God's imitator

Chapter 79 Lu Xinyi's Optimal Strategy

Yang Yuting didn't want to meet Lu Xinyi either. After all, everyone knew that although this girl looked sweet, she was actually very cunning, and no one knew when she would be plotted against.

"How about we split the bill?" Yang Yuting suggested.

Lu Xinyi smiled and pressed "I'll pay": "It's okay, I like beautiful women, I'll pay."

Yang Yuting had no choice but to press "You pay".

"Looks like the people from Community 17 discussed their strategy from the beginning? It's best not to say a word to me?"

Lu Xinyi observed Yang Yuting's expression with great interest.

Yang Yuting was silent for a moment, then shook her head: "No, it's just that I think you're too amazing. If I say something wrong, I might be deceived, so I'm taking some necessary self-protection measures."

Lu Xinyi helplessly shrugged: "Okay, okay, it seems my credibility is beyond saving."

"But since you acknowledge that I'm very smart, I'll tell you the optimal solution to this game now. Would you like to hear it?"

Yang Yuting was taken aback: "Optimal solution?"

"Would you really be so kind? You probably have ulterior motives."

Lu Xinyi smiled and said, "Of course, I have ulterior motives, but coincidentally, our interests are aligned in this game."

"So you can listen to my analysis first. If it makes sense, then do it; if you think it's a scam, then don't believe it. How about that?"

Yang Yuting remained noncommittal and did not give a clear response.

Lu Xinyi didn't care and just started analyzing on her own.

"By now, I have roughly figured out the mechanics of this game."

"As the name suggests, the 'dating game' is not a competition between communities, but a competition between male and female players."

"The way to win as much visa time as possible is simple: squeeze every last drop out of every male player you meet."

Yang Yuting said helplessly, "I knew it, you definitely weren't thinking anything good."

Lu Xinyi said frankly, "Think whatever you want. If you want to use those boring morals to criticize me, then go ahead."

"This is just the optimal solution I analyzed based on the rules of the game."

"First of all, the game is unfair to male and female players from the very beginning. Male players get extra visa time, while female players have their visa time randomly deducted."

"Although we know that the actual deduction is very small, it is still deducted nonetheless."

"Assuming we play entirely within the rules of the game, the male players will always earn 30,000 more than us."

"If we really want to be fair, then at least the 30,000 visa time should be balanced, and we should each get 15,000."

Yang Yuting thought for a moment and nodded slightly: "If you had said from the beginning that it would be 30,000 each, then I would have been able to understand it."

Lu Xinyi leaned forward slightly, staring into her eyes: "My question is, since this is an unfair game, why should I have to go to such lengths to get only a barely fair result?"

Do you think the process itself is fair?
"In other words, this is a game of the arcade, where you bet and it's all up to fate. It's an unfair game to begin with. So what if I use my skills to create even greater unfairness?"

Yang Yuting fell silent.

Lu Xinyi continued, "As for the specific steps, it's actually quite simple."

"You can ask every other male player in the community you're matched with to 'share 30,000 minutes of visa time equally.' They offer 10,000 or 15,000 minutes of vouchers as a deposit, and you promise to like each other's posts during the final meeting."

"As for how to actually get these vouchers, that's up to each person to do."

"Trick those who are easy to fool, and give them a little something extra as a reward for those who are not. After all, these 'likes' are useless if you keep them, so you have to give them away eventually."

"I believe that for a young, beautiful, and elegant girl like you, it will be as simple as eating and drinking as long as you are willing to do it."

"In short, after receiving the voucher, refuse any invitations to meet and continue looking for the next target."

"Until the last meeting, just choose the one you like the most and exchange likes."

"Of course, if you're even more greedy, you can also try to get more likes along the way."

"Let's assume that in an 8-hour game you can be matched with a dozen or so male players, and five or six of them accept your offer, then that's a real 60,000 minutes of visa time."

"Add the final 30,000, and you can get a total of 90,000 minutes. That's quite a lot, isn't it?"

"You know, in many trial games, you might not earn this much even if you risk your life."

Yang Yuting was somewhat shocked: "But wouldn't that lead to social death?"

Lu Xinyi looked at her with a hint of helplessness, as if mocking her foolishness.

"How can there be social death?"

"First of all, you were just fooling people from other communities. After this game, everyone will go their separate ways, so who will hold you accountable?"
"Secondly, information is completely blocked in this game. Even if you make a promise to several male players at the same time, they cannot verify it with each other."

"Finally, even if some of these people make it onto the talent show and denounce you there, it will be meaningless."

"Because the promise you made to them was 'mutual praise at the last meeting,' this can't be verified until the last meeting. How can he be sure whether you've changed your mind or are waiting for the last meeting?"

"Even if he actually goes on a talent show to denounce you, he'll quickly be voted 'boring' and eliminated. After all, who wants to see a grown man crying and whining on screen?"

That would only make people feel disgusted.

"As for the players in your community, what business is it of theirs? It's your skill to earn as much visa time as possible from the game. If you've already established some proposals that allow you to share the profits, they can also benefit from it."

"They treat you differently based on your relationships with others. Would they distance themselves from you just because other male gamers in other communities got scammed?"
"So, from a game mechanics perspective, this is the optimal solution for us to earn visa time."

Yang Yuting fell into deep thought.

She quickly looked up and asked with some confusion, "Since this plan is so perfect, why don't you just carry it out yourself? Why drag me into it?"

Lu Xinyi smiled meaningfully: "Aren't you asking a question you already know the answer to? Of course, it's because the more people implement this strategy, the more and faster everyone will profit."

"You might think that the fewer scammers there are, the less likely they are to be exposed. You're wrong. The more scammers there are, the less likely they are to be caught by the law."

"If many people implement this strategy together, then male players will have no choice but to either give me the voucher or give it to you."

"Otherwise, they can forget about getting the final 3 reward for mutual likes."

“After meeting with other female players, we shared this idea with them and made the idea that ‘male players should give out vouchers’ a consensus, so that all female players can benefit from it.”

"Furthermore, even if we assume that this game does have some kind of targeted punishment mechanism, it would be very dangerous if there was only one scammer, but if there were many scammers, everyone's risk would be reduced."

(End of this chapter)