God's imitator

Chapter 318 Recognition Scheme
Cai Zhiyuan nodded: "Yes, I agree."

"Judging from the current situation, there will definitely be more and more games that restrict team play. Our community has actually fallen a little behind and we need to make up for this shortcoming as soon as possible."

The other players nodded in agreement.

This trend doesn't need Wei Yinzhang to specifically point it out; most players can actually notice it.

There are already quite a few games that "intentionally isolate players from each other in the same community", such as "dating games", "April Fool's games", and "simple quizzes".

Although the specific methods of partitioning may differ, the purpose is the same.

All of these measures are designed to increase the communication costs for players and raise the difficulty of the game.

In games like these, if players within the same community are not separated and can discuss and adopt team strategies at any time, the difficulty of the game will be greatly reduced, and the strategic gameplay will also be affected.

Moreover, this kind of partition will gradually become more and more stringent.

As time goes on, players within the community gradually get to know each other better, making simple isolation measures increasingly less effective.

When copycats design games, especially selection games, they often design them based on the premise that "players do not know each other." Once players become different or even distant from each other, the game's balance will be severely affected.

Therefore, copycat offenders will definitely face increasingly stringent separation measures.

Wei Yinzhang continued, "I have two main ideas."

"The first is a 'masked mechanism' similar to the 'April Fools' game."

“We find some common elements, such as ‘numbers’, ‘colors’, ‘playing cards’, ‘chess pieces’, ‘tarot cards’, ‘animals’, ‘plants’, ‘shapes’, etc., and each player in the community is assigned one of them.”

"In this way, as long as similar elements appear in the game and are linked to anonymous identities, a certain connection can be established, thus enabling preliminary screening."

"The second is the 'information gap mechanism' that targets 'simple question and answer'."

"Each of us can write down some of our own professional knowledge, or content that can clearly distinguish us from other players. Of course, we don't need too much, because other players may not remember or get them mixed up. About ten points will be enough."

Wang Yongxin considered for a moment: "Hmm... From the perspective of game mechanics, doing this will indeed help in the later stages of the game."

"But there will also be corresponding risks."

"This set of things is like our community's internal 'codebook' or 'password table.' If a traitor appears in the community, this whole set of things will be leaked to other communities."

"It could be very troublesome at that time."

"On the one hand, the preferences and personality traits of each player in our community may be exposed, and other communities may use this set of rules to set traps for us."

"On the other hand, it's very troublesome to make changes after the leak. Because the previous version has already been memorized, and everyone's first choice is intuitive. After making changes, we need to memorize and relearn it, and it's also very likely to get confused with the previous version."

Li Renshu considered it carefully: "This risk does exist, but it is a low-probability event after all."

"I think we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater."

Cai Zhiyuan suggested, "This system doesn't need to correspond to every player; it only needs to correspond to the core players in the game, or at most one-third or one-half of the players in the community."

"As for the information to be shared, do not share overly in-depth or sensitive information. Just share some of your less common professional knowledge."

Everyone nodded in agreement. This was a compromise that allowed them to identify each other in the anonymous game without worrying too much about information leaks.

After considering it, Li Renshu said, "In that case, let's select four players."

"Lawyer Lin, Brother Wang, Cai Zhiyuan, and Yin Zhang."

"Based on the current situation, you all have the potential to enter the game and become core members. Each of you should choose a number within 10, a number within 100, any color, any playing card, any chess or international chess piece, any animal or plant, any shape, or any tarot card."

"In addition, each person should create 10 simple but relatively obscure professional questions based on their own expertise."

"Set up a code word, but don't reveal too much personal information."

"This way, other players only need to remember the information of four people, and it's not easy to mix them up."

Everyone nodded.

Lee In-sook breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, that concludes our game review. Everyone has worked hard, go back and rest!"

……

night.

Yang Yuting privately approached Cai Zhiyuan and brought up the matter of making a donation.

How much are you planning to donate to the luxury goods fund?

“I’m thinking that since the profits from this game mainly come from you, you should also decide on the donation. At least let’s agree on a rough amount.”

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "I have already emphasized that donations to the luxury goods fund are purely voluntary, and you can do what you can afford."

"There's no need to discuss it."

Yang Yuting shook her head: "That won't work. This time we're making money from the game, and the five of us are a team. So if we're going to donate, it's better to do it together."

"Moreover, although everyone says that donations should be as low-key as possible so as not to give others the misunderstanding of 'forced donations,' how can they really be low-key when it comes to their own donations?"

"We don't have to deliberately flaunt it, but we definitely need to make the amount of money clearly visible."

After considering for a moment, Cai Zhiyuan said, "If I were to make the suggestion..."

"My suggestion is that we each donate 8."

Hearing this number, Yang Yuting still felt a little pain in her heart.

However, she did not object immediately, but instead asked, "Is there any significance to the number 8?"

Cai Zhiyuan explained: "Currently, there is still 21 left in the luxury goods fund, while the minimum amount required to purchase a 'get out of jail free' voucher is 30."

"Therefore, considering the minimum amount, we only need to donate 10 in total, which is 2 per person, to ensure that we can purchase the next 'get out of jail free' ticket."

"But it's far from enough to get everyone's attention on the amount of donations and try to activate new products."

"It's hard to say exactly how much funding is needed to activate the next special product; there are three possibilities:"
"The first method is that after activating the 'immunity coupon' with 30, you can activate a new product or feature with every 10 activations."
"The second method is to activate a new product or feature for every 30 activations."

"The third type is that the first time it is 30, the second time it is 70, the third time it is 120 million... that is, each time it continues to accumulate on the basis of the previous one."

"Personally, I tend to think the second possibility is more likely."

"Because 10 per tier is a bit too low, these precious items and functions shouldn't be unlocked so easily."

"But the third scenario is too high, exceeding the tolerance range of the vast majority of communities."

(End of this chapter)