God's imitator

Chapter 271 Profit
The next second, everyone was back in the game lobby of Community 17.

The other players were waiting anxiously, and when they saw everyone returning, they quickly gathered around.

The game's earnings were also displayed on the big screen.

[The final visa processing times for Community 17 in the 'Shelter Game' are now being announced.]

[No. 1 Fu Chen: 15827]

[No. 3, Lee In-sook: 16728]

[Cao Haichuan (No. 4): Deportation]

[Zhou Guifen, No. 8: 15722]

[Zheng Jie, No. 10: 17759]

According to community rules, 5% of a player's visa validity period exceeding 2 minutes will be contributed to the community support fund. Remaining visa validity will be counted towards each player's visa.

Li Renshu placed the broken bracelet on the long table: "This is Officer Cao's bracelet."

Everyone fell silent; in fact, they had already made some mental preparations beforehand.

When Lee In-sook decided to use the immunity ticket, a scene from the game briefly appeared on the large screen in the community.

After use, the video feed was cut off again.

No one would object to giving the pardon to Cao Haichuan.

Before entering the game, everyone already knew that it was an elimination game and could be very dangerous. Judging from the scene when the "immunity ticket" was used, the situation was also very urgent.

Being able to return safely from the game with only one death is already considered lucky.

Of course, as a core player in the game and an indispensable member of the community, Cao Haichuan's death will inevitably have an immeasurable and far-reaching impact on the 17th Community.

Everyone fell silent. The vast majority of people in the community probably had a very good impression of Cao Haichuan.

Although he may seem a bit carefree and unkempt, he always comes across as very reliable and acts as a pillar of strength in the community.

Yang Yuting asked somewhat dejectedly, "Does this game have two instant-death penalties?"

Players in the community witnessed Cao Haichuan use an invulnerability ticket to offset an instant death penalty, but he failed to return from the game, so they naturally thought of this.

Lee In-sook nodded: "Okay. Everyone, let's rest first, and we'll do a debriefing this afternoon."

……

In the afternoon, everyone sat around the long table, their mood still very heavy.

Li Renshu first displayed the detailed rules of the game on the big screen and then explained the entire process of the game.

Wei Yinzhang asked thoughtfully, "In other words, the final profit is actually the result of reshuffling everyone's visa time using gold coins."

"Because players in our community have more remaining visa time than the average player in the game, they are naturally at a disadvantage in this game."

"Even though I got a lot of gold coins by killing the hidden player, it wasn't a very good return."

As a copycat, Wei Yinzhang is more sensitive to issues of game rules and rewards.

Previously, the big screen also displayed the visa dates obtained by everyone, which were roughly the same, but all had exact dates, and none exceeded 2.

Lower than the average revenue of most games.

However, in terms of gameplay, when Community 17 left the game, each player actually took away approximately forty-odd gold coins. This is because after all the players from the three communities died, the gold coins were divided among the surviving players inside the arena and the spectators.

Community 11 is a "hidden community" that could have earned approximately 360 gold coins from the land auctions of players inside the area.

而第7社区、第9社区的玩家，也分别高价出售了3个庇护所，剩余金币大概在150枚到200枚之间。

Seven players survived inside the arena, and together with 30 spectators, they divided the gold coins among themselves.

Therefore, each person actually received an extra 19 gold coins.

The gold coins in the game are calculated based on the average visa time of all players, so 19 gold coins should be equivalent to about two-thirds of the total visa time of an average player.

The problem is that the players in Community 17 withdrew all their gold coins during the game.

For communities with a significant amount of remaining visa time, withdrawing the gold coins would be equivalent to a loss.

Therefore, although I received an extra dozen or so gold coins when I left the game, the visa duration did not change much compared to when I first entered the game. It only increased by a little over 10,000, which is still below the 20,000 income threshold for the community's minimum living allowance fund.

Xu Tong frowned, speaking out for the players: "The game rules this time are simply too much!"

"I thought the copycat would definitely be among the hidden players, but it turns out he's not?"

"With such a high mortality rate, how can copycats not even enter the game? They can reap so much visa time without paying almost nothing."

Wei Yinzhang thought about it carefully for a moment, then shook his head: "No, actually, if you calculate it carefully, the actual visa time that copycats obtain from this game is not much."

"Because most of the wealth in this game flows between the 'hidden players,' the 'insider players,' and the 'spectators.'"

"The gold coins won by the players inside the arena were all given to the hidden players;"

"The gold coins that the players inside the venue plundered from the audience by selling their shelters at high prices were either all taken back to the community by the survivors in the same community, or were divided equally between the players inside the venue and the audience."

"After a hidden player dies, their gold coins and the gold coins earned from bidding for land are also divided equally;

"Therefore, what copycats can actually earn is only the 'unprotected portion of the audience's visa time that is forcibly deducted'."

"Suppose a viewer spends 16 gold coins to buy a substandard shelter, with 10 gold coins being free. This actually consumes 30% of the visa time, but the substandard shelter can only protect 50% of the original visa time. So this 20% difference disappears out of thin air and should become the copycat's profit."

Zheng Jie briefly recalled the situation in the game: "However, it seems that less than 10 viewers bought the shelter with 16 gold coins, and at that time, the 12th and 15th communities were eager to recoup their funds."

"Most viewers spent around 23 to 26 gold coins."

Wei Yinzhang nodded: "Yes, if you buy a substandard shelter for more than 20 gold coins, the copycat criminals actually don't make any profit."

"Because all the gold coins were transferred to the players inside the arena and were taken away."

Xu Tong was puzzled: "So, the copycat who designed this game didn't actually earn much visa time from it? That's why the arcade allowed him not to enter the game."

"Considering the design of the gold coins, could it be that the copycats of this game, like the author, also have the idea of ​​'equalizing wealth'?"

Lee In-sook shook her head: "No, of course not."

"Although at first glance, the 'Shelter Game' and the 'Folk Game' both have the design of 'equally distributing visa time', giving players with less visa time a certain advantage, in reality, they have the opposite effect."

“The design of gold coins in ‘Shelter Game’ is actually intended to encourage communities with limited visa time to use gold coins without restraint, accelerate the gold coin cycle, and make the three parties in the game, ‘spectators,’ ‘inside players,’ and ‘hidden players,’ enter a mutually destructive involution mode more quickly.”

She looked at Wang Yongxin: "Brother Wang, what are your thoughts on this game?"

(End of this chapter)