This Game Is Too Realistic-Chapter 281.2: Even Taking Screenshots Cost Money!

Inside the outpost, it was full of lights and festoons at the moment, and it was lively like a festival.

Since the Spring Festival and the new version were coming soon, and the previous victory had not had time to be celebrated, Chu Guang decided to celebrate everything together. He set the day of celebration to be on the first day of the Beta Test.

Culinary delights were a traditionally reserved event of Shelter 404.

It was the same this time.

If the delicacies were approved by players, NPCs, and the administrator, the chefs would not only be able to enter the Hall of Fame exclusively for chefs with their teammates, but also have the opportunity to see their own creations being sold in the NPC shop and get rich event points.

Many Combat Profession players had run to Longevity Town early in the morning, waiting in line for the shuttle bus to Remote Creek Town, and couldn’t wait to come back with some fantastic beasts.

Lifestyle Profession players were not idle either. Some went fishing, some went mushroom picking, and some went hunting toads in the fields. The whole forum was full of a rustic atmosphere.

Especially now that the number of ear-mounted camera equipment has gradually increased, reaching 200 units in the server, Chu Guang had started to release them in the NPC stores for players to purchase.

As long as the player’s contribution points made them a middle-class citizen and they paid 500 silver coins, they could unlock the game screenshot + instant messaging function from the administrator assistant, Little Seven.

After owning the headset, not only could they communicate remotely with players in the VM friend list, but they could also synchronize appropriate screenshots to the forum.

Many cloud gamers on the forum would also be able to see many fantastic beasts that did not exist in reality.

In addition to the players who caught the ingredients by themselves, some players set their sights on the trading post in Longevity Town and the traveling merchants who passed by.

Foreign traveling merchants would occasionally bring special products from neighboring provinces, such as dried lizards, canned fruit, and sugar from Brocade River Province in the south, or Sawtooth Tiger meat, yak milk, and colorful mineral salt from the north.

These traveling merchants were very satisfied with Longevity Town’s products, especially those exquisitely crafted copper shell bullets. Two or three magazine clips could often be exchanged for a whole box of hundreds of kilograms of goods from them.

And those bullets were just mass-produced on the assembly line; the cost of producing them could even shock these wastelanders.

In addition to food, the players also did not forget to decorate their hometown for the new year.

Especially the Lifestyle Profession players who were mainly active in the outposts. They actively pasted festive paper-cuts on the buildings around the square.

Not only that, they also posted very creative couplets on the doors of NPC offices such as the nursing home, weapons store, warehouse, bank, Hunter’s Guild, etc.

Standing at the door of the weapons store, and looking at the red papers hanging at the door, Xia Yan revealed a strange expression.

"What’s written on them?" She looked to Chu Guang and asked.

"The upper scroll states that everything is getting more and more expensive now, be it noodles, meat, or mushroom. The lower scroll mentions that thankfully, the price of weapons is still the same. As for the horizontal scroll… They’re calling you the best.” While reading it, Chu Guang couldn’t help laughing out loud.

Although the number of words in both sentences didn’t match each other, it was indeed something that the players would write.

Chu Guang would only be surprised if those idiotic netizens could come up with serious couplets.

"...?" Xia Yan was even more confused when she heard Chu Guang laughing, but Chu Guang understood that his players were secretly complaining how the developers were inflating their economy again.

However…

What did this have anything to do with him?

They were complaining about Light and his development team! In the game he was Dawn not Light!

As we all know, in order to take care of the experience of new players, all online games have a version catch-up mechanism, and value expansion was just one of the countless cards in the hands of the developers.

However, Chu Guang’s starting point for charging players was different from the developers of other games. He did it in a planned way based on the total production value of players and NPCs to balance the income of different groups.

It was all thanks to the supercomputer with unknown computing power buried under the shelter, and the unlimited production of VM equipment in the black box that he was able to do something like that.

Without those 2 incredible technologies and the help of Little Seven, it was really not something that could be done alone.

Chu Guang roughly calculated that at least 10% or even 20% of the labor force needed to be transformed into administrative personnel in order to barely maintain the operation of the management system.

To describe it in the terms of a business simulation game, it would be thanks to the future municipal technology of Shelter 404, the administrator only needed less than 150 grassroots administrators who had only received secondary or even elementary education to maintain the satisfaction of nearly 2,000 permanent residents and 1,500 players.

Who dared to say that the Shelter 404 had no incredible technology?

The only thing was that the incredible technology was a little bit worse than controllable fusion such that its strength wasn’t obvious. That was why it didn’t look as impressive.

Xiaoyu, standing at the side, curiously read the words on the couplet.

Chu Guang looked at her and said with a smile. "Speaking of which, don’t you celebrate the Spring Festival?"

Xiaoyu shook her head. "No."

Chu Guang vaguely remembered that Xiaoyu had told him back then. Baker Street only held celebrations for the birthdays of the ex-town-mayor and his children, and during those celebrations, the people in the town would always be called to do free labor and give money, so no one liked celebrations.

It was like a dream for Xiaoyu to see so many people gather together to celebrate the same happy event like she was seeing.

"... At this time of the year, there would always be loud noises coming from the south. Sometimes, it would go on all night." Xiaoyu tilted her head and thought for a while, suddenly saying, "It was like a thunderstorm!"

The south… It should be near the third ring on the west?

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It’s probably difficult to hear it from Linghu Wetland Park, but if it’s in Baker Street, it should be no problem to hear the gunfire coming from there.

Chu Guang continued to ask curiously, "How long does it usually last?"

"It would be over in a week the fastest, but if it was slow, it may go on for a month." After thinking for a while, Xiaoyu nodded vigorously and said with certainty, "It should be longer this year. I’ve never seen such a big fog in the northern suburbs before!"

A few days ago, as long as she came out of the shelter, she would need to wear a gas mask. She almost lost her mind because of it.

As far as she knew, things had never been this serious before.

Chu Guang nodded and said thoughtfully, "It seems that the spread of spores is regional..."

...

Although the Tide in the northern suburbs ended earlier, there were still a lot of things waiting for Chu Guang to do.

Because the northern suburbs miraculously solved the Tide crisis ahead of Boulder Town, coupled with the active promotion of Shu Yu who had been sent to Boulder Town by Chu Guang, many traveling merchants from Boulder Town were attracted to rush to the northern suburbs with their two-headed ox.

The north gate of Clearspring City that was facing the wilderness had never been so lively.

Especially when those traveling merchants found out that the art pieces in the Queen of the Night were actually produced in the northern suburbs, they went crazy.

In addition to artwork, Devil’s Silk and psychoid leaves that satisfy the desires of perverts, there were also many other good stuff sold there.

For example, Ditway Nutrient Cream was bought by traveling merchants from Boulder Town to the point that it almost sold out!

According to the current exchange rate, the wholesale price of 299 silver coins per ton was less than 150 chips. Compared with Vega Trading Company’s factory price of 300 chips per ton, it was no different than getting it for free.

And not only was it cheap, but the quality wasn’t bad!

Factory manager Ditway originally planned to form a caravan himself at the beginning to sell the goods to Boulder Town, but later realized it was completely unnecessary.

His cost had been reduced to around 140 silver coins per ton, and new orders kept coming in that the current waiting time was at least 3 months. He could generate more than double the profits just by focusing on the production alone. So why bother to ship the goods himself?

If he had that time, it was much better for him to invest in a few more hunting teams to sweep buildings on the edge of the fifth ring. The income from scavenging could completely balance out the expenditure on ammunition.

More importantly, he didn’t need to risk his life anymore.

Such a huge profit even made Liszt jealous.

KV-1 exoskeleton and solid-state hydrogen batteries also made money, but the gross profit rate was really not as good as that of nutrient cream.

The gangs in the slums at the gates of Boulder Town would buy it, and the farm owners in the south would also buy it in large quantities.

200 grams of it could fill the stomach. Double the amount could make people full; it was perfect for feeding slaves and livestock.

In addition to artworks and nutrient cream that were sold out, there were also Mosquito’s gas masks, bicycles and helmets from Steel Plant 81, disinfectant from chemical plants, and some cheap and useful gadgets.

The LD-47 Sickle assault rifle was not very popular with the traveling merchants in Boulder Town, but it did not prevent the mercenaries from loving it.

It had a low failure rate, with easy maintenance, and was powerful.

Coupled with the biggest advantage of being cheap, it was enough for them to open their wallets, exchange their chips for silver coins, and then take the silver coins to Xia Yan’s shop.

Apart from the big bosses who opened the factories, the happiest ones were undoubtedly those Lifestyle Profession players in North Gate Market.

Few of the mercenaries who came from Boulder Town with Liszt’s caravan spent money at their stalls before.

However, recently, these mercenaries from Boulder Town seemed to have suddenly become rich. They were spending a lot more than before.

Even if the price of ramen had risen from 5 silver coins to 6 silver coins, some people still paid for it.

A bowl of mushroom soup for 4 silver coins was even more well received. It was rich in flavour and was delicious. The most important thing was that the shop owner was pretty and had a beautiful voice, attracting a continuous stream of people.

These merchants and mercenaries from afar not only stimulated a wave of consumption, but also brought a lot of treasures produced by Boulder Town.

They had a wide variety of goods, ranging from weapons to daily necessities.

In fact, Boulder Town, as an old large-scale survivor settlement that completed industrialization a long time ago, had a much stronger industrial capacity than Shelter 404.

The local development model largely borrowed from Enterprise’s Ideal City, which could be seen from the fervid worshipping of the inner-city upper class to Ideal City in all areas from culture to commodities.

The design idea of ​​the KV-1 exoskeleton was modeled after the Miner series, and the Drone X-2 assault rifle was modeled after the Black Swan G9 assault rifle. They imitated the legacy inheritors of the East Coast in many fields.

The factory in Boulder Town couldn’t produce metallic hydrogen, but it could produce solid hydrogen. It couldn’t produce the fusion engine that drove the Continental Vessel, but it could make the engine that boiled water compact and cheap.

Chu Guang admitted that there was a big gap between the survivor settlements in the northern suburbs and Boulder Town in terms of population and industrial capacity. When the exchanges and understanding between the two parties reach a certain level, friction may be inevitable.

But even if the relationship deteriorated to the point of full-scale war, it was not a matter of a day or two.

Even if they would need to fight each other the next day, it wouldn’t prevent him from making money off them today.

In order to protect the local industry and increase exports, Chu Guang adjusted the exchange rate of silver coins to chips from 1:2 to 2:1 when he let Liszt in to set up a factory, and separated and limited the foreign exchange quota of individuals and enterprises.

That way, players would find that buying KV-1 exoskeletons from the local NPC stores would be much cheaper than buying imported ones in Boulder Town.

Similarly, exporting products from the northern suburbs to Boulder Town would be much more profitable than simply dragging them to the local market and selling them.

"I’ve never seen so many chips."

In the warehouse at the outpost.

Looking at the pile of colorful chips in the box, Charlie let out a heartfelt sigh.

Although he was also from a shelter, he had already adapted to the local life after living in Clearspring City for so many years.

With such a large pile of valuables in front of him, it was impossible to say that he was not shocked.

Chu Guang smiled lightly and said, "Does the old leech not have chips?"

Charlie knew who Chu Guang was talking about, and said softly, "He’s probably an average rich guy at best…"

Boulder Town’s chips came in many denominations, the most common being white, which was the most widely circulated currency outside of Boulder Town.

In addition, there was the denomination of 5 that came in bright red, 25 in green, and 100 in black.

In terms of chips in larger denominations, they usually could only be seen in the inner city. Most people there would swipe their cards for transactions, and rarely put chips larger than the denomination of 100 in their pockets to show off.

After all, it couldn’t be used as change, and few people could change it into chips of smaller denominations.

Charlie had seen the vault of the former town mayor, which contained 3 similar boxes. Even so, all of them were pretty much white chips.

Unlike those boxes, those in front of him contained black chips.

Chu Guang asked with a smile, "Are those chips enough to make me a rich man in Boulder Town?"

Charlie thought for a while and gave a proper answer, "... I’ve only been there a few times, but if it’s the kind of luxury life I understand, it should be more than enough."

Chu Guang smiled and said nothing.

After a pause, he cleared his throat. "I plan to set up a Traveling Merchants Association, organize some caravans to trade with other survivor settlements, expand our territory of influence, and at the same time find something for my players… I mean my residents to do."

Charlie nodded. "That’s a good idea."

Although the second half of the sentence sounded strange, he agreed with the first part.

At the present stage of the development of the northern suburbs, it was not enough to just expand the territory, and there were not so many people to open up those land.

It was not just an economic issue. Only with sufficient regional influence could the northern suburbs gain population and resources for further development.

Chu Guang looked at Charlie and continued, "You are the most experienced person I know. So… I’m leaving this job to you.”