Chapter 4 The strategy starts with the green hat
. "Order and Chaos" game world, the eastern coast of the northern western continent, Bone Town.
A seaside town composed of simple, messy and very tough style buildings. Many players in the town are walking around with fishy smell. When they first enter the game, they look around and look around, or they hurriedly run outside the town with various weapons to fight monsters, or they talk carefully with some NPCs to try to find valuable tasks, or they set up street stalls on the roadside to sell their things, or two groups of people push and shook and scold each other and walked to the corner where there were no NPC guards to fight.
Although it has been a month since the server was launched, and players who are fast-leveling have already left here to explore outside, because newcomers have entered the game one after another and players who have come here from other towns for various reasons, this small town is noisy and has no moment of stagnation.
In fact, such a town is not simply for players to upgrade in the early stage. Even high-level players will return to these towns due to some tasks or other reasons. The game settings are perfect, and the system will not make any place "outdated".
On a winding path in the town, a tall green-skinned orc was wearing only a pair of pants, holding a big wooden stick with an arm length in his hand, and ran around with big feet. This seemed to be a new player who went to see the scenery, nor did he look like he wanted to fight monsters, nor did he talk to NPC to take on tasks, and he was not interested in walking around street stalls or watching PKs, and he didn't know what he was doing.
This guy who seems to be running around aimlessly is Ye Hua. Fortunately, his character's birthplace is the same as the initial location of the grading strategy provided by the studio, in Bone Town.
There is no concept of a novice village in the game. These small towns, as birthplaces, are not independent maps. They are all targets that exist on the world map. In addition to providing some teaching novice tasks, they also have the same normal functions as cities, including tasks of various levels, various functional buildings and NPCs.
There are many towns like this that can be used as birthplaces on the big map. The players' camp and race can narrow the scope of birthplaces, but they cannot directly choose the birthplaces. That's why Ye Hua is lucky. If he was born in a strange place, he would have to work hard all the way to a familiar place.
All settlements have three levels, namely villages, towns, and cities. The village with the largest number and smallest size cannot mention the character's birth, but it also provides various tasks, or is used as a player's supply point. The largest number of cities is not large, and it is not recognized by the system as the character's birthplace. Only town-level units are the character's birthplace.
In addition to the size of the settlements of different levels, there are only differences in transportation modes. The city’s teleportation array, horse and carriage station has mailboxes, while there is no teleportation array, and the village has only mailboxes. As for places that are not even a village? Not to mention that there is no mailbox, even the basic buildings are not all about it!
Speaking of Ye Hua, Ye Hua, who was exposed to his chest and only wore a pair of pants, did not attract crowds. After all, there were still many perverts, especially in a virtual world that could not be blocked by the actual rules. If the system had not been set to take off the last shorts, I believe that it would not be a strange thing to see people running naked on the street.
Of course, Ye Hua is not a nude maniac. He just doesn't want to waste time. After the character was born, he should have done a fixed set of novice tasks and got a basic set of equipment, but Ye Hua didn't want to waste time on it. He has a standard studio leveling strategy! Originally, he entered the game one month later than others, and the leveling speed was more than 30 levels, so he didn't want to waste time.
Ye Hua seems to be running around aimlessly now, but in fact he is looking for a task item. The game's settings are very unique. Some special tasks can be found even if they are not received. Of course, these special tasks are not accepted by ordinary dialogue. Some require the completion of pre-tasks, some are at a fixed time, some require the favorability of NPC, and some are even encounters by chance. In short, it is very troublesome.
Ye Hua, who has a quick leveling strategy, can avoid the current trouble. The task he is going to do now originally needed to increase the favorability of the NPC first, but after years of research by the studio, it pointed out a shortcut. This task can be completed directly by finding the task items and then looking for the NPC conversation. The favorability and other things are omitted directly!
This task item is randomly refreshed within a certain range. Although this range is not small and has several streets, this item will not be picked up by others or maintained by the server. If the item is refreshed, it will remain there and will not disappear by itself.
In his previous life, Ye Hua had read the studio's early grade-up strategy, and there was no mention of the issue of NPC favorability. It can be seen that not many people knew that NPC had the favorability setting in the early stages of the game.
Likelihood is originally a hidden value, and players cannot see it. They can only judge it by the attitude of NPC. The official website does not clearly state this matter. In addition to the inertial thinking brought by players from past games, it is not surprising that few people knew the issue of favorability in the early stages of the game. Naturally, no one will receive this task that is related to favorability, and no one will think that they can pick up the task items without taking the task.
Ye Hua ran two streets and finally saw a shabby green pointed hat in a garbage dump in the corner. This one looked like a garbage hat, which was a task item! If he hadn't received the task, or if he knew in advance like Ye Hua, no one would have thought that this thing was a task item.
Ye Hua opened the garbage pile in the surprised eyes of others, picked up the cuckold, and ran excitedly towards the west of the town. Others couldn't understand what it was like to be happy about this half-naked perverted cuckold? Someone who had good things caught up and asked Ye Hua, and Ye Hua ignored it. Professional players just had to have a firm quality of ignoring boring problems. How could there be those American time to chat and spank with these idle people?
Ye Hua came to a short building called the "Barbary Institute", lowered his head and walked into it, and saw that the low room was filled with messy messes of rags. An old goblin with a pleated face was squatting on the ground, holding a large wrench that was half tall, knocking on something. The goblin is a smart creature with green skin and long ears that is only half a person tall, small and short.
This green-skinned old goblin is the owner of the institute - Babato. Wise. The name "Right Wise" is ignored. According to the game's settings, goblins always like to give themselves good names, which is purely self-boasting.
When the old goblin Babato saw Ye Hua coming in, he stopped beating, climbed onto the wooden shelf next to him, and kept his condescending state. He said in his sharp and ugly voice: "This is not the place where poor people like you who are not covered in clothes should come! Go out quickly! Go out! The smell of garbage will smell my house!"
Ye Hua just saw the guide in his previous life and had never done this task personally. He didn't expect that this damn goblin's mouth was so smelly, and he had to climb to a high place before speaking. Do you care about height issues? But this condescending look of contempt is really disgusting! I don't know which character was designed by an unethical programmer!
Ye Hua rolled his eyes and decided not to be as knowledgeable as NPC. He ignored the goblin's scolding and walked up to throw the cuckold to Babato.
"Oh! This is!" Babato picked up the cuckold and looked around, without saying the smell of garbage, he put it on his head and said happily: "Thank you for helping me get the hat back, this is my favorite hat!" Against the backdrop of the pointed hat, Babato looked a little taller. I guess this is why he likes this cuckold?
Ye Hua didn't grind his teeth and said bluntly: "Then what reward do you give me?"
Babato's face suddenly became cold and he opened his face with a stinky face, "You need a reward if you do such a small thing? You are such a greedy bastard! Okay okay... What reward do you want? You can't ask for money first! You can't give you the things in this store! There are also meat stored in the basement, either! Oh, by the way, I still have a black bread here, I only took a bite, it's okay to use this as a reward, right?"
Of course Ye Hua would not ask for black bread. This thing that only sells five copper plates in the store for restoring health, not to mention that he was bitten after a bite! He spent so much time looking for a hat, not for such rags.
Ye Hua curled his lips disdainfully and made his own request: "I don't want black bread, I want to learn your 'first aid' skills."
Babato was stunned for a moment, and then said helplessly: "Okay, okay, just don't have money, I'll teach you 'first aid', anyway, I won't go out to take risks in the wild now."
This is where NPCs are different from the past games in "Order and Chaos". Because the super smart host that manages the server has powerful computing power and infinitely close to human flexible thinking, the NPCs in the game are not rigid fixed programs, but will make very intelligent responses based on the player's behavior.
If the player throws the money to the ground, the nearby npc may reach out to pick it up. The player points at the npc and curses, which may anger the npc to come up to pk the player.
Of course, in order to reduce host consumption and save computing, NPC still maintains a rigid state in normal circumstances. When sending tasks or buying and selling things, a programmatic answering method will be used. As long as the player does not make any moves, NPC will not turn on the intelligent state.
Now that the public beta has just entered a month, players think that NPC is a rigid program out of inertial thinking, and very few players will talk nonsense with NPC. Even if an inadvertent action causes NPC to have an intelligent reaction, players will think that they have triggered some special task, and regard NPC's abnormal reaction as a fixed script set in advance.
So when NPC proposes any conditions, most unknown players will think that this is unchangeable, and no one can think that bargaining with NPC will change the situation.
Just knowing this, Ye Hua is already ahead of most players.
As soon as Babato finished speaking, Ye Hua received a system prompt:
[You have completed the "Babato's Cuckold" mission, gained 1,000 experience points, and obtained the "First Aid (Elementary)" skill.]
【Congratulations on upgrading to level 4.】
There is not much experience necessary for the initial upgrade. There is no experience given to completing this task that requires favorability to be activated. 1,000 experience points have increased Ye Hua's character to level 4 20% experience. But the experience in this task is not the most important, and the "first aid" skill is the key!
'First Aid' is a skill used to make bandages. Using bandages can heal wounds in battle, but they cannot be interrupted during use. Almost everyone can do this skill after four years. Although there are many ways to learn this skill, they all have a certain degree of hiddenness, so not many people should know this skill at this stage.
Having skills when others don’t understand them is a good start! Ye Hua excitedly checked the list of life skills, estimating how much benefits this skill that is just a popular skill in the future can bring to himself now.
First aid (primary), proficiency level 0/100, can create primary bandages, use effect to restore physical strength per second is the current level *2, lasting for 6 seconds, and cannot be used again within 15 seconds after use.
Although the treatment effect is not very good, you should know that the replies potions in this game are very expensive, and you can only drink one bottle in a minute, so bandages are very practical. Even advanced players cannot do without this simple gadget! If you sell them, you can raise money for continuing to level up strategies!
Originally, the level-up strategy did not have the content of selling bandages to make money, because everyone would ‘first aid’ at that time. Who would buy other people’s bandages? After completing this task and gaining experience in the level-up strategy, the next thing should be to prepare the money and continue with the next task.
But now is different from the future. Ye Hua is alone without the financial support of the studio, so when the strategy reaches this point, he can only find a way to earn enough money to continue the strategy.
It was a very troublesome thing to make money at a low level, but now Ye Hua can use information asymmetry to use early players who don’t know first aid skills and make this money with bandages made from first aid skills! This is the benefit of knowing future information! Hahaha! Ye Hua thought of a bright future waiting for him, and couldn’t help but raise his head and laugh excitedly, his big head pressing to the low ceiling.
"Hey!" Ye Hua was just happy, but was interrupted by Babato, who was wearing a cuckold: "You greedy poor man, why don't you go out quickly after you get the reward! Do you want to break the roof of my roof so high??"
It seems that the act of asking for a reward just now angered Babato. I guess his favorability should have become negative now, right? If the favorability becomes negative, it will be difficult to talk to this NPC or buy and sell things in the future. Ye Hua thought that there will be no interaction with this goblin in the future, so if it is negative, it will be negative. What can it do?
Chapter completed!