God's imitator

Chapter 359 Fifth Dividend

The situation with "Simple Poker" should have been slightly better, since a 30% transaction tax was set. If the transactions could proceed normally, this percentage of transaction tax would indeed be enough to consume the room's chips, keeping the exchange rate between chips and visa time relatively stable.

However, due to the existence of the "Equipment Forging" room, Chen Guangming directly cut off the trading in the entire game lobby. Players did not trade cards at all, so there was no way to generate transaction tax to consume chips.

Xu Zhao felt that the method in the "Equipment Forging" room was the smartest.

On the one hand, it provides players with the function of "changing invincibility cards", directly stealing the benefits of "transaction tax"; on the other hand, it has a way of consuming chips, which can effectively avoid chip inflation and keep the chips in the room always valuable.

While trained players can consistently produce chips, untrained players cannot.

Furthermore, when players try to exchange for an invulnerability card, they may fail to get the card they are missing two or three times in a row, and each time they reforge the card, they will consume additional chips.

Under this mechanism, a portion of the chips in this room will always be recycled, so the total number of chips can be controlled.

However, Xu Zhao has not yet clearly discovered a mechanism for additional chip consumption in "Auction Tycoon".

Although there is a feature to exchange chips for points, it is not mandatory and players may not use it.

Since there is also a stable way to produce chips in this room, as more and more players enter, the number of chips in the room will increase, and the returns will naturally decrease.

Although the room itself supports auctions, and players can choose to put duplicate cards up for auction, there is a prerequisite: the value of the chips cannot collapse.

Once inflation occurs in the chips, many players' chips become worthless, and selling invincibility items will result in losses, making it impossible for players to stay in the room any longer.

But clearly, judging from Chen Guangming's reaction, things were not as simple as he thought.

……

Cheng Wen lowered his voice and said, "Brother Lin, that guy with the gold-rimmed glasses is here too! What does he want?"

Lin Sizhi didn't care: "It doesn't matter, he can do whatever he wants."

Cheng Wen glanced at the list of items currently being auctioned: "People are putting up more and more 'immunity cards'!"

After Lin Sizhi and Cheng Wen bought back the previous batch of cards, new cards that grant immunity from death finally appeared on the auction house, but the price was no longer as cheap as before.

The prices of these cards are generally around 15000 to 20000 chips, which is a bit high.

This is because players are unsure of the appropriate price to set, and many are worried about inflation of their chips, so they set higher prices to test the waters.

Only after several more transactions can players roughly determine the specific price.

……

Just then, the game's fifth payout began.

Before the dividend distribution began, Chen Guangming had already left the room. He only glanced at the chip exchange table before immediately returning to the "Equipment Forging" room to greet the players who had remained in the room.

Players in the "Auction Tycoon" room also lined up at the chip exchange table.

The current room's bonus amount is: 265000 minutes of visa time.

The current chip exchange rate in this room is: Chips: Visa Time = 100:94

All the players were surprised when they saw this number.

"So many?"

This is an outrageous figure, not only with high dividends but also a very high exchange rate for chips. There's only one explanation for this: the copycat in this room is offering massive discounts within the game!

In other words, they also deposited their own visa time as dividends, so even after the original 15 minutes of visa time dividends were exhausted, they could still provide more dividends.

……

Chen Guangming had already returned to the "Equipment Forging" room and said to the rest of the group:
"Qi Fan, Ma Chengye, let's all go and grab the game console in 'Auction Tycoon'."

"Right now, all those players are exchanging chips. As long as you control those gaming tables, you can get a stable income."

Qi Fan and the others had already seen the profit-sharing situation for 'equipment forging'.

The current room's bonus amount is: 113000 minutes of visa time.

The current chip exchange rate in this room is: Chips: Visa Time = 100:64

Clearly, this room is no longer as cost-effective as the "Auction Tycoon" room.

Qi Fan and Ma Chengye looked at each other and nodded: "Okay, we'll go now. What about you?"

Chen Guangming placed a card on the game table: "I have another card that needs to be transformed. You guys go first, I'll be right there."

"Hurry up, there won't be any seats left after those people exchange their chips."

Time was of the essence, so Qi Fan didn't ask any more questions. He simply went with the other five players to meet up with Xu Zhao in the "Auction Tycoon's" room.

……

So far, only the dividends from the "Auction Tycoon," "Equipment Forging," and "Chess Endgame" rooms in the game lobby have not been exhausted.

However, there is still a profit-sharing aspect to "Chess Endgames" only because not many players play it, and most players do not believe that the copycats who designed the game would provide many extra benefits.

The distribution of rewards from "Equipment Forging" and "Chess Endgame" also provides some information.

The copycat of "Equipment Forging" has obviously offered a lot of benefits, so if you continue playing, you can still make a lot of money.

The problem is that getting stable returns from this room requires a lot of practice, and currently only a few players like Chen Guangming are able to do it.

Moreover, the game time for each round is relatively fixed.

After players flocked to "Auction Tycoon," the increased number of game consoles and the use of auctions clearly resulted in higher payout amounts.

On the contrary, inflation of tokens occurred in the "Equipment Forging" room.

If Chen Guangming's plan is successfully implemented, and most players in the room use the "Equipment Forging" game table to convert cards, a large number of chips will be consumed, and the entire room will not experience inflation.

However, many players left the room at this time, and players like Chen Guangming could obtain stable income and had no additional way to consume their chips, so the chips became worthless.

For a game where rankings are determined by revenue, earning less is a loss.

Therefore, following Chen Guangming's instructions, Qi Fan led a small group of players to "Auction Tycoon" in an attempt to seize the game console in the room and earn more profits.

Many players went to redeem their dividends, so there were vacancies at the game consoles.

(End of this chapter)