God's Imitator-Chapter 320: Controversy Over Usage

Wang Yongxin continued, "As for 'submitting suggestions', I acknowledge this is the most useful function, but it may not be worth that much visa time.

"Because buying the identity card requires 200,000, and submitting suggestions requires another 100,000.

"Moreover, suggestions may not necessarily be effective.

"In targeted judgment-type games, situations where players stubbornly persist and refuse suggestions are very likely to occur.

"And in some relatively complex games, even if players inside the game know the solution, they may not necessarily be able to execute the corresponding strategy.

"If 100,000 minutes of visa time can save a community member, then of course it's worth it.

"But to happen to encounter a suitable game and happen to have a suitable executable suggestion, what exactly is the probability? The lower the probability, the less worthwhile this money is spent.

"Besides this, the First Player's 1 vote being counted as 2 votes seems like a bonus, inconsequential, but actually its impact might be larger than imagined.

"Because the community now has 12 votes, exceeding half requires 7:5.

"But if one vote counts as two, then only 6:6 would be needed, because it would default to counting as 7:6.

"I don't think this is necessarily a good thing."

Fu Chen hesitated somewhat, "But this is after all a new item unlocked after donating an additional 300,000 to the community fund. If we don't buy it, wouldn't that be a bit of a loss?"

Wang Yongxin shook his head, "We don't necessarily have to buy every new item, right?

"If you understand some business common sense, you should know some products are bundled sales traps, or merely serve an 'anchoring effect' purpose.

"The so-called 'anchoring effect' is deliberately setting up a very expensive product. Ordinary people won't buy this product. Its only function is to anchor a value, making other products look like good deals, thereby increasing players' willingness to purchase other products.

"So I don't think all items must be bought. Some of these items might purely be decoys.

"After buying the next death exemption ticket, we can completely continue to save the remaining visa time for future emergencies.

"For example, this 'Simple Q&A' had situations of 'returning to the community carrying debt'.

"If similar rules appear in the future and our community's players suffer serious losses in games, after returning to the community, this money can still be used to save lives.

"Taking ten thousand steps back, even if someday we really need to use this item, we can purchase it temporarily.

"When the need isn't clear, keeping some cash on hand is a more prudent approach."

The other players also fell into contemplation.

For relatively intelligent players, it wasn't difficult to guess Wang Yongxin's other intentions behind these words.

Obviously, this item had a very different nature from the 'Death Exemption Ticket'.

The 'Death Exemption Ticket' could be 'split' through certain methods, allowing some players to share its usage rights and veto rights.

Although it couldn't be split among all community players, key players like Wang Yongxin could enjoy a portion of the rights.

But the 'First Player Identity Card' was different. Its three privileges were almost impossible to split and basically could only be enjoyed by one player.

Although in theory it could be transferred, theory didn't equal actual circumstances.

And even if transferred, it would be transferred to weak players within the community. Wang Yongxin himself absolutely couldn't use it.

In the current fund, a large sum belonged to him. In a situation where he could gain almost no benefit from this item, he of course didn't want to purchase it.

After considering for a moment, Li Renshu looked toward Cai Zhiyuan, "Being able to bring back a large amount of visa time and activate new products this time, you and Yang Yuting played quite key roles.

"Each of you also share your own views?"

After serious consideration, Cai Zhiyuan said, "I think we should buy it.

"Although this identity card seems relatively expensive, costing 200,000, it's not a one-time item but permanently effective.

"That is, the 'refuse game invitation' function can be used continuously. The earlier we buy it, the more we use it, and naturally the more profitable it becomes.

"Looking at it over a longer time period, averaging out the 200,000 price, it's actually still cost-effective.

"We can certainly also purchase it temporarily when needed, but that way, it's equivalent to wasting the free uses of the 'refuse game invitation' function.

"If we'll most likely buy it eventually anyway, then we should buy it directly. Buying later is actually less cost-effective.

"As for specific usage...

"This item can be transferred between players once every 30 days, and can refuse a game once every 30 days. We can choose to use it in rotation, or choose to specifically take care of particular disadvantaged players.

"Although after refusing, the mandatory game participation slot might still transfer to other community players, most relatively dangerous selection-type games will specifically select the weakest players in the community.

"After refusing once and then selecting again, the selected player will always be somewhat stronger.

"As for suggestions, we can use them or not.

"According to the item description, after obtaining this item, players within the community can also immediately see the current game rules and think of countermeasures.

"Although we can't see the specific situation inside the game, players within the community can fully deliberate.

"We would definitely only spend 100,000 minutes of visa time to purchase when everyone thinks a certain suggestion can play a role.

"As for counting an extra vote when voting, this would indeed cause motions to forcibly pass at 6:6, but when our community sets up motions, we basically obtain the consent of most players. Situations of 7:5 are already rare, let alone situations of 6:6.

"So this isn't too big of a problem either.

"Overall, spending 200,000 minutes of visa time to purchase a reusable item and gain some additional options, I think given our community's current situation, it's still worthwhile."

Zheng Jie asked, "Then... after buying this identity card, do we default to having everyone use it in rotation according to a certain order?"

Cai Zhiyuan explained, "How exactly to use it, we can decide based on the subsequent situation.

"Having everyone use it in rotation is one method. Having a fixed player or certain type of players use it is another method.

"Some players might not be good at games but are indispensable to the community. Then we can also let them hold this item for a long time to further ensure their safety.

"Of course, if holding it for a long time, they definitely need to make sufficiently large contributions to the community and obtain the consent of most players."

Dai Yifan was somewhat puzzled. Obviously, regarding 'not good at games but indispensable to the community', he didn't quite understand.

But other players understood clearly. This clause specifically referred to people like Li Renshu.

Although having Li Renshu use it herself had some suspicion of 'special privilege', if considering the most extreme situation where she really died in a game, it would truly be very troublesome.

Because currently, the only person capable of taking over Li Renshu's position was Lin Sizhi, but Lin Sizhi had already emphasized three times that he wouldn't take over.

And other players, whether Fu Chen, Cai Zhiyuan, Wei Yinzhang, or Wang Yongxin, obviously would find it very difficult to completely convince everyone.

Forcibly taking over might very likely cause huge changes in Community 17's entire ecology, even causing a split.