God's imitator

Chapter 131 The Core Personnel of the Game

Wang Yongxin asked, "Officer Cao, do you mean that the stronger the person, the easier it is to poach them, so we should just recruit the weaker ones?"

Cao Haichuan shook his head: "That's not entirely what I meant."

"From the perspective of cracking games, the more smart people the better."

"However, there are also issues of power among intelligent people."

"In the same game, two smart people each have what they think is a better solution. Perhaps both solutions are acceptable, but they cannot reach an agreement and instead hinder each other."

"At this point, one of the smart people with less influence is very likely to be poached by other communities. Even if the players in other communities are not as strong, as long as this smart person can gain more influence after going there, he will have the motivation to do so."

"Therefore, I believe that the 'structure of personnel composition' is more important."

"For example, Wang Yongxin, you and Attorney Lin are both smart people in our community. If you enter the same game and come up with the same strategy, or a complementary strategy, it will naturally be a win-win situation."

"But your ideas are different, and your knowledge structures are also different. If you come up with two different solutions to the same game, but can only implement one, who do you think should give in?"

Wang Yongxin fell silent.

Clearly, he is not willing to back down.

However, he also had to admit that Lin Sizhi's ideas were often more comprehensive and complete.

Even if he verbally agrees to let Lin Sizhi make the final decision, he might still insist on his own opinion under certain special circumstances, leading to conflicts between them.

Zheng Jie weakly added, "I understand. It's like a team with five players. Even though they are all star players, there can only be one person to lead. Otherwise, if there is a problem with the distribution of power, even a super team can capsize in a ditch."

Cao Haichuan nodded: "That's right. If it's a game with multiple participants in the community, it's enough to have one absolute core player making the decisions."

"The remaining people do not need to make decisions. Ideally, they should have different knowledge structures to complement each other, different divisions of labor, and sufficient loyalty and execution ability."

Jiang He asked, "So, how many core components do we specifically need?"

Cao Haichuan seemed to have thought about this issue long ago: "Judging from the current situation of the game, multiplayer games may have 4 to 6 participants, with 4 being more likely."

“Games like ‘Blood Poker’ that involve all players will be split into three groups of four people each.”

"From this perspective, we only need 3 puzzle-solving cores in the game for our 12 people."

"If there are more, we have to consider the distribution of power among different core members. We must be able to make sure that one person will obey another before we can put them in the same game."

Although Cao Haichuan did not reveal who the three key figures in solving the mystery were, most people had a pretty good idea.

Lin Sizhi and Wang Yongxin definitely count as two.

As for the third person, it could be Cao Haichuan, Cai Zhiyuan, or Li Renshu.

Of course, judging from their current performance in the game, none of these three have achieved the same outstanding results as Lin Sizhi.

However, their performance in the post-game analysis can also prove their ability from another perspective.

The last game Cao Haichuan and Cai Zhiyuan entered was "King's Judgment," but this game is quite special, and due to the limitations of its mechanics, it is difficult to have much room for maneuver.

Of course, most people in the community still prefer Cao Haichuan as the third core player in the game.

In this scenario, if a fourth core member is to be included in the game, someone must be willing to relinquish decision-making power within the game and become a mere tool.

Judging from the current situation, none of the three people in the community seem to be willing to give up decision-making power. So, if a new core member is added, would he be willing to give up decision-making power and completely follow the decisions of the three people in the community? It's hard to say. Smart people are very opinionated.

However, if the problem cannot be solved after recruiting them, and the game has been updated with a defection mechanism, it could very likely lead to serious problems.

Wang Yongxin considered for a moment: "But the idea of ​​'three core elements' is mainly based on the number of participants in previous games."

"If some games with three players appear in the future, then four cores will be just enough."

Cai Zhiyuan cautioned, "I personally think the probability is not high."

"Because the newly updated rule states that at least three players must agree to poach or kick someone."

"This means that future multiplayer games will most likely involve 4 players."

"Of course, we cannot completely rule out the possibility of three people participating, but in that case, this substitution rule would not apply at all."

"It's normal for the rules to impose such restrictions, because 3 kicks to 1 is the baseline. If it were 2 kicks to 1, or even 1 kick to 1, it would be complete chaos."

Wang Yongxin sighed silently: "Okay, what you said makes sense."

"But I still prefer to recruit a smart person who has the ability to independently lead a team to crack the game."

"The issue of the right to speak can be discussed further."

"Whether he will be poached because of his influence is still unknown. What if he isn't poached? What if there's no issue of influence? I think this risk is worth taking."

Lee In-sook nodded: "Okay, I think the discussion has been quite thorough."

"The gender has been determined to be female."

"Age is determined by voting, whether young or old. Of course, we could also consider submitting a specific age, such as 30, but that might significantly narrow the selection or interfere with other selection criteria."

"Regarding occupations, based on our previous discussions, there are three options: cook, nurse, and special forces soldier. I personally would like to add two more options: farmer or worker. These two options can better filter out people from the real underprivileged and optimize our current personnel structure."

"Any other suggestions?"

Jiang He thought for a moment and said, "Or, how about an actuary?"
"When you reviewed the game before, Yang Hui from Community 8 left a deep impression on me."

"Moreover, the occupational composition of our community is too heavily dominated by liberal arts, which may lead to shortcomings when it comes to STEM fields."

"Most actuaries are probably quite intelligent, right? And they can also play a good supporting role in games. Like Tian Fan and Yang Hui before, although both of them were very intelligent, there was no issue of power distribution."

This suggestion caught the attention of many.

Lee In-sook nodded: "Yes, I've considered this issue before, so actuaries are also an option."

"Let's do a preliminary screening by raising hands and voting first."

"I will name a specific profession, and those who agree should raise their hands. You can raise your hand multiple times, but you must be careful, because once the result is chosen, it cannot be changed."

Lee In-sook read out each of the candidate professions and then announced the vote count.

"Cook 4 votes, nurse 5 votes, special forces soldier 4 votes, farmer 2 votes, worker 3 votes, actuary 9 votes..."

"It seems we don't need a second vote. We can confirm that it's a female actuary."

(End of this chapter)