God's imitator

Chapter 298 The Plan of Community 1

"The three factors that influence the reward for answering questions are: correctness or incorrectness, minority versus majority, and whether it is done against one's conscience."

"The value for right or wrong is 2000, the value for minority or majority is 5000, and the value for whether it is against one's conscience is 8500."

"In addition, if everyone answers in unison, although it will still be judged as a 'majority', each player who answers will earn an extra 8000."

"These numbers will double in the second phase."

"That is, the number of right and wrong options becomes 4000, the number of minority and majority options becomes 10000, the number of options against one's conscience becomes 17000, and the number of answers that everyone agrees on becomes 16000."

At this point, Gao Jialiang suddenly realized: "So the punishment for going against my conscience is so severe? No wonder I deliberately chose A for the fourth question, hoping to be among the minority, and ended up losing 15500 minutes of my visa time."

Qian Li nodded: "Yes, I deliberately chose the wrong answer to this question, mainly to test the specific value of the option that I didn't want to answer."

"Now it seems that this value must be measured."

"Because this is the only value with a fractional 500, it is only easy to measure in the first stage. Once you enter the second stage, the value doubles, the fractional 500 disappears, and many values ​​are mixed together, all being whole thousands, making it difficult to confirm."

"In addition to the above, there are some special circumstances that need to be noted:"
"Whether there are multiple options or multiple options with the same number of people, both will result in rewards or penalties."

"Options that no one chose are not considered minority options."

"The weight given to options that go against one's conscience is very high, but for professional questions, it seems that no penalty for going against one's conscience will be triggered regardless of whether the correct answer is known or not. However, subjective questions and logic questions that target individuals will trigger the penalty for going against one's conscience."

"Therefore, when faced with such a problem, you must prioritize choosing the option that does not go against your conscience, otherwise you may suffer a great loss."

The other players remained silent. They weren't particularly bright players; they were quite confused during the first phase, let alone able to collect any data.

However, this is not necessarily a bad thing, because at this point they only need to carefully memorize the numbers 4000, 10000, 17000, and 16000.

Because there are no original, incorrect memories to interfere, the memories are actually clearer.

These specific values ​​would be difficult to test yourself, but it's not difficult to memorize them directly like this.

Soon, everyone remembered almost everything.

Gao Jialiang then asked, "How can we be sure that a 'unanimous' answer will also trigger the 'majority' penalty?"

Qian Li shook her head and explained, "Lighting effects."

“I observed the status of the second light. The minority is green and the majority is red. In a 5-person room, there won’t be any situation other than the minority and majority, but if there are more people, it is possible. If the middle answer is chosen, it should be gray.”

"When all five players in our room reach a consensus, this light turns red, which means that the majority penalty has been triggered as usual."

Gao Jialiang nodded in realization: "I see."

Qian Li continued, "Judging from the current situation, the second stage should be a game of 'opening rooms' and 'breaking up rooms'."

"According to the game rules, the player who enters the room later will be the one to set the questions."

"When the total profit of the respondent is greater than 5500, that is, when the loss of the question setter is greater than 5500, the respondent can vote to force the question setter to 'repeat the winning streak'."

"Conversely, if the question setter's profit is greater than 5500, they can also choose to continue to 'win consecutively'."

"The former is all the answerers harvesting the question setter together, while the latter is the question setter harvesting the unlucky ones among the answerers."

"Suppose that our people enter a room and deliberately leave an empty seat for some unlucky guy from another community to enter."

"Afterwards, through some means, we ensure that everyone consistently chooses the same answer, or at least guarantees that the total reward is greater than 5500. Then, until the end of the game, we can continue to harvest this unfortunate guy's visa time. "Even after we've exhausted his visa time, we can still continue to harvest other players in his community."

"In that case, one can obtain extremely substantial profits very safely."

Gao Jialiang nodded: "Yes, I also think this is the most correct way to play in the second phase."

"In terms of the number of people in the room, the space is just right, so as long as we leave one empty seat and our own community members don't enter, then players from other communities who are further back in the room must enter."

"Players ranked lower are destined to be exploited."

"But the key problem is that we don't have the top three number cards, so we can't be homeowners."

"Moreover, we haven't signed any contracts with other communities. If we rely solely on ourselves, five people simply can't fill an eight-person or thirteen-person room."

After considering for a moment, Qian Li said, "This requires trying to make a deal with other communities."

"Although we cannot sign a contract, we can still cooperate to a limited extent and each get what they need."

"We still have leverage: the identities of two free agents."

"A freelancer is a special protected status that provides a significant advantage when acting as a test taker."

"They can be free from the room rules and can choose the minority or majority answer without restraint."

"You get extra benefits when you choose the minority, and the loss is borne by the question setter when you choose the majority. No matter how you choose, you will never lose out. This advantage is too great."

"There are 5 of us in total, which can be divided into 3+2 groups."

"Three players entered the '4-person room,' leaving the last spot for another community's 'soulmate' to collect their visa time; while the other two free agents entered other rooms to answer questions under the protection of their free agent status."

"In this way, as long as the visa time we gain is greater than the visa time that is lost, it is worthwhile."

Gao Jialiang nodded: "Yes, we couldn't sign contracts with other communities, so this is the best solution. But the problem is, how can we ensure that we get the landlords for the '4-person rooms'?"

Qian Li checked the time, then looked at the situations in Communities 15 and 17, and considered which side she should negotiate with.

Just then, Xu Zhao from the 15th community walked over.

During the first phase of the game, he had a minor verbal altercation with Gao Jialiang, but it was clear that this small conflict would not affect their subsequent cooperation.

After all, both communities understand the principle of prioritizing interests.

However, Xu Zhao still didn't seem very likable, and simply took out the number plate from the front and showed it off.

They are 'Number 1' and 'Number 3', respectively.

"How about we collaborate? We'd like to borrow your two 'free agents'."

"There are no requirements for the candidates; you can decide for yourselves."

"These two people don't need to implement any overly complicated strategies. We will do our best to ensure that these two free agents are generally profitable while in our room."

“We just need your two liberos to hold their positions and help defend, so that the liberos controlled by the 17th Community can't get in too much.”

　Just wanted to let everyone know that the game's numerical values ​​have been modified. Writing the later storyline involves some calculations, and my brain is currently a bit overloaded. Therefore, there's a possibility of further fine-tuning of the values ​​or rule details later. If you're particularly concerned about these details, you can wait until everything is finished and revised before checking back. If you're just reading the story and not personally calculating the values, it shouldn't be a problem.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)