God's imitator

Chapter 307 An Impeccable Defense

6:6 is the initial gender ratio within the community, and some players may prefer this answer, making it easier to reach a consensus.

Option C is the correct answer.

If you want to mislead other players, option A is the best choice.

For regular players, the option to submit the last suggestion must be forced, but free agents are not subject to this restriction.

However, as time went on, the answers on the right side of the screen began to converge.

There are more and more options A.

Kong Yuxin frowned slightly. She vaguely realized that something was wrong. If all players answered option A, they would receive the same reward and still be able to harvest a lot of visa time from the person who set the question on her side.

So Kong Yuxin quickly changed the recommended option to option B.

She wanted to get as many players in Community 17 as possible to answer A and B equally.

But this had no effect; the suggestions received were still overwhelmingly A.

This is clearly due to the rule that was just set.

Players in the room other than the free agent must continuously send the majority of suggestions received.

In other words, the player in Community 13 who was not a free agent was also forced to send out most of the suggestions.

Yang Hui, a free agent from Community 8, is not bound by this rule, but she is an ally of Community 17, so she will also actively cooperate and send majority suggestions.

On the other hand, although Kong Yuxin and her team had two independent individuals who were continuously sending out minority responses, this was not enough to change the outcome of the "majority suggestion".

All participants have submitted their answers; payment will proceed directly.

The correct answer to this question is: C. 7:5.

The net gain for the three participants in this room is 31000 minutes of visa processing time.

The question setter will compensate 31000 minutes of visa processing time. Additionally, 10000 minutes of visa processing time will be deducted.

[Players are voting on whether to change the question setter.]

The question setter will be the "repeater" (or "go-to person") for the next round.

Clearly, the voting pattern among these 7 players was 5 votes for option A and 2 votes for option C.

The two players who chose option C were Kong Yuxin and another free agent. They chose the correct option plus the minority option, so they gained 14000 points.

However, the five players who all chose option A did not receive the same reward.

Because everyone gave the same answer, each player will receive an extra 16000.

As a free agent, Yang Hui will not be punished by the majority, so her reward is 12000.

The two players in Community 17, Yang Yuting and Dai Yifan, cannot be exempted from the majority penalty, so their profit is 2000.

However, there was also an ordinary player from the 13th community who, despite knowing the correct answer, was forced to choose option A by the room rules. This resulted in him being punished for acting against his conscience, with a reward of -15000.

Therefore, considering the combined losses of the question setter and the answerer, Kong Yuxin's side lost a total of 28000 minutes of visa processing time.

Of these, 18000 were earned by the 17th community, and the remaining 10000 were earned by copycats as a majority penalty.

As a free agent, Kong Yuxin's choice doesn't matter, because no matter what she chooses, she's just earning visa time from the person who sets the exam questions on her side.

Choosing the majority will result in an additional fine for the person who created the question, benefiting those who copy the game. And that's not even the worst-case scenario.

Even if players in Community 17 are just guessing, they still have a one-in-three chance of guessing the correct answer.

However, if the correct answer becomes the same for everyone, the actual situation will be even worse.

Take this question as an example. If the players in Community 17 guessed option C from the beginning, and the players on Kong Yuxin's side also chose option C:

Regular players can get 1 minutes of visa time, while free agents can get 2 minutes of visa time.

In other words, Community 17 will gain a net profit of 5 minutes of visa processing time, and this difference will be deducted from the test setter on Kong Yuxin's side.

In addition, the majority penalty for the three free agents will be transferred to the question setter, meaning the question setter will have to give the copycat offender an extra 3 minutes of visa time.

As a free agent, Kong Yuxin can choose to switch to other options, but it makes no sense, because no matter how she switches, the funds will only flow between her and the question setter.

Players in Community 17 always make a pure profit.

……

Kong Yuxin suddenly understood why Wang Weidong had said from the beginning that whether or not the "8-person room" black shop could be dismantled depended mainly on whether the opponent would make a mistake.

In this game, there are two places where you might make mistakes when you're the landlord running a shady business.

The first problem was the incorrect room rules; the second was that too many opposing "free agents" entered the room.

Without this rule, if the answer cannot be agreed upon in advance, ordinary players in Community 17 would not know which option to choose.

However, if there are too many hostile "free agents" in the room, chaos will still occur even with this rule.

Because of the interference from the "free agent", the "majority suggestion" is likely to keep oscillating between the three options, and the players in Community 17 are also unable to determine which one to submit.

However, to achieve this, there are requirements regarding the number of "free agents".

Judging from the current situation, two "free agents" are not enough; we need three "free agents."

If three independent individuals continuously submit the second-most popular suggestions, the majority opinion will constantly change, making it impossible to achieve a "unanimous" result.

However, Community 17 clearly realized this long ago, and they could avoid this situation by simply assigning one of their own "free agents" to hold the position.

Although our "free agents" are not bound by the rules, they can choose to abide by them voluntarily.

The number of free agents who can enter each room is limited. Once a free agent from your side has secured a spot, a free agent from the opposing side with malicious intent will not be able to enter.

Yang Hui played this role.

Since Community 17 did not make any mistakes in these two places, the '8-person room' black market is absolutely safe and cannot be demolished.

After Kong Yuxin's team becomes the "question setter", the players in Community 17 only need to ensure that all non-free players have the same answer to receive the extra reward of "unanimous agreement".

At the same time, by avoiding triggering the penalty for acting against one's conscience as much as possible, one can obtain enough benefits to force Kong Yuxin's side of players to "win consecutively" and continue to act as the question setter, continuously squeezing out visa time.

After much thought, Kong Yuxin finally came to a conclusion.

The current situation is unsolvable at the level of the game rules.

Wang Weidong was right. He had anticipated this situation from the beginning, so he didn't assign Kong Yuxin too many tasks and just let her do as she pleased.

(End of this chapter)