Creating a Virtual World Chapter 52: Death penalty and reward design
Jiang Qiao brought Hai Lan to the most frequented place in the Holy Spirit...the Cathedral of Resurrection.
The interior of the Cathedral of Resurrection is an independent space, where no player will meet anyone else, so when Jiang Qiao walked into the Cathedral of Resurrection, the noise on the street was completely cut off. gone, only the quiet sound of the air moving.
The sun shines through the colored windows of the church and falls on the 'sacred altar' where players are resurrected. Next to the stone steps that go up to the altar sits the only NPC vigilante in the Resurrection Cathedral, Freya .
She was wearing a plain light gray robe, sitting alone in the empty church looking at her palm.
Unlike other NPCs of the Holy Spirit, like the novice tutor in Lionheart City, the novice tutor was crowded by a group of newcomers after a large number of newcomers.
The guardian Freya is an NPC exclusive to each player, which means that each player's guardian Freya is an independent individual.
This also gave Jiang Qiao the idea of 'stabbing' on her... or them.
"Good Holy Spirit, you are back."
Jiangqiao's watchman, Freya, saw Jiangqiao walk into the Cathedral of Resurrection, and then slowly stood up from the steps, and then placed her hands on her chest. Jiangqiao deliberately set her up It is set to be a character like the player's 'good helper'.
"I think about it, first lift the touch restrictions on NPCs." Jiang Qiao walked up to the watchman and lifted some of the player's touch restrictions on NPCs.
Players in the Holy Spirit can't really touch NPCs. The touch is limited to the hand part at most. If they can really touch more places, Jiang Qiao thinks that a version of the Holy Spirit 18X should be released in the future. This setting can be introduced.
And now... Jiangqiao is experiencing the limited edition of the Holy Spirit 18X.
Jiang Qiao stretched out his hand and squeezed the cheek of the watchman, Freya. She still looked at Jiang Qiao with a blank expression on her face.
The touch of Freya's cheeks is very good, just like the real person in reality, but there is no temperature.
All of the NPCs in the Holy Spirit were created by Jiang Qiao in Creator Mode, so some details about these NPCs Jiang Qiao need to confirm now.
Including how NPCs feel when they are touched, and whether they have any special reactions when they are touched some special parts.
"What can I do for you? Great God."
The moment Jiang Qiao touched her, Furia instantly changed her language pattern. She judged that Jiang Qiao was a GM rather than a player.
"Even the dialogue with the GM is preset? Answer me, how many players have you tried to communicate with at this stage?"
Jiang Qiao let go of Freya's cheek and began to ask about Freya's popularity among players.
"Three thousand four hundred and twenty one, many of those young Holy Spirits will have a long conversation with us, and most of them will chat with us about some personal matters in reality. As a role between a lover and a psychological mentor, even if it is a female Holy Spirit." There was still no trace of emotion in Freya's voice, and this gentle and soft voice sounded really... It felt very Comfortable.
"The number of people online on the server is only about 4,000. Should I say that she is our kanban girl?"
Jiang Qiao opened the web browsing gadget, and in the Holy Spirit section of the player community forum, discussions about Freya still accounted for the majority.
The game of the Holy Spirit was initially popular because of Freya's related posts. It was not until the players grabbed the activation qualifications that they gradually discovered other fun of the Holy Spirit in their exploration.
In the forum, most Holy Spirit players habitually refer to Freya as 'wife'.
"Although it is said that the operation will be performed against you, it is really difficult to do so when the operation is actually performed, but this punishment mechanism requires your cooperation."
Jiang Qiao is here to design a new punishment mechanism for players.
The death penalty of the Holy Spirit is not very serious. After the player dies, the durability of the equipment will decrease by a small amount, and even the experience value will not be deducted.
This kind of death penalty is very common in online games.
Jiang Qiao does not intend to modify the death penalty of the original plane of the Holy Spirit, because the original plane of the Holy Spirit is a large 'novice village' for players. After players reach the full level of the original plane of the Holy Spirit, The game will really start.
What Jiang Qiao wants to increase is the death penalty for players in the dungeon of the "Sea Blue Godhead", so that players don't die too... unrestrained when fighting Queen May.
"Punishment? Jiang Qiao, shouldn't you give this child first..."
Hai Lan couldn't bear to say the following words, she just made a gentle movement of wiping her neck with her hand.
"If I really wrote the Freyas to death, it is estimated that the players will not be attacking Queen May but me." Jiang Qiao still has a little self-knowledge, the NPC Freya really is The weakness of most players.
Jiang Qiao pokes the soft underbelly with a needle. Players may still accept it, but Jiang Qiao broke the underbelly. It is estimated that Jiangqiao himself will enter the dungeon.
"Is there no other way?"
Seeing Jiangqiao's posture, Hailan really planned to do something to Miss Fulia. Out of pity for her creation, Hailan still came out to ask Fulia and all the players for love.
"If you don't increase the death penalty, players will completely release themselves in the fragments of your godhead plane. You haven't seen a dungeon that is too difficult, and players will pile up corpses to progress." Jiang Qiao Say.
"I've seen it... I have seen it, but what's the point of aggravating it?" Hai Lan watched the scene of the copy under the river bridge many times.
Every dungeon in the wasteland reclamation stage is a guild or a team that is destroyed bit by bit.
Of course, Jiang Qiao does not restrict the gameplay of stacking corpses over dungeons. What Jiang Qiao does restrict is... players are asked to ‘pile’ corpses in useful places, rather than madly dying for the sake of dying.
"After the players are killed three times in a row on the plane of the Godhead Fragment, Freya will lose her life and return to the state of a doll." Jiang Qiao expressed his thoughts.
"Isn't it dead!"
Hailan's posture showed that she wanted to protect Furia, so that Jiang Qiao would not cut Furia with a knife.
"It's just a state of silence." Jiang Qiao said, "In the game setting~IndoMTL.com~ the power of the resurrection of the Holy Spirits comes from the spirit watcher, Freya, and the enemies in your Godhead plane can Deprive the players of their power to resurrect. This is the plot setting in the game. After players die three times in a row in your Godhead Fragment Plane, Freya will become so weak that she will turn back into an ordinary puppet, which needs to be killed by the players. Killing the monsters you had earlier will remove this curse."
"Have you been killed more than three times in a row?" Hai Lan whispered, "There are some players who don't care about Freya, right?"
"After the third time, the player will no longer be protected by the spirit guardian Freya from the fourth time, and the experience value will be reduced by 50% from the fourth time, and the fifth level will be directly deducted by one level. The effect of this curse has been until the player kills enough monsters to break the curse." Jiang Qiao said a death penalty that might make all players smash the keyboard.
"However, after the curse is broken, the player's lost experience will be returned, and the guardian of the spirit, Miss Freya, can also be resurrected until the second curse begins."
"Isn't this going to get harder and harder? Are you sure that the players will help us fight Queen May?" Hai Lan listened to Jiang Qiao's series of death punishments, why did she feel that the players were going to start turning against her?
"High risks will inevitably lead to high rewards. I will design a series of rewards that no one can refuse. First of all, the first reward is Miss Freya's second-stage favorability unlock."
Jiang Qiao once again set his eyes on the guardian of the spirit, Freya. She seemed to sense something. She put two index fingers on both sides of her lips and pulled it up slightly. Some awkward smiles.
At this time, Jiang Qiao suddenly remembered a sentence, that is, "Hurry up and say you like him and let him charge another ten thousand yuan." ’