novellk Chapter 537 - 520: Tanking Attack
Chapter 537 - 520: Tanking Attack
Chapter 537: Chapter 520: Tanking Attack"Troublesome!"
"Let’s think it over. We should thoroughly plan this."
"Anyone want to join in? I’ll check my availability."
Gan Di, after much consideration, eventually decided to give up temporarily.
Creating mods wasn’t too difficult for him, but hastily making them without considering anything could easily backfire.
Better to think it through.
Maybe playing the game a bit more could spark some new inspiration?
After all, up until now, while everyone had been seriously studying it, they hadn’t completely grasped the intricate mechanics of the "Star Plan" game.
Of course, one could also say Gan Di was just feeling lazy. He didn’t fancy the hard work of modding for the moment and just wanted to play a game for fun.
His livestream viewers responded energetically.
"Coming up. I’m logging in!"
But when Gan Di actually got matched with a player, he found out he wasn’t connected with someone from his livestream.
He typed, "Buddies?"
But the other party just replied with a question mark.
That surprised Gan Di, as he and his viewers had queued at almost the same time. It was quite absurd they didn’t get into the same match.
But since it was a stranger, it must be fate.
Gan Di: "No worries, let’s play."
The stranger named "Human Clarity" had an ID that was quite ripe for ridicule.
However, Gan Di didn’t pay it much attention. The system automatically assigned him the role of "Governor," so he naturally clicked [Ready].
However, the other player wasn’t preparing to start.
Human Clarity: "Can I try playing as the Governor?"
Gan Di wasn’t too keen on that, "Not this time. I was looking forward to playing Governor. Maybe next game?"
Human Clarity: "But I want to play as the Governor now. Let me, please."
Gan Di felt that something was off but couldn’t quite pinpoint what. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Alright."
They swapped roles, and the game started smoothly.
Gan Di didn’t think much of it. He wanted to continue re
"When the governor slacks off, public support drops quickly, and at this time the technologies related to the political system that the leader points out can be developed very quickly without requiring many resources.
"Eventually, they become completely free.
"This is a balance mechanism inherent to the game itself, but also reflects social realities.
"When the public is very satisfied with the current system, introducing a new system will face strong resistance and require a lot of resources;
"Conversely, when the public is extremely dissatisfied with the current system, pushing a new system will face essentially no resistance, and may not even need any specific actions to implement it.
"Previously, when Li Wenhao and Mouth King had competed, the latter setting up a monument on the tundra was actually taking advantage of this mechanism.
"However, at this moment, Gan Di wasn’t sure exactly how to allocate the technology points.
"’Should I target the governor’s tech tree, or the leader’s?
"’This is the question.’"
"These two approaches he had actually tried before.
"Pointing to the leader’s tech tree is essentially a regression to a feudal autocratic society, where one can randomly execute the governor, with the leader’s power nearly equivalent to that of the emperor.
"But it might also lead to the governor slacking off, just like in the later periods of feudal dynasties where the emperor was completely controlled by the bureaucratic system.
"Whereas targeting the governor’s tech tree would be akin to following Sima Yi’s approach, or a constitutional monarchy.
"Once the governor’s power is unlimited, one could consider directly eliminating the leader to seize power, or choose to consistently work diligently letting the leader easily win.
"Exactly how it would play out depends on the governor’s conscience.
"But right now, neither of these tech trees were of any help to Gan Di’s current situation.
"Neither direction of power was useful anymore.
"’Forget it, I’ll just point randomly.’"
"Gan Di looked over; the political system tech tree was quite complex, with many points he had never tried before; this was a good opportunity to test them.
"For example, both the leader’s and the governor’s tech trees contained technology points related to ’improving public opinion’.
"But previously, whether it was Gan Di or other players cooperating with him, they hardly ever focused on those.
"The reason is simple—there’s no benefit!
"Because once public opinion improves, whether it’s the leader or the governor who wants to consolidate power, the difficulty increases.
"When implementing measures, higher public opinion thresholds are required; when targets are not met, the indexes fall more sharply.
"Simply put, this can be seen as the ’Troublemakers Index.’
"Even using all sorts of underhanded tactics, it’s impossible to completely offset these effects.
"So, raising the Troublemakers Index is mostly just shooting oneself in the foot, hardly bringing any beneficial outcomes.
"Who would invest resources in developing technology points just to have troublemakers oppose them?"
"But now that the game can’t be played anyway, it might as well point a few to see.
"After all, both the leader’s and the governor’s tech trees contain similar public opinion technology points, each with different effects."