Chapter 929: Choosing future main combat units
While Jiang Yao was still thinking about these issues, she was on the other side.
The players on Chen Yao's side have completed the mission and come to hand in the mission.
Seeing the players coming, Chen Yao immediately stepped forward to ask about the situation.
"Fellow soldiers, are you already able to control drones skillfully?"
After hearing this, several people nodded.
"Commander, we are now able to skillfully control 30 drones."
Chen Yao pretended to be surprised when he heard this.
"I didn't expect that several soldiers became familiar with the operation so quickly."
"In that case, please come with me, warriors."
While talking, Chen Yao led a few more people to the simulation room.
After arriving here, several people started the operation. Because there was a script, the overall operation went very smoothly for them.
Seeing the operations of several people, Chen Yao also began to think about how to give the reward.
"According to my settings, the transaction currency in this game is points, and the resources players obtain can be exchanged for points with me."
"Of course, in addition to points, there is also the concept of levels. This level concept is used to unlock mall props."
"The higher the level, the better things you unlock."
The things in the mall were also carefully selected by Chen Yao, and they were helpful to him at his current stage.
At this time, Chen Yao's mall had a lot of products prepared.
Originally, he wanted to let the players become level one directly after they completed the mission.
Then I unlocked all the things in the mall for them.
But after thinking about it, he gave up the idea.
He plans to unlock a few less products each time. Unlocking too many products at once is not a good thing for him now.
So after careful selection, he chose a set of battle armor and a mining mecha.
The role of the battle armor is to provide players with a layer of protection in the event of emergencies. As for the mining mecha, it is to replace drones and improve collection efficiency.
In fact, Chen Yao originally wanted to directly provide players with ore ships, but the price of ore ships in the system mall is also very high, with a full five-digit points.
Although players work hard, they can still get enough.
But the cycle required is very long.
After working hard for a while, I was able to get a mining ship together, which would be no problem in reality, but in the game, Chen Yao, as a planner, felt that it was not feasible.
If a new game wants to retain players, it needs to be highly playable. .
Entering the game and mining all the time, who can bear this?
So after thinking about it, Chen Yao changed his strategy.
After making up his mind, Chen Yao immediately started making arrangements.
It's obvious that he has his own arrangements for how to allow players to continue operating here.
Although the gap is far from Jiang Yao's imagination, at least this matter has been dealt with.
To be precise, I should be at least aware of this problem.
In fact, Chen Yao also thought about this. After all, he was a game planner before traveling through time.
He knows very well that if a game wants to retain players, not only does the game need to be of high quality, but most importantly, it must also provide players with some visible benefits.
At first, he wanted to improve the players' physical fitness, but later, based on research, he found that it would be very difficult and the price to pay would be very high.
And the most important thing is that after upgrading the clones, you can't guarantee that the players will not die. Once the players die, the problem will arise, and the previously upgraded clones will be scrapped.
You have to think about two factors. The first factor is that the previously upgraded clones will be scrapped and consume a lot of resources. This is your responsibility and the players must also bear it. The second factor is about combat units, whether they are battleships or warships. Others also require costs.
These things are gone now that the players have cooled down, which means that the death penalty in this game is too severe.
The loss of the vehicle originally carried may be difficult for the players to accept. As a result, I have to add an attribute enhanced by the players themselves.
Adding these two things together, if this is really going to happen once, I will be heartbroken to death. No one can accept this kind of death penalty.
And this is also the biggest problem.
There is so much involved here.
As a planner, the first thing you have to solve is the problem of combat attrition, because if this problem is not solved, it will not be easy for you or the players to accept it.
Take the players for example. After working so hard for so many things, only to have them all disappear, their mentality will definitely be greatly affected. The same goes for me, so after thinking about it, he is within his own capabilities. Try to reduce this loss as much as possible.
Just abandon the player's physical enhancement.
Putting the level mechanism on opening the mall purchase permissions, the first point is that players have their own goals, so they will definitely work hard to help themselves and then unlock the things they want to buy.
After unlocking, game currency is required, so they need to continue working hard to earn enough currency before they can purchase it.
In Chen Yao's plan, what he wants to create is the definition of this game. The level of the players, that is, unlocking the mall props, is the most important.
Other things are secondary.
In this case, even if there are big battle losses, players will be heartbroken, but they will not lose hope.
As long as players subconsciously think that it doesn't matter if something is lost, their level is still there anyway, and if they want to buy the same thing, they only need to work a little bit.
This is his plan. In this way, because of the level, the players will also improve. For them, even if they don’t have what they want now, but when what they want appears in the future, as long as their level is in place, then they can Can be purchased immediately.
And that's enough.
Of course, this is just his first step. Players' battle losses are always a big problem. If this problem is not solved, even if he uses this method, he will still cause a lot of player losses.
So he had to come up with a solution before the number of players increased significantly.
While thinking about it, he distributed the rewards of this mission to the players, and then left.
At this time, the three people who completed the task watched Chen Yao leave and started communicating again.
"Let's go, this wave of experience rewards are quite a lot. This wave directly promoted us to the first level." At this time, I was a little excited to see that my authority level had reached the first level.
Looking at the excited Tianqiongxingkonglong, he turned his attention to the items in the mall. "This is not normal. After all, I have overfulfilled my task." Starry Sky Dragon pointed at the items unlocked in the mall.
"Brothers, take a look at the things unlocked in the mall, the whale-class strategic industrial ship, the Dragon God-class mecha, and the A3 Hercules industrial mecha." Starry Sky Dragon couldn't help but feel excited as he looked at the products in the mall.
Especially when I saw the Dragon God Mecha Starry Sky Dragon, which looked similar to the first generation machine in EVA, I silently made up my mind to buy one.
But looking at the six-digit price of this mecha, he knew that it was simply impossible to buy it in a short time.
So he set his sights on the A3 Hercules industrial mecha again.
The shape of this mecha was very similar to a mecha called Cherno Alpha in a movie he had seen before.
The overall gray paint gives players an overall heavy feeling.
This mecha's somewhat bloated body is equipped with a complete ore processing production line.
The collected ore can be processed immediately. After processing, the size of the ore can be reduced once and more resources can be brought back.
Because of the blessing of these things, the estimated mining efficiency of this mecha has reached an astonishing five hundred points per day.
"This mecha is awesome." Seeing that the collection efficiency was so high, Starry Sky Dragon couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
Then he turned his attention to the price of this mecha.
"Two thousand points, the price is not too expensive."
At this time, after hearing what Starry Sky Dragon said, several people also set their sights on this mecha.
"I think there is something special about this mecha. The overall height is forty meters, although its main function is mining.
But for this size, its combat effectiveness will not be weak no matter how hard it is. "While talking, Tianqiong also began to make calculations in his mind.
"NPC lent us thirty mining drones."
"And the NPC also mentioned that the daily output of a drone should be around 1 to 1.5 points."
"It's definitely not enough to get enough money to buy mechas with these drones, so what we need to do in the early stage is to dig out as many mining drones as possible."
Sui Feng, who was standing beside Tianqiong, added.
"If we use scripts, one of us can control up to 30 drones. Based on the production of 30 points a day, it will take me at least 100 days to buy this thing."
Naturally, these people couldn't accept this.
"This cycle is too long." Tian Qiong looked at Starry Sky Dragon as he spoke.
"By the way, Starry Sky Boss, is there any way to optimize it so that we can have more control?"
After hearing what Tianqiong said, Starry Sky Dragon thought for a while and then said.
"The drone controlled in actual combat seems to be different from the simulated one. I have to go to the actual operation to know."
As he spoke, he looked at a few people.
"Well, let me try it first and then see if I can optimize it."
In this way, several people came to the drone control room while talking.
Chen Yao also carefully selected the things he unlocked this time. The first is a mecha, an industrial mecha and a combat mecha. Although the combat mecha is not used now, it is always good to be prepared. As for the industrial mecha, Mechas are naturally designed to improve players' collection efficiency. The same goes for battleships. This is an industrial battleship.
Mainly responsible for assisting in resource collection and transportation.
"If players exchange all these things, then my mining efficiency will increase many times."
"However, if you want to use drones to dig out so many resources, it is not easy to build these things. Mechas are fine, but battleships consume a lot of resources."
"It is not difficult to see from this that if we really want to talk about cost-effectiveness, it will definitely be best to use mechas as my main combat units in the future."
"The mecha doesn't have so many messy problems."
"Compared to battleships, if you use mechas, the cost of a conventional warship can at least produce several mechas. Although the shortcomings of mechas are very obvious, the first point is that they cannot fight at long distances. This is the biggest problem. ”
"However, you can choose to use warships for transportation. In this case, you don't need to worry about so many things. However, the transportation warships are easily attacked, which is the biggest flaw."
"But there is a slight flaw in the cost, which is not incomprehensible."
Indeed, as for the mecha, due to its own situation, in order to improve its combat capabilities, it is necessary to save a lot of things. The first point is personnel. Most of the personnel are to supply the weapon system of the mecha itself.
Secondly, in order to maximize the combat capability of the mecha, there is no space to install things like the jump system, and there is no energy to support these things.
In other words, the combat mode of the mecha is short-term combat. If you want to fight long-distance, it is simply impossible.
Warships are also needed to transport them to combat areas during peacetime operations.
It seems to have many disadvantages, but it has one biggest advantage, which is saving resources.
With the same resources, you may only be able to build one escort or destroyer-level battleship.
But as for mechas, you can at least build a dozen or twenty of them.
The resource usage volume of the two is completely different.
However, the lethality that these dozen or twenty mechas can cause naturally far exceeds that of a battleship.
The price/performance ratio of the two is not at the same level at all.
And that's the point.
To put it simply, the mecha has lost so many things in exchange for stronger combat capabilities. Ability, this is undoubtedly a very good choice for those who are short of resources in the early stage but want to improve their overall combat capabilities as soon as possible.
In its planning, the subsequent battles will mainly be based on mechas, supplemented by battleships.
The reason for this decision is actually based on considering the situation of the players. Players are not like other space warriors. They can be resurrected immediately after death, but their memories and combat experience are retained. This is also This means that they will only become more and more skilled in controlling mecha combat.
Once you become proficient, your combat effectiveness will be greatly improved. This is a very good cycle.
From a certain perspective, the process of a player going from unfamiliar to familiar has training costs, and this mecha can minimize the training costs.
So with so many advantages, the shortcomings are not unacceptable. After all, there is nothing in this world that has no shortcomings at all.
After making a judgment in his mind, he turned his attention to the players. After all, this wave of players were really controlling drones. He was not nervous, it was fake.
He was also worried that something would happen and his drone would be scrapped and he would be embarrassed.