God's Imitator

6:6 was the initial gender ratio in the community. Some players might be inclined to choose this answer, making it easier to reach consensus.

Option C was the correct option.

To mislead other players, option A was the best choice.

For ordinary players, they had to forcibly submit the last option suggested, but free persons weren’t subject to this restriction.

However, as time passed, the answers on the right interface began to converge.

Option A became increasingly numerous.

Kong Yuxin frowned slightly. She vaguely realized something was wrong, because if all players answered option A, they could obtain the full unanimity reward and still harvest large amounts of visa time from the question setter on her side.

So Kong Yuxin hurriedly changed her recommended option to option B.

She wanted to make half of Community 17’s players answer A and half answer B as much as possible.

But this didn’t have any effect. The suggestions that could be received were still overwhelmingly option A.Obviously, this was because of the rule just set.

Players in the room who weren’t free persons had to continuously send the majority suggestion received.

That is, that non-free person player from Community 13 could only be forced to send the majority suggestion.

Yang Hui, the free person from Community 8, although not restricted by this rule, was allied with Community 17, so she would also actively cooperate and send the majority suggestion.

Looking at Kong Yuxin’s side, although they had two free persons who continuously sent minority answers, this wasn’t enough to change the result of the ’majority suggestion’.

[All answering players have submitted their answers. Settlement will proceed directly.]

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

[The net earnings of the 7 answering players in this room are: 31000 minutes of visa time.]

[The question setter will pay out 31000 minutes of visa time. Additionally, 10,000 minutes of visa time will be deducted.]

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

[The question setter will ’continue their turn’.]

Obviously, the vote distribution of these 7 players was 5 votes for option A, 2 votes for option C.

The two players who chose option C were Kong Yuxin and the other free person. They had correct option + minority option, so they obtained 14000 in earnings.

But the 5 players who also chose option A had different earnings.

Because it was a unanimous answer, each player could additionally obtain 16000.

Yang Hui, as a free person, wouldn’t suffer the majority penalty, so her earnings were 12000.

Community 17’s two players Yang Yuting and Dai Yifan couldn’t be exempted from the majority penalty, so their earnings were 2000.

But there was still one ordinary Community 13 player. Despite clearly knowing the correct answer, he was forced by the room rules to choose option A, causing him to suffer the against conscience penalty. His earnings were -15000.

So after adding up the losses of the question setter and answerers, Kong Yuxin’s side lost a total of 28000 minutes of visa time.

Of this, 18000 was earned by Community 17’s side, and another 10,000 was earned by the God’s Imitator as the majority penalty.

Kong Yuxin, as a free person, could choose anything since no matter what she chose, she would only earn visa time from the question setter on her own side.

Choosing the majority would also cause their side’s question setter to be additionally penalized, benefiting the God’s Imitator of this game.

And this wasn’t even the worst situation.

Because even if Community 17’s players purely guessed, they still had a one-third probability of guessing the correct answer.

And once the correct answer became the unanimous answer, the actual situation would become even worse.

Take this question for example. If Community 17’s players had guessed option C from the start, and players on Kong Yuxin’s side also chose option C:

Then ordinary players could all obtain 10,000 minutes of visa time, and free person players could all obtain 20,000 minutes of visa time.

That is, Community 17 would earn a pure profit of 50,000 minutes of visa time, and this difference would all be deducted from the question setter on Kong Yuxin’s side.

Besides this, the majority penalties of three free persons would transfer to the question setter, meaning the question setter would additionally give the God’s Imitator 30,000 minutes of visa time.

Kong Yuxin, as a free person, could choose to switch to other options, but it had no meaning, because switching back and forth, the funds would only flow between her and the question setter.

And the players on Community 17’s side would always be pure profit.

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Kong Yuxin suddenly understood somewhat why Wang Weidong had said from the beginning that whether they could dismantle the ’8-person room’ scam shop mainly depended on whether the opponent made mistakes.

In this game, when serving as room owner running a scam shop, there were two places where mistakes could be made.

The first was setting incorrect room rules; the second was allowing too many hostile ’Free Persons’ to enter the room.

If this rule wasn’t set, without being able to agree on answers in advance, Community 17’s ordinary players wouldn’t know which specific option to choose.

And if there were too many hostile ’Free Persons’ in the room, even with this rule, chaos would still occur.

Because under the interference of ’Free Persons’, the ’majority suggestion’ might keep swinging back and forth among the three options, and Community 17’s players wouldn’t be able to confirm which one to submit.

But to achieve this required a certain number of ’Free Persons’.

From the current situation, 2 ’Free Persons’ weren’t enough. It had to be 3 ’Free Persons’.

Three free persons continuously submitting the current second-most suggestion could make the majority suggestion change at all times, naturally unable to achieve the ’full unanimity’ result.

But Community 17 had obviously realized this long ago. They only needed to arrange one of their own ’Free Persons’ to occupy a spot to prevent this situation from occurring.

Although their own ’Free Person’ wasn’t bound by rules, they could choose to voluntarily follow the rules.

And the number of free persons that could enter each room was limited. After their own free person occupied a position, hostile free persons from the other side couldn’t enter.

Yang Hui served this role.

Since Community 17 didn’t make mistakes in either of these places, the scam shop of the ’8-person room’ was absolutely safe and couldn’t be dismantled.

After players on Kong Yuxin’s side became ’Question Setters’, Community 17’s players only needed to ensure all non-free persons’ answers were consistent to get the extra reward for ’full unanimity’.

At the same time, by avoiding triggering the against conscience penalty as much as possible, they could obtain sufficient earnings to force players on Kong Yuxin’s side to ’continue their turn’, continuing as question setter and continuously extracting visa time.

Kong Yuxin thought it over and over, finally reaching a conclusion.

The current situation had no solution at the game rules level.

Wang Weidong was right. He had thought from the very beginning that this situation would occur, so he hadn’t assigned Kong Yuxin too many tasks at all, just letting her play freely.