God's imitator

Chapter 275 Personality and Strategy

Zheng Jie thought for a moment: "In that case, both the risk and the reward are increased, right?"

"If the hidden player reveals our community's crimes in round 6, we win immediately and everyone survives; but if the hidden player reveals our crimes much later, there will be a greater risk."

After careful consideration, Wang Yongxin said, "But relatively speaking, I think there is a greater chance that the hidden player will reveal Officer Cao's crimes in the 6th round."

"In fact, if the hidden players could give full consideration and comprehensively analyze all possible scenarios, they would realize that revealing our community's crimes later would make things more difficult for us."

"But the problem remains: Attorney Lin's strategy is actually using a short window of opportunity to drastically reduce the thinking time of the hidden players, so they are more likely to make subconscious reactions."

Let's do a quick recap from the perspective of the hidden player:
"First of all, judging from the selection rules of the arcade, generally speaking, the less intelligent and more extreme the community is, the more likely it is to obtain a hidden identity."

"Judging from the actual performance of the 11th community, they did not show much wisdom. They relied on their advantageous status to squeeze out gold coins and did not leave any contingency plans for the possibility of 'insider players fighting to the death'."

"Therefore, these hidden players are unlikely to be able to consider all aspects of a problem."

"After entering the second phase, they must have known immediately that they could decide the order in which these crime files were released."

"Then they will naturally come to a preliminary conclusion: whichever inner circle they want to target, they should prioritize publishing the files of that inner circle."

"In the preparation phase before the start of the second phase, Chen Peng's file was released, the vote was completed, and Attorney Lin spent another 30 gold coins to expose the truth."

"At this point, the hidden players will realize that they are doomed when the game ends."

"At this point, they must decide in a very short time whose file to release in the sixth round of the game."

"Because the thinking time is very short, and they are already in a state of despair and chaos, two lines of thought are more likely to dominate their minds:"
"First, they harbor immense hatred for our community and, under the pretext of 'publishing the files of whichever community is being targeted,' directly expose the crimes committed by our community."

"Secondly, they want to drag all the players inside down with them, and they want to implicate the players with the most crimes. At this point, we should just announce our crimes directly."

"Because their thinking time is very limited, the probability of them making this decision is still quite high."

After careful consideration, Li Renshu said, "But in this way, it would be equivalent to killing all the hidden players indiscriminately at the very beginning of the second phase, without giving them any chance."

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, I admit that this may be a bit cruel, but the order in which the first phase of the plots were opened can actually reveal the attitude of these hidden players."

"In particular, the fact that the 12th community was pre-selected as the privileged community in the fifth round of the game has directly determined the subsequent direction of the game."

"So, they can't really be considered innocent."

Everyone fell into silence.

This is a solution, but the conditions for its implementation are indeed very stringent.

Not only must you be aware of the traps in the sinner files during the preview, but you must also be aware of the presence of hidden players and seize the brief window of opportunity to make a decision to kill them before the start of the 6th round of the game.

Moreover, there is a certain possibility that unexpected events may occur in this plan, which requires a strong ability to adapt to the situation and clean up the mess.

Otherwise, if things go wrong, it could lead to very serious consequences.

Yang Yuting was somewhat shocked: "This is indeed a solution."

"But wouldn't this fall into the trap of copycats who 'attack the mind'?"

"Killing all the hidden players at the drop of a hat and then using their deaths to coerce all the players inside the arena—wouldn't that damage the mutual trust between different communities?"

Lin Sizhi shook her head: "Actually, it's alright."

"Because this method benefits more than just our community."

"The 'viewers' also benefit. First, once other communities realize there's no chance of getting away with it, their behavior of inflating prices and draining viewers' coins will be limited to some extent."

"The logic of people's actions is completely different when there is a chance to escape death and when there is no chance to escape death."

"Secondly, the number of plots of land inside the venue is far greater than the number of players and spectators inside the venue."

"There are a total of 81 plots of land, but only 30 spectators. One shelter for each person is enough."

"The reason why prices are being inflated is that insiders have joined forces to restrict supply and artificially create scarcity."

"We can disrupt the behavior of other communities by releasing a small number of low-cost shelters in each round."

"Whether they hate us or not doesn't matter, since they'll most likely vote for us in the end anyway."

"Furthermore, the hidden players' coins and the coins from bidding for the land will be divided equally, and the audience and players in the inner field will receive some compensation before leaving the venue."

“I believe that, from the perspective of ‘getting to the heart’, ‘community collaboration across positions’ is better than ‘community collaboration within the same position’.”

Wei Yinzhang nodded: "Yes, that's true."

The so-called "community cooperation with the same stance" is similar to the cooperation between Community 12 and Community 15. Both are "insiders" with common interests, so they cooperate to squeeze the audience's coins dry.

This is also a form of cooperation, but such cooperation still cannot escape the wrath of copycats.

This cooperation is based on the game mechanics, which give them shared interests, and that's why they formed the partnership.

And if the game mechanics no longer support their cooperation, they definitely won't cooperate again.

Only through "cross-perspective cooperation" can we escape the malicious attacks of copycat offenders and maintain cooperation across communities.

For example, the collaboration between "in-field players" and "audience".

The interests of the players in the inner circle are at odds with those of the audience, but if the community acting as the inner circle players chooses to protect the interests of the audience, then this goes beyond the limitations of the game mechanics.

Next time, even if the game mechanics don't support it, the two communities may still force a cooperation and find an optimal solution that they can both accept.

This means that copycats' attempts to use mechanics to induce players to cooperate or harm each other have failed.

Zheng Jie felt very regretful: "Alas, it's a pity we were too stupid to think of this method."

Yang Yuting was also somewhat disappointed: "I wonder if Officer Cao had thought of this method."

After a moment of silence, Cai Zhiyuan said, "I think even if Officer Cao considered this possibility, he probably wouldn't actually consider using it."

"People are different after all."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Clearly, whether a strategy can be executed depends not only on whether the player can come up with the strategy in a short time, but also on the player's personality and behavioral habits.

Most of the time, Cao Haichuan prefers to strike back and use checks and balances to solve problems, rather than taking the initiative with huge risks. He rarely uses bluffing or similar tactics.

Moreover, as a police officer, it would be difficult for him to make a decision right away and kill the hidden player indiscriminately.

Even though these hidden players had already shown some tendencies during the first phase of the land auction.

(End of this chapter)