Chapter 300 The Balance of the Game
Gu Fan continued:
“The second step is to seize the time to develop more powerful healing BDs, such as BDs that can directly hot the entire group. , or BDs that can add bonus effects to the whole group when adding blood, etc.
"The third step is to wait for these new healing BDs to be developed and players begin to accept them, and some Starlight Milk players will switch to them. After BD, follow-up numerical balance adjustments will be made to Starlight Milk to adjust it to normal levels.
“For example, if you open a new treatment BD, the therapeutic effect of Starlight Milk will be cut by 10%. If you open another one, the treatment effect will be cut by 10%.
"After three cuts like this, plus the previous debuff effect, the healing amount of Starlight Milk has almost returned to the normal level. Although the operation is still much simpler than other healing BDs, other healing BDs can also be played. "
Lilith was stunned by Gu Fan's words.
"Huh? Instead of changing the bug, just change the text description?"
Gu Fan nodded: "Yes, can't it? The so-called bug is nothing more than the inconsistency between the game design and the program performance. . Since the players like the current performance of the program, then there is nothing wrong with me changing the game design to make them consistent again?”
Lilith was a little confused, but thought about it carefully. , there is indeed nothing wrong with it!
In fact, there are a group of "fundamentalists" within many game companies and even among player groups.
No matter what the game is like, if something is different from the original design, it is a bug, and it must be repaired until it is consistent with the design.
But the question is, is this thing a bug? Is it not a matter of a word from the designer?
If you say it is a bug, it is a bug. If you say it is a mechanism, it is a mechanism.
Even the classic mechanisms and classic gameplay of many games are themselves born out of BUGs.
It's just that some smart companies turned bugs into mechanisms, thereby creating a great game IP, while some stupid companies came up and fixed the bugs regardless of the situation, and then killed the other game forever. possibility.
In the final analysis, there is no such strict definition of whether something is a bug or a mechanism.
The original design, wasn’t it also designed by humans?
As long as it is designed by humans, there is right and wrong. Since players like this bug, let’s simply change the design and confirm this bug as a mechanism.
Gu Fan continued: "Moreover, even if you want to modify it, you cannot directly fix the bug.
"Because fixing the bug is equivalent to completely destroying the original underlying mechanism, which will cause the gameplay to be directly uprooted, without any room for maneuver.
"The best way to repair a shit mountain is not to remove the firepower from under the cauldron. , let this shit mountain collapse, but repair it, or add some new code to it, or slightly adjust its values.
“It is simple and low-risk. It can be said to be the best of both worlds.”
Obviously, Gu Fan’s proposal of “adding a debuff” appears to be to modify the mechanism, but in fact it is to modify the value. .
There are many similar methods, such as directly cutting the healing amount of the skill Starlight by half, or even by a quarter. But whether it is directly cutting the healing amount simply and roughly, or cutting the healing amount in disguise by adding debuffs, the value itself is modified, and the fundamental mechanism of this BD is not touched.
“In fact, there is no fundamental conflict between maintaining the balance of the game and preserving the player’s gaming experience.
“Many people just see that infinite starlight milk will affect the balance of the game. Sex makes other treatments for BD unplayable, but it has not been quantified. How long will this effect last? How big is the impact? In other words, if you have to cut off part of it, can you keep the core fun of this BD as much as possible and return its value to normal levels?
"After all, this is just PVE gameplay. To put it to the extreme, what if everyone can pass the legendary T3 group book?
"If it is a team of 25 people, it can be cleared every week If one set of the highest-level suits is dropped at once, it will take at least 25 weeks for all members of the 25-person team to graduate, which is nearly half a year.
"In the past six months, the project team has enough time to develop one or two more difficult and higher-level group versions.
"What is the core joy of Infinite Starlight Milk?
“Single-person milking a team of 25 people is certainly a cool thing, but it obviously has other cool features, such as: its operation is very simple and only requires one button to function. Novices can also quickly get started, play a role in the team, and have a good sense of participation; at the same time, it is also a relaxing game experience, because when the starlight is cut off, the player has to find a way to quickly refresh the game. Come out.
“So, if the values are modified, although it is no longer possible to achieve a group of 25 people with single milk, the advantages of simple operation and high lower limit can still be retained.
“The same goes for Dark Chain. Although part of its coolness comes from its powerful AOE ability, a large part of it comes from its cool special effects.
"When a lightning chain passes, various dark skills are triggered, and the screen is instantly filled with cool special effects. This in itself is also a cool point with excellent visual effects.
"So, you can use numerical values to control Powerful AOE capabilities are limited. For example, the more skills are triggered at the same time, the damage of each skill will be reduced accordingly; or the triggered skills will also consume a certain amount of mana.
“However, the full-screen special effects after triggering are still retained, so that players can still experience the thrill of this lottery.
“If the damage of the skill is not triggered originally It is 10, and the damage caused by triggering 10 skills is 100; then after modification, the damage caused by triggering 10 skills is 70 or even 60.
“Although the numerical value has been weakened, this BD still has a strong AOE ability. Players can still accept it reluctantly.
"Even if these two BDs are weakened in this way, some players will still be angry and quit the game, but obviously there will be more players who stay.
"The next step is to add more water to the noodles. Use the method of "adding more water and adding noodles" to continuously increase the intensity of other BDs.
“If you feel that Starlight Milk is too strong, then strengthen the BD of other milks. There is no need for any particularly complicated mechanism. Just target the skill value of the core BD and increase it several times.
"If three times doesn't work, then five times. If one zero doesn't work, then two zeros.
“If the milk volume overflows, then simply increase the blood volume limit of all members, especially the tank profession.
"If the tank is too hard and the damage is too high, then open a higher difficulty and increase the value of the monsters in the copy.
" Just like some games open the endless mode, the monster values are doubled, and every time the player exceeds At one level, you can also get equipment with higher attributes. ”
(End of this chapter)