God's imitator

Chapter 261 Transaction Price
Jin Cheng frowned: "Don't try to fool me with this kind of talk. There are two problems:"
"First, whatever you suggest we do, this behavior could trigger collective punishment. We are no longer protected by the shelter. We can still tell which is more important, life or money."

"Secondly, even if we sell the shelter to the audience, how much visa time can we earn? We only have 5 plots of land that we just acquired, and we can only earn 5 gold coins per plot. That's just over 20 gold coins, which is not worth the risk at all."

Feng Bo shook his head: "No, both of your points are completely wrong."

"You only need to do one thing: sell the inferior shelters for more than 15 gold coins. You don't have the pressure to quickly recoup your funds, so I think you can even list them for 18 or 20 gold coins directly, and they'll sell eventually if you wait a while."

"This behavior is now absolutely safe, because crimes that have already been tried will not be tried a second time."

"You acquired these five plots of land at zero cost. After building them into substandard shelters, each one will only cost 2 gold coins. If you sell them for 18 gold coins, you'll make a net profit of 80 gold coins from the five shelters."

"This is roughly equivalent to the total visa time for all three players."

"Still not enough?"

Upon hearing the specific numbers, all three players from Community 7 were visibly excited.

These gold coins are said to be "calculated based on the average value", so 30 gold coins would roughly cover the entire visa time for an average player.

This is definitely not a small amount for Community 7, where visa processing time is already limited.

Jin Cheng frowned slightly: "If all we're doing is selling substandard shelters, what kind of cooperation is this? Why did you bother coming all this way to remind us?"

Feng Bo explained, “This is what cooperation is all about. We don’t want any community to sell their shelters at a lower price, because that would harm our interests.”

"Because there are only 30 viewers in total, each player will most likely only buy one shelter and then never spend money again."

"If you sell at a low price, it won't benefit you, and it won't benefit us either. It will only benefit a very small number of lucky viewers."

“These viewers enter the game without having to do anything or bear any risk of death. They have 10 free coins, and by using an additional 25% of their visa time to accumulate 15 coins to buy a normal shelter, they can take all the remaining visa time with them.”

"Why should I?"

"We all face the risk of death, shouldn't we earn more?"
"At least half of each audience member's visa time should be allocated to us for it to be reasonable, right?"

Jin Cheng and the other two players exchanged glances and nodded slightly.

One player asked, "But how can you be sure that a low-quality shelter can definitely sell for 18 or even 20 gold coins?"
“We have five communities, and each community has a plot of land. The 12th community has the most plots of land.”

"If they decide to sell at a low price, our high-priced shelters will definitely not sell, and we won't earn a single gold coin."

"Furthermore, what if viewers refuse to buy because the price is too high?"

Feng Bo shook his head: "Don't worry, we've already sent people to communicate with the 12th community."

"And even without communication, the 12th community will definitely not be sold off cheaply."

"As for the audience, there's even less to worry about."

"Think about it carefully. Do the audience decide whether to buy or not? Do they have a choice?"

"I won't explain any further, you can figure it out yourselves."

After finishing his sentence, Feng Bo turned and left, returning to the 15th community.

Upon hearing this, the players in Community 7 visibly softened their stance, and their eyes lit up with a newfound light.

For them at this point, the word "safety" alone was no longer enough to sway them.

Because there are no absolutely safe strategies in this game. On the contrary, the combination of "safety" and "huge rewards" is more appealing to them.

After using up their only chance to escape death, their mindset underwent some changes.

Just like a gambler who has lost most of his chips and only has a few left, his thoughts are definitely not about leaving the game to cut his losses, but about betting all the remaining chips to win back his losses.

Jin Cheng considered it carefully for a long time, then nodded: "He's right."

“Almost no community would choose to sell its shelters at a low price.”

Previously, Jin Cheng thought that there were 5 communities in the inner area, which were in competition with each other, and that some communities would sell their shelters at lower prices.

Selling shelters at a low price allows you to quickly recoup your gold coins and then bid on more blocks.

Moreover, the number of shelters needed by players inside the area is very limited, so there is no need to hoard so many.

As more and more plots of land are opened, more and more shelters will be built. Since the total number of plots exceeds the total number of players, the supply of shelters will exceed the demand, and the price will continue to decrease.

Therefore, Jin Cheng subconsciously assumed that the price of the shelter would not be too high.

But after listening to Feng Bo's words, she reconsidered and realized that this was not the logic.

The price of a shelter does not depend on its cost, because the audience has no choice at all.

They must purchase a shelter, or all their visa time will be deducted at the end of the game.

Each viewer has 30 gold coins, 10 free gold coins and 20 exchangeable gold coins. From a rational point of view, in the most extreme case, how many gold coins would they be willing to spend to buy a shelter?
The answer is 29 gold coins.

If they don't buy shelter, all of their visa time will be deducted, but by spending 29 gold coins to buy it, they can retain at least 5% of their visa time.

Of course, this is a very extreme case, and it is based on the premise of 'absolute rationality'.

In reality, the audience is certainly not absolutely rational, and the five communities inside the venue could not possibly unite to raise the price of the substandard shelter to 29 gold coins.

However, it is still very likely that the price will be raised to 20 gold coins.

20 gold coins is a very special number. For each player, 20 gold coins means paying half of their visa time.

This way, by purchasing a substandard shelter, one can retain the remaining half of their visa time.

Some communities may list relatively low prices to recoup funds, but no matter how low, the price of a substandard shelter will never be lower than 15 gold coins.

Earning less will put you at a disadvantage in future land auctions.

Just then, a new broadcast came on the big screen.

The latest listed price for the shelter is 16 gold coins.

Upon hearing this news, all the players looked at the big screen.

Jin Cheng from the 7th community made up his mind and went to the plots of land he had previously acquired, turning them all into substandard shelters.

They were still hesitating about whether to build a normal shelter or a substandard one, and how many gold coins to list it for.

Now, they are absolutely certain.

(End of this chapter)