specific names varied; for example, the capital of the Qin state was called Xianyang.

The other roommates continued downloading the game, surrounding Xiang Weijie. Li Jun, finding it boring, went to take a bath by himself.

"Choose Qin, it's the most domineering!"

"The State of Chu, I like the State of Chu the most."

"Why is there a South Korea too?"

"Damn it, even if I only went to a junior college, I still know that South Korea is part of China!"

"..."

Xiang Weijie ultimately chose the Qin state and was born in a beginner village called "Weishui Village".

"Go quickly to the NPC with the exclamation mark to accept the quest," Li Yuan, who was familiar with World of Warcraft, reminded him.

"I know."

Xiang Weijie did not take immediate action, but instead stood in the newbie village and typed: Are there any brothers from 17173?

As a result, a bunch of people in the newbie village replied instantly.

They all came from the 17173 "Reign of Power" section. Xiang Weijie chatted while accepting tasks.

The village chief of the beginner village told him that a large number of wild boars had come to the village and were ruining the crops, and hoped that he could go and get rid of those pests.

Upon opening the task interface, Xiang Weijie selected the relevant task and discovered that it had an automatic pathfinding function.

……

Shi Yuzhu is also playing "The Emperor's Reign" at this moment.

Although he didn't take the game seriously, he still decided to give it a try.

Know yourself and the enemy, a hundred battles will never end.

As he played, Shi Yuzhu frowned.

This thing is similar to the gameplay of my own game, "Conquer Online"!
They are from ten kingdoms, and the other side is from seven kingdoms.

However, this game is clearly more complete than "Zhengtu".

The upcoming closed beta test of "Zhengtu" next month is a very rough, unfinished game. It lacks an auto-pathfinding function, the game interface is unattractive, the information display is unclear, and switching between skills is inconvenient…

Furthermore, "Conquer Online" features legendary elements such as killing chickens. "Reign of Power" is less incongruous, featuring only humanoid monsters like bandits and wild beasts like boars and wolves.

In its early stages, "Conquer Online" had no dungeons; all resources had to be obtained through looting. Shi Yuzhu believed this would increase player activity and competitiveness.

Players of "The Reign of Power" can start playing small dungeons once they reach level 15.

Shi Yuzhu took a deep drag on his cigarette, walked out of the office and said, "Send three people to play 'The Reign of Power' and see what we can learn from it!"

It doesn't matter if we fall behind temporarily; Shi Yuzhu isn't worried.

Tao Chenggang's Bailian Technology was just a small company, with very limited budget for advertising and promotion. But Boss Shi had already prepared hundreds of millions of yuan to invest!
The initial research and development alone cost 2000 million yuan, and he paid each developer the highest salary in the industry. Moreover, those who came up with excellent ideas and had them adopted were directly rewarded with company stock options.

The temporary lead of "The Emperor's Reign" is nothing.

……

It was 10:30 p.m. in the school dormitory.

All five people entered the game.

The four roommates were shouting and yelling, asking Xiang Weijie to take them on quests to level up.

Xiang Weijie said, "What the hell? I'm going to the internet cafe. Damn it, they're getting broadband tomorrow; I can't play games all night on the campus network!"

When Li Jun returned from his shower and saw them having so much fun, he was eager to try it himself: "Xiang Weijie, can I use your computer and campus network account? I'll pay you back for the internet later."

"Then you can have fun." Xiang Weijie packed his things and left.

Li Jun had never played online games before, but after entering the game, it was as if he had opened the door to a new world.

He used to think his roommates playing games was stupid, just hacking and slashing at monsters. Now that he's tried it himself, he finds it incredibly fun.

"Damn, the internet's down!"

At 11 p.m., the campus network went down.

Li Jun was having a great time playing when he couldn't resist saying, "Let's go to the internet cafe."

"No need, we'll play after we get broadband installed tomorrow."

"I am leaving."

"I will go with you."

After dawdling for a while, the whole dorm went to an internet cafe.

Today is Saturday, and the dormitory building doesn't close until 11:30, so they don't have to climb the water pipes to get out.

Xiang Weijie, who was the first to arrive at the internet cafe, turned on the computer and found that there was no "The Emperor's Reign" game. He called the manager over and asked, "You don't have enough games here."

"what game?"

"The Reign of Power".

"never heard of that."

"An incredibly awesome game, the closed beta starts today."

The network administrator was busy playing World of Warcraft, so he was told to download it himself.

In the middle of the night, Xiang Weijie suddenly stood up and roared, "Damn it, that idiot captain stole my purple equipment!"

There were quite a few people playing Warcraft nearby who came over to watch, only to find out it wasn't World of Warcraft.

"Dude, what game is this? It has dungeons like World of Warcraft!"

"The Reign of Power. A free-to-play game, no game cards required."

"Compared to Warcraft, the graphics are terrible."

"Nonsense, are you even comparing? Let me tell you, the owner of this game made it because of his dream. He sold his internet cafe, car, and house. If we don't support him, he'll definitely go bankrupt."

"Really?"

"If you don't believe me, go check out the posts on 17173. It's been documented for over a year, from the company's founding to the closed beta. Even the game's name was chosen by a vote from netizens. I even came up with a name called 'Warring States Warriors,' which got over 600 votes, but unfortunately it wasn't chosen in the end. Want to play a couple of rounds?"

"I want to play World of Warcraft."

"Consider it supporting domestic games and helping the boss fulfill his dream."

"never mind."

Another player who was playing Bubble Fighter suddenly asked, "Is it really a free game?"

"real."

"Then I'll try."

……

Late at night.

Luo Xiaoping, one of the founders and technical director of Bailian Technology, said: "The peak number of concurrent users last night was nearly 2. Both servers were operating beyond capacity, and there was a lot of lag around 9 p.m. We will open another server tomorrow."

The single server for "Reign of Power" is designed to support 5000-8000 concurrent users. The actual peak capacity can reach 10000 users, but the game will experience severe lag.

A single World of Warcraft server is designed to support 2500-3000 concurrent players. However, the actual peak capacity often exceeds 4000 players.

This is because World of Warcraft uses a seamless large map, which puts a heavy burden on the servers.

Tao Chenggang was under immense pressure, but this moment brought him some relief. He smoked a cigarette and said, "The player reviews on the official website and 17173 are pretty good. Let's see how many of the first batch of players stay tomorrow."

"It's definitely going to be a hit!" Luo Xiaoping said with a smile.

Tao Chenggang said, "Pay attention to player feedback and fix any bugs immediately. Also, issue more announcements every day, and ban any accounts found using cheats!"

Tao Chenggang felt the results were pretty good; nearly 2 people were online simultaneously on the first day of the closed beta.

But the other version of "Conquer Online" was truly amazing, surpassing 1 players in just 10 minutes and 3 in 3 hours. Because only three servers were open, players who couldn't log in were furious and went to the forums to rant: "All you know is burning money on advertising, why don't you open more servers?"

The following day at noon, the third server for "The Emperor's Reign" was launched.

That evening, all three servers were completely full, finally causing players to complain about the lag. However, some players stepped in to explain, "The owner doesn't have much money and can't afford to rent servers."

Tao Chenggang frowned deeply: "How can there be so many people?"

He went to the 17173 forum to look for posts and quickly found the reason.

"Haha, I've dragged all my roommates into this mess!"

"I had the internet cafe manager install 'The Emperor' throughout the entire cafe. Today, seven netizens played with me. They used to play 'Yulgang,' but now they've switched to 'The Emperor'."

"..."

Tao Chenggang's game has a ton of die-hard fans who just talk about it!
Even before the closed beta test was launched, die-hard fans had already started promoting it.

At that time, there were only about twenty or thirty well-known online games in mainland China.

On the second day of the closed beta test of "Reign of Power", the number of concurrent online players reached 3, quickly attracting the attention of all game developers.

Because this game was so amazing, they didn't even have money for advertising, and its data exploded inexplicably.

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I recommend the new book by the author of "I Came From the Mortal World": "I Prove Immortality Through the Imperial Examination." The title tells you what it's about; those interested can check it out.

(End of this chapter)