God's Imitator

Cai Zhiyuan nodded, ”Yes, I agree.

”From the current situation, games that restrict teaming will definitely become increasingly common. Our community is actually already falling a bit behind, and we need to quickly make up for this shortcoming.”

The other players also nodded one after another.

This trend didn’t require Wei Yinzhang to specifically remind them. Actually, most players could notice it.

Many games that ’deliberately separate same-community players’ had already appeared, such as ’Blind Date Game’, ’Fool’s Game’, and ’Simple Q&A’.

Although the specific separation methods differed, the purpose was the same.

They all aimed to increase players’ communication costs and raise the game’s difficulty.

For games like these, if same-community players weren’t separated and could discuss and adopt team strategies at any time, the game’s difficulty would greatly decrease, and strategic gameplay would be affected.

Moreover, this separation would gradually show an increasingly strict trend.

Because as time passed, players within communities gradually increased their understanding of each other, and simple separation measures would become less and less effective.When God’s Imitators design games, especially selection-type games, they often design based on the premise that ’players don’t know each other’. Once players become familiar with some and unfamiliar with others, the game’s balance would be seriously affected.

So God’s Imitators would definitely also adopt increasingly severe separation measures.

Wei Yinzhang continued, ”I mainly have two ideas.

”First is targeting ’masking mechanisms’ similar to ’Fool’s Game’.

”We find some common elements, such as ’numbers’, ’colors’, ’playing cards’, ’chess pieces’, ’tarot cards’, ’animals’, ’plants’, ’shapes’, and so on. Each player in the community is assigned one type.

”This way, as long as similar elements appear in games and are linked to anonymous identities, certain associations can be made, allowing for preliminary screening.

”Second is targeting ’information gap mechanisms’ similar to ’Simple Q&A’.

”Each of us can write some of our own professional knowledge, or content that can clearly distinguish us from other players. Of course, it doesn’t need to be too much, because other players might not remember or might mix things up. Around ten items should be enough.”

After considering for a moment, Wang Yongxin said, ”Hmm... From the perspective of game mechanics, doing this would indeed help in future games.

”But there will also be corresponding risks.

”This system would be equivalent to ’code phrases’ or a ’password reference table’ within our community. If a traitor appears in the community, this entire system would be leaked to other communities.

”At that time, it could be very troublesome.

”On one hand, the preferences and personality traits of our community’s various players might be exposed. Other communities might use these rules to set traps for us in reverse.

”On the other hand, after leakage, it would be very troublesome for us to change it. Because we’ve already memorized the previous version, and everyone’s first choice also conforms to intuition. After modification, we’d need to memorize and remember again, and might also mix it up with the previous version.”

After serious consideration, Li Renshu said, ”This risk does exist, but it’s ultimately a low-probability event.

”I think we still shouldn’t avoid eating for fear of choking.”

Cai Zhiyuan proposed, ”This system doesn’t need to correspond to every player, only to core players in games, or one-third to at most half of the players in the community.

”As for shared information, we also shouldn’t share excessively deep or sensitive information. Just share some of our relatively obscure professional knowledge.”

Everyone nodded. This was a compromise approach that could serve the purpose of mutually identifying each other in anonymous games while not worrying too much about information leakage.

After consideration, Li Renshu said, ”In that case, let’s select four players.

”Lawyer Lin, Brother Wang, Cai Zhiyuan, and Yinzhang.

”From the current situation, you all have the possibility of entering games and becoming core players.

”Each of you choose ’a number within 10’, ’a number within 100’, ’any color’, ’any playing card’, ’any Chinese chess or international chess piece’, ’any animal or plant’, ’any shape’, ’any tarot card’.

”And also, based on your professional knowledge, create 10 simple but relatively obscure professional questions.

”Set up code phrases, but don’t expose too much personal information.

”This way, other players only need to remember four people’s information and won’t easily mix them up.”

Everyone nodded.

Li Renshu let out a long breath, ”Alright, then this game’s review ends here. Everyone has worked hard, go back and rest!”

...

That evening, Yang Yuting privately found Cai Zhiyuan and took the initiative to bring up the matter of donations.

”How much are you planning to donate to the Luxury Fund?

”I’m thinking, the earnings from this game mainly relied on you, so the donation matter should also be decided by you. At least let’s determine a rough amount.”

Cai Zhiyuan shook his head, ”It’s been emphasized repeatedly that donations to the Luxury Fund are purely voluntary and should be according to one’s ability.

”There’s no need to discuss it.”

Yang Yuting shook her head, ”That won’t do. This time we obtained earnings from the game, the five of us were one unit. If we’re donating, of course it’s better to donate together.

”Moreover, although everyone says donations should be as low-key as possible to avoid others misunderstanding it as ’forced donation’, how can we really be low-key when it’s our turn to donate?

”We don’t need to deliberately show off, but we definitely need to clearly demonstrate it in the amount.”

After considering for a moment, Cai Zhiyuan said, ”If I were to propose...

”My suggestion is that each of us donate 80,000.”

Hearing this number, Yang Yuting still felt it was slightly painful. However, she didn’t immediately object but instead asked, ”Does the number 80,000 have any particular significance?”

Cai Zhiyuan explained, ”Currently the Luxury Fund has 210,000 remaining, and purchasing a death exemption ticket requires at least 300,000.

”So considering the minimum amount, we only need to donate a total of 100,000, which is 20,000 per person, to ensure we can purchase the next death exemption ticket.

”But if we want everyone to notice the donation amount and try to activate new products, that would be far from enough.

”As for how much fund money is needed to activate the next type of special product, this is hard to say. There are three possibilities:

”First, after activating the death exemption ticket at 300,000, every 100,000 activates a new type of product or function.

”Second, every 300,000 activates a new type of product or function.

”Third, the first time is 300,000, the second time is 700,000, the third time is 1200,000... meaning each time continues to accumulate on top of the previous amount.

”I personally lean toward the second possibility being more likely.

”Because 100,000 per tier seems somewhat too low. There’s no reason these precious items and functions should be unlocked that easily.

”And the third situation is too high, exceeding the bearable range for the vast majority of communities.”