God's imitator

Chapter 96 Lu Xinyi's Double Strategy
Afterwards, Yang Yuting also shared her game experience from the perspective of a female player, as well as the so-called "optimal strategy" that Lu Xinyi had told her.

Zheng Jie was dumbfounded by her incredible achievement of easily getting 3 likes in the first hour without doing anything.

Lin Sizhi also introduced her strategy of spending money to buy likes and briefly explained why multiple small-denomination vouchers are a better choice than one large-denomination voucher.

Zheng Jie suddenly realized: "No wonder you got so many likes in the first 4 hours, and you didn't have much time left on your visa when you left the game. You used it up in advance!"
"I just feel like it's a waste of money to spend it like this."

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "It's not a loss at all; in fact, you could say it's the best strategy for male players in the early stages."

"Ensuring your own survival in the game is more important than earning visa time."

"Of course, most players cannot predict that the rules for killing will be updated later, but since the game will eventually give male players visa time indiscriminately, and the game's core mechanism revolves around 'likes' in the early stages, exchanging visa time for likes is definitely the safest strategy."

"Zhong Yuanyuan's original intention was to use the 30,000 visa time to create an imbalance between male and female players and intensify the conflict."

"But male players can also take advantage of this to achieve a stable cooperative strategy with female players through long-term benefits."

"This kind of cooperation based on interests is far more stable than cooperation based on morality or trust."

"In this game, finding a trustworthy and stable meeting partner is basically a sure way to win."

"Giving female players some concessions is fine, after all, the revenue from the last 3 minutes is real, even if there's only 1 minute left, it's still a profit. The key is whether the concessions can bring in enough revenue."

Xu Tong asked doubtfully, "But this method can only be used by male players, right?"

Cai Zhiyuan thought about it for a moment and shook his head: "No, female players can use it too, but there are some differences in the details."

"How do you think Lu Xinyi got 100% likes? Did she just lie about it? I guess not."

Everyone looked at Zheng Jie and then nodded.

Clearly, the deception Lu Xinyi initially displayed could only fool a newcomer like Zheng Jie; it wouldn't work on more shrewd veterans.

Cai Zhiyuan continued, "I think at least half of what Lu Xinyi said to Yang Yuting, her so-called 'optimal strategy,' was a lie. You didn't actually believe it, did you?"

"She's just fooling other female players; she probably wouldn't actually do that herself."

"While most female gamers are trying to cheat on visa processing time, someone like Lu Xinyi is likely to do the opposite."

"For example, she could easily choose to split the bill or even pay after meeting the male player."

"Then she proposed that she would pay for the room each time in exchange for male players consistently matching with her and consistently giving her likes."

"What male players can do in 1000 minutes of visa time, female players can do in 200 minutes of room fee."

Yang Yuting suddenly realized: "So that's how it is, the trap is here!"

"She lowered the moral standards of all female gamers, but in doing so, she elevated herself to a moral high ground!"
"Just by paying the room fee, even though you're just doing the same thing as the male player, it's enough to make him grateful."

"It's all a setup!"

Zheng Jie was a little confused: "Huh? So that means Lu Xinyi didn't cheat me out of money?"

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head: "That's not necessarily true. It's impossible for someone like her not to cheat people out of money, but she just wouldn't be so clumsy in her methods."

"She could use both strategies together: on the one hand, she could find stable partners by proactively paying and exchanging likes to ensure her own safety; on the other hand, she could match with some new players every now and then to scam them out of money."

"Adopt different strategies for different players to maximize profits."

"In the first four hours, I received both likes and money."

"Of course, there is a prerequisite for doing this: you have to be good at judging people."

Zheng Jie was dumbfounded: "...Someone like her is like a fish in water in this game, invincible!"
"Wait a minute, Attorney Lin, didn't you run into Lu Xinyi? I was just wondering what would happen if you two met in the meeting room..."

Wang Yongxin said with a hint of helplessness, "What do you think?"

"Both of them had established partners a long time ago, so it's a low-probability event that they met again, right?"

Lin Sizhi nodded: "Yes, I identified three stable buyers a long time ago, so there's no need to match with anyone else."

"There's no need to use your brain to meet Lu Xinyi."

"I still prefer dealing with players who are simpler-minded."

Lee In-sook thoughtfully concluded: "So, from God's perspective, the 'Blind Date Game' does indeed simulate the mechanism of blind dating, but in reality, it is an outright murder game, and it is full of malice."

"The copycats not only hide the rules and incite hatred between players to kill each other, but they also maliciously form illegal teams in the game, which is simply a planned massacre."

"Before entering the game, the arcade said that the game's genre was 'filtering,' but I'm a little confused about what exactly it filters?"

Yang Yuting thought about it carefully: "Perhaps it's precisely because it didn't perform a good 'filtering' function that the arcade didn't rate it highly?"

Jiang He was puzzled: "But shouldn't similar games be designed by many copycats together? Shouldn't the arcade choose the best solution?"

Lee In-sook shook her head: "I don't know."

"We currently know nothing about the criteria the arcade uses to select games, nor do we understand the specific process by which the arcade assigns tasks to copycats."

"It's better not to make wild guesses; overthinking can easily mislead you."

Wang Yongxin calmly said, "I think we shouldn't interpret the word 'screening' in such a narrow sense."

"Just like the definition of 'sinner' or 'judgment' in the arcade, it is a broad concept. People who have not broken the law can also be dragged into the game of judgment."

“Filtering can also be random filtering without discrimination.”

"Just like when large companies conduct interviews, if there are too many resumes, they might even randomly discard some of them. They call it, 'Luck is also a part of ability.'"

"Just like a natural disaster that causes a species to become extinct, this is also a form of selection."

The so-called "screening game" in the arcade aims to eliminate a portion of the people, but the specific elimination criteria can be very dynamic, or even nonsensical.

"Don't let the previous S-rated games cause you to have any unnecessary misunderstandings about the game arcade, thinking that the arcade will always uphold fairness and justice."

"How could that be?"
"For arcades, it's good if copycats make S-rated games that target human nature, but it's not necessarily unusable if copycats make B or even C-rated garbage games."

"The attitude of the arcade towards copycats can be described as extremely lenient, even indulgent."

"If all the players die, you can recruit more; if all the copycats die, you can choose again. For the arcade, it doesn't matter if some games are extremely unfair. It's like a natural disaster in the real world. Who will reason with you?"

"If you encounter this, just accept your bad luck. Who can you blame if you're unlucky?"

"True strong people can adapt to any environment, no matter how cruel or unfair the rules are; only the fittest survive."

"For the arcade, as long as there are enough players and enough copycats, even if the rules are not so fair, as long as the general direction is not too far off, the final product will be excellent enough."

"Therefore, I think this 'selection game' can be seen as an unfair, multi-standard elimination, or as a kind of experiment in the arcade."

"As I said before, don't think about whether it's fair or not, think about the best strategy to survive."

(End of this chapter)