God's Imitator

Yang Yuting sighed with emotion, ”That you could think of this point is also quite amazing.”

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, ”If this game didn’t have the first stage, it really wouldn’t be easy to think of this. But the God’s Imitator who designed this game was still quite merciful, because they specifically provided thorough teaching in the first stage.

”The five questions in the first stage already hinted at the various question types that could appear in the game, as well as the reward and penalty rules for different options.

”How to utilize these questions is itself part of the game between players.

”Setting code phrases in questions can transmit information to other players in the room.

”Adjusting question options and forcing players to trigger against-conscience penalties can also target specific player groups.

”The main difficulty of this game is that you must measure specific data as much as possible in the first stage and guess the distribution of other players’ answers based on overall earnings.

”With sufficient knowledge reserves, you can quickly guess the designer’s intentions, thereby greatly saving thinking time.”

Li Renshu looked toward Wang Yongxin and asked, ”Brother Wang, do you think this game receiving an S rating could be related to ’utilizing the against-conscience mechanism’?”

After consideration, Wang Yongxin nodded, ”Yes, I think it’s very likely directly related to this point.”If we look purely from the ’distribution-type game’ perspective, ’Simple Q&A’ already possesses some excellent qualities.

”For example, the first stage rules seem very simple at first glance, just choose an answer you think is correct. But after careful consideration, it can still create large gaps between players.

”If we layer the game between players, we can divide it into at least the following layers:

”The first layer is thinking about whether professional questions are correct or not.

”The second layer is using player suggestions and unrelated community player options to reverse-infer correct answers based on the type and content of professional questions.

”The third layer is guessing specific reward and penalty rules and values based on the numbers in options.

”The fourth layer is actively choosing wrong options to verify one’s guesses about reward and penalty rules and values.

”The fifth layer is thinking about questions one can ask in the second stage through the teaching in these questions.

”The five questions in the first stage interlock with each other. The further you think, the more you can use the game mechanisms in reverse to gain greater advantages later.

”How many layers players specifically think through in the first stage not only determines first stage earnings and number card order, but also determines strategy in the second stage.

”The second stage rules suddenly became much more complex. This is mainly to ensure sufficient game strategy depth.

”In fact, the match you played in the second stage should be in a ’high-level game’ state. If we hadn’t entered and Wang Weidong hadn’t entered either, the second stage game might not have looked like this at all.

”In the worst case scenario for player skill level, 15 minutes wouldn’t be enough time for players to fully understand the rules. Many communities might not even formulate feasible group strategies. In that case, they might not even be aware of exchanging number cards and would just enter rooms to randomly ask questions and randomly rotate questioners.

”If players’ skill level is slightly higher, they can realize they should use rooms to set up rigged operations, but can’t figure out which room specifically has advantages or understand the importance of free agent numbers.

”In that case, attacking players could concentrate their free agents to quickly dismantle the rigged setup.

”If players’ skill level is even higher and both sides make perfect defenses, it might turn into 4 communities infinitely harvesting from 1 community, or 2 communities versus 2 communities competing on the efficiency of harvesting visa time.

”As for situations where strong players clash, it should be like the current result: needing to use ’against-conscience mechanisms’ as an external move to settle things definitively.

”And this point hasn’t appeared in previous distribution-type games.

”Using this mechanism can pose ’heart-piercing questions’ to players, thereby changing game results and even producing very far-reaching effects on community ecology.

”It’s likely precisely because of this reason that this game was elevated from an original A rating to an S rating.”

Everyone nodded one after another.

Zheng Jie asked somewhat curiously, ”I really want to know what will happen after Wang Weidong returns to Community 15.

”He lost so much visa time. Can he really still cover it up in the community?

”If it were me, I might have chosen to act recklessly from the very first question.”

Wang Yongxin looked at him, ”That’s why you can’t become Wang Weidong.”

Zheng Jie was stunned for a moment, then nodded, ”...That’s true.”

Yang Yuting looked toward Cai Zhiyuan somewhat curiously, ”But unexpected situations might also occur, right? How were you certain Wang Weidong would definitely choose to cover things up?”

Cai Zhiyuan explained, ”I made a comprehensive inference through many factors.

”From the ’Shelter Game’, we can know Community 15’s total visa time is more than ours, but at that time they hadn’t yet activated the death exemption ticket.

”This indicates this community’s players have relatively high average skill levels and place relatively strong emphasis on ’the strong come first’.

”Since other players’ levels are also decent, it couldn’t be an ’absolute authority’ model. And since total visa time is relatively abundant, their ability to bear losses would also be relatively strong.

”From the ’Shelter Game’, we can infer that although Wang Weidong is a core player in this community, his position isn’t particularly stable, and he’s most likely done ’making other players take risks to earn more visa time’ more than once.

”So considering everything comprehensively, I believe Wang Weidong is the type most likely to compromise for the sake of his own position.

”If he completely exposed his dark inner thoughts, the aftermath would likely become unmanageable.

”First, his core player position would definitely not be secure, because Community 15’s strong players aren’t just him alone. These people can also earn visa time themselves and won’t allow a player who deliberately sells out teammates to serve as leader.

”Second, it would be difficult for him to hand over power and be an ordinary player in the community, because he has ability and is the community’s former core, which is a threat to new core players.

”Finally, even if he leaves Community 15, where can he go? Community 15 is a strong player community that just activated death exemption tickets and has stronger teammates. Other communities, setting aside the issue of weak or strong, what if these communities also check his answers in this game? Keep running?

”So for Wang Weidong, these losses accumulated together far exceed the visa time losses in this game.

”He thinks he’s strong enough and can still earn a lot more visa time, so as long as the green hills remain, there’s no fear of lacking firewood.

”I showed mercy in the first question, only asking whether he had such thoughts. And Wang Weidong chose C, so there’s a lot of ambiguous space.

”After returning to the community, as long as he briefly communicates with his loyal players, during the review he can completely use specific rhetoric to reduce the impact.

”Completely eliminating the impact is definitely impossible. Seeds of suspicion and hatred will take root in Community 15, but at least in the short term they won’t produce too big a threat.

”If other players want to challenge Wang Weidong’s authority, Wang Weidong can also ask back, are your thoughts completely clean?

”As for what to do in the future? Actually there’s no need to worry too much, because players will die in waves. There’s no need to think that far ahead.

”In short, as long as there’s no conclusive evidence from game rules, everything can be obscured through various means.”