God's Imitator

Everyone fell into silence again.

Although the results of this game were good, the game’s difficulty had also further increased.

Take this game for example. There were so many layers of strategy in the game, but the vast majority of people present could only think to the first two or three layers.

Without strong players leading, entering this kind of game would basically mean being at the mercy of others.

Moreover, although it was also a distribution-type game, ’Simple Q&A’ was clearly much more brutal compared to ’Blood Poker’ and ’Conglomerate Nation’.

Not only would same-community players be implicated together, but they would also return to the community carrying debt.

For communities that already had relatively little visa time, once players returned carrying debt, they would certainly die because it would be impossible to repay the debt within 48 hours.

From this perspective, distribution-type games were also starting to have death risks.

The increase in game difficulty would also seriously affect the ecology within communities.

Suppose games had always been at the difficulty level of ’Blood Poker’ or ’Conglomerate Nation’. Then within communities, players adopting defensive strategies to obtain stable earnings and players adopting aggressive strategies to obtain excess earnings actually couldn’t create too large a gap.Because everyone could survive. It was just a matter of earning more or less but after difficulty increased, the latter’s voice would further increase.

And this would further cause changes in community ecology.

Combined with the impact of ’Simple Q&A’s’ ’heart-piercing questions’, where exactly these New World communities would head, only heaven knew.

Wei Yinzhang looked at the rules on the big screen again and said thoughtfully, ”However, I still lean more toward this game’s designer being a God’s Imitator of a similar type to me.

“Meaning, they lean toward a lawful good alignment, with far stronger strategic planning than breakthrough capability, relying primarily on predicting the questions.”

Li Renshu asked somewhat curiously, ”Hmm? How can you determine this?”

Wei Yinzhang pointed at the rules on the big screen, ”I’m inferring based on the way the God’s Imitator obtains earnings from the game.”

Everyone looked toward the big screen.

[’Free agents’ who receive ’majority’ penalties will have that penalty borne by the questioner and become the God’s Imitator’s earnings. However, this effect can only take effect at most 15 times in each room.]

This rule was updated in the second stage and wasn’t hidden at all, so most players didn’t pay special attention to it.

But Wei Yinzhang was a God’s Imitator. When seeing these rules, he would always subconsciously reverse-engineer them according to a God’s Imitator’s game design thinking, so he might have some thoughts different from ordinary players.

Fu Chen didn’t quite understand, ”What do you mean? Isn’t this just a very normal rule?

”You also said before that God’s Imitators don’t only have the method of killing people to seize visa time. They can also ’skim’ or ’indirectly skim’ in games.

”This is obviously a type of ’indirect skimming’.

”’Simple Q&A’ is a distribution-type game. It’s very normal for the God’s Imitator to use this method to obtain earnings, right?”

Wei Yinzhang explained, ”For other games it’s very normal, but for this game it’s not quite normal.

”After all, this is an S-rated game, and after carefully deconstructing the game rules, you’ll find this game is designed very ingeniously and complexly.

”So there are two possibilities.

”First, this God’s Imitator is an extremely intelligent God’s Imitator who can not only design S-rated games but can also stably design A-rated and B-rated games.

”Second, this God’s Imitator isn’t particularly intelligent. Like me, they might have spent a very long time on design and then happened to predict the topic correctly.”

After considering for a moment, Wang Yongxin asked, ”But how did you rule out the first possibility?”

Wei Yinzhang said quite frankly, ”I guessed.

”Supposing it’s the first possibility and this God’s Imitator is extremely intelligent, then what can be determined is that they definitely don’t lack visa time.

”They might even feel distressed because they have too much visa time.

”Then they wouldn’t need to so urgently set rules to profit themselves.”

Zheng Jie was somewhat confused, ”Wait, I don’t quite understand. Please don’t skip the intermediate reasoning steps.”

Wei Yinzhang nodded and explained, ”First, after setting this rule, the God’s Imitator’s earnings from the game can be roughly determined.

”In the three rooms, the first two rooms probably couldn’t trigger the rule 15 times, but the ’13-person room’ most likely could.

”So when setting this rule, the God’s Imitator could probably have expectations for their own earnings: it should be between 200,000 and 300,000.

”This counts as relatively high earnings.”

Cai Zhiyuan recalled the game process, ”Yes, from the specific game content, the God’s Imitator’s final earnings should be around 280,000.”

Everyone sighed with emotion. As expected, God’s Imitators were the elite in the Gallery.

For players, the average earnings from judgment-type games were only around 50,000 to 80,000. To obtain 300,000 minutes of visa time, one would need to risk death in about 5 games.

Although distribution-type games with high earnings could theoretically reach an upper limit of just over 100,000, they were rare opportunities.

But a God’s Imitator, with one game, could casually earn this much.

Zheng Jie still didn’t quite understand, ”But what does this prove?”

Wei Yinzhang continued explaining, ”Only God’s Imitators who relatively lack visa time would somewhat undignifiedly write their earnings rules openly into the game rules.

”Because after explicitly writing it out, it’s equivalent to encouraging players to more actively utilize this rule.

”Supposing this God’s Imitator is an extremely intelligent God’s Imitator, then they definitely wouldn’t lack visa time.

”Because designing games earns money, and at the same time, they themselves enter games and can still earn money.

”If they can stably produce games rather than relying on topic prediction, then each game they’d earn at least 200,000 to 300,000, and entering games themselves they’d earn another 70,000 to 80,000 per game. The accumulated visa time would practically become an astronomical figure.

”They might even feel distressed because they have too much visa time.

”In that case, they wouldn’t need to specifically design such a rule. It wouldn’t even matter if they had no earnings.

”For God’s Imitators who can stably design A-rank games, having the Gallery adopt more of their games to increase their authority is much more important than obtaining visa time.

”This earnings rule appearing in S-rank game rules seems a bit low-class, so I lean toward this God’s Imitator being the second situation.

”That is, this S-rank game came from predicting the topic. This God’s Imitator doesn’t have particularly stable earnings and still relatively lacks visa time.

”If that’s the case, I think the possibility that they themselves have goodwill toward players is higher.”

Everyone fell into contemplation.

Li Renshu lowered her head in thought for a long while, ”Hmm... predicting a topic and getting an S-rank game... Although it sounds somewhat absurd, looking at Yinzhang’s situation, we can’t say it’s impossible...”

Wei Yinzhang’s ’Fool’s Game’ came from topic prediction. Looking at it now, if ’Fool’s Game’ could add some mechanisms similar to ’heart-piercing questions’ to produce even more far-reaching effects on various communities’ ecologies, it would also have great hope of obtaining an S rating.

From this point, ’predicting an S-rank game’ wasn’t impossible.

In Wei Yinzhang’s view, ’predicting’ had a greater possibility than ’temporary design’, and much greater at that.

Fu Chen was somewhat excited, ”Then this is indeed good news. No matter what, the more God’s Imitators like Yinzhang, the better.”

After considering for a moment, Wei Yinzhang said again, ”There’s one more thing: after this game, I think ’setting up code phrases’ needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

”In future distribution-type and selection-type games, designs that ’deliberately separate same-community players’ will very likely become increasingly common. We should take this seriously.”